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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
The Art Of Tea-BIending.

The managing director Of a big tea
dealing firm, who is a tea-taster and
bender of twenty-five years expert
euce, has lately stated chat he once saw
a leading broker in Alincing Lane have
sixty teas ranging within penny per
pound in value, weighed up in dupli-
cate, the 30 pots numbered and mixed
up, he then picking out the sixty du-
picates without a single mistake. As
regards educating the sense of smell,
writes the tea dealer, 81 am strongly
of opinion that it is possible, with con-
slant practice, to value teas as correct
~ by smelling the infused leaf as by
tasting. have bought thousands of
chests In public sale by smelling the in
fused leaf only, and have constantly
valued public-sale teas on the same
plan. Nevertheless, for blending pur-
poses it is ABSOLUTELY necessary to taste.
| had fourteen years experience in
tasting on the marketand left it eleven
years ago to enter the blended tea
trade. / then lad to begin to learn
what | never knew before-the art OF
blending tea-and am convinced that,
for this growing department of the
trade, it is not only necessary that a
man should have a good palate and a
keen sense Of smell, but that he should,
by constant attention, understand the
art of selecting such teas as Will blend
with each other. A man may have
ever so keen a palate and sense OF
smell, and be able to value tea to a
farthing per pound, and yet be nc
bender. Having produced a blend
successfully. the abilities of a bleuder
are severely tried by his having to
maintain its quality aud character, and
nothing but constant practice, indomit'
able perseverance and skill viii enable
| him to succeed
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
Jade.

The iade:producing country, accord.
ing to a recent Official report on Bur
NAH, is partly inclosed by the Chinwin
and Uru rivers and lies between the
twentv-ffth and twenty-siXth parallels
Of latitude. The most celebrated Of all
Jade deposits is reported to be in the
Mvadaung district. The largest
uuarries aow being worked are situated
in the country OF Merip Kachins. The
largest mine is about fifty yards long,
forty broad, and twenty deep. The
season of jade operations begins in
November and lasts till May. In Feb
ruary aud March, when the floor OF
the pit can be kept dry by bailing i'm
mense fires are lighted at the base OF
the stone. A careful watch is then
kept in a tremendous heat to detect the
first signs Of splitting. When this oc-
ours the Kachins attack the stone with
pickaxes and hammers. or detach por-
tious by hauling on levers inserted IN
the cracks. The heat is almost I'M
supportable. the labor severe, and the
mortality among the workers is high
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
Under The Chin.

You may have heard travellers scoiT
ut the practical Frenchman who stufs
one corner of his napkin inside his
shirt-collar and spreads it fully over
the front OF his person from his chin
down to his knees, writes Theodore
Child in Harper's Bazar This is the
practice of the French people of the
middle and lower classes, who are thrift
ty aud prudent, and who wish to eat at
their ease and not spot their clothes.
There is nothing ridiculous in this
practice There is a reason, and an
excellent reason, for so spreading the
napkin, and if | were dining at home,
or alone at restaurant or club, and
had on my spotless shirt and open
waistcoat and clawhammer coat, all
ready to 20 to the opera, | should GER
tailly spread my napkin over my man
" and snowy bosom, just as the French
man does, and so | should dine at my
ease, serenelv and without care, know
ing that had thus insured the imma-
culateness Of my linen. However, let
it be remembered that company man.
uers in all countries require YOU simply
to spread your napkin loosely over
your knees, and to eat cleanly and de-
Gently.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
Stains From CoIored Hosiery.

More than half the fashionable wo-
men of New York have dyed feet, and
if there is anything in chemistry to re-
move the silk stocking stains l haven't
heard about it, says a New York cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
On the slab in the vapor baths it is not
unusual for the attendant to spend
about an hour with a siphon of hot
water, flesh-brush and a cake of soap,
actually securing Woman's feet,
from which the skin would be easier of
removal than the blotches of green,
black, blue, brown and red that stick
like the colors of an Easter egg. In
the cooling-room it frequently happens
that these notified phalanges form the
medium of conversation which brings
together congenial souls, whatever bene-
fit their mutual soles realize. What do
you use on your feet? is the leader as
a rule, and just as certain as there is
an answer it is everything: These
dyed-in-the-wool danes and damsels
will sit in their sheets giving and get
ting whatever information they can as
10 the best possible means OF removing
the dive without the derm. AS a rule
these ladies are rather proud of their
stains, which are regarded in some-
what the same manner that men ex-
hibit their scars. A woman with a we'll
dyed foot, something with patches of
Paris green, both blue and nasturtium
tints, can always be set down as a
genuine silk stocking. In all proba-
bility she hasn't pair of Isle threads
or balbriggans to her name. The foot
with black edges belongs to a rich
ebony hosiery, and to the heel and
ankle blushing with crimson, magenta
and scarlet may be attributed the deli
cate tinery of Sybarite. Scrubbing is
of little avail The feet have to be
soaked. and even then the dive seems
fixed, albeit they swell until it is al
most impossible for them to get a
regular boot on. J heard one lady of
luxury, whose pedals were painted like
artificial snakes say that she didn't try
to scrub her feet clean. Her plan was
to dry them over register until the
skin became parched and then brush
away the epidermis, and the dye went
with it, Ii is useless to demonstrate
with the hosiery dealers, for unless a
woman pays s. a pair for opera lengths,
or is wSling to wear silk tights for the
sake Of having natural-lookiug feet, it
is impossible to get stockings that will
not crock
"All ask, said a demure little wo-
man, with the colors of squashed blue
berries on her understanding lis that
in case OF an autopsy they won't take
oil my stockings.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
A WoTlau's Rebuke.

A few years ago a strange mistake
was made in New York society. Two
ladies Of the same name gave an enter
tainmeut within a few doors OF esch
others houses. Many persons got Into
the wrong house. The hostess who
gained that day the admiring comments
OF all New York was the one who re-
eeiyed perfect strangers as if they were
her best friends aud made them hel
friends 10y that gracious reception. shs '
knew how awkward they would iesl
when they found out their mistake; sls
did an she could to prevent their ieeF
in awkwardly while with her.
The other lady, less well bred, said y =
q person who had come into her louss
under i mistake: II think you nave
got into the wrong house
Yes, madam, / have, said he. !
thought before | entered it that thD
was lady house.
1t was terrible revenge, but unaeI
the circumstances. an entirely justin
able one. ladies Home J0urfldL
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
The Uses of Cottonseed.

The history of cottonseed is in itself
interesting, and marks an age of Won
derful progress. For seventy years the
seed was despised as a nuisance and
burned and dumped as garbage. Then
it was discovered to be the very food
for which the soil was hungering and
reluctantly admitted to the rank of
utilities, and began to be treated with
respect,
Cottonseed was next found to be
nutritious food for beasts; and then this
formerly despised product was discov-
cred to hold thirty-6ye gallons Of pure
oil to the ton, worth, in its crude state,
sl4 a ton, which amounted to $40, 0OO,-
600 Tor the whole crop of seed The
refined oil is now worth 81 a gallon.
But new wonder was vet TO come.
Experience showed that the ton of cot
ton-seed was a better fertilizer and a
better stock food after it had been
robbed of its thirty-hve gallons of oil
than il was before; that the hulls OF the
seeds made the best of fuel for feeding
the oil-mill engine;that the ashes of the
hulls the highest commercial value as
potash, aud that the refuse" Of the
whole made the best and purest soap
stock to carry to the toilet the per-
fumes of the best manufacturers.
The history Of cotton-seed has. per-
haps, been paralIeled hY that Of petro-
ieum, which in its crude state. ill-look-
ing and bad-smeiling, has proved a
mine of wealth in the wonderful sub
stances that have been produced from
it, IOutIS Companion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23

mans money for twenty-four hours. q
81 am glad to hear it. yes: YOU see
my partner died last night and our
office was closed today. ~. T. Weekly.
Editor-'Look here, can't you give
young Biggars' new novel more fay-
orable notice? His father holds a
mortgage OF mine" Critic M-m-m,
femme see. I'll just say that the book
is tit to grace the shelves OF any ones
library And SO it is. for better piece
of binding never saw."-Ierre Haate
cypress.
I've been having hard luck, said
one travelling man to another "Wen,
hope for the best" Il do: but between
YOU aud me | lon't think much Of that
maxim why not?n Because it's
hoping for the best and trying to get it
that makes so many people look uuiin-
ished without bristles.n 49, Merchant
Traveller.
Young Johnny-''What team have
vou signed with for next season, Mr..
Stayer?n Mr. Stayer-"W bat team,
johnny? Why, do you mean a ball
team? I'm not ball player Young
Johnny-"Why, / thought you were.
Sister was telling mother last night she
thought you were good catch. "
IOieo0 Blade.
Rural Minister-''None Of the broth
ers whose duty it is 10 pass the plate
are here today Would YOU object TO
taking up the collectior?" Modest
Worshiper Il never passed the plate
in church in my life, and I'm afraid I'd
be rather awkward. 20, never mind
about that 1t won't be noticed. Most
of my congregation become absorbed
in their hymn books about the time the
plate goes round. ~ T. Weekly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
She Showed Him stars.

For every shooting star he claimed a kiss.
She seeming COY, at first demurrcd 70 thisi
But he pcrsistiue. would not be denied
When no at length flying meteor pied.
And So as evening grew dpacc, their eyes
Oft scanned the gitterIug aspect Of the Sizes
And when a dartiug star caught either sl9nt
A sound Of kissing broke upon the night.
And so 1t came to pass anon that she
Looked for "a shooting star as much as he,
Nay n by chance a star escaped bis view,
She called his wand ring fancy 10 10 too.
When intervals seemed long between each
hug
Ehe called him on q passing liQhtning.bug;
And ever taxing her ingenious mind,
Her ready wit enabled her 70 find
More shooting stars 10 three short, feetng
hours
Than would compose whole meteorlc bowers,
But when she did her last pretcXt exhaust
And was about to yield her cause as lost,
Che saw a swtchmau's lantern circ.inR swing
And got the youth down to a steady thing.
-NHssar Miscellany.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
Plantation Proverbs.

specy dar's poor-oF culiud darkies up In heben
white as snow;
Spec dars lots OF likely niggas buckln' cord
y wood down below,
Rebber steer a midnight ioarney BY de
soreamin oh dc loon;
Nebber spec ter prove yer beauty IN a tussie
MD de coon.
IF 20 coat Is las yeah's pattern, plod eriong
an nabcr min;
Oars a pile Oh healthy CROWN In de humble
punkiG vine,
AIlus sabe de dries held-corn fur de grindin
at do mills
Allus sabe so stFonges breathin' fur de jour
ney up dc hill.
Eebber harness upde sto' clerk ter pull trough
de feel -hHu part;
Wen Sc spec ter tote dc dreWOod use dc com
mon dumpiu' cart.
-. Russell Fisher IN 81. Louis Magazine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23

Il - - 80 N|ah'~ ~ - -
"Jorlette will be on board the 1880
mail train. Follow him to Liverpool.
Win meet you there. Look sharp
Cathcart"
This was the wording Of the tele-
gram / received one wet, ugly night
last December. ! was sitting in my
little snuggery back of my office before
q blazing crate with my feet in slippers
and my body in a warm dressing-gown.
! had a mug of hot punch and a cold
mince pie on the table before me, along
with an uncut novel and a genuine
Havana with which intended to re-
gale myself presently. AUD although
] had a very strong anxiety TO secure
Jorlette, IL must be confessed that |
was altogether too comfortablysituate
TO relish going out into the cold that
dismally dirty night
Thi, telegram was from my chief,
who. ! might as we'll say, was de-
tectiye. aud had followed that thank
less and prcCariuus business for several
years. People considered me very
successful in working up difficult
cases. but / was never quite satisfied
with myself. l wonder if any man
ever is?
This same Jorlette had given us
great deal of trouble. We had never
bad so keculy cunning q spirit 70 cope
with. Strategy was matched with
strategy, diplomacy with diplomacy
and scores OF times, when we were sure
OF him, ho had slipped from under our
fingers like a flea and left us wondering
bou. hp pluuntrnI ~
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-01-22
A woman's Discovery.

"Another wonderful discovery ha
been made and that too by lady in
this country. Disease fastened It's
clutches upon her and for seven years
she withstood It's seveiest tests, but
her vital organs were undermined ami
death seemed imminent. For three
months she coughed necessarily and
could not sleep. She bought OF US q
bottle Of DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption and was 80 much re-.
liesed on taking fret doss that she
slept all night and with one bottle
has been miraculously cured. Her
name Is Mrs. Luther Luiz." Thui
write w. @. Hamrick & Co, Of Shell
oy N. C.-Get . free trial bottle a
X sBlacknall d Son Drug Store.
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CHAPTER III.
Teach me, my God and kim
In all things thee - see,
And what ! DO in any thing,
To do II AZ 10 thee.ti

To do L - 70 thee
1t was not to be expected that the
influence of Caroline Gordon's
Christian life was to effect a great
or immediate change on the lives of
those around her. Far 'FRONT.'. For
many a day it was only in little
things, in trifiing matters, that
any change could be observed; and
often did Cary's heart sink within
her as she felt how little was done.
Still she persevered in the way of
duty, and learned more to leave the
result with God. =
She ventured to suggest to Miss
Gordon that she had few books,
and some ornamental nick-nacks,
which she would like to put in the
drawing-rOom, as she thought they
would improve it, she was met with
the sharp question, If she thought
the room required to be improved!
1t had been thought good enough for
years. She wasn't sure there was a
handsomer drawing room in the coun.
try, every one that saw 1t said So"
80 it is" said Cary, "a very hand
some room; but / think l could make
il look better, Don't You think II
were TO gather q flower, and put il
into that glass, il would look nicer"
Well, Miss Gordon allowed that
nigh. be az well there often was o
flower in it, but she could net do every
thing.
In the end Cary got q somewhat
ungraeious leave TO decx the room
up q bit, if she liked "only remem.
Der, that glass vas not 70 be broken
ii was q very valuable one."
Cary vas not long in ayalling her.
self Of the permission, aud 10 a shUr'
time tie change she had made wat
wonderful. The sofas we're pulled
forward, and arranged in better
place; the chars Wefe &c; here ant
there, through the room !, tue .tabl,
was covered With handsome crimson
cloth, which one Of the servants
brought, saying "Miss Gordsn said
she might put that Oh, II she liked.
La the csnter Of the table, on
pretty mat, stood the pure white glass
tsstefUlly dressed with flowers, anc
on the table some pretty bound book
were laid. On u eide table two beau
tiful staluettes--a present to Gar,
from her grandmolher-wefe placed
along with some Indian ornaments
and q writing book. And when Oh,
curtains we're gracefully arranged
and the piano opened, the room sor,
quite u Different appearance; anc
Cary was well rewarded for hel
trouble BY teeIbg the lD9k Of surbris,
and pleasure which crossed the fac,
Other brother Frederick, as he enter.
ed the room just ~ she was putin,
the liaishibg stroke. lie bad only
returned home q few days before, ana
be and Cary lad, a. vi, held it'll,
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converse, hardly even having met
except at meals.
Nov he went up to her quite frankly,
and declared she must deal in magic
She had changed the room 80 much,
It was really nice. quite different to
what il used to b.; and, glancing at
the piano, he said,
3CarY, that has never been opened.
since our mother died. Don't you
sing? I must say I like music, and
never a note do I hear of it here. ]
wish y.u would sing to me to-day"
IF you could only remain after
tea, I'll try and sing then; only" and
hears stood IN her eyes as she said 1t,
Il have never sung since grandmams
mas death"
"0h." said her brother" l forgot;
and you liked her very much. Gary,
you'll find nobody to like here. You
could not If you tried ever so hard.
| defy any human being TO like aunt.
she is so cold; and as to our father
"Oh! hush,n said Gary, putting
her hand on her brothers lips" are
they not the relations God has given
TO uss We must lry to love them, to
help them, and be their comfort. We
must remember they are not young
like u.s.
"young!" answered Frederick,
with sneer. "Aunt never was young
IN her life, / believe. And as to our
father, was only going to say, that
he won't let any person like him; he
repels you. But confess he has al
ways been q liberal, just farther to me.
would like him if he would let me,
but he won {, and that's all; aud. Cary,
you'll feel it all by and by, and own
that I'm right Do what you like,
you'll find It impossible to care for
any one in this house."
mo, won't. God helping me. I
mean to love every one in the honse. !"
| Her brother looked at her with 40
incredulous emile.
"Well, if you do, you must be an
angel, that is all. I wonder where
you'll beginf"
with yoa," she ssid, laughing.
He shook his head. "No, Cary,
won't believe it; noboly ever Flowed
me in my life. 1 used to fancy even
mother cared more for Charles. But
I must be offnow. Yes, of course I'll
stay and hear yon sing Tonight
You know the story of study is all
stuff; only, how could one bear ts
stay in this room at night with aunt
Cary, ! tell you, / wish for your own
sake that you had not to live here
4 II don't, Frederick" she said. Il
lam glad to be at home. Perhaps Goo
has work for me 70 do here"
/ do You always think off God aboul
EVERY thngr' he asked in q grave
tone.
| IL try to do so,' che said, fixini
her eyes on her brother; land We maj
love him, Frederick, and be quite SUR
he will not repel US"
"Psrhap not. / don't know thai
I've tried TINT. But / can't stop now;
and 50 saying he left the room.
Trivial as the events related in thi
chapter may seem, Is IL not possibl
that they were the beginning Of tn
Influence of u Liie? Let no on
! despise the day Of small things.
i To be Continual.
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NOTHING TO DO
OR THE INFLUENCE OF A
LIFE.
Have You Fever Thought Of the
Influence of a Life?

IIuNC wa hAOat~ hA@ VI tse1
Influence of q a.ife1
Frederick Gordon, the eldest son,
was being educated as an advocate,
and had for two years spent six
months of the year in Edinburgh.
He was clever, stndious lad, some
what grave for his years; the effect,
no doubt, Of the way in which he
had been brought mp; for, as far as
lay in her power, Miss Gordon had
studiously repressed all childish
folly, as she called the natural mer-
riment of youth. At first sight a
stranger would have SAID that FIRE.
derrick resembled his father, posses
sing, though in a slighter degree,
the same stern infiexible look; but a
close observer would have remarked
a depth Of thought and a mild ex-
preston in the deep blue eye, such
as Major Gordon never had. Yes,
and could one have read the heart,
they would have found IN Frederick
chatting at the ccllness and want
Of sympathy of those around him, a
yearning for love, and sometimes
even an aspiration after higher
things. True, as yet that aspiration
was underlined, produced only by
the power, which the beauties Of
nature exercised on sensitive mind,
leading him to regard these beauties
as the work of the Lord, whilst he
was yet far from being able to say.
"MY God, My God" Such was Fred
erick Gordon when he came home
for the summer, soon after his sis
ter's arrival.
0f Charles and Fanny there is mol
much to say. Charles was to be q
merchant, his father having OBJ.
tanned the promise Of an opening
for HIM in a large mercantile house
in Liverpool; in the meantime, III
went SO many hours a day as aclerl
in bank in the county town Of [
-, not three miles distant
from Fairhe House. Charles in
herited in a large measure the char
acter Of his mother, whose creates
fault had been want of decision
and fear Of offending, which offer
led her into yielding her own OPP
Unions, even when she knew they
were right, and thus being Blind,
led by others. = =
Fanny was a silent, reserved child
brought up completely according I,
her aunt's ideas Of propriety-
taught to think before she spoke
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in Hackney buggies and phetons.
q. 8. Columbus and Single Center
spring vehicles. Cal and gel prices
Get 30 IT,
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The railroad alongside the Elevator and the Coal LOADED
70 them there thus lcsseniug the the tade South and West
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Telephone No. 932.
John K. PriindiviIe,
Justice o. 7z5 Peace
liz East Madison Street, Room |,
CHICAGO
{. ]. WHITE,
Justice }I Ppacp.
Private Office for General Business,
1873 w. Madison Street.
THOS, SWEENEY,
Justice Of the Peace,
~ North Clark ST.,
Room 10, Uhllch Block. Telephone No. 3053.
RESIDENCE, 235 SEDGWICK STREET.

MEDICAL science has made long
strides during the present century.
Even to glance at the brilliant ana al
most innumerable galaxy whose inyes-
LEGATIONS have in. recent times illumi-
mated the healing art, and to whose
skill muititudes owe life and comfort.
might be- bewildenng. Their works do
follow them. Vet, without iuyidious
distinction it may Dee said that. as In
ages past, SO now, the best physician
are Doctor Dict Doctor Quiet and
Doctor Merryman
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Estab1ished 1867.
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HIbp|DIIan
Banking
Association
Receive Money in its
Savings Department,
And allow Compound Interest
If you wish to open a Savings
Bank Account,
LOOK UP ITS RECORD

LIvgG on claim eight miles north
of Rocky Ford, Col, is Emma Aiken,
and her two daughters All three
ladies are widows The mother is 90
years Of age, the eldest daughter IS
and the Youngest 81 Not a man has
ever been employed about the place,
and during their two year. residence
they have done al of their own work
aud truck gardening
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