Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-07-17
SCISSORS SA UCE.

I meeting MONDAY evening was tne
fact that only one of the attendants
was the parent of child of school
age. Interest in school matters
seem to be at low ebb in this city,
when it comes to annual school
meeting. A school district that
contains 400 children who are schol-
airs ought TO have better showings
than have been the case for the past
two years.-Grdat Go. Herald.
A little four-year-old son of Henry
Tear came very near losing it's life
last Monday. 1t had wandered out
into the meadow just before the
men went into the field to NOW, and
it is supposed went to sleep there.
The mower on the first round struck
the child, greatly decorating the
right arm and cutting both bones Of
the fore ARM Warren Sentinel.
Col. Curley was enjoying boat
ride on the lake the fore part of the
week, and when near the bridge his
boat was struck by a monster fish,
which tipped his boat so that she
took water; and the Col. says it was
all he could do to save himself from
being cast into the water. 1t was
probably a large sturgeon. The
COL, however, is too old soldier to
be caught mapping. -- Prajrje du
Cdjoa Courier.
Gratlot is seriously threatened
with a water famine. Some of the
young men have established the
practice of dousing with buckets of
cold water all persons found in a
state Of inebriation and the demand
for water has become SO great that
the regular supply is daily exhausted.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Capt. Conley
appears to be doing good work as
commanding officer of Co. X. He
is drilling the boys almost every
evening and the company will un-
doubtedly make handsome appear
ance when it joins the annual en-
campment at Camp Douglas. The
First Regiment, which includes our
boys, goes into camp July p, and
will be out one week.-DdrIjagton
Democrat.
NJ. NJ. Ziegler has cherry tree in
his yard. When the cherries began
to ripen he covered it completely
with what is generally known as
mosquito bar and kept it covered.
The result was the tree gave him
nearly two bushels of fine ripe
cherries. Without the covering he
would not have had a ripe cherry.
The birds would have taken them.
The cover cost him $l.60 and it will
be good for three or four years more.
Chas. Basford is saving his cherries
the same way.--LdRcdSter Teller.
Sam Stone has received from the
patent office at Washington the pat
ent papers on his invention, fold
/ ing foot-rail, Sam has a promising
/ thing as the result of his labors, as
/ the foot-rail he has invented will
supersede all other articles of the
kind in bars and offices, as it folds
up and makes sweeping and clean
/ ing underneath as easy as if there
were no railing there at all Sam
will engage in the manufacture of
the footballs extensively this fall
and winter, and put them ON the
home market to supply the demand.
-Fennjmore Times.
Capt. d. w. Corey has recently
received letters patent on an i'm
provement on the two-wheeled vehi-
Gle commonly called road cart. This
term does not properly describe the
Captains invention. Road carts
commonly called are adapted to
carrying one person, while the Cap
tain's invention is to carry one, two,
or more persons at the same time
and also loads of 1000 lbs. or less.
To carry load evenly balanced on
a two-wheeled vehicle has always
been considered impracticable.
Capt. Corey has solved the difficulty
by giving the box of his cart lat
eral or forward and backward mo-
ton from the center Of balance one
foot or less either way which keeps
the load evenly balanced on the
axle of the cart at any elevation or
depression of the road. The shift
ing is done by an ingenious iron
device that closely resembles the
break on lumber wagon. This
vehicle has other novel features, one
of which is to attach the box to the
running gear so that it carries level
either up or down hill at all times.
The box also carries level when
horses of different heights are used.
The above features make Capt.
Corey's cart desirable for physicians,
cauvassers, sewing machine agents,
delivery and for families and all
classes Of trade when the load .doA
not exceed l00Q.~6a ~