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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
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He (the late DR.. G-) spent forty
years of his life in teaching deaf mules
how to read and write"
Read mutes for mules, and YOU have
less quixotic but scarcely so poetic /.
task assigned to the late DR.. c..
From IA thrilling adventure story:
r. oaring through the thick fog,
from the direction in which the Young
girl was raining, came the loud sound
of noses"
Waves instead of moses" made
the passage read better. This is from
a biographical sketch:
'ln the prime Of his life and strength
he was carried away by pullet at the
battle of Five Forks"
There have been chickens. perhaps,
which seemed to their eaters to have
had sufficient muscular development to
enable them to carry Il strong man
away, but this compositors "pullet'
was only bullet. "-BoSton Tran
ScriDt,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
Native Australian Handiwork.

In an article on the aborigines of
Australia w. I. Wyndham speaks of
the skill with which the natives use
stone implements. They turn out
work" he says, ''that you would
hardly believe possible with such rough
implements. They show great inge-
uuity particularly in making their
harpoou heads fos spearing dugong
aud fish; instead of shaving the wood
up and down with the grain, as IA
European workman would do, they
turn the wood for spear head round
aud chip it off across the grain. work
iug it as wooden boxes are turned on a
lathe. | have often sat and watched
them doing this.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
The Heights of Waves.

All sorts of nonsense has been writ
ten about waves mountains high"
The truth is that when ship is plung-
ing down the back OF one wave and is
at the same time heeied over till her
rail is close to the water, the next wave
looks as if it would sweep completely
over the vessel. AID therefore appears
as big as a mountain. Lieutenan.
Qualtrough says: I'VE find reports of
heights of leo feet from hollow to
crest, but no verified measurement
exists of height half as great as this.
The highest reliable measurements are
from Al to 4S feet-in itself very
remarkable height. Waves having a
greater height than thirty feet are not
often encountered" The height of
wind waves is governed by what is
called the fetch" That means their
distance from the place where their
formation begins. Thomas Stevenson,
author of Lighthouse illumination"
and father of the well-kncwn writer of
our day, Robert Louis Stevenson. gives
the following formula as applicable
when the fetch is not less than six sea
miles: The height of the wave in
feet is equal to 1.5 multiplied by the
square root of the fetch in nautical
miles" Let us suppose that ia gale
of wind the waves began to form 400
miles from the ship you are on. The
square root of 400 is 20, which multi
piled by LIS gives 80 feet as the height
of the waves around the ship.
Now, it is well known that in every
storm there are occasionally groups of
three or four waves considerably larger
than the others. Captain Lecky is of
the opinion that these are caused by
the increased force of the wind in the
squalls which are feature of every
big blow. Now. waves travel at rate
which is the result of their size. Waves
200 feet long from hollow to hollow
travel about 10 knots per hour; those
of 400 feet in length make 27 knots;
and those of 600 feet rush forward ire
sistibly at 32 knots. Let us suppose,
now. a wave 400 feet in length and 80
or 40 feet high rushing along at n
knots. 1t oyertakes a slower wave
making about 20 knots, with a height
of 20 feet and length of 200. The
two seas become one, forming at the
moment of their union an enormous
wave. Just at that moment they meet
one of those steamers called ocean
greyhounds, which, as every one
knows never slacken speed unless it Is
absolutely necessary for safety. She is
butting into the storm at the rate of
say eight knots an hour. She runs
plump against II great wall of water
which seems to rise suddenly out of the
general tumult, rushing at her with II
height of 40 feet or more and a speed
of over 30 miles per hour. There is a
fearful crash forward, accompanied by
a deuge, and as the tons of water rol.
off the forccastle deck it is found that
damage has been done, and the o Ulcers
on watch enter in the log the interest
ing fact that the steamer has been
struck by tidal wave. ~. j. Hen
derSOn. IN 50. Nicholas.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
Heroism in n Restaurant.

A man came to the conclusion that it
was an act of moral cowardice to tip a
waiter in a restaurant. The cowardce
lay, he argued, in being afraid of the
walters scorn ut the apparent parsi-
mony. He determined to be morally
brave thereatter. The QpporlunitX
came. He finished his dessert and the
waiter in his customary manner of
solicitude assumed by walters when
the customer looks good for an ample
tip, placed his coffee before him. He
weakened a trifle. but resolved to brace
himself. He drank his coffee some
what more deliberately than usual,
hoping to attain state of mental COM
posture, but rs the time approached for
disappointing the attentive negro, who
already saw in his nina 5 eye big
round shining coin, the brave man
grew less equal to the deed he had
resolved to commit.
He handed the waiter a greenback
in payment of his bill, and dalled with
the finger bowl while the waiter went
to get the change. The change came
back on the silver plate, two quarter
pieces lying, rs usual, a bit aloof from
the rest of the change. The mans
eye sought that of the waiter as he
tremblingly reached for the change,
and he beheld on the negro's face an
expression of expectancy almost real
lied. With a difficult stimulation of
calmneSs he succeeded in grasping all
the change, including the two quarter
pieces. Daring not to look at the
walters countenance, he fastened from
the room looking as if he had COM
mitled a crime. II felt so. too he
said, as he related the incident after
ward, land | won't subject myself to
that feeling again for any considera-
ton. | could feel that walters glance
of contempt upon my back"
A woman finds it quite easy to be
morally brave under such circum-
stances Why is it SO?
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
Copper Jewelry.

The Indian women of the Southern
Atlantic coast. Captain John Smith
said, had copper pendants, and the
Mangoaks beautitied their houses With
great plates thereof The Virginls
Indians valued copper, and had
custom of throwing pieces in the river
when passing their buryipg grounds
A common ornament of the person
was "a broad piece of copper" Similar
references occur in the records OF the
early settlers of New England. In the
St. Lawrence Valley Champlain met
an Indian who drew from his bag
piece of copper the length of foot
which he gave me: the same was hand
some and very pure; giving me TO
understand that he had Il quantity OF
It where he had taken this, which was
on the border of river near a great
lake The early records invariaoly
refer to its use for ornament, but the
copper objects found in graves ana
village sites alofg the Northern
Atlantic coast are all, except a ie"
brads. useful objects such as spear
heads, arrow points. or cells.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
If My Wife Taught School.

st had a wife at Taught school ! would 20
TO far away countries. I'd fish from the Pc
In a gay ,ondCie, and the plash o my oar
Would be heard by the natives around Singa-
pore.
If my wife taught school
] would. wouldn't you?
Err wouldn't yuh?
Emmy way what would you dor
II ] han wife at taught school would get
Something fine in the shape OF furniture
set.
II ] could pay my board and she could pay
hcr'n;
There's good many nice little things 1 could
earn.
If my wife taught school.
would, wouldn't your
Err wouldn't yuh?
Anyway what would you do?
II my wife taught school you can bet would
fly
Like a condor I'd roost pretty middlln' high:
I'd wear "A silk tile and own bosses. ] vow,
And do lots o. things that amt dom now.
If my wife taught school,
] would, wouldn't your
Er wouldn't yuh?
Anyway what would you do2
II my wife taught school like some women do
And could earn quite enough for us two
I'd go in the barnyard, without any fuss.
would blow out my brains with big blum
derbuss.
If my wife taught school,
J would, wouldn't your
Err wouldn't yuhY
Anyway what would you do?
Bow Hackley.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
DUNKARDS WITH AN r.
A Photographers BIunder that Startled
and Mystified "A Station Agent.

One day a party of twenty-five
DunkardS was en- route to the general
conference, via st. Louis. No agent
accompanied them. and telegram
was sent to Union Depot Passenger
Agent Bonner to meet twenty Dunk
ards.
The religious education OF the tele-
graph operator who received the mess
AGE had been neglected. He had never
heard of the Dunkards. and supposing
a mistake had been made he just in
serted the letter ''r.n and when Bonner
received the message it read: Meet
No. !. Twenty drunkards aboard.
Look after Them
Bonner was somewhat taken aback.
He did not know but than an inebriate
ASYLUM Lad broken lose, but anyway
prompt action was necessary. The
twenty drunkards must be desperate
men or the dispatch would not have
been sent. and murder might have been
committed on the road.
Bonner posted off to police head
quarters. aud his story did not loose in
the telling. The Chief OF Police, alive
to the eXigencies of the situation, made
a special detail of ten policemen and a
patrol wagon.
The policemen were drawn mp in line
Mt the depot, and intense excitement
prevailed among the numerous depot
loGngers a rumor having gained cur
reucv that desperate band of train
robbers was on the incoming train.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
Monstrous Power OF Sea Bre.t

From experiments made last mon,l
at Bell Rock and Skerrvyole I;nh.
houses on the coast of Scotland II ~
found that while the force of ,Ss
breakers on the side of the Gern,aee
ocean may he taken at about a ton al
IA half to every square foot of exnosaa
surface. the Atlantic side throws bro..G
ers with double that force. or thra.
tons to the square foot; thus a surface
OF only two square yards sustains
blow from a heavy Atlantic breaksr
equal to tifty-four tons. In March -
this year heavy gale blew for tbrsa
days and nights at Skerryvole. wash.
ing out blocks of limestone and Grant.
of three and five tons weight as essiIv
AS if they had been empty egg shells.
in some cases throwing them entireIv
over the breakwater at Plymontb
Over 800 tons of such blocks wera
washed 300 feet up the inclined beach
after being thrown over the breat.
water and scattered about in varions
directions. One block of limestone
estimated to be of fifteen tons WEIGHT
was moved over $50 feet from plac.
in the surf, where it had been firmlv
grounded since 1897 it having first
been rolled in sight by the awful gale
of the Windy Christmas" of that wear
This is quite a high sea record for
1890 showing that the gale of March 3
was the worst known on the Scottish
coast for 1913 years.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
A Story of Josh Billings.

A few years ago, riding up town in
a Madison Avenue ear, was seated
opposite the gentleman who is best re-
membered as Josh Billings The rear
platform was somewhat crowded, and
in the course of our ride one of the
passengers stepped off and on several
times, in order to assist the lady pasSen-
gers. Finally, when the car was just
comfortably filled and the courteous
coleman had taken his seat inside,
Josh Billings, seeing an opportunity
for a joke heckoned to the conductor
and pointing to the stranger, said,
Don't YOU charge for every ride on
this carp
Yes. sir" answered he.
Well I've seen that fellow get on
this car six times, and YOU hive col.
leeted only one fare from him. '-Har.
ptr'S Magazine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27

he was glad for ore thing. There
were kind hearts among the boys in
blue. and they took the body of the
dead mother across to New Castle, and
there in the old church yard reveren-
TALLY laid it to rest.
Rogers managed to escape detection
for the few weeks remaining before the
close of the war. After the surrender
he was liberated and returned to Ala
bama. There he lives and there | met
him. He told me this story, and l
repeat it because it comes so near
home. 1t interested me and think it
will you. Phtiadelphia Ne,OS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
Cattle Killed by Elks.

A ranchmau living on the Satslp
Col, missed three head OF cattle, aud
noticing a congregation of buzzards q
short distance away proceeded TO make
an Investigation and found all three Of
the animals lying dead, their bones
all broken, their horns Knocked off.
scarcely amy hair left ON them, and
the ground around them all torn up
with elk tracks Apparently q band OF
els had comc up and attacked them IN
nm openuE. hooked and butted them
down, and paved and stamped them
to DEATH,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
Public Structures in Brussels.

Brussels. not content with having
more beautiful public buildings than
any other European city safe Paris
has now determined to rival Paris IT.
self. King Leopold has just laid the
foundation OF an arch of Triumph one
third larger than the celebrated one in
Paris. and it is announced that this
gigantic work will be completed by the
close of the century. Brussels already
has the most monumental courthouse
in aii Emope-it magnificent pie;
which cost vast sums OF money. ana
which contains some superb nails The
Paris Triulphai Wcl cost -. O0v VV0'
that OF Brussels is ~ cost S3,OJO- uV0.
ID viii be richly ornate with sculptures
some ii which will be Of gigantic pro-
portions.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27

Ten wear, ago cocaine was worth
5000 pound; now hardly a single
surgical operation is conducted with
oui lbs use.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27

Aninfant grows eight inches during
the tirsl year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27

Joe RogerSl Joe Rogers! Joe Kog-
ersM rang through the long corridor.
Then the prisoners crowded around,
aud the orderly seemed to be unaware
that Rogers had failed to answer to his
name. He went away, and on the rec
ords it was written that Joe Rogers
had been transferred even the
officers thought-to be hanged.
A sad look came over the face of the
commanding officer when the white
haired woman gave him the slip of
paper that to her meant SO much.
Rogers is not here now he said
finally.
She looked at him, dazed by the in
telIigence.
"Not-here?'
mo; he has been transferred"
"Where?'
The officer had a heart,
IL do not know he said He
could not tell the Sad-eyed woman
what he believed to he the truth.
But he could not deceive her.
He is deadw She cried, wildly, and
lettering forward she clasped her
hands across her breast and sank into
a chair.
NV poor boy!' she sobbed. ~
loved you too, and vet was too later
The parched lips closed over the sad
grey eyes; tine tired head fell forward;
the nervous fingers relaxed their hold.
Come, said the officer kindly
''you must go now. | can not permit
you 10 remain here"
There was no answer.
81 am waiting he began, and then
he paused abruptly. Something strange
in her appearance startled him, and he
stopped down aud peered into her face.
A. he did SO tears came into his eyes.
The sWcet-facel mother would never
see the valley Of the Tennessee again.
She was dead.
News flies in iails as it flies else
where Ia his hidiug-plaee that night
Young Rogers vas told thc story of his
mothers DEATH Strong man though
he was, the shock was almost more
than he could bear. and he grieved
hiHarlv no thc thought thtt even deat,
he might not look upon her lace. but
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-24
WE BIO HEM MElCoME

The STANDARDS business Office
would like To fix its grasp with marked
iirmness on the fellow who sent last
night, under Pocat.llo date, a dispatch
of ls5 words marked collect" The
telegram has no signature, but il gives
an elaborate account of the "two-section
excursion now on its way from Denver
to Helena. IL says that the party in
cludes men who represent large syndi-
Gates and that Helena real estate is the
exclusive topic of conversation.
Probably this office will never be able
10 discover the scamp who sent the
message, SO that the STANDARD must
contribute its share To %llelena's boom
out of love for the cause We do this
cheerfully, i'm the conviction that Hell
ena's real estate hnrrah needs all the
help il can get. Members of the excur-
sion party will read the STANDARD this
morning. W. assure these gentleman.
representing large s~yndicates, that they
are welcome TO Helena.
Welcome 10 the temporary capital of
Montana. View its large eXpanse of
suburban real estate and ponder the
testimony of the city's census returns.
Note its imposing court house. IL Is
an architectural gem. IL is not as
large rs the capital building in Texas,
Of course. but you will bear in
mind the fact that IL has only
a short term to serye In ls.2 the peO-
pie of Montana propose to put the
state capital on the right side of the
range that is the side opposite the
n you will be on when you are in
Helena.
tunities which Helena offers you for
investment. Believe allthat the average
Helena man tells you, for the average
Helena man cannot tell "A lie, not even
about town lots. II in your judgment
Colonel Broadwater does not spread il
on thick enough, ask him TO send for
ex-United States Marshal George
Washington Irwin, residences, number
22l North Idaho street, Butte City,
Montana. and have him give a com
parison of real estate figures In Helena
with other Montana towns say Deer
Lodge. for instance.
Welcome to Helena, gentlemen -
that is. those of you who represent large
syndicates. Measure the calibre of the
politicians she has sent TO Washington
and study the city's source of water
supply-everybody in Helena is study
ing that. And fail not To make the
tour of Helena's suburbs. The train
goes TO Rimini once a week go there if
you can wait for the train. Or ramble
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who Rudyard Kipunv Is.


The name of Rudyard Kipling has
stolen across the Atlantic from London.
says "a writer in Torn Topics. At the ten
der age of "a this latest of successful story
writers is basking at this moment in the
warmest light of social and critical favor,
and | should Judge that he stands in n
good way to have his head turned and
thus be robbed of his literary originality
and power of application. This latest
pet of h drawing rooms has commanded
the attention of London by re-
vealing through "A series of short
| stories an entirely strange and fasci-
mating life, n life ''caviare to- the gen.
eral." What Bret Harte did for the pio-
neer days of California Kipling is doing
for the British linesmen in India. The
methods oi the two authors are not UNI
like. Given a social life that is entirely
esoteric, SO far as ordinary mankind is
concerned, and into which life the soul of
the writer has so deeply entered that il
has practically become his life, and add
to this rare touch for scenic work, the
natural setting, SO to speak, of the human
integer, together with n deep sympathy
for humanity. and you get n Luck OF
Roaring Camp" or such character
sketches as those of Mr.. Kipling. Natu-
rally such sketches center around certain
type characters, and "A parallel might
readily be drawn between Jack Ham,
lyn,' the sentimental gambler, and
Private "Mulvaney." whose soldierly rep
u~tation, skill i'm arms and steadfast cour-
age when called upon, overweight, i'm the
minds of his discriminating officers, his
occasional lapses caused by strong
drink aud general So with
the minor characters, such as Private
Orthoris, in Mr.. kipling's character list.
Each one of them is distinctive, clean
cut and human. None of them are all
bad, none of them u~npleasantly %virtuous.
but all are fellows who are easily and
naturally deduced from their environ
| ment.
An Indian by birth, though not by blood,
a trained journalist and evidently the
closest sort of a close observer, Mr.. Kip
ling knows "Tommy Atkins all through,
for as a newspaper correspondent he has
campaigned with him, seen him fight i'm
the field and chat and quarrel in the
barracks, heard his remarks about men.
women and things around the campfire;
generally, as said, he knows him
all through, good and bad, and
rather loves him. Mr.. Kipling also
knows his India, broad plains, great
rivers, mighty forests; its brazen sky and
its c~loud-splitting mountains, for, 10! IL is
his cal native land; and his people he
knows as a man only knows the people
anon whom he was born. Mr.. Kipling
has evidently ''come :" let us hope that
he will "stay.n and for the present no
better advice can be given than when-
ever you see anything signed by his odd
~patronymic, read that same. Gou might
he much worse employed.
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out to East Helena Just to catch the
echo of the noise the smelter used to
make when II was running. Above all,
gentlemen, buy lots. Helena's people
are 10th to part with them, as they do
not need the money, for Helena is the
richest city in Lewis and Clarke county.
And, gentlemen, when you are sure
that you have been fully welcomed In
Helena, go back to Butte and see what
welcomes you there. The largest city
in Montana, the busiest town to-day
on the American continent, the coming
metropolis of the Northwest. With
mines worth eighty-iive round millions,
a population of thirtv-three thousand,
twothousand million pounds Of freight
a year, miners TO the number of six
thousand, monthly pay rolls amounting
to 100000, and more than S2O,OOO.0OO
added annually to the worlds wealth
i'm metals, Butte is the town to see,
after you have seen Helena.
Meanwhile, gentlemen, once again
welcome to Helena, and please tell the
people of that city that the STAN
DARD's welcome of you to Helena was
evidently the more honest because the
proof was produced that it didn't cost
Helena a cent.