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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
Humane and Effective.

When Dr. Cyrus Edison, of the board
of health. was medical student he
was, like most medical students, full of
life and fun, says the n. Y. Hcrdtd.
He lived with his father in the annexed
district, aud this story is told on him:
He was much troubled by the Growing
of an early rising rooster owned by a
neighbor, which used every morning to
take his place under the young students
window and raise such a racket that
sleep was impossible.
The fowl was fayorite of its owner,
and every effort to buy him or get rid
of him in any way was futile. Young
Edison puzzled his brains not little to
find way and ut last struck bright
idea. Early one morning, just as his
enemy had started his pipes, he armed
himself with sharp lancet, crept
up behind the unsuspecting fowl,
caught him, aud in less time than 1t
takes to tell it had severed his vocal
chord.
1t made the coons laugh thereafter
to see the rooster get up on the fence,
flap his wings and go through all the
motions of growing with never sound
coming from his beak. DR.. Edison
never had any trouble in sleeping after
that. though.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
What He Had In His Box.

People fetch some mighty clear ar
ticles aboard of a car now and then, "
said the conductor of Wabash avenue
train last night on his home trip.
They seem 10 think a street-car IS a
combined junk-shop or freight-house
on wheels or general delivery wagon.
One evening nj Sixteenth street fell
low rolled a barrel of apples out to the
track. The car was full of passengers
and the platform hadn't standing-room
for a walkiug-stick and yet he wanted
to lick me because | wouldn't let him
put his barrel into the car.
But the queerest thing ever saw
in the street-car business happened in
my car Yesterday afternoon. At State
and Madison streets a middle-aged
man with long box under his arm got
on the car. He took the rear platform
and stood the box on end next to the
iron gate He was a stupid-looking
foreigner, and | took him to be car
pentcr moving his tool-boX to another
lob. AT Twenty-tifth street, as there
was no one else on the platform, | got
10 talking to the man and asked him
what he had in the box.
"Oh, that's my son. he said, in an
easy sort of way.
"Whatr l gasped, thinking the man
was joking.
Its my youngest son. He died $
couple of DAYS ago and | took him out
10 the graveyard this morning, but the
man at the gate said must have q
pass for the boy. aud I'm taking him
back home until | can get one
He was telling the truth. | sup
pose he had gone to the cemetery with
out burial permit, and there he was
going home again, with corpse stand
ing on end aboard Of 8 street-car. Its
the first time l ever acted as conductor
on hearse and was glad when he
got of at Thirty-ninth street with his
box. 49, htca1o Mail
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
He Stole From a Squirrel

IL was engaged in about the small
est business on Sunday that | ever did
in my life said Market street mer-
chant to a Philadelphia blqHircr man.
what was that?' asked the friend.
We'll, sir, was actually so low
down mean as TO play sneak-thief on
poor, innocent, tluhy-tailed squirrel out
In the park. You see, went out there
in the forenoon TO throw myself around
A bit ard imagine | was boy again
gathering walnuts on the old home-
stead. Well. the children were so
active IN their quest for walnuts that |
stood no chance at all. There were
plenty of walnuts on the trees. but
none on the ground | gave up the
search and lay down IN the shadow of
a bic oak tree Pretty soon | saw a
pretty. graceful frightened squirrel
hopping down from a walnut tree at a
little distance ana making for the tree
under which | rolled The brisk little
fellow had greeu-coated walnut be-
tween his cleaning little teeth, Sever
al light springs brought him to the
trunk of the oak. and, skipping to the
oppoSite side to that on which l lay, he
deposited his prize among some high
decayed grass, just up against the roots
of the old tree. Then he looked quick
" about him for second or two and
hoped back to the walnut tree. He
was soon among its branches and had
plucked another walnut, which he
placed with the first one behind the oak
tree.
tie did it again, and had returned
once more to the walnut tree when l
invaded his treasure-trove and stole all
three Of his waluuts. | don't know
why | did it. Total depraYity, | sup
pose. But my heart smote me when
That innocent gray-coated fellow came
jumping cheerily up with his fourth
prize. and suddenly dropped L from
liz teeth when he discovered the robbie
ry. lie sat down on his lon~, pus'G
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
About SaIamanders.

Considerable ignorance exists, even
among persons of education, as to ta
habits of the salamander. The mer
mention of this harmless little t~|
trachian recalls to the minds OF NOS
people mystic ideas with respect to hFe
eating and tire-inhabiting creaturA
which nave probably caused many q
the poor little brutes to b. burnt n
experimental philosophers who shou'
have been far above belief in such AZ
surdities. The spotted salamander
the color of lamp black, with numeTos
large yellow spots and stripes ana
very common all over Soutnei
Europe. as well as in Northern Aircl
1t hannts all manner of dark and Goa.
places. such as cavities under logs y
wood, aud holes in old walls, whe7
they can find a supply of insects woIIi
or slugs. All the salamaoder mo'1
ments are performed with such aosul
solemnity that the most hardened ls3
tile-hater could not be uninteres'eI
Sometimes the operation OF swalioN"T
a worm will last twenty minutes
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
Brook Farm.

From reminiscent article by Robert
Carter in the Century we quote the fol-
lowing: 1T was a delightful gather
ing of men and women of superior Gull
tivation, who led charming life for
a few years, laboring in its fields and
philandering in its pleasant woods. 1t
was little too much of picnic for
serious profit, and the young men and
maidens were rather unduly addicted
to moonlight wanderihgs in the pine
grove. though it is creditable to the
sound moral training of New England
that little or no harm came of these
wauderings at least not to the maid
ems. So far as the relation of the sexes
is concerned, the Brook Farmers, in
spite of their free manners, were as
pure, | believe, as any other people.
The enterprise failed pecuniarily,
after seeming for some years to have
succeeded. and Brook Farm
became the site of town pOor-house.
Hawthorne, who lost all his savings in
the enterprise, has sketched it, in some
respects faithfully in his "Blithdale
Romance | may remark, by the
way, that while he was a member he
was chiefly engaged in taking care OF
the pigs, that being found by expert
ment to be the branch of farm labor
TO which his genius was best adapted. "
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06

L, c. Beecher, of Woodhr;s
Conn, planted hill of pumpkins g
spring. From that hill, he It's. lA9
seventeen pumpkins aggregafing ,''s -.
pounds. He sold them all AT &C.. W
pound. Gathering nearly 81 from ~. =
hill beats anything the rich farm, Ga'
lands of Kansas can show.
The debt of the city of Paris smon.
to 700 francs for every man. WON 1lA
and child within the city lmits
Frankfort the debt is equivalent n o., by
francs per head, in Milan to 22S -,
Berlin to 154 in the Hague to 196 =
Brussels, the most heavily indebted :
all European cities, to 1905.
In the Cascade Mountains a.
seventy-ilve miles from Jacksorr'''.i
Oregon, is to be found the Great Snrta.
Lake, the deepest lake in the worI5
1t is said to average 1000 feet down !.
the water on all sides. The dentb ],
the water is unknown. 1t is sbo..
fifteen miles long by four and a b,f
wide.
E. d. Sloan, of Klamath Aqano-
found recently in a cremation moa5i
on the Klamath Indian reservation :
Harrison badge of the campaign =
184l. The ''log cabin and prosi,
view of General Harrison show oni..
plainly. Probably these Indians %,
the badge from General John C. Ia
mont's party when they travele3
through that country.
In Iceland there are no prisons And
no officers answering to our polcemen
In 1874 it celebrated the one-thousandS
anniversary OF its colonization, and a
the same time became independent n
Denmark, though subject to the kipa
of Denmark as tie head of the h..
landic government. Iceland's new
government is thoroughly Republican
in spirit, all citizens having equg
rights and perfect religious liberty.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
ONE OF THE FIGHTING m'cooks.
How He Reprlrn~hded a Bumptious and
Insulting Wagonmaster.

Bob McCook, a Cincinnati LAWYER.
and brother in the celebrated McCoOk
family of fighters, went into the war as
Colonel of the Ninth Ohio. an exclu-
sively German-American regiment
organized in Cincinnati. and suisse
quently brigaded with the Second Min
nesota and the Eighteenth regulars, the
latter then made up of three battalions
of 800 men each. For exceptional
bravery at Mill Spring Col. Bob was
made full Brigadier. and if ever an
officer was the idol of the soldiers serv-
ing under him that man was McCook.
He had hearty dislike for the fuss
and feathers of official rank, and when
in active service seldom or never wore
any insignia to distinguish him from
the common soldier. He was content
if his own men knew him by face and
figure, and every one of them did
know him. But an unlucky wagon
master in charge of a brigade train mot
McCook's) came to grief through fail
ing to know him. 1t was on the way
west from Nashville to Pittsburg Land
ing, in March. 1862, when towards
evening a wagon train had blocked up
the ford of small stream in Western
Tennessee, and the tired infantry were
prevented from crossing except in the
deeper water and below. A bumptious
Hoosier was in charge Of the train, and
under his orders the ford was filled
with six-mule teams, stopping to drink
as thew crossed News Of the obstruc-
ton vas conveyed to McCook, who put
spurs TO his horse, and dashng to the
side of the mounted wagonmaster in
the middle of the stream. ordered him
to move his train forward and get out
of the way. MOI recognizing any mark
of rank upon the rather rough-looking
party who accosted him, the wagon
master returned a defiant and insulting
answer. He would move when he got
ready, with some hard and bad words
plentifully sprinklcl in. Without
further parley McCo planted two
lightning blows with fist just where
they did the most good and in a twink
ling had endorsed the Captain of the
mule team and flung him into the
creek.
Now, sir, mount your horse and
move out those wagons, was the Cen
erals order.
Sheepishly and reluctantly the man
complied, and, after having directed
the teams to proceed, he turned and
said:
WHO in h-ll are you, anyhow"
McCook vouchsafed no reply, but a
clipper Corporal of the Second Min
uesota sung out from the bank:
Two black eyes and a ducking--
compliments of Gen. Bob McCooki
that's whom
That ended it, No count martial, no
charges, no censure for the insolence
of that wagonmaster; but he lived to
feel honored at having been done up
by such soldier, and doubtless
mourned as grieyously as many
thousands did when, few months
later, near Holly Springs, Miss, the
brave McCook. sick, disabled and rid
ing in an ambulance, was murdered in
cold blood by party Of rebel guer'
| rillas.-St Pdlk Pioneer Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06

Have You seen my new Shakespeare
banglespn asked Geuevieye.
Shakespeare whatm replied the aston
ished listener.
lis It possible you don't knowp See
herew and she thrust ont round.
white wrist. The entire forearm was
covered with narrow, plain bands of
oxidized silver There must have been
twenty or twenty-five of them, and
through the center of each ran a row
Of lettering, embodying a suitable SEN
timent from the great bard. One from
Cvmbeliue ran: Her pretty action
did outSell her gift, and did enrich it,
too" and one from Coriolanus was
still prettier: Nov the fair goddess
Fortune fall deep in love with thee. "
But this Shakespeare idea is rather
old. y said Genevieye regrettully, as she
replaced the slender bands. 10 be
utterly swagger one must have the new
name set. Its very discouraging
and wearying work, this keeping up
with the procession, | assure you.
You see | had Just completed my
Shakespeare set when the name set
came out. "
AN that is
"Oh, yesl You must have Il brace
let for every letter in your name, with
one letter cut in each band, and your
friends must present them TO you. But
l had actually forgotten the Kendall.
That's the very latest. The latest Of
everything is the Kendall you know.
Well the kendall is the chime bangle.
That can be made in silver or gold,
and has only three strands, each with
its own tiny bell that rings ont the
most delicious little note, the first one
high and clear, the second a little
deeper aud the last the deepest Of
them Aiding, dang, dong, don't you
see? That was one Of the clever Mrs.
Kendais inventions. She's very
clever, Mrs. Kendall is. ~ T. EUetI-
ING SUM
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
You Kissed Me

You kissed mel My head had dropped low on
your breast,
with a feeling Of shelter and infinite rest,
And "A holy emotion my tongue daieu no'
FLASHED up in a flame from my heart to my
check. 100
Heart beat against heart in their passionate
Your Sanoes seem drawing my soul through
As the 'S su1 draws the mist from the seas to
And your lbs chung to mine tn prayed In
They might never unclasp from that rap
turCus kiss.
You Kissed me! Ny heart and my breath, and
In delirIous 10y for the moment stood sim.
Life had for me then no temptations, no
No vista Of pleasure outside OF yonr arnsi
And were this instant an angel, possessed
OF the peace ana the Joy that are given the
hlest,
Iwould ding my white robes unrepiningly
And tear from my forehead its beautiful
crown
To nestle once more IN that heaven Of rest,
Your lips upon mine, my head uion your
You Kissed mel Ny soul IN 81 bliss so divine
Reo!ed and swOoned ike a drunken man TOOL
And thought 't,str re delicious to die then, If
death
Would ONE while my mouth we're yet moist
with your breath.
'Twere delicious to die II my heart might grow
cold
while your arms clasped me round In that
passionate fold.
And these are the questions / ask day and
night.
Must nv life taste but once such exquisite de-
light2
Would you care If your breast were my shelter
Us them
And II you were here would you kiss me
Josephine d. Hunt
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
Exercising the Devil in India.

A strange case of superstition wa,
recently investigated before the COZ.
oner of Bombay. A Hindoo mill hand
named Ramji Dali had for some time
been suffering from swollen k.ee-ionts
and pains in various parts of-the body
On Aug. "a he went to the mill to net
some wages due him and on his return
was taken i'll on the road lie wa,
brought home on the back Of friend
in an almost unconscious state and
was placed in sitting posture, being
held up by his father. A man named
Dec, who was present suggested that
he was possessed of devil. in order to
expel which Dec swayed himself about
in front of the sick man, seized hold Of
his hair aud demanded of the devil who
he was. Not receiving a reply, be
struck the sick man violently with 5
rattan, when the latter fell back in a
dying condition; but before his death
another friend took the rattan aud beat
the patient, both men swayiTg their
bodies TO and fro and profess ing to Be
possessed with the spirit of god. The
logging was intended to drive out th.
devil. Dali died almost Immediately
without a complaint. The widow mar
rated these facts to the coroner and de
scribed both floggings to be very VIC
lent. The medical evidence show
ed that there were several bruises on
the back and an abrasion on the right
hip, but that the cause of death was
hemorrhage from rupture of the spleen
which was probably not due to the
fogging. The jury found ayerdict ae
cordingly, adding that there was 10
evidence to show how the spleen t%
cana r,nturod Jo,35}o,, Times
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
The shy Man.

No man can be diverted so success
fully, writes Clara Belle, as BY pei
allowed to talk up his pet suoJee'
some one who is curious ana ignoI'l1
1t is a good rule to keep as slIeu'
possible till YOU get hint at the mel
tendencies Of the man in your coniP'- ]
Shy men need only to fancy the! y
not going to be required to talk Oh
brilliant, aud their tongues promP
loosen. A word about the weafineS
society, the shallowness OF society -
the relief that a little quiet Is, se'' .
going. An you need TO do then
keep your eyes earnestly attenl1o,
isn't even necessary to colDP''"
what he is saying.
The man who is always lnei!loa
be complimentary and flrtail2uS
rather more difficult. He won y y
tertained unless he has an oppoI1u.
to display his pet Accomplishment
a Irritation needs two clever PIE a
Even Mr.. Friyolity, however, VIII 4
BY the hour of his last conquest
how be did it; so you may escape
made the object of his next. :, Il
Let the silent man be silent
can accomplish this without lettlhS
feel you are expecting him TO 1S'A T.,
will entertain him completely M
appear to exert yourself. Have A
cargo Of silent interest on hanG.
adroit at gathering up the oP IN,
man lets fall, and returning ~, Ws.5i.
him in your own words ~
original will please him ball = I;te.
Be ignorant on the subjects pc ~
expornd. and never permit youis'
seeLA bored.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-06
Our Available Military Forc'

The registered state militia \, NJ
United States is 80, col. The 49,
Of men available for military uo9
case OF war is 8, 331, 228.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-08-29
zkzlE1sEsxssITi
ii CURES WHERE ALL Else FAILS. pT
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use -
~ in time. Sold by druggists. ~
ksxSIIkSxgIxIsAHEsIE

We offer you ready made medicine
for Coughs, Bronchitis and other dis
eases of the Throat and Lungs. Like
other so-called Patent Medicines, it is
well advertised, and having merit it has
attained to wide sale. Call it ''Nos
hum" if you will, but believe MS when
we say that at first it was compounded
after prescription by regular physi-
clan, with no idea that it would ever 90
on the market as a proprietary medicine.
Why is it not just as good as though
costing fifty cents to a dollar for a pre-
'cription and an equal sum to have it put
up at drug storel
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-08-29

2>4S~S, ''S y ~ -
The annual report OF the managers
of the Pennsylvania Hospital relates a
very interesting case, showing how
benefactions long past have procured
unexpected returns in the present. An
aged relative of the late Admiral s. W.
Godon, of the United States Navy, at
the period when the latter was lad,
and had just entered upon his career
as midshipman, fell into the care Of
the institution for several years When
off his cruises the midahipman, led by
by his affection and interest for this pa.
tient, visited him at the hospital and
often expressed his great gratitude for
the sedulous care and attention shown
for the comfort and welfare Of the pa.
tient.
This gratitude was signally mani
tested when he came to make his will,
after attaining high rank and distinc.
ton in the service Of his country, for,
by it, after providing for those Of his
kindred who he deemed had claims
upon his bounty, he made the Penn
sylvania Hospital his residuary legAtee.
and, oil the life annuities having now
terminated, that institution has re.
ceiyed in cash iii three pay rnents s28,-
954. 39 and 500 600 in per cent, and
In the month of April OF the present
year the further sum Of $50, 900 United
States per cent, in all the magnid-
cent gift at present market values Il
over $l13,0O0.-Philade phia Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-08-29
ruRPENrINE AND RosIN.


Thc.LonK Leaved- Pines 81 carolina Tur-
nish Both Products.
Shaw's Ridge, sixty mics souihwet
of Rauleigh, n c., is the homo Of tho
2ctg 3aayed pine. From tiis sort #
pine roSin aGd turreutine are made.
and tho manufacture is an into osting
process The turI entine is notice
ably slender tree that, when foot in.
diameter, rises forty or fifty feet with
out q branch. Above the first
branch it may grow twenty feet OF
more, having a cone-shaped top. The
leaves grow in a great cluster on the
end Of the branches, and are from
foot 10 foot and a half long. Toward
October the various land owners send
men. generally negroes, into the woods
for the purpose Of tapping the pines.
In the trunk OF tho tree near the ground
a cash is cut foot or more in width.
xix OF seven inches high and four
or five inches deep. Usually man can
cut 100 boxes day, as the gashes are
called. Naturally rs spring comes on
the sap begins to flow up tho
pores of the tree and the cut bleed 1
freely. During the first week Of April
the gathering of the dip begins. Men
go around each tree with dippers and
buckets and carry the sap to central
places where it is pat into barrels. Al
time passes the tree is chip ed to &C,
CELEBRATE the flow of sap and the chip,
ping is carried on until the fall. All
the sap gather the first season tres
is tapped is known as virgin dip. III
makes a superior kind oftu pentine and
sells at higher price to the distiller.
This year it is selling at $3.50 a barrel,
After the dipping season il over the
trees are scraped to gather the deposit
of sap that may form around the boxes.
One man can chip and gather the sail
from 10000 trees and this number of
trees is called q crop. In the course Of
the first year the tree is Clipped about
foot above the box. When warm
weather comes around again the chip,
ping process is continued, and so on,
year after year, until the tree is Clipped
so high that tall darkey with his hook
on the end of a long pole can chip or
pull no higher. The tree is Clipped
say fifteen feet high in the course of
twelve or fourteen years. Notwith-
standing this constant chipping the
trees are possessed of wonderful vital
ity and will easily last thirty or more
years.
As soon as the sap is all gathered it
is taken into distillery where it is
boiled in large iron tanks. Pipes lead
from these tanks and the vapor in pass
ing through is condensed and becomes
terpentine The deposit is run out
upon large shelves through which the
purest of the stuff flows into tanks. The
rosin in the tanks is then dipped into
cheap pine barrels, where it hardens.
The barrels are then headed and
shipped to market.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-08-29
Whore 20 Take THEW.

lyon can't use these anecdotes 2"
echoed the hashy-looking man who had
orought them in. What's the matter
With them, I'd like to know?"
They are hardly up TO our standard
If propriety,' said the editor of the
Illustrated police paper. They are a
title too tough for our columns, but
rou'll have no trouble in selling them
a some New York society weekly"
Chicago Tribune.