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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30
How the Swaliow-TailC Came.

Perhaps few men who wear the conven-
tional clawhammered coat are aware of Its
origin. Mr.. W. W. Story, in his delight
full Conversations IN a Studio, says:
The dress coat is the great product of the
French Revolution.
The old coat out of which it was created
was not beautiful in itself, but it had
certain character and effect as a costume.
1t was long in skirt ana buttoned ACROSS
the chest. The sleeves were loose and
turned up, w.Jh facings from beneath;
while in full dress, lace ruffies depended
over the hand
Also the coat was faced with different
colored lining, which 1t showed when un,
buttoned In walking, the skirts, faced
also were turned back and buttoned up to
two buttons on the back.
Gradually it was Topped and reduced to
the thing it now is. The skirts IN front
were cut away instead of being turned
back. But the two foolish buttons be,
hind were still kept after their use had
gone.
The front was permanently turned back,
and the coat made too narrow to button
the foolish cuts now remaining IN the col
lar representing the old division OF the
front lappets.
As time went on more and more OF the
skirts were cut t.way, until they were re-
duced to the ridiculous swallow-tall IN
which Beau BrummeI said there was safe
tv. The collar was pulled up behind tne
lacinps and colors were done away WIN
and thus little by little grew up the glor-
ious thing called the dress coat.
In Many Forms.
Scrofula taiuts the blood of almost every
one, and it is the cause OF much Oh our
health. II it attacks the breathing Or
gans, the issue is consumption; II the u,
gestive apparatus, tho issue Is dyspepsi;a
and debility; if the muscles, the issue y
rheumatism; if tire nerves, the issue 40
paralysis; if the glandular system tLo
issue is in boils, and other superficial "a,
hibitions of corruption. 1t Is mistehe
to characterize it as unseen. W hHe les
tiers your skin on every little abrasion.
Scrofula. What gives that hack 10 YOU
cough on exposure to the slightest udhlP
and cold? Scrofula. What makes YOU
food an oppression? Scrofula: Id.
racks and twists the bones and slneWs' -
Won grow old? Scrofula. 1t operates "
withholding nutrition and defeating an
efforts toward nourishment, life becomes .
burden. and the victim knows not the
blessings and happiness of health; It i
your duty to yourself, your fanny; ~
your race, to manfully oppose and disl' i
This demon. How? We can only say
that others, who were afflicted as you are,
have found relief and cure IN a moaeral9
use of Hoods Sarsaparilla, that compound
in which the skill Of the modern p,harna,,
cist and the science of the most advance,
medical knowledge unite for the benen'
of suffering humanity.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30

THE body of young Abraham Lincoln,
son of Minister Robert I. Lincoln, who
died in England during the summer, will
be buried beside those Of his illustrious
grand-parent at Springfield, III. Mr..
lincoln has written to friends that he will
oe home during November and the burial
will likely take place then.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30

MICHAEL BREzELL, aged IS years, one
of the oldest residents f the village of
Desplaines, was cruelty murdered WedneS-
day night. Unknown assassins followed
him into his ham, beat him TO death with
an iron bar, and robbed him Of about
81 900 in cash and 5000 in notes. Armed
citizens are on the trail of the murderers
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30
MERELY A MATREk or BUSINESS.
Woman Who Wanted Her Tooth Pulled.

Woman who Wanted Her Tooth Pulled.
Chicago Herald
She was a mature woman, with high
cheek bones, dsppled face and red hair.
FInging aside her bonnet she got up into
the dentists chair, leaned her head back,
opened her mouth and pointed to a tooth
on the lower jaw.
II wish you'd see what is the matter
with that grinder" she said.
"Yes, ma am, replied the dentist, In a
sympathizng tone. Has it been hurting
you long?'
who said it had been hurting me?"
BEG pardon, ma am. | Inferred"
"Well, you don t need to infer anything
If you're ready to look at that grinder,
doctor, I'm ready to open my mouth
again And she opened it.
The tooth, madam, he said after a
brief examination, lis mere shell, re-
greet"
What occasion is there for you to re-
greet anything! Whose grinder is it?''
81 was going to say it is too late to
save the tooth. 1t is too far gone. If
it's troubling you any it will have to come
out.
"Well, that's what I'm here for.
at will be hard to get hold of it nth the
forceps, and ! am sorry to say it will
hurt"
docs it hurt you to pull a customers
TOOTH" she demanded
"Of course not, but"
"Well, then, you needn't feel sorry. = |
am here on business. | don't need any
sympathy. Yank it out. ="
The thoroughly humbed tooth artist
wasted no more words. He produced a
pair of ugly looking forceps and extracted
the offending molar without delay.
Whats your bill?' inquired the wo-
man.
Fifty cents
That's the regular price, is it? You re
not charging anything for sympathy
at is the regular price madam.
Here's your money. Good-day"
After she had gone out of his Office the
dentist went and SAL down by the front
window to rest. IF had that woman s
nerve, v be said to himself, as he watched
her striding down the street Il could be
an alderman ard own whole ward in
less than three months.
A Disease Unaccountably Prevalent.
The prevalence of ailments attributable to MAS
matte poison in the air that people breathe, and
the water they drink, is well nigh unaeeounable.
Not alone in pestilential swamps, badly drained
suburban districts, and marshes exposed TO the
suns rays by the receding tide, is this scourge of
humanity found, Even in great cities, BEAUTIFULLY
located, sklfully severed, well looked after in
every respect in a sanitary way, we find malaria.
Its presence is often inexphcable, but its attacks
are always prevenable. The protector is Hostel
ters Stomach Biters The eradicator bears the
same name-a name known to thousands through
out our broad land and elsewhere synonym
of relief prevention and cure of the lnsdlons dis
orders in It's abominabe phases-chis and fever,
bilious remittent, dumb ague and aguo cake, as
well as others. Nor is the Bitters tss motive
for Indigestion, kidney complaint, deness
and rheumatism.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30
The Aristocratic Rec.

One of the most interesting country
places IN Maine is that of Mark Gray of
West Freeman, who had been so success
full in raising bees that he made 1927 30
from bees tits year, says the Lewiston Jour
nal, A correspondent gives description
of his apiary, which has been arranged
with remarkable pains and is a
Variable curiosity. All the hives are
painted and striped in different 'conbina-
tions, no two alike. Mr.. Gray makes the
hives himself, having built a small shop and
a miniature sawmill for this purpose. He
thinks the bees like to have their homes
attractive as we'll as human beings, and
that they work better and are more con-
tented for having everything tidy about
them. They require but very little atten-
ton, but anything out of place they notice
as quickly as a neat housewife.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30

Farm AND PRESIDE" notes that like
he Indian and the buffalo range cattle
are becoming a thing of the past The
census returns show this, and the fact may
otherwise be regarded as natural ac-
compartment to the spread of settlement
westward. The springing up of mining
towns and cities here and there on the
areas which few years ago were open to
range by the cowboy and his herds
may have increased the actual consump-
ton of meat in that region, but it cuts
down the possibilities of occupancy under
The free pasture system in which the brand
IN, cad of the landmark was the deciding
test in question of ownership. The far
mers are pushing out farther west, and
with them carry the older plan of caring
for live stock in small lunches, and dis
placing what had been the intermediate
phase between savagry and civilization
Hence the change is FOR the better, and all
the more so as it tends directly to do
away with the irregularities of supply in
the market which have done so much to
depress the selling prices of cattle in the
last few years.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30

THE advance of its rate of discount to 81
per cent by the bank of Germany, indicates
a delicate financial situation abroad, and if
the bank of England should feel compelled
to follow suit at the meeting of its directors
the strain upon credit will be
intensified. The general feeling abroad is
very uneasy And it has communicated
itself to Wall street. In the present state
of the market, foreign crisis Of even
small proportions will be acutely felt here
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30

WHAT with barometers, transits, levels
and other instruments of vulgar precision,
he crowns Of our mountain monarehs are
in a fair way to be rudely and
ruthlessly removed. One after another is
forced to suffer diminution of its accepted
height. The latest victim is MI. ST. Elias.
When it was in Russian territory it didn't
matter so much, but when Uncle Sam pur-
chased Alaska it was distinctly understood
that it contained mountain 10000 feet
high, and the delivery of this mountain in
good condition and as described was one
of the conditions of the contract. But one
Kerr, whom the government unwisely sent
out to inspect the purchase, returns with
the story that Mt st. Elias is certainly not
over 1900 feet high, and that it probably
does not reach that figure. 1t is to be
hoped that the department of state will in
vite the attention of the car to this dis
crepancy between the bill of lading and
the goods actually delivered.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20
THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE.

The result of the last election
gives US still greater faith in the Ill
innate triumph of justice, even if it
does not come before the decade e1-
pires. We do not believe that the
Force bill will be passed, but if it is,
we still have hope that the county
will not go to the dogs, even if the
republicans count in by machinery
set in motion for the purpose, re-
publican majority. In such a case
our institutions would become the
laughing stock of the world, and be
pointed at by the advocates of king
ly rule, and people living under
monarchy sheer at US, but Liberty
will survive even this blow should it
come. which God forbid, and the
dark cloud will pass by, and her
torch held in American hands will
yet enlighten the world.
Many seem to have the idea that a
government by the people for their
own benefit ought to secure uniyer-
sal justice at all times and to have
no flaw at any time in its admins
tration. But men are everywhere
imperfect, and the best work of
their hands must bear the common
brand. The development of evil IN
der any system committed to falli-
bic beings will not show a steady,
uniform growth or decay. The con-
test between right and wrong sways
first to one side and then to the
other like the swinging of a pendu-
lum, and the optimist and pessimist
each have their day ascendency in
the outlook upon the struggle. But
the decision is not left to chance.
There is Ruler whose government
is absolute. We believe that He de-
signs to use the American republic
as an instrument for blessing the
world. There will be discipline
when we are forced, like children at
school, to learn hard lessons; there
will be hours given to tears; learning
through suffering and sacrifice is
the common lot. But we believe
the people of the United States,
taught it may be in the furnace, will
come at the the last to yet grander
appreciation of their mission, and
that demagogues and corrupt politi-
clans will not always have the most
to say in the administration of pub
lie affairs.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

even panic than any other section.
1t has gathered big crops that will
aggregate in value for the year near
ly S1,OOO,OOO,O0O, its cotton alone,
including the seed, counting up this
year between S450,000,000 and $780,
100000, every dollar of which it will
draw from the North and Europe.
It's farmers are practically out of
debt, aud many of them have a good
surplus; its manufacturing interests
are prosperous, and its railroads are
crowded with freight traffic. The
whole South is advancing rapidly,
and if dependent upon its own fnan-
cial resources could stand the strain
far better than the West. But the
enormous shrinkage in stock values
in Wall Street will tend to drive
money from that center of wild
speculation to safer investments in
Southern delopment and manufact-
uring interests. The decline in %
stocks on the New York Exchange
since November l represents a wip-
ing out of S1OO,OOO,OO0, and the
people who have seen fortunes swept
away like this will prefer to put
their money elsewhere in the future.
The daily accumulation of wealth in
the United States is enormous, and
it must find a field of investment
somewhere. Driven from Wall Street
speculations, and no longer finding
any profitable openings in the West
as in former years, it must inevitably
turn to the South. Thus, instead
of Wall Streets furry injuring the
South, it will help to drive a still
larger volume of money this way.
The past week shows continued
activity in the organization of in
dustrial enterprises and of town
building companies.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20
SECTIONALISM.

The official organ of the Farmers
Alliance of Kansas has discovered
that the interests of the South and
West are identical, and that it has
been tricked for years into believing
to the contrary. I'm the great
work ahead" it wisely remarks,
':many prejudices must be over
come. Sectional lines must be abol-
ished. The interests of the people
of the West and South are identical,
and the political forces must be con-
soidated. The union of the two
sections is the greatest danger that
threatens the power of monopoly,
and the politicians, therefore, con
stantly aim to keep elive the preju.
dices that have estranged the South
and West only to prey upon them
and to maintain political supremacy
by the alienation of these sections.
1t has been and is the holy mission
of the Farmers Alliance to subdue
this sectional prejudice. 1t is full
time for this nation to become uni.
ted. Down with all sectional lines.
Away with all sectional prejudices. '
These are sound truths and coming
from Kansas are all the more sur
prising as well as encouraging that
sectionalism is fading from the pub
lie mind. Let the sentiment to
abolish sectional lines grow and
flourish like green boy tree until it
spreads all over creation.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

Crops are nearly all gathered in
Hopkins county. Corn yielded fair
ly and cotton was much better than
was expected. The cane crop was
excellent.
"A bold burglary was committed
in Junction city Saturday night. A
saloon and the Alliance store were
broken into. Out of the latter they
secured about 500 in CASA and
500 in checks.
A special from Del Rio says
that another case of smallpox has
developed ON the other side of San
Felipe creek, opposite the town, but
will be removed to the other side of
the Rio Grande and the house
burned
The congregation of Stroud's
creek, Hood county, have begun the
erection of what will be the finest
Christian church house in all that
section.
Editor Dixon, of the Southern
Mercury, reafirms former declara-
ton that the Texas Farmers ALI
ance is not political institution.
Work is being rapidly pushed
forward OH the Catholic church at
Sinner. 1t will be splendid edi-<
flee when finished, costing several
thousand dollars.
Near Combstock, $50 miles west
OF San Antonio, Monday. one of the
wheels of locomotive broke. En-
gineer CHEEKY and fireman Daniels
jumped after the lever had been re-
versed, the former breaking his
spine, from which he viii die, the
latter being slightly injured.
Sunday night pay train on the
International and Great Northern,
going south on fast time, ran into
the rear end of south bound pas
senger train at Kyle, knocking the
sleeper and one passenger coach off
the track. Two passengers were re-
ported killed and several others
were injured.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20
THE PROSPEROUS SOUTH.

The excitement in Wall Street,
says the Manufacturers Record if
long continued, would necessarily
have an injurious influence upon all
lines of business in all sections OF
the country, but as trade and manu-
featuring interests everywhere are
prosperous, it is not probable that
the stock iobbing operations of New
York will have more than a temper
airy effect upon general businss. I'm
der any circumstances, though, the
South is in a better position to stand
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20
NOVEMBER STORMS.

W. T. Foster, of st. Joseph, No,
now the most prominent weather
prognosticator Haunting his predic-
tions to the people, says that we are
now approaching the winding up
period of November storms, and that
Venus has again proved the power
of her equinoxial electric currents in
bringing them; the moon has demon
strated its electric power when
crossing the earth's equator, and
that now it is NIercury's time to
again tell what it can do in disturb
ing the PLANETARY family by crossing
the suns equator, which occurred on
the 18th. The effect was perceptibly
felt in the recent storms,
The next storm wave will leave the
will be due to leave
the Pacific coast about the 18th,
cross the great valley from the 18th
to the 10th and reach the Atlantic
coast about the goth. 1t will be-
come a furious storm about the 22d
when it will be on the middle of the
North Atlantic, and at the same time
another approaching storm will be
very severe on the Pacific coast; a
third one will be in Central Asia
and a fourth in Central Europe.
Our storm will pass through the
Southern states, causing cold
weather north of the storm and
warm weather south Of it. A very
considerable amount of snow and
rain may be expected from this
storm wave.
Continuing he says that he be-
lieves that 1892 will be year of the
most disastrous. storms experienced
in recent times. 1 do not know of
time In the past when the disturb
ing forces were so great as they
promise to be in 1892. From 1880
to 1854 the disturbing elements
were quite active on account of IRA
nus being at its equinoctial, where
the earth is in March, but in 1892
two of the greatest planets in the
solar system will pass their equinoc-
tials about thessame time. In Janu-
airy, 1892, Jupiter will be at his equi-
noctial and also at perhillion, or
about $4,000 miles nearer the earth
than when he passed his equinoctial
in 1856. The equator OF Jupiter
will be toward the SUD, and his
greatest electrical force will be felt
throughout the earth's orbit for six
months before and after that date.
In August, 1892, Saturn will pass
its equinoctial where the earth is in
March, and its fullest electrical
force will be felt by the sun and
earth for twelve months before and
after that date. At that time the
edge of Saturn's rings will be toward
the earth (the rings coincide with
Saturn's equator) and cannot then
be seen except through powerful
telescopes. These two great plan
cts Jupiter is 300 times larger than
the earth, while Saturn is nearly as
large), will be on opposite sides of
the sun, with their equators towards
the sun and towards each other.
The electricity that is thrown off
over the equator of an electro-dYna-
mo machine will knock over small
objects 100 feet away, and from that
one may imagine what powerful
influence our earth will encounter
when it comes between the equators
of two such eleetro-dynamos as Ju-
piter and Saturn, which revolve on
their axis so rapidly as to cause
their equators to move thousands of
times more rapidly than do the
equators of our most powerful cleo
tro-dynamOs
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

The st. Louis Republic says that
Texas democratic majority is almost
-thitds as great as the number
of people that MIR. Robert Porter of
London robbed her of il his alleged
census. 1t is of course a great mis-
fortune to the state that several
hundred thousands of its people
were excluded from the count which,
by the constitution of the United
States, is made the basis of repre-
sentation in the federal congress.
By the omission the voice of
Texas will be less potent in
Washington than it ought
to be. But these uncounted people
are III Texas all the same, contribut-
ing to its greatness by their energy
enterprise and industry. This is a
fact over when Porter has no con-
troll. After the next census they
will also be represented in congress.
There will not be hireling cockney
botching the census in this country
next time.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

WHEN the double pneumatic tube
line is laid between Philadelphia
and New York City, and all the ar
rangements completed, letters and
packages will be sent through in
twenty minutes. The tubes will be
2 feet in diameter and made of cop
per. They are to be laid under
ground in a pretty direct line be-
tween the two cities. The Delaware
river will be crossed IN the neigh
borhood of Tacony, the tube being
laid on the bottom, of the stream.
Packages, papers and letters viii be
dispatched from an Office, and the
switches for way stations will be
manipulated by the agents who send
them. Mr. Leak, the inventor, is
now in New York perfecting plans
for the laying of a trial tube between
Newark and Jersey City.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

MUCH uneasiness is felt among
the citizens near the Sioux reserya-
ton in North Dakota. The Indians
are threatening outbreak.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

GREAT meetings are being held
daily all over Kansas to warn the
alliance members-elect to the legisla-
ture that they must not vote for In
calls for the senate.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

A man at Langhorne, Pa, is tit
ting up a pigeon house to accommo-
date a thousands birds. It will be
the largest flock of carriers in the
country.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

RANDALL g. Wierman and Gregory,
Ballou & Co announced their fail
ure on the stock exchange at New
York recently.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

HUBBARD, Price & Cos. circular
reports that large amount of cot
ton is being held in the south
awaiting better prices.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

A DAILY paper runs in the line, in
every square, Labor and Capital are
One" The question that is not an
swered is, which is the one?
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

The Dick Duncan case will come
up finally on the second Monday in
December at Washington.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

Mr.. PARNELL denies that he will
abandon the leadership Of the Irish
party.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

A BOILER explosion near Reading,
Pa, recently resulted in the death
of three men and severely injured
many others.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

The firm of Barring Brothers in
London came near going to the wall
Saturday, but escaped.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

W. W. DOVE, of San Antonio, was
arrested in st. Louis Saturday on
the charge of kidnapping.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD has
been reelected president OF the
Women's Christian Temperance I'M
ion.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

The government of Nicaragua has
sent a telegram of congratulation to
the canal company for the rapid
progress being made.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20

THREE men met their death by a
railroad accident in Iowa Saturday.