Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-08-28
SCISSORS SAUCE.

Rev. Hardcastle met with pain
full accident yesterday. He was
climbing down the ladder from his
hay loft and his hold giving away
he fell down and came in contact
with a pitchfork, the tines of which
entered the fleshy part of his body
producing painful if not a danger
Gus wound.-PdtteuiIle Witness.
1t seems to be definitely settled
that a zinc smelling furnace will be
built here within few months.
This will make home market for
zinc ores and be great benefit to
the miners of this section. -.
=. The Wisconsin Lead and Zinc
company will build about dozen
cottages and also a large boarding
house near their Helena mill imme-
diately. They have commenced
work upon the foundation of their
proposed zinc smelling furnace and
the work will be pushed forward
rapidly.-ShuIls6urg Pick and Gad.
A good housekeeper is blessing
to her husband or to any other per-
son whose lot is cast with her; but
from the fussy and fdgety house
keeper, Good Lord, deliver usl Her
sharp eyes see every speck of dust
upon your boots; she keeps the sun
light out, lest it fade something; the
air, lest it ruhle curtain; the child
ren, lest they break something. If
you move a book the quarter of an
inch she replaces it; If you sit in a
rocking chair, she keeps you on the
ragged edge by eying the piano or
some other article of furniture; if
you move your chair hairs breadth,
the instant you arise she will replace
it. 1t is one thing to be senslbly
neat, and another thing to be ago
nizingly neat; and | know women
who make their husbands, their
children, their friends, and even
themselves miserable by their mis-
taken notions of housekeepirg.-E1.
f. A. Lewis, formerly of the Oar
lington Democrat, is publishing a
newspaper at Marcus, Iowa, and was
lately indicted by the grand jury
for using the mails unlawfully. He
had some delinquent subscribers
who refused to liquidate, and after
numerous efforts to get his pay he
wrote them postal card naming
the amount due. stating if the bill
was not paid the name of the sub
scriber would be published as a
deadbeat. The postal laws do not
countenance such heroic measures,
however, and Lewis was arrested
and will have to stand trial. W2r
rem Sentinel.
Geo. Harker, of the town of Lin
den, while working on his farm last
week, found in his field lying near
large stump cigar box filled with
some queer looking commodity
which was tightly packed, and the
box was securely wrapped with wire
the ends of which were twisted to-
gether firmly. On piece of white
paper pasted on the box was the
address: "John I. Jones, County
Judge, Dodgeville, Wis" Mr..
Harker brought the box to this city
and delivered it to Judge Jones who
filed off the wire and opened the
box, which contained about two
square yards of express wrapping
paper upon which was written III
pencil a long, tedious and incoherent
mass Of personal grievances, family
history, and many other disconnect-
ed subjects, the signature to which
proved that the strange box and It's
contents had eminated from one
David X. Jones, an inmate of the
Iowa county insane asylum. The
patient is evidently scholar of
good attainments, as the hand-wrlt-
ing was neatly executed, the orthog-
raphy good, and the grammatical
construction correct.--DodgeUiLte
Chronicle.