Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-03-07

MINERAL POINT, WLSCoNsI
THERE are As, 900 eonvicts in the prisons
ofthis country and only 4 per cent. Of
that number are women And yet it Is a
nation Of 62,090000 people.
The Tennessee senate has passed. a bill
giving every confederate and union soldier,
not otherwise pensioned S25 a month,
provided he lost both arms or both legs
while inservice.
Montana is the only state in the west
that has no law regulating the gathering
up Of stray horses The senate committee
on stock-raising has introduced a blu
which is fair to all, but which will prevent
the universal crime of horse stealing
which is carried on under the Ruise Of
"takmg up strays by persons so inclin-
ed. This bin should be passed without
delay
DuNs weekly trade review Is, on the
whole. rather encouraging than otherwise.
Ono Of the chief movements Of interest to
the financial world is the withdrawal Of
ioaus by eastern parties from Kansas and
other western states Capital has been
very sensitive since last November and
takes fright unduIy
Peace is the great desideratnm Of every
European nation bat they watch each
other closely and Coon getting ready for
war just The same. Italy, aided morally
and financially JyGermany, is fortifyiug
and improving her arms. All this friend
illness has attracted attention from Aus
tria, whose monarch has accordingly mott.
fed King Humbert that he is coming TO
make visit real soon
TorREyENr the paint on iron or wood
from scaling of when exposed to the
weather, first thoroughly wash the parts
10 be painted and then brush over the
surface with hot linseed oil By following
this method, especially with iron articles,
no scaling Of the paint will occur. In
cases where the articles TO be painted are
small and can be readily heated, it Is
better to heat them and plunge them into
the oil The thin liquid oil when hot
enters into the pores Of the metal, absorbs
the moisture, and the paint then applied
so firmly adheres that frost, rain or air
cannot affect a separating.
They were wise words which King Leo
pold, Of Belgium, addressed the deliga
ton Of workiugmen who recently visi-
ted him at his palace in Brussels. He
told them lac had decided TO support the
demand for universal suffrage declaring
that he had the cause of the workingman
greatly at heart He said that work
men are wrong in considering themselves
seperate class. We nre, be added
"BeIgians, in different grades, and all
workingmeu. Whoever speaks thus to
workingmcu, aud means it, touches the
keynote Of tile better time coming.
Turuse of iron in the construction Of
the walls Of dwelling houses has hitherto
been unknown in Berlin, Germany small
structures, such as kiosks, built up Of cor
rugated sheets, or Temporary buildings OF
iron and glass, being the only purposes to
which the metal has yet been applied in
4 D. how
ever, being made by Berlin builder, who
is constructing five residences OF three
stories each, the walls of which are formed
Of iron plates and the floors Of iron grid
ers. The plates are lined inside with
wood, but in other respects the usual build,
ing materials are dispensed with, 1t is
claimed for this style Of building that
greater security against fire is obtained,
with uuusal resistance TO the destructive
influences of The weather.
MAKING CITIZENS OF HEBREW $
IRON EUROPE
Not only is the amount of the fund Civ
en- 10y Baron lIrsch for the,beuedt Of
Hebrew immigrants in this country note
worthy, but the purposes 10 which tits to
be applied are equally So This S2,5oo0o0
which is to be administered 10y such men
MS Jesse Sahgman, Oscar 5. Strauss, Neyef
Sul1berger and others of equal prominence,
is to be devoted primarily TO making these
immigrants &c for citizenship in the Unit