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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13

A phenomenon is puzzliug he resi-
dents Of Castahan Springs, Miss, just
now On the top Of high pile Of earth
is a spot about three inches in diameter,
from which issues forth every clear sun
shiny day, between the hours Of 1880
a. IN. and 1890 p. m, blue smoke. which
Is immediately followed by bright, hot
flame Of similar hue. The spot presents
no appearance different from any other
barren spot on earth, with the exception
Of the burnt earth, caused by the fire
The charred looking dirt surrounding
the center to the depth Of oue-fourth Of
an inch can be removed, but the center
remains black, hard and almost impene-
trable.
This strange freak was discovered by a
workman over q week ago, and has been
since watched daily. It is evident that
the sun is a magnet in this instance, as
the eruption does not occur when the
weather is cloudy Often when the sun
Is covered there is smoke, but no flame
II a continuance and further develop
ments occur a geologist viii be called to
investigate. Exchange.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
Pay of school Tenchers.

The question of teachers salaries is
one that is always more or less agitated.
In Scotland it becomes of grave import,
as settling the question whether it is
possible or proper for a man teacher to
marry. The majority of opinions have
settled that 300 is the minimum, though
this question was started by few who
thought that 5000 was the lowest limit
IN which marriage was feasible. In the
meanwhile in New York city the school
board has recently decided that it is IN
just 10 the teachers and a disgrace to the
city to allow women who have taught
fourteen consecutive years to receive
less than $3.50, and that after January
next they shall receive this amount.
This applies to $50 women.
In Massachusetts a short time ago a
girl who was "a normal graduate had had
charge for a year Of one Of those country
schools, part intermediate, part gram
mar, with the primary branches on the
lower floor, and had given entire salts
faction to parents and committee. Ey-
erything was running smoothly when
the girl was taken ILL., She received 90
the time ten dollars per week. No other
woman substitute being found to ta-s
charge during her absence, the commit
tee engaged a man at fifteen dollars
per week. The man was not a disciple
marian The boys had a picnic, as they
Gale it, yet when the girl returned and
asked for the same pay the substitute
had received she was refused, for the
avowed reason that she was not man.
This may be the woman's century, and
tidings Of their progress ard doings may
be RE in the land, but there are still
sections where as yet these have moo
made much impression. Fortunately
soon after she received q good position ~
gool salary in the normal school from
which she had graduated.-Brooklya
Fag'a.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
A unique Book for a Queen.

Julian McNair Wright, the famous
novelist, formerly of London, but now
of Fulton, Mo, has had q copy Of her
latest novel; "Fru Dagmar's SON. ele-
gantly bound as a present for the queen
OF Denmark, 1t is finished in white
corded silk, the title in gold aCross the
front cover. the name Of the au.horess
and the mouogum.of the Nauoual Tenn
perauce society at the bacs: edges full
gilt; ca back cover Danish wms hand
painted; under tale Danish G,g hand
parutel, the who'efaijat,0 trInaei hlue
slia, Lid I'M o SATIN lined boss II is 2
rerteg, gem, hathiu tho artistic and lit
erary sense oC the word SD Louis Re
public
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
A Brilliaut Colorcl Greek scholar.

Miss Mollie e. Church. who has been
at the head Of the German department
of the colored high school Of Washing
ton for several years, has been offered
the position of registrar of Oberlin col
lege Miss Church graduated from Ober-
lin in 1884 with distinguished honors,
being specially mentioned for her excel
lent record in Greek She travelled and
studied abroad for three years, spending
much Of her time in Paris, Berlin and
Florence. If she accepts tine offer from
Oberin she viii be the first colored
graduate, it is said, Of the older uni
verHues to become a member Of the
faculty of her college. Boston Woman 5
.I0urug}
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13

did you know that pearls get sickg
said we'll known Atlanta jeweler
"They do, and, like babies, they require
a chang, of climate when their health Is
bad, or else they Crumble or die. l knew
of case once where a lady went into a
jewelers. with a magnificent set Of pearls
that were losing their luster and begin
ming To look dead These pearls are
sick, said the jeweler upon examining
them, and unless you take or send them
10 a decidedly different climate at once
they viii become worthless. They We're
sent eff, and within a month were as
bright and pretty again as they had ever
been. Atlanta Constitution,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
women in rreneh RAILWAY ONCE.

In order to obtain employment in the
administration of the railways in France
it is necessary to be either the daughter
Wife or widow of an employee Nearly
500 ladies are thus employed. Indeed,
at French railway stations the ticket
sellers are nearly all women, Ia the rail-
wuys there is not the same just payment
as i'm the other state departments. Here
the women are paid just half as much as
the men while working quite as much.
The Credit Foncier employs about
2.00u women on its staff, The entrance
is ly examination and the limit Of age
sixteen 3 thirty-hye. Candidates must
produce good conduct certificates, both
official and private. aud must receive at
the examination a maximum of marks
that is to say, twelve ont of twenty
The salary in the first stage is three
francs a day, rising to 100 = year
lS}tW A tax Of 4 per cent. levied upon
the salary gives the right 70 q pension
sitter twenty years service
In the Credit Lyonusis women are
also employed. For their entrance there
the rules are not yet fixed. \ cashier
receives the salary of 200 to Q. SEQ francs
a wear. and clerk from three 70 five
francs a day.-New York sun.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13

During the past hajt Year the sum Of
$40 coo was paid for rates and taxes 10y
the f1gr chief railway companies the
london au' Northwestern, the Great
Western Northeastern and Midland.
Tins is exclusive Of government duty
ami income tsx. The London and North
western paid the largest amount l62,-
41l-in the six mouJhs.-London Tit
Bs,
William J Haiues. who has just been
mustered IN by tue Frank P. Blair post,
G. A. r., Of ST. Louis, is l05 years old
and a veteran of three wars. He is said
to be the oldest Union soldier in the ooun-
try
Attention has recently been called 70
the singular fact that until half a cent
ury ago the inhabitants Of the Philippine
Islands were o day behind those Of neigh
boring caur r.as in their Reckoning
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13

There is a young bride, fresh from the
south who lives mp in Mount Vernon.
She was quite ignorant Of our northern
social conditions until recently. She is
better informed now
1t CHANGED that she needed a servant,
and as she had always been used 20 col
ored girls set out to find one 1t also
CHANGED that she met a middle aged
col0red woman in the street, and after
the custom Of the south said 10 her:
"Auutie, want to get a bright young
col0red girl to work for me. Are there
any in your family out Of place or do
you know of anys'
nAuntie" looked at the bride with
cold and crushing hauteur, and then re-
piled;
mo, | know Of no such a girl, mad
am. l am looking for a white girl my
self. New York Herald.
The Silent Dane.
In his early manhood Moltke was
called "The Silent Lane" and later he
was popularity known as "rhe Great
Taciturn;' yet he could speak seven lan-
guages fuently. Although one Of the
worlds prcfounde-t and staruest sol
djers he was one of the most modest and
atfectiouate Of inca. Occasionally one
might see him in Berlin driving in a
plain cab, or saunteriug along a princi-
pal street looking ia at the shop win
dows, but few recognized him. He was
as regular as the sun in his daily tasks,
aud even in the lighter employmeuts Of
his II life he was ever painsta6ng
and metlodica1. Out Of these traits
grow, withal, ms fine literary ability
that besides his published letters, pro
duced several valuable military hlsto-
rles.
The GROWING honor ~ his life was the
way Germany celebrated the completion
Of ms uiuetieth year. From the Baltic
70 the Alps, from the Fosges To the Wis
! tula every household Joined in the great
i jubilee, hung ont the national colors and
/ licensees OF Moltse in flags and torches
Berlin was decorated ana enthusiastic i.
1 ID had never before been for any IE he
] citizen. Germans throughout the world
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
STRENGTH AND LOVE

Hope not that many here
VIII ne'er mistake thee,
Nor faint with sudden fear
II all fOrsase thee;
No friend or eomrade need
To cheer thee to thy goal;
Others thy mind may read
But not divine thy soul.
And if a friend. perchanca
Or maiden lover,
Who meets thy spirits glance>
Thou shouldst discover;
And II when hand touch hand
Thy heart grow stronger;
And If thy soul demand
Silence no longer
Then take thy fate divine;
let nothing ever part
Or keep that other heart
From being one with thine.
Chambers JournA
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13

Clara-Why IN the world are you go'D-
to marry Mr. Slimpursei lie hash Z
penny to bless himself with.
Dlra-The doeJor said nothing Weu'-
cure these harrid lttle pimples but q iol7
continued low diet and I'm determined Z.
save my complexion New York eeA's'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
A summer Outing FOR working Girls

Another month. and girls who belong
TO the working girls clubs in this cay
viii flock b the summer homes Of the
association. There sire three Of these
Holiday House and Holiday Harbor'
within a half mile Of each other at Mill
er's Place, Il. l., and Brookside House
at MourtairfiIe, Orange county. The
former accommodate thirty girls each,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25
THE deadly PIE.
1t is the Great American Depopula-
tor, Says This AUTHORITY.

Tor, says This Authority,
''The risks which New York men
take with their DIGESTION" said the.
proprietor ola group OF well-known
downtown restaurants to q New York
Sun man, lis constant source of
surprise to me. Heavy pie and pulpy
pudding are bolted at the very time
when careful eating should be rigorous
ly attended to. I sit and look on at
times in my different restaurants with
absolute amazement at the judgment,
or rather lack of Judgment, which men
exhibit at the table. We have two
throngs of customers. The first rush
comes about $50 in the morning. It
is composed OF brokers, business men,
clerks, and office employees, who have
grown into the habit of rising late and
rushing down to the Office without
breakfast SO as to start the work of
the day on time, They could easily
get their breakfast at their boarding.
house or at home if they rise a half-hour
earlier, but most of them are up late
at night and the temptation of a long
er nap in the morning is too alluring
to resist, So they hurry downtown,
open the mail, start things a-going,
and then rush into the nearest res
taurant for breakfast. 1t does not
hurt any man to take a little exercise
before he eats in the morning, and un-
doubtedly a delay in the first meal Of
the day would not do them any par
ticular harm if they would be careful
about the character of their food.
But after working two hours on an
empty stomach they come in in violent
hast, order cocktail, and then eat
pastry and sweets enough to ruin the
digestion of an ostrich. They usually
start in with roast beef or some other
dish that is ready and wind up with
mince pie or a boiled apple dumping.
l know many a business man who
comes in and consumes three or four
dishes and is out of the place again in
less than fifteen minutes. At lunch
time they come in again and load up
with an oyster pattie or beefstak pie
or some other dish in which rich pas
try is an important factor. This
second rush of trade is even more in
teresting than the first, because it
shows how the habit of eating pastry
grows. 1t is no unusual thing to see a
man of 40 years of age take wheat
cakes, sausages, and mince pie for his
luncheon. He bolts the sausage,
covers his cakes with rich syrup, and
his pie served hot and sprinkled an
inch deep with powdered sugar. He is
invariable an advanced dyspeptic in
appearance, and for some unaccount-
able reason he seems to succeed in
business. It does not do any good
to sheer at the pie-eaters of New
York, because half the railroad presi-
dents, telegraph superintendents, and
influential men of affairs of this town
eat things which cause man of gas
Economical intelligence to shudder.
Most of the absorbed and nervous
tinanciers and business men die at SO,
and everybody says it is due to over
work. All a mistake. Pie is the fell
Destroyer New York Sun.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25

When that famous epidemic, Ga grippe
prevailed in Europe and America thou
sands of people used Scotts Emulsion and
were benefited. Such signal proof of the
efficacy of a medicine had scarcely eyer be-
fore been known. 1t is not only efficacious
in influenza, but in consumption in its
early stages, bronchitis, whether acute or
chronic, and, in fact, in all diseases Of the
respiratory organs. If you "have cold"
DO NOT WAIT until it develops into some
disease that is difficult to remove, but get
SCOTS Emulsion at once, and thus save
yourself much suffering, and avoid the
danger of its settling into chronic cough
Those who are subjected to great changes
Of temperature, and are therefore liable to
contract colds, should keep it on hand
For use in families, it is food medicine
that will give speedy relief and save many
doctors bills. r"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Kipllng's Spleen.

"And now comes Rudyard Kipling
and jumps onto San Francisco" re-
marked a well-known man about
town. "Well, well, it does beat all
What airs thosefellows give themselves,
and just to think of his abusing us
after the splendid treatment he received
while here. He even goes so far as to
accuse the San Francisco men of get
ting drunk before breakfast. To
those who know the cause which led
him to make the accusation it is not
SO surprising, and the story after all
is not such a bad one.
"Kipling, you know, is little in
clined at times to daily with the rosy,
and while stopping here on his way
from India he fell into the hands of a
number OF newspaper men who vol
unteered to show him the town.
They did so, and Mr.. Kipling retired
to his room at a late no ur in a state
Of dilapidation. During the following
forenoon, however, the same party Of
newspaper men called at his room
with an invitation for him to break
fast with them. The talented Rud-
yard willingly accepted, and in a short
time the party wendell it's way down
town,
con the way they dropped into a
saloon and one OF the party suggested
a bonanza a most seductive but
demoralizing drink. 1t was new
idea to Kipling, who fell in with the
suggestion at once. He, too, would
have a bonanza
Gone led to another until a full half
dozen had been disposed of and then
the trouble began. Mr.. Kipling, be-
came decidedly unsteady in his gait,
and in a short time he found it con
venient to sit down.
The breakfast was aband oned and
Rud ard was taken home in cab to
sleep off the bonanzas. & San Fran
cisco Call.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25

Syrup"

G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown,
Wis. This is the opinion of a man
who keeps drug store, sells all
medicines, comes in direct contact
with the patients and their families,
and knows better than anyone else
how remedies sell, and what true
merit they have. He hears of all
the failures and successes, and can
therefore judge: 81 know of no
medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat,
or Hoarseness that had done such eff
fective work in my
Coughs, family as Boschee's
rarh,o.+ German Syrup. Last
WI ' winter a lady called
Hoarseness, at my store, who was
suffering from very
severe cold. She could hardly talk,
and I told her about German Syrup
and that few doses would give re-
lief; but she had no confidence in
patent medicines. I told her to take
a bottle, and if the results were not
satisfactory Iwould make no charge
for it. A few days after she called
and paid for it, saying that she
would never be without it in future as
few doses had given her relief" O
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25
Another Wonderful Plant.

There has been discovered in the
forests of India a strange plant, which
possesses to a very high degree as
tonishing magnetic power. The
hand which breaks a leaf from it re-
ceives Immediately shock equal to
that which is produced by the con-
ductor of an induction coil. At a
distance OF six meters a magnetic
needle is affected by it, and it will be
quite deranged ifbrought near. The
energy of this singular influence va
ries with the hours of the day. All
powerful after two o'clock in the
afternoon, it is absolutely annulled
during the nj ght. At times of storm
it's intensity augments to striking
proportions. During rain the plant
seems to succumb and bends it's head
duringa thunder shower. Itremains
there without force or virtue even if
oneshould shelter it with N UNI brella,
No shock is felt at that time in break
ing the leaves and the needle is I'M
affected by it. One never by any
chance sees a bird or insect alight on
the electric plant; an instinct seems
to warn them that they would find
their sudden death. 1t is also i'm
portant to remark that where it
grows none of the magnetic metals
are found, neither iron, nor cobalt,
nor mexican undeniable proofthat
the electric force belongs exclusively
to the plant. Light and heat, phos-
phorescence, magnetism, electricity,
how many mysteries, and botanical
problems does this wondrous Indian
plant conceal within it's leaf and
flower!
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25

her lips moved-7sfor what?" :
No wonder the wretched man
clenched his fists, and swore bitter
oath to himself at that sight; with
mighty strides the man took his
homeWard way, She had not antici-
pated his return, so there was no es-
pecial provision made, but the most
scrupulous servant could not have
left things in better order.
4 am well served" hesneered, as he
flung off his outer clothing; ''she is
worth her hire, truly"
Mother and child came in, soon
after.
The latter went to her bed, and
Nelly waited upon her husband as
usual-silent, enotionless, calm. He
could almost have doubted the evil
dence of his own senses which told
him this was the same woman he had
seen but now to shed tears, to wiring
her hands, to lavish caresses and en-
dearments upon the inanimate relics
OF a deceased love. ss
Don't you sit here, !" he said, un-
less you wish to do it. am going out
again, and shall not be back awhile. .
She obeyed him placing all to his
hand that he needed for his nightly
dram, and betook herself to bed; first
looking in at her little daughter, sleep
ing soundly in a small room off her
mother s.
Nelly lay long awake; she heard her
husband leave the house and soon
after sink into a light slumber.
It could not have been long it seem
led but q few moments, when she
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25

THEODORE CHILD bluntly says that
in artistic circles in Paris the news of
the death OF MISSIONER has been re-
ceived without sincere regret, and
rather with a feeling Of relief. The
artists, if they could give expression
to their inmost feelings, would doubt.
less say that they have put up with
him, his temper, his glory and his
painting, long enough. Certainly he
was a big man, q force, a personality.
but he was neither sympathetic as a
mannor as a painter, and he had the
terrible privilege Of being the trump
card Of the picture business.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25
Luna and Lunacy.

The old idea that Luna and lunacy
have an intimate relation appears
to be not wholly without foundation,
according to this Pail Mall Gazette
This, at any rate, is demonstrated
by the commissi oners in lunacy fol-
Scotland that the seasons have a
distinct influence on asylum statis-
tics. The tables of admissions dur.
ing the years 1907 show that there
are two well marked periods one in
which the number rises considerably
above the average, and the other in
which it falls considerably below.
The average monthly number for the
eight years was 1859. During the
three months of May, June, and July
the number was 628 above what It
would have been if the average num-
Der only had been admitted. On the
other hand during the months of Oc-
tober, November, December and Jan
uary, the number was 1852 below what
it would have been if the average
number had been admitted. The
table shows further that this rise and
this fall are preceded by a gradual
rise and a gradual fall the rise TAX
ing place during February, March,
and April, and the fall taking place
during July, August, and September.
The special frequency" the COM
missioners say, with which asylum
treatment is resorted to during the
period from the middle of April to
the middle of July corresponds with
what has been observed by asylum
physicians that there is a tendency
to an generalization of the mental
disorder of patients in asylums dur
ing the early part of summer; and it
is interesting to notice also that
statistics of suicide in the general
population shows that this occurs
most frequently during the same
period"
The greatest number of recoveries
take place during June, July, and
August, and they are fewest during
the months of November, January,
and February. The regularity in the
rise and fall of the numbers is twice
interrupted by fall in April, and the
fall is interrupted by rise in Deem.
Der. ut is considered probable that
these Interruptions are due to some
causes which recur regularly at these
periods, because they are we'll marked
incharacter; and it is suggested that
the December rise is occasioned, in
part, at least, by the annual statu-
tory revision of the condition of pa
tients in asylums during that month.
The revision is made by medical Off
GERS of asylum with a view to deter
mine whether they can properly give
the certificate of the necessity for
further detention in the asylum,
which is annually required to legalize
the continued residence ofall patients
who have been three years in an asy-
lum. The occurrence of the large num-
Der of recoveries during the months
of June, July. and August is probably
due to the large number of admis-
sions during May, June, and July, as
more than 48 per cent of all the re-
coveries which take place during the
first year of residence occur within
three months of the date of admis.
sion"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25
Note from the Century Co
A SUGGESTION FOR TABLEAuy.

A VERY successful tableau- entertainment
was recently given in New York, the sub
jects being taken from illustrations in the
current m magazines. The idea is a simple
one, and ifthe subjects are well chosen it
can be made very Interesting.
The Century Company has prepared a list
of suitable pictures with suggestions for any
one who wishes to get up the entertainment.
They will send it free on request.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25

a GRACEFUL tributeto the family o.
Gen. Sherman was paid by the man 81
ayers Of the steamship lines leaving
New York, in issuing orders to the
commanders Of all outgoing steamers
to signal the Majestic, on which the
Generals son is passenger, giving the
latest news in regard to the condlolon
of the old hero.
The head cannot warm the heart, butthe
heart often sets the head atlre.