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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24
NUMBER 50.
Yourself and Others.

Webber, daughter Emily and son
Edgar, left Mineral Point for Pitts
burg, Kan, with the intentions to
make that place their future home.
Mrs. Webber has been resident of
this city and vicinity all her life,
and has proved herself faithful
friend and neighbor. Much regret
is expressed over her departure, also
among chums of Emily and Edgar
because of their going, but the hope
that they will be content aud happy
in their new home is unbounded.
Henry Schiller having decided
to spend the holidays with relatives
at Savannah, Ill.,, and Chilicothe,
Mo-, has LETT for that purpose
Will Terril is home from Iowa
for the holidays.
Miss Annie LaMalIe is home
from the st. Clara Academy.
John Penhallegon, Jr., left
yesterday afternoon for Le Mars, to
spend the holidays with his parents.
John Curry is proving an
obligmg night clerk for the U. 5.
Hotel
-Chas. Bennett, wife and chill
dren are down from Madison to en-
joy Chrstmastido among relatives.
Dick Uren is home for Christ
mas cake. Dick is now one Of the
main hustlers for the White sewing
machine, The past summer he has
been on the booming force in Miohi.
gan with good success.
Frank Ivey who has done faith.
full service at the store of L. Allen
IL Son Tor a number Of years, has
gone 10 work for the big creamery
establishment of Spensley IL Iloare.
JAS. kober, another obliging young
man, succeeds Franklin the store.
SooN il will be time TO "swear Off
and to turn overa new leaf There are
several here that ought to turn over
about five or six.
Ink season having advanced
hard coal stores will be sold At re-
duoed prices, at Eden d Blewetts
LOST, Thursday last in this
city a check in favor Of j. B. Wallis
and made payable on the Hide aud
Leather bank of Chicago. FnGsr
will please leave same at TRIBUNE
office.
TuosE elegant pictures at Han
scom IL Co.'s are all new.
Tested
-Four years of constant trial has
fully tested IIendra Bros popular
brands Of -four to be unsurpassed.
Liberal reductions on large orders.
50w3 lIENDRA Bros.
EVERY article ! offer Christmas
shoppers is new, clean and at
tractiye. Always pleased TO show
goods. 51w2 Isaac DELLER.
A Good Show Coming.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

TuosE elegant pictures At Han
scom & Coz are all new.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

OUR new creamery is now under
full headway, with about twenty
five patrons, who are bringing in
about 5000 pounds of milk daily,
which is not large, but fairly good
considering the season and the
newness of the enterprise. The
capacity of the factory, which is
several times greater, will no doubt
be tested in the spring, as farmers
are realizing that their cows bring
more satisfactory returns through
this medium than any other yet
tried. Mason Spensley and Frank
Iyey are at the helm, and are
proving themselves quick, accom-
modating, and reliable. The butter
being turned out is commanding
the highest price in every market
in the country.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

"TURN that wrapping paper the
other side out" said a lady in a dry
goods store the other morning, as a
clerk was putting up her purchase in
wrapping paper. 81 don't want to
be a walking advertisement for your
store. / read the papers as all intel
ligent people ought to do, and |
think that in them is the proper
place to advertise your business.
Instead of asking your customers
to carry your sign around with
each purchase, 60 tell the people
through the papers what you have
to sell and how you sell it."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

NEw games, many Of them, for
all ages, at IIanscom's book store.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

WHAT dolls We have will be sold
for less than cost. J. J Hanscom
IL Go.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

THR season having advanced
hard coal stores will be sold at re-
duoed prices, at Eden & Blewetrs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

SocN il will be time to "swear oTn
and to turn overa new leaf. There are
several here that ought to turn over
about five or six.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

-Four years of constant trial has
fully tested IIendra Bros popular
brands Of -four to be unsurpassed.
Liberal reductions on large orders.
50w3 liENDRA Bros.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

EVERY article offer Christmas
shoppers is new, clean and at
tractiye. Always pleased TO show
goods. 51w2 Isaac DELLER.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-24

THE lecture hall Of the new 7.
NJ. church will be opened for
divine worship tomorrow morning
at lo:3O, Rev. S. r. Chubb will
preach. Subject; Gifts brought to
the manger. After the evening
sermon Mr.. Chubb will give re-
ception into chuiah fellowship.
The morning call., 1892-03-31

Agent Gibson will invite a policeman to
attend the festivities to-day to preserve due
decerum.
When the pump had been worked down a
few feet water was poured into the hole to
soften the sand otherwise the pump would
not hold II. The presence of moisture at
this early stage in the probing excited the
crowd. and many of the more timid went
home fearing that the whole works might
cave in and dump them in to an underground
lake.
Bright yellow surface sand was pulled up
for distance OF six feet. This phenome-
non was explained by the vendors, who
claimed that the lot was once q great sand
hill-a huge pimple ON the fair face of ma
ture that had been removed by artificial
means that the grade from Seventh and Mis-
sion down to Howard was the natural grade
with the top taken off, and that the much
talked-of swamp was down on the borders
of Mission Bay, where it has always been.
1t was further explained that the little CUR
Cling riyulet in the basement OF Odd Eel
lows block was simply spring and had no
connection with the alleged swamp.
But when another prod was made with
tie pump Z small tree branch came up to
dispute these claims from a depth of I6
feet and 10 inches. The twig, which ap-
peared to be species of willow which grows
ia swamps. was about four inches long and
one inch in diameter. 1t was partly petrfied
and looked like piece Of mahogany. The
pump also bToughtup on this test quantity
of dark, seal-browu sand dissolved by seep-
age from the swamp. Agents Gibson and
The morning call., 1892-03-31

fbrous peat, which Professor Davidson
said would burn when dried. He took some
home and will make test Of it to-day.
There were bits of bamboo among the
peat. At 80 feet more wood was found,
Together with soft, mushy Jumps of tough
mud. After passing through the peat
strata the boring became easier. The
sand pump was once more hooked on and
sank down with little or no pressure. The
lowest depth reached was about 35 feet.
the pumps bringing mp wads OF black sand.
which smelled as If it should have been
buried deeper
One result Of the test is that the swamp
has ct last been accurately located, but
whether or not it extends over the entire
site can only be determined by boring in
different places.
However, one corner is enough to condemn
it, should the rest of the lot prove to be
solid ground the building of postofiiee or
any other large structure thereon could
only result in the building sagging over to
one side like man with a steam beer jag.
1t is not probable that other tests will be
maze. but 1t Is the intention OF the probing
committee TO keep on boring until they
strike rock or the bottomless pit
The morning call., 1892-03-31

Brooks packed the twig and samples Of sand
away in little wooden boxes to be examined
more fully later on. The donors did not
take much interest in these relics nor did
they preserve many samples.
At depth of 20 feet and 10 inches the ruins
OF some pop bottles In fine state of preser-
walton were brought up along with a mass
OF vegetation. Agent Gibson at once grew
deeply interested and said he expected to
find the remains of dog In the next load.
He then told the pathetic story Of the dog
which is voucted for by a number Of repu-
table witnesses.
In 1850 little girl, who Is now the wife
OF an eminent jurist in this city, lived near
the corner OF Seventh and Mission. One day
she went fishing on the exact spot where
Lined stream plowed into the back water of
large lake at this point. The stream was
full OF mnnows, and the little girl was
scooping them out with a soup-ladio tied to
the end OF fishpole.
She had her dog along-a 5000 imported
setter pup-t0 which she and her family
were greatly attached. While the little girl
was scoopiBg out fish the dog espied q frog
sitting on what be (the dog thought was
hummoek at the edge of the
stream. He leaped for the frog. but went
down out of sight. He had landed on
lump OF green scum floating on boftomless
morass and disappeared forever from NOR
tai view.
The little girl ran home and told her folks.
Men with long probes were hired TO hunt
Tor she dogs remains. but not 30 much rs q
bubble was found to show where he went
Down.
This is the true story Of the dog, and, a.
there was q bare possibility of striking q
bone, the sand pump was removed and a
regular borer substituted. The first haul
brought up some bog mixed with small
twigs and sand, and from a depth of 2S
teet lew broken remnants OF bamboo fish,
pole were found in the mud and slime. This
was thought to be q portion Of the pole
thrown away by the little girl when her
dog went down. Tire pieces were about
three inches long and extremely soft and
pliable from lying so long In tho water.
After this test the boring became harder
and the next Lift disclosed layer Of light,
The morning call., 1892-03-31
AL WHITES VISITOR.
He La Asked to Shanghai an Actor by a
Rival Lover.

Rival Lover.
1t is not very often that anything occurs
to Al White. who is well known on the
water front, that startles him. But AL WAS
shocked yesterday morning, and he has not
got over it yet.
1t happened this way. Early in the
morning there entered through the portals
of the place over which White presides,
nne-looklng, well-dressed stranger.
The man wore a silk hat, and, according
to White, had great big diamond in his
shirt froat.
The elegant stranger. who looked very
much out Of place among the habitues of
ATS resort, at once inquired for the pro-
prletor OF tile place. and when he met White
requested the privilege of a strictly conf
dental interview, which was at once
granted.
. He did not lose any time," White said
wnen he told his experience to CALL re-
porter yesterday, but almost took my
breath away by Offering to pay me $50.
which be pulled out of his pocket, if would
guarantee to shanghai man he would
bring into my saloon during the day."
White says that although the coolne IS Of
the man SURPRISED him and almost angered
him, his curiosity got the better Of all his
feelings and he did not at once refuse to ac-
eept the offer made, so that he may learn
more OF his visitor by making some in
auiries.
All l could find cut he continued his
story, was that the fellow was an actor
connected with one of the companies now
playing in this city and he teld me he de-
sired to put the man he wanted me TO
shanghai out of the way, because he was his
rival III the affection of lady playing in the
same company"
White also stated that the man was greatly
disappointed when he heard that kidnap-
ing people and shipping them against their
will was not SO easily done as he had sup
uRSnd
The morning call., 1892-03-31

companion as one who is perfectly healthy;
ready and willing to go anywhere"
The Greeks" Mrs. Miller asserted. had
the true idea Of perfect woman, and this
perfect woman should be our model. In q
wei-formad woman there should be propar-
ton and symmetry between the shoulders.
the hips and the lower part of the body
In ordinary dress woman cannot stand
properly, and good carriage is of the great
est Importance" Mrs. Miller declared that
the advanced chest expressed morality and
always produced favorable impressiou. In
order to emphasize this she called attention
TO the fact that the stage thief and william is
invariably represented with the lower part
OF the body advanced and the chest hol-
lowed In.
She also stated that men and women
should breathe alike, but that the tight cor
set prevented the proper imitation of the
lungs and that IN consequence many people
literally died for want Of BREATH and COM
carriage. Though all the garments under
meath tbs dress should be divided, Mrs.
Miller thinks it mistake to wear the out
side skirt divided, as it is both ugly and in
convenient. So long as freedom is gained
and no bands press upon the vital organs
for these are the essentials, any woman
may dress as stylishly as she pleases,
though artistic dress is to be commended.
In regard to the low-cut dress, the lee
turer thought. if Il simply showed the juno
tAuu VI tHc lntbdt dDu utck duu WAS HOT loo
low, ii is desirable, as beautiful throat is
the loyeliest part of the human form. To
NIL the hollows seen in the necks of so many
women, Mrs. Miller showed some exercises
bringing the proper muscles into play and
developing them so as TO fill these holiows.
Collars she regards as both inartistic and
uncomfortable.
Returning to the subject of fine carriage
the lecturer said: Few people. men or
women. preserves the center of gravity.
When this was preserved the result WAS
good carriage and suggestion of power.
Artistic dress should suggest the whole
form without attracting attention to any
particular feature" At the request OF the
audience Mrs. Miller assumed first her
walking dress aud then the embroidered
Bulgarian dress worn at the first lecture.
Ia reply to numerous questions she gave her
own waist measure at q inches. her weight
al $50 pounds aud her height at feet 6
inches,
After the lecture. at the request of large
part OF the audience, the gentlemen were
requested 10 retire and the ladies were
again shown the undergarments.
The morning call., 1892-03-31
MRS. HILLER'S LECTURE.
Another Interesting Talk on the Subje
of Dress.

Another InterestiBg Talk on the Subject
of Dress.
Mrs. Miller Iectured last evening &c a
large audience at the METROPOLITAN Temple.
Quite a number of gentlemen were present.
The lecturer began by stating that the
first dress-feformers knew there was some
thing wrong about female dress, but un-
fortunately they only undid without sug-
costing feasible substitute. The garments
were unattractive, and no sensible woman
wished to appear other than attractive.
The present style is wrong, because it does
not admit Of freedom. She thought men
should be interested in a correct style of
dress, because women could not have strong,
ieaithy children unless they themselves
sere strong and healthy, and many men to-
lay are suffering rs much for their
randmother's unhealthy mode Of dress
for their fathers vices. Men
ished their wives to look like
her women to look stylish, though
Y.e is really arbitrary, as, for example.
eyear it was hoops, aud those were styl-
}; next year the Greeian bend, aud that
IS stylish. followed by tiebacks SO tight a
snlan could only waddle.
These questions affect men," she said,
'ecaUse delicate wife is not so desirable q
The morning call., 1892-03-31

torial pursuits than for the distribution OF
United States mail.
One of them remarked: '0h. pshaw!
Wen strike bedrock at depth of 100 or 200
feet"
No doubt they viii. But what reasonable
man could expect q short-winded citizen to
crawl down into the bowels of the earth
distance of 200 feet and back again just to
see If there was a letter in his box. besides
putting up with the extra inconvenience of
donning divlng-suit while passing through
the intervening moisture? The idea is pos
itively ridiculous IN itself.
The test hole from which the samples of
subterranean still life were brought 10 the
top was sunk in the extreme southwest cor
ner OF the lot. Before reaching the swamp
proper several loads of colorado madura
sand. and lot OF decayed vegetation that
smelled like a trip to Chinatown were
brought up, carefully Inspected and filed
away for future reference by the specia
agents. The commissioners do not care to
diagnose them any farther.
Ii was after II o'clock before the probe
was started. Constructor Haley and three
men had been busy for two days setting up
the derrlcks and otherwise making prepar-
ations for the post norton. A seven inch
sand pump was used and as the pump sank
readily into the earth the hole was projected
with sheetirOn castings driven in in double
sections. The bOrers were considerably
hampeTed in their work by curious crowd
that swarmed about the scene of operations
and made leering remarks all day long.
The morning call., 1892-03-31
CLEVER BABE CURTIN.


Arrested for Picking Mrs John Insky's
Pocket.
Anthony Curtin, a lG-year-old thief. COM
monty known as babe Curtin" was ar
rested last evening by Detectives Dillon
enG Crockett Oh charge of grand larceny.
Curtin is an adept in the art of picking
women's pockets, and is beyond reform.
Only short time ago be was released from
tie Industrial School, bat il seems that he
Immediately resumed operations. Com
plants to the police were numerous, that
dexterous piekpocket was operating on
Market street, but until Monday last they
could not locate him. On Monday Curtin
picked a purse containing S23 from the
pocket OF Mrs. JOHN husky OF 42l Natoma
street, while she was walking along Market
street The day afterward Curtin picked a
woman's pocket in Oakland. He returned
to this city yesterday, when Dillon aud
Crockett, from an accurate description of the
thief, arrested him. He was identified by
porties who saw him pick Mrs. Insky' S
Rocket.
The morning call., 1892-03-31
BASEBALL NEWS.
Patsy Cahili in the Role OF Manager.
Game To-Day.

Patsy Cahili in the Role OF Manager.
Game To-Day.
After many baseball vieiSsitudes Patsy
Cabill has at last risen to the proud distinc-
tion OF manager and is hiring players HIM
self. To be sure Patsy is not paying them
much, but then it is something to be mau-
ager, anyhow. and have young men asking
for jobs even if he does not handle much
money.
His team is In Oakland, but he came
across the bay last night on business and in
cldentally spoke of the talent with which
he had surrounded himself; for Patsy is
playermanager with hyphen between the
words. The Central League has been
reorganized for the season and Patsy's team.
the Piedmonts, represents one of the Oak
land clubs in the league. 1t is made up of
Rohan and long Mr. jackson. pitchers;
Wild catcher, lsaacson first base. Jack
Fogarty second, Bug ODay shortstor,
Callahan third; Fred Roberts, Cahill ana
Oakland team is the Morans. Vallejo and
San Francisco complete the circuit, and all
games are TO be played in Vallejo and Oak
land. The schedule is not yet made up,
but the season will open in short time.
Patsy fiatters himself that he has an outfit
of talent that can subdue Vallejo with its
Tedoubtable Phenomenal Balsz.
Robinson has decided to postpone the
opening of the season in his town until
next Tuesday. on which date the park will
be ready, and Oakland and San Francisco
will show the natives how to play bail. His
reason for playing Tuesday is that he
leaves next day for Los Angeles, and should
he delay much longer the opening day in
Oakland might not occur until some time
this summer. The cranks will be treated to
six games next week. San jose and Frisco
finishing the series.
Wind and rain permitting. Oakland and
the locals will this afternoon meet for the
first time this season, game to be called at
Haight street at 3 O'clock, with Umpire
Sandy MeDermott i'm the chair. The Friday
game will also be played on this side of the
bay. Ii the game is to be played flags will
be placed Oh the park cars as token that
the rain has ceased Following is the make
Up of the teams:
The morning call., 1892-03-31
BORING INTO THE bog.
Symptoms of Swamp Found in
the POst9ffice Site.
Fishpoles and Other Evidences of Piscatorial
Pursuits Thirty Feet Below
the Surface.

II fragments OF nineteenth century pop
bottles. bits of BAMBOO 6snpoles. baitcans
and chunks of wood and peat brought up
from depth of 30 feet, can be accepted as
evidence that Seventh and Mission streets
was once a beg then 1t is q bog. These
relics of the dim and misty past we're fished
out Of the Postoffice site yesterday after
noon by the probing. or rather sounding.
committee. in the presence of Special
Agents Gibson and Brooks, Professor
George Davidson, John 2. Irish and others
interested directly and indirectly in the
building of a new Postoffice.
Yet, in the face of this evidence that the
corner was once the resort Of fishermen
who carried bait in pop bottles. as they still
do now, some of those interested in peddling
the site to Uncle Sam were 10th to admit
that the spot was better adapted for pisca-
The morning call., 1892-03-31
Real-Estate Sale.

Madison & Burke have Just closed the
sale OF the northeast corner of Third and
Hunt streets. between Mission and Howard,
fronting 40 feet on Third by so feet ON Hunt,
with all frame Improvements. renting for
$3.50 per month, for S34, 600. The same
firm refused an offer of $50, 900 for the
south west corner of Polk and Hayes streets,
fronting 40 feet On Polk by 100 feet on
Hayes. covered BY franc improvements
and held at 100000. Despite the present
quietness which prevails in the general
business Of the city this firm reports de-
mand for downtown property far in excess
of the supply.
The morning call., 1892-03-31
Last Giassas Found.

An item in yesterdays CALL to the effect
that DIR. j. Fl. Cloud, guest at the Grand
Hotel, had lost valuable pair of eye
glasses in the Postoffice will be the means
of restoring the property. Last night a
note was received from A. T. Acheson Of
the Olympic Club In which he stated that
he had found the glasses inside of his um-
brella shortly after leaving desk in the
office where be had been stamping letter.
The glasses were left with the stamp clerk,
where the owner can recover them by call
inc af the PosfoffiPa
The morning call., 1892-03-31
Chronic rheumatism Cured.

Robert q. Eldert, Valley Stream, N Y, writes:
81 am boatman. aud upward of 60 years of
age. have suffered severely from rheumatism
of the lower part of my bacs. My back ached
without cessation, and at times [ thought /
would be paralyZed. procured Two ALLCoCK's
POROUS PLAsTERs and put them across The
lower part OF my spine. In "a hours all pain
had ceased. AT the end Of week put on two
fresh ALLCoCKs Porous PLAsTERs, wore
them 10 days, then took them of, and washed
my back with a little alcohol, which removed
every trace OF the plasters. Ii ia now three
months since the plasers cured me. and feel
very much stronger aud better than ever BE-
fore.v
The morning call., 1892-03-31
Use DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder.
IF YOU WISH TO AVOID THE TWIN DRUGS.
ALUM AND AMMONIA
ALUM AND AMMONIA

DR.. Il. Endemann, for twelve years chemist of the
New York Board of HEALTH in his paper read before the
American Chemical Society at Washington in October
1891, states that ammonia baking powder the
gluten of the -four altering chemical properties and
cites high authorities prove its injurious
effect the stomach and kidneys.
Liebig the great chemist says: "The of alum in
bread very injurious and it very apt disorder
the stomach and occasion acidity and dyspepsia"
The following powders known contain either
ammonia alum both ReyaL Chicago Yeasf Calumet
Bon Bos Zeyles Ose Seon Un,Ialed Forest Ci Ball.
PEARL
The morning call., 1892-03-31
A Remarkable CASE

A child 20 months Old passed over thirty stomach
worms from six TO ten inches long-daughter Of
Mr.. o. II. Anes. who resides at Lorin. Cal, and
whose business address is PIT aud 81 Pine St. san
ran cisco. The child was cured by worm medicine
from Professor Shipley, 9o6 Market ST.. San Fran
cisco. Prof Shpley has been curing hundreds OF
people every year for tue past twelve years here.
Worms dyspepsia, bliiousness, heart disease,
liver Complaints weak, tired feeling, constipation
nervousness ETC. Call or write for circular of symp-
toms. Consultation is free Medicines by express