Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-07-09

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/ quasi friends of neighboring towns
have, kindly for their supposed in
terests, indpstriously and mischiey-
ously circulated to our apparent det-
riment, as touching the prevalence
and fatality of diphtheria in our
city, it seems to the writer that q
concise statementof the facts should
suffice to confound our calumniators
by exposing their despicable motives
for fabricating and propagating
their stories.
During the last past year, cover
ing more than all the time that
diphtheria has prevailed at all in
this city, or in the surrounding
country within a radius of six miles,
only 81 deaths have occurred from
that disease, and some of these, ex-
perts claim, should be excluded from
that category. Granting, however,
that each of the 81 reputed deaths
from diphtheria was SO in fact, the
total mortality from diphtheria in
the whole of said territory, which
may be named the Mineral Point
district, is less than three-fourths Of
one per cent, the population of the
district being about 5000, and any
one may compate the per cent.
But Of the 3 reputed deaths from
diphtheria in said Mineral Point dis.
trict, only 20 were in the city-2O
were buried by one undertaken
and six by the other. The eleven
other cases were distributed as fol-
lows: One from Darlington, but
died in town of Waldwick; one
from town of Dodgeyille; two in the
town of Waldwick; two inthe nof
Mineral Point; and FIVE in the town of
Linden. All these cases occurred
at distances from the city varying
from one g seyen niles.
Certain interences may be drawn
from the facts:
l. That, even Mineral Point, with
her elevated site, her picturesque
scenery, her natural facilities for
complete drainage, and her un-
riyalled salubrity as compared with
any other town in Southwestern
Wisconsin, or III this whole region,
is not proof against one of the most
insidious and fatal diseases of mod
ern times, when imported from
abroad; and
2. That, while our citizens are quite
content to mind their own business
and observe at least the more obyi-
GUS proprieties of life, in their in
teroourse with their neighbors, they
confidently commend like observ-
ances to all concerned, and suggest
that comfy is worthy of their eul-
tivation. GEO. d. WILDER.
IT will be remembered that the
residence of the late John Spensley
was destroyed by tornado in 1878,
and that Mrs. Waller, @: Dubuque,
was visiting there at the time. On
the first Of this month a diamond
ring belonging to that lady was
found in the garden west Of the
site, near where watch, the proper
ty of the same lady, was picked up
about seven years ago
TIE sun-spot editor who declares
that solardisturbances cause cyclones
and rains, announced that a new
group Of spots is forming on the
surface Of that body. The sun was
unusually clear during the recent
flooding rains, but the spots are
coming just as the weather has dried
off. The sun-spot theory appears to
lack consistent connection with
facts.
PARTIES in the city wishing grass
cut can get the same done by calling
on Marshall Day, who has a new
mower which is warranted to do
good work. "2ow-
"a MAN told his daughter that if
she learned to work he would give
her surprise. She learned the art
and he surprised her by discharging
the servant girl"