Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-09-02

/ ldble, Tie IL beast III shape Ike q
/ morse, of dusty color, with a maynei
necke, h0yry bearde and torheade
armed withe Il horne OF the quality OF
/ TWO cubits, being of spiral shape. and OF
ivory OF exceeding puriue and wonder
/ full Wilderness. 1t also has the wonder
full power of expelling all yenome and
/ poison Whatsoever"
Gypsies have no religion anu some
/ OF them have SO strong an aversion 10
/ churches that they never pass by one
/ without a muttered curse. In European
| countries they never suffer themselves
to be buried in churchyard, but,
/ whenever allowed, they bury their dead
] in outoftheway places. This an
! tipathy TO churches and religious forms
| is supposed 10y some persons to have
/ originated from their persecution by
pthe priesthood in The middle ages, but,
whatever, its origin, il is liked fact.
A cheap substitute for lay figures
now popular with small shopkeepers is
the photographic mead printed ON
/ pasteboard and then cut into outline
/ figures These heads are carefully at
/ tached 10 rude lay busts, over which
women'S gowns are dIaped, and the
result is a highly effective show win
! dow decoration The photographic
/ heads are much more human in ap-
pearance than the lay figures of wax,
wood or paper pulp commonly in use
for years, and artists of some super
fetal ability are employed in making
the designs
In northern New England the way
/ farer is often surprised by coming upon
big tomb directly beside the road
and unconnected with cemetery.
Occasionally the door is open, showing
bier, coffin, boxes and other appur-
/ tenances, and, very likely, stones and
/ appe cores tossed in by the prevalent
! boy These tombS are not intended
/ for permanent sculpture. They are
merely receiving vaults for use in win
/ ter, when the cemeteries on distant
I hillsldes are covered with two feet Of
snow and the roads to them are i'm
pasSablc.
When rings are sent TO a jeweler for
/ repair he always cleans the stones and
surprises the owners by their brillian-
] cy. The accumulation of dirt on the
under side Of the diamond or other
transparent gems is so slow that the
/ dulling of the stones is hardly noticed.
/ Usually they are cleaned, without re
moval from their settings, with the
chcwed ends of wooden tOothpickS, but
/ they cannot be made entirely bright
without taking them out of their
1 clasps The dirt that gets into the
space between the ring and the stone
/ is often as hard as clay.
/ The largest kite ever made in the
/ United States is that produced in Dur
4 ham, Green county, n. G. The frame
/ consists of two main sticks % feet
/ long, weighing each 100 pounds and
I two cross sticks u feet long and
weighing 20 pounds each. All the
sticks were . 10y inches in dimen-
sons. over the framework was
stretched n great sheet of white duck
/ % 10y Is feet, which weighed 50
/ pounds. The tail of the kite alone
weighed 80 pounds and contained 1856
yards Of muslin Twenty-Five hundred
/ fee of one-half inch rope served as
! kite strings. The plaything cost 800,
and when it is mounted into the air
/ it eXerts a lifting power of 500 pounds.
Six men once permitted it to ascend
1000 feet
/ During the revolution tbe most elab-
crate of uniforms were designed for the
i American officers and the men were
ordered to wear green shirts, IF they
could be produced" AS a matter Of
1 fact very few uniforms were worm
everybody wore what he happened to
/ have and the navy was clothed in
motley array. The native born Ameri-
can seamen, most Of them, wore the
canvass pGtticoat, and they all wore
/ the hair in braid down the back,
waxing it to make it curl up at the
end. AS many Of the seamen We're
foreigners the costumes Of all nations
were displayed on many ships. 1t
was not until 1900 that there is
record of a crew in white duck uGi-
forms
/ 1t was several years ago that Gala
/ NGIEiN drew tuc dtleUllOD bl Itutn
practitioners 10 the advantages of
treating smallpox according to the plan
Originally suggested and carried out by
John Of Goddesden and Waters. The
( treatment in question consisted simply
in keeping the patients absolutely
away from all solar light, and this
solar darkness had to be, from first
to last, complete and uninterrupted,
OTHERWISE no beneficial results could
/ be looked for. The same authority has
recently published the results OF his ex-
perience with this method covering
period of some sixteen years, show
ing that, If this plan be carried out,
the great advantages ensues Of there
being no period Of suppuration, and in
consequence, the subsequent soaring
is inhnitessimal
DWARFISH RACE IN SPAIN.
Enanos With Red Wood for Hair and