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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
Food For Fishes.

Prof. Charles L. Bristol has d pansr
in the Century, illustrated with finn.
page pictures In tints, describing ira
Treasures of the New yarl
Aquarium" Strange as it may seem
the fayorite tidbit Of fishes that are 4
little "off their feed" is bit of saJte5
Goldfish,
Sometimes a fish will refuse To ear
for days, as did the large moray that
came from Bermuda. At one timo
this great eel tasted for eighteen DAYS
and at another time for ,wentv.sayen
thus causing it's caretakers the M.
most anxiety Eagerly they study the
bill of fare provided for their patients
Now a live herring is offered. now
dead one; now soft-shell clam In the
shell, now a quahog minced fine. and
so on through the list until the fasting
animal is enticed to eat The mos.
attractive morsel to a moping fish
seems to be a strip cut from a sailed
Goldfish and manoeuvered about on a
long stick to give it the appearance Of
being alive
The regular daily feeding OF the
animals is another source of care. not
only in regard TO the special diets Of
the various kinds of fishes, but also
in the serving the dietary IS quite
varied, as some fish are vegetarians
many carnivorous, and a few omniv.
orous. The vegatarians are few in
number, and feed Oh soaked cereals or
green plants in season. The carni-
yors have various tastes: some are
fond OF soft-shel Gains alive in the
shell, others will eat only quahogs or
little-I SEX clans minced fine; some
will cit only living fishes that they
can capture others thrive on fresh
dead fishes from which the bones have
been removed some require a diet Of
live shrimps or small crabs; and
almost all enjoy bit of sailed Goldfish
as a delicacy. Besides the fishes
there are the turtles, seals Holsters,
sea-anemons, and others to provide
for, each requiring a special know
ledge OF its wants and habits through
all the seasons The number Of
mouths to be fed regularly exceeds
three thousand, and the supply Of
food comes largely from Fulton Mar
ket; but the live fishes and shrimps
must be caught and handled by the
attendants, who draw their supplies
almost entirely from the nearby
waters of Sheepshead and Gravesend
bays.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
WAS A FRIEND OF KINGS.
His Views Did Not Hold When Il
Came to Poker.

His Views Did Not Hold When 1t
Came to Poker.
a government official, Who moved
over on Capitol Hill about three
months ago, has been particularly
known on that eminence by his ex-
treme American views and his ever
lasting antagonism to thrones and
scepters and everything molarchical
However, there seems to have come q
change over the spirit of The man, or
somebody is disappearing him. A
neighbor of his was talking to re-
porter on the car coming down We'd
nesday morning.
You know Blank?" said the neigh
Dor, evidently with suppressed feeling
'The chap who is always smuggling
kings and queens and emperors and
satraps and tycoons in the neck?
queried the reporter
yes"
Il haven't had the pleasure of meet
ing him, but | know about him"
We'll, don't get any nearer"
Whats the matter with him? Got
the smallpox"
Worse; he's a der, ed hypocrite."
How do you mean?'
= His aDti-monarchy talk is all rot.
He's with EN-"
Jorit
He is thoroughly an-American,
that's what he is"
How do you know, and why didn't
You find it out sooner?"
Last night was the first chance |
ever got him cornered
How did you manage III"
The neighbor hesitated moment
and looked around to see if he would
be overheard.
well, last night" he said, -four of
us got him into a game Of poker. 1t
was a right sharp little game, and
after we had been at it a Few hours
had everything I owned en- the table
and every body passed out but him and
me. was dead sure l nad him, and
laid down three tens and, pv crackey,
he trotted out three kings. Kings,
mind you Three kings And him
eyerlastingly talking to us about that
kind of cattle If that wasn't an I'M
American trick to play on me, what in
thunder do you call it?" and the re-
porter was shocked beyond expression
that such a man should be permitted
to live in throneless lana Of liberty
Washington Star.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
EnqIish That Is Clear.

Is not the best English in com
position plain and clear English?
Two writer's of it in this country may
be cited as proof of the fact-Ben-
jamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln.
1t is doubtful if they have ever been
surpassed in our land in this quality,
Cen Grant impressed everybody by
the attractiyeness Of his memoirs, and
this rose directly from the clearness
of his thought and the simplicity Of
its expression.
Neither Franklin nor Lincoln had
the advantage of a college education
and the training on classical models
that accompany 1t, and Grant pre-
sumably paid little cttention to
literary style at West Point. Franklin
imbued his mind with the Spectator
papers, but it is probable that his
straightforward method of saying
directly what he had to convey was
only supplemented by their peTusal
1t was said of Lincoln that in youth
full life he never came 50 near losing
his temper as he did when people
talked to him in terms that he could
not understand
He was sometimes homely, but
always direct, in speech, and there was
the element of spontaneity in his
eloquence. No man has over written
who presented less evidence OF labor
in his composition than did he. That
modern school OF fine writing, when
is involved In its sentences and OBJ
scure In its method Of conveying
meaning, is essentially vicious In com
parison with these earlier examples r
The American.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
To Know Good Meat.

Let us imagine ourselves before a
butchers block having on it fodr
pieces of beef presenting faces from
the roun or sirloin One Is duh red,
the lean being close-grained and the
fat very white; the next is dark red
the lean lose-grained and sinewy and
the fat yellow; the fourth is bright
cherry-red the lean smooth and
medium grained. with fecks of white
through it, and the fat creamy
neither white nor yellow. The first of
these is cow-beef; the second, bull
beef the third, beef from an old or i'll
conditioned animal, and the last is OK
beef. OX-beef--that from steer-is
the juiciest, finest favored, sweetest
and most economical to buy of all beef.
1t is called prime when the lean is
very much notified with the white fat.
flecks, and when it is from a heavy,
young animal (about four years old
Stalled on corn. Beef from a young
COW that has been well fed and fat
tened is next in merit to ox-beef. Beef
from an unmatured animal is never
satisfactory. being tough and juiceless.
II may be easily recognized, as its
color it pale and its bones small. -
Ella Morris Kretschmar in Woman's
Home Companion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
ouR GLANDS.

It is decided to remove the wreck Of
the Maine from Havana harbor
General Otis in his report will say
that Manila is greatly improved
Governor General Wood predicts
harmony il the constitutional conven-
tion in Cuba.
Up to Monday last $4,000 claims Cor
pensions growing out of the Spanish
war had been filed.
The activity of the Filipino junta in
Paris is giving rise to a rumor of an
alliance between Spain and Aguinaiio.
Delegates to the Cuban coustitu-
tlonal convention are expected to keep
that body in session q year for the
sake of the $500 monthly salary,
Ex-P President Harrison quotes q
speech delivered by him in Paris, In
which he says that the first duty in
the Philippines is the establishment Of
order.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
Why Sentries Go Mad.

Peering into darkness or semi
darkness while on sentry has a
tendency to produce distortion OF
vision which makes Of ivory bush an
enemy, and this has In many cases,
even SO recently as the Soudan cam
uaigus 80 affected the nerves Of men
that they have had a resulting
monomania as to eternally seeing
various creeping objects.
One man in the Soudan saw every
object Of vivid crimson for some
months and after being on outpost
duty during an alarm. ard ne was
only cured with great difficulty. Gen
Hamley tells ot seutries Who. on being
relieved set stood stock still i'm
moyabl. speeches.. and staring fixed.
III into vacancy HI some cases. after
the man had been removed this sort
of hyi,y would remain for hours.
Even I'D peace time. there was a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
SHE OF THE RUDOY LOCKS.
Red-Haired Girl Found in Every Cor
ner of the Globe.

The geographical distribution of
red.headed girls is fortunately wide.
They can be found in every inhabited
quarter OF the globe The so-called
dark race are frequently glorified by
glowing locks The Spaniards are
swarthy as a race, but the purest
blooded Castilians frequently show
traces of their Visigothic blood by blue
eyes and red hair. The lnfanta Eu-
lalie, who visited this country in 1898,
is red-headed.
Redhaired Italians are fairly nu-
merous in Italy They are most nu.
merous in the northern provinces,
whore there is the greatest infusion
Of German blood
And there is no girl IN the world
prottier than a red-haired Italian or
Spauiari except it be a red-haired
American
In Ireland a red-hairel girl is made
miserable by being raled q Dane "
This epithet is a legacy Of q Thousand
Years dr. more from the time when
the Danes actually did override the
coasts OF Circuit Britain ST louis Re.
public
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
NEWS OF TIE WORLD.
CHINA

\
Prince Tuau ordered the eStermlna,
ton of the allied force which captured
PaOtingtu.
An uprising like the boxers rebellion
is MANNED for south China to begin
next month
Count gon Buelow says that the
friendly relations between Germany
and America viii not be changed.
Hobson declares that Admiral Samp-
son is dying Of a broken heart
Poatlngfu was occupied without OPP
positfou The city is TO be held by a
German brigade during the winter.
Two thousand villagers We're slain
by insurgents in the Kwaisin district.
The rebellion in the south is spread
ing
China is apparently preparing for
war with the allies, stores, arms, am
munition, and treasure being con.
stantly shipped from the Yangtse
cities to Pekin.
Diplomats are convinced that there
is no secret clause in the Anglo-Gar.
man agreement, which is believed TO
be a purely mutual guarantee against
either country Selling the Yangt5e-
kiang valley.
Dispatch from III Hung Chang to the
Chinese minister in Paris saying that
Plchon, Wrench minister to Pektn, Is
too i'll to conduct negotiations, is sus-
pected 10 be Il diplomatic trick to get
rid of an astute envoy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01

Europe via Lake Erie and the Wellana
canal, and may establish his own
freight line
II lis believed that Peru and Bolivia
win seek the direct interference OF the
United States in the Tacna-Arlca els-
pute with Chile.
The coal strike viii be ended this
week and all the miners will be az
work Monday Rioting was continued
at Wilkesbarre.
King leopold Of Belgium has ne
come the partner OF Walsh, the
Colorado millionaire, in mining ana
stock speculations.
Annie Floyd, accused Of attempting
to poison the Roberts family Of Hemp
stead. n. Y, was suspected OF a similar
crime four years ago.
John Sherman was laid TO rest at
Mansfield, O., with President Mckinley
and many officials In attendance. ne
died of brain exhaustion.
The Rock Island railroad viii extend
it's southwestern division to connect
with the Mexican Central and South
ern Pacific at El Paso, Tex.
Nissan hall was presented . Van
derbilt university, at Nashville, in
connection with the twenty-tfth an
niversary Of the institution.
owing to it's attitude regarding the
army cantceu the w c. T. q. is meet
ing difficulties in arranging for a con
yention In Washington, y. G.
A representative Of the government
of Colombia announced that his coun
try had bought George Gould's yacht
the Atlanta for use against the rebels
Cornelius H. Alyord, Jr, note teller
Of the old and wealthy First National
Bank. at No. Wall street, N. T., is a
fugitive, charged with defalcations OF
800 600 or more.
Mrs. Annie Wendell, who claims she
and her family were made i'll by
corned beef brought suit for $4,000
against William M Paine, from whom
she bought it in Chicago.
Chicago second in census rank Oh
American cities having a safe lead
over Philadelphia, which is third
One hundred and fifty-nine cities have
a population of over $4,000 each.
The translators of the French yer
sion of Hamlet which made q hit in
Paris are in a row with Sarah Bern
hardt and threaten to sue her If she
uses one line of their work in New
York.
The Chicago Telephone company be
gan installing new slot machine
phones for Scent calls All public
stations win be given the ive-cent
rate 1t is expected to increase the
number Of pay stations from 200 to
25,000.
A report is current that John w
Gates bought H. II Harrimans inter
est in the Kansas City Southern, &C.
curing control of the road, which will
become a competitor of the Alton
Union Pacific and Missouri, Kansas
and Texas
Four young men Of Paterson wee
arrested charged with the murder OF
Jennie Bosschieter The police say
the girl was drugged and maltreated
and an effort made after death tC
make it appear that she had been
killed by a fall
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
POLITICAL.

Roosevelt was catechised at Auburn,
N. Y.
It is reported that Indiana demo
Gratis are willing to trade Bryan for
Kern for governor
Robert +. Burk says he has $4,000
to bet Bryan and Alschuler will carry
Cook county, Ill.
Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell with
drew from the United States senator
ial race In North Carolina
Bryan made a rapid trip across New
Jersey, delivering fifteen speeches and
bringing up at Jersey City
The first days straw ballot at the
Wisconsin University gave MCKINLEY
&2d, Bryan, 10; scattering, IT,
Republican campaign managers
claim Mcklnley's plurality in Illinois
viii be 5000 outside of Cook County.
Bryan spoke on the race question in
several West Virginia towns, urging
the negroes to vote In favor of the
Filipinos
Comptroller Coler said in Boston
that the high tiue Of commercialism in
politics had been reached and was
rcoedmg.
The chairman of the Nebraska re
publican committee says Mckinley Will
carry the state by 5000 to 1000
plurality
Don NJ. Dickinson, postmaster gen,
eral under Cleveland, gave out a
signed statement explaining why nc
win vote for Mckinley.
The Kentucky legislature adjourned
without choosing an election commits
sioner democrats refusing TO vote for
the republican choice
Governor Roosevelt made eight
speeches in New York state, ending
at Kingston He rebuked several
distrubers OF meetings
Chairman J X. Jones thinks Cali.
foruia viii 80 for Bryan because OF a
decision that the Chinese In Hawaii
can enter the United States
EN President Grover Cleveland 6e.
clarcd that he had made NO staten mt
which would justify the report that ae
was goine TO support Mckinley.
Mr. Bryan made q tour Of Michigan.
hits audiences being larger than those
Gav Roosevelt had attracted HE s.
now ayorasiug sixteen speeches b Iav.
nu Walter Watson chairman or
state democratic committee. SAYS
Alsehulor VIII carry Illinois by 10000
Ntugitg end that the legislature VIII
ha democratic Sly 70 e.aht on i6sat
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01

The third of the four competitions
for the prize offered by the Century
Magazine 70 American college gra1u-
ates was closed on June Of this year
the competitors being bachelors q.
art Of 1899 The prize essay, entitled
Tolstoi's Moral Theory c. Art Is ps
John Albert Macy OF Cambridge Mass
Of Harvard university The pTir
story, entitled An Old-Woeld Woo.ns
is by Miss Adeline Miriam Jenneg 4.
b., class Of 80, Huron. South Dakota
Of the university Of Wisconsin
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01

will concede to the miners demands
by Monday. In fact it was said by one
OF the higher officials of the union
that the statement was not drawn up
until positive assurances had been re-
ceived that the other companies
would comply with the demands.
LIKEWISE at WiIkesbarre.
Wilkesbarre, Oct. 26.--The bulle in
announcing the ending of the great
miners strike was received here last
night with the greatest enthusiasm by
all classes. The news has been eX-
pected, and large crowds collected in
front of the newspaper Offices. Among
companies that have not posted no
tees In this vicinity are the Susque-
hanna Coal company of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad system, but some time
ago officials of that company issued a
statement that when the strikers were
ready to return to work the company
would pay its men the same as the
other companies. There are some in
dividual operators who have not post.
ed notices. 1t is said they are holding
back until they can get better carry
ing rate from the big coal companies
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01

case lately where young SCENTS.
wounded the guard by firing a III
under the belief that he saw zf.s4,
and Lord Roberts, il one Of his nam.
zine articles, relates that even n.
most reliable and truthful Of soldiers
on sentry often have the most f,rrss
tic stories to tell, due to sha5 .rss
nerves. Great numbers OF soldiers /
war times have committed suicide ~
accidentally shot themselves .bo
cause often being that they IMAGINED
they had let someone creep past them
and had thus betrayed ,feir TRUST i
London Answer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
DOME sic.

Chicago October wheat, 73sc.
odds of 4ia 70 | We're made on Me
kinley in Wall street
Bandits az Nevada, Mo, robbed a
bank and killed a constable.
Fire at Minnciska, Mimi destroyed
two stores and two elevators.
lne population OF jackson, Micn"
is 25IS0, a gain Of p per cent.
The Russian battleship Retyigan
was launched at Philadelphia
The king Of Belgium expresses
friendship for the United States
Yale is preparing to celebrate it's
bicentenuial oct 20 to 2&i 190l
Rudyard Kiplng is to sell his
Vermont house and abandon America.
James Conway, policeman for the
Alton road, was arrested on q robbery
charge
A gift OF 100000 has been offered 70
Beloit college If $l50ooo more can be
raised
The population Of California is l..
$4,000. an increase Of p per cent
since $50
An Iowa woman thinks she has
located sister stolen by Iuuana many
years aeo.
Denmark offers to SEN the Danish
West Indies 10 the United States for
s7oooooo
American twoeds have practically
driven Scotch twoeds from the domos
tic maraet
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01

ton, he plans battles years ahead,
leyies no campaign assessments, but
money comes in voluntarily and the
democratic party, city, state or
national, he declares, ,nere is no boss.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01
Rejoicing al tIazleton.

Hazleton. oct 26.-There was much
rejoicing here last night when the an
nouneement was made that the coal
strike was at an end, The news spread
quickly. and soon kilograms began to
arrive at headquarters Most of them
were from local union officials CON
graduating Mitchell on the successful
ending Of the contest. Everywhere In
the region local unions have been
awaiting the news. and in a moment
after The decision Of the conference
three district presidents began tele,
phoning to every mining town within
telephone reach in tile coal fields BY
this means the whole region heard the
news in q very short time. The Unit
ia Mine Workers officials firmly be-
lieye all the operators against whom
the strike has not been declared on
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-01

Arthur Russell. eldest son of the Tate
lord chief justice 81 England has been
appointed a Judge Of the British ciI-
cult court. He was born in 1851.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30

The oriental exports from Seattle dur
ing 1900 have amounted to more than the
total foreign exports of previous years,
though in such comparison there IS or
course considerable loss by emitting from
the calculation the exports to South
America, the United Kingdom and other
foreign countries not properly included
in the Orient. AS this article deals with
the Oriental trade only, and Is not con-
cerned with the total volume OF foreign
trade, data referring to the latter will
be used only for purposes OF comparison,
to show the actual strides being made in
transpaciic commerce.
The actual excess Of exports to the
Orient proper during the first eleven
months OF 1900 over the total foreign ex-
ports of 1880 was Ill per cent, the
Oriental shipments having a value OF
si,s20.0on against total foreign valuation
of A,15o,o0o during the first eleven months
of 1899 The excess of the 1900 Oriental
trade over the foreign trade OF 1895 was
45.1 per cent. and over the foreign trade
of 1897 was 741 per cent. The following
table shows the figures by months:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30
WHITE STAR s. s. GO.
S. S. OREGON, $500 TmA S. S. CHAS. D. LAnbskM
viii Sail Tor Nome N o Isel
f6 PASSENGER and Freight Rates Apply to WINE SIAe AA@
sstsi6 .u~,ess Blocks sssk. wssh

establishment OF one steamship line. as
OF this article but az the demands OF COM
nerce have already passed the capacity
81 one line 70 handle. attention must be
paid 10 additional facilities These axe
coming With the completion OF the two
gigantic steamships now on the ways at
Grofon. Conn.
These shipe are being constructed for
President James j. Hill. OF the Great
Northern railroad, who gave Seattle her
nrst Oriental steamship line ard who now
proposes to establish a service between
this city and the far East which viii be
superior 90 any similar line on the Pa
cihc today
These craft are going 10 be wonders in
the marine world. and will be far ahead
OF the Great Eastern IN carrying capacity
as the latter surpassed ships Of the pres
snt day. They are 70 have a net regis
tered tonnage Of not less than 5000 tons
and Win carry from 5000 to 1900 tons OF
cargo.
This means that every steamer
VIII have a capacity OF In car
loads of twenty-five tons each, or
thirty-six trains Of thirty-five cars each.
IL one of the ships was loaded with fir
lumber. II would take 1s.oa5 900 feet at one
time. or as much as twenty good-sszed
sailing iurnbeg carriers. besides making
the transpacific voyage in about one-quar-
ter the time required By the present car
rlsrs- They will have the effect OF In
creasins the supply Of cars that will be
available for the carrying Of lumber to
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30
several Important Factors.

There are several important factors that
contribute TO the encouragement OF those
looking for a great future for Seattle In
Oriental commerce. Mention has already
been made OF tho benesicence OF nature in
providing this port with Advantage that
are insurmeunfanie and are bound to re-
suit In making this the principal port OF
ocean commerce on the Pacific coast: but
contrfbutory efforts are necessary to make
use OF these facilities, which are to come
from various sources.
II has been said time and again by
students of foreign commerce that all this
port needed was ships to give 1t an i'm
petus that would soon send Il ahead az
all Pacific customs districts II has al
ready shown what could be done by the