Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-28

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have faced death just as con1poseiiy
tassf snrok Z this ipe.''
! Whom do Great Won harry?
| Charles Il. Stevens, in the March
numb Der of the chronological Journal
answers this question as follows
Moinen, of course. But they show
1 the same diversity of taste that is
seen in the lower ranks, and on the
whole make worse mistakes. They,
however, generally show the same
seEse in choosing wives that they
show in managing ether peoples
I affairs, whetherit &c good or bad.
John Howard, the great pflilan-
Ithrorist, married his urse.a She was
Faltogether beneath him in social life
and intellectual capacity and besides
this, was fifty-twO years old while
he was but twenty-five. He would
not take mo- for an answer, and
they were married, aud lived happi-
ly together until her death, which
occurred two years afterward. sr
Peter the Great, of Russia, married
a pleasant girl. She made an excel
lent wife and sagacious Empress.
Humboldt married poor girl be-
cause he loved her. OF course they
were happy.
Shakespeare loved and we'd farm
er's daughter. She was faithful to
her vows, but we could hardly say
the same of the great bard himself.
| Like most of the great poets, he
showed too little discrimination
in bestowing his affection on the
other sex.
i Byron married Miss Milbank to
get money to pay his debts. 1t
turned out a bad shift.
Robert Burns married farm girl,
with whom he fell in love while they
worked together i'm the piow-field
He, too, WAS irregular in his life, and
committed the most serious mistakes
in conducting his domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, but he lived with
her but a short time He was an
austere, exacting, I literary lecluse ;
while she was a rosy, romping couA-
try lass that could not endure the
restraint imposed upon her, and so
they separated. Subsequently,
however, she lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
were cousins, and about the only ex-
ample in the long line of English
mOnarchs wherein the marital vows
were sacredly observed and sincere
affection existed.
Washington married a widow
with two children. 1t is enough to
say OF her that she was worthy of
f him, and that they lived as married
folks should, iG perfect harmony
John Adams married the daught ter
of a Presbyterian clergyman. Her
father objected on account Of Johns s
being lawyer he had bad opinion
of the morals of the profession.
Thomas jefferson married Mrs.
! Martha Skelton, a childless widow
) but she brought him large fortune
in zeal estate. After the ceremor Y
she mounted the horse, behind him
and they rode home together. 1t
| was late in the evening, and they
!, found the fire out. But the great
, statesman bustled around and rebuilt
it, while she seized the broom and
soon pat things in order. 1t il need
less To say that they We're happy,
Jefferson died a poor man on account
OF his extreme iibefality aud hospi-
tality.
Benjamin Franklin married the
girl W no stood at her fathers door
!. and laughed at him as he wandered
| through the streets of Philadelphia
with rolls of bread under his arms
and his pockets filled with dirty
clothes. She had occasion to be
happy when she found herself the
wife of such a great and good man.
1t is not generally known that
| Andrew Jackson married a lady
whose husband was still living. She
was an uneducated but amiable
woman, and most deyotedly attach
ed to the old warrior and statesman.
John G.. Calhoun married his cou-
sin, and their children fortunately
were neither diseased nor idiotic,
but they do not evince the talents of
the great States rights" advocate.
Edward Lytton Bulwer, the Eng
lish statesman and novelist, married
a girl much his inferior in position
and got a shrew for q wife. She is
now insane.
General Sam. Houston lived happi-
" with a squaw wife, while General
Ben Butler was divorced from an
accomplished lady. Edwin Forrest,
the great tragedian, married beauti-
full actress, from whom he was di-
vorced. General Fremont married
the daughter of Thomas II. Benton
against the latter's wish which oblig-
ed him toelope with her on storm y
night. The union proved happy
one an spite of the squaily beginning.
Horace Greeley married a school
| mistress WHOSE Dcduty Wao uutStioH-
able, but whose sense and goodness
satisfied one of the greatest men of his
time.
General Sherman married the
daughter of Thomas Ewing, of Ohio,
who was a member of General Tay-
lor's Cabinet. This alone would
have been good start in life for
anv Young man. jeff. Davis, for
his first wife, won the hand of Zach
airy Taylor's daughter and General
Grant married Miss Dent, of St.
Louis. She apparently has more
sense than show, and is. Therefore
fit for a Presidents wife
The weather in the Northwest tor
the month of January ia thus sum-
med up by the Agricultural Bureau /:
I"In Wiseonsion, along the lake
shore. little snow-in the western
part of the State more than usual