Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-13
Personal

The salary of Rev. Adirondack Muir
ray fas been increased by his Boston
congregation to $1,000 year
The equestrian statue of Gen. Scott,
ordered by Congress. is completed at
Newburg, N. Y. 1t cost $4,000
Mr. DYKE recovered of the Erie
railway $35, 600 for injuries received at
the Cars Rock disaster--the largest
yer lict ever rendered against rail
road
JAMES FIsx, jr., has his life insured
for 1900, 000 He Will be worth some
thing to somebody when he is dead,
whatever may be thought of him while
living.
A BosroN shoe dealer has been de.
lighted by the receipt of an order for
shoes for the family of Mormon Bish-
OPP at Salt Lake--twenty wives and
about fifty children.
| BAYARD TAYLOR has, within few
days, sent to market fresh cucumbers,
grown this season at his
country place, at Kennett Square,
Penn, without artificial heat.
INTERESTING to ladies': Silks are said
to be worth their weight in silver the
world over The purchaser of heavy
silk for light price is paying for dye
stutts, and the dye soon destroys the
silk
SENATOR SUMNER has one of the finest
private collections of engravings in tho
country, and has spent a very largo sum
in their acquisition. Much of his
surplus income is devoted to theirpur.
chase.
SINCE the Popes loss of temporal
power he is reported to have been offer
ed presents aud contributions from all
sources ofthe value of several millions
of dollars, nearly all of which he has
declined.
JOHN b. GoudH has been compelled
by i'll health to give up all lecture en-
gagements, at least for the present.
He is said to have delivered more lee
lures and speeches since November
than any man in America.
VIM X DAVIS, believed to be an
American, fell or leaped from the top
of the Pyramids lately, and broke his
neck. His conduct had been so strange
for some days that the probability is
he intended to commit suicide.
SPIELHAGEN is said to have made him
self pecuniarily independent by his
works of fiction, and to have outlined
series of novels illustrating the devlop-
ment of mind and character by poverty
and adverse circumstances.
Mrs. Victoria G. Woodruff, who is
running against George Francis Train
for the Presidency, propounds the fol-
lowing conundrum: "How can per-
son, being woman, obtain the qualiti-
cations of being mani" We are re-
luctantly compelled to give it up.
"FELLow trabelsrs, said "culled"
preacher, "ef l had been eatin, dried
apples for week, an den took to drink
ing for monf' couldn't feel more
swell'd up dan l am dis minnit wild
pride and vanity at seem such full
tendence har dis eveninn
j. S. ANDERSON, a student of the Ken
lucky Agricultural College, at Lexing-
ton, died, and the faculty and stud
ents, accompanying his body to the
train to send it home, fired three vol
leys as the train moved off, and tho
band struck up "Home, Sweet Home"
ONLY rough board with his name
inscribed marks the graves of Gen. AL
bert Sidney Johnson, in the cemetery
near Austin, Tex. Further honors to
the dead were forbidden by the radical
authorities ut the time of has burial,
and the matter has been neglected
since.
BISMARCK enjoys the reputation of
saying more witty things, with less
effort, than any man in Germany. A
correspondent, writing of him, says
he is as ready as an American, bright
as Frenchman, and singing as n Span
lard, in his conoeits and epigrams.
A New YORK banker was 30 captivat-
ed by Alice Dunning of the Lingard
troupe, that he handed $3.50 bouquet
over the footlights to the actress the
other evening; which being observed
by the audience, they called aloud
Keno" the name of the bank over
which the smitten banker presides.
STEPHEN NJ WELIA who recently
died very poor, near st Paul, Linn,
once owned 40 acres on which the
business part of the city now stands,
but sold it because he wanted money
and had not sufficient knowledge OF
business to mortgage his real estate.
Had he kept his property he would
have been the wealthiest man in the
State.
GUIsEppI PARTIsr, ayoung sculptor
OF Parma, carved with several years Of
labor statue Of Venus, and sent it
to Florence, expecting it would make
him fame and fortune. The work was
seYerlY criticized. and when he learned