Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

could never convince his wife that loo was
game at cards, and always plays euchre
now and gets home before 10 O'Clock.
AGAssIz vs. DARwIN-Prof Agassiz is
no Darwinian. Lately, in lecture at
Cambridge, he said: Man is said to be
the crowning point of an ascending scale.
Unquestionably he is the highest created
being, but he is the eliminating point
especially of his own series-of that YER
tebrate series to which he belongs. No
lnvertebrate animal has any structural re-
lation to man whatever, while every mem
Der of his own type has an intimate struc-
tural relation with him. The limitations
keeping each primary type within its own
boundaries have not been sufficiently con-
| sidered, and are, indeed, generally wholly
lost sight Of This carelessness of inves-
| tigation, or of statement, gives currency
to broad generalizations partially true
| indeed, but false when they are made to
cover too wide a ground
STRANGER THAN FICTIoN-A railway
blacksmith named Allen has just recovered
an estate near Hanley, in Staffordshire,
England, worth $350,0O0 The estate is the
Ubberley Hall property, just outside the
| borough. The Allen family had held the
| property from the days of the Conquest,
but more than hundred years ago the
title deeds were lost, and in 1928 the fam
lily were dispossessed through being un-
able to produce them. A subsequent
occupant of the family house seems to
have found the deeds and they were trans
terred to the possession of man in Lon
| don as security for a small loan From
| this man the deeds were obtained for SEQ
| by Mr.. Allen, who now will rise from the
| position of a railway blacksmith to the
possession of this handsome estate.
| A MARRIAGE CEREMONY POSTPONED
| Albert Knight, a graduate of the Normal
| School of Albany, was to have been mar
| ried to one of Malta's Saratoga County,
| fairest daughters, and withal woman OF
| some pecuniary means, as we'll as of un-
blemished reputation The guests were
all assembled. The would-be bride and
bridegroom were decked in their gayest
attire for the occasion, and the Rev. Mr.
| Webster, of Jonesville, just arrived to put
on the finishing touch to the nuptial knot
when Mr.. Knight wished private inter
view with the minister. The interview
| being granted, he refused to be married
| unless Mr.. Webster would leave off the
/ part of the ceremony where it reads, "as
| long as you doth live" For, says Mr.
| Knight, the laws of the State grant a
! divorce for certain reasons, and | do not
| know as | can live with her all my life
| and do not want to take vows upon my
| self that might not be able to fulfill.
| Mr.. Webster replied that he was not there
| as a lawyer. He had come only in an
ecclesiastical way, and if he wished to be
married he would marry him according
to the rules of the church Whereupon
| Mr.. Knight entered into logical discus
sion of the subject, until the divine, be
coming disgusted sought the woman S
mother and informed her that Knight did
not wish to marry her daughter, and left
| for home. The tired guests then sat down
| to what was to have been the bridal feast,
which had been kept waiting during the
| long discussion.-TrogfN IN. y Press