Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-11-06
GLEANIN0s.

Stokes, of jim Fisk fame, still lives
in San Francisco.
"BUFFALo BILL" has gone into the
cattle business in Nebraska.
FOURTEEN Cowboys" in Texas had
fight about some grass. Twelve of
them were killed.
The Earl of Desert, who arrived from
Europe few days ago. has started on q
trip through the United States.
In Johnstown, Pa, and vicinity, more
than 100 children have died with diph-
liberia within five or six weeks.
AN eminent English engineer says
that for every person who dies of typhoid
fever some one should be hanged,
THE Gate city guards of Atlanta,
while at Hartford, were presented with
six wooden nutmegs made from the
charter oak.
THIS is the season when the cunning
old gentleman puts on double thick un'
derclothing and then rallies the young
men for wearing light overcoats.
STEPHEN GooDALE died near Ports
mouth, N. H., recently, at the age OF
lis years. He had been i'll the poor
house since the age of seventy six. .v.---.
The daughter of wealthy couple of
Hartford, with the full consent of her
parents, has gone out to learn trade to
fit herself for the ups and downs OF life,
especially the downs.
NEW ORLEANS recently sold street
railroad franchise for $3.50, 900, and
already four of the city's creditors have
attached the money to get hold of 1884,
600 claimed TO be due them.
NINE. HELENA MoDJRsKA, who is now
in Europe, will retire from the stage at
the termination of her engagement with
II. j. Sargent, which has three years
longer to run.
The following is an exact copy of a
prescription presented to Fair Haven
drug store few days ago: "gum reabec
8 Open Elk Stract of lickres g." The
figures indicate that three cents worth
of each article was required.
NEIL DoUGHERTY, fireman at the city
hall at Brooklyn, mounted a step.ladder
in the boiler room to oil the works, was
partially suffocated by escaping coal gas,
and fell and broke his neck in the
presence of his two little children.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY is q little
more than forty years old, and after the
Ashantee campaign he might have had
baronetcy that he refused. He did not,
however. decline the 100000 which
were offered to him. He was badly
wounded in the Crimean war.
SENATOR SHARON, the silver king, was
reminded that he has farm in Oregon
when he accompanied Grant to that
state. He had forgotten all about it, and
the farm, large and fertile, had also for
gotten that there was an owner for it,
being overgrown with weeds.
GEN. TODLEBEN is a man of science as
well as soldier. He maintains constant
communication with scientific institu.
tions in Germany, which re regularly
informs of important geographical dis
coveries. He has just presented three
csmels to the geological gardens in Ber-
lin.
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG says Grant is
severe traveller, one of extraordinary
endurance. Always prompt and anxious
to get on, be saw things very rapidly,
and never was more satisfied than when
he could travel all night and see sights
all day. He seemed to enjoy sea life
more than anything else.
EX-SENATOR FOoTE, of Mississippi, is
president of the New Orleans mint
His daughter, who is the wife of ex-
Senator Stewart, of Emma Mine fame,
and who is again wealthy, is living at
"Castle Stewart" Washington, where
there are some real Gobelin tapestry
hangings which cost $4,000.
The Oldest of the early American
statesmen now living is believed to be
Hon. peleg Sprague, of Maine, now 90
years of age and entirely blind. He Was
in the United States senate from 1929 to
1885, when Webster, Clay, Calhoun and
Benton were leaders of that body, hav-
ing been member Of the house OF
representatives from 1926 to 1927.
A LAWYERS clerk named George
Steed, native of Southampton, entered
the cathedral and other churches in
Hereford recently, aud, going up to the
altar with red cap on, said he WAS John
the Baptist, that he had been up the
North Pole, and having smoked his pipe
there had come back to tel Hereford
people what he had seen in heaven.
THE following interesting item is taken
from a London letter: "ln examining
the budgets came across one item which
has some special home interest. In the
statement of receipts and expenditures
of the city of London for the year 1877
there occurs this charge: 'Dejeuner to
General Ulysses Grant, f1,877.' The
item next to it curiously reads Re-
ception to H. r. H the Prince of Wales
E3."