Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14
FREDERICK ScHwArKA, commsndsr

FREDERICK SChwATKA commander
OF the recent Arctic expedition, was born
in Illinois in 1915, appointed to the West
Point Military Academy from Portland,
Oregon, in 1857 and graduated in 1871.
He was appointed Second Lieutenant in
the Third Cavalry, and promoted to First
Lieutenant in 1879. In person, Lieuten.
ant SCHwATKA is exceedingly robust and
hearty, and has mild and gentle manners.
The survivors Of Admiral FARRA.
CUTS New Orleans squadron are making
preparations for taking part in the cere-
monies at the unveillng of WINNIE
RRAM's statue of the old hero in Deem
Der next. The statue will be placed in
Farragut's Square, Washington, d. c. An
effort will be made to have the veterans
who served with the Admiral and are
now inmates OF the Naval Asylum Oh
Grsy's Ferry Road participate aud for
a guard of honor upon the occasion the
dedication.
The daughter OF an OH g. in high
life in Vienna recently wore several times
q superb dress Of dsrk-green material,
trimmed with wreaths of leaves in an
other and lighter shade Of green. During
the season the beautiful complexion Of
the young lady underwent sudden
change, and was ruined by "a painful and
offensive eruption. After time her
physician, batfled by the symptoms,
thought of the dress, had ii subjected 10 s.
chemical examination, and found enough
arsenic in the coloring to produce all the
mischief and great deal more.
The Russian medical newspaper,
Vrdtch gives the following statistics re-
speeding the attendance OF women upon
the medical courses opened in 1872 at the
Medicc. Chirurgicsl Academy and after
ward at the Nikolalef Military Hospital:
During eight sessions the number of al.
missions has been 796, or au annual aver.
age OF so During the first years The
number Of admissions was about equal,
but it gradually increased until, IN 1876,
it reached the maximum Of 1870 Since
then the number has fallen away, in 1919
being only r. AS regards sge, the greater
number, $50, or 70 per cent, were from II
70 % years, 1913, or "a per cent, from %
to 80 and %. or about 3 per cent, up.
ward of 30. ST. Petersburg, Moscow and
the Southern New Russia Government
furnished the majority of the students
MIR. MAX MARETzgK has given re.
porter OF the Cincinnati Commercial his
views on the present deplorable state of
the American stage, and particularly the
lyric stage, but he admits that Americans
have, as rule, good voices, and adds
The day is not very far off when we will
have not only native singers, but their
whole education will be obtained at
home. More ihsn that, too, we shall have
locsi opera houses, and after that a school
OF native composers will come as q logic.
al sequence Just now we are certainly
behind all the European nations. Here
we are, with fifty million inhabitants and
not one local opera. In the Continental
countries OF Europe every important city
has theatres and opera houses. SO you
see there singer who has yet but little
fame can at least get a hearing TIE
greatest difficulty here is that though
lady may have a lovely voice, under good
cultivation, she cannot get hearing
What We ought to have is such an inter
est in opera that the public would go to
listen to local debutanti, and generously
recognize all buildings of genius. Only
by such encouragement is any one simu.
lated to make effort. There is another
unfortunate American trait. You plant
thing and then pull it up to see how the
roots are getting on. But the Americans
grow wonderfully fast, and IN twenty
years perhaps the opera will be natural
lied here.