Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-28
Personalities.


one OF the Cars nieces
Secretary EvARTs' twin sons, one &c
whom Is at Yale and the other at H,r
vard, gave dinner in New Hayer ON
Monday to celebrate their twontv.ers,
birthday.
-Madame BALzAC, widow of the f.
nous author, and now woman 81 vear.
of age, has had built for her use superb
hotel in Paris, and will live in II This
winter. 1t Is rumored that she may fpr
aish the world with memoirs of her bus
baud.
RAMON TRIsTANY, the famous Carlist
leader who has just died in Paris. WAS
during his soldier days, so fond OF disci.
pine that his men gave him the name NJ
"the Schoolmsster He was "A years old
when he died. Oaly last year he married
a.irl Of "a.
Rev. DR.. DIX, rector of Trinity
Church, New York, is 50. Heis the best
paid among the city clergy, having an
elegant house and 81 900 month for q
light service. Bishop POTTER, who Is AZ
the head of the New York (EpiscopsN
Diocese, is now rs, and is still in the
exercise of his official duties. He has
been SO years in the ministry, and more
than quarter Of a century Ia his present
office
Mrs. HowE, the head of the Boston
bank fraud, is short, fat, ugly-looking
woman, coarse in speech and loud" in
the matter of dress and jewery. Her
cashier" SUSAN CRANDALL is described
IS being 30 years of age, thin, spare and
exceedingly homely, but "sharp" as steel.
She was formerly employed by Mrs
HOWE as servant N her household,
Mrs. GOULD the assistant cashier, an.
pears TO have been mere employe.
When GARrBALDI arrived in Genoa
the other day, he is said to have looked
more as if he had come to find grave
than to disturb the peace of kingdom.
He is described as having worn, weary
expression, to which the white ponCho
worn over the famous red shirt lent
strangely CHASTITY accessory. Some one
had given him on landing poor little
flower This he held in his right hand
and waved in frequent response to the
plsudits OF ne multitude. He CALAMITY
bore up till he reached his daughters
house, and then, coniessing himself
beaten, he retired to rest, remaining in
seclusion throughout the day.
"A New York letter has this: The
"Memoirs OF Jefferson Davis" are expect.
ed 10 appear next month. For three years
Mr.. DAVIS has been at work on this book.
But for the slowness of his amenuensis
the manuscript would have been ready for
the printer over year ago. Maj. WALT
HALL, al eg-ContedeYate soldier, was at
first engaged to assist Mr. DAVIS but he
proved unequal to the task, and Judge
TENNEY, editor of the Annual Cyclope.
dis," was sent TO Mississippi to complete
the work so long since begun. The effect
OF this change was felt at once. The first
volume was soon made ready and dis.
patched North, and the second will be in
the printers hands either the last of this
month or the first Of next.
One OF SARA BERNHARDT's enthusi-
astlc admirers cables the following in
reference TO her departure from Havre:
This morning, at 8 o'clock, she was on
board the steamer Amerigue, and became
the center of small but devoted court
GA going below, SARA was agreeably sur
prlsed TO find that her cabin had been
tastetully fitted up for her reception. In
place of the usual ugly berth, she found
dainty bed, pretty, and hing with dark
red curtains and lace The floor is cover.
ed with soft, luxurious rugs, with bo-
qaet OF blush roses upon the mantle
piece. Al halfpast seven, the good steam
ship Amerique weighed anchor. The last
we saw of it as it passed through the
dock gate was SARA, conspicuous by her
amber colored scarf and sealskin dress,
waving handkerchief to US, and saving
"Au Ievoir."
The house OF PELEG BARKER. in
Pembroke, Mass, Is supposed to be the
Oldest in The United ates. Ia the spring
o! 1929, Mr.. BARKEB's great qreat.grest
grandfather and FREDERICK DAVIS built