Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-02-26
PERSONAL.

each d1nner costs the snug sum OF 81, 4UU.
CLAY RICE, an old hunter of Kentucky,
with his son and another comrade, went
to the swamps back of New Madrid, IL
Missouri, and in four days killed ninety
three deer.
ANsoN D. STEPHENSON, a clerk in Bos
ton, on several occasions befnended
young lady who has just died leaving to
Stephenson property valued at S5o,Oo
WILLIAM W. AsroR, who has q rent
role of 10000 houses IN New York city,
and an income OF SSO0,OOO ycar, ls the
smallest man in the New York senate.
He shows a studious devotion to bust
ness.
Mr.. FRoUDE to the members of the
Edinburgh Philosophical Institution:
ave have just been killing about 20, Oo0
people in South Africa, people who had
done us no harm. We only feared that
perhaps they might do us harm.
A SINGULAR marriage took place in
Buncomb county, North Carolina, Sun
day. Mr.. Adolph Sweetman, one
legged man, was married to Miss Estelle
Reed, one-legged woman. The novelty
of the scene, both being on crutches, at
tracted crowd to the church.
GOVERNOR ROBERTS, of Texas, is over
70 years old, but is lively for his age A
few evenings since he attended leap
year party On homespun), and danced
with seven young ladies'. This so far
Modified him that next morning, on
being applied to, he committed two death
sentences.
GEORGE MCDONALD, the novelist, is
fifty-years old, and he was educated at
the university of Aberdeen. He parts
his hair in the middle aud wears a very
long, full beard, Notwithstanding which
he looks q title soft; or, as one of his
Scottish countrymen would say, he is
poorly NEW.
QUEEN VICTORIA is the owner of a
silver-gilt casket in which are lookets
containing locks of hair of thirteen Off
GERS who fell at Isandula. Each locket
is engraved with an I" In Memoriam and
the name of the officer, together with the
date of his death. The souvenir was
ordered by the queen.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is only 81 years old
and Possesses the true Yankee thrift.
From the fees gathered together in his
extensive law practice he has saved, over
and above the expenses OF generous
living, between 100000 and $780,
He is q great reader of books, of which
he has a fine collection. He has also n
fine gallery of pictures. He is sociable
with a chosen few.
Mrs J. w. MAcKEY is probably the
best living example of the vulgar
paryenu. Her latest exhibition OF her
self is the hiring of celebrated Partisan
modiste to work only for her, IN order
that there may be no duplicates of her
fashions and styles. She has the reputa-
ton of being the most richly, though not
the most tastefully dressed woman III
Europe.
JAMES KNOX Polk, namesake and
granddaughter of President Polk, was re-
Gently married in Nashville, Tenn, and
the president widow, although too feeble
to attend the evening reception, visited
him and his bride in the afternoon.
When the president died. it is said, he
left his entire estate to his widow, at her
death to go to the most worthy person
bearing the Polk name; the state of Ten
nessee holding it in trust for the inner
itor, and having to decide whom it
shall be-
4 GRANDSON and namesake of John G.
Calhoun, the statesman, is keeping
saloon in ST. Louis. He tends his own
bar. brother of his has law Office
opposite to Ben Hills Office in Atlanta,
Ga The st. Louis saloon-keeper has a
watch which belonged to the great
statesman. II is of the old-fashioned,
open-iaced kind, in gold cases made in
Liverpool and weighing six ounces. On
one side Of the cases is an engraving OF
doS chasing ~ nit, and on the inside
are the words, "JLhn G. Calhoun, born
Is. CD Match Is. 1882 Died, Wash
ngton City, d. c., March 81, 1850"
The original name of Lord Beacons-
held's family was Lara, which was
changed to D'Israeh on the migration OF
his ANCESTORS to Venice. Lord Beacons-
held sat home" is greatly beloved by
his lntfmates and his retamers, for few
men are so, little given to finding fault as
those who dispise human nature too
much ever to quarrel with it. As host
be Is amiable, but not companionable.
lie seldom joins in conversation, but sits
nursing his own thoughts, and If adj
dressed answers with some mystic truls1n.
MERIT CAsTLEmAN, a colored resident
OF indianapolis, Ind, has sued drug
glst Of that city for $4,000 damages,
alleging that his daughter, fifteen years
OF age, was alling. and he went to the
druggist, described her symptoms, and
was told that it was nothing serious, and