Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-21

( eyes duu ucIIChte ichiuIes, toSciucI Win
manner full of high-bred distinction,
causing her to be greatly admired.
theodore THOMAS tells q reporter
in Cincinnati that he shall conduct con
certs IN that city, Boston and New York
this season. II hope" be SAYS, ITO make
New York my home for lite In Europe
they applaud performances which would
be considered very ordinary here. | do
not want to say much about il, because it
would be uubecomiog in me, and the re.
mark would be earned back there and
wound somebody. But you take my word
for it, they never heard such chorus sing
ing as was done here last Nav"
The largest church in the world is ST.
Peters At Rome, which will hold 81 900
people ST. Psul's, al London, will hold So.
600; Milan Cathedral 1900; St. Petronis,
at Bologna, $4,000; Florence Cathedral,
"a 300; Antwerp Cathedral, $4,000; S..
Sophis's, Coustsntiuople, $4,000; ST John,
Lsieran, % 900; Notre Dame, at Paris,
% 600; Pisa Cathedral, 13000 81. Ste
phen's, at Vienna, - 400; St. Dominic's,
at Bologna, 1900; st. Peters, at Bo
logns, 4 500; ST. Marks, Venice, 900 ;
Surgeons Tabernacle, 1000; Talmage's
Tabernacle, at Brooklyn, 1000; Beecher's
Church, 5000.
The abdication of King PoMARE, of
Tahiti, and the annexation OF his Polyne
sian island to France, is one Of the topics
OF the day in Paris. King PoMARE does
not speak four words in twenty -four
hours. He usually passes his time in a
black dress coat, hat on his head, and
his feet bare lying at full length Oh his
gilded Paris sofa. During this time his
women fan him by turns with large green
leaves, and when evening comes, he plays
cards, cheating sbominably all the time.
He is very supeIstitious, and sees spirits
everywhere, and, being constantly haunt
ed by the idea of death, he has his tomb
built on rock overlooking the sea.
Above it are planted trees, and when the
King is more possessed by sadness than
usual, he re,ires to his place and drinks
rum to his hearts content.
just eighty years ago, few days since
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, was
born. He graduated at Harvard in 1917,
and at 20 made the acquaintance OF
GOETHE in Germany and knew Hum
BoLDT, VAN HAGEN, Won ENsE MANz0NI,
BUSsEN and NIEBHUR His first volume
of the History of the United States sp.
peared in 1884 He was Secretary OF the
Navy under POLK and has been Minister
to England and Russia. His History of
the Formation of the Constitution OF the
United States, forming history of the
United States from the treaty Of peace
with Great Britain to the Inauguration OF
WASHINGTON as President, is soon to be
published by the APPLEToNs, and this
announcement was made on the day he
was so years of age. The grand old man
is still hale an comparatively vigorous.
The Baroness BURDETT. Courts and
Mr.. AsHMEAD BARTLETT were the OBJ
served of every body at the first appear
ance of Mr.. IRVING in THE COrsicGn
Brother" A so-caled authority" the
Whitehall Rerttio, says the date OF the
marriage is yet undetermined, and offers
the following rebuke: 81 have read with
shame and regret in English and Ameri-
can papers articles and paragraphs which
do not hesitate to stigmatize as a dis
grace TO their authors. In matter like
this, where the principal parsonage is the
most benevolent and the most justly pOpu-
lar gentlewoman of our time, it was sure
" TO have been reasonably expected that
no newspaper would so far exceed its
function as to comment in hostile spirit
on an event purely domestic in its char
acter, albeit deeply interesting TO the ma
ton st large. The mere fact that the
Baroness has lsvlshed thousands on the
poverty stricken at home and abroad
should have sufliced to exempt her from
ill-nstured criticism. Her interests are so
varied and extensive that q sboal OF diff
culties presented themselves from the first,
and still encompass her"
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ACCOUNTS just received from hulCis
speak of great march taken in early