Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-18
Personal.

GILBERT STEWART painted portraits
for money when he was but ID years old.
Mr.. WILLIAM H. Vanderbilt will
soon receive from Dresden set of china,
made to order, of over four hundred
pieces.
A LAWYER aged 81 years is practicing
at Mobile, Hon. John A. Cuthbert, "A
soldier of 1912, and congressman from
Georgia in 1920.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE continues to man
age the publications of her late husband
She is said to be beautiful, and an
original thinker.
PARsoN HAYDEN has been INDICATED
again. Two witnesses in his trial have
named their infant son and daughter
Herbert Hayden and Rosa Hayden.
Angus MCDONALD, of Acton, Canada,
who is 104 years old, stood near the
Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo, when
he said, "Oh, that Butcher or night
would come.
JOIN B. COUCH, the temperance lee
turer, is bookbinder by trade He is a
man of moods, very sensitive and mod
est; either very happy, full of fun, or
Respondent and sad.
Mr.. John MICHAEL WILLIAMS, one of
the great German copper smelters, has
Just died, leaving an estate Of some $780,
0O0,000 and as none of the land is en-
tailed there is a good deal of curiosity as
to the disposal of the property.
NJ. GAMBETTA, who loves cigar as
much as General Grant himself, and who
is generally seen with one in his mouth,
is ordered by his physicians to give up
smoking altogether, unless he wishes to
impair seriously his splendid voice.
JOHN Cox, the old Pennsylvania Adolf
ZIONIST, whose golden wedding was cele-
brated III verse by Whittier and Bayard
Taylor, has just died at the age of "a, at
Longwood, near Kennel Square. His
house in the times before the war is said
to have sheltered as many as twenty es-
Gaping slaves IN single night.
PRINCE LoBANoFF, the new Russian
ambassador, who has just reached Lon
don, and whose style of living is of bar
barrie splendor, is not as rich as he was
some few years since, but is still mag
niticient. The horse he rides is shod
with silver; but this is not vulgar display,
but from a conviction that silver is the
best metal for the purpose.
Mrs. MARY J. HOLMES is lady whose
books have many readers. They will no
doubt be pleased to know that she lis tall
and slender, has head crowned with
wealth of dark brown hair, clearly-cut
features, and large, expresslble gray eyes.
She is writing a novel, after the compile
ton of which. in May, she Will sail for
Europe She says, smilingly, that she
has written very few short stories, as she
q finds it hard to bite them off "
The Emperor of Austria has lately
been the recipient OF a unique present.
1t consists of suit of clothes made from
the wool Of an alpaca sheep that eleven
hours previous to their delivery was still
alive. The animal, a superb specimen
of It's kind, was slain Mt Gil A. NJ. Four
hours and thirty-three minutes were en-
ployed in reducing the wool to cloth. In
two hours and twenty-five minutes the
latter WAC ready for the tailor. who EN-
ployed the remaining four hours in MAX
ing the suit
How quickly notabilities in the coun-
try and abroad pass from public view
Marshal MacMahon, eX-president of
France, recently took a seat among the
crowd in the French senate IN order to
listen to a speech, and IT was some time
before any one recognized him and offer
ed him Il reserved place. He declined.
He passes bis time in writing his me-
moirs, to be published after his death,
and is taking that bodily exercise which
keeps him hale and hearty nj the age Of
seventy-twC.
Vi. JONI LEMoINNE, the distinguished
French journalist, who has Just been
elected to the senate Of his country, is
sixty-four years old, but still youthful of
aspect. His head is massive. his features
are decided and somewhat roughly cut,
his eyes brilliant, quick and round Nj.
Lemoinne writes his articles without
break or revision, and sends them
straight to the printing Office. He never
reads the proofs. He is man very
popular in society, having a half dozen
invitations to dine every day
KING WILLIAM III. of Holland is now
sixty-tbree years old, and is in the thir-
ty-irst year of his reign. Prince Alex
ander, the only son Of the King now liv-
ing, il in his twenty-ninth year. He has
recently, both in newspapers and pam
phlets, admitted his inability to take part
in any affairs of state, aud serious APP
prehensions are entertained In Holland
that the Orange Nassau dynasty will die
ont Prince Frederick OF Netherlands.
uncle to the king, attains his eighty
third birthday. next week. and his high
ness only daughter is married To the