Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-15
PERSONAL.

SCRIBNER Il Co. offered Mr.. Ruskin
$40o for short article on the Cathedral
of st. Marks at Venice, and 81 900 to
Browning, the poet. Both refused.
Mr.. w. w. CogooRAN, the liberal
Washington banker, has reached the age
of eighty-one. His health is vigorous,
and he is said to have marvellous men,
Dry.
MILE. Rosa BoNHEUR has Just bought
| for 81 ,00G a magnificent lion from the
Geological gardens at Marseilles, and she
intends to paint its portrait for next
year salon.
| A GRANDDAUGHTER of Eugene Sue,
and the original of one of the characters
of the Wandering Jew, was petitioner
in suit in one of the New York courts
the other day.
| The Prince Napoleon memorial craze
in England has quickly exhausted itself.
The nationa! memorial project is aban-
doned, and the Westminster Abbey
statue is also relinquiAhed.
WILLIAM A. DROWN, who WAS said
to be the largest umbrella manufacturer
in the world, died at Philadelphia on
Saturday night, aged sixty. nine years
His etate was estimated at 81, 100000.
PETER LINDEBGLEIN, of Reading,
Pa, has for forty-three years carried his
diDner-pail with him to his work, and
has had cold dinners during that long
period. He has never worked under
cover, and has not lost day by sickness,
although exposed to all kinds of
weather.
Miss JULIA JACKSON, the sixteen.
year old daughter of Stonewall Jackson,
WAS presented December "a, by ex Con-
federate soldiers in Maryland, with a
handsome silver pitcher, inscribed, "To
General Stonewall Jackson's daughter,
from Confederate soldiers in Maryland,
Christmas, 1879"
JOHN B. COUGH, has family, which
consists of wife and four nieces. He
makes about 500, 900 year, but has saw
ed only about 100000, and has nice
farm near Worcester, Mass. He has a
very large collection of Cruikshank's
caricatures and loves to play tenp pins.
After lecture he is rubbed down like a
prize.fghter.
Ma. GLADSTONE, when speaking,
never refers to printed papers or blue
books, but to half sheets written on one
side, which he has in heap laid on the
top of his hat These papers lie in the
order in which they are to be used, they
can be taken up without bending down,
and read without the attention of the
audience being allowed to wander.
A DEsCENDENT of Christopher Column
bus was present at the king of SPANS
marriage-Don Diego Colombo, a gen.
tleman of the royal chamber. The male
line of the great traveller is extinct, but
three collateral descendants remain, the
above-named, Don Fernando, a deputy
of Porto Rico, and Don Christopher, ad,
miral and governor of the Indies.
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSON was lately
in Raleigh, and gentleman asked him
rather pointedly why the southern army
did not take Washington after the first
battle of Manassas. Rising on his toes
he replied: "There were two reasons
myself and the Potomac river. l had
reached that age that knew an Ameri-
can soldier could not ford river a mile
wide and Is feet deep"
BISHOP SIMPSON is said to be related
to General Grant, whose mother was, be-
fore her marriage to Jesse Grant, Mics
Hannah Simpson of Pleassntville, Penn.
The young Miss Simpson WAS extremely
pretty, it is related, and was greatly ad-
mired by the rustic besus of the sur
rounding country. But it wss not uGtil
she visited Ohio and met there Mr.. Jesse
Grant, that her heart was touched.
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY" says
a Washington correspondent, always
has pleasant word for every body, and
is very generally liked. He is large,
heavy man, with closely cropped gray
whiskers and hair, round, solid head,
ana face which always looks smiling.
He dresses il very simple manner. A
black frock coat with velvet collar, dark
trousers, low collar with 2 email Bit ot
black ribbon to serve as necktie, and a
rather rusty-looking silk hat, make up
his costume.
Causes Of Duels.