Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-02-05
PERSONAL.
Mrs HAYES weighs IT'S pounds.

Mrs HAYES weighs 10 pOunue.
BEAcoysF1ELD says "Whel I want
to read novel write ore"
By The sale of Utah silver mine, re-
Gently, Senator Spencer realiz ed $780,
900.
Mr.. J. H. SWIFT of New York city
has given $4,000 to the Church Home
in Geneva.
WILLIAM CLARK, a Cleveland lawyer,
has been ordained minister of the Uni
versalist Church.
Mrs. PICKERING, wife of the late DR..
Charles Pickering, has given his large,
rare and curious library to Harvard.
Ex-Governor BAGLEY of Michigan
has just celebrated his silver wedding in
pleasing manner. He distributed
$500 in silver coin among five charitable
institutions.
Miss BLANCHE DAVENPORT says there
we're two hundred and twenty five Amer
lean girls studying singing in Milan when
she was there, and that of this number
only six have been heard OF since.
WHEN the Princess Louise was first
introduced to the Ladies Campbell, sis
tiers of the marquis of Lorne, one Of
them asked: "Shall we call you Louise?"
Her royal highness made no answer.
PRINCE OSCAR of Sweden is staying
with the Prince of Waldeck, and it is be-
lieved he intends to marry the princes
! fourth daughter, Princess Helen of Wal
deck. The lady is 10 years old, and is
| the sister Of Queen Emma of Holland.
! GEN. JACKsoN's wife was about as
handsome as bag of straw run over in
! the middleAby truck, and while he used
| to admit this, he claimed as an Offset
that she never broke dish or bothered
him for Il clothes-line -DetroH Free
Press.
! NJ. SAY, who recently started for .
voyage around the world with his family
in the yacht Henrietta. but was driven
into the Chesapeake by bad weather, has
concluded his craft is too small, and has
ordered from Baltimore builder a ship
to cost 100000
| THE illness of Senator Lamar brings
out the fact that, while he was yet child
in arms, his father, then on the bench Of
Georgia, and greatly admired for his in
telectual aud social worth, committed
suicide. No satisfactory reason was ever
assigned for the act.
| Hon. EUGENE HALE will probably be
compelled to move permanently from his
home in Maine, and take up his abode in
the state OF Michigan. The great estate
left by his late father-in-law, Senator
Chandler, requires constant attention,
and Mr.. Hale will be forced to devote MI
his time to superinted it.
EDWIN ARNOLD, author Of "The Light
of Asia" is seriously ILL., He has been
advised to stop work and go to Egypt for
the winter. His trouble is the growth
of large cystoid tumor on the forehead
the same affection which caused
the death of John Stuart Mill.
The history of the women who have
been connected with the sovereigns of
France is peculiar in that it exhibits a
number of notable instances where great
splendor has been followed by deep hui
initiation grief and suffering-especially
noteworthy being the names of Marie
Antoinette, Josephine and Eugene.
/ A FRUIT tree without root is shown
in the ward of William Colnon in Stock
ton, Cal When the gardener took hold
hold of the tree, few days ago, a slight
shake brought it down, though it was
growing luxuriantly. Instead of roots
there was globular shaped growth,
about one foot in diameter, gnarled like
knot
DR.. OLIVER HoFF, of San Francisco,
who died recently, directed IN his will
that q monument not to exceed 81, 900 in
cost, should be placed over his grave,
and forbade any society of which he was
a member, or any friends, to pass reso-
lutions of coincidence over his decease,
or communicate the fact to his friends In
the east.
THE Princess Amazulu, the Zulu Lady
who is Mt present visiting London, is o
bright and volatile person about twenty
four years old. She is graceful, but not
beautiful, has fine flow OF language,
and quick show of humor, sings well,
and loves to dance. She is accompanied
by suite of two Zulu ladies and four
male attendants.
THE Judge of probate in England, Sir
J. Hammer, had to decide, the other day,
as to the distribution of the property of
whilom chimney sweeper's boy, who
died worth .e25, 900; aud during the
same week the Judge in the court of
bankruptcy had to decide the case of an
! individual whose debts were f119,0OO
and his total assets Go los Cd.
WHEN President Porter recently sat
/ down to dinner with the other members
of the Yale faculty aud their guests, he
was astonished to learn that the dlnner
was attached by the sheriff. A shrewd
| Boston merchant had taken opportunity
/ to force New Haven hotel-keeper, TO