Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-04
Personalities.

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winter.
Mr., j. w, DAvIsos, formerly musical
critic of the London Times, has deter.
mined to write the recoilections Of his
life
MIR. Fl Fl. WARNER, Of Rochester, has
presented Professor LEWIS SWIFT, of that
city, with check for $500 for the discov.
cry of the DeT comet. This gift was made
IN accordance with promise given some
time ago.
--"Gsil Hamilton" has lost the respect
OF sensible and honest people by writing
letters In defence of the fraudulent La
dies Deposit Bank" Of Boston, Of whose
character she was evidently ignorant,
simply going ii blind"
DIR. TANNER the faster, has made ar
rangements with a DR.. RICHARDSON, of
London, to fast there. He received a
cablegram yesterday from England com
pleting arrangements for q lecture tour
there. He will sail from New York in a
few weeks.
Hon. ANDREW d. WHITE, American
NJ i'll is,er to Germany, is at work upon q
lite of THOMAS JEFFERSON, which, it is
thought, will be ready tor publication
early during the coming year. The work
Is the first Of series upon American
statesmen.
Besides the Shakespereen parts
which MIR. BOOTH will represent during
his London engagement, he will appear
as Sir Giles Oyerreach, Sir Edward Nor
timer, Richelieu, Bertuccio, Claude Mel
nolte, Ruy Bias, Don Caesar de Bazan
and the Stranger
Senator BLAINE has reached his
home in Augusta after an arduous open.
air campaign in the West. His enforced
idleness q. this exciting and cheering
stage Of the campaign Is owing to severe
hoarseness, but 1t is not true, as has been
stated, that he is other wise In poor health.
The latest hobby of the Baroness
Burdett. Coutts, whose intended marriage
is becoming lees OF a sensation, Is her az.
and exhibitor OF the British Goa, Society,
which aims to induce every British work
man to own his own goat.
The King OF Denmark uses on state
occasions a breed OF pure white horses,
which are national property. They are
descended from q white stallion and
RI IL
TOPPER ". by the Dey of Algiers. The
breed has been raised ia royal establish.
ment near Copenhagen for nearly two
hundred years.
Last week." says the Vienna CORE
spondent of the London Globe, "Miss
KELLOGG WAS singing the part OF Philine
in M ignon,' where, in the second act, she
has to 0, en- several billets One OF these
missives proved to be an eloquent letter
of eight pages from Marquis who has
long been in love with her, in which he
once more pressed his suit in burning
accents This pretty ruse was crowned
with success, and now II is an open secret
that the great American artist has given
her hand and heart to the lover who has
wooed her ever since the early spring.
MIR, JAMES RUssELL LOWELL recently
told some London workingmen that he
leaned Italian entirely because of his in
terest in Dante; and if they wished to
learn language, he would advise them
to take some great book. They would
only need a dictionary; they would not
need grammar. His own experience
was that pine out Of ten persons learned
language better in this way than by learn
ing the grammar. They we're saved On
infinite deal of drudgery and an infinite
deal of time often spent on grammar to no
purpose. If they wished TO understand
great master, they would soon fiud outthe
distinction between his Indicative and
subjective, and they would be led to it
ia an easier and m ore agreeable way than
by the study of grammar
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THE Director OF Posts, at Hamburg,