Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-03-04
IN A NUTSHELL.
General Garfield takes horseback ex
arcise for health and recreation

= writer IN the AttdRttc Monthly Sayk
that Mr.. John Gilbert is the most ac-
compiished actor of old mems parts on
the American stage"
General Hawley, of Connecticut. is
one Of the least wealthy Of the new
United States Senators. He hasn't
even one million, poor fellow, He
will know better than to become a
Journalist next time.
All literary Americans of any prom
lnence in Europe, have received invi-
tations to be present at the birthday
fete of Victor Hugo, on the 9th Of
February
General Grant opened fair for the
benefit of the Fourteenth Regiment
Brooklyn, last evening, and later was
given reception by the Kings County
Republican Club.
Mr.. Merritt's Golden Rule says that
men will live religiously as soon as they
are made to believe that religion is the
best thing. This is charitable view
to take of them.
| Very eligible windows from which to
view the inaugural procession in Wash
ington command as high as so each.
It is now stated that Mr. ]. S. Brown
will be private secretary to President
| Garfield, and Mr.. G.. Y. Rose executive
clerk.
Durango, the name OF the new rail
road town IN the coal fields Of southern
Colorado, signifies in the Spanish Ian
guage, lasting
Senator-elect Fair, of Nevada. is en-
route to Concord, y. H., to visit his
children at school there and thence goes
to Washington.
1t is said that Senator Ingalls,. Of
Kansas, writes the best poetry and is
the handsomest man of all the United
States senators.
The Bernhardt will appear two even
ings at St. Joseph, Mo-, $4,000 cash
having been deposited with the man
agement to insure them against any
loss.
The Rev. DR.. Storrs, of Brooklyn, is
about to give course Of lectures on
the divine origin of Christianity before
the Lowell Mass. institute.
The Canadian ladies are striving to
get 100000 signatures to their address
to be presented to Queen Victoria on
her birthday, and attesting their con
tinued loyalty.
Taglioni, the famous ballet-dancer, is
living in London, giving lessons III
dancing, and has had the children Of
the Prince Of Wales rs her pupils.
Fanny Ellsler is living in Austria
Answer to "Civis = The pronun-
citation of the name of Salyini, the
great Italian tragedian, now in Chicago,
is Sal-ve-nee. In Italian the letter is
almost invariably pronounced like G.
The New York Herald declares that
Wilbur /. Story, of the Chicago Times,
is zone of the handsomest men in the
west" You should have told him SO
fifty or hundred years ago before it
was too late
John L. Raymond, the actor, who is
divorced from his wife, known to Tie
play-bills as Marie Gordon, will marry
some time III April Miss Courtney
Barnes, i member Of his company,
who is 4 daughter of Rose Eytinge.
Lord William Pitt Iennox, 4 Scottish
nobleman, and brother Of the Duke of
Richmond is dead. He was il his
SD year
Salvini, the famous Italian tragedian,
who begins an engagement at McNick-
er's Theater, Chicago, Ill, evening, is
u years old, having been born at Milan
on New Years Day, 1880.
King halakaua was the chief guest
at i bali given at the Palace Hotel
San Francisco, the other evening. His
Majesty appeared III an ordinary black
dress suit, and opened the ball by dane
ing aquadrille.
Miss Doble, Il young girl of 26 who
has contributed sketches Of New lea
land scenery to the London Graphite,
was lately murdered by native while
on solitary sketching excursion. The
murderer confessed his crime.
The Albany Eceni,3g Journal thinks
Clarence A. Seward. of New York city.
4 nephew of the late William II. Sew
ard, will be nominated Justice of the
United States supreme court on the re-
tirement Of Justice Ward Hunt.
NJ Menier, of France and Nicarau-
qua, the greatest merchant and manu-
faeturer Of chocolate III the world.
who represented the department Of the
Seine and Marine in the French cham
Der Of deputies, died on the 18th inst.
Archbishop Laing, of Santa Fe, n.
NJ, IS fortunate ecclesiastic. He
owns a gold mine, recently discovered,
which is mentioned rs giving 81 900 in
gold from two bucketfuls of ore. A
nugget was found in it worth $1,000.
Ex-Governor Seymour is spending his
time this severe weather at the resi-
dence of his sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conk-
ling, III Utica, n y. He is convalescing
slowly, but will not be IN
terviewed on any subject until lie
fully RECEIVERS his health.
The friends of Mrs. Elizabeth Tread
well Weston, of Peterboro, n. H., on
Tuesday celebrated her 103d birthday.
She enjoys very good health, and IS
daily about the house, converses and
tells stories Of days gone by with the
greatest interest.
Mrs Prudence Larkin, ofPease Eddy,
n. y, is drifting out of her 10th into
her 10Sth, as quick-eyed and as firm
stepped a. she was fifty years ago. For
| torty-tive years she has placed chair
and plate ut the table at every meal
for her dead husband
a cable dispatch from Edinburgh,
Scotland, gives the details of a great
meeting of Highlanders to protest
against the abolition of the tartan =
The Prince Of Wales, the Duke Of Ed
inburgh, and also the Scotch nobility,
have agreed to petition the queen to
stop the change. The people through
out Scotland are intensely excited over
the proposed change.
It is reported that Baroness Burdett-
Coutts, who recently Joined her name
and fortune with that Of Mr.. Ashmead
Bartlett, intends to make tour of the
United States a cousin Of Mr.. Bart
lett, who resides in Jersey City, says
that the bridal couple will reach New
York in May, but the precise date is
not yet known.
Edward StraurS tho o0p,porar o,,d