Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-01-13
IN A NUTSHELL.
Pearls are fashionable now.

Jefferson Davis will visit Europe
next June.
Ice dealers are happy over solid
north.
Hope is the dream of those who are
awake
Daily matinees are now given at one
of the New York theaters.
New York pedestrians on Broadway
revel in 'slush a foot deep"
The boy with new skates and new
top boots is the happiest Christmas lad
i'll the land
Thurlow Weed has read all OF
Dickens books frequently, and is still
at them.
Major Alfred Litt.U, well-known
musician and composer, of Webster,
\. H., is dead
Merchants say that more expensive
gifts have been purchased this year
than ever before.
The Merry Circle club, of Rome, Ga,
has for its motto: "The next best thing
to religion is fun"
The melancholy days are come in
which it behooves all good citizens to
swear off.
The Duke of Aosta, once King of
Spain, now lives in Turin, and is ii
widower with three little sons.
The fashionable bonnet is small, fits
snugly to the head, and is of black
satin studded with steel.
Mrs. Sherman, the wife of the general
is i'll, and will probably not perform
any social duties this winter.
Jay Gould and Mr.. Haverly, the
theatrical manager, are said to some
what resemble each other
Jay Gould controls almost 10000
miles of railroad, not to mention tele-
graph wires and other things.
On Friday night there was desper-
ate struggle for the scepter between
80 and 'Sl-and 81 won.
Ada Cavendish is seriously i'll with
pneumonia, and her company has been
dlsbanded III consequence.
The cable announces the death of
Gaillardeui the French historian, and
Macchi, the Italian rhetorician.
The Chandler House in Washington
is being prepared for the reception Of
Mr.. Eugene Hale and his family.
The Fourth of July will fall ON
Monday this year, and next Christmas
and New Years will fall on Sunday.
Upholsters used to depend upon the
carpet-makers for styles, but now the
upholsters dictate to the carpet makers.
A. 5. Logan, lineal descendant Of
the famous Indian chief, has been APP
pointed to q position in the interior
department.
United States Senator Xirkwood, of
Iowa, visited Mentor lately and
spent Il few hours as the guest of Gen
eral Garfield.
OF a misery man somebody wrote:
Ills head gave way, bot his hand new
cr did His brain softened, but his
heart couldn't"
When a married woman buys pug
dog for n low price she gets bargain
and her husband gets something to
boot
Hayerly's Mastodon Ministries have
reappcared at Her Maiestys Theater,
London, after successful tour in other
parts of Great Britain.
Nanderbilt's gift of 200 shares Of
Lake Shore to each of his daugh-
tiers was neat thing as a Christmas
present, wasn't it?
Mrs Jessie Fremont has organized
classes in history among the grown up
sons and daughters Of poor settlers in
Arizona.
Mrs. Eleanor Littlejohn, mother Of the
Bishop of Long Island, died New
Years morning, Mt the age, of 81, at
Allegan, Mich.
Samuel Calender, one of the Oldest
citizens of Buffalo, has Just died ut the
age Of 81 years He was born in Bos-
ton, April 10, 1900.
Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander, the |
actress, has returned from Germany,
where she has left one of her adopted |
sons for dramatic study.
Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago, and |
Mr.. Brewster, of Philadelphia, are to
ncta A. counsel for Cadet Whitaker in
his coming court-martial.
Look upwards in the city and see the
network of wires Then you Will I'M
derstand why it is natural that there
should be so many rumors i'll the air.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, has
/ signed contract to sing in Paris, after
! her Russian engagement, for twenty
nights-the salary 70 be 10000 francs.
Samuel Tilden without the middle
/ initial j. was arrested for drunkenness
] IN NnM York the nthnr ninht This