Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13
IN A NUTSHELL.


A sunfsh weighing ton was recent
" captured at Greenock. Scotland.
Six hundred thousand more women
in England than men. Come west,
young women.
Kalloch has withdrawn from his
church and the San Francisco Baptists
are joyful beyond expression.
Cleveland liverymen took advantage
of circumstances to double and even
treble the charges for carriages.
The Springfield Republican looks up
on the tolling of bells and firing of can
non as "relic of barbarism."
Tom Savers Jr., son of Tom Savers.
the pugilist, has achieved considerable
fame in England as fine baritone.
Inv case Professor Bells induction
balance can be used to find lost UNI
brellas, it willno have been invented
in vain.
At at recent wedding in. GAINESVILLE,
Ga, the groom was 10 and the bride
had just celebrated her fortieth birth
day.
Partisan swells wear banged hair.
They look even more idiotic than fe-
males with the same frontal distigura-
ton.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania,
is suffering from serious affection of
the eyes.
Ex-Governor John c. Brown, of Ten
nessee, is about to take up his residence
in st. Louis.
President Hinsdale, of Hiram col
lege. Ohio, will write biography of the
late President Garfield.
Hi, there keep off the grass" was
what policeman said to ex-President
Hayes at Cleveland, the other day.
List has been i'll, but has now re-
covered and is going to Rome to cele-
brate his 10th birthday on the 22d of
this month.
Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender,
is going to engage in the sports of
England. He is about to buy num-
Der of race-horses.
Edwin Booth appeared for the first
time since his return from Europe,
last Monday evening, at Booths Thea
ter, New York, as Richelieu.
DR.. Frederick Zelle, of San Francisco,
charged the estate of the late James
Lick, $4,000 for one years medical
services.
JayStone, Secretary Lincoln's private
secretary was married at Washington,
to Miss Ida Belle Barber, of that city.
M. w. Alwyn, the Oldest pay clerk
in the United States navy, died in
Brooklyn, Saturday. He had been in
the service fifty years.
4. G. Booth, of Philadelphia is erect
ing a villa on the bluff at Yorktown
at a cost of SO 900, f the use of Presi-
dent Arthur at the coming Centen-
NAL.
James +. Murdoch, the actor and
reader, will give series of Shakspear-
ear lectures and readings this winter, in
Cincinnati-so says the Times-Star of
that city.
Mr.. Tilden's new double house in
Gramercv Park, New York city, will
probably not be finished before next
spring. 1t will be one of the finest
residences in New York.
English papers state that Nine.
Pauline Lucca has positively refused
to leave her native country for an en-
gagement in America, and will take the
position Of prima donna of the Vienna
opera house in the place of Miss Min
ME Hauk.
Major General Sir Henry Havelock-
Allen, son of the British army hero of
the Sepoy war in India, and many
years member of parliament for
Sunderland, is reported deranged from
the effects of former snnstroke.
Jean Ingelow, the English poetess,
spends much of her time in visiting
the poor of London, and gives dinner
three times week to discharged in
vail DIS from the hospitals, and to others
Of the sick and disabled in want
The Maverick church, in East Bos-
ton, with the aid of Mr.. Kimball, who
is known as the "church-debt raiser"
made raise of $25, 800 last Sunday.
Rev. j. H. Barrows, the late pastor,
subscribed $500 in behalf OF his
church in Chicago
A Virginian VINO was sentenced to
the penitentiary few days ago for
DEMONSTRATING, at one time paid taxes
on 100000.
An old man in Crittendon County,
KY, who cursed God because there was
no rain, was stricken perfectly dumb
and has not spoken word since
A man who is compelled tolwear a
false protocols had it stolen one day
The thief was caught, and on being
brouaht before the Judge inquired bit
terly if man was to blame Tor having
a hooked nose Cincinnati Saturday
Night.
1t really looks as if the young ones
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