Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-01-27
N A NUTSHELL.

The press club-A lead pencil,
The next thing will be valentines.
The Colossus of Roads--Jay Gould,
Terribly cold again in the northwest.
The Mecca of political pilgrims is
Mentor.
The sleighing is tip-top, with occa-
sionally a tip-over.
Absenteeism in the national House of
Congress Is growing evil.
Ex-Governor Jewell, of Connecticut,
has been quite ILL., but is better now.
The New York Sun is publishing II
daily list of congressman who are absent
without leave.
The Carpenter memorial entertain
ment in this city Saturday evening net
ted $500.
Mr.. Peter A. Porter, Of Niagara
Falls, has bought one, sixteenth of Goat
Island for S14,5o0.
People going to Chicago to 8 see
the elephant may now take in the
whale, as Jonah did.
Thomas Carlyle's health is growing
better and he is now able to take carriage
exercise again.
The B9rnhardt kid glove. in its en-
deavor to reach the shoulder, suggests
garterless stocking.
Professor Nordenskjold, the Arctic
explorer, is preparing fresh eXpedl-
ton off the coast of Siberia.
Senator Fair, of Nevada, will be the
next latest man to Davis in the United
States Senate.
Providence, Boston and New Haven
now chat comfortably together over the
new interstate telephone wire.
The Presidents wife gave a reception
at the White House Saturday after
noon She was assisted by Mrs. Evarts.
Charles F., son of Ex-Governor
Washbrun, of Portland, Me-, is a mem
Der of the Legislature of Minnesota.
Senator Wade Hampton has discard
ed his crutches, and appeared III the
Senate with II bran new wooden leg.
The Boston Transcript says it is whis-
pered that Dr. Holland is at work on a
new novel for Sc,ibner'S Monthly,
NJ. Ambrose Thomas, the composer,
has been raised to the rank of Grand
officer in the Legion Of Honor Of Fran
ce.
Baron Adolphe Rothschild, of Nap
: les, has closed out his business and re-
tired 70 Paris with a fortune Of $50, 600
600.
We are piously assured that Miss
Bernhardt is the mother of " only one
chile" that one is a half-orphan
poor thing!
General Garfield sent out 5000 let
ters from Mentor during the last quar-
ter of 1880, nearly all in answer to of
fce-beggars.
1t has been decided to set up the oh
) elisk in Central Park, New York, on
Saturday, next week, the weather per
= hitting.
The Washington star denies that
President Hayes has any intention o.
| visiting Europe at the expiration O
of his term of office.
: General Roger A. Pryor, of New
! York, has been retained as counsel fol
: Ex-Governor Sprague in the forthcom'
! ing divorce suit.
l Mayor Carter H. Harrison takes a
: &" delicious soporiiic" every evening
, regularly. He has got so that he can't
get along without it.
A woman at West Cornwall, Conn.
a failing to induce her husband to move
out of house she did not like. dehber-
ately destroyed it by fire
: Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
| !. l., 70 It,ha will o. l. n n
!, tour of the Southern States to study
I, political sentiment in that region.
5 Sixty-four cities III the United States
= have each a population of more than
+ 10000. Twenty years ago the number
i of such cities was twenty-siX.
Maria Clifford, one of the claimants
to Gravesend and Brighton Beach,
3 Coney Island, died at her residence
: near Rochester, \. Y, recently
! aged 50.
AdviceS from Vienna state that Herr
, kermer Won Anenrode. late Minister
of Commerce. will probable be appoint
+ ed to represent Austria in Washing
! ton.
Mrs. Ramsey, wife of the Secretary
= of War, is recovering from her recent
! illness. and is able to entertain but not
! to go into comany outside her own
house.
4 Mrs.nno Wood, lady whose life
! was part of the history of that sec
ton, died at her home in Hampton,
. Va, last week. She was IS,
, Eggs are more scarce in New York
, than at any time since 1874. Over No.