Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Mile. Aimee, the French opera homie
artist, will not appear in this country
this year. -Va "
Only twenty-five people turned out t.
hear Cadet Whitaker lecture in BalG.
more.
Congressman Curtin, o Pennsylva-
mia, the War Governor, is not in poor
health, as has been reported.
1t is announced in the London iour.
nails that Nine. Adelipa Patti will
sail for this country on the 30th of
October.
The Oldest Methodist minister of Wis.
consin is dead the Rev. DR.. Alfred
Burnscn, who died at Prairie du CHEN
last week, aged 80.
Bishop Foss, Of Minnesota, has so
far recovered his health that few DAYS
ago he dedicated new Methodist
Episcopal Church st Minneapolis.
Mrs. Betsey Young, OF Georgia, is
20 years old, and has never taken
dose of medicine, and has never seen
a railroad.
Three weeks hence the cadets at
West Point will break camp and re.
turn to barracks.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage is having a
pretty Summer cottage built at BAY
Shore, l.. l.
The Duchess of Cambridge, the wife
OF cousin of Queen Victoria lately
gave a small dinner party to celebrate
her o5th birthday.
The New York Freen,aa's .Jou7a,
| (Roman Catholic) denies the statement
that the Pope is about to make the Arch
bishop Of Chicago Cardinal.
A skillful oculist who examined Lien.
tenant Danenhower's eyes says that
one will entirely recover, and he thinks
the other will not be entirely lost.
Resorts along the Hudson river are
not as well patronized this season as
usual, and business has been the poorest
In the recollection CT the Oldest hack
| driver.
The Baroness Burdett. Coutts reioices
in the possession of the smallest pony
in the world. 1t is years old thirteen
inches high, and is of course named
Jumbo"
The Prince Of Wales is said to be the
only married man ofhis age in London
society who habltually goes to balls and
dances. Few Englishmen are regular
bal-goers after 50.
In his sermon last Sunday the Rev.
DR.. Deems, of New York, regretfully
exclaimed: Everyone should try to be
beautiful. If could I'd be handsome
man; l hope | shall bea handsome
angel
Denying n report that the Queen
usually sits up reading dispatches and
writing TIL one i'll the morning, resum-
ing again at &. m. her routine of the
days duties, London Truth says "The
Queen invariably transacts her public
business between breakfast and lunch
con, and hardly once in a month does
Her Majesty concern herself with what
Lord Beaconstield termed affairs at
any other time"
Mile. Bertha Rothschild, daughter OF
Baron Meyer Karl, of Frankfort Ger
many, 1t Is reported, is about to abiure
her religion and marry a Catholic
prince, Alexander Berthier, son of the
Duke of Wagram by his marriage with
Zenaide Clary, and thus the grand
nephew of Bernadotte. The groom's
sister married Prince Joachim Murat,
and the bride is the Duchess of Gram
ont. She brings her husband $4,000
year and 100000 "expectations."
THE Mining Exposition which open
ed in Denver on the LIST of August, will
no doubt attract thither large num-
Der OF visitors from all sections OF
the Union. Denver is one of the chief
ccnters of the great gold and silver
mining regions of the American con-
tinent, and the production of the pre-
cious metals has now become so great
that those interests and others closely
related to them are entitled to a spe-
cial exhibition of the kind now in
progress at the bright and thriving
capital of Colorado
By an arrangement with the widow
of William Euston, the city of Charles.
ton, 5. c., has come into possession of
a portion of 100000 left by him to
found refuge for aged poor people.
Eight acres of ground have been pur-
chased on which to erect neat cottages.
The women of Summit, N. j., have
formed themselves into an association
for the purpose of doing what they can
to add to the beauty and attractiveness
of their village. Ofcourse the apathy
and Indifference of the men made this
step necessary. Many Improvements
have already been accomplished under
this management, and others are pro-
jected.
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