Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-02-24
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hopes 'to be ccntinued"-ia the next
world.
Gen. Banks says the United States
and Russia will eventually be the great
powers.
Patti is convalescing, and will sing
Saturday and Monday evenings at Gin
cinnati, provided she has no relapse.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the
only surviving editor of the Dial, pub
lished some forty years ago.
Belle Boyd, the confederate CORE
spondent, spy, and blockade runner,
lives now IN Corsicana, Texas, and fire.
quently lectures.
1t is said that Kathi Schratt new
German actress, possesses in many re-
spects the traits of both Clara Morris
and Mary Anderson.
Ex-Vice Prest. Wheeler mas given up
his proposed visit to the Pacific coast,
and will return to Malone, n. ", next
month from Florida.
Thomas McElrath, business man.
sger of tie New York Tribune during
Greeley's regime, celebrated his golden
wedding Thursday night.
"Money is active" Fogg read in his
newspaper. That's So" he said; cts
active enough to keep out of my
reach"
A benefcent man: "Half of those
smiles are mine," said dentist who
looked at an audience from his box
They are finding OK horns at depth
of twenty-five feet below the surface in
Kansas, and wouldn't be bit surprised
to discover horse shoes in the tops of
| the trees.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips, who was for
some time confined to his house with
severe attack of lumbago, has so far
recovered that he is able to be out of
doors.
Clarence Barton, the Washington
editor who figured in the Soteldo affair,
is nephew of Barton Key, whom Gen.
Sickles killed many years ago.
President Arthur was one of the
guests at Justice Fields dinner in
| Washington. He took out Mrs. Field,
and sat at her right hand, British Min
lister occupying the seat at her left.
The new paymaster general, VIM. B.
Rochester, will be the youngest man
wearing brigadier generals star in
any of the staff departments of the
army.
Senator Pendleton and Hon. E. B.
Washburne have been selected as the
orators at the La Sale bicentennial Gel
| ebration, which will be held in New Or
leans April 8.
Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic, lectured at
Fort Wayne, Ind A number of young
would-be aesthetics attended, attired in
knee-breeches and carrying a lily or
sunhower in their hands.
Three students of Williston Seminary
at Easthampton, Mass have been sus.
pended for hazing. The two upper
classes refuse to attend recitations till
the suspended students are reinstated.
The faculty are firm.
The elections of Oliver Wendell
Holmes as professor OF law, and oil
Ephraim Emerton, PHI. d., as VIM
professor of ecclesiastical history, have
cen confirmed by the Harvard Uni
I er sity overseers.
General F. A. Walker, president Of
the Massachusetts institute of technolo-
gy, was arraigned in the municipal
court, in Boston, recently, and fined
| 81 for not removing snow from the
sidewalk in front Of the school.
Governor Tabor, of Colorado, had 8
daily income from his matchless mine
during January, Of about 81 500 He
has devoted suite of rooms in his
opera house, at Denver, to the use oil
the press club, of that city.
! Colonel Charles Treischel has been
reinstated as auditor of the custom
house in New York-a position from
which he was removed by exCollector
Merritt i'll favor of brother-in-law oil
the then Vice President Wheeler.
Hon. Alexander Mitchell, president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
Railway Company, left Milwaukee last
week for Jacksonville, Fla. Mr.. Mitch
ell travels in q special car, which is sal!
to be the finest ever manufactured in
the United States.
Peoria is experiencing a social sensa-
ton. A rumor has reached that city
of sour mash that Miss Ida Farrell, the
daughter of a we'll known Peorian, and
sister of G. P. Farrell, brother-in-law OF
Colonel Ingers Il, is being honored with
especial attentions from President Ar
| thur.
The Hon Mark Alexander, of Meek
lenburg county, Virginia, who is the
only survivor of the Virginia Conven-
ton of 1S29-30, celebrated his ninetieth
birthday, on Wednesday, the Sth inst.
| HI ryoS :, ronrocnptofiua IN annuraca for
sixteen years He is reported to be in
excellent health for his advanced age.
Margaret Mather, the young lady j.
NJ. Hill is educating for the stage, gave
private rehearsal to the critics and
managers of Boston the other evening,
and they agree III pronouncing her the
coming wonder in the theatrical frma-
ment
Willie Edouin, the actor, who was in
terested in the photograph gallery
known as Scholl's, in Philadelphia, IS
selling cut the concern. He estimates
his losses in the picture business at
$12, 900, nearly all of the profits of his
farce, Fun in Photograph Gallery"
He fails to observe anything comic
about the Philadelphia gallery.
ooh yes" said Mrs. Brown, as she
surveyed with evident pleasurelher new
parlor sldeboard, covered with china
and decorated with highly colored til, s.
"Mr. B remarked last night that / was
becoming quite an atheist" and the old
lady's countenance fairly beamed with
delight as her eyes rested on sixteen
cent Japanese tea pot.
Professor Ko Kun Hua, of Harvard
College, h Is just died of pneumonia at
mbridge. He was native of China,
and was the professor of that language
in Harvard His place is not likely to
DE filed, as there is not much demand
for instruction in that department.
The late professor 5 Mandarin of
high standing, or high ribbons, in his
native land.
The English Duke of Norfolk is a
staunch and devoted son of the Vati-
can. He has just petitioned the pope
to allow him to divide the large diocese
Of Southwark, and to allow him to
erect new see at Arundel. In all
probability Leo will grant the request
of his moneyed servant, and his Grace
will erect cathedral for the new do
cese. He is now erecting one at Nor
witch.
How Nutmegs Grow.