Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-05-11
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Mile. Aimee, of opera bouffe fame,
will return to America next season, at
the head of a new company of French
comic singers.
Sen. Ben Hill has lost brother, sis
ter, and two aunts from the same dis
ease-cancer-which has taken such a
hold upon his own system.
The Princess Louise will return to
Canada this month and spend the sum-
mer there. In September, with Lord
Lorne, she will visit British Columbia.
Sergeant Mason, who is in good
health, is employed in the shoe factory
of the Albany penitentisry.
| President Arthur's summer cottage
at Long Branch has larger accommo-
dations than the executive mansion.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes this
month completes his thirty-fifth year
rs professor in the Harvard medical
school.
The princess Louise, wife of the mar
quls of Lorne, will sail from England
for Canada in the Samaritan, on the
25th inst
Gen. Logan made an address for the
benefit OF the Ladies' Christian Library
association at Hot Springs, Ark, Thurs
day evening.
Hon. Julius l.. Clarke, the present
insurance commi siorc-, has been in
the service of the state of Massachu-
sets for twenty-five years.
The Pope has a handsome young
niece, Anna Pecci, now Marchesa Cam
ali, for whom he himself performed the
marriage ceremony in the Vatican the
other day.
Oscar Wilde, the knight of the lily
and suctlower, has received $4,000 for
his lectures in the United States, and is
considering an offer from Australia for
the summer.
The poet Wilde's Unkissed Kisses are
known in America as Dissertation"
1t is said Fortune knocks once at
every mans door," In most cases it
must have knocked when the man was
out.
Determined beforehand, we gravely pretend
To seek the advice and the thoughts of friend.
Should he differ from US under any pretense,
But, should he fall in with and Hatter our plan.
Why, really, we think him n sensible man.
A brotherly Colorado Personal
reads thus: "Mr. Orth Stein, the gifted
editor of the Leadville Chronicle, ar
rived in tswn last evening. His re-
mains will be shipped for home Mon
day evening"
Sitting Bull is credited with remark
ing in thoughtful manner: "What a
pity it is that our forefathers, the noble
sons of the forest, failed to pass an an
ti-European bill early in the 18th CEN
fury.
The Boston papers say the girls of
that city have begun to wear the police
helmet hats. Then should the Boston
papers warn the Boston girls. If they
go to initiating the Boston police, they
will never catch a man.
The following cheerful notice har re-
Gently been hung up, neatly framed,
in the bedrooms at the Langhom hotel,
London: an case of the death of n
visitor the hotel charge in addition to
that for damage to linen, etc, and
cleansing the room, will be five
guineas."
From out among the pansies blue
The matron now the hen doth shoe.
The carpet hangs upon the line
And in the awful heat,
The Ethiop, with grace divine
Gets in his little beat.
You want to know how to tell wheth-
er or not he is dead gone on you? Ask
him to button your glove. If he do it
readily, you may rs well look else
where: but if he go to work with elm
gers all thumbs" and tug and strain;
if he tear out button-hole or two;
especially If he scratch your wrist once
or twice, then you may be sure that
you've got him, and may pull him in
at your leisure.
Once upon time, in Hart county,
Kentucky, there was misery old
person who, in a burst of unusual gem
erosity, loaned an impecunious scrape-
grace five cents. Shortly afterward
the fortunate receiver left the state
without paying back the money, and
was gone for twenty years. When he
returned the first person he met was
his creditor, who at once struck him
for the five cents which had been bsr-
rowed over a score of years before.
81 don't care &c much for the money"
explained he, "but it's the principle of
the thing"
"How is your son coming on?' ooh!
/ am having power of trouble with
him." whats the matter now?"
"Well, you know, couldn't send him
to school, because, thanks to Governor
Roberts, there are no free schools, and
could not afford to send him to a
private school, eyes, | know that is
So" "Well, | sent him away from
Galveston, out TO the frontier; and as
luck would have it, he got convicted of
horse stealing and got i've years in the
penitentiary." THAT was bad" "No,
it wasn't, for Won see at the peniten-
tiarv ne could learn trade and be-
come useful citizen" "Well that's
good" mo it isn't; for Governor
Roberts has pardoned him out, on ac-
count of his youth and ignorance"
ALBERT KING, notably handsome