Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-01
sQUIBs.
Queen Victoris is So years old, hav.
ing been bonn May "a, 1919.


A Chicago woman thinks that "Eads,
the jetty man." is colored man.
1t takes strong voices and a mighty
big noise to SLIP Chicogo's great Expo
sition building.
Godlove S. Orth, representative from
Indiana, is visiting his old home, Leb-
anon, Pa, where the PEG pie called him
10y his old German name of Gottlieb.
General Sherman and ex-Confeder-
ate General Joe Johnston have formed
a mutual admiration society, each de-
claring the other as the greatest of liv-
ing soldiers.
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby, of New
York, Is quite i'll, and the presentation
to him by his congregation of purse
of $4,000, which was to have taken
place last evening, was postponed.
When the Rev. John Hall of New
York begins his sermon, the doors of his
church are locked, and are not op-ned
until the benedictiou has fallen upon
the congregation.
1t is announced that Rev. Robert
Laird Collier, formerly of the Church
of the Messiah, in Chicago, but now O;
Scotland, is to visit his friends in this
country, this summer, sailing from
Liverpool few days ago.
Those attending the great Music
Festival in the afternoons are disap-
pointed on finding that the big chorous
sings only at the evening performances
1t is serious element of dissatisfac-
ton to the matinee attendants.
One of James Freeman Clarks par
ishioners, in Boston, lady of great
wealth, sent him present of So 600 on
the eve of his departure for Europe.
He is now more than 20 years of age
and hopes to preach until he is rs.
A Cincinnati physician is experiment.
ing on a dark mulatto woman, en-
deavoring to change the hue of her
skin to white, by the use of drugs. That
kind of scientific experimentation
usually results in murderous failure.
The King of Hollands gift to the
Duke of Albany and his bride was a
splendid silver service, which, besides
being richly chased, has the Princess
monogram carved in ivory on each
article, the whole being enclosed in a
huge case of Coromandel wood.
The Marquis of Lorne, Governor
General of the Canadian Dominion,
will leave Ottawa week hence, and
will stay in the lower Provinces till the
arrival of his wife, the Princess Louise
He is not expected to return to the cap
ital for six months.
Brigadier General George Douglas
Ramsey, on the retired list, died al
Washington, D. G., Tuesday evening
of senility, aged so years. He was
born at Dumfries, Va. He served with
distinction in the Mexican and late
wars, and was retired in 1864.
General James Watson Webb, Of
New York, is 81 years DID, and smokes
almost necessarily. Thurlow Weed is
"a years old, and drinks large quaint.
ties of Santa Cruz rum. Peter Cooper
is 81 years old, lives on Il diet of oat-
meal, and uses tobacco in no form, and
never tastes any thing that intoxicates.
Rev. DR.. Talmage told his congrega-
ton Sunday, that chess, music, chara-
DIES, calisthenics are not to be regarded
rs sinful pastimes. On the contrary
they are good for the body and the soul.
with puny set of christians in the
world" said the Doctot, Eve can never
capture it for God"
Mrs. De Long the widow of the COM
mander Of the ill-fated Jeanette, and
her little daughter Sylvia, left their
home in Burlington, Iowa, this morn
ing, for New York. They will be
accompanied as far as Chicago by
General and Mrs. Glasgow. Mrs. De
Long will stay in the east until the ar
rival of the remains of her gallant
husband, probably some time in July
of this year.
The Hon. f. F. Waters, of the Bos-
ton Admtiser, was united in marriage in
Trinity Church, Boston, last Sunday, to
Mrs. Clara Erskine Clemment, lady
we'll known in art and literary circles,
and as author of Charlotte Cushman,"
in Osgoods' series of American Actors.
The ceremony was private. Mr. Wat
ers was a bachelor.
John Kelley, the boss of New York
Tammany, delivered lecture in
Chickering Hall, New York, Sunday
night, on "The History of the Early
Catholic Missions in North and South
America" The lecture was for the
benefit of the Nun of Kenmare, who is
founding convent at Knock, county
Mayo, Ireland. About $500 was
cleared.
The health of Senator....Ben' Hill, of
Georgia, who has been at Eureka
Springs, Ark. for several weeks, is
much improved and his physicians
say there is strong hope of cure, or,
at least, that his life will be greatly
prolonged. Should Mr. Hill he cured
of his cancerous ailment through the
use of these waters, II will be in order
for him, when he returns to the senate,
to show his grateful appreciation by
introducing a bill, a IL Logan to pro-