Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-07-06
PERSONS AND THINGS

PROFESSOR baird has placed 5000 600
shad in the rivers of Texas.
The telegraph messengers at New.
port are provided with bicycles.
The grain crop of Tennessee Is tho
best she has ever harvested.
The Wilmington Star thinks L,nb
field a Capitol name for the governor
of Rhode Island.
The Ohio lawyers who fought the
Pond bill pocketed $50, 900 in fees.
There is said to be great rush for
choice rooms at the various summer
resorts.
The republican state convention of
Michigan is called for August 80.
The public schools of Kansas con-
tributed $3.50 to the Garfield monu.
ment fund.
Willis, Texas, had twenty of her bust.
ness houses destroyed by fire, sustain
ing loss of $4,000.
In Texas over 10000 men and TO-
600 horses and mules are employed in
railroad building.
Poverty wants some, luxury many.
and avarice all things.
Work does not wear either men or
women SO much as worry.
Prosperity is not a Just scale; adversely
is the only balance to try friends.
The wheat crop of Tennessee is near
ly harvested, and is reported as being
the best In many years.
Just forty-two years ago the first
larger beer saloon was opened in the
city of New York. There are now
several
A Pittsburg man gave a larger beer
picnic in order to raise money to buty
a tombstone for his wife.
Oscar Wilde's reported engagement
to Boston lady has created quite
breeze in society.
General Grant and family are now at
their Long Branch cottage for the sea-
son.
ExPresident John Tyler's son, Lyon
g. Tyler, is writing biography of his
father.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips writes friend
that his wife is so i'll that he now sell
dom leaves his house.
Mr.. Moody is going to Paris to hold
a series of revival meetings among
the American and English residents
there.
William S. Seelye, son of President
Seelye, of Amherst, and a graduate of
that college in 1879, has received the
Muir prize and medal for attainments
in Sanskrit In the University OF Elm
burg, Scotland.
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, of the New York
Tribune, and family, go to California
for the summer.
The Palmer family will have re-
union at Stonington, Conn.,, on August
10, II and II.
Many boarding houses have been
started in the White Mountains region
this year, where one can get good plain
board at IS and $40 per week. This is
new departure and move in the
right direction, but one which does
not fill hotel-keepers with enthusiasm.
Vermont seems to have sprung half
a dozen new summer resorts on the
people this season, and they all have
very romantic names. At none of
them has malaria ever been known,
and a mosquito has never been seen.
Those who have taken in hand Tom
Hughes colony in Tennessee, known
as "Rugby," are endeavoring to have it
included among the SIMMER resorts
and have opened and advertised the
unique Hotel Tabard as such.
Woodawn park, which surrounds
the summer residence of Judge Hilton,
and contains over a dozen miles of
macadamized roads, will be the fash
ionable drive at Saratoga this season,
and a very charming drive it is.
Mrs. j. w. Mackay, on the occasion
of Minister and Mrs. Morton's recent
reception in Parties, wore dress of
point l'aiguille lace over pale pink
satin, and q couture Of pale pink
plumes, held in place by diamonds
and very large turquoises.
Kate Field, just prior to. her.depart.
ure for Europe, wrote to o friend 81
expect to be in Londor, Paris, and
probably Germany and italy. Most of
my time will be devote to some Spa,
where shall toy with warm mineral
water, and aspire to an appetite"
Mr.. Tulane, who recently gave g.
100000 for the foundation Of univer-
.ity in New Orleans, is northern man,
who rode into the Crescent city more
than half century ago in search OF a
modest business opening. He found
what he was looking for, and retired
with fortune soon after the late civil
war began.
The bishop of Durham, DR.. Light
foot, stated at a recent temperance
meeting in Newcastle, England, that
about six years ago he determined to
try what there was in total abstinence,
and he was no convinced that it was
best for all, young and old. He slept
better at night and worked better dur
ing the dav than when he took drink.
A New York dispatch says: The }:
H. Haverly Amusement Company OF
New York, have filed certificate OF IN
corporation in the secretary OF states
office, in Albany, the capital to be
100000. The fling of this certificate
4, So nr