Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-08

silver fish knife is now provided at all
recherche dinners. This information
will be gratifying to those who have not
waited for the special silver fish
knife
Mrs. Jeremiah Billingfelt, after
spending eighteen years in hospital
at Lancaster, Pa, has just been discov.
cred by her relatives, and taken to her
mothers home in Fremont. They had
supposed that she died long ago. She
WAS placed in the hospital by her hus-
band, from whom nothing has been
heard since 1870,
The recently-married duke of Albany
is very i'll, and all the plans that had
been made for alyachting cruise and a
foreign tour have been abandoned.
The Duke and Duchess will remain
quietly at Claremont for a sew weeks,
and will then go to Osborn Cottage,
East Cowes, and in the autumn they
will pay long visit to the Queen al
Balmoral.
Mr.. Maurice Grau has concluded an
engagement by cable with Mile. Theo,
one of the best-known opera bouffe
singers on the French stage. The
terms on which she has been secured
are, according to Mr.. Grau's statement,
about $500 a night for sixty perform
ances.
Congressman George Davis, Of Chi
cago, who some time since accepted
an invitation to deliver an Grafton at
Philadelphia, on the occasion of dc
decoration of soldiers graves there, was
compelled by the recent deadlock in
the house to recall his acceptance OF
such invitation.
A handsome monument is to be
erected in the Warwick Woodlands,
Greenwood Lake, N. j., to the mem
ery of Henry William Herbert, better
known as Frank Forester" whose
grave in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, New
ark, is marked only by simple slab,
bearing no other inscription than the
word "Infelicissimus.
The Castor in Philadelphia perfor-
nance of Camille after gallantly
pouring out the supposed champagne
for the heroine, inadvertently put down
the bottle with its lager beer label to-
ward the au1ience, the nearest of whom
could read it. The actre could not
understand the laughter, though she
composedly slipped the beer with the
air of dainty wine bibber.
In suit for damages, brought
against the town of Weare, N. H., by a
man who had driven down an embank-
ment on an unlicensed road, it was shown
that the plaintiff was the highway
commissioner, The jury gave YER
dict of 1915 against the town, and a
special finding that the plaintiff was
guilty of fficial negligence. The val
idity of such a verdict is to be tested
"Canst tell me, Henrico, why yon
fair damsels tresses are like unto a
flower garden?" "Nay, by my troth, /
cannot, Ferdinand, unless it be that
they are trained so artistically." THY
answer is apt, good Henrico, but thou
art far from the true answer. List,
whilst | discover it unto the. A flower
garden, thou knowest, is yclept a parterre.
Well, Henrico, the damsels tresses are
likewise only part hair"
Eli Foye separated from his wife, at
STAFFORD, n. h., in consequence of a
quarrel with her mother. After the
death Of the latter, he called on Mrs.
Foye to effect a reconciliation. In this
he failed, and was going away again,
when he saw his wife go across the field
to the family burying ground and strew
the hated mother-in-laws grave with
flowers. The sight maddened him and
he shot her.
Mr.. Csllan, member ofparliament for
Louth County, who has just been ex-
PEELED from the Reform Club, is a
Dublin barrister, and has been in the
House of Commons since 1868 having
represented Dundalk from 1868 to 1880
and Louth since 1880. He has been
vice sllenced by the Speaker fol- con
duct while in state of inebriety, and
has been repeatedly threatened with
expulsion from the club for the same
cause.