Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-08
SQUIBS.
Inc is the month of roses.

young men.
General Malone" is the way tha
every great man has his card.
Those who take stock in Vennor's
predictions expected.a snowstorm tai,
week.
This Is queer season. 1t is either
raining or threatening to rain all the
while.
Mr.. Blaine is described AS looking
well and fresh, and little stouter thar
usual.
Early next month the Empress Eu
genie is to take up her residence at bel
new place, near Farnbourough, Eng
land.
Chicago is full of sharp-shooters, at
tending the sportsmen's tournament
We wish that they would shoot this
weather.
Rev. DR.. W. H. Ryder, of Chicago
has purchased the old Ryder home
stead at Provincetown, Mass, his ma
tive place.
Something is going on all the time
Last week we had music and rain-anc
now we are having wheels, shot-guns
and rain.
General Fitzhugh Lee is lecturing in
southern cities on "Chancelorsville.'
for the benefit of the Southern Histor.
ical Society.
Colonel Ingersol's family have again
leased the cottage at Long Branch
which they occupied last summer, and
will take possession soon.
Bicycle riders call themselves
"wheelmen," ana that's what the rail-
road wheelbarrow men call themselves,
and the latter carry the biggest loads.
The citizens of San Francisco are
about to erect monument to the mem
DRY of President Garfield.
Hon. Ehilu B. Washburn, of Chica-
60, is to deliver the address before the
literary societies of The university OF
Virginia at the coming commence
ment.
A woman who died in Albany few
days ago bequeathed $4,000 to the
Methodist church, 81 900 to each of her
two doctors and two lawyers, and $500
TO her servants.
Miss Ella Hoffman, only daughter Of
Ex-Governor Hoffman, of New York,
will be married to Mr.. Sanford, of New
York, as rumOr says, the latter part of
June.
There is kick in some quarters
against tight trousers. It's generally a
quartz where it hurts, too, if the old
man is very mad.
The New Haven Register sees no oc-
casion for alarm over the high price OF
been. Dried apples can be had in
plenty at the same old figures.
A trife over 40 per cent. of the
members of the House attends its daily
sessions. 1t will be seen that the
House is GO per cent. better off than
had been supposed.
Sgnor Campanini, the lillian tenor,
whose singing at the recent Chicago
sailed for Europe June ]. He may
return to this country next year.
Mr. II. M. Stanley, the discoverer of
Livingston. is now IN command of the
Belgian West African Eqpedition. He
has again surmounted the Congo Falls,
and reached Stanley Pool where he is
building Belgian station.
The late General Ramsay, of the u.
S. army, dictated as groemsman when
a son of John Quincy Adams was mar
ried in the White House while his father
was President.
The engagement is announced at
Washington of Miss Meigs, daughter of
Quartermaster General Meigs, to Archi-
bald Forbes, the lecturer and English
war correspondent.
On the menu at Queen Victoria's din
ners the name of the cook who is respon-
sible for each dish is written opposite to
it, SO that praise and blame can be equi-
tably dispensed.
Nilsson's reason for resuming her
own name is that she is indignant that
the property which she accumulated
by her exertons should pass to her hus-
bands relatives on his death.
An Indianapolis letter says; "Rev.
Geo. Chainey, now of Boston, was ex-
PEELED from the Masonic order by the
Grand Lodge, IN session thls week, lor
having given up his belief in Supreme
Being
A Shirt has two arms, the same as
pantsloons have two legs. Yet one is
called pair and the other is only one.
Isn't it time that we let up on astrono
my and pay more attention to the
everyday trides that vex the clearest
minds?
In certain street are three tailors.
The first to set up shop hung out his
sign: 'Here is the best tailor in town, "
The next put up Here is the best
tailor in the world" The third sim.
ply had this: Here is the best tailor
in this rect"
Don Carlos, the would-be king OF
Spain, and his wife have parted. The
cause OF the disagreement is not given,
but the neighbors say she used the roy
al scepter to stir soup with, and set a
hen on fourteen duck eggs in his king
iy crown.
Mrs. Mackev, the wife Of the Califor-
MIA bonanza man, is Stunned by the