Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-19
PERSONS AND THINGS.

The trouble Win the frlnCe OF W aleS
is said TO be that he eats anG drinks too
much.
Mr.. Blaine expects to move into his
new house in Washington early next
month.
"That respleldent Philistine" is what
the Pail Mall Gasste c ais the great Lord
Macauley.
General John A. Logan is at present
on trip through Arizona and the Mcxi-
can State of Sonora.
Miss Emily Faithful will lecture in
this csuntry this fail and winter on
Modern Extravaganza"
Henry II. Morgan, of Louisiana, has
been appointed by the President,
Secretary of the United States Legation
to Mexico.
Great preparations are being made
in Germany for celebrating the silver
wedding of the Grown Prince and Prin-
cess on January 25 next.
The King and Queen of Greece will
20 to Paris on leaving England, and will
stay there for about ten days before
starting on their return to Athens.
a Mississippi gentleman has offered
two prizes for the state fair-a box of
kid gloves for the handsomest unmar-
ried lady, and gallon of whiskey to
the man who writes the best essay on
temperance.
The Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon has
of late been suffering severely from the
govt. He is about to leave London for
Mentone, where he will spend month,
and where he hopes to gain relief from
his ailment.
The explorer Witt, in the services Of
the British North Borneo Company,
has been murdered by the head
hunters in that country. The Dyak
custom of collecting human heads it
had been thought had died out.
The Canadian Dominion Govern
ment will next summer lay cable
under Lake Superior, connecting with
the telegraph system of Ontario.
Wife-"can't you take me to the
Yahoo restaurant some evening, my
deal?' husband-''no darling, it is dis
reputable" Wife-"then dear, why do
you bring home its marked napkins in
your pockets?'
Having inferred his four wives to-
gether, disconsolate widower embalm
ed their memory:
Stranger, pause and drop tear,
For Mary Jane lies buried here;
Mingled in most surprising manner
With Susan, Maria, and portions OF Hannah.
1t is now the correct thing At swell
wedding TO hire $40, 900 worth OF bonds
to exhibit as the gift CT the brides
father. A man will be sent along TO
watch the documents, and can be made
very handy at the presents-table, ex-
hibiting the articles.
DIR. w. H. Bennett, of Meridian,
Miss, passed over the dark river a few
DAYS ago. His will cuts Of his wife and
relatives without shilling, and leaves
$50 1000 to his colored cook. Housewives
can make note of it, that well-cook-
ed meal touches man in his most
sensitive and grateful spot.
The sum of fl0O has in very short
time been subscribed toward the erec-
ton of parochial hall in the parish of
st. Jude, county Dublin, where Sir
Garnet Wolseley was born, "as fitting
testimonial to his honor and gallantry."
1t will be known as the Wolselely
Parochial Hall, and will cost $1,000.
From being the dryest and one of
the unhealthiest towns in Southwest
Georgia, Albany has become, perhaps,
the best-watered town in the State, and
while the country round about is as full
of sickness as ever, it has had very
little, inded, of the customary sickli-
ness. All this has been brought about
simply by boring two arteslan wells.
81 do" said young man at Col
orado wedding, when the minister
asked if any body knew any reason why
the couple should not be united. The
obiector explained that the bride had
promised to marry him; but that was
not considered a sufficient reason for
stopping the ceremony, which was
concluded amid the tittering of the as
semblage.
The Concord School of Philosophy
has again adjourned without exbiain-
ing the difference between the Here
mess of the There" and the Wherefore
of the Thusness;" or showing why the
Hencity of the Henceforthness is not
identical with the Neverth elessness of
the Heretofore. On account of the ex-
tremely hot weather, probably.
1t was Mikes third appearance in
court within thirty days, and in reply
to his usual appeal for clemency the
magistrate impatiently observed:
SITS no use, Mike; you're good for
nothing"
"Its not me shtyle to be braggin' y
reterted Mike, "but if yer honneur will
borry pair of shillelahs an slip out
side wild me, I'll make it encouragement
for we to how'd that opinion.
We won't give his name, as he re.
ouested us not, but it happened in
Chicago. There were few choice
spirits in front of and on top of the
counter, in well known South Clark
street sour mash retreat, and converse
ton and whiskey flowed freely. Pres
emily in walked our hero. who gazed
despondently On the scene begore him
for a fo,y ~, an, onto Than apnrooo ,i mr.