Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-26
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United States supreme court, who has
been an invalid for many months, is
greatly improved in health.
w. w. Corcoran and other citizens
Of Washington, have incorporated an
association with capital of 100000
to erect a monument to the memory Of
Thomas Jefferson.
1t is stated that ex-Gov. Coburp, of
Maine, viii give the Watervlle class
ic.l institute building to cost about
$4,000, and that architects are already
at work upon the plans.
Louise Michel, the renowned Parsian
communist, does not succeed well in
spreading her ansrchic ideas. She went
to Versailles recently to hold mass
meeting, but was hooted out of town.
The London Times thinks that How
ellis is the greatest novelist that Amer
lea ever produced, and expresses the
opinion that there are few more per-
feet stories than the Lady OF the
Aroostook."
Rosa Bonheur lives in quiet, re-
tired fashion at her chateau near Fon-
tainebleau, which was once the favorite
hunting lodge of Marie de Medicis.
She does little work in her studio now,
on account of impaired health.
The bill for the interior decoration
of a private house on Madison avenue,
New York, last summer, which has
just been presented, is $4,000. The
owner of the house now refuses to pay,
and the decorator threatens to sue.
Mrs. L. A. Crandal, treasurer OF the
national association for the relief of des-
titute colored women and children, ap-
peared at the annual meeting at WISH
jngton last week and showed herself
short 81 500 in her accounts.
President Arthur was Mt Princeton
College, few days ago, and addressed
the students. His son has entered the
class of 1885.
Prof. Tyndall has built himself an
iron house at Hind Head, on the
Hampshire Downs, within walk of
Alworth, Mr.. Tennysons residence.
Not only did Michigan woman lose
her husband by elopement, but his
companion in flight was the hardy SER
want girl, and he took along an able
bodied son, leaving helpless cripple
with his wife.
The shock of finding out that her
lover was horse thief, instead of the
rich gentlem an that he represented
himself to be, destroyed the reason of
girl at Dallas, Texas. A week later
her father followed her to the asylum,
craZed by sympathy and grief.
The official returns regarding TIM
army show the education of Germae
recruit has been yearly on the increase
stree 1875. In that year 81 per cent.
O. the reel uits could neither read nor
write. In 1881 the percentage of illit-
crates had sunk to 1.54.
No slgnt indignation has been caus-
ed in patriotic circles at Paris by the
news that the French residents in Ber-
in intends affixing a memorial tablet
to the house in which Voltaire chiefly
lived when in Berlin, as the Court fool,
so to speak, of Frederick the Great.
When the Mapleson troupe came
over in the City OF Chester, two weeks
ago, they gave concert on the steam.
er, which realized ESQ for the Liverpool
Seamen's Orphanage.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, &C
companied by several prominent bust
ness men of The south, will visit Boston
and the industrial centers Of New Eng
lard some time this month.
w. Clarence Dlval, a leading real
estate broker OF Washington, was mar
ried the other evening to Miss Mary K.
Gilfllan, daughter of the Honorable
James Gilfllan, treasurer of the United
States.
Miss Chamberlain, the Ohio beauty,
who outshone all the professional beau-
ties in London, last season, is well
known in Washington. She visited
there two years ago as the guest OF Mrs.
Parsons, the daughter of ex-Justice
Swayne.
The Vicomte de la Panouse-the
husband of the well-known vocalist
Madame Marie Hebron who lost
vast sums in the Paris financial panic
of 1881, is now at Kimberley. Africa,
working hard in diamond mine from
sunrise to sunset.
The Rev. j. T. Hendrick, of Mullen
burg, KY, tells the presbytery that ne
will receive no money from and i'd
minister llO ShCIdIUellb W any HAL Wup
makes or sells whisky. Mr.. Hendrick
is evidently carrying the war into
Africa"
By the death of Sir George Grey,
Mr.. Gladstone nowsits at the privy
Council as the senior commoner, hav-
ing kissed hands" on his appointment
forty-one years ago last September,
when the Queen had been only four
years on the throne.
An English artist says of Arabi
His legs are as uaattyactive as his
face. The underpinnings look loo frail
for the rest of the body He is a bulky
man; not pussy or Fa)staffian in girth,
but broad, thick. chested fellow built
on the lobster pattern"
Lucas 5. Beecher, for more than
fifty years a prominent member of the
Ohio bar. died in Sandusky, recently,
in hi S5th year.
Benjamin Legault, French Cana
dian, has sued for an injunction to pre-
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