Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-12
INA NUT SHE'LL

Some of the semi-asthetes of Boston
are having their marble mantels paint
ed in imitation of wood.
Grace Greenwood is residing in Paris
this winter with her daughter, who is
studying for the operate stage.
Speaker Keifer will not organize his
household this winte-, but swill take
apartments at the Eb5itt house during
the congressional session.
Mr.. John w. Garret, president OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has done
kindly thing in bestowing $1,000 on
the Boys Home society in Baltimore.
Among the Senators who own
houses at Washinton are Sherman Hale,
Allison, Bayard, Don Cameron, PEN
dleton, and Window. Judges Field,
Bradley, Miller and Mathews of the
Spreme Court also live in their own
houses.
The young fellow who comes all the
way from England to instruct us Amer
lean barbarians as to what beauty is
we mean Oscar Wilde, the so-called
".esthete"-is % years Of age and over
six feet tall. He is a very nice and
very silly yourg chap.
Hon. S. S. Cox relates that when
travelling on the Nile his Mussulman
fellow passengers were sometimes puz-
zled as to the points of the compass.
They wanted to pray with their faces
toward Mecca. He put them right
with his pocket compass, and was al
ways thanked for it.
Mrs. Garfield has been entertaining
during the holidays Colonel and Mrs.
Rockwell, and divers members of her
own family. The health of the late
presidents mother is singularly good,
and though she falls into moods of sad
reflection now and then, she is usually
sprightly and laxative
CHRISTMAS is hard time on the mail
carrier. In New York it was found i'm.
possible to deliver the Christmas mail
in one day, 100000 letters having had
to be left over until the next. The task
of delivery meant in the case of many
letter carriers a walk of twenty-five
miles.
Henry A. Bowen, of Brooklyn, son
of the former publisher and proprietor
of the New York independent, is under
arrest in Buffalo for having dead heated
the hotels of that city. He is 40 years
of age, calls himself broker, and is
pronounced zone of the biggest frauds
that ever attempted to steal dishon-
est living in Buffalo"
According to the editor of the Lon
don Truth, the queen is not as rich as
she is reported to be-. She does not
put by as much as 100000 per annum,
on an average of years. She has al
ways given 100000 to each of her
daughters who has married, and this,
Mr.. Labouchere says, has drained her
, savings.
Ole Bull the Norwegian violinist, I'M
dertook TO start q colony in Pennsyl-
vania quarter of century ago. He
bought forty square miles of wild,
mountainous, Norway-like land in Pot
ter county, brought over 500 Norwe-
gians, built houses for them like those
they had left behind and set himself
up for kind of ruling patron. The
enterprise was a failure, and the three
villages which he founded are to-day
almost deserted, while the original
colonists are scattered. The music hall
was recently torn down.
DR.. EDWARD SENNER, an English ply
stefan, was the discoverer Of vaccina
ton as preventive of ST l-pox. His
investigations began in 4. sc, while an
apprentice to surgeon of Seedbury,
whe his attention was excited by hear
ing young country-woman, who had
come to his masters surgery for ad-
vice, say hat she could not take the
smallpox because she had already had
the cow-pox. During his study and
experiments Jenner met with little en-
enlargement from physicians. On
Mar IA, 1896, Jenner vaccinated boy
5 years of age with virus taken from a
pustule on the hand of milk maid,
who had been infected by her masters
COW. vaccination may be said to date
from that transaction.
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