Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-03-16
PERSONS AND THINGS.

italy recalls the fact that she is thor
oughly conversant with the Italian
language.
DR.. Maudsley, of London, declares
! that MacLean is "crank." 1t seemed
from the first that no sane man could
shoot as he did at the Queen.
Rev. William NJ Taylor, d. d., of
the Broadway IN. Y. Tabernacle, re-
ceives $4,000 salary. Of the 1880
members of his church many are
wealthy.
Jay Gould has leased the Grand
Opera House in New York to Henry
E. Abbey, and Christine Nilsson is I'M
der contract to appear there at date
not far remote.
The Governor of Mississippi has APP
pointed H. II. Chalmers justice of the
supreme court, and DR.. T. j. Mitchell
superintendent of the lunatic asylum
of that state.
The southern papers are very COM
plimentary to Blaine's Grafton.
John B. Coughs last engagement for
the present season will be filled in Bal
timore, about the first of next month,
and he will then, it is reported, retire
permanently from the lecture field, in
which he has been so prominent figure
for forty years.
President Arthur has promised Ptesi-
dent Potter of Union College Science
tady to attend the commencement Of
that college, his Alma Mater, in June
next, if his public duties permit.
ponola enniyn for
hour and half last evening at Ottawa,
Ill, with full vigor and without any in
furious effect following. He has quite
9 list of lecture engagements to till IN
the West.
Senator Logan was unable to get out
yesterday, as he expected, owing to his
z Rheumatic atthck. He is able to be
about his room, but his physician adj
v vises him to remain in the house for a
day or two longer.
In consequence of suicide occur
ing in chuch IN Lincolnshire, Eng
] land, solemn publication service took
place.
The late Gov. Blue Jeans Williams,
of Indiana, is to have a granite monu-
ument q feet nine inches high, to cost
$1,000.
German officers say that Italy is not
of much account as military ally SO
long as its army remains as 1t is now, a
very imperfect machine.
A false report is going the rounds
that John B. Cough has entirely lost
his voice, and has cancelled many
lecture engagements in the West.
There is not q particle of truth in the
report.
One of the millionaires of China is an
Irishman named Hart. He is worth
millions of dollars, and has made it out
Of the Chinese Government, for whom
he acted rs army contractor and pur-
chasing agent.
Italians emigrate from Italy to the
& United States with the fixed idea of
making fortune by picking up gold
IA the streets. Arrived, they sweep the
I streets for it,
Mr.. John Langdon Sibley, the libra
rian emeritus of Harvard, who is now
in his seventy ifth year, is at work on
his third volume of Harvard Gradu-
ates."
The family of the late Chinese pro-
lessor at Cambridge, en- route for San
Francisco to take the steamer for Chi
ma, reached Cheyenne, w. r., where
the youngest child expired at the depot.
The remains were sent forward by ex-
press to San Francisco.
General Grant will visit Washington
next week, and occupy quarters at the
White House. Dispatches were sent to
gentlemen in Boston, announcing that
Grants brokers in Milwaukee had sold
him out, but the reports proved to be
unfounded.
President Arthur gave a dinner to
members of the cabinet and number
of senators with their wives, in return
for the Inequalities of the winter. Ex-
secretary Blaine, Mrs. Blaine, Mrs.
Wadsworth, Miss Frelinghuysen and
Miss Beale were among the guests
Mrs. A. T. Stewart is described as a
little old woman who wears a brown
wig and snowy diamond cal rings. Her
figure is $4,000 900, and it is asserted
that Mr.. Stewards determination that
none of his relatives should ever have
any of the property viii be carried out
by her
The Protestant Christian Cinnamon
have been relieved from taxations for
religious festivals in China. They
number about $500. The Roman
Catholics secured such exemption
many years ago.
Merrill of Gwinnett, Ga, imagined
that he was responsible for the bad
weather that had prevailed in that
region. He therefore hanged himself,
as ne explained, for the good of his
neighbors.
On the house Craven street, Strand,
London, a circular table has been fixed,
with these words; "Lived here, Ben
iamin Franklin, Printer Philosopher,
and Statesman. Born, 1706. Died,
1890"
A Toronto man was arrested for
whipping his grown-up daughter. His
plea was that, being a pious man, he
desired the girl to keep lent, and only
struck her dozen times with cane
Tor punishment.