Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-04-26
TWINKLINGS

NJ The Prince Of Wales has brand
new palace car to travel in, which is
3 described as nsrvelously esthetic and
bitterly utter. Ut is fifty fe4t lor G, and
contains saloon, study, two bedrooms,
two dre ssing-rooms and bathroom.
3 The Princes bedroom is hung with
old-gold silk, and the furniture is up
holstered to match. Mirrors are let
into the door panels, and tho whole
suite can be lighted either by candles
Or electricity.
Judgr Andrew Wylie, who is presid-
ing over the star-route trials, is de-
scribed as having head like that OIL
some fine old Roman of the golden
age. II is long ard deep aud crowned
with silver hair. His face is smooth
Shaver, his complexion fresh, and his
firm mouth and blue eyes are con-
stantly beaming out into smiles. He
tries the tedious star route cases very
patiently, but to friend the other
day, in reply to the question if he was
not tired of them, ne said frankly: &c
am, and so we all are"
A policeman in New York was &C.
costed the other day by man who
asked 10 be directed to q nice, quiet
spot, where he could commit suicide.
The unfeelng peeler took him to the
lookup. 1t is strange that large cities
are destitute of the barest facilities for
committing suicide. A stranger who |
has money can go TO hotel, of course,
but there are no convenieuces for poor
persons such as the weary individual
who addressed the plaintive inquiry to
the New York policeman.
Charles Dickens is reported to have
assisted at seance once, and re-
quested the attendance of the spirit of
Lindley Murray. He was soon in
formed that the spirit awaited his ques-
tioning. Are you the spirit of Lind.
ley MurraJ2' asked the great author of
the great grammarian. 81 arc" re-
piled the incorporeal visitor. Mr.
Dickens was Immediately convinced.
Gov. Cleveland was entertained at
dinner the other evening by Gen. Chas.
Tracy, IN the old Schuyler mansion, at
Albany'-the historic house where Bur.
goyne was entertained after his surren-
der, where Alexander Hamilton courted
and welded his bride, and where, in
later years, Willard Fillmore was mar
fied.
Two thousand persons have been ar
rested in Moscow on suspicion of being
engaged in plotting against the life of
the car. If this sort of thing keeps
up much longer, the cars coronation
will take place before beegarly array
of empty benches, if, indeed, it takes
place at all.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sp~ague, who has
. been spending some time at her coun-
try place near Washington-Edg wood
has her daughters Ethel and Potia
with her. The former, who is now
about 16, while she has her mothers
fine eyes, is as unlike her as possible
otherwise, having quite a stout figure,
which her mother has never bad. 1t
BIS rumored that she has talent for the
Stage, and may adopt it as profes
sion.
A report that has been current in
Washington for some time of the en-
gagement of Perry Belmont, the youn.
New York Congressman, to the beauti-
eful Miss Langdon, daughter of the late
Eugene Langdon, and great-grand-
adaughter OF the first John Jacob Aster,
has reached New York, and is believed
8 to be true.
The Pennsy lvania Senate has passed
bill making general election day
legal holiday; also bill preventing the
consolidation of competing pipe lines.
Mrs. Lily Langtry and Freddy Geb-
hardt have been spending few days
in Washington. They kept very quiet
and escaped publicity and comment.
President James Buchanan's brother
+ is an Epi' copal minister, now living
quietly in PHILADELPHIA.
According to the FRAsKFURTER ZEIT-
3 ING. large eagle was shot on A prll Is
at n .kkoo, Lapland, which had around
its neck brass chain with little tin
box attached TO it. This box contained
slip of paper on which was written in
DANISH. Caught in 1892 by w. and C.
Anderson, BJetod, in Falster, Den
m rk.
A man looking over his wash, which
the lsundress mad just brought home,
remarked that he could very well un.
derstand bow his neither garments
might shrink up, but what puzz ed HIM
most was now the rutlles grew on each
leg.
ONCE a week are the stockholders in
the X ely Motor Company allowed
the felicity Of gazing upon the wonder
ful mschine evolved from the brain OF
the man whose name the Company
bears On all other occasions. are they
excluded from the workshop. They
claim to be satisfied with the progress
made, and announce that within
short time tho public will have an OPP
portunity to invest its money in keely
motors Of different capacities.
A famous North Carolina clergyman
while preaching a few Sundays ago
from the text, "He giveth His beloved
sleep" stopped in the middle of his dis
course, gazed upon his slumbering con-
gregation and said: Brethren, it is hard
to realize the unbounded love which
the Lord appears to have for a large
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