Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-03-01
GleaniDgs.

Eight female clerks are employed in
the Massachusetts insurance depart
ment at $40 year each.
Isaac Quinn, colored youth of Gas
ton county, n. O., IL years old, is six
feet seven inches in height, and stin
growing.
Paris is soon to have Jean JACQUES
Rousseau exhibition. including maEu-
scripts, portraits and souvenirs of all
kinds.
A Troy debating society has decided
that young man can marry ard live
happily on a salary of $40 week. In
tending husbands should take notice.
A lady in Norwich. Conn, 70 years
of age, has just begun to take lessons
or the pianoforte, greatly TO her own
pleasure, however 1t may to the other
members OF her household.
The Democrats of Massachusetts
complain that Governor Ben Butler is
giving all his best appointments to
"Butler Republicans"
Col. John Hay, Gen. James Grant
Wilson, Lady Churchill, nee Jerome,
and Miss Chamber lain, are among the
Americans spending the winter at
Cannes, in the south of France.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott has just is
sued life of Henry Ward Beecher.
Mrs. John A. Logan reminds one efa
portrait of Marie Antoinette, says a
Washington paper.
1t is predicted that the Orleanist Duke
n A II o. 10 urtl he III NoraufIn,nA -F
the French Republic.
The Michigan Greenback State Com
mittee, of which w. D. Fuller IS Chair
man, has called State Convention, to
meet in Lansing, Oh Thursday, March s.
Governor Ben Butler proposes to
leave a monument of his adminstra-
ton by an enlargement of the Massa-
chusetts State House, or the erection
of new building for State purposes
near the present edihce.
BY the will of Boston lady, lately
deceased, Miss Susan B. Anthony and
Mrs. Lucy Stone Black will receive
$40, 900 each as the representative wo-
man sutfragists, and it is said they viii
use the money in ad vancing the cause.
Mutual Friend Moulton of Brooklyn
says Governor Ben Butler "ful6lls the
current want for hero" Moulton's
ideas OF ahero have always been lit
tie queer, remar ks the Buffalo Express.
AT her christening in Freehold, n.
j., Mr.. WINS baby girl wore around
her neck some lace that had decorated
her at-great-grandmo other, Mrs.
Margaret Mccall Swift, of Philadelphia
in 1850.
For the first time it is said in the his
tory of the Canadian Parliament, faith
er and son are sitting as members Of
the same House of Commons. The
gentlemen are Sir Charles Topper and
Charles A. Upper.
Governor Ben Butler told the con-
victs in the Mass achusetts State Prison
yesterday that Mr.. Earle was removed
recently from the wardenship of that
institution; not because of his treat.
ment of the prisoners, but for disobedi-
ence OF the governors orders.
1T has long been a stock defense for
river and harbor bills that q large part
of the money was spent in the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river.
Some persons have been skeptical
enough to maintain that this was the
worst waste of all, and resolution
adopted by the house on Saturday
would indicate that there are even
some men in congress who at least in
dulge doubts on the matter. The news
from the river above Memphis is to
effect that a large part of the govern
ment work there has been swept away
before any flood has reached it. Mr..
Robinson, of Massachusetts, q member
OF the house committee to investigate
the lE1proveme nts, offered resolution
% skiing the secretary of war for q report
in the premises. Many million dellars
have been expended in the Mississippi
during the past five years, yet its navi-
CATION continually declines and new
railroads are built on its banks. Moth
ing Is now heard of the great barge sys-.
tenn which is always about to be put in
operation, and even the river commits
sion-that mysterious body, of which
nobody knows anything except that il
is always asking for money.-is no long
er able to pad out the news and impart
any considerable interest to the water
transportation problem, yet the coun-
try is assured that large sum of mon
ey is needed to make certain improve
ments in the way of driving piling in
channels and building levees on both
banks from Cairo to the Gulf of Mexi-
co, when neither of them have been
of the slightest benefit to navigation.
1t was well for MIR. Robinson to make
such an inquiry, and it will be better
still if this policy of pouring money
into big river just to get rid of so
much extra taxes shall be stopped. Il
scarcely pays to make channels when
there are no boats to run in them or to-
heap up levees which cannot keep back
the great flood of waters.
Boys and Their Mothers.
OF all the love affairs In the world