Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-06-08
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| Kossuth, the famous Hungarian pa
trios and orator. is so years old.
The photographers say that there is
no longer demand for Mrs. Langtry's
pictures.
Gilbert and Sullivan, the {" Pinafore''
partners are said TO be at work on q
new grand opera.
| Mrs. Lucy Stone has Just been re-
elected President of the New England
Woman's Suffrage Convention.
General Rogor A. Pryor, says: New
York Is the strictest state in the Union
N regard to divorce proceedings, and
Rhode Island the most lax"
Everybody is complimentiug jane.
Her three first days of Summer have
been quite Spring-like.
| President Arthur, it is said, contemp-
lstes a fishing trip to Caeat river, West
| Virginia, this month.
Two Philadelphia papers have quar-
relied for d month SIS 10 which has the
right to print Surgeons sermons.
Maggie Mitchell has taken up her
Sum mer rest at L 1ng Branch. Sne is
said to look careworn and a little old.
Tew6x Pasha, who succeeds Aristar-
CHI Bey as Turkish Minister at Wash
ipgton, is a Turk by race as well as
politics, bat has only oze wife.
Hon. j. Proctor Knott, Democrat,
nominee for Governor of kentucky, is
quite i'll st Louisville, hut his coLdi-
| ZION is not considered serious.
James NJ. Brszell, of San Francisco,
has sued J. c. Flood, the Nevada mil
ionaire, for one eighth interest in the
Mount Cary Mine, valued at 81 600
600.
At the testimonial reception given
Thursday evening at Milwaukee to
Miss E Il Wheeler, the poetess, she was
presented With purse of $500 in gold
Associate Justice Gray, OF Massaohu-
setts, of the United States Supreme
Court, will start with General Sher-
mans party 70, the Pacific coast about
June 20.
Sweden has contributed more than
81 800 for the memorial OF Charles
Darwin, in England. Tnis is the largest
UNI contributed by any foreign coun,
try.
Barnum, whose show will open in
| Chicago Monday, is said to have bag
sed $40. 0C0 in five days exhibition IN
| st. Louis. Jumbo has get it in his
| trunk.
Mr.. C. Russell, Q who will accom-.
! pany Lord Chief Justice Coleridge on
MS visit to this country next August,
is TIE moss iLveterate snuff-.aker al
the English bar.
Mr.. Mathew Arnold, the English
wri.er, has recently said that he drinks
vine, net becs u e he finds it iudispeL-
sable, but because it seems to him "to
add to the agreeableness of life
Cardinal Msnni. g's illness is caused
by suppressed govt, and the anxiety OF
eis friends is increased by the fact that
nis eldest brother succumbed to this
disease.
President Soto, of the Central Amer
lean Republic of Honduras, is about to
visit the United States, and the sum Of
$50. coo has been voted to him for this
purpose.
Rev. George W. Smith, d. D., OF
Brooklyn, has accepted the presidency
of Trinity College, Hartford. to succeed
President Pynchor, who is 10 remain
with the college IS professor.
Mr.. Bourn is still sick in bad and is
not likely to be able to go through the
inaugural ceremony at Newport To-Day.
Saould such be the case he will take
the oath of Office at home. Inaugural
ton day Or election" day, as tits called
in Rhode Island, is quite an advent
here, The shops being closed and the
people putting on their best bib and
tucker.
1t is not perhaps generally known
that Mr.. Whistler, the London artist
who has become fam, us through bis
"nocturnes" ard "sym phonies" IN col
or, is an American ly birth. Such,
however, is the ca-e, and the quiet
rocky old town of Slonington. in Con
necticut, can claim the honor of beirg
nis birthplace.
Bjorns'jerne II ,rnson, the famous
Scandinavian poet, who for several
years past has been living in Paris,
has recently finished new thu ee- act
drama, entitled "The Glove" 1t viii
be published simultaneously in Norwe-
gian and German editions.