Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-13
SQUIBS.

VIII Carleton, the writer of farm
ballads, is said to be worth $50, 600.
There's no danger of his going over
the Hills TO tie Poor House.
Mr.. Yoshica, japanese Minister at
Washington, it is said, can bow ana
touch the top of his head to the floor
without rush of blood to his face.
Mr.. George A. Post, Representative
in Congress from the Fifteenth Penn
svlvania District, is bat 20 years of
age, and is the youngest member Of
Congress.
Miss Winnie Hall, of Temple, Tex,
is proud to confess that she is the old
est old maid in America, if not in the
world. She was 100 years old last
Sunday
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island
is still confined to his room. 1t is
thought he will be able to resume his
seat in the Senate before the holiday
adjournment.
Joseph L. Stickney, IA leading edi-
torial writer on the Philadelphia Rec
ord, has become managing editor of
the Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Crown Prince of Germany calls
King Alfonso one of the ablest rulers
in Europe. The Crown Prince Of
Germany is more courteous than can
did.
The engagement of Miss Helen
Sloan, daughter of George b. Sloan,
of Oswego, n Y, 70 Lieutenant
Dadenhower of the Jeanette expedi-
ton is announced
Mr. Gladstone seems to bear no po-
litical grudges. He gives one seceder
from his Government, the Vice-royal-
ity of Canada, and the other the
Duke of Argyll the Garter.
Gen. Grant Indignantly denies the
story telegraphed from Detroit that he
and Mrs Grant have been converted
to Spiritualism He says that al
though he never attended a seance in
his life he believed Spiritualism to be
a system Of Juggling carried on by
jugglery.
Miss Fanny Everett, aged 50, has
been Postmistress of West Foxbor-
ough, Mass, for twenty-five years.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks. of In-
diana, and his wife, sail for Europe
this week, to be gone several months.
Lord Vernon, of England, is on a
tour of inspection in the dairy and
butter-making district of Northern IL
linois
Oscar Wilde has petered out com
pletely. No one responded to the an
nouncement of his recent lecture IN
Dublin.
Brigadier General Reece has been
and assumed the duties of
Private Secretary of Governor Ham
ilton of this State.
Elk Congressman Bowman, of Mas
sachusetts, prints card to say that he
is not a candidate for the office Of
Postmaster of Boston.
1t is said that President Andrew
ID. White, of Cornell University, will
be a candidate for United States Sena-
tor from New York to succeed Senator
Lapham. His chances of success are
said to be good.
A New York bookseller says that
women do not buy such books as
Guides to Gentility, and Habits of
Good Society" Men buy them.
Women prefer such books as "How to
Beautify the Skin, and THE Art of
Dress.
John B. Cough, the veteran and
eloquent lecturer, is in Chicago. He
has come to fill a number Of Western
lecture engagements Mr.. Coughs
hair is turned white, and he is begin
ming to show unmistakable evidences
of advancing age
II. b. Philbrick, who recently
delivered a lecture on the subject of
kissing in New York, declares that
the reason kissing is so pleasant is
because the teeth, iawbones and lips
are full of nerves, and when the lips
of two persons meet an electric cur
rent is generated.