Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-01
Sauibs.

Park.
The fashion OF having a dozen
bridesmaids at wedding pretty
nearly leaves the bridegroom out as
mart of the attraction.
A rBmor is ahoat that ex-Delegate
Cannon is to be made the head OF the
Mormon Church. Mr. Cannon is a
sivnIv husband. but never brought
any Of the Mrs. Cannons to Washing
ton.
Count Won Moltke is the Oldest
Commander-in-C He was born
in 1900, and can make love IN four
teen languages.
Father John Carroll, of Chicago, IS
said to be the Oldest Catholic priest
in America. He comes ofthe famous
CAROLS, of Maryland.
John w. Mackey said to a reporter
for the st. Paul Pioneer-Press MIN
ing is the most precarious business IN
the world" "You can well afford
10 saw it." the reporter retorted,
with $50, 900. 600 to your credit, But
did YOU think so in 1860, when you
were pushing an ore car IN the
Ophir mine?" Il knew it then only
in theory; for my salaryof s. day
was ALWAYS sure, and my wants were
simple. You always hear of the sue
cessful miners. The men who disap-
pear and are lost ia Pauper alley are
not 50 often quoted.
An exchange says the orderin rural
New England, is nutting parties by
dav and husking bees at night. They
do manage to have lots CT fun and
get good deal out of life along the
sterile, rock-bouhd coast"
One-ffth of the soldiers Of the reg
ular army are mustered out every
wear by the expiration of enlistment
terms. while deaths, desertions, and
physical infrmities make 1, 600 more
vacancies in the ranks. About 5000
enlistments are therefore required an.
nually.
Miss Ellen Terry, the leading lady
of Henry Irving's English Dramatic
Company, is described as lowered
with a fascinating, if not perfect,
beauty of face and form She is above
the medium height with the ideal
A tic figure. A well poised head,
crowned with hair of FURNISHED
gold bears countenance which radi-
ates a sweet and soulful intellectual
ty. Her chin is too heavy to be CON
ventionally beautiful, but her eyes
light up the whole face and relieve it
of any taintof severity
A number of suits were begun
Wednesday in New York against the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
asking the injunction of the court
against an issue by the company of
second-mortgage bonds. The ground
Of the petitions is that the original act
of the incorporation prohibits the tissue
of such bonds without the consent of
Congress. A stay was granted in two
of the suits, and argument will be
heard Nov I, which will be next
Thursday. Notwithstanding this at
tack the Willard shares advanced IN
value. The officers of the company
characterized the suits as feeble at
tempts of enemies of the road TO
handicap the operations of its pro
jectors and managers. The officers
require the adhesion of holders OF
$3l, 900, 600 of stock They declare
they have already secured $50, 900, 600
of the needed authority.
The Myra Clark Gaines case has
been placed before the Supreme Court
of the United States. The record is
bound in one gigantic book, which
weighs 200 pounds. One man cannot
alone open the volume, This recalls
the famous dictum of Chief-Justice
O'Malley, of the West Side bench,
many years ago: This, gintlemin. is
wan of the hiyiest cases that liver kim
up thin shtairsw
According to the New York papers
saws the London Truth, Mrs. Langtry
has invested $S1, 900 in Fifth avenue
and other streets in that city. In the
assignment deeds Mrs. Langtry, is
described as Emile Charlotte Lang
try. of the Island of Jersey" which
may perhaps be interesting to people
who were under the impression that
her name was Lily.
A lively freghtrate war is in pro
gress in Colorado and Utah between
the competing Union Pacific and the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroads
M. de Strive, the Russian minister
at Washington, and his wife have
with them a little japanese boy, who
is being educated with their own chill
dren. They brought him with them
from Japan, when they left there IN
the spring of 1882, at the request O
his parents, who wished himte be well
educated.
Miss Maud Howe, the beautiful
daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
of Boston, is said to be engaged to Mr.
J. B. McCullagh, editor of the St
Louis Globe-Democrat. They met a
Old Point Comfort last August tn,
belief that their nuptials are soon t.
celebrated, is strengthened by the ru
NOR that Mr.. McCullagh is furnishing
in regal style his elegant residence a
Kirkwood, one of the Fashionable
suburbs of St Louis.
Governor Proctor Knott, of Ken
lucky, and two members of the Lon
Fisherman Club, of Louisville, callet
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