Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-03-15
BRIEF ITEMS.

IIluCe oOItsCuhkOl is dangerously
i'll at Baden Baden.
Ex-senator Window is in New York
organizing mis- stock exchange.
NJ. Clemenceau, the French radical.
once taught French in Greenwich,
Conn.
Helmholtz, the scientist, accepted
letters Of nobility from the Emperor Of
Germany.
Mrs. Langtry announces that her
dear Mr.. Gebhardt Will be her business
manager next season.
f. Marion Crawford, the author of
the successful novel, Mr.. Isaacs," is a
nephew OF Miss Jalia Ward Howe.
Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt has is
sued during the winter more than TO-
600 tickets OF admission to his private
art gallery.
The daughters of Henry w. Long
fellow, accom- panied by Mrs Ole Bull,
are spending the winter quietly in
Washington.
Ex-senator Joseph Lane, of Oregon,
is seriously i'll at his home in that state.
He WAS the democratic candidate for
vice president in 1860.
Mr.. Swinburne, has written 4 poem
OH the death of Richard Wagner, which
has been published in the London Mu-
steal Review
DR.. Max Seripg, a commissioner OF
the Prussian government, is in this
country collecting facts about agricul-
tural development here.
George Swepson, noted for his con.
nection with North Carolina railways
and one OF the wealthiest men in that
state. is thought to be dying at Raleigh.
Mr.. Tabor, whose funny matrimonial
capers and bonanza splurges has given
him notoriety, is going to build a
"palace" il Washington, where he will
pass mis- winters.
Weather prophet Vennor, of Mont
real, has acknowledged the receipt of
sleigh presented to him by a man in
Doylestown. The sleigh was sent to
Vennor in payment of a wager on the
weather.
Nine. Wilson, President CREWS only
child, has recently become the mother
of little girl-the first child, it is said,
ever born in the Elysee Palace.
Prince Bismarck is reported to have
said recently, speaking of the Emperor
and himself: 1--WE are getting old and
sick, and dare not ask 10 be our own
masters"
Mrs. Parnell the mother of the great
Irish agitator, does not believe that the
British Government has captured the
murderers Of Lord Caverdish and Mr..
Burke.
Albert Bierstadt, the celebrated ar
fist, is taking several sketches of Rideau
Hall, the Governor Generals house at
Ottawa, Cam, at the request of Mar
quis OF Lorne.
The Rev. DR.. Knox, of Elmira, n
Y, has in congregation, four exCon-
gressmen, namely, the Messrs. Samuel
Partridge, Hiram Gray, Alexander S.
Diven and Fl. B. Smith.
There is critic at Springfield, o.,
who says that Mrs. Langtry is "a very
beautiful, very pure woman, and q
very fine actress" Mrs. Langtry did
not smile on him in vain.
The memorial tablet in the house at
Rome, Italy, formerly occupied by
Prof. Morse, the "father of the tele-
graph" was unveiled yesterday, in the
presence of a distinguished assembly.
Captain John 1. Glenn, "the Drum
mer Boy of the Chickamaugs," is a
member OF a Grand Army Post in Phil.
adelphia. 1t is claimed that he is the
youngest member of the Grand Army
who was in actual service.
Mr.. Jay Cooke has completed aI-
engagements for the transformation of
his beautiful former home, Ogonlz, near
Chelten Hills, Pa, into a young ladies'
boarding school. The property is val
ued at about q million dollars.
Nathan Coz, of Clarksburg, w. Va,
an uncle of representative Nathan Goff
has Tor sixty years been a volunteer
distributor of the Bible. He estimates
that he mas thus distributed between
$4,000 and "a DOC volumes.
Nilsson was billed for a concert in st.
James Hall, Buffalo, last evening, but
as only 81 800 was received, and as the
expenses are $1,000 per day, Manager
Abbey telegraphed to cancel the en-.
gagement and start the company to
Toronto.
James Gilfillan, of Minnesota, United
States Treasurer at Washington, has re-
signed his Office after twenty-five years
service in the department, having held
his present position the past SIX years.
He gocs into business In New York.
1t is reported that Mr.. Walker Blaine,
( Dlo.,.. ell
Miss Emily Beale, daughter of General
Beale, of Washington, the classmate
and army chum of General Grant. The
event is underlined to take place after
Lent.
Miss Margaret Emmett, daughter Of
Thomas Adds Emmet, and niece Of
Robert Emmett, the IRISH patriot, died
in New York, on Thursday, aged 80
years. She and her father were in
nrisOn in Scotland for three years after