Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
SQUIBS.

from the Olu IobAti y.
Forepaugh has had to pay 81, 600 to
a woman who was run over by one of
mis- circus wagons.
President Arthur has shut himself
in the Soldiers Home to work on his
message without interruption.
A Cleveland woman got $4,000
damages because of a cough she ac-
quired in a newly plastered hotel
Edwin Booth cleared enough money
during his Boston engagement to pay
for his new house in that town.
The Hon. George Bancroft viii give
to the Iowa town named for him s l.
COO worth of books for a public Ii
brary.
1t begins to look to the Philadelphia
Call as though somebody had given
Freddie Gebhardt dose of chloro-
form.
Joseph jefferson has aided 200acres
to his Louisiana ranch, and he will
henceforth spend most of his time
there with his two boys.
Turkish and Russian Baths are a
feature in one of the millionaires new
houses on upper Fifth avenue. New
York, put in at an expense of so,
600.
SiXty-one years next Christmas Eve
the mother of Matthew Arnold hung
up his first little stocking, and on
Christmas morning he found himself
in it.
An Oil City deacon, being late at
church, asked the congregation to eX-
cuse his hardness, as he had been up
the night before opening the finest lot
of dry goods ever brought'to town.
Cant make homemade sweet
bread ~ said Mrs. Parvenu to her cook
"Well, you won't do for me. want
a cook who can bake, boil, fry and do
everything!"
Professor in chemistry; "The sub
stance you see in this vial is the most
deadly of all poisons. A single drop
placed on the tongue of a cat is enough
to kill the strongest man.
Anthony Trollope said that an i'll
fitting shirt-collar would keep him
from thinking, This shows Mr. Troll
lope's eccentricity. An ill-fitting
shirt-colar Will make the average man
think with great rapidity.
A 12-year-old boy of Franklin, Pa,
burst a blood-vessel while blowing a
tin horn and died in few hours. If
this item is of no use to you, cut it out
and hand it to you neighbor.
Nothing disgusts a young lover in
10 Il 30 4 L,
the piano stool he has been occupying
for the last hour has been used as a
''twister" at the children's candy-pull-
ing party the night before.
An army officer is about to marry
the daughter of a United States sena-
tor 1t is to be hoped he will never try
to teach his new father the wicket
army game of poker.
In a few days the Washington
monument will be 400 feet high. 1t is
supposed that Secretary Chandler will
90 up and scan the horizon to discover
the American navy.
AS part of the marriage ceremony
in Servia, the bride has to hold piece
of sugar between her lips as a sign
that she will speak little and sweetly
during her marriage life. The sugar
soon melts away,
We see by the head line Of a daily
paper that Champion Dtmb- Bell
Litter" has been found. We hope
these things are not going to be hawk
ed around the streets like the thousand
and one stove-lifters.
A Philadelphia lawyer had disap-
peared, but there is not much anxiety
about him, as it is believed he has
only stepped over into the adjoining
State to help prepare column and
half of OBITUARY resolutions for de-
parted member of the bar.
Henry Ward Beecher says he kept
away from the theatre sixty-eight
years, supposing it was bad place
He has recently discovered that it
isn't and now he proposes to attend
two nights every week for the rest of
his life.
Miss Rebecca Boone, whose father
Thomas Roone, was first cousin to
the famous Daniel Boone, is dead, at
the age of IS years. She had been
living in NorristOwn, Pa, for forty
years. President Lincoln was her
first cousin.
James Walton whose death in Eng
land at the age of 81 is announced,
was noted inventor of cloth weaving
and spinning machinery, and his two
sons were the inventors of linoleum
tloor-cloth and new material for the
decoration of walls and ceilings
Anton Rubinstein. the famous Rus
sian pianist, has, it is stated, received
an offer Of 1925, 900 for a series of $50
concerts in the United States. 1t is
not yet known whether NJ. Rubin
stein will accept the proposal
Miss Catherine Wolf, one of the
chief society ladies of Newport, R. J.,
is said to be worth $50, 600, 000 She is
not the kind Of a wolf that one would
wish to keep away from the door.
De Brazza, the French explorer,
has arrived at Stanley Pool after
many difficulties, said to have been
placed in his way by Stanley
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