Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-21

Sluefeu 10 Oe the ilnest ever gwen IN
this city.
A statement of the affairs of New
York'S swell Metropolitan Opera
House shows a deficit of $23S. AS. and
the Board of Directors has ordered an
assessment Of 50, 500 apiece on the
stockholders.
The police are searching for the
parliamentary robes of Lord D'Eyn-
court Alfred Tennyson) which are
supposed to have been lost recently
while the poet-peer was on his way to
London TO take his seat for the first
time at the opening of Parliament,
A few months since the wife of
Rev, Adirondack w. II. Murray,
formerly Of Boston, received the de
gree of NJ d. from the University of
Vienna after passing a very creditaole
examination. Mrs. Murray has taken
a house in New Haven and intends 20
practice her profession
A possible successor TO Rosa Bon
hour, the famous animal painter has
been discovered in Paris, in the per
son of Miss Strong, of San Fran
cisco. One of her studies, a life
sized dog, was accepted at the last
saloon
The Presidents ceremonial officer
in the White House Is Clayton Nc
Micheal, a tiue-looking man with
black eyes and hair probably forty
years OF age, and a married man, of
Philadelphia. He is the som cf Nor
ton McMichael
A. J. Holmes, a member of Con-
gress from the tenth iowa District,
was called to his home at Boone by
telegraph and arrived yesterday in
time 10 be present at the death of his
only child, q son about years old,
who died in'the afternoon.
Rev Myron w. Reed, pastor Of
the First Presbyterian Chu1ch at
indianapolis probably the best
known minister in the State of Indiana
has received call from the First
Congregational Church of Denver,
Col, at IS, 600. 1t is believed he will
accept
Mrs w. G. Noah, one Of the great
actresses of fifty years ago, who play
ed rival engagements with Fanny
Kemble and supported the elder
Booth and Forrest, is still living in
Rochester, N. y. She was married
twice, and is the mother of Rachel
Noah.
While giving an alleged spiritist
manifestation i'm the Imperial Palace
at Vienna, yesterday, man named
Bastain was exposed in his tricks by
the Crown Prince Rudolph Some
years ago Bastain gave "seances' in
Chicago, but his career was cut short
by an exposure of his trieks
One of the states back toward the
suns home base proposes to establish
the whipping post for wife heaters.
1t shouldn't be done. When men
become so fastidious as to demand
public posts TO which to lash their
wives while whipping tAem, they
should be entirely deprived of the
healthful amusement.
81 know we are poor, my dear, "
argued the husband, but you must
bear in mind that it isn't wealth that
always brings happiness
81 know wealth doesn't always
bring happiness, responded the
wife, "but it brings sealskin sacques
and diamonds and silk dresses, etc,
and that's good enough happiness for
me.
IL is announced that Secretary
Evarts bears a deadly hatred toward
thick-soled shoes. He can probably
trace his antipathy clear back to the
halcyon days of youth, when he first
encountered a pair Of them worn by
an aged gentleman whom the girl he
was singing parliamentary taify at
addressed as "dea' papa"
A Frenchman, "who loved twenty
women and was adored by all of
them shot himself yesterday. The
wonder is that under these circum-
stances, he wasn't an inmate OF an
insane asylum long ago. Even with
ice cream at fifteen cents plate,
and bouquets and carmels at cost, "a
MAJ life with twenty sweet hearts
would be a perpetual and expensive
nightmare.
RuttN ltbollh - very iNhu VI up
pies, and they do say it is interesting
to watch the old lady popping the
seeds on the kitchen stove to see if
she will get married this year.
Twenty deaf mutes in Norwich,
Conn, are members of a Congrega-
tional Church, and they have formed
a Bible class under the charge Of a
teacher familiar with their method of
conversation.
Francis Hagan, the young Phila
delphia hero who rescued the drown
ing boys from the Schuykill river at
risk of his own life, has been presented
with a pnrse of 1913 and suit Of
clothes the first new suit he ever
had.