Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-06
PERSONS AND THINGS.

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issued to woman.
Mrs. Talmage is great favorite
with the congregation of her husband S
church. She is of medium height,
and has refined face with large eyes,
and soft hair, slightly sprinkled with
gray.
Oscar Wilde sserts that it would
now be an impossibility for him to
do anything that would meet the APP
proval of the American people. The
New York World suggests that he
might try suicide.
Mrs. Gladstone, who is nearly the
same age as the premier, accompan-
les her husband everywhere, and fire.
quently remains in the ladies' gal
lery till the close Of the nights sit
ting.
The attorney general of Iowa has
decided that salaries OF school-teach-
ers are payable monthly, and, if long
er withheld, can be collected with in
terest.
a New Orleans man has sued a no
tel-keeper in Geneva, switzerland, for
extorting $50, 600 from him. The fell
low got sick and couldn't get away
from the house, and the landlord
charged him all his conscience would
allow.
Elder Roberts, who has charge of
the headquarters of the Mormon
church at Chattanooga, states that
there are over siXty-five Mormon ell
ders engaged in proselyting in all sec
tons of the South, and the force Will
be doubled in May
A Mr.. Baldwin, of Anderson coun-
! ty, Kan, a very old man, who re-
members events of fifty years ago
much better than those Of last years,
says that during the visit of the comet
of 1912 the western sky was red every
evening, just as it was during the last
/ TWO months.
Boston bitterly resents the recent
publication of what purports to be a
dispatch from the Hub" describing a
dinner of puppy steak and beer, with
which seventeen young Germans of
the New Jerusalem club RECALLED
themselves. The Boston Journal
dolefully deplores tie restless craving
! for sensations which creates a demand
for newspaper fction-a demand
which versatile and INSCRIPTIONS cor
respondents readily supply.
Senator Williams, of Kentucky, is
a tall, heavy, clumsy man, He wears
wig, which close observers say he
changes, so as to give his head more
the appearance of having been trim
med at the beginning OF the month
after which it grows longer week by
week, until the maximum length is
reached, when a Shift is made back to
the wig with the shorter hair
The great composer, Felix Mendels-
sohn, who died in 1S47, was the grand
son of the celebrated philosopher,
Moses Mendelssohn. His father, a
Berlin banker, who came in between
these two famous personages, used to
say, Il should like to know who / am
When | was young they used to call
me the son of Moses Mendelssohn, and
now that | am old I'm only called the
father Of Felix MendelsSohn."
High chimneys for factories are now
becoming unnecessary, by reason of
the introduction of a new Kind of
oven Any manufacturer, it is as
serted, can place one of these ovens in
his works, and obtain from every ton
of slack he uses, coke worth 81, tar
and ammonia worth 81, and a. 900
feet of gas to generate steam. The
coke, tar and ammonia will thus, it is
claimed, considerably more than pay
for slack, wear and tear, etc.
On the arrival in Syracuse of the
fast train on the Central road a few
days ago, a cat was discovered crouch
ed on the top of the truck over the
wheels of one of the coaches When
taken off, the cat was nearly frighten-
ed to DEATH almost frozen, and its hair
was matted with cinders. This train
makes only one stop, and that at Al
| bany, between New York and SYRIA
cuse. The cat is believed to have
ridden on the truck from New York.
Two young men in Ida Township,
Monroe county. Michigan, have been
arrested for disturbing the district
school The disturbance complain
ed of seems to have consisted of per
sistent inclination TO attend the school
as visitors and sit with the girls and
spark during school hours; also a
habit of being at the school at recess
and noontimes to engage in the same
rather pleasant occupation. The boys
weakened on being hauled up before
the justice and promised to quit
Mr.. William Reese, 10 years Of
age, living at Orangeburg, S. c., be
lieves in exercising his authority as
parent. His son Andrew, 80 years Of
age, was bad boy, and the old man
ordered him down on his hands and
1 knees and proceeded to whale him
with big whip. The boy endured
the punishment until he thought the
old man should be tired, when he
jumped up ana made lunge at him
with a knife. The spry old chap
lodged the blow and the knife went
into the stomach of John Green, who
was standing by enjoying the scene,
and killed him Andrew was con
victed of murder, and sentenced to
life term in the penitentiary.