Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-24
TOPICS OF TIE TIMES.


Mrs. Tennyson writes and signs all
her husbands letters.
Kate Field is in Salt Lake City
studying the Mormon question.
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes is to
make a lecture tour in England next
spring.
Ella Wheeler, the Wisconsin poet,
says there is no secret about her age.
She is "a.
Rosa Bonheur, who has for some
time been suffering invalid, is regain
ing her health.
Mrs. Sabin will hold her weekly
receptions in Washington on Thurs
day.
Rhea is to give performance in st.
Louis for the benefit of the BartholdI
statue
Lolita has achieved success in Lon
don as Little Nell and the Marchioness
in Old Curiosity Shop
Gov. Robinson of Massachusetts,
is superintendent of the Unitarian
Sunday school at Chicopee.
Leigh Smith is making preparations
to resume his artic researches on
the coast of Franz Joseph Land.
Sir Randall Roberts, an Irish baro-
net, is acting agent for Wyndham's
Comedy company in this country.
Bertha Won Hillern, who from the
sawdust track graduated to an art
studio, has just sold one of her pic
lures for 81, 000
Gen. Benjamin P. Runkle of
indianapolis. an old army officer,
was yesterday ordained q priest OF
the Protestant Episcopal church
Matthew Arnold took lessons in ell
ocution of Prof Churchill while in
Boston.
Mr.. Carlisle will notallow his name
to be used in the Kentucky senatorial
contest.
Minister Lowell has accepted the
presidency of the Birmingham and
Midland institute.
Pop Sherman's visit to Washington
has renewed the talk of his being q
! presidential candidate.
Mrs. j. J. Astor has sent 1,063
homeless children to the South and
West in the last few years, at an ex
pense of nearly SIG, 000
Mr.. Blaine is to give dinner to
President Arthur, with Senators Sher-
man and Logan and Secretary Lincoln
rs the other guests.
Mrs. KiImer, who died at Ballston,
n. Y, on Wednesday, had kept house
IN the Kllmer mansion since 1918, the
year she was married.
The bill legalizing marriages be-
| tween Jews and Christians has been
rejected by the upper house of the
Hungarian Diet.
Chas. A. Davis, wholesale dealer
in beef at Haverhill, Mass, with liza
bilities as high as $50, 900, is reported
as an absconder.
-Four thousand unemployed citizens
of Paris met recently and listened
to speeches favoring armed rtvolu
ton to end the stagnation in all
trades
AT noon Saturday, at Duquoin, H.,
! the Office of a cOal-mine superintend-
ent was robbed of $3,392 in cash,
which had been drawn to pay Abor-
ers.
An extraordinary increase in the
number of suicides at Paris is shown
by the fact that 1000 persons destroy
ed themselves last year in that city.
A riot among Italian railroad la
/ borerS at Erie Pa, Sunday resulted
In the killing of one man, the danger
/ GUS wounding of another, and the in
| jury of several Others.
Some unknown person attempted
to fire a school-house at Somerville,
| Mass, while several hundred children
We're in the building The janitor ex-
/ tingulshed the flames.
Wesley Merritt, the superintendent
! at West Point, and Col. d. S. Stanley
4 are mentioned as the most likely to
receive promotion to the vacant Brig
/ craftsmanship.
A brass tablet has been placed in
/ the chancel of the ancient Church of
/ St. Margaret, Mapledurham, England,
in memory of the late Rev Edward
/ Coleridge, uncle of the lord chief jus
1 tice of England.
At the presidents New Years re-
/ ception Mrs. Logan was kind and at
I tentlye to Mrs. Bruce, whom the 9th
er ladies had neglected; and. 10 the
last number of tie New York Globe,
an organ of the colored people, con
tanned large portrait of Senator Lo-
gan, with an eulogistic article, in
which he is called ''the champion of
the peoples rights.
Nubar Pasha, the new Egyptian
premier was born at Smyrna, in 1926,
of an American family. He was edu-
/ Gated in France and served his coun-
1 try in many important diplomatic pos
/ itions. lie was minister Of foreign af-
! fairs under Ismail, and left Egypt
when that rule was overthrown. He
1 has been decorated with several orders,
among them the Legion of Honor in
/ 1867.
Married men cannot be too careful. |