Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07

interviewed,
Mr. Beecher likes music, but does
not care for opera.
Ex-Governor Bishop, of Ohio looks
like a patriarch.
Lord Onslow has bought heavily of
Texas lands.
Seth Green say. that FISH become
the most obedient of pets
Pickpockets are said to infest every
railroad town in Mississippi.
At wedding party in Thomasvllle,
Ga, wine thirty-siX years Of age was
unbottled.
/ General Pope is making many
friends ON the Pacific slope.
/ Colonel Ingersoll would like to
cross swords with Monsignor Capel
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett the
writer is very popular in Washing
ton.
Hagar, the bonSmaid of Abraham.
was the first woman who wore car
rings.
Ex-Governor Cornell is writing a
life of his father, the late Ezra Cor
nell.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
advocate, is in Boston for the first
time.
The Lieutenant Rhodes testimonial
fund of the Boston Post amounts to
/ 81, 200
Herbert Welsh, Of Philadelphia, is
IecturiDg in New England on Indian
affairs.
Charles S. OGut, the speaker cf
the Kentucky house, is twenty-seven
years Of age
Sparta, Ga, has only 200 inhabi-
tants, and yet two barrooms there pay
$3.50 each for license
Nearly all Florida hotels get their
meat aud poultry from New York
Canned vegetables are almost exclusi-
yely used.
The Baroness Burdett-CouttS is in
ten 0sting herself IN the matter of pre-
venting cruelty to children.
Mrs. G. G. Smith, Of Springfield,
H., is compiling a book of hymns
and sacred poems written by women.
A New Hampshire married women
has a mania for collecting buttons.
When they get scarce and hard to
find she just clips a few off her nus.
bands shirts.
Thomas Mast is in Washington,
face to face with the statesmen whom
he once put into caricatures.
! Colonel David II. Suother Porte
Crayon" is coming home from the
city Of Mexico IN the spring,
The Marquis of Laudsdowne la,
been appointed a Knight Of the Crane
Cross of the Order of St. Michael anC
st. George
Mai. Ben. Perley Poore the veteran
7 journalist, is confined to his room in
Washington, and is under the care o
} his physician.
The largest school in the world i
probably the Jews Free School il
Sptalfelds, London. 1t has a daily
attendance of over 2, 600 pupils.
Colonel Aaron X. Dunke, one Of
the founders Of the Sunday Republic
has retired from that journal to engage
in business in the west
Professor LEM, of Nuremberg
| Germany, has received an order tC
cast bronze statue of the late Presi
dent Garfield, which is to be erected
IN San Francisco.
1t is announced that the window
glass workers and manufacturers,
after a lengthy conference at Pitts
burg, effected settlement of the wages
question.
AT the end of the Connecticut legis-
latures first fortnight the senate had
been in session sixty minutes, the
house three hours and twenty-five
minutes,
An explosion of dynamite cartridges
in the Office of contractors for the
Canada Pacific railroad near Michipi-
cotton, week ago, killed five work
men.
The Royal Geographical society has
congratulated Mrs. Lieut. De Long
officially on the excellence of her
publication of her husbands jour
nails
In a speech at Rochester, N. y,
thirty years ago, Douglass said eff a
black man burns his feet by marrying
a white woman he must expect to
stand on the blisters."
Gen. Pleasanton, the old cavalry
leader is familiar figure at Wash.
ington He is tall, slender, and
straight as an arrow. He is called one
of the best story tellers at the capital.
Major William Arthur, the brother
of the President, is a great fayorite
with children.
Colonel Tom Bowen is considered
the best poker player in Colorado.
He sometimes substitutes his photo
graph for a jack.
Congressman Eaton, Of Connect
cut, although a small, slight man
moves slowly when he walks and
speaks slowly when he talks.
Col. Ingersoll predicts that small
men will be nominated for president
next year. and the smaller OF the two