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

plates to make gold tooth-picks
George. w. Gable will soon be able
t. leave Hartford.
The barber seems TO thrive where
another man dyes.
Prince Napoleon Victor is coming
to America early in the summer
When the Marquis of Lansdowne
shakes hands he bows and smiles.
Judge Wilson, the senator-eect
from Maryland, is rs fond of snuff IS
ever
Charles Bradlaugh, the infdel mem
Der of parliament, has brother who
is engaged in evangelical work
The :ten German universities ma
circulated IL, 76S students for the win
ter course.
A hotel at Niles, Michigan is the
property of John G. SAKE, the we'll
known poet
Rev. John S. Inslip, a well-llnown
Methodist preacher died of paralysis
at Ocean Grove, n. J.
Beecher says that Wendell Phillips
was an aristocrat all his life; but he
was an aristocrat of the mind and
heart.
The man whose brow was furrow.
ed with care shouldn't have taken
care.
When is a dog like a piece Of jewel
rye When he is a hunting watches
and chases his tail
The man that has an ear bit off in
a carouse can never explain how he
lost il; there's always something
missid-eal-ious about it,
Mic says that however he has the
toothache it's the jumping sort, and
one Of the livoiest at that IL general
ly goes alta tooth-hurty gait
1t is true that one swallow does not
make a summer but if lisa swallow
of the right kind of stuff it makes one
feel kind Of sultry inside.
Oars two men what yer kahn argy
wild bout wimmen. One whutstiXiu
ter git married an one whut's been
married for some time.
Dr. Deems declares kissing a purely
American habit. AS tulips are ma
tives of the whole world, it is strange
that foreigners were 50 much behind
us IN this matter
The Earl Of Huntington says that
Gen. Grant and Thomas Mast are the
only two Americans Thoroughly well
known in England.
Gov. Cleveland has been invited to
be "best man for State Comptroller
Chaplin at the wedding Of the latter in
Brooklyn next week.
Roaring Wind of the Bluegrass"
is the name given senator-elect Joe
Blackburn of Kentucky by the Indian
tribes of the state. Joe is an Indian
by adoption.
Wendell Phillips favorite book, ac-
cording to a gentleman who inter
viewed him, was "Bacon's Essays
The compilers Of the Australian
census report that Australia could
furnish $50, 600 men from 20 to 40,
capable of bearing arms.
Minneapolis is happy. Colonel
Ma pltSOI Opt1d biOupt Will give
three performances there this week
Elisha V. Ashton, who was the
leading dry-goods merchant of Bos
ton half \ century ago, died recently
in Europe, leaving large amounts to
Protestant charities.
Mr.. Biornson, an actor OF note at
Hamburg, Germany, is the son Of
Bjornstjorne Bjornson, the Norwe
eian poet. The latter has been living
with his family in Paris for about a
year.
An attempt has been made in Bos-
ton to break the will Of Mrs Eliza y.
Eddy, who left $40, 600 to Susan b.
Anthony and Lucy Stone Blackwell,
in trust for the woman-suifrage
cause.
The Marquis Tseng, Chinese rep
resentative at Paris, has long mus
tache and a sweeping pigtail. He
wears an imperial yellow tunic and
violet underskirt, and over his yellow
collar Hecklet Of lapis lazuli and OK
stone. His annual income is 500, 900,
but he has very simple habits. lie IS
a schrewd and formidable diplomat.
1t is proposed to hold an interna-
tional exhibition Of food, dress, habi-
tationsand educational appliances this
year in England.
An international agricultural exhi
bition is to be held at Amsterdam next
August, and valuable prizes will be
offered for every description Of live
stock.
Martin Sellers, of Kendallville com
mitted suicide because he was subp0
naed to appear as a witness in a muir
der case. He would take no part in
sending man to the gallows.
Berlin artists procure their models
through an agent who is known as
1.-THE handsome Adolph" OF late
Berlin has become quite an artistic
center, and models are in great de
mand
The grinding down Of the people
employed at some fashionable co-ope-
ratiye stores in London has been ex-
citing much attention Many of the
employees have been kept thrice a
week nearly to midnight without ex-
.