Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-04
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Bret Harte is forty-six years old.
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Roscoe Conkling is . grandfather.
The Princess Victoria of Teck is said
to be the handsomcst Princess in Eu-
rope.
The new wardrobe of the Princess
Beatrice contains 4 number of Mother
Hubbards.
NJ Maranoni, editors of the Petit
Journal, of Paris, is thick set, little
man of fifty.
Forty-one daily newspapers have died
in New York city within the last TWEEN
ty-fye years
Philadelphia appears to have an I'M
profitable investment in cable cars that
will not run.
The Gordon fund, now swollen to
$4,000, is to be used to found q boys
home in London.
An English mastiil, the largest dog
of the kind ever exhibited, sold not
long ago for $1,000
Lady Salisbury has contempt for
hereditary distinctions, and regrets that
her eldest son is condemned to be Il
Peer
Fifteen million horses are now owned
in America, and more than 1000, coo
year must be bred to keep up the
supply
Rochefort, though he appeals to the
mob in his newspaper. will have moth
ing 10 do with the common people per-
sonally.
The wardrobe left by Marie Antoi-
nette in her cell consisted of two dimi-
ty juPons, one dress and q jacquette in
coarse cotton.
4 prominent Mormon elder, who is
the father of twenty-seyen grown-up
boys, says he is in the wholesale gents
furnishing business"
A Hindoo loom complete is worth 68
cents, and weaves shawls, silks and
muslins, which our most expensive APP
paratus cannot equal.
"Ouida'' contributes an article to the
North American ReUiet0 savagely ride
uling the modern English novel as full
of cant and hypocrisy,
In their statues the Greeks represent
the second toe as longer than the great
toe, while in the modern European foot
the great toe is generally longest.
Bulaloes are now bred at Goodnight,
Kan, and bufolo calves sell at $50 a
head whore once the earth shook be-
meath the onward tramp of 10000
hoofs.
Nebraska has now about 250, 900
acres of growing forests, in which have
been set 600 600 young trees Besides
this there have been planted more than
1900 900 fruit trees.
The average crop of wheat in the
United States and Canada alone would
give one person in twenty of the pop
ulatiou OF the globe a barrel of flour
IN each year, with enough to spare for
seed.
A novelty in legislation is found in
bill now pending in the Georgia legis-
laturc, which proposes to levy an an
nual tax OF -. 80 on all bachelors in the
state and use The money in educating
fatheriess children.
The Boston dry goods merchants
like strappiug girls Tor saleswomen-
''tal saeslady" III the professional
term. The tall saleslady" gives a
character 20 the store, and ''ladies,
as a class, " perfer to trade with her.
The fact is that the Chinese question
as a political issue is about worked out
IN California; the people are thorough.
ly tired of it, The tide which so long
set against John Chinaman is now
turning in his favor Portland Ore90-
0ilH
line sE-toeJ gauge is rapidly disap-
poarlng from American railways The
4ye-lect gauge ia the South is also De-
ING replaced, and tho probability is
that tine standard gauge viii soon be
q rule 10 which the narrow gauge will
be the only exception.
Dan RICE, tic old circus clown, has
set Hn . euum to the whole island on
"A.eu ,ne city Of Galveston,
Tex. Mr. Rice has in his possession
an od Mexican land grant, obtained
IRON Danial McLaren, an original
Spanish settler which covers the
claim.
An Arkansas paper says: "A Girl
who can carry q coal oil can TO tho
store iu enc Of our cultivated towns,
.a4 carry it home again withou. BLUSH
iag..s one of the advance guards. From
e3 .9eE is u come the hardy energy
'a@t IS rs conquer Arkansas for true
civilization.
the denial is made for Edwin Booth
tlal hc was ever a negro minstrel,
save in the sense that he may also have
been circus performer When a lad
10 Baltimore he aud other boys played
circus, minstrelsy, tragedy and other
eapers in 4 cellar. He entered the
dramatic profession when he was not
more than sixteen, and thereafter trav-
eled with his father almost up to the
latter's death. 1t is fact, however,
that Forrest was once rider and aero
bat in q circus.