Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-11

Paul newspaper man; 81 go to bed about
nine o'clock in tha evening; then l get
np at : o'clock in the morning and take
bath. That's what you had ought to
do" The newspaper man didn't say any
thing, bat what he thought would have
killed cat.
SENATOR EDMUHDs' fortune is now esti-
mated al $250,0o0 principally made at
his practice and by iudicious investments
in real estate He owns two houses in
Washington, his home at Burlington, VT,
and is supposed TO make nearly S5O,Ooo
yearly practicing law.
The people OF Melbourne, Australia,
are going TO Greet statue in memory
of O'Connell the great Irish agitator.
will be like the one in O'Connell str 'et,
Dublin, and Mr.. Brock, an Irishman liv-
ing in London, who was the sculptor
then, has also been engaged for the work
on the Melbourne statue.
FIFTEEN years ago the buffalo ranges
of Kansas and Colorado were covered
with thousands of these animals. The
other day party went out from Denver
and after weeks hunting managed to
kill three from a herd of twenty nine
that they found in Lost Park 1t IL said
there are not more than 1000 buff aloes
in existence
Mn. JAMES MURDOCH, the veteran actor
relates that at the outbreak of the war he
was playing in Hamlet" at Milwaukee.
The play was half finished when there
was a tumult in the house The actors
paused. A man sprang upon the stage
and read Lincolns call for 10000 troops.
The play was never finished, but Mr..
Murdoch, in the garb Of Hamlet, stood
by the side OF Matt Carpenter and made
a speech for the Union. Next day he
packed up his wardrobe and never re
opened the trunks until the war was
over,
Ar the session of parliament to com
mence January 5 the tories will intro
duce three bills, tho first relating to the
allotment of lands; the second ,extend-
ing the powers of the local governments,
and the third relating to tithes. The
bills are all part of tho Churchill pro
gramme. TO emphasizes the vote of tory
progress, Premier Salisbury will intro
duce the 1.-THE bin in the House of Lords.
II will make tithes charge against the
landlord instead of against the tenant,
as at present.
VERY singular is the discovery in Rome
remarkable statue, little larger
than Ife-size, of Autinous, the famous
fayorite of Hadrian, who was deifed after
his death by the Emperor, and worship
we'd under the form of a new Bacchus.
The statue is of Greek marble. The
head has not been separated from the
trunk and the figure is in an excellent
state of preservation, except only the
tip of the nose and the forearms, 1t is
entirely nude, and the left leg rests
against vine stem with its tendrils and
punches of grapes.
PHILADELPHIA boasts of the rec ent &C
QUESTION of the second Chinawoman who
ever put foot in Quakerdom, reporter
found her Gt the family washtub, and in
teryiewed her; Have you been in this
country long: heard you had just ar
rived How you hearg" II am from
a newspaper" ooh, me know plenty lie
porters in Chicago melive there" Then
Mrs. Chik became somewhat coy. How
old think am:' looking shyly from out
of the washtub. about twenty five"
She lookedffty. Mclean man knows
I'm forty. Got children in China
won't let boy come over; couutry's too
wild. Going to dept little Mclean girl
from folks Must have black eye ana
hair make uer Chinese" Mrs. Chik is
the wife Of q Chinese merchant. and is
an enormous woman, with a stately bang
which, at the time OF the visit, was
bound with red band and a pigtau
which hung down her back. Mrs Chik
said, among other things, that last week
she gave supper to the American wives
Of four Cinnamon in this city Probably
she meant il as move get into socie.
ty.