Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-06-07
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Upward Of 100 young women at the
National Capital are habitual riders OF
the tricycle..
The Prince of Wales is said to have
received 100000 clear from his Duchy
Of Cornwall last year.
MIR. Gladstone prides himself on his
excellent digestive powers. But he
dares not eat oysters or sweetbreads
Elias j. Hale is serving his fortieth
year as Town Clerk Of FoXcroft Me.
lie has never had in forty elections an
opposing candidate.
Gabriel Salanson, the young French
man who is to marry "A daughter of the
British Minister in Washington, Is OF
Hebrew descent and wealthy.
The widow of Ex-Governor Colby, of
New London, Conn, aged ninety-two,
made and contributed handsome tidy
TO the fair lately held by the ladies OF
that place.
Carlotta Patti has been offered blythe
Gar professorship of vocal music in
the Imperial COnscryatoire at ST.
Petersburg. She prefers to remain in
Paris.
The Princess Of Wales most valuable
silvcr-wcdding present was a magniii-
cent necklace Of rubies and diamonds
from the Emperor and Empress of
Russia
An Iowa genius holds the Offices of
United States Signal Observer, City
Clerk, Township Clerk, United States
Claim Agent, Township Treasurer and
Adiutant Of a G.. A. X. post.
Miss Helen Blanchard, now a resi-
dent of Philadelphia, is q Maine girl,
who has made a fortune through the
invention of the simple "oyer-and-oyer"
attachment for sewing machines.
A. Woman's School Journalism has
been opened in Detroit, where girls are
taught type-setting, shorthand, proof
reading, revision of manuscript and re-
porting so far as it can be taught
A Biddcford, Me, man adycrtises for
wife, and offers to the lady who will
take him an "actiye, promising, good
looking young man forty years OF age,
good home and two yoke of oxen"
The men who were young with Gov
ernor Hill, of New York, say he is not
what you might call q woman-hater,
but that since a disappointment he had
once, he has no faith in the fair sex.
Col. Edward Summer Of San Fran
cisco comes to the front with the claim
that he is tho oldest Freemason in the
world. He was born in 1896, and has
been Mason for seyenty-one years.
Two large firms Of japanese nursery
men are introducing into Califoria the
Tushn or dwarf orange tree, and find
many customers for the tree because
it can be grown in very small space.
j. H. Diss De Bar, one of the gang
of adventurers who so successfully
feeced Lawyer Marsh of New York,
originated the State seal of West Vir-
GINA with its motto, "Montani Semper
Liberi.n
Augusta Benedict, of Louisville, Ky.
makes good living by posing as a
wax figure ut exhibitions and fairs. She
has such command over herself that
she can sit for hours perfectly i'm
movable.
The largest soap mandatory in
Philadelphia, at which /, lO0, pounds
are boxed every week, was founded i'm
1858 by thrifty German who walked
into the city that year with only SO IN
his pockets.
1t has become quite fashionable OF
late for men to write .s history of then
lives, thereby leaving to their family,
relatives and friends many reminiscent
ces of their lives that would be forgot
ten after death.
Charles Gayurre who was mombeI
of the United States Senate iifty-threC
years ago, is still living in New Orleans
He was born i'm that city in 1905, ano
is said to be walking encyclopedia OF
Louisiana history
Mrs Clara Foltl, thclaWyer, lecturer
and editor, is coming East to set be-
fore the people the great climatic aud
commercial advantages Of San Diego,
the City Council having voted $4,000
for that purpose.
senator ingalls, has had eleven chill
dren, seven Of whom survive. The
names given to his offspring have been
somewhat peculiar: Ellsworth, Ruth,
Ethel, Ralph, Addison Constance,
Sheffield, Faith, Marion, Muriel, Louise.
Claus Spreckels says that hewill this
year produce 10000 tons of beet sugar
ut his refinery in California, and that
the refinery which he is erecting in
Philadelphia at cost Of $1,000, DOC
will produce $4,000 tons of sugar a
year.
Matthew Arnold was not brother
of Edwin Arnold, as has been enron
eousN stated. Edwin Aruold's father
was Robert Coles Arnold, magistrate.
The father of Matthew Arnold was
Rev. DR.. Thomas Arnold, head master
OF Rugby.
Let me be Queen of Prussia for one
single hour aud | shall die happy
This is an exclamation which is said to
have escaped the present Empress
of Germany twenty-five years ago.
~ the time she was already ailiug, aud
her days Scetaed numbered.
Christopher L. Magee. who has been
practically at the head of the Repub-
Gcau party in Western Peau>, wanna for
l.. HI I.