Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-07-31
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country next Summer. He will 90 as
| far west as San Francisco.
Mrs. Marshall 0. Roberts will pay
f12. 800 for the use of Lord Spencer's
London house during the season.
The Princess of Wales takes a lively
interest in hammered brasswork. an
art which is taught at her school in
Sandringham.
A quantity conceived brooch is an
enameled squirrel holding little nut,
which is represented as closely as pos
sible by colored pearls.
The table upon which Cromwell
wrote when he affixed his signature to
the warrant for the execution of Charles
l. was recently sold in England for
1920.
A citizen of Ebert county, Ca, has
well in which he frequently catches
different kinds of fish. He thinks it
connects with creek lalf mile dis
tant.
Prince Bismarck is still to be adj
dressed as Serene Highness. This is
reasonable. Bismarck is feet 4 inches
in height and as serene as midsummer
afternoon.
justin Mccarthy sees Arthur Bal
four, Sir William Harcoprt. Henry Lab
ouchere. John Morley, Sir Charles Rus
sell, and Henry Fowler as the coming
men in English politics.
The Emperor of Germany and Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria were the two
widest boys in Germanland when they
were boys. They once had a serious
quarrel over an opera-singer.
Jaloquin Happole, Patagonian. has
not been heard of great deal, but not
because he has not been around good
while. He is 1913 years old and can see
to chew tobacco and smoke without
spectacles.
The A(manach de Gotha is over a
century and quarter old. When it
was first issued there were only three
republics Switzerland, San Marine and
Andorra, while to-day there are TWEEN
ty-six republics.
The largest vessel ever built in
France, La Touraine, of $4,000 horse
power and more than five hundred and
thirty feet long, will be added to the
fleet plying between Havre and New
York this season.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is 6S
years old. His face and figure are thin
ner than they ever were. and his splen-
did constitution is beginning to show
signs of age. He has been one of the
hardest workers in Congress.
Hamilton nurlbut, of Salem, Ore.
claims to have discovered process of
tempering copper so that it twill peck
stone, cut cold steel equal to the best
cast steel, jack knives will cut sour APP
plies without coloring the blades
There is a movement in England
against the employment of barmaids.
although it is felt that the reform will
not be accomplished until the far flu
ture, and that all that can be done at
present win be limiting the hours Of
labor.
Emperor William of Germany is a
hearty eater. He gets away with four
meals day in royal style. He eats
ham and eggs for breakfast, game and
salads for luncheon, soups, fish, and
roasts for dinner and hot sausages and
beer for supper. He has grown fleshy
of late.
Bears have become so thick in the
mountains of lsere, bordering on Sa-
voy. in France that the inhabitants
have organized bear drives, but these
have been so unsuccessful that they
have almost concluded that their only
salvation is in advertising for foreign
sportsmen.
In England women patentees are far
more numerous than they are here.
As rule the inventions of our women
are for the attire of women. A dozen
or more patents for carriers of an i'm
proved fashion, for instance have been
granted from time to time by our own
patent Office.
Robert Williams farmer in Woods
county, Ohio. was told not to 90 down
into an old well without lowering a
candle to see il there was foul gas there.
it was his wife who warned him he
threw club at her, told her to mind
her own business and went down, to be
hauled up corpse.
Count AndrasSy had asplendid nerre
at the card table, and when he played
at all called for very high stakes. He
once played three rubbers of whist
with the late Count Darn, Prince Peter
Schouwaloif and Baron Kolisch-all
tirst-rate whist rlayers-for 1000 franc
points and 10000 francs on the rub.
Hans Won Bulow the celebrated plan
list, is known in public as the most
quick-tempered conductor that ever
welded baton, and in private AS the
most genial, cultured and urbane of
men. His memory is enormous, and
he can conduct complicated Chopin
concert without once looking at the
score.
The order of St. Andrews, first ID
stituted in England in 7S7, dispsed af-
terward and re-established in 1864.
is the oldest OF the royal and imperi.l
orders III the world, which with u
prodigious assortment of collar,,
crosses, and other fancy insignia, SOW
ereigns crafty the ambition of Their
subjects.
Thirty-seven French soldiers, under
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