Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-05-08
MISSING LINKS.

The great fair is to be known Off
cially as the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition.
A restaurant at Hamburg is said to
/ be built and furnished entirely Of
paper.
A valuable bed of silver mica has
been discovered near North Greek, in
the Adirondacks
p {. Stearns. Of Canton. H., has
been a Justice Of the Peace ia that
town for lifty-threc years.
Rider Haggard, the famous novelist,
has been offered 81 900 a week for a
forty weeks lecture tour in this coun-
try.
Chauncey Depew defies the grip as
"a disease which makes a man want to
run when he sees a good-sized mouse
if he could only run"
The perfect figure of human body
has been found in a large elm tree
trunk that was being cut up in tim
Der yard at Scarborough
Nearly every town in Georgia is pre-
pairing to put up a cotton seed oil mill.
And yet but a few years ago these
seeds were considered worthless.
French wine growers have a super
stitious appreciation Of comets, and ex-
pect good crops because four comets
will DE seen during the summer.
George w. Childs "reminiscences in
Ljpplacott'S Magazt,1e were dictated by
a reporter who got $1,000 for the job.
Mr., Childs gave him the matter to help
aim along.
In the neighborhood of Harris Road,
Fla, live two families with sixteen
boys, one having nine and the other
seven, and none of the parents is yet
forty years old.
Burial reform in England contem-
plates the complete prohibition of
leadeu and other solidly constructed
collins. 1t is proposed to substitute
wiekerwork or papier mache.
Amos +. Parker, who was graduated
from the University of Vermont in
1918, and is now 50 years Of age. is
said to be the oldest living college
graduate in the United States.
King Leopold of Belgium speaks
and writes English with ease and nc
curacy. He never let's a Sunday pass
without writing an autograph letter to
his friend and ally Queen Victoria.
Herman Guten has for more than
seventy years lived in fish boats on tie
Cumberland River He says he was
born near Lubbock Germany, in 1878,
which, ii true, makes ham IL years
old.
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes has
quaint silver teapot which descended
to him by collateral line from Tutor
Flynt of Harvard College. whose
term of service extended from 1904 to
1899.
The British war Office has decided
that when it becomes necessary to
haudcuh soldier in uniform he must
not BIZ marched through the streets,
bat covered conveyance shall be pro-
yided
A New Bedford clergyman who has
been in service a long time adyertises
zoo sermons for sale, covering all sub
jects, and applicable to any locality.
He only wants 81 apiece for the lot if
taken in a lump
The Gar, upon receiving the report
of a recent duel between officers in the
army, said, "Duels in the army are
absolutely necessary, and ! desire that
reports Of such eseapades shall not be
brought to my notice
George Murray, a colored man of
Baltimore, is Il5 years of age He
walks about and is in possession of all
his faculties The most remarkable
thing about him is that he never saw
George Washington.
Pets TO be carried in the arms are no
longer couhurd to King Charles
spauiel,, with long, silky ears. and
softly purriug gray maltese cats; but
every conceivable variety of animal is
now considered proper for street wear.
Mrs Jefferson Davis writes that her
daughter, Mrs. |. A. Hayes Of CoIora-
do Springs and her husband have
changed their little sons name to JEFF
terson Hayes Davis, so that there
shall be one to bear the beloved and
houored name OF his own blood
queen lttOFl3 NdcNt cost WheE
built in 1854 nearly $500 600, and
more than 100000 has since been
expended on the craft. Prince Albert
designed the internal arrangements OF
the yacht. There is nothing gaudy
about it; everything is plain but pretty.
Mrs. Sutherand-Orr is likely to
write good biography of Browning.
She is a sister 10 Sir Frederick Leigh
ton, President Of the Royal Academy,
and was one of Brownings most init |
mate friends Her volume will con-
tain a great number Of valuable remin-
isceuces.
Mr. Simon Yandes, the benefactor
OF Wabash College has just given $50
600 more to that institution. OF which
$50 600 goes TO the general endowment
fund and $50 600 for a new library
building to hold lis. 600 volumes Last
year he endowed the English titeca
ture chair witt $4,000.
Queen Meebya, one Of the wives of
King Mindone Min Of Burmab. recent. /
is died and her body lay III state at
Bangoon. The funeral service was
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