Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-30
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the white population of the state at
10, 600 and the Indians at $1,000.
The Hon. George Bancroft takes a
long walk every pleasant afternoon,
often with a volume of Shakespeare in
his hand.
Prince Bismarck, in consequence OF
recent illness, has lost the few hairs
that were on the top OF his skull, which
is now as bare as a billiard ball.
Chauncey Depew says that 800 00,-
600 Of English capital has gone into the
Argentine Republic within the last few
years. A vast amount has also been
sent into Chill and Honduras.
Ex-Empress Frederick and her sis
ter Princess Alice, German papers as
sert, regularly reported to their moth
err, Queen Victoria, the secrets OF Ger
many's diplomatic and military opera
lions during 1870.
Geronimo was recently reported as
having embraced Christianity and taken
a class in the Sunday-school Doubt Is
now cast upon this statement by the
announcement that he spends most OF
his time in playing the banjo
Another new candidate for the pat
ronage of the epicure is soft cheese of
much of the character of Camembert
which has been named 'Fromage a la
Webb This comes from the same
district of France at the Var.mbon
A servant girl at hotel in Tomales
Cal. saved the town from being burned
up one night recently by Selling the
dinner bell and running through the
streets barefooted and in her night
dress, giving the alarm for fire in
/ barn.
II. Remseu Whitehouse, United States
Charge a. Affaires at the City OF Mexi
co, and Baron Won Zedtwitz, the Ger
man Minister, have climbed the extinct
volcano of Iztaccihuatl. $1,000 feet
high The feat has only once before
| been accomplished.
Barnum says he will run opposition
to the lord mayors show in London
this year. because the lord mayor re-
fused to let him into the procession.
He was anxious to see the elephants
and double-hcaded calves side by side
with Cog and Magog.
A London firm las a contract with
the French government under which
they ANNUALLY supply France with
thousands of tons of dried fruits. The
French government require this large
supply of dried fruit to make the wine
which they supply to the French army.
Cremation is coming more and more
into vogue in Germany, in spite of the
expense and certain legal difficulties
which render its performance in some
parts almost an impossibility. AtGotha
no fewer than one hundred bodies have
been cremated during the present year.
A Maine girl put a note and her adj
dress in a box of toothpicks, requesting
the finder to write to her. A Kansas
City man got the box, opened a cor
respondence, and few days ago start
ed East to see if the young lady was
the sort of woman he wanted for a
wife,
Privy Councillor Geffcken, of whom
so much was written year ago owing
to his part in the publication OF the
diary Of Emperor Frederick, has pur-
chased a house in Munich, where
he intends to make his future home.
He is at present engaged in literary
work
Prof. b. G. Northrup recently lee
tured in Waterbury, Conn, on the cul-
tivation of the memory and found it
duly recorded in newspaper notice as
n talk on Conservatism of the Nun
merry, an occurrence that has cultivate
ed the professors memory on this par
| ticular lecture.
In Naples there exists a race of cats
who live in the churches They are
kept and fed by the authorities on pur-
pose to eat the mice which infest all
old buildings there. The animals may
often be seen walking about among
the congregation or sitting gravely be-
fore the altar during time OF mass.
Gen. Grant was no admirer Of statues
of public men as ne had seen them in
the United States. He once said that
when he thought of death, among the
dread pictures coniured up was that Of
himself in bronze mounted upon one
of those sorry steeds of which there
are too many in the Washington parks.
DR. d. w. Bliss had debts OWING TO
him at the time Of his death amounting
to $1,000 Many of the accounts, an
inventory of which was filed by the adj
ministrator of the estate in Washing
ton the other day are against distin-
guished public men, and most of them
are labeled desperate or uncollecta-
BILE.
The Rev John W SanJo7n, who
was adopted by the Seneca Nation and
made chief in that tribe, is of the
opinion that the problem of educating
and improving the Indian can be
solved most successfully by elevating
the Indian women, whom he believes
to be capable of education aud refine
ment.
Sir Daniel Gooch ased to pay the
closest attention to all details OF rail-
road management. 1t is told Of him
that finding a porter at Acton 10 call
ing the name of the station prefxed am