Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-03-13
MISSING LINKS.

Dom Pedro. ex-emperOr of Brazil. is
an honorary member of the New York
Historical Society.
John G. Whittier. the aged poet, re-
Gently refused $1,000 from a magazine
for short Christmas poem.
Theodore d. Weld, the well-known
/ anti-slevery agitator, celebrated MS
eighty-sixth birthday recently.
The eldest daughter of General Ma
hone has one of the finest and sweetest
VOICES Mrs. John W. Mackay has ever
heard.
The Russian government gets about
thirty-six hundred pounds of pure
gold every year from the mines of
eastern Siberia.
Millais has received the sum Of $25,-
600 for his latest portrait of Gladstone.
1t was paid for by subscriptions of the
women of England
Swinburne, Alfred Austin, and Lew
is Morris are prominently mentioned
in connection with the English laureate
ship as a successor to Tennyson.
Governor-elert Campbell, of Ohio, is
Knight Templar, a member of the
Knights Of Pythias, the Grand Army of
the Republic and the Order OF Eiks.
Rev. T. P. Sandford, who has be-
come the pastor Of baptist church in
| Birmingham, Eng, is a full-blooded
negro who was born slave in Vir-
ginia
An eccentric old lady living near
Dresden, Tenn, has purchased her
burial robe. Sac is seventy years old
and insists that she can't &ast much
longer.
Her American tour viii net Patti
| $500, 600. This viii go long way to-
ward her household expenses in the
| Welsh castle with the unprouounce-
able name.
The Egyptian obelisk in Central
Park, New York. is rapidly going to
decay, Notwithstanding the efforts
made to preserve it. The climate is
too severe.
Charlotte NJ Yonge the historical
writer, has written and published
exactly 100 books. She is now en-
gagged upon her lOlst work, to be pub
lished shortly.
Sir Julian PauncefOte is devOtlng
| good deal OF time to the study of Amer
lean literature. He says that he had
no realization of the richness and va
riety OF the work OF our men OF letters.
Editor w. II. Mable of the Christian
at V0rb thinks too much professional
ism has crept into the churches, and
saws: we need dirtier churches, more
shabby churches, made SO by the masses
attending.
The contract for the organ for Tai
mage's new tabernacle in Brooklyn has
been awarded to the firm that built the
old one. 1t viii have 5,O7s pipes and
/ ll9 stops, and it is said it will be the
/ largest ever built.
A bright young fellow in London
earns his living by writing speeches for
wedding breakfasts. In England
speeches are still expected from the
! bridegroom, and they are generally very
| bungling affairs.
The library of the late Dr.. Bauer, the
celebratedGerman scholar of Leipsic,
has just been purchased by the Hayer-
/ ford, Pa, college for u large price. 1t
/ consists of 3, 900 volumes on eccleSias-
uca literature and history.
Senator Edmunds of Vermont has
served longer in the United States SEN
ate than any OF his colleagues. April
/ 5, 1890, he will have been in the SEN
ate without single break twenty-tour
years Mr.. Edmunds will be 81 in
February.
Mrs Emma T.. Forsyth, the daughter
of a former American consul at Samoa,
/ is claimed TO be the largest landowner
/ i'm the world. She has a plantation of
about $50. 900 acres on an island near
New Guinea and employs over 500
people on it.
A Lower Soucon, Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania, farmer while
butchering the other day, struck bull
| lock with sledge hammer and left
the animal for dead. When he re-
/ turned from his breakfast the animal
was finishing a chest of meal.
Frank r. Stockton, who stands at
/ the head Of American short story
| writers. is a thin, intellectual-looking
man, with a fascinating smile aud
/ pleasing mode of conversation. He IS
| a typical American in appearance, of
the highly strung nervous kind.
Charley Crew a Marion CO.. jewell
er, has completed medal which is to
| he given To Ira Williams MIR VIII
liams is the farmer who had the fol-
lowing sign posted on his farm regard
/ ing hunting; Hunt all you please,
aud when the bell rings come in to dim
4 ner."
! Miss Maud Banks, who figured on
1 the stage awhile, is now in Washing
ton acting as private secreta for her
/ father, Gen. n. p. Banks The Cen
/ eral looks as large and strong as he
/ did twenty years ago, although "A win
I ters have made his thick thateh OF hair
and his heavy mustache snowy white.
A couutrymau went TO store in
/ Morgautown, w. Va. the other day
! and purchased a kerosene lamp.
That's the first one O them notions
that ever come to my house, he re
marked Candles was allus good