Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-04-01
PERSONALITIES.

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PERSONALITIES.
Thpmarriage of John Jasper, the octo-
oenarian colored preacher u Richmond,
took place Thursday. Though the Rev
Jonu stiD affirm that Uhe sun DO move ne
admits that love makes the world 20
TO md.
The latest reports about the Count oe
l. sseps affirms that The great frencnm .'
is almost in a state Of dotage, And with
Ii. decline Of his mental powers his bodily
vi-or is beginning to fail ta8F. De Les
seps is now nearly eighty.siz years OLD.
In a feryor Of affection for Chicago
eric who had spoken well OF MIN Pader-
ew XII gave the unIucky man a Kiss on tue
forehead. Whether kissing is an accom-
paninent OF piano playing or not, 1t Will
be remembered that the great List had a
famous fondnpss for osculatOn, but he
also had the good taste to contne his
demonstrations of affections to the other
sex.
The banquet recently given at the Union
League club in Chicago, by Eugere Field
TO dozen friends, among whom were the
Rev. Dr. Collier, Thomas Mast and the
noe. Riley, was unique in respect to the
bill Of fare, which was composed solely OF
corasd beef hash, fllet of beef, boiled pc
tatoas with their jackets on, corn bread,
saleralus biscuits, but;ermilk coffee and
cigars.
The car is reported TO have been
plunged into the deepest afiicticn by the
sudden death of his valet and confidential
servant, Dimitri Varkoff, who had never
been absent from him for a single day dur
ing a period OF more than thirty years.
V.ukoff always slept in the room rext the
en,peror's, and within the last ten years
ha3 three times saved his majesty from as
sasslnation
Carnegie is said to have said that he
thinks himself worth S30,0O0,0O0 to S35,-
600 coo; that he will spend all before he
dies, and that not a cent shall go to a
church.
AIvan G. Clark, the C4mbrid ge lens
maker, recently saw an announcement of
his death in the newspapers and was at
FIRST annoyed thereby. But his wife re-
ceived so many EXPIRE sions of sympathy
and such tributes to Mr.. Clark s virtues
that on the whole he was glad the mistake
had been made. The rumor attracted
much attention in scientific circles.
The queen of Naples, who has sui
fere1 all the pangs of genteel poverty dur
ing the past twenty years or mere, has now
been placed in a con paratively atHuent
position. Her mother, the late duchess Of
Iudogica, of Bavaria. who died some
weeks ago, left fortune yielding an In.
come Of about 100000 a year. The. ex-
queen figures as the heroine in D4udet'S
Kings in Exile
Gen. Isaac T. Visitor, of Philadelphia
has given 100000 to the university of
PENNSYLVANIA, wherewith tc build bio
logical and anatomical institute.
the Japanese papers, it appears, were
not content with announcing that General
Won Caprivi, chancellor of Germany, had
become count Of Zanzibar Another enter
prising japanese has written to a Toxic
paper hat Emperor William has made
Prince Bismarck king of Switzerland!
rhe little daughter of w. K Wander
bit is credited with the ability to speak
Chinese, besides several other languages.
ZoLA'S wife has always been an IN
known quantity to the world at large 1t
is interesting, therefore. TO find in the
recently published sixth volumne of the
Journal DIES Goncourt note by Edmund
de Goncourt to the effect that 'Zola'S
WIFE who has been ailing this year, has
derived from her illness a rare beauty,
composed of the soft sweetness of two deep
black eyes setting of the palens7s of
face which seems illumined."
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT has become
dissatisfied with his pslatial residence on
Fifth avenue, New York, and will build
new one at cost of 5000. 600 This
palace is to be erected on Fifth avenue,
Jetween Fifty-seventh and Fiftv-eighth
streets, and viii be the most magnificent
in the city. 1t Is said that the ballroom
and private theater of the new house will
be large enough to accommodate the en-
tire four hundred.
Lucy Hooper writes from Paris that Mrs.
Deacon was not very sympathetic person
to the world at large She was in no wav
brilliant or intelle ctua', but she made up
for the absence of these Qualities bv being