Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-03-26

DOCKS winch DlekcnS wrote.
Lillian Russell denies that she is con-
templating any further matrimonial
ventures.
Lady Somerset says that in many
English homes Frances Wizards name
is a watchword and an inspiration.
Apple-seeds are used in the manu-
tacture of prussic acid. One Vermont
farmer picks them from his cider press.
Col. Hahn, the General Manager of
Jay Gould's elevated railroad, is small
in stature and energetic to remark
able degree.
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes the noted
English churchman, now in this coun-
try, conceals his age under an extreme
ly youthful face.
The place in Newport which Mrs.
Elizabeth Coles has left for the founda-
ton of college for young men is
worth about $4,000.
A statisticjan of small things figures
it ont that the posterity o. one pair Of
English sparrows amounts in ten years
to something like 276, 900, 100000 birds.
Richard Henry Stoddard's handwrit-
ing is so minute that he can compress
the equivalent of half column of news
paper type into q single page of man
uscript.
'~ The capital OF West Virginia is at
Charleston, although nearly all the
maps say it is at Wheeling. Itwas
formerly at Wheeling, but has been
changed.
Mrs. William Vanderbilt is an I'M
usually handsome woman, with creamy
white complexion, dark brown hair,
large dark grey eyes and remark
ably fine figure.
President Grevy was known for a
thrifty person. 1t is something of
surprise, however, to learn that his
personal property in England is not
less than f172,00O,
Francis NJ. Dale, a colorod man, took
oath in Judge Broaddus's court, in
Kansas City, the other day, that he
was 40 years old and had fought I'M
der Washington in the revolutionary
war.
Julien Gordon, otherwise known as
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, weeps |
profusely and refuses to be comforted !
when her books are unfayorably criti- |
cised by the newspapers She weeps |
frequently.
Mr. Hudson, the protector and con-
structor of the St. Clair tunnel, be- |
leyes that in the twentieth century |
Boston will be forty miles long and |
twenty broad, and that it's population |
will number 100000
Dr. Selim, the Khedive's physician,
is said to be a Christian, and a gradu- |
ate of the medical department of the |
Uniye 5ity of New York, He entered |
the medical branch of the military |
service Of the Khediye a few years ago. |
Considering the dislike the entire
South has for the author Gable, il is |
interesting to read in Richmond pa
per that, despite his personal unpopu-
larity, we must own that no American
novelist since the war has equaled him
in felton,
William Morris, the English poet,
who is deemed a probable successor to
Lord Tennyson in the laureateship, is
the manager of a factory for wall-pa-
per, has profitable bric-a-brac shop,
and owns several shares in success
jul magazine
Miss Kate Publish, a graduate of
Bowdoin College, is the most noted
in Maine and has alreaGv |
made collection of 1900 different
species Of plants, the greater part of
which she has reproduced in water
colored drawings
Daniel Dougherty has declined an
invitation to address the United States
Historical Society on Chris.
topher Columbus, but expressed the
opinion that the anniversary of the dis
covery of America should be observed
as a Catholic affair.
Mrs Gladstone is said to be hardly
inferior to her husband in energy and
industry. She has always been inter,
ested in charity and church work and
in politics, and has at the same time
close watch upon her house
hold affairs and her children.
The removal to Chicago from Harp
ar's Ferry of the old engine house
known as John Browns Fort" leads
the Boston dauertjSer to remark
that Virginia needs two statues, one
Of John Smith at jamestown and the
other Of John Brown at Harper's Fer
~.
Mrs. Biddeu, one of the most popu-
lar Of English novelists, has never re-
oeiyed over $3.50 year from the sale
Of her twenty-eight works of fiction,
and it is proposed to put her on the
civil pension list Her publishers
have made much money in the mean
time,
The Queen Of England is said to
have the largest collection extant Of
of uobiltes of her time.
from the portraits Of kings queens,
3mpcrors and empresses downwards.
they date from the beginning Of
iaEuerrotypes down to the present
photographs.
Eli Whitney Blake, nephew Of Eli
Whitney Of cotton-gin fame, invented
.he Blake ore crusher now in use all h