Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-03-12
MISSING LINKS.

There are some curious names among
.Aa mouptaineers of Botctourt county.
Va for instance, Honey buses, Clap
saddle and Firebell.
Asa country rich in Judges New
g.oIgpd is far ahead of the United
States. About one man in fifty is a
Jgslice of the Peace.
Officer Rolings, of Philadelphia, is
said 10 be the largest policeman in the
United States. He is s feet s inches
in height and weighs $40 pounds.
George Washington's nearest living
lin i Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch,
If Washngton, d. c.. great-grand-
reiee Of the Father of His Country.
daughter of General Neal Dow.
Mrs. Louise Dow Benton, is so accom-
risbed in yoIaprk that she translates
works into that language for publica-
ton.
The will of Francis f. Riyes, uncle
of Amelie Rives-Chanler which dis
noses of property valued at 5000, 600.
contains no comforting codicIl for the
novelist.
The Marquis of Lorne is said to cher
isb secret passion for cock-fghting.
He is never so happy as when a groom
Gets up rafting set-to for him in a
s,abe-loit,
Ex-senator Malone, of Virginia is
comparatively poor man. He has
been too often ut the wrong side of the
post when tile wire was reached and
The prizes drawn.
Andrew Carnegie in a speech at
PeteFhead. nruphesied that the United
States and Great Britain would ere
long stand shoulder to shoulder for the
maintenance OF tie worlds peace.
Mr.. Braddon has written fifty
novels since 1862, when she put forth
herirsJ book Lady Audley's Secret. "
These volumes represent about twenty
thousands pages of printed matter.
The death of Marie Gordon. the
once beautiful wife of John T. Ray
mOud, recalls the fact that she was
David Meals model for his celebrated
picture Of Mary, Queen of Scots"
Washington died shortly after II D.
m. saturday, December IA, 1899, the
last year of the century, the last month
Of the year, the last day of the week
and within the last hour of the day.
BY the death of Mrs Polk Mrs. Grant
and Mrs. Garfield become the only sur
wing widows of Presidents. Mrs.
Tyler the second wife of President
Tyler died in Richmond in July, 1889.
Mrs John A. Logan tells Wash
ington interviewer that it seems to her
that Americans now abroad evince far
more intelligent patriotism and less
toadyism than did their fellow-couutry-
men who made foreign tours few
years ago.
The grave of Barbara Freitchie in
the German Reformed Church Gene
terry near Frederick, Md, is marked
with headstone bearing her name.
age and 1852 There is tangle OF
briers and creeping vines running wild
over the mound.
MISSIONER was proud of his shapelv
and delicate hands. He said that his
fingers we're so sensitive that he could
with his eyes shut lay on the exact
amount Of color that he wanted on
given spot if somebody placed the
point OF the brush upon it,
The Duke Of Cleveland, whose title
becomes extinct upon his approaching
death is descended from Sir Henry
'aue, who was kniguted at Poictiers
10 1856 and numbers among his an
cestols Sir Harry Vane, principal Sec
Felary OF State under Charles /.
The American Consuls wife at
Madeira has a paper knife on one side
q winch IS written: II broke this. ID.
D. fJr,er;' while on the other side is
similarly inscribed Il mended it.
W l. Sherman. The woman met
'aose two war heroes at Gibraltar.
Mr. w. w. Durant, for whom the
iog steam yacht the Upowanna has just
Dsen built in Philadelphia, was at one
TINE The owner of 100. 600 acres of land
10 taa Adirondacks. He now holds
4 oli{ 30 700 acres there, but they are
situated in the best part of that wild
region
Alexander Dumas is one of the most
opeu-handed philanthropists in Paris,
a great part Of the large income he
geryes from his books and plays is
dispersed in charity, and many a. poor
1 aa" obscure author owes him a debt
VI gratitude that can never be wholly
repaid.
Iae biggest doctors fee of the age
y 'lg 2 QUO 600 marks paid by Herr
,s1 bonner a Hamburg merchant, for
H ~ M0ehelsen's cure of his wife The
money wasn't given to tho famous
/ ..ateu practitioner, however, but,
a DIS wish, to found a hospital in
Hamburg.
IGN b Coughs library is so re-
l -.l'sa9.e. especially as to the book
Uniting aud his testimonials from tenn
ts'aaea societies at home and abroad
- .'a sIggestion has been made that
4 preserved entire. and be exhibit
H -"'e.y, in the alcove of some pub
"e library,
-4"afd de Coucourt tine author Is
..s finest looking men in Paris.
most striking figure. and his
As head is adorned with curl
n hair that gives him a most