Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-01-21

and patriotic Importance Of discourse.
ing all tendencies to loose and lavish
public expenditures as a first essential
OF good government, | commend TO
you these suggestions regarding the
public business Of the state.
Geo. w. Peck.
Madison, Wis.
Amelie Riyes- Chandler scarcely ever
uses that part of her name which fol
lows the hyphen.
Rev William Perrin, Of ST. Luke's
church, in LondsH, has been appointed
bishop OF British Columbia.
George q. Goer, whose death oc-
Cured at Charleston, 5. c., recently, was
the engineer Of the Monitor when she
had her famous fight with the Meru-
mac, and was one of the sixteen sur
yiyors who were rescued by the steamer
Rhode Island when the Monitor went
down.
In course of Il conversation relative
to the death Of Lord Tcnnyson, Dr. Oh
liver Wendell Holmes said: There were
four great men in the lives of whom |
felt l had certain relationship They
were Darwin, Gladstone Tennyson and
Lincoln-men who made the year 1909
conspicuous, and | was so unblushing As
to creep into that year, too
There is great Indignation among the
ultra loyal English in Montreal because
Lieutenant Governor Chaplear paid an
official visit TO Cardinal Taschereau at
the latter's palace. 1t was the first visit
in years. The English residents say the
lieutenant governors action is a recog-
milton that the church holds chief power
in the province of Quebec
Mrs. Gladstone is said to have exposed
herself in what seems an almost recll-
less manner when cholera was epidemic
in London in 1866. She went about
among the sick in the hospitals ana car
rted off friendless children suddenly left
orphans to an orphanage which she
established. She wrote an appeal 70
the London Times for subscriptions for
this purpose and secured about S25, 900.
Mr.. Edmunds, Of Vermont is said to
have been almost the only exception to
thhe rule that the supreme court prac-
dce OF lawyer soon dwindles after he
becmes a United States senator. Sena-
tors Teller, Carpenter Morgan and 9th
ers found that their clients dropped oil
one by one after senate cares began to.
press. Senators Mitchell and Dolph, Of
Oregon, however, still have good many
cases.
The only son of Richard Wagner, Sies-
fried Wagner, Familiarity known as
Young Siegfried,' otficiated as best
man at the wedding OF Felix Motif and
Fraulin Staudtharmer, which took place
in Berlin recently. Heir Motif is the
musical director at the Carlsruhe opera
house, and his bride is Well known as
an opera singer in most Of the continent
al capitals. She has Of late been sing
ing in Vienna.
Professor Huxley now lives in a house
in Sussex designed for him by the hus-
band of his eldest daughter He calls
the place "Hodeslea," which The ancient
form Of his surname. This story Of the
great naturalist is current: \ posman
once asked him for an autograph, CON
Tossing frankly that he did not know
what the professors business was but
explaining that he had heard folks say
as how he was something s'perior."
The attack by the Vatican upon the
order was sharply repealed by
a prominent Sicilian, Adriano Lemmi,
at a banquet in Palermo. He asserted
that free masonry had done much to
improve the moral, intellectual, and ma
terial condition Of the people Of the
lower classes especially, and closed with
a fervid appeal to the 100000 Free
masons of the world 70 enlist under the
banner Of civilization against the Vati-
can"
Abner Mckinley, a brother Of the
governor, is said to have invented q
ypewriting electrical machine, which