Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-12-12

some good musical teaching. and mad
attracted some attention. At his uni
yersity examination he failed, which
his friends anticipated, and had So
cured for him the post OF director CO
the Philharmonic society. Then he
determined to pursue his musical
studies further. and went to Cassel TO
study with Spohr, but he heard him tno
Wiele and the eldest of the Muller
brothers play in concert. So entire
ly different from their rendition was
his own conception of their music
that he returned to the university full
ly persuaded he was not a musician.
This determination could not nave
lasted long. for he is in Paris whcn
scarcely twenty-one, when Paganiiii
was drawing crowded houses, Here
he was in dire distress, even threw
himself into the Seine, hoping that
death would end his sufferings, out
was befriended by the great detective,
Vidocq. Then he went to Milan thence
to Boulogna, where he met Malibran,
and his success became assured.
In 1885 he married Alexandrine
Felice, granddaughter of his old
friend, Nine. Villeminot. and for the
ensuing forty years was in active life.
IN the following sixteen months he
ave IA concerts in Great Britain,
hen he went to Germany and Russia,
everywhere welcomed with enthusi-
asm. In ls43 he came to America and
stayed nearly year. He made his
debut" said an witness, in the
old Park theater in New York. 1t
was Saturday night, and only fair
house greeted him, and it did not
show the greatest enthusiasm, but
when ne appeared Monday night fol-
lowing there was no standing room
left, and the building fairly rocked
with the repeated applause" From
that time forward his name was
household word in America. In 1852
he came back and made tour of the
south and west with a troupe of which
Adelina Patti, then eight years old,
and her sister, Amelia. and Max
Strakosch were members. He stayed
till 1857. Then he returned to Europe,
where he remained several years. In
1862, his wife died. BY her he mad
two Children, Alexander and Feliee.
The latter is a widow with several
children and resides in Christiana,
Norway. In 1867 he came back and
went west Immediately and was re-
eeived with unbounded enthusiasm.
Never was he SO acceptable to the peo-
pie, whole towns turning out to meet
him with torchlight professions. In
1869 he gave his services to the Peau
jubilee, and Immediately sailed for
Norway. In 1870 he married again,
The bride being Miss Sara G, Thorpe,
of Madison, Wis. The ceremony oc-
Cured at what is now the executive
residence in Madison, in October. Rl-
NOR has it that the Two had been mar
ried a few months previously IN NOT
way. The following year a daughter
was born She is now a talented
young lady of %. With her mother
she resides in Cambridge, Mass,
which is also thehome of her mothers
brother, Joseph Thorp, vii Sc wife is
a daughter of the poet Longfellow. A
biography of Ole Bull bearing the
name Of his widow, as its author, was
published many years ago. In 1876,
after some time spent abroad Ole 3ull
returned to America and remained till
1880, when he went back to Norway,
and he reached it in time to die at his
home in I.ysoe on August 17-ten
wears after his second marriage.
AS a musician he was an inspired
INTERPRETER of nature, and as such be-
yond all criticism. re belonged to no
school, for he was above and beyond