Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-11-28
OLIO OF EVENTS.

N'uHpnP tlupuf Va bttieit ~ .'<tih " w
+Fe only man now living who assisted
in organizing the American Pharma-
ceuticaI association in 1851.
Three former mistresses of the white
bo,,ee are now residing in Washin oton
Mrs Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter
NJ President Tyler. Mrs. Harriet Lane
Johnson, niece of James Buchanan, and
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
The president has appointed John w.
Riddle OF Minnesota to be secretary of
The United States embassy at St. Pc
tersburg. He was formerly secretary
of the United States legation at Con-
stantinople, and is an accomplished
diplomatist and linguist
Marshall Field, the Chicago mer-
chant, was born in 1885 on a Massa-
chusetts farm and began business life
in a Pittsburg dry goods store when
II. removing four years later to Chi
cago He has given extensively to
colleges and founded the Field Column
bian Museum in Chicago with gift of
81 0000 600.
Attempts are being made, apparent
IL with good prospects OF success to
stock the fields of Indiana, especially
in the southern part of the state, with
Mongolian pheasants They are pro-
terted by a law passed last March with
somewhat severe penalties provided
for violation thereof.
requests for educational and relig-
ious purposes aggregating $4,000 were
made in the will of the late Jacob Y.
Detz, of Philadelphia. Franklin &
Marshall college in Lancaster, Pa, re-
ceiyes $4,000, and the Theological
Seminary of the Reformed church in
Lancaster $4,000.
Anthony A. Sar. who was Dor in
Mount Lebanon. province of Syria, in
Asia Minor, has been chosen to teach
rhe Arabic language at the Maronite
School in st. Louis. He understands
the Arabic, Syric. Polish, Spanish and
English languages and travelled Tor
three years in America in the capacity
Of Interpreter for Father Maroon Fer
rah the first Syrian missionary to visit
this country.
The department of agriculture is anx-
iOus 10 encourage the growing of flow
ers for perfume making in this country
and attention is called to the fact that
conditions in the Southern states. and
particularly in southern California. are
exceptionally favorable for industries of
this kind 1t is believed that in Cali
iornia the essential oil, or altar, of
roses might be produced on an extern
sye scale to great advantage.
Princess Marie, wife of Prince Wal
demar of Denmark, may visit New
York's firemen this winter. She devotes
much attention to the fire fighters of
her little kingdom. If she is at her
castle and fire breaks out she gallops
in on horseback and if she is in town
she takes hack. She keeps her mount
busy in carrying orders from the chief
TO the men.
The Colorado Cliff Dwellers associa-
ton is making every effort to preserve
the ruins which lie on the Mesa Verde
in southwestern Colorado. There are
from 300 to 400 cliff jewellers, including
the Cliff palace, on the mesa. AS those
ruins are in the Ute reservation ten
years lease has been obtained by the
association from the Ute chiefs.
The French academicans are still in
doubt whether the automobile is mas
culine or feminine. Ludovic Halevy
writes in a recent number of the Figa-
70. 1T seems that | sometimes say un
automobile, at other times une automo-
bile. There are as many reasons for
the one as for the other. The best thing
is to wait. Usage, in the long run, will
decide"
A monument 10 Bismarck was re-
Gently unveiled at Salzburg. 1t repre-
sents him aged 10, and the inscription
is. Bismarck, the Man of Blood and
Iron The house in which the cere-
mony took place is No ! Marktplatz. II
is a tavern, in which, besides Bismarck
many eminent persons have eaten and
slopt, among them Emperor Franz Jo-
self and William l.
NM. Siering and Berson. of the Me
geological Institute Of Berlin, have
lately assembled in a balloon of 5000
cubic metres capacity to the great
height of 10000 metres (33,S00 feet).
Success was possible only because the
aorunauts began to breathe pure oxy-
20 at an elevation of about 5000 me-
Tres The scientific results OF this as
eenslon are now in process of calcula-
Ton and will shortly be published.
The Philadelphia Ledger's New York
Dorrespondent writes 1t is estimated
mat the mayoralty campaign, which
lasted 81 days. cost Tammany 100000
ana the fusionists $500 600, total Of
But large as this amount is
ti IS less than the expense of the recent
.aIsrnational yacht race. It cosl the
N'W York Yacht club about 81 900 60
I" defend the Americas cup, and it is
believed that Sir Thomas Lipton's eX-
E'Ases we're even greater.
Exercises will be held in Boston on
Monday, Nov. II, in memory of DR.
Wlei Gridley Howe, the great beue-
~ Tor OF the blind, who was born just
years ago--on Nov 10, 1901. United
states Senator George f. Hoar win
3e He has written to the com
..' having the matter in charge
#@ has declined hundreds of inyi-
as To attend public meetings this
SON, but he has too great an adj
alton for DR. Howe's memory" to
10 attend this one,
aalor John Page. father OF DR.
"mas Nelson Page, the author, and
self well-known lawyer and sol
lied suddenly on Wednesday at