The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-29


is In treaty Tor the sale of her dia
monds, valued at 81, 800, 900.
WM. SHAKESPEARE died of apoplexv
IN Medina, Ohio, on Friday, while sail
ing on a lake with party of Young
ladies'
\ LONDON jeweier has been five wears
at work upon a watch, and it will be
worth ten thousand dollars when fin
ished.
a CALCUTTA newspaper says that the
principle OF Darwinianism was main
tanned 900 years ago by a Mohammedan
saint named Mahmud.
QUITE an excitement is reported
among the Roman Catholic choirs in
England, by mandate excluding
female singers.
a GRANITE MONUMENT, 80 feet high,
surmounted by figure of Hope. ten
feet high, marks the grave of Gen.
Daniel Delevan, in Tarrytown, n. Y.
SPEAKER BLAINE's BROTHER, r. G.,
taxes IN salary of 81, 30, as a subor-
dinate IN office of the clerk Of the House
OF Representatives
A oNE-LEGGED man amused the crowd
! V.
hopping mile in six and q quarter
minutes
NINE. LAGRANGE the eminent French
singer, has lost her voice almost COM
pletely, and retires from the lyric stage
permanently.
PRESIDENT WOOLsEY, of Yale College,
will retire at the close OF the present
collegiate year, after having been con-
nected with the institution for forty
years past.
/ A DOWN East farmer sprinkles his
currant bushes with whisky the worms
get drunk, drop off, and either break
their necks or cripple themselves so
/ that life is burden.
The German photographic printers
are making preparations to celebrate
the approaching centenary of Avis
Sennefelder, the inventor of the art of
lithographing.
EMMA ADAMS, q pretty female, and
! widow OF the notorious prize fighter,
Tom Hyer, was up before Judge Bed
! ford, IN New York, a few days ago, for
theft. She was released,
GEN. HOWARD, fighting his first bat
! tie at Manassas, III 1861, and delivering
a Fourth Of July Grafton on the same
spot IN 1871, shows some Of the changes
| ten Years have wrought
NINE SEEBAoH is safely installed in
Dresden, where she has placed her son
at one of the best schools, and will for
the present, be regularly domiciied.
LOUIS BLANC, hopeless of gaining
the ear of Theirs, or the dominant party
in the Assembly, and despairing of
the Republic in France, is going to set
tie permanently in London.
JOHN BULL begins to find fault with
Lord Napier of Magdala, for his pro-
fuse expenditures In India, and the
Colonial papers are waging bitter war
fare for and against the Abyssiniaa
( hero.
MAJOR GEN. WALKER of the British
Army, who accompanied, as military
attache, the Grown Prince army during
part of the war, was refused permission
to be present at the grand celebration
Its triumphs in Berlin
Mr.. A. H. STEPHENS is already expe-
riencing some of the minor woes of
journalism. In the latest copy OF his
paper, he suys prominently, :" for beau
hfully, in our last, read fearfully"
a. BIERsrADT, the artist, leaves New
York for California in few days, to
complete his studies of the scenery in
the vicinity of the Yosemite Valley
and Lower California.
MAJOR GENERAL WALKER of the Brit
ish army, who accompanied, as a mill
tary attache, the Crown Princes army
during part of the war, was refused
permission to be present at the grand
celebration of it's triumphs In Berlin
JUDGE ID. DAVIS is to undertake the
examination of the papers of President
Lincoln. He will devote the summer,
ut his home in Springfield, to this
task, and also to their revision for pub
! LEGATION.
HoUDIN, the famous French magician,
| has played his last trick He was as
sisted In it by an undertaken and
priest, and the only mechanical Gao
cessories" used were a coffin and q
| hearse.
| SPEAKER BLAINE has been for fifteen
! years a member of the orthodox Con-
gyegational church, OF Augusta, Me-.
and yet it would take Il Vice Presi-
Dental nomination to make him entire
~ happy.
SISTER MONICA, a lay sister at the
Convent Of the Visitation III Washing
ton, died on Saturday evening, at the
advanced age of so years. She was in
the Convent for more than half a cen
fury, and was the oldest sister in the
! institution.
A DUEL recently took place at Venice
between a captain stationed IN a regi-
nent there, and the editor of a red
newspaper called the Cronica Turchino.
an eX-major Of Garibaldi's Army of the
Vosges. The major was severely
wounded.
REV. Mr.. KENDRICK, a red-hot tenn
perance lecturer and lncandescent re
vivalIst IN Brooklyn, n. Y, Is on trial
before his association for drunkenness
the charge being preferred by the
Sunday School Superintendent and
half a dozen leading members of his
congregation.
WE learn from a Frankfort despatch,
through the Lombard " agency, that
the associated German railways have
resolved to present Prince Bismarck, as
"A token Of gratitude, a private railway
carriage for his special use, luxuriously
fitted with all comforts The carriage
is adapted for use on all German rail
way lines.
A SET of exquisite porcelain, a pres
ent from Champion, the great Bristol