The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-09-16
Personal.

The Philadelphia Scotchmen are
going to erect a statue OF Slr Walter
Scott in Paramount Park
GEN. SHERMAN is planning for a
grand buffalo hunt for the Grand Duke
Alexis and his suite.
PETER GIPsEY, the tobacconist, and
owner of the Gipsey House, at New
York is worth IS, 900, 900.
The New York Sun dubs Justice
Downing the Dexter of the Bench he
disposed Of 43 cases in 95 minutes, a
few days since,
THE Louisville Courier heads an ar
ticle on Henry Clay Deans new depart
IRE with the quotation: "One by one
the roses fall
Mr.. ERAsTUs DICKINSON, brother of
the late Daniel S. Dickinson, died sud
denly at Dewitt, Iowa, recently, at the
age of so years.
JOSH Billings says that, having spent
six weeks at Long Branch frolicking In
the water, he has gone to Saratoga to
let the water frolic in him.
Mrs. MARY JANE OWEN, wife of Rob
ert Dale Owen, died on the 18th inst,
at New Harmony, Ind, after a brief ILL
ueSs.
Ar last Hiram Powers has written to
New Orleans that his marble statue of
Franklin, contracted for over 80 years
ago, is ready for shipment.
Mr.. ODGEB, the famous English Rad
zeal, is, according to Justin McCarty,
meat, bald, decent, and commonplace
looking little person"
EDGAR CoNovEB, General Sickles'
Secretary of Legation at Madrid
Spain, has Just married a beautiful
German heiress.
\ SAN FRANCISCO doctor advertised
for "good Office cat " Hehas already
received 24S fclines, with the southern
counties yet to hear from.
A New YORK lady-Kate Miles-is
one of the most highly favored singers
abroad. She won great honor at the
Theater La Sacald, in Milan, Italy
The first pair of India rubber shoes
ever seen in the United States was in
| 1920 They We're gilt, and pointed
like the slippers of the Chinese man
DARN.
| II is said that Ellis H. Roberts, del
! tor of the Utica Herald lately received
and declined an offer of a salary OF
! so, 900 year to take editorial charge
of the New York Times.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, of sleeping and
palace-car fame, owns small island
/ and cottage among the Thousand Is
/ lands of the St Lawrence, not far from
| Alexandria Bay.
| Mrs. MARCUS MORTON, Massachu-
sets, widow of the Governor, and now
81 years of age, is enjoying remarkable
mental and physical vigor, and insist,
when her sons visit her, on cooking a
dinner.
The eldest son OF the Laird who
| built the confederate steamer Alabama
! is about to marry a young WEIGH lady
named Pritchard, who lives at Llwy-
diarth Esgab, III Llanerchymed, North
/ Wales.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has been
preparing for the winters campaign by
studying new operas. She is forming
a company for a concert tour during
the month Of September, when she will
introduce to the public her prctege,
Miss Emma Abbott.
SIR Walter SCOTS wife expressed
herself with regard to her husband s
indiscriminate hospitality, by remark
ing that she saw no difference between
Abbottsford and large hotel, except
that at the former nobody paid.
D. II. CRAIG, theinventor of the new
system of photographic telegraphy, has
sold out his residence at Peekskill, and
returned to New York, where he will
/ engage III the management of the news
/ business in connection with his new
! system.
LOUIS XIII speaking to Bassom-
/ pierre, his ambassador to the court of
/ Spain, remarked: "You cannot i'm
/ aglne how ] laughed when | heard that
/ Eou entered Madrid on a mule-iust to
think-a iackass on a Donkey" 8 Very
true, sir, but you must remember [ rep
resented YOU at that time !"
! "CLAREHURsr " is the name of Clara
/ louise Kello9g's country seat near Cold
/ Spring on the Hudson. The estate en-
braces twenty-five acres, half of it run
ming up the side of a mountain, at the
/ base of which the house stands. The
/ building Is of Swiss architecture, and
/ from It's piazzas and numerous balco-
/ MES commands fine view Of West Point
and various places of intesest on the
river.
/ In one of the moulds of the Miami
/ Valley, Ohio, a patient antiquarian has
come upon evidence of a buried civil
zation, in the shape of the image of a
ram about four inches long, of blue
stone. It bears petritic ripple, sug-
gestive of a fleece, and is believed to
be the same little lamb which Mary had
| on one occasion, when she was endeav-
oringto obtain the rudiments of her
| education.
THE Oldest tree on record, IL Europe,
is asserted to be the cypress Of Somma,
/ in Lombardy, Italy. This tree is be-
! lieyed to have been in existence at the
time Of julius Caesar, forty-two years
before Christ, and is therefore 1,911
years old. 1t is 106 feet in height, and
twenty feet Ill circumference at one foot
from the ground. Napoleon, when lay
/ ing down his plan for the great road
over the 5implon, diverged from a
straight line to avoid iniuring this tree.
/ A RICHMOND letter tells this of Gov
ernor Wise: con one occasion since
the war he seized a colored newsboy
on the street, gently laid him down on
/ the pavement, put his foot upon the
neck of the PROSTATE boy, aud then
shouted SIC sc2e7per tyrGnnis!' But
this dreadful expression OF sentiment
! was immediately GIIa1itia1 nv his Dro