The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-23
Personal Items.

| L. A. LOUIS, of CentralIa, ILL.,, has
Cremona violin made in 1912, for which
he has refused $500.
GAIL HAMILTON is about to become
an editor on Woods Magazine, with a
three thousand dollar salary.
The Benefits, father and son, are
about going abroad, and will probably
recall Frederick Hudson to the mana
ging editorship of the Herald.
A LADY in Aberdeen, Scotland, is
more advanced in woman's rights than
any otlier woman in Great Britain. She
goes regularly to the BARRIERS to get
| shaved.
A REMOTE descendant of John
Champs, who endeavored to recapture
Arnold from his British command, has
applied to Congress for a pension on
his ancestors account.
The late ex-senator Grimes bequeath-
ed all his property to his widow and
! his and her relatives, with the excep-
| ton of ten thousand dollars, given to a
lady who was reared In the family.
Rev. e. E. HALE is always doing
something out of his beaten track. His
latest innovation is vesper service on
| week days. And the experiment sue
ceeded, like everything else he takes
hold of.
DIR. SLADE, the medium, astonished
Hartford reporter by making the
''spirits" tug at his clothes, run slate
pencils up his sleeves, steal his hand
kerchief, and behave generally IN any
but spiritual fashion.
THE name of John Russell Young no
| longer appears at the head of the New
York Standard A Washington letter
SAYS he is constant attendant at the
Senate debates, and forwards leaders
by telegraph to the New York Herald.
MATT MORGAN, Frank Leslie's car
! toonist. was formerly a scene painter at
Drury Lane Theatre.
Mss adobe BowLEs, of Ashford,
| Conn, is afflicted with cancerous
fungus on the eye, eighteen inches IN
circumference.
THREE Young men of Hawkinsvllle,
! Ga, ate seventy-one oranges at sit
ting, the other day The champion
got away with twenty seven.
MIS-. JAMES W. MAYEs is the cham
pion shot of Kentucky. She last week
Shot several wild geese with a rifle,
hitting each exactly in the head.
The Hutchinson family, under the
lead of John. w. Hutchinson, have
opened a musical campaign for temper
ance in Connecticut, under the aus
pices of the State Union
| A NATIVE of Madras, in Hindostan,
! teaches school at Lafayette, Indiana
| Three idols, Brahma, Visf1nu and silva,
| form the chief decorations OF her apart
ments.
THE highest salary paid in this coun-
| try to lady teacher IS said to be given
| to Miss Anna c. Bracket, Principal of
the ST. Louis Norman School, So, 500
| a year.
CAPT. JOHN McGRATH died in Mobile
on "Wednesday. he was Commander
of the Emerald Confederate Guards
during the war, and since held the
office of City Tax Collector.
The Baroness Talleyrand wore over
s5O0,O0O worth of Jewels on a cos
tune of lady of Turkestan, at q Flor
ence ball, recently.
THE last act of M. Cont, the late
private secretary of Napoleon Ill, was
to send telegram to his old master at
| Chlselhurst, saying that he died faith
ful to the Imperial cause.
Mn. A. S. SLoMoN, Jewish gentle
man, residing at Washington, has
secured the removal from Webster's
and Worcester's dictionaries of the
verb jew; to cheat or defraud,
swindle.'
THE late Joseph elliott, of Birming-
ham, England, had a family of rare
vlolins, representing the genius of
Amati, Guarnerius, and Stradivarius,
some of which cost 9400 each.
Mrs CATHERINE EDWARDS was buried
at Dubuque last Friday, robed in a
habit made for that purpose SO years
ago, and inferred in lot purchased by
her 26 years since.
IsAAos, the hangman Of New York
city, charges thirty dollars for every
moose he furnishes for first-class execu-
| tons Isaacs would make a fortune if
every rogue was hanged who ought to
| be.
| SOME time ago, Mr.. William Elias, of
| New York, found a colt hitched to
load of hay, and bought him for 500
| One hundred times that sum would be
81 no inducement" now, for the horse
promises to worry Dexter.
MAJOR GENERAL JOHN G. FOSTER, of
the engineer corps OF the army, has
| finally arranged with the West Shore
Railroad that their road shall pass
along the river by West Point through
a tunnel instead Of across the Academy
grounds.
J. B. LEWIS, of Ripley, Me-. killed q
catamount, on February 18th, three
feet long, seventeen inches high, and
teeth and claws nearly an inch long.
His head bore strong resemblance to
that of the tiger. The animal sprang
fifteen feet at Mr.. Lewis head, but
missed his mark
A RECKLESS little scamp of Franklin,
KY, recently got on the track III front
of locomotive as 1t moved through
that city, and tried to run race with
it. He stumbled and fell, but almost
miraculously the cowcatcher lifted him
by one of his legs as he struggled, and
threw him off the track safely
/ DIR. HUssoN has analyzel the milk of
twenty-five cows, four of which were so
badly attacked by contagious typhus as
to necessitate their immediate killing.
-Four were apparently sound, and four
teen were in doubtful condition He
concludes that neither the milk nor the
meat can give the disease to men, or to