The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-02
Personal.


Howe will spend the remainder of the
winter season in San Domingo
NELAToN, the great French surgeon,
once received $40, 900 for performing
surgical operation.
In Hindu prayer for his recovery,
the Prince of Wales was spoken of as
''the JOY Of the Queen and the ocean
of merit"
BRET HARTE says he bitterly regrets
not having remained in California.
His genius forsook the Pacific only to
be drowned in the Atlantic.
Prof. HAGER, late State Geologist of
Vermont, takes exceptions to his re-
ported dead as follows: eff A. D.
Hager is dead who in the ID am II"
THE late Charles F. Latham, OF
Thetford, VT, left -. 900 to Thetford
Academy for the erection of dwelling
house.
Mrs. SOPHIA LIPPs, of ST Louis, is
negotiating divorce from Mr.. Anton
Lipps, In the words of the poet, better
far had those Lipps never met.
The newly-enrolled policemen of
Montreal are very superior class of
men. None less than five feet ten
inches in height have been accepted.
GARRETT DAVIS is said to have teen
permanently affected by the recent
death of his step-daughter. He is still
confined TO his residence in Washing
ton.
NORWICH, England, has a layman's
Ritual institute where the forms or
| performances and ceremonies pertain.
ing to R1tualIsm are taught to true be-
| levers.
E. II. SPAULDING. of Bloomfield, N.
j., has been engaged by the govern
ment of Peru for engineering labo. on
the South American Trans Continental
Railway.
Mrs. JAMES W. MAYEs has amazed
the people of Fulton, KY, by her skill
as a marksman. Last week. with a
rifle, she shot several wild geese, hitting
each exactly in the head.
An English lunatic frightened the
Baron de Rothschild, and caused him
to take sudden journey from London
to Mentmore, by telegraphing him that
tho baroness was very i'll
HE Emperor of Russia lately es-
capped great danger by his GOODNESS and
presence of mind. He was attacked by
a bear while hunting, and his life
placed IN great peril, but he succeeded
III shooting the dangerous animal.
PROFESSOR FRosCHAMMER, of Munich,
has been communicated by the
Archbishop of that cltv, and the Pro-
lessor reminds the Bishop that the
Catholic clergy are all communicated
for adopting the Copernican system and
taxing interest on money.
LONDON was first lighted with gas ON
the 2Sth of January, 1907. by a Ger
man named Winsor. Sir Walter Scott
observes in his diary in 1906, There
IS mailman in London who is irving
to light the city with smoke"
Mrs. G. III. HUTCHINSON. who pre-
vented burglars from carrying off hun
dreds of dollars from a bank at Tren-
ton, n. j., recently, by giving a timely
alarm, has received a silver tea service,
worth 81, 600, from the bank, as an evil
dence OF its gratitude.
BUFFALO BILL passed Friday in Buff
fal0, where he Wore short, dark blue
roundabout, gray flannel shirt, and a
neck tie to which was fastened the pin
given him by the Grand Duke. He is
promo unced by the reporters a genial
and educated gentleman. He gaze5 at
Niagara on Thursday, and saw 1.-The
Black Crook" on Friday evening.
/ Miss KATE RIGGS, the ACCOMPLISHED
daughter of George w Riggs, of Wash
lngton, has left that city for Rome.
where, early In April next, she Will be
married to NJ. Goeffroy, formerly an
dttGche of the French Legation in
Washington, and recently appointed
Minister to China by the French Gov
eminent
SAMUEL MITCHELL, who emigrated
westward to Buffalo IN 1926. when it
was but village, died there last Fri
day. He once owned farm of 100
acres at Black Rock, and was recog-
nlzed authority throughout the country
on breeding horses. He narrowly es-
| capped death, in 1861, by falling through
a hatchway. His death was caused bv
paralysis, at the age of Ga.
A SEVERE critic suggests that Mr..
Greeley's charming metaphor in one of
MS leading articles - Men and breth
rem new leaf must be turned over or
there are breakers aheadn-is fully as
good as The famous II smell a rat: 7
see hlm floating in the air; let us nip
him in the bud''
JOHN A. COOPER, of San Francisco,
loved Sarah Pagan, proposed to her.
and was accepted, and was Just getting
married, when Michael Riley came in
and spoiled it ali in declaring that
cooper mad one wife living already.
Cooper says he is respectable single
man, and has brought suit against
klley for SANDER, laying his damages
at $4,000
SAMUEL HARTMANN, of st. Croix.
Wis, retired from military life with a
orevet Brigadiershlp. " goodbye,
General, were the parting words of
ms old comrade in the army. Chow
are you, Colonel ~ was the salutation
on reaching Wisconsin. As he an
preached home, this began to come
down to g How do you do, Captain:
and finally, when he came among the
boys at home, he was greeted with
halo, Sam; got back again 2"
RUDOLPH ROGERS, having completed
the Soldiers Monument at Detroit. left
on Friday evening, on a brief visit to
ms friends at Ann Arbor He will re-
turn Immediately to Rome. He has an
order for Soldiers Monument at Wor-
cester, Mass, to cost $50, 200; and his
flfst work after returning to Rome viii