The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-24
Personal.
JOSH BILLINGS is going abroad.
STORY, sculptor, is brushing up as
Iramatic PLAYWRIGHT.

JOSH BILLINGS is going abroad.
STORY, sculptor, is brushing up as
dramatic playwright.
TENNYsoN's latest composition is
averse to Canadian annexation.
Ex-MINIsTER MOTLEY still resides in
Holland, engaged in literary pursuit.
Four members of one family al Ant
werp, Ohio, have been drowned this
spring.
ONE Mrs. Wade fulfills wcman's mis-
sion as a blacksmith at Fort Scott,
| Kansas.
PROF. NEWTON, of Yale College, has
been elected an honorary Fellow of the
Royal Society.
A PosTHUMoUs continuation of Louis
Napoleon life of julius Caesar is an
nounced for publication.
CHARLES ALGERNoN SwINBURNE is
now reported to be victim of opium.
He found brandy too mild.
The gig that used to carry Henry
Clay still holds together, and thunders
over the roads of Lexington, Ky.
Mr. CHESTER ADAMS, of Hartford.
Conn, recently deceased, left 5000 900
to different public institutions.
THE first Chinaman ever arrested in
San Francisco for drunkenness turned
up In the police court the other day.
A RICH Englishman has amused him
self for many years in collecting the
ropes with which criminals have been
hung
JONAS JORDAN, SO years old, and
soldier of the war of 1912, is an in
mate Of the Bowling Green Ky.) Poor
House.
CRAs. e. BIDwEEL, New England
actor of considerable notoriety, at one
time, has been consigned to an insane
asylum.
A BAZAAR presided over by Nine.
Theirs, at the Paris Opera House, pro-
duced 40, 900 francs for the orphans of
the war
LoBD BYRoN's secret, says the Lon
| don Illustrated Review, was that he
| had a wife when he was married to Miss
Milbank
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has pur-
chased, for $50, 600, modest cottage
with pleasant grounds, on Catharine
street, Newport.
| Mr.. ERNEST IoNGFELLow, the second
son of the poet, is much commended
in Boston for his growing skill as
landscape painter.
THERE are two descendants of James
Howard, of England, living in Delhi,
NY, brothers, who are heirs to $5,000,-
900 IN The old country.
A LONDON stage driver has just re
covered a verdict for damages against
an agent of the Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to ANIMALS for false
imprisonment.
GEN GEORGE B. WILLIAMS, the ia
panese Special Financial Agent to the
| United States aud Europe, has been
married to Mrs. Nellie Peake, Cali.
fornia lady, in Paris.
Mr. JAMES SMITH, an Australian
journalist, has received a spiritual
communication that the world is to be
"burRed as black as forgotten toast
| by wave of fire. within a year.
Mile. OsTAvA ToRRIANl, who is COM
ing to this country next season with
Mr.. Strak oscb, is described as having
an excellent stage presence, and fine,
sympathetic voice, which is well under
control
GEO. ". BENSON, a salesman in Ben
sons music store in Memphis, has dis
appeared with about S700 Of the re-
ceipts of sales of seats during Lawrence
Barrett's engagement at the Grand OPP
era House.
GENERAL JAMES SEIELDs. who has
representated both Illinois and Mn
nesota in the United States Senate, is
said to be the only man who has ever
been elected to that body by two diff
farent States
The Comte de Vernon, Jealous
Archaeological, has found the heart of
Charles VIII of France Enclosed in a
small leaden box i'll the Church of
Notre Dame de Celery.
A STORY is current that Charles A.
Dana intends to leave the Sun after
the present wear, and reside perma-
nently abroad W. .. Bartlett, who
long been Dana's assistant, IS spoken
of as his successor.
ALFRED FL. GUERNSEY, for many years
editor of Harpers' Monthly, has left
their employment and gone to the APP
pletons He had been with the Har-
pers, in different capacities, for nearly
a quarter of century.
Don CARLOS is tall and slim in per-
son. has remarkably handsome feat
ures, wears his brilliantly and intense
ly" black beard in full, is slightly eff
Terminate in his address, but thinks
logically and talks sensibly. When
conversiDg he sometimes smiles. He
smokes cigarettes.
D. r LOCKE petroleum Y. Nasby)
is making arrangements tor leave Tole
do, Ohio Che still retains his connection
with the Blade, of that city,, and take
up his permanent residence in the me-
tropolis. He thinks that town the next
best place to the Confederate Cross
Roads
LORD LYTToN was good hand at
commercial arrangement. He drove
successful bargains with his publish
ers. His agreement with Messrs. Rout-
ledge for cheap issues of his novels
was a profitable thing for him. The
firm had the power of bringing out the
works in two forms, and in return were
to pay him sum annually, in nine
teen years they have paid him as much
as 1900