The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-01-11
Personal.
THOMAS CARLYLE is " years oil

Rev. Dr. e. III. CHAPLIN has become
editor Of the Christian Leader
STANLEY is to have an ocean steamer
named for him.
POLLARD, the Southern history
writer. is dangerously i'll.
IT is stated that Mr.. Charles Dickens
IT,, will visit this country next Spring.
THE Davenport brothers have gone to
farming.
Rev. ROBERTSON, of Louisville, has
now gone into the insurance business.
LORD EXETER, of England, has bought
II, 900 American fish ova.
ROBERT CHARLES BELL. the eminent
engravs4, of Edinburgh, is dead. :.
BAYARD TAYLOR has settled with his
family at Gotha to spend several yaars-
Mr.. TRooTH was crushed to the
earth In Savannah, but he rose again
"a he should.
PATTI receives $50, 900 for two per-
fcrmances as week in Russia, and ST.
900 a night for extra performances.
ASTRONOMERS, which IA PhiladeI-
phia paper places after the name OF the
late Mrs. Somerville. is the worst yet.
TIE Kansas Blind Asylum has re-
ceived a box of books bequeathed to it
by Charles Dickens.
CREswELL says that the boy Of to-
dav Will see the time when letters Will
be sent anywhere for a penny.
GAIL HAMILTON announces her IN
tention not to write any more for the
next six months.
Ms. Willis ADAMS, of Springfeld,an
artist of the Antwerp school, has
volume of comic sketches in press.
In the next Iowa Legislature there
will be q Lyon, a Bullock, two Foxes
and three Ducks.
AMERICA is shortly to be visited by
Prof. Carl Vogt, the distinguished
Swiss scientist
HOSEA LEWIS, father of Ida, and long
the keeper of Lime Rock Light, is
dead.
ONE11, recently murdered in New
York by King, was an educated and ac'
complished Welshman.
HARRY BAssETT sold in 1869 for SIS
He would sell for that now if his owner
would let him.
n w ACERLOO III NCthouts
aged ninety five, lately married and
entered on his last campaign.
MARK TWAIN comes back because his
wife's health is SO poor that her death
is expected from day to day.
IT is one Of Rubinstein's eccentrici-
ties that he will not play at a concert
where Strauss waltzes are on the pro-
gramme.
Mr. ROBERT LINCOLN, son of ex-
President Lincoln, arrived at Chicago,
with his wife, from Europe on Thurs
day.
BEEcHER says that more lies have
been told alb nut him, every year of his
public life, than would shingle ca
thedral-
JOHN B. COUGH is getting up testi,
monial for George Cruikshank, the
temperance carjcaturlst of England,
ana leads the list with $3.50.
JUDGE J. p EMMoNs has lost The use
Of his eyes, and is now totally blind.
Judge Emmons is Attorney General of
the state of Florida.
The statue of Chief Justice fancy
was raised upon the pedestal at Annap-
oils, Md, on the DIST inst. 1t repre-
sents Mr. fancy ia sitting posture.
"CAR1 BENsoN " Charles Aston Bris-
ted) is the richest literary man in
America, enjoying an annual income
of $4,000
A LITERARY and musical entertain
ment was given at Raine's Hall, in
Baltimore, on the 18th inst, for the
benefit of Miss Rosalie NJ Poe, sister
to Poe, the poet.
SIR HUMPHREY DAvY has his statue,
at Penzance. where he was born, In
1878. It cost $1,000. 1t represents,
him holding the miners safety lamp in
his right hand.
DOUGLAS JERRoLD was once asked by
an intolerable bore, who affected to be
a poet of the Milton school, whether he
had read his descent into He'll"
" No, sir" responded the irate wit, but
| should like to see it. ;"
BRIG. GEN. Cook, commanding the
Department of the Lakes, will, it is
said, shortly retire from service He.
is 60 years old. and has been 45 years
in military harness.
Mr.. GEORGE L. Fox, famed in this
country in " Humpty Dumpty, is en-
Gagged for the Covent Garden Christ
mas pantomime, which will be on the
subject of "Jack, the Giant Killer
GEORGE A. WooDFoRD, of Menomi-
nee, Michigan, for salary of S25 a
year, acts as Worthy Chief of the Good
Templars' Lodge, Junior Warden of
the Masonic Lodge, School Trustee,
Township Librarian and leader of the
band.
COOP thing done by one Jean Doll.
fus, great foreign manufacturer cell
ebrated his golden wedding by the dis
tribution of $4,000 among his work
people. Some, who have been many
years in his service, will get as much as
5000 each.
AN old lady named Brown has lust
died In London, leaving 81, 500. 600. and
nobody to inherit it. This will cause
a vast commotion among the two or
three families of that name in the Unit
ed States.
FIELD MARSHAL SIR VIM Comm, the
recently appointed Constable of the
Tower, who attained his eighty-eighth
year on the 10th inst, will be formally
installed into Office early next month.
He is hale old soldier