The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-28
Personal,

severity, and no one is allowed TO vlslt
| him.
! The Prince and Princess of Wales
are to remain in ST. Petersburg
| throughout February.
IT is affirmed that Whitelaw Reid
will soon lead Miss Ida Greeley to the
| hymeneal altar.
A HISTORY of Scottish philosophy, by
| the Rev. DIR. McCosh, is announced for
publication IN the autumn.
A YOUNG German Prince longs to
play Benedict to Beatrice, the young
est daughter OF Queen Victoria.
| LONDON papers state that Patti has
signed papers to sing III the United
States during the winter OF 1876.
MARK TWAIN is credited with having
pocketed so, 600 out OF his I" Innocents
Abroad, - which has sold $50, 600 copies.
MoLIERE, Beranger, Gautier and
| Taine are among the great writer's IN
France who sought in vain for admls-
sion into the French Academy.
CARLYLE is described as looking
quite as well as he did ten years ago,
and being as wonderful III conN er5ation
as ever.
ONE of PATHS recent presents in
Russia was a canary bird of solid gold,
with pearl bill and diamond eyes. 1t
| was life size.
| SIR SAMUEL BAKER says that fire can
not advance through grass, even when
it is blowing a gale, faster than SIX
miles an hour.
Mss BETTY BECK, daughter of Con
gresham Beck, Of Kentucky, is one of
! 1, oc+ oI,,,i.-o1 LHllas tins n
Washington.
GEN THos. A. RossER is out with an
argument for towing canalboats with
locomotives, q narrow gauge track to
be built on the towpath.
MARK TwA1N's last trip to England
| was almost solely to take oHt an English
copyright for the Gilded Age. He is
an extraordinary joker.
MAY safely say, and [ am proud to
! be able to say, that l am the most
strongly and the best hated man in
Europe. -BismarcE to Prtts8jdn Dict.
SPOTTED TAIL hiss fallen before the
march of civilization and occupied a
box III the theatre at Cheyenne, Wy
oming, recently.
CUSHING will be given discretion to
, | iNN'E oi'i<1N 81 +AAiAN'S IL 'S'i4''
to, when he gets to Madrid. He thinks
! seriously of trying on Don Carlos for a
while.
/ HANGAIAN FooTE has been engaged III
three affairs of honor, and has never
been hurt yet. Perhaps it will be well
enough to state, also, that he has never
hurt anybody else.
COUNT DE MoHTMELAT, a celebrated
| Fra,ah irov.la,, wi hot
and China, died recently at Paris at
the age of II, leaving considerable
7 wealth, and curiosities Of priceless
value.
AN old grave-stOne, unearthed re-
Gently on the Ohio river bank, and
bearing the inscription, Fanny w,
$780," is exciting the curiosity Of the
quid nuncs of Carrollton, Kentucky.
els MISS BLINKING at home 2" asked
Mr.. Sanders of the Irish girl who
answered the ring at the door Eyes,
l b'lave she is, Sir" us she en-
gagged 2" can IS it engaged you say
Faith, an | can't tell ye, Sir; but she
kissed Mr.. Vincent last evening as if
she had not seen the like Nv him, an
it's engaged b'lave they are, Sir"
hoA L aChElNg VI HIduGI tUUIJk, Is one
OF the rich men of Pennsylvania He
is said to be worth $25, 600, 900, and
began life without a penny, as the
driver Of a canal boat on the Lehigh
canal. His fortune came mainly from
the purchase at low rates of coal lands
in the region of his present place of
residence.
WHEN the first time of love is over,
there comes a something better still.
Then come that other love, that faith
full friendship which never changes,
and which will accompany you with its
calm light through the whole of life.
1t is only needful to place yourself SO
that 1t may come, and then it comes of
itself And then everything turns and
changes itself to the best.
! A CLIENT called on Mr.. Webster to
employ HIM to argue cause of import
ance. Mr.. Webster asked who was en-
gagged on the other side, and the client
answered, " A strengthening LAWYER,
named Wood. Well" Mr.. Webster
replied, g if George Wood is employed
against you and is asleep, be very care
ful not to wake him up
NELLIE WEEAIAN has killed herself in
| uidoo', dt lIt aye OF seven
teen, because she believed that she
could not become a Christian. She
had attended revival meetings in the
Methodist Church, and the dread of
eternal punishment there aroused had
affected her mind. She was a bright.
intellectual girl, but very sensitive and
impossible.
Mr.. LoCKYER has been recently maxi
ing an inquiry into the existence in the
sun OF elements not previously traced.
The result up the present time has
been that strontium, lead, cerium and
uranium Will have to be added to the
list as 1t at present exists. 1.-THE pres
ence OF cerlum and uranium be con-
hrmed the whole of the iron group of
metals Will have been found in the SIM
Certain metals forming unstable OK.
ldes, such as gold, silver mercury. etc
were sought for, but were not found
Mr.. Lockyer believes that he finally
has sufficient proof for supposing that
the elements which exist in the sun ex-
lst there in a ASSOCIATED state or. in
other words, tibet there are no com
pound bodies in the sun.