The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-01-30
Personal.

BoUcIcAuLr is at work on a comed1
to succeed "The Shaughraun. "
Mr.. GLADSTONE is now sixtv-4ro
years, and Mr.. Disraeli sixty-nine wears
of age.
WHITTIER has promised to read one
OF his poems at fair in Boston in aid
of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals.
A REPORT IS current in Glasgow that
Mr.. Baird, the donor of half a million
sterling to tho Church of Scotland. is to
be made baronet.
Miss NELSON is at present ia New
York, under the care of DIR. Sims II
is believed she Will be able to resume
her tour January %.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE holds German
to be 1.-the most horrible combination
of sounds with which the human ear
can be tormented.
JOSEPH HARPER, a centenarian. died
IN Georgetown, d. c., at The AGE of
l06 years, ON the 9TH inst. Deceased
had been blind for nearly eighty years.
Miss EMMA ABBOTT has decided to
make her operate debut in London in
May. Adelina Patti has promised to
throw her the first congratulatory bou-
quet.
wo centenarians have died in South
Carolina within the last few days-Nrs.
Rosenberg, aged 103, and Richard Cot
trell, aged 1l9 years.
The Norwich Conn Bulletin
says that Mr. David A. Wells would
not accept the presidency of the Ameri-
can Social Science Association, a posi-
ton which, it has been reported, will
be offered him.
MARION HARTLAND has an income Of
s., 500 from her Cook Book " alone.
The Tichborne claimant is to be en-
ployed as a tailor, and is to fin sh his
sentence at Dartmoor.
THE names of Israel Washburn, Jr
Ii. D.. and the Rev Il. c. BolIes,
ID. d., are mentioned in connection
with the presidency OF the Tufts Col
lege, as successors to DR.. Miner
Mr.. HORACE WHITE, late editor of
the Chicago Tribune, finds his health
much impaired by his editorial labors,
and will visit the West Indies next
month III company with David A.
Wells
COLONEL GILDERsLEEvE, one of the
successful shots in the American team
last summer, has been elected Colonel
of the Ninth NewYork Regiment. for
merly command by Colonel James
Fisk.
OK DIT, that Bret Harte has obtained,
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position IN the New York Custom house,
as relief from pecuniary embarrass-
ments.
THE last King of Spain before the
one just proclaimed, bearing the name
of Alfonso, was Alfonso XII, historical
~ called the Ayenger, who reigned III
1854 until his death before the Gibral-
ter in 1850, so that between Alfonso XI
and Alfonso XII there is only the little
period of 525 years.
The Rev. Edwin L. James. twin
brother of Bishop Edmund S. James, of
New York, died Sunday morning at
Flushing, l.. /. For six or seven years
he was one Of the Secretaries OF the
National Temperance Society. Dur
ing the latter part of his life he retired
from his pastoral duties and devoted
himself chiefly to the work of this tenn
perance society without receiving pay.
LEWIS, the wit of the Detroit Free
Press, is youth of about twentv-nine.
with a dark and rolling eye, and a
moustache like the shadow of a great
sorrow. He is engaged to a lady whose
papa is worth half a million.
IT was a woman-Elizabeth, Countess
Thanat-who first petitioned the Irish
government for a penny-post. This
was 172 years ago Subsequently, for
that valuable hint, she was awarded,
three hundred poun sterling per an
nun.
THE ''Irish Times" says that one of
the objects Of Sir Stafford Northcotes
visit to Ireland is to examine the sites
proposed for the establishment in Dub
lin of an extensive National Museum of
Science and Art, analogous in principle,
although not IN extent, to that of Ken
sington.
RAPHAEL SENIAIEs is not a cherub in
his manner. The Louisville Courier
Journal says he keeps a stock of con-
gestive chills for everybody supposed
to be beneath him, and that means
everybody he meets.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin says Mrs.
Holmes, 8" the medium, spells i" sick "
in this manner: "cick." The or
biography is defective, but the word
accurately expresses the condition in
which she has left Robert Dale Owen
and Dr. Child
ELDER LUTz, the eccentric New
Haven preacher, had a curious watch
night programme. He delivered two
sermons, one on Hell Closed for Re
pairs" the other on Time" At the
midnight hour the elder appeared in
costume, personating the dying year,
with hour glass and scythe.
THE Boston Advertiser says: \
memorial window, destined for St
Marks EpiseopaD Church, San An
tonla, Texas, commemorative Of the
virtues of its first rector, has recently
been completed, and is pronounced by
those competent to Judge of 1t work
OF rare merit and appropriate signif-
ance. The central figure is that of a
Roman soldier bearing the palm of vic
tory, worked in mosaic 10 English an
tique, richly colored, and below it is in
scibed, ''ln memory OF Rev. Lucius
Henry Jones, Ma, first rector of the
parish. Entered into lie October 10,
1868"