The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-30

SPEAKER RANDALL has no 1ntoxlcat-
ing liquors at his entertainments.
JOAQUIN MILLER has placed his
daughter in a Canadian convent school.
THE tallest man in Alabama is SAID 10
be John w. Robinson, of Pike county
who is said to be six feet seven ana NAH
inches high.
1T is said that Count Schouvalot RS
marked recent Y to Lord Beaconsnelo:
"Confess, Milford, that there are only
two things worth living for--polltlcs ana
pretty women"
BORDEN PARKER BROWNE, one OF the
youngest and most popular professors Oh
the Boston university, was a few years
ago the driver of hay truck on West
street, New York.
AN old gentleman of Washington, Ia,
was so much pleased because of the at
tentions shown him by waiting maid
in Pittsburg hotel that when he died
recently he left her 81 900.
MRS. SOPHIA DILLEMUTH, OF Pitts
burg, discharged domestic several
weeks ago, and the fear that she had
driven the girl to ruin so hung upon her
mind that she committed suicide.
BROTHER MOODY was rowing on
pond at Mortified, Mass, and singing
{" Pull for the Shore" when over went
the boat, and the evangelist was COM
PEELED TO swim for the shore or drown.
PAUL BoYToN's bride, if she takes an
ocean into her head, besides wanting a
watered silk dress, should have high
tide shoes, and water waves in her hair,
and be thankful she hasn't a creek in her
back.
EX-COLLECTOR THOMAS MURPHY OF
New York, General Grants warm per-
sonal and political friend, has been
granted discharge in bankruptcy. The
claims proved against him amounted to
$4,000, and there are no assets.
The ex-Empress Charlotte has i'm
proved greatly in health since her re-
moval from Tervueren to Bonchant.
She has of late been absolutely free from
her former painful and distressing at
tacks of illness.
THE late Robert Argyle of Gold Hill,
New, one or the first settlers of the
| Comstock, has left $4,000 to the city of
San Francisco to build fountain. He
has ordered the foundation to be made
of refuse quartz from each of the Com
stock mines.
GEN. LoNGsTREET, now postmaster Oh
| GAINESVILLE, Ga, has sad face, frank,
gray eyes, massive jaws, strong mouth,
and white silken mustache and side
whiskers. He bears striking likeness
to the Emperor William. Hisright arm,
which received many wounds, is par
alyzed.
ROBERT BURNS, son of the poets eldest
son, has Just died in the Dumfries hos
pital. He was once schoolmaster, but
his school dwindled away until he had
to take refuge in the poor house, from
which about Is months ago he was trans
ferred to the more comfortable quarters
in which he died.
| GEN. Bob TooMBs left his comfortable
quarters at White Sulphur Springs the
other day that he might travel 800
miles to attend meeting of t. board
of trustees of the Athens, Georgia, uni
versity, from which institution he was
expelled when boy for indulging in a
fist fight with his room mate.
A VIRGINIAN who recently visited
Senator Withers, writes that he found
the patrician surrounded by children,
grandchildren, adopted children, friends,
guests, relatives, dogs, puppies, little ne
groes, babies, and pet foxes" At the
same time the senator wss suffering from
rheumatism, but happy withal.
AMONG the passengers by the Repub-
| lie, which arrived a day or two ago, were
Mr.. J. o. Wakem, Mrs j. O. Wakem,
Mr.. Wallace Wakem, Mr.. Frank
Wakem, Miss Mile Wakem, Miss Mary
Wakem, Miss Anita Wakem, Miss Ethel
Wakem, Miss Amy Wakem, Miss Jessie
Wakem, Miss Helen Wakem, and Master
Wakem.
MRS. THOMAS, of Philadelphia, an old
lady over eighty, and an aunt to George
Kane, has built a neat stone church at
at Kane, Pa, at cost of $40, 600, and
presented it to the Presbyterian congre-
cation. The old lady each year, says
the Titusvlle Herald, spends part of
her immense income in building church
somewhere in the country.
MRS. MARY ALICE SEYMOUR, for
merly connected with the girls seminary
of Knox college, at Galesburgh, H.,
has received an appointment in the inn
perial household of Austria as mistress
of English to the young Archducbess of
Austria ana the Princess of Tuscany,
and will be known henceforth in the
imperial household as Lady Alice Sey-
mOur.
JOHN E. SEELEY, three yesrs ago
farrier at Goshen, n. Y, took DIR.
Greeley's advice and went west. He
engaged in the restaurant or hotel bust
ness there, and speculated in mining
stocks and in working mines. He came
back to Goshen on visit recently worth
over 100000, having made in the
three years of his absence an average of
nearly $4,000 per day.
ONE of the Russian grand dukes is
married to German girl of humble
birth. "Society" at Moscow snubbed
her. So the grand duke cauked hotel
where many ladies of society" were
accustomed to sup with their admirers,
to be surrounded by the police. The
ladies were called upon to give their
names and addresses, and then their
husbands were sent for to identify them,
MRS. JUDAH, California's pet actress,
and one well known in nearly every city
in this country, is now in very critical
condition from dyspepsia in San Fran
cisco, and is not expected to recover.
She was born in Orange County, n. Y,
has lived in California twenty-eight
years, and a. far as she knows, has not q
relative living. She lost her husband in
1888 in storm at sea, from which only
she and three sailors escaped.
CsMAN PAsHA is RAPIDLY becoming q