The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-03-25
ABOUT PEOPLE.


WILLIAM BLACK received $4,000 for
ga Beautiful Wretch.
Two of ex-senator Sargent's daughters
have graduated in medicine.
SENATOR GEORGE f. EDMUNDs, Of
Vermont, has continuously held his Office
since 1866.
GENERAL FITz JOHN PoRTER's back
pay, should he be restored, would
amount to S115, 900.
Miss ALICE LoNGFELLow, the daugh-
ter of the poet, has strong aud clever
face, with charming brown eyes and
delicate, soft color in her checks.
ALGERNoN CHARLES SwINBURNE is in
state of such robust health as promises
much good work He often walks
twenty miles in day and he is III the
most jubilant OF gay spirits.
Mr.. BLAINE says that the word
portrait of a murderer used in his ora
ton WAS quoted from speech by
Daniel Webster delivered at a murder
trial IN New England.
THE late ex- Governor Samuel Purdy
of California, acquired a national reputa-
ton by refusing $500, 900 when a mem
Der Of the state legislature for his vote,
which would have given the water front
OF San Francisco to a corporation.
Gus STONE is as deaf as post Dur
| ing ooe of the cold days of last week
friend told him he would freeze his ears
! if he did not protect them in some way.
"Suppose they do freeze, said Stone,
''what harm viii that do? They're no
! good.
JOHN WooDCoCK GRAVES, author of
| the most famous OF hunting songs, John
Peel, Is living i'll great distress IN Tas-
mania, at the age OF 80 He never re-
celyed a penny from the song. His ma
| tive county, Cumberland, is raising a
! subscription for him.
WHILE vet boy, Baron Nordenskjold,
the Arctic explorer, was an industrious
collector Of minerals aud insects. and
was permitted to accompany his father,
Il weil-known naturalist and Chief of the
| Finland mines, on bis tours, thus acquir-
ing early in life The keen eye Of the min
eralogist.
E. G. SPRAGUE, of Fargo, is one of the
| largest landowners in the world, now
! having a clear title to more than 800, 900
acres, Sc, 900 Of which are in Dakota,
about 5000 in Texas, 10000 in Mis-
sissippi, and various other fractions in
I'll parts Of The Union. He says he lost
$1,000, 900 in the Chicago fire.
JAMES Swan left Lees army after APP
pomattox without penny III his pocket.
He got place as clerk in grocery
store III Atlanta, went to New York as
clerk for a cotton firm, became partner
IN the firm, made million or two, and
now retires to build i fiue residence on
the site Of the Atlanta grocery.
WILLIAM HUGHES, of Baltimore, Z" has
three brothers whose birthdays fall OF
| February 10Th. Each of the four
brothers was married on his twenty
sixth birthday, at the same church and
by the same minister, the bride In each
case being Miss Burroughs. Three of
the ladies' attained the age Of twenty one
on their wedding day
WHEN Robertson, the dramatist, after
many hard struggles, saw fame and for
tune within his grasp, he said to a
friend: 81 have Just got everything [
want. L have known every kind of
trouble, disappointment and discourage
ment, even hunger, and now l have
every llxury-lust as ] am going away"
He died month afterward.
ONE Of the most picturesque groups
at the recent Garfield memorial services
! IN Washington WAS that Of the Chinese
minister and three Of his suite, VINO sat
III decorous quiet during all the proceed
| ings. the chief mandarin looking as
wisely and intently through his large
! bowed opectacles as if be understood
! every word uttered. Their skirts of
ultra-marlne satin were covered half way
with loose aud thickly. wadded coats, or
blouses, Of plum-colored satin with blue
velvet collars, and on each red-topped
turban was the symbolical button de-
noting their rank.
PROFESSOR HAECKEL, the eminent
scholar, who like Humboldt. prefers to
study nature in her own wilds, was at
last accounts IN small village on the
south coast of the island of Ceylon-the
only white man there. The village,
! which bears the melojious name of Bel
/ ligamma, lies on the shore of fine bay,
and is surrounded by dense forests of
cocoanut and hreadfruit trees, filed in
| with other luxuriant tropical vegetation.
| The professor received an enthusiastic
! "CiboLIC nun VIC BONSIuOI VI tue Is1dIlCI,
and has been afforded every aid In the
pursuit Of his geological Investigations.
SOME men cannot help being gallant
and complimentary, even when they are
at deaths door, Willie others could not
be either one or the other under any
circumstances. When Mr. Kemble and
Mrs. Esten were crossing the Firth to-
gethcr, violent gale came up suddenly
and there was really so ne little danger
"Mr. Kemble," SAID Mrs. Esten. "if we
should be drowned and become food for
the fishes, which of us, do you think,
would be eaten frst?" Kemble hest
tated moment and then replied:
Madame, the gluttons would undoubt-
eddy fall foul of me at once, but the cpl
cures would save you for desert"
Caroline RichingS and Her Father.