The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-22
PERSONAL.

HE banker-poet Stedman's poetry
and prose brought him in about 81, O0O
yearly.
Mr., GLADsToNE's health is far better
than it was last year. His vivaclty and
energy are as great as they were last
year.
JENNIE LIND has got severe attack
of the farewell tour fever, and the
chances are we shall see her again in the
United States.
SENATOR CHANDELIERS widow has given
81 900 to establish a schola rship III the
Chicago Woman's Medical College for
the benefit of women who intend to be-
come missionaries.
WHEN the Rev. Robert Collyer
preached at Ilkley, England, this sum-
mer, he was able to point to the church
yard gates as the work of his own hand
when he was toiler at the forge.
DR.. SCHLIEMANN, who is at Wildnn-
gen, Germany, busily engaged in put
ting the finishing touches to his new
work on the excavations on the site of
the larger City of Troy, will soon visit
England with his family.
Mrs. E. LYNN LINTON. the English
story writer, is pleasant faced lady of
60 years, with gray hair, and spectacles.
She spends her winters in Rome, and is
a general favorite in society, because Of
her brilliant conversational powers.
A BUST of Voltaire discovered among
the old models of the royal mandatory
of porcelain, has been added to the
special collection of Voltairean relics at
the chateau of Sans Souci. 1t is believed
to have been presented to Voltaire by
Frederick II.
Mr.. MILLAIs, the famous English ar
list. has taken the Murthly shootiDgs,
near Dunkeld, from Sir A. D. Stewart.
Mr.. Millais lives i'll very pretty shoot
ing lodge, near the bank of the Tay, in
which he has long and excellent stretch
of salmon fishing.
GEORGE ELIoT's "Daniel Deronda "
is said to be pretty accurately repre-
scented In real life by a nephew of Mr..
Seligman, the banker. AS a matter of
fact the original upon whom her con-
ception of the character was based is
MIR. George Henschel.
NJ. ALEXANDRA DUMAS has written q
letter complaining of the brilliancy of
stage decorations, and, above al of stage
dresses. The actresses think, he says,
more of their costumes than of the
piece, and "the genius of the author is
lost in the art of the milliner."
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND makes
curious mistakes every once In while.
The other day he interviewed Kate Field
IN New York, while she, all the time was
rustlcating IN Colorado. A man IN this
SORT of condition ought TO be afraid to
pull bis boots off at night. Chicago
NeWS.
The great orator Castelar, has for the
time retired from public life, but in &C
tlvity in the Spanish congress are two
other famous orators, Seniors Caualajes
and Martos, the latter quite a young
man, who is what is called an
Alfonsist Republican, and occupies
about the same position in Spanish that
Sir Charles Dixie does in English affairs.
The extraordinary physical likeness
existing between the Marquis of Lorne
and Mr.. Stuart Cumberland, the thought
reader, is a subject of general remark in
Toronto, according to the Mail of that
city. 1t has also been noticed at Sara
toga, where numerous persons, seeing
Mr.. Cumberland, announced in good
faith that the Marquis of Lorne was in
town.
Mr.. ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER, writing
from London to the Chicago Tribune,
says: "The Prince of Wales simply
amszes everybody by his restless-or,
rather, unresting activity. One might
ask, with no little reason: When does
the prince sleep?' He plays many parts,
and plays them uncommonly well. He
is here, there and everywhere. He is
perpetual motion itself One reads of
him at York, at the exhibition there in
the morning, and then at the fisheries
exhibition, in London, in the evening.
He entertains like a prince, and is the
most genial of guests in the home of his
friends, and one might say these friends
are Of all classes"