The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
PERSONALITIES,

The Gar of Russia smokes, it is
said, four packages of cigarettes every
day.
A DAUGHTER to the poet Longfellow
is engaged to be married to brother
of Mrs. Ole Bull.
DIR. MARY WALKER does not approve
of the Mother Hubbard" dress The
doctor has a penchant for bifurcated
garments.
Mas. LAURA DAINTY, the well known
reader and actress, is spending the sum
mer at Cos Cob, CT, with her 4-year- old
daughter.
1T is understood that Pierre Loril-
lard, of New York, has sold his steam
yacht, Radha, to Mr.. Seymour, of that
city, for $4,000.
SUCCESSION duty is high in England.
The present Duke of Buccleuch, who
has just come into the title, will have
to pay 5 100000 to this tax.
REV. HUBERT r. HowEs, of Morris
vile, Vt, whose wife obtained a divorce
from him last April on the ground of
intolerable severity, has just remarked
her.
Mr.. LABoUCHERE, of London Truth,
says: Mgr. Capel has received con
verts, according to American accounts,
to the amount of $l,600,000 in New
York alone"
HERBERT SPENCER has decided to
leave London, and will probably make
his permanent residence at Mentone. as
his physician tells him that he must
live where the climate is warm.
THE Rajah Mansour from the Straits
settlements, who was recently presented
to the Prince of Wales, expressed him
self thus concerning the heir apparent
Of the British crown: He is nice chap,
stands straight up, and bows and
smiles"
EDWIN BOOTH has furnished his New
port (R, L. cottage in very coy and
home-hke manner, and the place, which
Is near Hanging Rocks, far from the
fashion and follies of the gay watering
place, includes eleven acres tastefully
laid out in walks, gardens and lawns.
MIR. BURDETT- Courts, the husband of
the octogenarian millionaire, has recent
~ attracted great attention by his at
tendance at the popular sermons of dis
tingulshed divines. His elderly wife
dresses IN the quietest black, while he
sports a suit of extravaganza cut and
faring colors.
W. Fl. SMITH, the first Lord of the
Admiralty, lately gave party at Hen
ley, and by paying the boatmen four
shilllngs per hundred secured 5000
lilies tc adorn his parlors He, how
ever, depleted the river of these flowers
for miles and made himself the object
of much indignation.
THE Hon. CECILIA CLIFFORD. of
England, who is about to marry Lord
Fielding, at present en- route to the
Rocky Mountains, is described as hav
ing both singular beauty and remark
able strength of character. Her two
sisters are III converts, and are supposed
to have each brought there their dcwrv
of 9T20,00O.
LIEUT.. GREELY weighs forty pounds
more now than he ever weighed before.
He is so weak, however, that he can
barely crawl upstairs, and his muscles
refuse to harden. The other day some
comrades of his youth crowded around
him and he greeted them with "How
are you, Charley?" "Good for you,
John" but he kept his arms folded and
remarked as he saw their outstretched
palms: I'm not shaking hands, boys;
the doctor made me promise wouldn't"
THE Russian Princess Blavatsky, who
has acted for ten years as priestess,
seeress, and banker to Col. Henry Oh
colt IN his mission of preaching Bud
dhism to the American and Theosophism
to the Hindoos, is now in London and
III high favor with a certain class of ad-
vanced thinkers. In conjunction with
the Countess of Caithness, she has
just issued what might be called the
prospectus of new sect of Theoso-
phists. The platform is broad enough
to accommodate Jewish priests and
Pagans and all such Christians as find
the religion taught by the Savior too
narrow for their gigantic intellectes.