The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-19
PERSONALITIES.

CARDINAL MANNING declares he is too
old to visit America. The Cardinal is the
only man who would not be apt to
write book about us, and yet he can
not come.
MISS MARION BOOTH, female com
positor in the Pascagoula (Mass.) Star
office, is only Is years old, but she sets
1,2O0 ems solid long primer, newspaper
measure, in one hour.
FRANCIS t. KING, president of the
John Hopkins Hospital Board, of Balti-
more, has refused for the second time
an offer of an annual salary of $4,000
for his services TO that eminently useful
charitable institution.
MAUD HOWE, who has recently
launched novel on the vast sea of lit
erature, is a daughter of Julia Ward
Howe, cousin of Genevieve Ward, the
actress, a niece of Sam Ward, the lobby
ist, and cousin of ]. Marion Crawford,
the popular novelist.
M. RESaN announces a new work on
religion and says that his highest am
bition would be satisfied if he could en-
ter the church after death "in the form
of little volume bound in black mo-
rocco, to be held between the long ta-
pering fingers of finely gloved hand.
PRINCE HENRY Won HANAU, son OF
the Elector of Hesse- Cassel, and grand
nephew OF the Emperor of Germany,
was recently received into the Catholic
Church at Paris. The solemnity was
conducted with the strictest privacy in
the chapel of the Papal Nuncio, very
few aymen being present.
Mr.. ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER, just
from abroad, pronounces Canon Farrar
great preacher, and, writing for
Boston audience, of course he must add
who has all the glow and charm of
spontaneity that marks DIR. Phillips
Brooks holy fervor, with just a happy
restraint of verbiage that DR.. Phillips
Brooks has not.
JOHN PORTER, an engineer on the
Michigan Central Road, is said to have
| been offered SAT 900 for his patent of
an attachment to steam cylinder
which condenses the waste from the
steam cock on starting the engine, and
| thereby averts the kissing noise that
often frightens people and horses.
Mr.. RUsKIN once owned Meissonier's
Napoleon L." now in the Paris show,
and exhibited it to his class at Oxford
as an instance of incredible folly, he
having paid l 900 guineas for less than
square foot of painted canvas. Short
ly afterwards he sold it for 5000, and
! his self-accusation somehow lost its
point.
A PARIS correspondent write IS
'There is a general impression that the
Empress Eugenie is poor. | can say
with certainty that she is rich, beside
possessing large sums, well invested in
this country, and the whole of the
Prince Imperial's fortune, Her Majesty
owns immense tracts of pine forests IN
the Landes, from which she derives a
very substantial income. Then, she
spends nothing"
A WASHINGTON letter says: Every
day patient-looking little woman can
be seen in the members gallery of the
House of Representatives with a novel
in her hand, reading intently, and never
looking up unless something of unusual
interest occurs. She is the wife OF
Representative Hatch, of Missouri, who
always accompanies her husband to the
Capitol, and remains there until the
House adjourns."
GEN.D CEsNoLAs troubles are not yet
over it appears. The New York Core
spondent of the Troy Times learns that
the war will soon break ont again with all
its former violence, the next attack
upon the Cypriote explorers being
based upon the alleged discovery OF
modern jewelry among the collection
which Cesnola says he found in one
spot under a Cypres temple cut in
solid rocks. The latest critic says that
some of this iewelry is machine-made
and comes from Newark.
Mr. w. w. GRAHAM read paper re-
Gently before the members of the Royal
Geographical Society, London, on
Travel and Ascents in the Himalaya."
There can be no doubt, he thinks, that
mans range is increasing. In describ-
ing the highest point reached, he said
the last slope was pure ice, at an angle
of from 450 to 600. Having surmount.
ed this perilous mountain, he reached
the lower summit of Kabru. at least
%, 100 feet above the sea. This is the
highest recorded ascent by 1,700 feet.