The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-05-17
PERSONALS.

o"io " NO sinoSt ready Tor pub
cation.
PROF. NEWTON has resigned his DO
s1tlon as director of the Yale C.lleo,
observatory.
HE Powers Art Gallery, in Rochester
n. T., Is said to be one of the finest il
this country.
d. a. WILSON, the Youngest membe,
OF the New York Board of Trade, is 81
and worth a million.
MRS. FRANCES HoDasoN BURNETT. tb,
novelist, ID tenant in Washington of ne
less person than Gen. Grant
BISMARCK writes with a quill pen. /
IS not made from porcupine feathe,
though.
MIR. FRouDE, the historian, will com,
to this country next fall, via Australia
where he intends delivering several lect
ures.
PRESIDENT McCosh says he doesn',
believe Mr.. Beecher has much theology
and what he has the President don't be
ieve in.
X. d. BLACKMoRE writes his novels
with dark-blue ink, in tiny detached
characters that are the despair of com,
positors until they become familiar with
them.
Mr.. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER will
lay the corner stone of the new hall Of
Chi Chapter, Psi Upslon, at Cornell Uni
versity, during the fraternity's fifty-frst
annual convention.
GEN. GORDON, it is said, has
nQnGal 4 ro h1n ko~ 10 La
ously inscribed over his throne in the
palace of Khartoum, translation oil
which is, "God Rules Over the Hearts
of Men,"
NINE. NILSSON writes that ''she has ar.
ranged with MIR. Theodore Thomas to
sing in twenty-three concerts, for which
he is to give her $4,000, and conse-
quently she will remain in this country
this summer"
SIGNoR CELso CESAR MORENO, who
undertook to ''run" KING Kalakaua and
got into hot water in the Sandwich
Islands thereby, has turned up in this
country again with a scheme for trans
Pacific cable from California to the Sand.
wich Islands and China.
PRINCE BISMARCK is great horseman
and in war time he has remained on
horseback for days together. But he is
not always fortunate in his equestrian
performances, as, according to his own
words, he has been thrown off about
fifty times, and sometimes got danger
ously injured.
PRINCE HUMBERT, of Italy is deeply
Interested in military affairs. I ZEN
deavor," he says, "toread every militia
ry book published, and 1 try to see for
myself whatever is practical in new
I hope know my army,
from the rank and file to the quarter
masters and commissariat; and I hope
l know it practically.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER wears
shirts eiaoorately ruffled in front and at
the cuffs, standing collars, and an
fob chain, with heavy
gold seal. His white fur beaver hats,
made on a modification of the old
hell style, are worn alike winter and
summer. His hats, clothes and shoes
are made in London.
Ex-PRKsIDENT HAYES is said to have
a more elaborate set of scrap books,
and indexed, than any other
public man in the country. He began
the collection of scraps when he was a
young lawyer in Cincinnati. When he
was presidentphe kept one of lis clerks
constantly busy cutting and FASTING
slips from the newspapers.
Chill SCHAFFER, New York broker,
who spends much time in Washington, "
writes a correspondent, "prides himself
upon his resemblance to Mr.. Blaine, and
says he is frequently mistaken for the
ex- secretary by the people he meets on
the street. Some one spoke to Blaine
about this the other day, and he re-
marked: cts very singular that no one
ever mistook me for Mr.. Schaffer."
CHARLES LOWING, the Erie baggage
man at East Gainesville, N. Y, fell into
Skylight Pond recently, and was rescued
by Nero" ST. Bernard dog belonging
10 neigbbor, after terrible struggle.
Lowing was on raft which broke in
pieces. The escape was miraculous
one, and the dog exhibited wonderful
bravery.
LIssEPs is devoted horseman,
and may be seen daily galloping
through the Bots de Boulogne, with his
eight children by his second marriage,
boys and girls, mounted on ponies, In
nauticsl costumes, their hair streaming
On the wind, their large col ars turned
over their shoulders, and their caps
hanging on their backs-a little tribe,
with their dark hair and compilations,
around their white haired chief.
SIR SAMUEL BAKER writes: There is no
country in the world so favorable to the
cultivation of cotton as that portion OF
Soudan within the rainy zone, whe-e
showers from May to the middle OF Sep
TENDER insure the growth OF the cotton
plant, and crop time absolutely free
from moisture, where not one drop OF
dew descends by night, assists the plant
or to collect his harvest IN the best con-
diticn.
Bishop WHIpp1E, when in Philadel-
phia, told this story: He was standing
in wrapt silence In Yorkmlnster, En-
gland, overcome by the grand interior,
when he was approached by typical
felIow-countryman, who exclaimed
"Wall, stranger, there's one thing purity
sartip. the men who put up this here
didn't build stun houses for thelrsel s
az d old wooden houses for their God,
did they ?"
REPRESENTATIVE Americans come
over to Europe with your little hammers
and hack away at every old ruin, getting
specimens, until there is scarcely any
thing Left American-"WeIl, Why
don't you retaliate?" Eoglishmasn-
s.Retaliate! How? You have nothing
in this country to hack at American
-"Ohl yes we have" Englishman
"what," American "You can come over
70 this country and take hack al
Niagara Falls" Philadelphia eau.
IMITATION may be the sIncerest form
of fiattery. but it is impossible to have
too much of good thing. -Norrssto'on