The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-04
PERSONALS.

SOlAs d tHN LAY Is DulIuluS SlOu,uOU
| house in Washington.
Mrs. DELoNG. the dead explorer 8
widow, is at Portsmouth, n. H, visiting
Mrs. Greedy, the live explorers wife.
Mrs. HANNAH AKERs, residing at Not
tawa, Mich, has entered upon her 101st
year, and retains her mental faculties to
fair degree.
GEORGE 81. BROKER and George W.
Childs were among the pall-bearers at
the funeral of James l.. L.Claghorn, presi-
dent of the Academy of Fine Arts, in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. EMELINE ROGERS, the Texas
cattle queen, is willing that her hus-
band should go to the Legislature, but
declares that he must leave the pulpit.
She draws the line at politics.
BEN: PERLEY PooRE, as the lifelong
friend of Henry B. Anthony, received
by will from the late Senator the
Charles Sumner silver pitcher and cup
and $500 in money.
The late Senator Anthony is said
never to have used tobacco until he was
80 years old. Then he was advised by
his physician to try smoking for bron-
chitis; but it did no good and he soon
gave it up.
WHEN the Maori King sailed from
England, he wore a gray alpaca dust
coat anda cheap summer helmet. From
his right ear was suspended by black
ribbon sharks tooth. and from one of
his button holes hung bunch of fish
bones.
CLARK MILLS, much talked of as a
sculptor, and now dead, left large es-
tate, over which his relatives are at law.
Clark Mills, Jr., declares that Mrs. Su-
san E. Mills, who wants the widows
third, was not legally his fathers wife,
The Rev. John Marc, an old colored
preacher and author of the familiar
hymn, "Were Travelling Home to
Heaven Above is very i'll at his home
in Athol, Mass He is the only colored
resident of the place.
Miss KATE FIELD, who has lately
spent eight months in Utah, industri-
ously investigating the peculiar in
stitutions" of that territory, has pre-
pared for delivery this winter a new
lecture entitled "The Mormon Mon
ster."
On being asked lately why he did not
give up business, Baron Alphonse
Rothschild replied that "it would take
me twenty-five years to settle my affairs
sufficiently to enable me to withdraw
from the firm"
THOSE who have seen the ex-Empress
Eugene, of France, within the last
three weeks say that she is rapidly
breaking down, and predict that she will
not much longer survive her husband
and son, whose memory she mourns
constantly.
RICHARD HOWELL, the champion pro-
fessional bicyclist, was born at Wolver-
hampton, Eng, twenty-one years ago,
and is now six feet one and half inches
tall, and weighs 152 pounds. He holds
the champion records at all distances
rom one to twenty-five miles.
NINE. TAGLIoNI's diary reveals the
fact that, as Prince Albert was forbid
den to see the danseuse by his crafty
jealous wife, he had to take a peep at
the forbidden sight incognito, but
Tagioni says Queen Victoria had not
the smallest grounds for her suspicious.
DIR. ELIZA M. MosHER and DR.. Lucy
NJ Hall, who were for some time physi-
clans at the Massachusetts State Re-
formatory Prison for women, have been
appointed joint professors of physiology
and physicians to Vassar College, and
will enter upon their duties at the open
ing of the college year.
Mr.. JAMES GORDON BENNETT is said
to have a greater number of houses
awaiting his occupation than any other
American. He has one in Fifth A venue
and another in Fort Washington, and
rooms at the Herald office. His Newport
villa is always in readiness, and he has
also fine establishment in Paris.
MRS. GLADSTONE always figures
largely on her husbands platform oc
casions, William being popular because
he is family man, and she excited
great applause at meeting in Scotland
by mixing in public the mysterious
compound of egg and alcohol with
which the great orator vets his whistle.