The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
PERSONALITIES

CONGRESSMAN "PIG IRON" KELLEY's
daughter is to marry Russian.
ALvAN CLARK, most noted of tele-
scope makers, has completed his S0th
year.
Mr.. MOODY, with his by no means
silent partner, Sankey, is at work at
Portland, Me.
EXTRA BILLY" Smith, once Cover
nor of Virginia, has just celebrated his
S7th birthday
JIM KEENE is no longer one of the
glories of Newport. He has sold his
property there.
The late Senator Anthony's speeches
were always short and to the point, and
never wearisome.
t. L. BARNUM, the Snowman, is i'll at
Block Island, and has telegraphed for
bis family physician.
A DAUGHTER of Gen. Winfield Scott
very old aud infrm, is notable person
at Richteld Springs, N. Y.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH, the English
free-thlnker, will lecture in this country
IN October and November.
SENATOR SABIN, of Minnesota. has
leased residence in Thirteenth Street.
Washington, for next winter.
LIEUTENANT J. W. DANENHowER has
arrived at Annapolis for duty in the
United States Naval Academy.
PROF. A, H. SAYcE has deciphered an
Assynan tablet, which gives an account
of transit of Venus 1000 years B. G.
FLORENCE MARRYAT wears her hair
cut short around the ears, after fash
ION which is becoming popular in Lon
don. Any style is preferable to the
bangs.
JUDGE ToURGEE is writing a new
book, "An Appeal to Cesar" which
will treat of the educational problems
in the South, a theme suggested to
him by President Garfield.
Mrs. A. M. EDGNGToN, o. Butte,
Mont, the far-famed widow of the
"Cnur d Alene" gold mines. is the
mother of the actress Lillian Edging-
ton, and weighs nearly 400 pounds.
IT is recalled that Handel. the com
poser, was great eater. He would
often order dinner for three, and then
brighten the walters half to death by
calmly eating the triple dim himself
A PICTURE of Meissonier, ca led "The
Rise," purchased quarter OF a cent
ury ago by Napoleon III. for $1,000,
is now valued at $4,000. 1t is owned by
Queen Victoria.
PRINCE JOSEPH, Of SAKE Coburg, a
boy of II, while ascending the TriseI-
wand Alp, at Aussee, fell over a preci-
pice. He had his hip-joint and collar
bone broken, besides receiving injurie
to his head.
ADMIRAL COURBET, commander of the
French fleet in Chinese waters, is
claimed as an Irishman, his father being
Cork man, who on emigrating to
France changed his name from Corbet
to Courbet.
Col. DAN RICE, the veteran cir
Gus clown, was recently presented with
81, 900 ring by prominent rabbi OF
Baltimore as an evidence of apprecia-
ton by the Jewish people of his numer-
GUS donations.
2. L. BARNUM's kindly and ingenious
features have been reproduced by Mr.
Ball, sculptor now at Florence, and
the bust has been sent hither across the
sea that it may be placed in the vesti-
bule of the new Barnum Museum, at
TUFTS College.
DIR. JAMES COILS BROWNE, the in
ventor of chlorodyne, died IN England
on August 30. He was in about his
Goth year, and was known III the yacht
ing world Tor his experiments in the
construction of yachts on the principle
of the Kala fish.
MISS GREGORY, of Atlanta. GA,
daughter of Civil-service Commissioner
Gregory, is painting the portraits of
A. FL. Stephens and Herschel V. John
son, ordered by the last state Legisla
ture. They are to be ifesize and the
young artist is to be paid 81 600 for her
work.
THE New Orleans Picayune says
Another cold potato has been thrown at
history. Henry ". Grady asserts IN
the Atlanta Constitution that Charles
Egbert Craddock, author of an the
Tennessee Mountains and "Where the
Battle was Fought" isreally n. NJ. Mur
fee, who lives in st. Louis.
ssHoN. SACKvILLE WEST, the British
minister at Washington, and his eaugb
ter are enjoying the season at Newport
Miss West since her arrival has re-
ceived much attention from all sides
and attended several of the large enter
tainments given in honor OF President
Arthur during his recent stay.
WHEN the late Senator Anthony first
took his seat in the Senate lie had as
fellow senators Jefferson Davis, Henry
Wilson, Stephen A. Douglas, Lyman
Trumbull, Charles Sumner, Benjamin
F. Wade, Andrew Jackson, James r.
Doolittle, Robert TOombs, ". p. Fes-
sender, William Fl, Seward and John
Slidell.
SINCE her nomination for president,
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood is constantly
receiving letters from women asking for
offices. A few men also write TO her
for the same purpose. One lord of Gre
alton from Kentucky proposes to be
"boss of the White House" by marry
ing Mrs. Lockwood, as soon as she is
elected.