The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-13
PERSONALITIES.

JAY GOULD loves watcrmelons and his
man Pompey says that's the touch of
nature that makes millionaire md black
man grin.
Two of Osman Digma's u Jphews have
been killed in battle. Osman is full of
military capacity, and knows just where
to place nephews.
FLORENCE MARRYATr Mrs. Ross
church, is coming to the United States
this fall to give a series of entertain
ments She is a singer, actress and
reader.
THE Bishop of Gloucester, Eng, has
given great scandal to many good
churchmen by appearing at recent
cricket match at Lords with cigar in
his mouth.
Mrs. LILLIAN Il. MESSENGER, one of
the sweetest of Imaginative singers, is
about issuing another volume of poems.
She is clerk III the Sixth Auditors
office in Washington.
The city of Coldwater, Mich, has
lost an esteemed citizen and generous
art patron in the death of Henry c.
Lewis, who died of a complication of
diseases OF the stomach.
THE leaf in the marriage register in
HanwOrth Church on which is inscribed
the name OF Charlotte Bronte has been
so often handled by American travellers
that it is falling to pieces.
SAMUEL MONTAGUE, an eminent He
brew banker of London, comes to Canada
to consult the government about the es-
ta hlI 81 rnant Of n1lpniao fnr
Russian Hebrews in the Canadian North
west.
GEORGE, son of Jay Gould, is sum-
mering at the hotel kaaterskill He is a
handsome young man of vivacious man
ners, somewhat swarthy of complexion,
and might easily be taken for a Span
lard.
BJoRN BJoRNsoN, very gifted son
of the great poet and leader, Biornst-
jerne Bjornson, has been appointed
stage manager of the CHRISTIANS The
alter after achieving great success in
Hamburg.
APPLETON MORTON, r. NJ. Theobold
and Henry Pott, Londoners, have
formed an association the object of
which will be to show that Bacon wrote
the works commonly attributed to
Shakespeare.
MATTHEW ARNoLD's daughter is re-
ported as saying that, having seen Nj
agara and the Rockies, and drunk an
American cocktail, there is really moth
ing worth bothering about on the
American continent.
Col. GOSHEN, the circus giant, who
he p0D ,,+
tentlon with a neighbOr named Gan
non, who spread scandal about the col
onels divorce suit. Goshen took Can
non down and sat upon him.
SIR WILLIAM THOMPSON, the great
English scientist, has arrived at New
York. His visit to this country is said
to be for the purpose of attending the
congress of electricians, which will be
held at an early date in Philadelphia
TIE health of the venerable ex-Gov-
erDor Horatio Seymour, of New York, is
unusually poor. Il am suffering" he
says in letter dated the 9th inst, from
a nervous complaint which makes me
very weak, and I am incapable OF
mental or physical exertion."
Mrs. MACKEY, the wife of the Cali
fornia bonanza man, it is said, gives
| away S15O,00O in charity every year.
Her benevolence recently led to
pathetic appeal from a Paris woman,
| whose daughter was about to be mar
ried, for any "Old diamonds or rubies"
, she could spare.
RICHARD GIANT WHITE relates as an
example of English manners that Lord
4 of no tn1, rs n Il. Il,
tinction, took no soup, a fact noticed by
| his wife who, struck with his discourtesy
| to their hostess, called across the table
in bland accents, do take some, A., it
| is not at all nasty"
EUGENE HATCH, the Shropshire
! sheep-owner at Jefferson, gives good
reasons why farmers should breed for
mutton as well as for wool He says:
| IF You can raise Shropshire sheep to
| be worth So for mutton alone, with
| good fleece of clothing woolin one year,
how much better is that than to keep
wool sheep a whole year for about
$3.50 fleece of wool, and the animal, if
killed, only bringing a small price for
is strong favored mutton"
JAMES l.. CLAGHoRN, who possesses
| fZ,OOo enBraVlngS, representative OF all
periods, probably worth 100000, is
lying i'll of govt in Philadelphia. He
regenerated the Philadelphia Academy
of Fine Arts. His father went from
Rochester, Mass, to Philadelphia, and
the SOILS made great fortune in the
auctlon business. Mr.. CIaghorn few
years ago sold his paintings for S75, 600
at auction in New York, and led the
way III engravings.