The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Ex-senator TABOR, of Colorado.
who is in New York this winter, was
seen the other day pocketing $3.50 in
| brokers' office down town, as the
result of a speculation, and seemed to
be as delighted as if it were another
! bonanza.
SENATOR WADE HAMPToN's weak
/ point, says a photographer, is his side
whiskers. Though tolerably long,
they are sparse and scattered, and the
senator seems jealously fond of each
| particular hair.
| THE two daughters of President
McCosh, OF Princeton College, are great
pedestrians, and in the habit of walk
ing from Princeton to Trenton and
back, distance OF twenty miles, when
they have shopping TO do.
CONGRESSMAN BEACH, of New York,
proposes that the eulogies upon de-
ceased members shall be delivered on
Sundays, and save all the week days
for work. He proposes to introduce
a resolution to this effect in the
House.
PRINCE BISMARCK has determined to
apply the national gift which he re-
ceived on his SEVENTEEN birthday to
the foundation of a school for the
training of teachers, Emperor William
having given his sanction to the
scheme.
DR. FRAN LIST has now fixed April
/, as the date of his arrival in England
and he will remain their about a fort
night. AS this will be Liszt's first
visit to London for upward of forty
years, he will be lionized to theutmost
of his hearts desire.
JOHN w. BoOKwALTER, the Buckeye
millionaire politician, has returned to
his home In Springfield, Ohio, after Il
prolonged absence abroad. He will
dispose of his art collection in New
York soon, and leave for another ex-
tended tour abroad.
POLICE CAr4A.E MeDoSNEIL. of New
York, who has been si&, but is now
getting well, read il the morning pa
per that he had died at ! A. NJ. He
caused a telegram TO be sent to the
central office announcing that he
would be on duty within As hours.
OF the Duke of Seville, who has late
ly made himself conspicuous in Spain,
it is said that he once went to a ball
without any cravat. The reason was
that just before dressing he had dis
missed his valet for insolence and did
not know how to tie a cravat himself.
NJ. DAUTRESME, the new French
minister of commerce, is a musician
who has written several comic operas,
some OF which were played years ago.
He once assaulted an impressario for
postponing the production of one OF
his works, was tried for the assault,
and was defended by NJ. Grevy.
A FEW weeks ago the branches OF the
Drogheda National League started
movement for the granting of an-am.
nesty to John Boyle O'Reilly and
James Stephens. The Irish party in
Parliament had given assurances of
cooperation, when Mr.. O'Reilly sent
word by cable asking that his name
be withdrawn.
Although Senator Evarts' family
lived in New York for a great many
years they have kept their old Yer
mont home for the summer months,
and always speak of Vermont as their
home instead of New York. Mrs. Ev-
arts is particularly devoted to the lit
tie state in which she always lived be-
fore her marriage.
IT is related that during the cruise
OF the sloop OF war Cumberland, in
1S43, Commodore Foote, then first
lieutenant, converted all the crew to
temperance, so that every man volun-
tarily gave up taking his grog ration
except one hardened old topper, for
whom alone grog was piped, the grog
tub brought up and the rum served
vice day.
MoNCURE d. CONWAY, as seen by a
Philadelphia observer, is above the
average height, and his spare form is
straight as an arrow. His head is
covered with a thick growth of hair,
which like his flowing beard is almost
white His voice is musical and reso-
nant, his enunciation clear, but hehas
acquired slight English accent during
his residence in the worlds metrop-
oils