The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-06-09
AMONG THE PEOPLE.

GEN. BoULANaER's father was one
of the lntensest of Bonapartists.
MiLLioSA1RE NJ. NJ. SHOEMAKER. of
Cincinnati, has started on a tour round
the world.
THE Empress of Japan Is taking les
SONS on the piano. The Mikado's fifty-
seven physicians are giving him every
attention.
THE rumor that John l.. Sullivan is to
run circus creates no surprise what
ever. As matter of fact, that is all
Mr.. Sullivan has been doing for a num-
Der OF years.
KAISER FREDERICK said, in accepting
honorary membership in the Academy
of Legal Science, at Madrid: 'The first
task of the legislator is to secure equal
| rights for all"
THE Gar says that all his efforts are in
| the direction of the maintenance of Eu-
| ropes peace. Why, then, does he per-
| nit his troops to move about the from
| tiers in such reckless manner?
/ THE law has levied ON James Owen
O'Connor's costumes, watch and iewelry
| Unimpressionable critic though he Is,
+! O'Connor must acknowledge that the
| law acts the part of selzer with telling
| effect.
NINE. ZIMMERMAN, who has Just died
at the age of 81 years, WAS the mother
| of Nine Charles Gounod. Another of
her daughters married M. Pigny, the
architect who built M. Gounod's SPLEEN
did house in Paris.
| ANToINETrE Brown BLACKWELL, who
now lives in Elizabeth, n. j., was the
| first woman preacher in the country.
She was the minister of an Ohio Con
gregational Church thirty years ago.
She is now Unitarian.
| PAUL BIoUET, better known as "Max
| O'Rell," has been telling Lor tione:s
that American women have "a kind of
spiritualized politeness. tender solicit
tude for other people, combined with a
| strong individuality" This is refresh
ing.
| THOMAS EGGLEsroN has Just died at
| Spurlockville, w. Va, at the advanced
age of ll2 years. There was never a
day since he was Is years old that he
was without his pipe, and he said he
| fully believed that his life was prolonged
| by the use of tobacco.
Miss NINA IRVING, the poetess of
| Tarrytown, n. Y, claims the proud dis
tinction of possessing the smallest foot
| in America. She wears a slipper ex-
actly one size less than No. /, and keeps
samples on exhibition at the different
| newspaper OllIctS IN New Ork.
SEvEN-YEAR-oLD Willie Mcconnell of
San Francisco, found bottle of whisky
and tasted the contents. He liked it ard
drank over half a pint. He became
tipsy, then i'll, and in few hours died
in great agony, i'll spite Of the best eff
forts of good doctor to save MIN.
DR.. l.. B. Ross, of Fort Valley, Ga,
has many interesting relics, but none
that he prizes more than small piece
of metal which was once part of the
cannon which James Oglethorpe brought
with him when he came from England
to plant colony in the American will
| derness.
ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM HEwETT, who
died recently in England, was, during
the war. one of the most successful oil
| blackade runners. He commanded the
sidewheel steamer Lillian, and managed
to elude the Federal squadron Oil sever.
al trips between Wilmington, n c., and
Nassau, n P. The Lillian was finally
captured. Hewett langr1ished in prison
for several months.
THE Duke of Sutherland is conceded
to be the best dancer Of the highland
fling in all Of Scotland. He recently
dined with the Duke of Edinburg or
board the flagship Alexander, at Malta
and after dinner the two dukes danced
the "Tullochgorum" for an hour, to the
delight of the officers and ships com
pany. The Duke Of Sutherland's piper
furnished the music.