The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-11-10
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BISHOP PnELAN, OF Pittsburg, is very
i'll.
T. B. ALDRICH's twin sons are among
the Harvard freshman.
RICHARD CLIFFORD PALGRAvE, the
Arabian traveller, is dead.
RICHARD KIDD, a Texan, is lis wears
OF age and still vigorous.
FRANK LINCOLN, the humorist, is going
to make tour in Australia.
LADY DUDLEY. the famous English
beauty, is as white as a pond lily.
w. d. HowELLs is under contract now
to write only for Harper's Weekly.
GEORGE w. CHnDs never sits in
street car while woman is standing.
Mrs. DAVIS, vi e of Minnesota's sen
ator, owns the finest rubies in the coun
try.
REV. SAMUEL LoNGFELLow, brother of
the poet, is homeward bound from Eu-
rope.
PHILIP ZEcHEmE, of Weimar, Tex,
was thought to be ITO years Of age when
he died
THE Rev. DR.. George Macdonald. nov
elist and lecturer, will spend the winter
IN Italy.
NEW edition of the poetical works of
Emma Lazarus in two volumes will soon
be issued.
THE Hon. W. {. Dunton, of Rutland,
Vt, i 10 lie professor of law in the Iowa
State University.
HuMPnREY WARD, whose wife wrote
Robert Elsmere," is an editorial writer
on the London Times.
TaE Crown Prince of Greece dislikes
mn A r.
class railway coaches.
TIE Prince of Wales has been learn
ing Magyar, and recently made a brief
speech in that tongue.
GERMAN students will erect monu-
ment TO Kaiser Wilhelm /. on the
Rudelsberg, in Thuringia.
CARDINAL MANNING is collecting some
of his shorter papers for publication as
volume of "Miscellanies
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE was impelIed
to study medicine and surgery by the
earnest advice of his widowed mother.
IT is officially announced that Lord
Dufferin has received the title of Mar
quis of Dufierin and Ava and Earl OF Ava.
CHARLOTTE PERRY, of Sherman, Tex,
who is l02 years of age, had her sight
restored recently, after being blind for
10 years.
A FUND has been raised for the benefit
of the widow of the late Bishop Harris,
of Detroit. About $4,000 is already
subscribed.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX composed her
beautiful little poem, The Land of
Nod, - while rocking her little brother
to sleep in the cradle.
PRoF DIcEY used to be an editor, but
/. i 4g.,
printers and his editorial articles were
too solid for the readers.
Mrs LANGTRY has fortune of $780,
600, Clara Louise kellogg has 100000,
Fanny Davenport Sl50,0J0, and Kate
Claxton is said to be worth $4,000
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGSoN BURNETT is
back from Europe, accompanied by her
two little sons, one of whom was the
model for Little Lord Fauntleroy."
Mrs. LUCINDA FLETCHER, of North
Springfield, Mass, has just celebrated
her Tooth birthday Her faculties are
unimpaired, and she enjoys the best of
health.
AN imperial mandate had been exc
cuted in China directing the president
OF the Academy to translate Shakespeare
into Chinese for the benefit of the young
princes.
Mrs. KATE UPsoN CLARK, whose name
is now seen frequently in current lftera-
ture, is q witty little woman of 50 or so,
with a husband, / rec boys and domes-
tic tastes.
SIR JOHN LUBBoCK's new volume, ION
the Senses, Instincts and Intelligence
of Animals, with Special Reference to
Insects" will be published about No
Vemher !.
GOLD Hutch" the Chicago wheat
SPECTATOR, is said to care nothing Tor
his attire. and to-day he wears the style
of clothing that was in vogue thirty
years 90.
THE Hon. Henry W. Bishop, of Chi
cago, formerly of LenoX, Mass, has
given TO Fittstield a splendid stone
building to be used as a training school
for nurses.
THE most efficient champion in Cali
fornia, of the Pundita Ramabia, before
she returned to India with $4,000 for
her high caste widows seminary. was
Ma. Gen. O. Q. Howard.
Miss LYDIA THAYER, who has been
conspicuously and effectively engaged
in missionary work at South Boston Tor
forty-five years, will retire therefrOm
at the end of the present month.
To St Louis belongs the honor of COM
plotting and unveIllng the first Grant
in the whole country. When
the old commander died every city IN
the nation promised to perpetuate him
n bronze or marble.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is still at work writing
his autobio rdphy, which the critics are
already attacking on the ground OF It's
lack OF versatility in style ana its heavl-
ness and want of interest. One critic
that he is not cynical enough
TO be frank.
JOHN GuMER SPEED, Of the well-known
X entucky family, has Just been appoint
ed to the edItorship of the Ameri-
can Magazine. Mr.. Speed is especial
ly qualified for the post by a long and
successful experience in journalism.
lie was for several years the efficient
editor OF the World, under
William Henry Hurlbert, and was more
recently secretary of the American EX-
hibition in London. He is the biog-
rapher of John Keats. whose brother
was his maternal grandfather, and has
edited hls letters and poems.
THERE met recently in Portland, at
the unveiling of a statue of Longlellow
in a public square, three writer's of IA
nous songs. These were Prot. +. Mich
oils Crouch, f. K. s, of London, En-
gland, {now a resident of Baltimore),
whose kathleen Mavourneen" has
stirred the pulses of Celt and Saxon
alike; Mrs. Frances /. Mace, of San
Jose, Cal, author of "Only Waiting
the sweet and tender pathos of which
has gained for it a welcome everywhere,
and Mrs. Caroline Dana Howe, OF Port
land, author Of that beautiful lyric Leaf
by Leaf the Roses Fall," production
which since It's first publication in BOs-
ton, some 20 years ago, has become a
ON of ENGLISH song