The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-13
PERSONALITIES.


". s. GILBERT never laughs at his own
jokes.
DR. J. s BILLINGS, L. s. A., has been
made an Edinburgh Ii. d.
Mrs. AMELIA BARE writes novels with
great rapidity and some of them are
good.
ANDREW Lang stands sponsor for the
English edition OF j. Whltcomb Rilev's
verses.
ToIsroI's wife threatens to have a
guardian appointed If he does not stop
sQuandering his estate.
Carl ScnURz is detained in Europe bv
the illness o; his son, who Is suffering
from abscess in the stomach.
TIE Empress of all the Ru>sias has O.
son whom she wishes 10 marry TO q
daughter OF tie Prince of Wales.
THE Duchess of Marlborough has be
gun the restoration of B.cnhelm Palace.
and the new roofalone viii cost 900 o.
Mr.. Jackson. the husband OF the
authoress. Helen Hunt jackson, was
married recently TO Il niece of his first
wife.
BYRON SALEsBERBY, the Del ware
peach-grower, recently made profit of
cents on carload of peaches that saIt
for 81 l22.40.
F. :. HYDE. who was graduated this
year from Amherst, will 20 to teach for
three years IN the Syrian Protestant
College at Beirut
IT was a habit of the late Prof. K. A.
Proctor to take an hours nap every
afternoon, and his wife alw VS. sat at his
bedside while he was sleeping.
CONGRESSMAN HENRY CABOT LODGE has
edited The Feueratist," reprinted from
the original text of Alexander Hami-
ton, John JAY ami james Mad son.
THE Earl of Crawford and Baicarres,
+. K. :, +. X. 4. \, knO a. one OF the
leading astronomers and electricians OF
Great Britain, expects to visit America
for the first time daring the coming
winter
TIE proposed monument to Peter
Cooperls 10 be erected in the little park
soulh OF tHe Coope Institute. The
trustees o. the monument fund have
closed a contract with II Gaudens. the
sculptor, for the monument, ami IL Is 10
be finished by December.
THE Empress of Japan is rapidly be
coming one the best inform, q women
of her time. She is a hard student Of
German. Russian, French and Italian,
and ii Is said hat er majesty has Ger
tain days OF the week upon which
Japanese is q forbidden language.
Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now
confirmed invalid, and is patient 1t St.
Thomas Hospital, London. tier serv-
ices during the Crlmeau war injured her
spine, anu she has never recovered
rom the effects thereof. The illustriOus
philanthrOpist is nearly sixtvnine years
Old.
THE wedding of Princess Sophia, of
Prussia, to the crown prince of Greece,
will take place next June at Berlin.
The Princess is not to enter the Greek
hurch, but any children of the mar
riage will be broughtup in the orthodox
faith of the Greeks. The act that King
George, OF Greece, contemplate abdicat-
ing his throne WAS announced some
time ago.
ANELIE RIvEs went to the theater in
New York the other evening. Three
district messenger boys brought in three
bushels of flowers and deposited them
along the rOnt 0 the box. When the
writer retired the Doys came Tor the
flowers and took them to her carriage
Sensible people in the audience thought
her suob; others said she was merely
advert sing herself.
TIE Carroll family of MARYLAND has
long been matrlmOnially popular with
the English peers. Miss MactaVlSh,
who Is to marry the Duke # Norfolk Us
a member o the Carroll family. Three
of the granddaughters of Charles Car
roll OF Carrollton-the Misses Cation
became respectively Marchioness of
Wellesley, Duchess of Leeds and Mary
Stafford. Ofthe Warehouses of Welles-
ley it is said that when her husband be-
came Niceroy of Ire land, it was aid by
an Irish bishop that ito the land from
which her fathers father fad in fear
his daughters daughter returned a
Qu-en."
WHEN Mrs. Mary Z. II. G.. Dow was
made president of the Dover On. H.
Horse Railroad Company, III January,
1883, the stock OF the concern was worth
only s. or s. a share and the road was
heavily in debt. The directors have
just declared a 20 per cent. dividend
and shares are now worth more than
500 apiece. The dividend is paid from
the earnings of the road and there Is 8
surplus in the treasury. All this has
been accomplished by the energy and
executive ability of Mrs. Dow. When
she was elected president many people
thought thai a mistake had been made.
They were greatly at fault.