The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-05-23
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Dr.. A. \. MINER, the Jealous Boston
Prohlbitlonist, has Just completed his
torty-;hird year of service as pastor OF
the Second Cniyersalist Church at the
Hub.
Miss OcTAvIA HILL buys up lot of
London shanties every year, improves
and cleanses them and lets them to
picked tenants. This is her idea OF
practical reform.
Dir. ANNA kuHseIoFr'S monopoly Of
Man. has been published in four Ian
guages. The point scored by DR.. Anna
is that man gets more than his share
of the good things of life.
REV. WILLIAM NELSON MCNICKAR, d.
d., for thirteen Years rector of the
Church of the Holy Trinity in Phila-
delphia, has been picked out by rumor
for Phillips Brooks sucCcsSorin Boston,
but he says that he knows nothing Of it
himself
Rev. FATHER DoUCET, S. j., VINO died
lately at st. Johns College, Fordham,
was one of the few men with whom Ed
gar Allen Poe was intimate. Father
Doucet LETT a number OF manuscript re-
mlnlscences of his intercourse with Poe,
and an effort is being made to have the
college authorities allow them to be
printed in book form.
SENATOR GEORGE has the true look of
a Mississippi roustabout III his Fourth
of July clothes. There is nothing of
the dude about the big, hearty and care
less man whose garments fit him as if
be had been measured with a tWo!oot
rule and the tailor had cut them out
with cross-cut saw But his political
enemies don't hold him as chcaply as
they do more stylish men, and they
haN " M Il Of M SfN
tongue and hard-shell common sense.
MAYOR SHAKESPEARE, of New Orleans,
is unable to trace, and does not claim,
any relationship with the Stafford play
wright, and the latter doesn't seem in
tercsted.
TIE German Empress is TO reside this
year with her children at the schlosS of
Wllhc,mshwhe near Casscl, where Ma
poleon Ill. lived during the autumn of
1870.
HERBERT SPENCER is now a man OF 40,
though he looks ten years younger. He
Is of medium stature, and his head Is
bald, except for Il thin fringe of hair.
lie has an aquillne nose, q ruddy skin
and an intellectual face.
MINNIE fIAUK' 5 husband, Count Ernest
de Hesse Wartegg, is a writer and sclen-
fist Of more than ordinary ability and
reputation. He has travelled extensive
" in North and South America and in
Europe and Africa, and belongs to many
scientific societies in Europe and this
country.
Mr.. NEBEKER, the new United States
Treasurer. writes with a stub-pen, and
his signature is a close, firm one. He
and his wife are people of quiet tastes,
and they do not intend to figure con-
spicuously in society in Washington.
HAtSEY c. IVES, who has been Sc
lected as Art Director of the Columbian
Worlds Fair, is about II years of age
and native of New York. He has Il
high reputation as an art critic and con-
noisseur, hayin" studied extensively i'll
the art schools of Europe and America.
CHARLES FRANCS ADAMS, Jr., who WAS
for six years President of the Union
Pacific Railroad, is naturally graduate
of Harvard and a thorough ROstOnian.
He has delightful home on Common
wealth Avenue, but lives At Quincy. his
birthplace during the summer. Having
served his country with distinction dur
ing the war, he began the study of rail
road law, and met with much success in
its practice i'll later years.
Miss JEAN GoEDON, of Cincinnati, upon
whom will he conferred a degree at the
PHILADELPHIA College OF Pharmacy. has
earned the highest average ever attained
bv anv woman graduate from that III
stitution. out of the Isl graduates in
the class Of this year, only six obtained
the highest rating of distinguished.
Miss Gordon was one of the six. She
was the only woman IN her class, and
had to contend with bright young men.
HoRiCE Chiffon. whom Governor
Hogg has appointed United States SEN
ator in Mr.. Reagan's place, Is the first
native Texan to hold that office, and,
with the exception of William II. Grain,
is probably the first 10 90 to either house
of Congress. Mr.. Chiffon was a candl-
date for a Democratic nomination for
Congress in 1882, but got into deadlock
with Hubbard, who was afterward APP
pointed minister TO Japan, and third
man carried Oft the prize.
SECRETARY PRoCroR is erecting build
ing for the village library in Proctor.
The nucleus of the collection Of books
was originally given by him for the
benefit of the hands and employees Of
the marble company there. In giving
it he agreed that for every book they
would add to the library, and for every
dollar they would give to il, he would
add book and give a dollar. 1t has
gone on increasing under this arrange
ment, which has been faithfully carried
out by Governor Proctor, until now ii
numbers some ! 1000 volumes.