The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-11-19
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
MISCELLANEOUS Items.

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z LILAC bush was in bloom in Boston
| last week.
By the new city charter of San Antonio,
Texas, faro is prohibited
CHRONIC printing is said to have been
practiced il China one thousand years ago.
OswEao intends to import 10 coolies for
stevedores.
THERE is a Chinese class at the Cornell
| University.
ALL the Paris fashion papers have sus-
pended publication.
In India the Royal Artillery now wear a
cork helmet.
The Rectangular Review" is new
London magaslne.
THE new half dollars are becoming plen-
tiful in Canada.
AMERICAN flags are now largely manufac-
tured in Paris.
In Memphis the dentists are charging
IS pull.
WHAT is home without piano2 Very
quiet
LONDON averages 400 births and !, 200
deaths week.
a K1LoMETRE is about three ffths of an
English mile.
The chills and burglars are devastating
Americus, Georgia.
New crop peanuts are appearing early
in market this year.
A TEXAN will walk three miles to catch
1 horse to ride mile.
CHICAGO has 539 miles of sidewalk, light
ed at night by s., 1888 lamps.
LADIES trains are reported coming in
fashion again IN New York.
CENsURE is the tax man pays to the
public for being eminent
A NEBRASKA wool grower has a flock Of
200 Cashmere goats.
The Pullman palace cars are to be intro.
duced to Europe.
THE coolies are making successful cotton
| pickera in Texas.
CINCINNATI has Norwegian giant seven
feet ten inches hign.
PorAToEs and pumpkins are growing on
the Bull Run battle field.
A New HAMPSHIRE man burned his
woods up smoking coon in a tree.
MICHIGAN University has abolished the
marking system.
NEARLY every city Of Europe has char
liable "home for consumptives.
COMMERCE in the West Indies is paralyzed
on account Of the European war.
The latest description Of liar-one who
presents things IN rose colors.
CALIFORNIA has recently imported 5000
| chestnut trees IEOm Japan.
SMALL silver pieces ere scarcer in France
than with us.
A LITTLE boy was recently sent by ex-
press from Boston to PittsDurg,
THE old vets OF 1912 are to hold re.
union at Seneca Falls, n Y.
THE fever and ague are having very
successful season at ChIliicothe.
DETECTIVES are very apt to find folks
out, but they never seem to feel badly
about 1t.
FRANCE is experimenting upon two-story
railway cars for steam roads.
The sugar producing section of Louis
lana IS known as the Sugar Bowl"
The State House at Boston is called, by
a critic, the ''linchpin of the hub"
THE national real estate agents conven-
ton VIII be held in New Haven next year.
A TENNESSEE man has invented a self
acting churn. which winds up like watch.
THE Cleveland Board of Trade favors the
proposed Ontario and Erie ship canal.
ATUBTLE weighing ACT pounds was lately
captured on Coney Island beach.
NEARLY all the western RAILWAYS. it is
said, show increased receipts this year
HOUSTON, Texas, announces that it has
had only one case of yellow fever this year
THE dressmakers suit for an unpaid bill
IN Boston is to be revived. The lady for
whom the dresses We're made declines to
pay, on the ground of extortionate charges.
A LODGING house keeper advertlses sto
furnish gentlemen with pleasant and COM
Portable rooms; also, one or two gentlemen
with wives"
TEE Philadelphia Press describes Cen
trai Park as a ''circumscrlbed sun beaten
sand heap, and the lake as sits sgan-coY-
ed mud puddle"
The neat thing in dog robes this season,
Is to have the family monogram in gilt up
on the blanket Il dog without mono
gram blanket is Of no account.
MAN lately jumped off the Clifton
Suspension Bridge in England. height of
$50 feet, in emulation OF Sam Patch, and,
like him, came TO grief.
A MISGUIDED mule in Springport, Mich,
swallowed his owners pocket book, con-
tanning $780, the other day, aud the man
is IN doubt whether to hold post mortem
or not
Sen. SUMNER is to come West as far as
Chicago. with two lectures on Lafayette,
the Faithful One" and The Duel between
France and Prussia, arG its Lesson to Civ
ilization."
81 SAY, friend, your horse is little con-
trary, is he not?" mo, sir !" "What
makes him stop them 30, he's afraid
somebody II say whoa, and he shant hear
it.
IT is noticeable that there are now open
in New York more places Of amusement
than ever before, It is further noticeable,
and matter OF congratulation to eyety one,
that there has probably been 40 time at
which tbs amusements Of the city have
been on the average OF SO high a tone.
A GERMAN, Hungarian and a Bohem-
ian met in the parlor of an inn, over the
chimney piece Of which hung a watch
After leaving, the German said, THAT was
a nice watch; I an, sorry did not buy it."
Il am sorry did not take it., said the
Hungarian. Il have it in my pocket, " said
the Bohemian.
SILVER coin in his vest pocket saved