The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-11-03
0URRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.


Soup herb diet--vegetable soup.
A FRENCH CHINESE war is looming up
ABOUT eighty lives were lost by the Viz
ginia floods.
WORCESTER, Mass, complains of the
census takers neglect.
THE return of the cattle plague is feared
In England.
In Dresden, the American ladies are
sewing for the wounded.
SPIRITS of ne-After-dipner excite
ment.
1HE best commander Disarm-
ament.
EVERY young doctor must get on if he
only has patients.
AN ot-handed felloW-one who hassIos,
both of his arms
HE best thing to give to the poor-give
them employment.
CLERICAL errors-Three quarters of an
hour sermons. Fun
INDIANAPOLIS has national convention
OF spiritual mediums"
Our West the grain ia now raised al all
seasons-by the elevators.
BEYOND the powers of the most inveter-
~N0 PiPO VI Wlut
In England it is unlawful to poach game;
but you may poach eggs.
A TOWN in Illinois prohibits croquet
among other games of chance.
WHAT the wild waves are now saying to
the seaside hotels-''shut up T.
ONE thing that an importunate Office
beggar can always get-''get out r
TIE heaviest notes of q bass singer are
those that go loves. down II. th~a-~.i.ssssaas
A CHICAGO daily paper has an enthusiast
tic column headed ''Our Murdersl"
AN Ohioan recently threw up live frog
that had been for some time in his Bto-
mach.
PRuss1AN investments Metz, Strasbourg,
| Verdun and Paris.
| ONE hundred and three agricultnr al fair
are being held in Ohio this autumn.
Troy is raising money for an orphan
asylum by means Of match game of base
ball.
A CoLoRED man has been made one of
the trustees of the Alabama Insane Asy-
| lum.
In Boston horse cars are now driven
on some OF the railroads without the use of
poles.
The New York Commercial translates the
Good Templars 81. o. G. T" as II Only
Get Tight"
OWING to the war, New Jersey will have
to furnish all the French wine Of the vim
tage of 1870.
THIS season has proved to be the poorest
for cheese making known in Vermont for
thirty years.
RED noses are now restored to their
natural color in Paris by means of cleo
tricity.
WHY is the letter sd" like the marriage
service? Because it makes 1--WE" into
"wed,"
ONE of the oldest pieces of artillery in tho
world is in Metz. 1t is called the ''Voge
Grief"
AT an exhibition in New York city re-
J Gently, 121 different varieties of grapes were
shown.
CASE is reported of the proprietor O.
a large aviary who has lately gone raven
mad.
LITTLE BOY we know is horribly afrai6
) that when he is born again he will be born
girl.
IT is a fact not easily accounted for tha
at parties, after supper, the guests begir
to grow thin.
Troy had ''burglar's carnival" recent
~, when six robberies were committed il
six hours.
3 BE deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to tn.
scorner, and dumb to those who are mis-
chievouslv inquisltive.
The New York Tribune laments the pre-
ponderance of horse trots over plows anC
harrows at agricultural fairs
. HORSE CAR fares, upon the repeal of tn.
tax, have been almost everywhere reduced
, except in Philadelphia.
THERE was q doll baby's wedding al
} Edgeheld, Tenn, the other day. Severa
hundred little girls were present
: In Texas husband offers 81, 200 reward
| and no questions asked, if the man who
took away his wife will return her.
NEWARK, N. J., is to have the largest ca
thedral in the country, and to spend ff
teen years in building it.
The Illinois Condensing Company shir
, six carloads of preserved milk from Elgin
to New York every month.
A MAN in Oxford was bitten by rattle
l snake II years ago, and he is still taking
whisky to cure the bite.
IT has been decided to build scientific
hall in connection with the University Of
Missouri, at cost of $50, 900.
THE French now make "artificial India
rubber, which is said to be as good and
much cheaper than the real article
WHY are husband and wife not one, but
, temp Because the wife is Number One
and the husband goes for nothing.
THERE are reports that the Camanche
Indians have abandoned all attempts al
scalping any OF the colored troops Oh the
| frontier.
If all signs, including shop signs fail in
dry weather, they frequently get entirely
off the hook in windy weather.
WITHIN ten days, Elizabeth, N j., has
lost three of her Oldest citizens, all resid.
ing IN one street, and each over 80 years
old.
A CONTEMPORARY thinks it must be hor-
rible on the battlefield, "to hear tn stifed
groans of the dying and the shrieks of the
Dead"
The respectable women of Hope, Ind,
made savage war upon the houses Of ILL.,
fame In that city, recently, and drove all
the inmates out of town.
COLUMBUS, GA, has a chicken which
commenced Growing like growing chan
ticeer the first day after it was Matched.
HAPPY Hollow, Missouri, is suffering
from a combined attack of sky-rockets and
forty rod whiskey. 1t needs cleansing.
! FROM the number who come to this
country to be educated, princes must be
as plenty in Japan as they are scarce Just
now, in France.