The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-17
Miscellaneous Items.

burg are popular.
| ALBANY has a brass band composed of
twelve young ladies, whose uniform is
in zouave style.
THE example of our best financiers is
worthy of some attention-manyo of them
insure in the Washington.
THE grand jury of Memphis proposes
to indict all newsdealers exposing for
sale Eastern flash newspapers.
A man who will raise disturbance in
church because somebody gets into his
seat is little better than pugullst.
THREE-CENT street car far is promised
in Chicago if the compressed air motor
tested in that city the other day works
all right.
DURING the earthquake last month an
oil we'll at South Olive, Ohio, threw up
set of tools that had been buried IN ii
for months.
DoNKEY's flesh ranks very high among
the new species of food adopted by the
besieged Parisians. 1t is said to re
semble veal with poultry flavor.
A CITIZEN of Northampton, Mass,
whose education had been neglected,
having been sent out to post bills last
week, carefully stuck them all upside
| down.
THE sleeping car attached to an eastern
| bound train ran off the track near Knox
vile Sunday night. There was general
| waking up.
Has any man a right TO be at the head
of the family without having his life in
sured2 We have answered by insuring
in the Washington.
FoR over thirty years and old gentle
man at st. Adams, Vt, has made
practice of getting ont of bed every
night at II, II, and o'clock, to enjoy
comfortable smoke"
THE different societies in the North
organized to aid the negroes in the
South, are said to have donated $40, 600
to build normal school for negroes IN
Memphis.
| A CONTEMPORARY proposes the estab-
lishmant of ''training colleges, " where
in young women may be taught how to
rear infants accordingto the latest lights
of medical and social science.
| NICARAGUA vaunts the virtues of
medicinal lake, which, if one drinks
enough of it, takes away, for time ut
least, all desire for any other kind of
liquor.
THREE casks were received lately Mt
the wine-cellar of KelIey's Island, from
Cincinnati, with a capacity for holding
sixteen hundred and sixteen gallons
each.
TENNESSEE papers in the interior con
TIME to urge upon farmers the impor-
lance of raising more corn and less cot
ton, in view of the probability of long
continued war in Europe.
A New HAMPSHIRE magistrate is under
Indictment for having married matron
| of 40 to a youth of Is, whom she had
captured, and who states that he was
afraid to say ono " when asked the mo-
mentions question.
THE revisionists of the New Testament
now in session in London, have voted
that the literal translation of the phrase,
"deliver us from evil, y is, "deliver us
from the evil one"
As an evidence of the tenacious ma
! tional spirit of the French, we hear of a
chasseur who was recently shot mt In
glutadt, for an attack on lieutenant
who had him in charge. He fell waving
| his cap and shouting, "Vive la France :"
| THE position of an indianapolis po-
! hceman must be a lucrative one, to
| Judge from the statement that young
man, recently appointed on the force
gave the City Marshal and about doz-
en- of his political friends a grand ban
quet in honor of the event.
THE editor Of a well-to-do Tennessee
paper, not having space for the whole Of
a good story which he 1ound in one of
the magazines, re-wrote it in a condens-
ed form and published it. The infuriat-
ed author has challenged him.
A MUscALoNGE weighing over thirty
pounds was caught in a seine just north
of the Big Sandy Greek, Jefferson coun-
ty n Y, on the night of the 9th inst
This is the first fish of the kind ever
caught on those grounds.
One of the most accommodating of
men lives in Elk township, Noble coun-
tv, Ohio. The other day he walked
over thirty-two miles, through the rain,
for the sole purpose of paying a neigh
boris tax. The tax was eighteen cents,
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forty-four cents.
The new freight depot of the South
western Railroad Company at Fort Val
ley was destroyed by fire last Saturday
night, together with one hundred and
thirty bales of cotton and considerable
amount of freight. The loss is estimat-
ed at about S25, 900. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
PAIR of bloody pants and other arti-
cles, recently found in Burt cave, Jack
son county have been identified as be-
longing to man named John Beard,
who has been missing since early in Sep
TENDER. Detectives are on the trail
suggested by the suspicious circum-
stances.
For the convenience of railroads ad-
dicted to accidents, an arithmetical indi-
vidual computes the value of a mans
life IN dollars. The amount that a la
borer receives for one years labor. at
Sl.5O per day, is S476. 60, which amount
is : per cent. on 81, $685. and the latter
IS therefore the cash value of the man to
his family.
OUT OF $4,000 passengers carried by
the Guion Line last year, there were
only Is deaths, which is a much smaller