The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-11-18
General Items.


The Texas corn crop is much better
than the farmers expected.
The Bowery saloons sell million
kegs of lager every summer.
BRIGNoLI is said to show signs of vo-
cal decline.
KANSAS cattle are dying with the
Spanish whatever that may be.
HARPER, the owner of Longfellow,
refuses to train any more horses,
BROOKS breaches to the largest con-
gregatiOn and drives the fastest horse
i'll Boston.
The water III the river at Albany IS
extremely low, causing great lnconven-
fence to vessels.
A LARGE body of very rich ore has
Just been struck in the Munsell, Col
orado.
BUFFALO hams on the southern Dor
der of Kansas are selling for five cents
pound.
HEAVY frosts that occurred in Augusta
materially injured the Montana wheat
crop.
LEAD ore has been discovered in the
southern part of Greenwood County,
Kansas.
FIVE women more than eighty years
old, are living in Nantucket, who are
widows of five brothers.
THE New Hampshire Orphans Home
is located on the old Daniel Webster
farm.
THE printing office of the Sentinel, at
Coldwater, Mich, was destroyed by
fire on Monday night. Loss $1,000.
SPELL OK" said teacher to boy.
q O-.r, OK" ''No, sir! You must not
annex an Il to an OK to spell OK.
A FLUSHING girl dressed herself ia
male attire, just for the fun of flirting
with the other girls.
ONE New Orleans man has squander-
ed s., 600 in lottery tickets and reaped
a silver plated wash dish.
GENERAL THOMAS w BENNETT of
Indiana, has been appointed Governor
of Idaho, rice Bowen, resigned.
Ii is said IN regard to newspapers,
that young ladies prefer those that
make the most hustle.
NJ Araiuar, astronomer, of Madrid,
has discovered a new planet, which he
baptized Conception"
SIXTEEN icebergs were counted from
an ocean steamer on 4 late voyage
across the Atlantic.
A NORTH CAROLINA lad of eleven
wrote to Napoleon few weeks ago, and
has received an autograph letter in
reply.
THE famous old Pocahontas, belong
ing to Bonner was taken out to Fleet
wood Park on the 18th inst, and paced
her mile in 49,, without training.
In New York they call red hair
Schenectady color'-Schenecta be-
ing, as every one knows, little beyond
''Auburn.
THEY say that to put cider in kero-
sene barrels, as they do III some places
in Maine, gives the article peculiar
bouquet.
The police force of New Orleans, ac-
cording to official returns, numbers 600
men, involving an annual expense of
1924, 400.
MAGGIE MITCHELL PADDOCK had boy
on the 4th, at her Long Branch cottage
She has given $500 for the benefit of
Chicago actors.
A MAN named Emanuel Shaffer has
al.
for numbering two wives and his hired
man by poison.
THE most fashionable color in gloves
at present is a light tan color without
stitching or wristlets, and with four
gilt buttons.
A GEORGIA man, who was bitten by
a rattlesnake last week, took three
drinks OF turpentine and two and n
half bottles of whisky, and is rapidly
recovering.
In the midst of the Chicago disaster
Joe Jefferson was presented with baby.
Joe, "here's your good health, and
your fomily's, aud may they live long
and brosber."
The Vienna Presse has engaged Mime
Marie Seebach, the German actress,
who was lately Ill this country, to write
fifty letters for that journal on what
she saw and heard In the United States.
CHARYEs FRANCIS ADAMS, John Quin-
cy Adams, Edward Atkinson, George
Bancroft, phi Waldo Emerson vii
liam Lloyd Garrison, Longfellow, Sum
ner, and Whipple are members of the
Golden club, London.
CURTIS HAMBLEToNIAN, one of the
most valuable horses III Kentucky. was
found dead i'll his stable at Richmond,
KY, last Tuesday. He was the prop
erty of l.. Curtis. Esq, of Brooklyn,
n, y. and was worth $50, coo.
HERR RICHARD WAGNER is preparing
a new edition of his numerous works,
which Will he Published at intervals at
Leipsic, and will be completed in July,
1873. His operas are penetrating into
Italy.
HUMAN skeletons, with flesh and hair
adherlng, are frequently found in San
Francisco, surmounted- with piles of
cobblestones, and they provoke bnt
little remark The discoverer common
y exclaims, Damchinaman -
Two ladies were travelling on the cars,
when stranger asked the elder what
relationship she bore the younger.
The answer was quick and pertinent
"She is my sisters daughter, and my
daughters sister, How2
A LETTER from Richmond, Va, saws
that city is growing more rapidly than
for years. Large numbers of buildings
are in course of erection nearly all the
tobacco factories are at work; the flour
trade of South America is rapidly in
creasing, and the trade from New York
h. Oh