The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-09-16
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The cod fisheries of the north Pacific
coast are yielding fine catch this year.
THERE are 11S Precursor lodges in
South Carolina, with membership of
! 14,000
AT Claremont, n. H., recently, the
! tightening scattared IA box of matchs
over the floor without setting any of
them on fire.
ALATE traveller in Patagonia says that
the average height of the male inhabi-
tant is considerably over six feet.
| The importation of opium prepared
for smoking during the last fiscal year
was 315, l2l pounds, of the value of ST.
| 926, 915.
A FULL-RIGGED saw mill passed down
the Ohio river on SC fiat "the other day
with steam up and in successful opera
| ton.
The manuscript novel discovered
among Hawthorne's papers is a story of
American life ut the Revolutionary era.
Ii the turtle market is good next
winter, Il Wyandotte, Mich, man will
fill his pocket. He is now feeding 800
of them III g p II, and the voice of the
turtle must be considerably heard from
in that vicinity.
A NEW style of earring is In the shape
of paddock, the nails represented by
large diamonds.
IT has been decided to hold an inter
national exhibition in Vienna III 1872
LoBsTERs were late on the Eastern
coast this year, but they have now APP
peared III great numbers.
A TTTUsvILLE genius has just invent
ed machine called the "Great Amer
lean Rotary Hydraulic Hen Regulator "
The "stingaree is a California flat
fish, the cobra of the sea, and its sting
is almost as poisonous as the bite of a
rattlesnake.
A BOX, containing a duck sitting on
ten eggs went rs baggage on the Knox
vile Railroad IN Tennessee, recently.
THE number of foreigners a short
time ago computed to be in London
was nearly 800, 900. OF these $4,000
were Germans, 150,0 French, $4,000
belonged to the other continental coun-
tries, and 1000 were Americans.
RED silk parasols are to be the novel
ty next season, to be made very large,
and edged with f inge, feathers, or
black lace.
Two arrivals at Portland, Oregon,
from China, brought quantities of Chi
nese Fgranite cut into blocks of large
size.
A CARGO of 10000 pounds of fresh
beef arrived in Philadelphia on the 9th,
nine days from Rockport, Texas. The
hold &c +ho rocCn1 ,,-,,, nc. , 40
frigerator.
The Sullivan Progress is informed
that there is horse III Marrowbone
Township that has contracted the bad
habit of catching and eating all the
young lambs and young chickens which
come within its reach.
BURGLARS have been very busy at
Niagara Falls. Guests at different ho-
tells have been robbed of iewelry to the
amount of $1,000, and several private
dwellings, have been entered.
RICHMOND Va, was filled with birds
of various kinds for several hours on
Thursday evening, which battered their
heads against lamps and windows as if
striving to seek shelter from some APP
pretended harm.
A NOVEL package recently passed
through London, Ont, by express, on
the Great Western Railroad. 1t was a
cage containing a pair of grizzly bear
cubs, shipped at st. Paul, MINI, and
addressed to Miss McTayish, Toronto
They were about the size of full grown
pigs, and their angry growls aud vicious
snarls were rather shocking to weak
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