The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-09-23
Miscellaneous Items,

this season.
WATERMELONs can not be raised in
the Red River country.
THE city of Marion, South Carolina,
is a rival Of New Haven in being called
the City of Elms.
ABOUT $500, 900 has been expended
the past season on Prospect Park,
Brooklyn.
THERE is enough territory in Kansas
to make II states the size of Massa-
chusetts.
CATTLE are dying in considerable
numbers, in Madison county, Ala, from
the murrain.
A MILLION AND A-4IALF bushels of APP
pies are promised in Iowa this year.
Mrs. CRoLY Jennie June), has, with
the profits Of her pen, bought a fine
house on 3Sth street, New York.
PITTSBURGH has 20 foundries and 80
rolling mills. She made $4,000 tons of
steel last year, two-t thirds of the amount
used in the country, and exported fifty
million bushels of coal.
A MILL for the manufacture of steel
rails, which is the largest In the world,
Is DeltlS tI6Ctttl DIT DStlilcISlli,
sylvania Its destined working power
is 800 tons of steel ingots per day.
A NEW Republican daily paper is to
be started in New Orleans, which, 1T is
promised, shall represent the party, and
not a ring or petty faction.
JUDGE UNDERWOOD, of Virginia, has
published his opinion (unofficiaD that
all women will be permitted to deposit
their ballots III the Presidential contest
IN 1872.
GA BOY" explains the thinness of the
milk he carries this hot weather on
the ground that the "cows sweat So
-EIch0nGe.
LoUIsIANA's sugar crop is estimated
at 225, 900 hogsheads. The plantations
have a capacity for growing. one million
hogsheads.
The people in Omaha go fishing in
canon surrounded by perpendicular
rocks 2, 500 or 5000 feet high, and re-
sembling solid masonry.
TEXAS expects this year to build 500
miles of railroad The state in three
years has given SIS, 900, 900 to railroad
corporations.
"Salt is the subject of the late
school boys latest composition. Thus:
"The salt is the spice which spoils the
potatoes, if you forget to put 1t on.
D. NJ. CARTER, New York artist, is
painting a memorial picture lllustrat-
ing the last verse of the well-known
hymn entitled Nearer. my God, to
Thee"
The California fig crop is ripe, and
some of the growers will dry consider
able quantities. Last year one grower
sold 2, 900 pounds of figs from one tree.
THE Davidson fountain, recently cast
in Munich, and intended for Cincln-
natl. is pronounced 1.-The most beauti-
full and complete fountain get cast In
Europe"
A BROOKLYN mother advised her
daughter to oil her hair, and tainted
away fiat when that candid dansel re-
piled, ooh, no, ma; 1t spoils the gen
tleinen's vests !"
THE church organ factory of Steer
Turner, at Westtield, Massachusetts,,
was burned yesterday morning, with It's
contents. The loss is $50, 900; insur-
ance, $4,000.
THE quantity of coal used In the
United Kingdom for domestic purposes
and manufacture other than iron, Is
about so, 600, 900 tons per annum, the
manufacture of iron consuming between
30, 000,0 and 5000, 600 tons.
The births in England exceed the
deaths S79 every day As the popula-
ton is already oyercrowded, and the
poorer classes sinking into pauperism
at fearful rate, it is obvious that the
only possible relief must come from
war, peetilence or forced emigration.
An international exhibition is to be
held in Peru in December next. 1t is
the first affair OF the kind ever held III
South America The chief prizes, open
for competition to all nations, are two
sold medals valued at 600 and 9100,
respectively.
4 t'ENIAN over the water was called
upon for q toast. He gave the follow
ing
''Au hail the American aigle
Proud bird of Freedom all hail ,
The bird that no one can invaigle
Or put salt on his beautiful tail"
" FELLOW TRABLERs,' said colored
preacher def | had been eatin' dried
apples for Il week, and then took to
drinkin' for a mont, [ couldn't feel
more swelld up dan [ am dis mint wild
pride and vanity at seem such full
tendance har dis evenin'"
A GIANT bird, the largest creature
ever seen in this country with wings,
and, it is believed, unknown to Ameri-
can ornithology, suddenly appeared in
the town of Winnemucca, Nevada,
few days since, and remained several
minutes quietly perched on a house
top TO be gazed at by the astonished
multitude.
PARTIES are now engaged III dragg-
ing the Anacostia river off the Navy
Yard at Washington, for the recovery
of anchors, chains, &c, which were de
posted for safe-keeplng in the bed of
the river in 1914, when the British in
vaded the city. considerable amount
Of chain and a large anchor have, thus
far, been recovered, which viii be rem
ovated at the yard.
THE numismatic experts are consid-
cradle excited over a coin lately picked
up IN a Boston gutter. A boy brought
it to his employer as a queer looking
button, when, upon cleaning it with
acids, it was discovered to be a genuine
New England sixpence of 1852. The
words New England" and Massach-
uetts (spelt Massachusetts, and the date
are very distinct.
Mr. Iheophilus POM, of PopviIIe