The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-28
Miscellaneous Items.

ways SIC, ZOO, 900.
ADBANY ladies III the first circles
smoke furtiye cigarettes
RICE birds are seriously damaging
the rice crops of North Carolina
THE Colorado narrow-gauge railroad
achieves thirty miles an hour, easy
A SINGLE firm of furniture manufac-
turers in Vienna employ over 1000
workmen.
SEVEN women have entire charge of
as many lighthouses on the Atlantic
coast
\ German chemist says that a man
would die in % days if forced to live on
bread alone.
A Massachusetts psychologist has
mesmeriZed al lnebrate out OF his ap-
petite for liquor.
AFTER the Intellectual application of
five pounds of chlorOform, horse died
IN Iowa, raging mad.
The Worcester Silk Company has
received IN invoice of 5000 pounds OF
silk direct from China.
N. THEIRS has had his salaryincreas-
ed to $4,000 a year, together with
SoZ, 0UD IOf contingencies. ....
ABOUT four hundred and sixty tur-
keys We're driven sixteen miles to
market by Pennsylvania.
The brewers of Vienna and neigh Dor
hood manufactured 306, 275 barrels OF
lager-beer during the month Of July.
The maximum sum under the money
order treaty with England is fixed at
ten pounds sterling, or $50 when issued
in this country.
THE largest cotton mill in the world
Will commence operations In Norwich,
Conn, in few weeks. Its capacity is
110,G00 spindles.
OLE BULL continues seriously Ill in
Maine, and his friends fear that he
may not recover, owing to his age and
his impaired constitution.
ANY hard steel tool, says the Boston
Journal Of Chemistry, will cut glass
with facility when kept freely wet with
camphor dissolved III turpentine.
CLAPAREDE, the French Swiss natur-
alist, who, apropos of Darwin, said
e. he had rather be a perfected mon
key than d degenerate Adam, is dead.
A LITTLE girl of 10, in Illinois, has
been presented by her father with
small patch of 1000 acres, IN a corner
of his back yard, to play at gardening
in.
A Mss NICHOLS, OF Plaistow, n. H.,
has been presented with an elegant
gold watch and chain, as a recognition
of tine fact that she Is model chris
tan woman."
The Scientific American states that
thousands of pounds Of butter are daily
sold in the city of New York, which are
adulterated with substance made from
cotton seed oil.
LUCY AMEs, fragile damsel of
Washington Territory, is seventeen
years old, only weighs four hundred
pounds, and measures sixty-four inches
around the shoulders.
The little Mortara boy" about
whom Edmund About made such fun,
seems to have turned out badly. He is
now under arrest on the charge OF muir
dering one of his servants.
The newest word out is itzecuintepo~
10th, and it means IN English man
who can't take joke, and "gets his
| back up" at the merest trltle. It's
Mexican definition Is hnchback dog.
THEY have " Maiden Assurance Com
pnnies " in Denmark. a father may de-
post anq sum at the birth of daugh-
ter, and the child receives during her
minority four per cent annually; at
eighteen she comes into q higher in
come, which is increased at 8ta ted pc
RODS through life.
TIE most extensive preparatiC IS have
been made for observing the coming
total eclipse Of the sun in December.-
Lockyer and Jansen will both be on
the ground, with a number Of other eX-
celient observers. A complete set of
Instruments have been already sent to
Australia from England.
\ MAN recently Came to his death in
a curious manner ut Venice, Italy. He
was standing near bronze autOmaton.
which, :oiled the time of day, With his
head between tie bell and hammer
The hour came around without bis no
tice; the automaton struck one, and
knocked his brains out.
\ MINISTER asked a little boy who
had been converted, Does not the
devil tell You that you are not Christ
ian z" Yes, sometimes. Well,
what do YOU say to him g. al tell
him, replied the boy, with something
Of Luthers spirit, that whether am
a Christian OF not, it is none OF hts bus
mess.
A MAIDEN lady of Il certain age ac-
counts for the auguaenting redness of
her nose by asserting that it is caused
w the reflection from the red brick
house opposite which glares sayagely
in at the window where she embroiders.
She has spiteful nephew who thinks
ii may be traced to something in her
tea.
The Connecticut oyster dealers have
entered into a combination to put mp
the wholesale price of the bivalves 30
cents per gallon, binding themselves IN
81, GOO bonds to live up to the agree
ment. The advance applies only to
the New England States, SO that the
Fairhayeu meu will continue to sell to
New Workers and other " outside bar
barians at the old price.
a FAC-SIMILE of the London Gazette
OF 1866 has been published in London
1t contains full account OF the great
confiagration in that city from Septem-
Der to 10, 1866, when IS, 200 dwelling
houses, 81 churches, 6 chapels, 4
bridges, 3 city gates, the Exchange
building, Custom House, Newgate
/ prison. and Guildhall were all de-