The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-07
Miscellaneous Items.

A CONFEDERATE monument IS III
course of construction at Athens, GA.
PHILADELPHIA exports nearly mil
lion gallons of petroleum every week.
A MINIATURE silver saw-mill, valued
at 81, 2CJ, has been presented to a
Northwestern bride.
Az experienced boatman asserts that
the Fsquimaux kayak is the most sea-
worthy boat in existence.
Two sermons said to have been found
among Sir Walter SCOTS unpublished
manuscripts, are to be preached in
Glasgow.
A LONDON cabman has lately recover
ed damages from n woman who delayed
his business by being too fat to get
into his cab.
The phrase "put head on him. is
said to owe its origin to Shakespeare,
who, III Titus Adrohicus, calls upon the
people to ''help to put head on head
less Rome"
ONLY about one student out of % in
our agricultural colleges go to farming
They cultivate the science, and leave
other men to cultivate the fields.
In ten years, mich COWS in Vermont
have increased 10 per cent. The but
ter produce has increased 1000, 600 and
cheese has declined 3,000,0 900 pounds.
The mother of Elias Howe, Jr, in
ventor of the sewing machine, died in
Cambridgeport, Mass, few days
ago.
Mr.. j. G.. KoNDRUP, the Danish vice
consul, residing in Washington. is at
the point of death. Mr.. Kondrup has
for Is years been employed in the coast
survey Office.
The peach crop of Maryland has
been very Tlnremunerative to growers.
Many varities of peaches which usual,
ly ripen from one week to ten days
apart, ripening at the same time this
year.
PrrTsFIELD, MASS, has developed an
other economical citizen. A young
man called at a store and inquired for
boot boxes, but could not find one
large enough, and it came out in con
versation that he wanted it for q coffin
for his father.
The Pittstield Mass Times says
that fifty years ago man named David
Hilliard disappeared from that town,
and no trace of him could be found. A
few days ago he returned. He had
been in Maine, and had never seen a
railroad until within a year. He left
a little girl, but she is now a grand
mother.
ONE William Kennedy, who was fa-
Cd ~ 70 Il,
a house in Indiana, recently, has made
a statement that the murder of William
Smiley, Il printer, in indianapolis, on
the ODD of November, 1859, was com
mitted by man named Cross Hobbs,
now under arrest in Chicago, charged
with another murder. The Grim has
heretofore been a mystery.
A GREAT TIDAL WAVE, fifty feet high,
it has been predicted in the Southern
States, will on the night of October
the fifth, OF the morning of the sixth,
sweep over the coasts of the western
continents, from Cape Hatteras to Ba-
hiS,. This prediction appears to be
generally believed in the South, and
the New Orleans Picayune, in column
article, endeavors, III a humorous way,
to allay the panic.
A FEW months ago the Antwerp pa
pers reported that the Wandering
Jew" had reappeared and been spoken
to in that city. The tradition of CEN
turtles is that the visits of that mythical
parsonage always precede war or pes
thence; and the superstitious are now
connecting the outbreak of cholera in
Belgium with the recent visitation of
the wanderer. There is something re-
markable in the vitality of this ridicu-
lous tradition.
SIR JUNG BADAHooR, Of China, is
limited to the following titles: The
highly honored Commander and Comp
troller of Military Affairs, the Aug
mentor and Instructor of the Army and
Aggrandizer of the Country, the Salts
flyer of the Law, and High, by increas-
ing the prosperity and revenue of the
country, the Great Inhcritor of Fidel-
ty and Faithfulness to the Salt
Now IS THE TINE to insure in The
Mutual Life Insurance Company OF