The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-17

ANOTHER Important Ded OF DOraX, OF
superior quality. has been found in
Inyo county, Cal It is slightly infused
with saltpetre.
A NEW Wellingtonia gigantea, or
"big tree, forty feet and four inches
in diametea, has been discovered lately
near Vesalla, in Southern California
This is thicker by seven feet than any
other that has yet been found.
DIR. PRICE, mechanical genius of
Albion, Mich, claims that he has, at
last, attained the great unattainable,
has model, which he will have patent
ed, and is now at work on machine to
run printing press.
AN extensive alum deposit has been
discovered in valley of the Madras
Presidency, India, having been found
first by shepherds. The head men of
the native villages are said to be re-
luctant to disclose mineral discoveries
to the English.
The question whether, when the head
is moved from side to side, the eyes
are rotated in an opposite direction,
has long since been subject of discus
sion. An account of some experiments
published lately in German journal
tend to show that slight rotation does
occur.
The English journals state that
spongy lron-which is finely divided
iron produced by calcining the powder
ed ore with charcoal-is a more power
full deoderizer than animal charcoal
Even sewerage water filtered through a
layer of this is completely purified, and
sure to remain sweet.
CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
plmples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections, cured, and
the skin made soft and smooth, by using
the JUMPER TAR SOAP, made by Cas-
WE'LL, HAZARD & Co, New York It is
more convenient and easily applied than
other remedies, avoiding the trouble of
the greasy compounds now in use.
SEVENTY years ago some domestic
rabbits were introduced upon Sable
Island, small sandy islet lying about
hundred miles off the Novia Scotia
coast, and, being left alone and not
crossed in breeding, they have entered
their feral state in hveries of beautiful
silver gray, with white collars, intimat-
ing some remote ahinities with by-gone
races.
In the museum at Cassel, Germany,
is library made from 500 European
trees. The back of each volume is
formed of the bark of tree, the sides
of the perfect wood, the top of young
wood, and the bottom of old When
opened, the book is found to be box,
containing the flower, seed, fruit, and
leaves of the tree, either dried or imitat-
ed in wax.
A NEWLY-DIsCOvERED quarry of Kan
sas marble is ten miles from Baxter
Springs, and covers Is, 900 acres. It is
in layers of six, eight and eighteen
inches and from three to four feet
thick; pure, white and notified and in
exhaustible. The latter variety is
tinged with pink. 1t take fine polish
and finer edge. There is great excite
ment near it, as no other quarry west
of the river is known comparable with
it
On Twelfth Day an Indian woman of
/ Cuzco, in Peru, forty five years or age,
gave birth to a triplet of boys, one of
whom survived. As this happened,
| strangely enough, on the day of the
| Three Kings, it excited the superstition
of the natives. The surviving boy was
named Gaspar, after one of the kings.
| 1t occurs to the Angle-Saxon mind
that the coincidence would have been
more remarkable if all three boys had
/ lived
! The discovery of an ancient outlet of
/ Lake Superior is mentioned by Prof
| Winchell, the director of the State
Geological Survey of Michigan, In his
! last report. 1t is a deep valley, Dor
| dered with high bluffs, and runs from
Lake Superior to Green Bay in Lake
Michigan, suggesting the practicability
! of a ship canal across the same route,
with a view to shortening the voy-
age between the ports of the two
lakes.
| Nor MERELY TO TICKLE THE PALATE,
but to infuse health and vigor into the
enervated and diseased system, is the
! high purpose and sure effect of DIR.
WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR BITTERs.
! This famous restorative creates no sud
| den flash of excitement, to be succeeded
I by increased debility and ten-fold
gloom. It braces the relaxed nerves,
and imparts permanent tone and regu-
larity to the whole animal machinery.
! Dyspepsia, liver complaint. physical
prostration, djarrhoa, and, In fact,
nearly all complaints that are not or
ganic, yield to its operation.
ONE blacksmith III Western New
York has taken from horses feet over
! 200 nails that have been trodden upon
and buried in the feet Of animals, hay
ing been carelessly thrown into the
street Nails and pieces of glass are
constantly swept out of stores with the
other dirt, and the damage done by
them to horses is of most alarming ma
ture In New York, the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
taking the matter in hand.
The peculiar faint blush haze which
| occurs in the region about the mouth OF
the Mississippi frequently produces a
peculiar optical delusion. Mr.. Hill.
gard, in a recent paper on the mud
! Jumps of that locality, says that an
island quarter of mile distant and
fifteen feet high, when seen through
this haze, appeared to be wooded
mountain with rocky escarpments, and
at it's foot a wide spreading city, which
suddenly resolved itself into row OF
grave white pelicans perched on the
beach, which took wing at the approach
of a boat.
PROF. BOTTGER recommends gun cot
ton, saturated with solution of per
| To Of IN he