The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-15
General Items.

attachment for the benefit of pedlers.
PIoNA-MAKING at present takes the
third rank among the manufacturing
interests in the United States
An Illinois gentleman has taken .
gold medal for raising ], 900 varieties of
apples.
Our of $4,000 volums in the mercan-
tile library of st. Louis, over 1900
are never called for by anybody
To cure the cats from scratching up
your nicely raked flower beds, cut oft
their heads.
HE famous and important battle of
Bunker Hill lasted only about an hour
and half
\ TEXAS paper records marriage in
which the lady WAS 10 years old and
widow.
The war losses sustained by South
/ Carolina are estimated at $500, 600, 900,
about wo-thirds of her former great
wealth.
The New Testament Company for
| the revision of the Bible is now at
work on the 9th chapter of st. Mat
/ thew
/ SOME Southern turnouts will be seen
at Saratoga this year, for the first time
since the commencement of the rebel
/ hon.
MARRIAGEABLE young ladies are re-
/ ioicing because next year Will be leap
year, and they will have ii chance to
make their backward lovers come up to
time.
A BILL "for the further protection
of the rights of married men > was in
troduced in the New Hampshire Legis- /
lature last week.
A sHoPKEEPER having advertised his
stock to he sold under prime cost,
neighbor observed that it was impos-
sible for him TO do so, as he had never
paid anything for it himself.
A MAN has invented "A new and cheap
plan for boarding. One of his dodgers
mesmerIzes the rest, and then eats
hearty meal-the mesmerized being
satisfied from sympathy
The occurrence Of the recent earth
quake on Staten Island is explained by
local meteorologists on the theory that
as the fever-and- ague season commenced
this year all the inhabitants happened
to have their chill at the same time.
IllEoNAhEo dlt HULL
erous and dangerous i'll North Carolina
this year They attack people at ali
points, and the bite is pronounced un-
usually venemous and death dealing.
IT is believed at the State Depart
ment that the stories to the effect that
the Russian Grand Duke Alexis pro-
poses visiting this country the present
season are without undation.
4 REMEDY of sun-stroke, which has
proven et1ectual in cases where it has
been tried, is to battle the hands, head
and face with lemon Juice The effect
IS immediate.
An eccentric man, who recently fur
nished an elegant residence III this city,
bought handsome camphor- wood COT
| fin and placed 1T on pedestal III his
study rs a reminder to him in the midst
OF his wealth that he was but mortal.
FIVE young men who last July were
engaged in tarr1ng and feathering
man and a young woman in CohoctoH,
Steuben County, have just been tried
and sentenced to the county jail for
SIX months.
A GLoUsTER young lady was aboat
throwing away a withered bouquet,
| lately, when she discovered in it note
containing an offer of marriage from
bashfui but really exemplary young
man eff her acquaintance.
THREE Americans intend to open a
large hotel at Cronstadt, near ST. Pc,
tersburg a place which it is generally
believed in the commercial cities of
Europe, Will soon assume great i'm
portance and rapidly increase in popu-
latiOn.
PRoF. OPPOIzEB, the celebrated Wen
ma physician who died few weeks
ago, received af one time a fee Of 10a,-
900 forms for saving the life of the
Emperor Ferdinad, of Austria. He
was also for nearly 20 years the physi-
clan of Prince Clemmens de Meter
Mich.
SINCE the ratification of the Treaty
of Washington, the State Department
has been busy preparing list,of the
Alabama claims for the Uuited States
Board of Arbitration The whole
number of vessels destroyed is given at
234, and their estimate value hat the
time of destruction is set down at S12,-
! 80. 384.
The spoken language of China so
differs In every separate province, that
/ people living within hundred miles
can no more understand each others
! dialect than an Englishman can under
stand Spaniard. The Mandarin or
court dialect Is more common than any
other, and is used at the capital and
among officials throughout the empire
| A PATENT perpetual tobacco-pipe has
! been made by gentleman in Missouri,
| who doubtless has been often troubled
to light his pipe in ! high wind. His
| invention consists III making the bowl
reversible, SO that when charge of to-
/ bacco IS nearly smoked out the bowl
may be charged again and then revers-
ed, 50 that the fire may ignite the new
/ charge.
AT Maury, Tennessee, few nights
ago, Il young man went to bed leaving
a burning candle and pistol on his TIA
BILE. The dripping sperm ignited the
table, the table ignited the pistol, the
barrels began to explode, and when the
young man awoke he was nearly burned,
smothcred and shot to death His pill
low received the balls and saved his
head.
THE finer and more valuable grades
of sponge are to be grown, by artificial
means, abroad, if tho experiments now
IN progress succeed. The finest are
found on the coast of Syria, and are