The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-09
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MoTTo for railway directors-never
mind passengers; its freight that makes
the cargo.
ONE million five hundred thousand
of the inhabitants of Germany can
read English.
A WISCONSIN man has established a
saw-mlll on the Amoor River, and ships
lumber to Japan.
IT is not true of trouble, and some
other things, that ''the more you have
the more you want"
/ SEWING machines are soon to be in
troduced in the public schools of the
State of North Carolina,
No MATTER how prosperous their bus
mess may be, whalers and lard makers
always have trying times.
/ FIVE thousand copies of Joaquin
Miller's "Songs of the Sierras" have
/ been sold III this country.
/ WILLIAM w STORY has lately com
pleted sitting figure Of a female,
which he calls Jerusalem.
/ You talk OF your troubles, but yours
is not such a hard case as mine, as the
/ oyster said to the fisherman.
/ A Missouri doctors slumbers where
broken the other night by a pole cat,
which crept into bed with him.
/ A YOUNG Basque has appeared at
Paris, and created establishment by
his performance on the pandean pipes.
/ DURING the occupation of France,
/ the German army foraged two million
/ five hundred thousand bottles of cham
payne.
4 FARMER near Benton, Grant Coun-
ty. claims to have raised. or something
/ over an acre of ground 125 bushels Of
strawberry corn.
A GAMBLER who has lost all of his
greenbacks may aptly explain with
| Shakespeare :" So much for bucking EN-.
New York World
Mr.. BEECHER. in satirizing pompous
takers, says, &" Language, like window
glass, should not stop the attention on
itself, but on that which passes through
If.
CoRDELIA NJ. WILDER, Cincinnati, who
furnishes the dcAlj Y2oUGe of the West
with dress goods and luxrrles, Is about
to be forced into bankruptcy, proving
again that the wages Of sin IS death.
TUE chestnut roast" IS a Whining
ton Delaware institution, being a. So
cable" with unlimited chesnuts and
apples, involving the outlay Of the
moderate sum of twenty-cents per cap
ital
THE Column of Nendome viii soon be
rebuilt The greater part OF the broken
pieces are already recast. The scat
folding necessary for the rebuilding OF
l., Of
III height
Mss KELLoGG's Opera Company TO
San Francisco hasnow been organized.
With the exception of the prima donna
herself. the contralto (Muren8l), and
the conductor (Nicolao), the artists are
unknown to fame, at least III this part
Of the world.
A CLASSIFICATION Of the Communist
prisoners at Versailles has been made,
from which it appears that there are
131 Italians, q Swiss, y Russians, Il
Germans, 900 Poles. T English, II
Spaniards, 3 Portuguese and l Swede
The California papers are congratu-
lating the wine growers of that state on
the fact that the railroad rates for the
transportation of wines have been re
duced to $3.50 1er 100 pounds of wine,
in wood or cases. This rate is for all
rail shipments through to New York,
Boston, or Baltimore.
MARIE TAGLIoNA-to give the great
danseuse her familiar name, CT the
Countess of Verseni, as we properly
should call her-win pass her future
days III England. It is not her inten-
ton to take any part IN theatrical mat
ters OF to appear again III the ballet.
A CoUNrRYMtN, who visited Greenville
Tenn, had his attention attacted by
the gllttering sign Of the Andes Insur-
ance Company He looked at it long
and intently, and then broke ont in a
Joyful exclamation tEWell, / know
ed old Andy would be at somethin'
afore along tell yer they can't keep
him down, no, they can't, and walked
on.
VICTORIA is y district IN the south
eastern part Of Australia, containing
9S, 0Q0 square miles The interior OF
the country is SO fertile that the first
explorer gave 1t the name of Australia
Felix. It contains valuable gold mines.
its exports of the precious metal IL 1856
THE Queen of Holland recently went
III state to the Vatican, where the Pope
. conyerscd with her for nearly two
hours. After presenting her suite to
the Holy Father, the Queen visited
Cardinal Antonelh At the Vatican
they attach great importance to this
visit of Protestant princess to the
head of the Catholic Church
THE national food OF Japan IS fish.
There is not an ocean or river creature
that the japanese do not eat. And
most of the fish sold are not dead fish,
but living, jumping, wriggling fish
So much is thought s fishes that, on
a certain festival day, every family that
has had a boy born during the year
hang out great painted fish to boast
of it.
DANIEL SwIsHER, one of the heroes of
Perry's battle, died in PENNSYLVANIA.
October 10th. He was born in 1897
and during the war Of 1912, was a vol
unteer among the Pennsylvania troops
IN Harrison's army In the famous
battle of September 10th, 1913, he was
a "horse- marine on board the Gale
donna, and possessed the PENNSYLVANIA
war medal for his galIantry. 1t is now
believed that but six survivors of the
battle remain.
PINKERToN, the detective, had in his
office before the fire, some invaluable