The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-02-18
Personal Notes.

TT is very rare TO find in Lisbon any
one who has ever heard of Camoens,
the greatest of Portuguese poets. Such
is fame.
OF Webster's Speller, more than 80,
600, 900 copies have been sold. The
present rate of production is LOCO, 600
annually. DR.. Webster received one
cent upon every copy.
A THIEF recently went through the
house of Governor Yarmouth, ofLouls-
lana, and among other booty, captured
a portion of the Governors message to
the Legislature, in consequence OF
which it was not delivered upon the as
sembling of that body.
MAYOR AGUILAR, of Los Angeles,
Cal, is Spenard, and does not speak
or write the English language. He
sends his messages to the Common
Council in Spanish, and has them read
by an interpreter.
MINISTER BANCROFT, at Berlin, has
written TO gentleman in Plttsburg,
Pa, that the delay in the completion
of the bust of Humboldt, ordered for
the public park in that city, has been
caused by accidents, which had twice
occurred, in attempts to make the
bronze casting.
LYON COUNTY, Iowa, had not single
white inhabitant until the summer OF
1867, when Daniel McLaren, a hunter
and trapper, settled on the Sioux river.
Now the county bids fair to become
one of the most populous in the north
western portion of the State.
DIR. LANCASTER, a London magistrate,
/ has given notice that, in case any per
son shall come by his death through
/ slipping on pavement from which the
snow has not been removed, he Will
| direct the jury to return verdict of
manslaughter against the person
through whose neglect the accident
may have happened.
| DEWEY, the man who was hung up
| for a while last fall by vigilance com
mittee at Charlton, Iowa, has been
prosecuting his hangers, and finally has
succeeded in obtaining a Judgment for
! s., 900 damages against three of them.
| An affecting illustration of dogs
! devotion to kind master was given III
the case of DR.. Roberts, who was shot
and killed at Bedford, Virginia, last
week. After he had been laid out his
little pet jumped upon his dead body,
fondled his face, whined and moaned,
and would not permit anyone to touch
his body.
THE executors of the British million
aire, George Baird, of Stitchell, report
| the value of his movable estate In
| England and Scotland at "a, 500, 0oC.
! He owned beside landed estates and
funds, amounting to large sum, in
this country. He left $40, 900 per an
mum to his wife, in addition to her
jointure, SO long as she remains I'M
married. The value of the stamp on
the inventory of his estate was S67, 900.
OUR western exchanges are filled with
accounts of the detention Of trains on
the Union and Kansas Pacific r. r. by
snow Trains from Denver were ten
days in reaching ST. Louis.
UNDER a new law in London, the pen
atty of e5 can be enforced against any
person keeping a dog for a single day
after the 1st of January wit, out i
cense. The licenses expire on the 31st
| OF December
THE Maine House of Representative
is composed of Isl members. There
are 40 farmers, 20 lawyers, % merchants,
5 doctors, 2 elergymen, and one editor.
! Politically the house is diuded as fol
lows Republicans, 10 Democrats,
50; Independent l.
| CALIFORNIA papers complain of q
manifest increase in the number of
| shooting ARRAYS throughout the state,
| and one of them ascribes it to the re-
peal of the law prohibiting the carry
! ing of concealed weapons.
THE Chinese begin another cycle of
thousand years in their calendar,
early In February, and those of the race
in California will devote two weeks to
festivity in celebration of the passage
| from the old cycle to the new.
A MIsER worth $40, 900 died at Knox
vile, ILL.,, recently from unintentional
generosity. He drew a bank check of
! $500 instead of s., to present to a
nephew, and when he found what he
| had done, he cried, GO am ruined
man." and died from the effects of the
/ shock.
| In any business never wade into wa
/ ter where you cannot see the bottom
Put no dependence upon the label of
a bag, and count money before you
receipt for it. See the sack opened be-
fore you buy what is in it, for he
who trades in the dark asks to be
| cheated.
THE San Francisco people are tired
of supporting self-elected Migrants in
comparative idleness, and are making
efforts to have such gentry sentenced to
! labor on public works. There are
many idle persons in that region who
choose to winter III jail as Migrants in
preference to doing any kind of honest
| labor
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