The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-17
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STRAW has become luxury. 1t is
worth from S32 to S33 per ton in Albany,
and last week sold in New York fol
$50 per ton
EVERY member of The Mutual Life
of Chicago is equally interested in it's
success.
DUELs are fought in New Orleans
with mustard-seed cartridges.
A LITTLE BOY, two and a half wears
old, lunched ON friction matches, in
Elmira, a few days ago, and was buried
on Sunday.
ALL the ladies Of Cincinnati are say
ing, ooh, my!'' over female infant,
born In that city on Wednesday, and
weighing precisely one and half
pounds at its birth.
A GERMAN mechanic in Ingoldstadt
claims to have invented a printing
press superior to the best power presses
now in use.
The good people of Calais, Vt, have
sold their town house for 500, which
IS believed to be little more than it
was worth.
No question about the reliability of
the Washington Life-Try it.
The Christian Young Men, convened
at Washington, have rashly resolved
that a smoker need not necessarily be
declared an atheist nor held excommu-
nicate from the Church
A TEXAS paper prints a list of 100
persons murdered by Indians in eleven
years In one county III that state.
Among the killed were many women
and children.
SACRAMENTO paper records that
Gov. Stanford s horse made, on the 10Th
INST, half mile in 1:07I, and mile
in 2:224f, on a slow track.
Coal of excellent quality is said to
have been discovered near the rich sill
yer mines of Caracoles, Bolivia, about
twelve miles from Calama.
A BLOCK of granite weighing ninety
tons has been quarried in Rhode Island
for the basis of a public fountain in
New York. Another block or so of the
same size, and there won't be much of
the state left.
New method of curing balky horse
pour water into his nose. A West
field man tried it the other day, and it
proved effectual in five minutes, and
killed the horse.
HE largest salmon ever caught in
the Sacramento river was sent East on
the 9Th instant It's weight was fifty
five pounds.
WHILE excavating near the old fort
IN Saybrook, CT, recently, the laborers
exhumed two bushels of ounce balls III
one heap.
NEWTON, Ct, cannot have its high
school any too soon. A pupil being
asked what a. NJ. stood for, responded
with alacrity, "Amen."
As lady was looking at burning
building in Brockville, Canada, a few
evenings ago, and fancied that she saw
a man fall through the roof into the
flames, and SO greatly was she shocked
that she fell to the sidewalk dead
A MAN, commenting upon the ruins
of Pompeii, said that it was a very
imposing city but very much out of re-
pair.
A CHICAGO boarder complained of the
fare at the supper table. The doctor
thinks his nose will be serviceable again
by July.
The girls of Athol Mass, whipped
the boys of that buugh at base ball, the
other day, and are now recognized as
the coming women of that section.
THE Northfolk Virginian says that
during a storm there last week many
drops of hail had in them grains of
rice.
Mr. STEWARDS new hotel for women.
at the corner of Fourth avenue and
Thirty -second street, is rapidly pro
lions of dollars have been appropriated
for it, and another million viii be re-
CURED to complete it. This is the
largest sum ever given by any one man
for any one edifice for benevolent pur-
poses.
BoOT leather from anaconda skins is
a Boston manufacture, q single estab-
hshment having tanned, last year, fifty
such skins, the largest of them being
forty feet in length The tanning pro-
cesses are similar to those in the manu-
ldCtuIt VI dlllsSdLoI lodbutl, anu tut pro-
duct is very beautiful and highly
finished quality of leather, glossy, mot
tied, pliable and exceedingly dura bic.
The boots are valued at $50 pair.
SOME convictions which have lately
taken place in England illustrate new
phase of cruelty toward animals. In
three instances the owners of cattle
have been convicted of starving them.
In one case the defendant, woman,
pleaded poverty, and consequent in
ability to buy food. It did not occur
to her to sell some of the animals in or
der to get hay for the rest. In two
other instances the persons conv1 cted
of inhumanity, perpetrated by their
agents, were men of comparative wealth.
The facts show, says an English paper,
can be accepted as a guarantee of good
conduct
Bsay@ JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE LINIMENT
will give more relief in cases of Chronic Rheu-
matism, no matter how severe than any
other article known to medical men.
IT Is often remarked by strangers visiting
our state that we show lar er proportion of
good horses than any other state IN the Union.
This, we tell them, is owing to two principal
reasons; in the first place, we breed from the
very best stock and in the second place, our
people use Sheriddn's CdUGlry Condition Po,c-
der's, which, in our judgement, are of incalula-
bic advantage.