The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-22
Miscellaneous Items.


are pouring into Oregon.
TIE gold crop of Montana for the
!, ear 1870 was S44, ZOO, 900.
MIGRANTS at the National Capital
sleep in the Washington monument.
PANo-MAKING at present takes the
third rank among the manufacturing
interests in-the United States.
The reason why the ancient Britons
were so formidable IN battle is that they
were all Pict men
y CENTURY PLANT is in bloom at Mon
ticello, Florida The flower stem is
thirty feet high.
a SHRUB has been discovered in Gui
nea which affords juice superior to
gutta percha
HARRY HOWARD, a prominent colored
man of Lexington, KY, is stumping
the State for the Democrats.
AN Illinois man is arranging big
hen farm near Geneva in that State, on
which he expects to keep Is, 900 hens of
the choicest breeds.
EDWIN BooTH says the new play,
"The Man o'Airlie, is worth TO It's
owner, Mr.. l.. p. Barrett, quarter Of
a million dollars.
PARIS, KY, boasts of a horse which,
having cast shoe, jumped out of his
InclOsure, went to blacksmith shop
and had himself shod
A WESTERN paper states that the
Cicada Septemdecim is ravaging the
northwestern forests. 1t works with
| its haustellum.
A COMPANY has been formed for the
erection of Il mammoth shoe factory at
Erie. 1t is to be four stories high and
over 100 feet long, and is expected to
give employment to 800 persons.
NEARLY all the labor Of manufacturing
elastic wire into spiral springs is done
by hand. The weak places cannot be
detected when the wire is cooled by
machinery.
VANDERBILT is said 20 be worth
eighty five millions of dollars. and
should he live five years longer it is
believed his estate will be worth one
hundred millions.
A VIRGINIAN OWNS dog whose smart
ness consists III carrying letters twice a
week between two points is miles apart.
His owner just ties the letters to his
collar and tells him to go and he goes.
DURING a thunder shower on Friday
afternoon, 10th, snow fell, on the hills
in the vicinity of South Dover, Me,
i'll such quantities as to. make the ground
white for three hours afterward.
1t is stated that no less a sum than
5000, 600 was subscribed for the de.
fence of the woman personator, Boul-
ton and Park, III London, and that q
young millionaire marquis gave $50,
1000.
IT is said that a little coarseIy-cut
gentian root, well masticated (the sail
va being swallowed), taken after each
meal, Will soon cure one OF all desire
for tobacco-chewing. Gentian is the
basis of most of the tobacco an4idotes
advertised.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Bangor
Wing writes that a horse and COW had
pitched battle Sunday IN field.
The COW hooked the horse, making a
wound four inches III length the horse
kicked the COW IN the head, instantly
killing her.
On Tuesday the Cape Ann Granite
|
Of powder, started block OF granite
III theIr quarry AT bay view, ,zz feet
in length, Is feet wide, and 30 feet
deep, containing about 100, 900 cubic
feet and weighing over II, 900 tons
supposed to be The largest block ever
quarried in this or any other country
If caught in a shower, and you get
your hat wet brush it before it is dry.
And SO of the horse When he comes
in wet with perspiratlon smooth his
hair with a coarse brush-a common
broom Is better than nothing-in the
direction you wish it to lie when he is
dry. The animal Will feel better, and
it will be only half the trouble to clean
him the next time he needs it.
AN English chemist has been expert
menting for the purpose of ascertain
ing how much OF various kinds of food
can be eaten in order to make one
pound of flesh. He comes to the CON
clusion that it requires twenty five
pounds of milk one hundred ofturnips
fifty of potatoes, fifty of carrots, nine
of oat meal, and three and half of
beans.
y NORTH CAROLINA negro. who had
been wandering IulOt from blow re
ceived on the skull while a servant In
the confederate army, was the other
day subjected to a difficult operation at
the hands of a slIllful surgeon. His
first CLEAN OF Intelligence after the
result OF the operation was, as he open
ed his eyes and said eve were AT
Manassas yesterday. Where are we to-
day 2"
The French Republic has fair pro-
portion of experienced officials con
Quoting its affairs. The ages of eleven
leading members of the government are
us follows: Theirs. born III 1895, "a
years; Dufaure, 1898, - years Bar
thelmy Saint Hllaire, 1900, II years;
DeLacy, 1906, 60 years Jules Favre,
1903, 80 years Victor Lefranc 1909,
81 years Gen. de CISsy, 1912, 80 wears;
Admiral Potbuan, 1914, 81 years; Lam
brecht, 1918, 50 years.
In New York John Murphy was az
rested for being drunk His wife APP
peared before the Justice with two fine
looking children, and appealed for his
| liberation "Are those your children"
asked the Justice. Eyes, she replied,
"they are Cornelius Vanderbilt Muir
ply and George Washington Murphy,
and | have left at home James Fisk
Murphy and William NJ Tweed Muir
ply, who were born with these two"
"What," said the Justice, q four at a
| birth z" She said it was true, and the