The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-08-12
Miscellaneous Hem .

which measures tWenty-seyen feet in
circumference.
THE horse disease has broke ont in
Louisville, Ky.
A BOY in Utica, who was shot through
the hand while firing a smalIcannon on
4th, died of lockjaw on Thursday
FIVE columns was the length Of Al
eXander II Stephens political teader
in the Atlanta Sun Of the 11th inst
A New JERSEY man takes revenge on
his neighbor by fling saws under his
window.
A STYLISH bonnet in San Francisco
costs more than a mule.
CALIFORNIA estimates its crop Of cas-
tor oil at thirty thousand gallons
A SNAKE may change its skin. but
yet preserve its sting.
FALSE eyebrows are quite In vogue.
They are made 50 that they bristle
with Indignation, or droop in sympa-
thy They are said to hasten propo-
sails.
NAPLES large enough tc make three
ten foot rails each, with four thousand
trees to the acre, have been raised from
the seed in seven years III Monroe coun-
ty, Iowa
AT the last meeting of the California
Academy Of Science, the desert ship
was declared to be myth by the com
mittee appointed to investigate the
matter
A HARTFORD man who made q little
lunch on raw oysters, at twenty-five
cents a dozen, paid the bill when his
appetite was satisfied. 1t amounted to
$3.50.
In very hot weather You NAV he as
disagreable and disobhging to your
friends as you please. II a GOODNESS
arises so much the better.
A DAILY paper recently contained an
advertisement for a Large black-silk
umbrella, belonging to a gentleman
with curiously-caryed wooden head.
They have young lady in New York
who has been to Europe five times and
yet has never seen Niagara. Poor lit
tie thing
PHILADELPHIA's municipal taxation is
at the rate of only Sl3.73 per capita,
while New Workers pay 500. 81 and Bos-
ton $50 10.
SALT is said to be very distasteful to
cut-worms 4 tea-spoouful put at the
foot of an infested plant, Is recon-
mended.
\ HARTFoRD horse SEXES rats IN his
mouth when they come to his manager
to steal his oats, shakes them like
a terrier until satisfied they are dead,
and then throws them out I'll the BIN
Nor if [ know it, is new play IN
which Sothern finds 4 character which,
it IS thought, will rival his Lord Dun
dreary He is now creating It sensa-
ton III London with it.
The microscope is no longer to be
devoted exclusively to the lnvestlga-
ton of the attributes Of bugs and
things. Dealers in iron and steel are
using It To distinguish the various
shades Of quality OF those articles.
< ADAMANTA" and g Diamondia" are
the euphonious names of two new set
Elements in the diamond fields of South
Africa.
4 HEN in the vicinity Of Jeffrey, n.
H. got shut in behind some farming
tools, and staid there for twenty-seven
days, 10y which time says the Cheshire
Republican, EEshe shrunk SO from lack
OF food and water, that she was able to
come out.
TIE Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of New York has fitted up "A room
where strangers who have baggage, but
no money, can check the former, and,
then, disencumbered, find employment
if they can. The accommodation is
free.
THE Cincinnati Commercial SAYS,
THE Young man III Hamilton who
shot himself III showing how Mr.. Val
landigham shot himself, in the attempt
to explain how Myers shot himself, il
recovering
The United Prcshytery of Keokuk
has instructed a committee 30 enter
complaint before the Illinois Synod
against the Presbytery of Rock Island,
for ordaining Rev G. T. Tomp1ns,
pastor elect of the U. p. congregations
OF Grandview and Harrison.
The number of horses III Russia Is
greater in proportion to the popula-
ton than it is in our greatest horse re
gion-Kentucky Russia has one
horse to every three persons. Ken
lucky has one horse to about four and
a half of its population.
An impudeut boy in Canada, vino
CHANGED to hear young lady playing
=" Put Me in My Little Bed, on con
ccrtina, likened the music 10 the grunt-
ing of a pig. He was straightway
dragged into Court and fined - for his
impertinence.
THERE being no cable to lay just
now. the Grcnf Eastern steamship Is
about to fill mp her time hv bringing
across the Atlantic party Of 1000 eX-
cursionists, who viii he brought for
$25 each The vessel VIII probably,
arrive in American waters IN about
three weeks.
A WOMAN in Albany, who has been
made insane by her husbands cruel
deserton of her, on Saturday seized one
of her twin infants, and rushing in to
the street threw it as far as she could
from her on the pavement Ehe child
was much bruised, but not seriously
injured. The woman has been taken
to an asylum.
A STEAMER Just arrived ut San Fran
cisco from Japan brought cargo val
ued at two and half million of dollars,
including Il, 600 chests of tea |. 200
bales of raw silk, $50, 600 in treasure.
and fifty tons of choise Japanese works
of art and manufacture, designed for
the San Francisco Mechanics Fail
The settlers III Nebraska still retain a
bitter feeling of antagonism toward
Texas cattle and drovers. 4 son of