The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-02-25
Miscellaneous.


boats.
The old settlers of Chicago are form
ing a society.
SHARPsBURG wants to be consolidated
with Pittsburg.
MINNESOTA legislators were all born
out of the state.
THE 1.-TWO Roses" has passed its Doth
night in London.
JUVENILE New York drives four-in-
hand teams of goats.
THE Brooklyn aldermen vote them
selves S72 gold badges
THE Richmond -four trade with South
America is fast reviving.
ALIEN white men in Hayti cannot I've
citizens nor own real estate.
In Germany ten dollars is a high
price for popular lecture.
FOURTEEN more japanese princes are
coming to school in New York
MEMPHIS proposes a Merchants ex
change and vigilance committee.
A HOSPITAL for invalid women and
children is talked of at New Bedford,
Mass.
AT Newhallville, Conn, 800 girls are
employed III making rifle cartridgers.
BIRMINGHAM, England, has had a
dog show, at which eight hundred dogs
assisted.
TWENTY of the wealthiest merchants
| 10 hor
the war.
They have ''mush- and-millz suppers''
at Toledo, for the benefit of Sunday
Schools.
A GREAT debt is to be added to the
| other grateness which has been achieved
by Philadelphia.
OUTSIDE shows may be purchased,
but real happiness is Of home manufact-
IRE.
The capital in Irish banks has in
creased from SO, 900, 900 in 1869 to over
so, go, 900 at the present time.
A MoDIsTETH Church, with member
ship of about 100, has been establish at
Salt Lake City
The opening of the Butler and Free
port Railroad has created quite local
sensation in Pennsylvania.
An English manufacturer has lately
filed a war order to make O million
quinine pills in a fortnight.
WAYNE county, Tennessee, claims the
oldest man, and he is only one hundred
and fifteen at that.
A RECENT snow storm in Chicago pre-
vented horsethief from successfully
getting away with stolen team.
THE new Illustrated Literary Review,
of London, consists of thirty-tv pages
quartO, reviewing literature, and arts,
and the drama, etc. It is profusely
illustrated, the cuts belonging to the
! books reviewed.
PROVIDENCE r. l. wants to enlarge
her boundaries by extending the city
line northward mile or more, so as to
bring within the municipal jurisdiction
the thickly settled districts now Just
outside the line
| The mortality of the ranks of Eng
| hsh peerage- during 1870 has beed con
/ siderable less than in the course of the
| previous year, when the deaths of
thirty two lords spiritual and temporal
were recorded. Last year, one bishop
and eighteen temporal peers died.
A WEST Virginia paper reports that
| the people of that State are emigrating
to the West to ga fearful extent - and
that everybody seems to wish to go out
because mob ody is coming in 1t APP
peals to the Legislature to take immed-
late steps to attract immigrants
A BOSTON FIRM saved S35, 900 IN gold
duties by the arrival at New York of
two cargoes of wool on the last day of
December The captain of one of the
crafts spoiled two suits of sails in his
anxiety to reach port before the new
tariff became law.
| In Philadelphia there is a small
blacksmith shop, the bellows of which
are operated by dogs. The bellows are
connected with a wooden wheel-box.
which is kept revolving by the motion
of the dogs, something after the man
ner of tread-mill.
ITALY publishes 723 newspapers. In
Florence alone 101 periodical publica-
lions find sale-there being a daily
average of IS, 900 copies In the pro
vince of Milan, SO appear either daily,
weekly or monthly; In Turin, 70; in
Naples, AZ; in Genoa, 81. The Flor
Opinione circulates daily edition of
10000. The Italie French J has 5000
subscribers.
THE Twelfth annual report of the
Brooklyn Mercantile Library, though
dated in March is only just published.
At the distance of nearly one year the
statistics are rather stale for publica-
ton. We may mention, however, that
in March, 1870, the number of annual
members was $40, besides 663 other
memberships, and that there were
70, 600 bound volumes.
A CORRESPONDENT with the German
army in front of Paris writes that he has
made some remarkable discoveries as to
the different wood most available for
cooking since the destruction of SAINT
Cloud. For instance, violins are the
only suitable kindling when one boils
eggs; pianos are best to bring out the
juice in beefsteak, and ceilings are
capital for making toast. The idea that
this statement gives of the condition of
things in the Prussian camp is sugges
tive, to say the least.