The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-08
General items,

sovereign houses, are married to actress
eS
THE latest use to which paper has
been put is for the lining of ice coolers.
\ TEXAS paper records marriage in
which lady was fifteen years old and
widow
The capital invested in vessels on the
Mississippi river, and in the cargoes
they are constantly carrying, is estima
ted at 81, 500, 600, 900
IT has been officially stated that the
special memorial gifts made to sigma
lie the reunion OF the Presbyterians
amounted to S7,607, 500.
CAssrMEREs of decided excellence of
material and texture are manufactured
at Oregon City, Oregon. Chinese labor
is mainly employed III their produc-
ton.
THE State of Michigan contains IA
inland lakes, covering an area of TIA
miles, besides a water front on the
great lakes of more than 1850 miles.
The cornerstone of $50, 900 monu-
ment to the Confederate dead of
Georgia Is to be laid in Augusta on the
10th of October, the anniversary of
Gen. Lees death.
CAssIMEREs of decided excellence of
material and texture are manufactur--
ed at Oregon City Oregon. Chinese lat
Dor is mainly employed III their pro-
duction.
CHAMPAGNE punch, dispensed by love
~ girls III ringlets and decolIete
dresses, takes the place of the in
spring strawberry and placid oyster at
New Orleans church fairs.
ALARGE number of the dry goods
commission houses Of Philadelphia
have agreed TO close their stores at
o clock, and on Saturdays at ) o'clock,
during the Summer months.
THE etymoEogy of Sorosis is at last
discovered. IL comes from Soros,
tomb, and refers to the grave character
Of the proceedings Of the society.
DURING the recent inundation at
New Orleans, three hundred swine
were run down steep place into the
river, but were unromantically res
cuel.
a KENTUCKY paper notes a rapid de-
yeiopment of the temperance reform in
shat State through the eXertions of the
Good Templars.
A PORTION OF Clinton Mountain, in |
Arkansas, including about one hundred |
acres, has sunk, carrying trees entirely |
Cut oil sight, and the space is continu-
&ily enlargIag.
E'RAHE Tracy, o. Contra Costa county,
California, last year killed 10, 900 SOUR
rels and received 81, 900 bounty. He
then sold the skins Tor 81, 500 Total,
81 800
Il Vermont all of the wifes proper
ty OF every description, and whether
in possession or III action, is exempted
from the husbands debts; and if he
absconds she may, by petition, take
and sell property as sing woman.
\ NEW style of chandelier consists of
a double set OF globes, the upper ones
being oyer the gas tubes, while anotoer
one is suspended underneath filed
with goldfish and small fish of every
description.
\ TIOGA County man has found Oh
his farm quarry o. stone slabs of
uniform thickness, width and length,
every slab smooth and ready for use.
He thinks it very singular how they
came TO be SO true III shape.
From every section of Texas comes
reports Of high water. The Trinity at
Dallas Is nearly two miles wide. The
Colorado, the Brazos, the streams are
I'll high.
A YOUNG man Of the highest respect
ABILITY aud connections in Savannah,
IVA, has been found to be a defaulter
60 his employers to the amount of SO
oOO all traceahle to the gaming table.
A 8,
the almost demolished condition in
which the war left it, The havoc made
by shot and shell has nearly disappear
cd, and the city possesses a gay and |
prosperous aspect,
Az association under the name Of
the Carson Valley Tailings company
are now engaged IN the erection of an |
extensive works on the Carson river |
at the mouth of SiX-AIile canyon, fur !
the working of talllngs. They own at /
tins point, a reservoir containing over
3a0,CoO tons OF tallIngs.
TnE present prophesies from Della |
ware and Maryland are that the peach |
crop will yield 3,50o, 900 baskets
about 800 600 more than were gathered |
m 1899, which was the champion peach |
year From 30o,o to 10000 new
trees have been planted this season.
SIX years ago the Joyce children left |
their home in Boston to visit Busy |
woods, West RoXbury. Their bodies
were found in the woods on the 18th of
june, but up to this time their murder |
er or murderers have not been discover
ed.
The proprietor of the Clifton House, |
Niagara, has been enterprising enough /
to lay a gas pipe over the new suspen-
sion bridge to light his hotel with, and |
the Canadian authorities are bothering |
their brains to determine how they can /
levy q tax on his imported gas.
4 You've countryman, shopping in
Lawrence Mass, on Saturday, stole /
ride on the sprinkler of the watering
cart The driver pulled the valve lev
er and the countryman rose about
three feet into the air, coming down
wetter, but wiser.
4 WHEREIN the New Orleans Times
says that not many months ago, as a
gentleman was about to plunge into a
forest stream for pleasant bath, he
saw far down on the pebbly bottom n
terrible simulacrum of himself lIfeless
limbs swaying with the tide; white,
drowned face, with staring eyes and
blue lips In second the vision faded, !
and with cold SILVER he turned away. {
A week ago came the news of his death. ]
He fell from the deck of vessel one /
stormy night in crossing the Atlantic