The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-03-25
Miscellaneous Items,

New YORK, is threatened with new
minstrel hall
The Bugale park has cost ss05, 159
s.. More to come.
A MICHIGAN railway has produced
$40, 900 palace car.
HE Tidioute oil region turns out
go barrels of petroleum a day.
Az italian orera ccn,pary 10 organ
izlng III New York for Mexico
Moss AGATE Of rare quality has late
ly been found near Reading
FACT IN natural history-Ihe beard
of the oyster is always forked
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, manufactures
about 200, 600 pairs OF shoes a week.
ILLINOIS now has four watch facto-
ries, and is to have one more.
ST PETERSBURG is said to be slowly
and surely sinking into the swamp on
which it is built
Ms ukrUNEs are to life as cayenne
pepper is to food more pungent than
pleasant
Mr.. LoRILLARD's new yacht, tho En-
chantress, arrived In the East River on
Saturday
A ROASTED onion bound upon the
pulse on the wrist, it is claimed, viii
stop the most inveterate toothache IN
few minutes.
ANOTHER elevated railwaylis proposes
IN Few York City, the novelty Of ThicE
consists in the fact that horses can pull
the cars by running on the street be-
meath the track.
The time for holding the Interna-
tional Convention of Young Mems As
soc,atiors il Washington hes beer
changed from June 10 to May "A.
4 RAILWAY train broke loose III New
Orleans, recently, and went through q
warehouse and dwelling In the latter
a family were sleeping, but happily no
one ves injured
WYOMING produces quantities Of pre-
cious stones. The topaz, amethyst,
agate, opal, jasper, chalcedony, garnet
and several others abound there, Of the
finest quality.
InE canary bird has been On object
Of traffic for five centuries. 500 years
ago there was but one kind of canary
bird, but the original stock las been Sc
crossed that the varieties are now at
least 80.
Miss IREyE MATTHEW'S has sued the
corporation Of Kansas CITY No. fer
damages sustained by her falling
through q defective sidewalk. astimat.
ing her injuries at SO. cGe
4 JERsEYMAN exhibits with pride
/ tray on which Mrs Richmond carried
/ to Gen Washington his breakfast, as
he was sitting on horseback in IrenteB
J before lGaTihe Tor Princeton
/ TRERL are IN the United States sew
eral millions of people who cannot rea6
their Bibles This is shown by the
/ census returns There are exactly ten
/ times as many who can read them and
do not. This is proven by observation.
/ A1ouNe ledy CT Troy. r. I, II ii;ti5
less than four years earned with
I Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine
/ 81, 308 IN stitching 638, 652 collars,
/ equal to 216 miles and 1923 feet Of
seam, making lii, t02, 900 stitches, 81
loo, 600 per day and Il, 500 per hduf
4 WESTERN woman has intente1
Esprit bride photographs" II which
/ the bashtul bachelor sitters physlog
nomy IS surrounded by those of the
maids who would not be averse to be
coming his bride.
! IT is suggested by the College Cour-
ant that Saratoga lake will be the beet
/ sheet Of Vster for the next rowing
match With Harvard College, as the
race is to be what is called straight
away race.
The Americon House, in Lebanon,
Pa, was built III 1771, Just 100 years
! ago. On one Of the stones is an III
scription III German, which, translated.
reads Good bless this house, and et-
cry person that goes in Hnd out
/ a YOUNG man named Ebert Liver,
while examining pistol on the piazza
of bis fathers house, at Carlingville,
/ Ill, on Monday, accidentally dis
charged IT, shooting his brother, aged
sixteen, who died in few hours.
An exasperating organ grinder IN
/ Boston church has lately perpetrated q
parody on Home, sweet home" run
ming in this fashion PRAYER, sweet
prayer, be it ever so feeble there moth
/ ing like prayer. This Is actually sung
I by snowy quartette choirs.
/ THBEE or four months ago, an Italian
/ fisherman climbed Nesuvius and threw
himself into the burning crater. Since
! then five or six Neapolitans have com
mitted suicide in the same way, and
/ the plan threatens to become fashiona-
! bic.
NJ MARINoNI, well known maker of
/ printing machines In Paris, was can
didate for the National French Assem-
bly,, and struck out new notion IN the
] way of canvassing. He caused all his
/ posters to be adorned with his photo
! graph.
( The cottage of Anne Hathaway, where
! Shakespeare wcoed and won her. is of
/ fered for sale. The Shakespeare Club.
whose members own the poets house
at Stratford, talk of buying the cottage
also, which Is not more than two miles
distant
LADY in Sterling, Ill, won ten dol
lars of her brother the other day by
shovolIlng the snow from a sidewalk.
fifty feet IN length and eight feet wide
Shewas to do thei Job in two hours but had
1t completed in an hour and quarter
That brother had better never allude
TO "poor weak sisters" again.