The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-02-11
Miscellaneous Items.


now opened is Is, 800 feet.
Two hundred tons of silver ore per
week pass through Salt Lake City
BRIGHAM YoUNG's power in.Utah is
said to be waning.
Boston is to have 'Home for the
Poor" to cost 1928, 600
Ten acres of land adjoining Denver
City, sold for S10,00 last week.
HE question Of reviying the usury
laws is being agitated in South Caro-
| lima.
ROCK ISLAND, H., expended 1925
600 for improvements last year.
THE cash revenue derived in Fort Scott
from the sale of coal is 5000 per day.
| KENTUCKY is proposing to call con-
yention to revise its constitution
THE leading paper in Aberdeen,
Scotland, is under the control of an
American.
THAT famous tunnel is little more
than half through the Hoosac mountain.
MASSACHUSETTS wants to raise SO, $780,
900 by taxation for State purposes this
year.
A HEAVY tide of emigration is setting
in from Tennessee and Georgia to
! Texas
| PROPERTY in Atchison county, Kan
sas, has increased 400 per cent in eight
! years.
FIVE good men in Iowa City have sub
scribed 81, 900 each toward new Epis-
copal church.
In Chicago, man has been fined $40
for stealing baby from another man
on the street.
THE vanguard of new colony from
| Chicago has recently located near Par
kersville, Kansas.
THE population of Wilmington, n
| c., has increased nearly six per cent.
| since 1860.
| The Shawnee Indian lands in Kansas,
heretofore untaxable, will be placed on
the tax rolls next spring.
TIE liberated Fenian prisoners are
to have a rousing reception on their
arrival in New York next week
A TIGER, said to have escaped from
| menagerie, is roaming through Sehuyl
kill county, Pa.
THE Board Of Health of New Orleans
have ordered the vaccination of the
children attending the public schools.
SOME of the Vermont families get rid
of bed bugs by putting cedar shavings
between the ticks.
/ A GERMAN poet declares that his
country possesses cas- many songs as
bayonets rather large estimate
CHAMPAGNE is going up in price, and
! the fashion of serving wine at parties is
consequently going out.
/ An Ohio female is in jail for buyinga
bonnet with money collected Tor sol
diers' orphans. -... e.
The Oneida Community have receiv-
| ed but one new member since 1867, and
declines all further applications for
membership.
! THE Cheyenne Leader states that the
carbon mines are still burning, and
that no efforts to extinguish the fire are
being made.
/ ALARMING systems of suffrage fever.
Little girl: "There, dolly, you must
lie still and sleep all day, cause I've dot
to do and vote"
| The Greeley settlers thought they had
| got out of their latitude when the mer-
ov.Iy got down TT Un1TJy-Seyen degrees
below zero.
A LARGE number of clerks and sales
men are said to have been thrown out
of employment in New York at the be-
ginning of the New Year.
In order to improve the food supply,
the New England papers are urging a
better and more provident system of
farming ali through the East
The New Orleans Commercial says
that the introduction of Canadian labor
in Louisiana has begun, and creates
much interest among the planters.
The ore mills in Colorado are stop
! ping for want of water, and the ship
ments of the banks are, consequently,
very light, five or six thousand dollars
each. Prayers for January thaw are
offered.
A LARGE school house at Collinsville
Ill, was totally destroyed by fire Sat
urday morning. It cost $4,000 three
| years ago Insured for SIS, 600.
GREAT is fashion. A New York city
"soc1ety paper" announces the mar
riage of lawyer in that city, and says
| the young couple will give q series of
ISCcptioiS butll ltSltcuCo, Dut,
g owing to the recent death of the
groom's brother, no evening entertain
ment will be given
WASHINGTON is to celebrate the lay
ing of a new street pavement on Penn
sylvania Avenue, and also Washing
toms birthday, conformity, this year.
The ladies of Boston are about to
hold a French fair.
A NEW SCHEME is on foot in Memphis
1t is to terrace the middle bluff over
the leyee and to excavate it into O
mammoth warehouse for grain, pro-
duce, etc.
A SILVER sHEKEL, said to have once
lain in one of the vaults of King Solo
mons Temple, is on exhibition at Nor
wich, Conn.
COMING OUT PARTIES are coming in
fashion. A lady up town has maze her
manageable daughter come out
four times,
WHITE ties are en- regie among young
gentlemen for all full dress occasions,
balls, parties, Germans, receptions and
dinners.
A FIVE or ten stamp quartz mill is
being built near the Nevada Foundry,
Silver City, Nevada, for the reduction
of ore from the Dayton mine
4 YOUNG colored man in Kansas,
whose pedal extremities project from
the middle of his feet, skates as easily
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