The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-08-19
t.eUeTal Items.

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OsCEoLA COUNTY, Iowa, is said to be
entirely destitute of trees.
! CoLoRED brides in Cairo go blushine
to the altar III mosquito-bar wells.
THE draft riot of 1868 cost New York
! 81, S4S, 900
"CoUGHING Hoss is the Indian
name for locomotive.
/ SINGLE house lots sell at Newport
for $50, 900 and $40, 900 each
! A ''CURLING RINK IS talked of by
/ the hair dressers OF Boston.
/ PoLIIICAL BlGoTRY-entertaini your
own opinion.
A LEBANON, Tenn, man drinks two
dozen bottles of ale daily.
! CALAIS, Maine, expects to export
! 800, 000, 600 feet ot lumber this year.
The colored vote of South Carolina
Is estimated at about 1900.
/ No wonder all lawyers are SO much
alike. They pass their lives IN "fol-
lowing suit.
An Ohio Judge has decided that the
words common scold are not action
able.
A BED of green-mottled granite has
been discovered in the Adirondac re-
gIon of New York.
SOMEBODY has discovered that wooden
pavements ale sure breeders of small
poX and sore throat.
BARON RoTHscHlLD, Of london has
presented his Jockey, Tom French, who
won the late Derby races for him, the
sum Of Il, 900, and besides allowed him
an annuity of 600.
LORD Butte, already one of the rich
est men III the world, IS shortly to mar
~ Miss Fox-a niece of Lady Holland
"a Catholic lady of rare beauty and
accomplishments, and Of wealth that
is described as princely.
Rev. PETER CARTWRIGHT, the veteran
pioneer preacher, is confined TO his
room at Pleasant Plains, near Spring
field, I'll. His health is rapidly failing,
and 1T IS feared he cannot live many
months.
A SOMEWHAT remarkable work has Just
appeared III Constantinople, III the form
of Photographic reproduction OF a very
beautiful Koran, copied In the year
1904 OF the Heglra, by a celebrated
MuSsuIman, HatiZ Osman, from the
manuscript oi one OF the lights OF the
ecclesiastical lore of Islam Alb Al Kari.
The Paris Figaro has propounded
novel and Interesting theory concerning
the war. Ii claims that, notwithstand-
ing appearances, France was really the
victor. Tie Emperor went to war to
I,h,ny,lI,,,, Ip,.i,.,
sitting on tie throne of Spain, and III
point OF fact, France achieved the task
thus set before it.
CHOLERA Is showing itself badly in
many countries at present. 1t has
been severe in st. Petersburg, Is now
raging in Moscow, and extending south
ward; at Teheran, III Persia, it is car
rying off ninety lives a day, and it is
reported to have broken out viruleutiy
III Madagascar and at the French col
ony of Morse.
THREE dead men are walking about
the streets Of London. That is, there
are three men there whose names APP
pear on the list OF leaders Of the Paris
ian Commune who were shot by the
Nersaillists, and whose dead bodies
were duly identified after their eXecu-
ton.
JAMES STEVENS, the Fenian leader,
has been taken into partnership by
Monsieur Carvallo, of Bordeaux, one
OF the most extensive wine merchants
Of France, and hereafter business viii
be conducted under the firm name of
Carvallo q Stevens The latter Is com
ing to New York to establish a branch
there.
CoNSTANTINOPLE is to be connected
with the opposite Asiatic coast by
railroad tunnel, consisting % sheet
iron double tubes, under the water of
the Bosphorus The tunnel is to be
come about l, 200 feet long, 10 feet i'll
diameter, III the clear, and to be placed
36 feet below the level of the water, III
order not to obstruct navigation.
\ LOWELL man, who had taken out
marriage certificate one day last week,
was SO discOnsolate ut finding the bride
to be dead drunk when he called ut her
house, that he at once proposed to
another woman, ten years younger, was
accepted, got a new certificate aud was
married, all on the same day.