The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-08-05
General Items.

turned his attention to his old profess
ion-the LAWN Ohio.
LORD PENzANCE is said to be one of
the best chess players in England He
is Judge of the English Divorce Couit.
THE Royal Opera House at Berlin
has seats for an audience of two thou
sand five hundred:
THE last of the nineteen original
officers of the Bunker Hill Monument
Association has died during the past
year
THE latest ''society news" is, that the
mouth should be worn slightly aiar this
year. OF course this fashion is for
ladies'
A FLOCK of over 10000 sheep were
driven through Grass Valley, Califor-
Dia, May 81, in search of mountain
pasturage.
LINN COLLEGE has conferred the de-
gree of A. NJ. on Miss Frances E. VII
lard, President of the Evanston Wo-
mans College.
WHITE hats and rattan canes are said
to constitute the uniform of the senior
class at Yale this year. Nice and cool
for warm weather.
GEORGIA people are wondering at q
man who recently made a costly pres
ent to church, and the next day went
into bankruptcy
AT one druggists III New York IL
600 glasses of soda fzzle down the
parched outlets of Gothamites daily,
and the profit thereon is 81, 200
week
ARKANSAS is tearfully excited over
large hole A tract of about 100 acres
of Clinton Mountain has sunk, carry
ing big trees entirely ont of sight, and
the hole continues to enlarge its Dor
ders
THERE is a school teacher in Massa-
chusetts, who, 1t IS said, sometimes,
for punishment, compels her scholars
to eat grasshoppers.
IT is estimated that the people of the
e. States pay 800, 900, 600 a year for
medicines and medical services, eXclu-
sive of S25, 900, 900 for patent medi-
cines.
THE Canada cucumber fly has declar-
ed war against the fat and saucy Colo
RADIO potato devotrer. The Canuek
thinks the eggs of the Colorado a first
rate delicacy, and devours them with
a rayenous appetite.
ST. LOUIS iron company contem-
plate erecting blast furnace, twenty-five
feet interior diameter and one hundred
feet high 1t is TO rest on twelve col
umns thirteen feet high. 1t will be the
largest in the United States.
DAN RICE's band-wagon was struck
L NJ ~
Penn, on Tuseday morning, and knock
ed out of all semblance to a carriage.
It was empty at the time, the drivers
having jumped off. The horses were
not injured.
The late funcess Letezla Bohaparte
Wyse bequeathed her ewelry and other
personal ornaments to her daughter
Adelina, but LETT to,her, son Lucien, her
brilliants, and appointed HIM her uni
versal legatee and heir. 3-. ~.
MILE ZOE, the Cuban Sylph,
conterlplates q retirement from the
stage, having accumulated quite hand
some sum, which she has invested In
real estate in Camden, n. j., where
she has erected over % cottages. She
owns farm also at Hempsted, Long
Island.
OLD theories about the necessity for
negro labor in hot climates are rapid
" dissipated in the light of fact and
experiment In parts of Louisiana
whites are now cultivating cotton and
sugar successfully, and suffer no more
sickness than Is common among the
blacks.
SCHooLBoYs ~ Wisconsin fill their
pockets with locusts, and ut gwen
signal each 10y taps on his pocket,
causing The locusts TO give forth their
deafening doleful cry, as If forty chill
dren had been Wiped.
PHILADELPHIA is now in q quafidary
about her floating bath houses. On
of them has foated off, and the bal
ance, being constructed of very soft
wood, are absorbing water so rapidly
that they are almost daily expected to
sink
The Texas Gazette, speaks in this
style of a politician of that state
"Should the brains of decent white
man be deposited in the Mississippi
river at ST. Louis, ten drops of river
water at Vicksburg would fully repre-
sent his intellectual capacity.
A VIRGINIA editor has come to the
conclusion that man might as well
undertake to hold himself at arms
length and then turn douhle somer-
sault over Westinghouse steeple, as
to attempt to publish a paper that Will
suit everybody.
4 BEAUTIFUL Indian tomahavk, made
Of bronze, deliberately engraved was
turned up in blowing field in Ridge
vile, Lorraine county, Ohio. The
steel blade was dovetailed into the
bronze, and has almost entirely disap-
peared by rust, showing its great an
tquity.
The mayor of st. Joseph, Mo, gave
permission to a citizen to kill two dogs
which annoyed him, and the next morn
ing the mayor found two of his own
dogs dead, with his own warrant Of per
mission for their killing pinned on their
bodies Though he hasn't exactly got
the hydrophobia, that mayor is mad.
MOVED to the perpetuation of his
name in a good work, Mr.. Purdue of.
fered to leave 500, 900 for the Indian
Agricultural College, If located at La
fayette and named after himself, which
was agreed to but he utterly refuses
to make this bequest unless his plans
are followed In the building.
Two CHILDREN were recently born
from the same mother, n Memphis,
Tenn, with an interval of four days be
tween the births. Both are healthy,
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