The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-22
General Items.


General Items.
PERU has already twentyeight rail
roads IN operation, or in process of
construction, with an aggregate length
OF 2, 80 English miles. The longest is
from Arequipa to Puna-232 miles.
LII does seem singular when you go
to the theater to see comic perform
ance, that while the people in the par
quet are convulsed with laughter, the
upper portion of the house should be
IN tiers.
SEVEN of the Sophomore class at
Cornell University, Ithaca, n Y, have
been indefinitely suspended for repre-
hensible conduct at the Junior exhi-
bition III April last. The rebuke has
caused a sensation.
A VERDICT for $50, 34S was returned,
Thursday, in the Supreme Court at
Northampton, Mass, in favor of the
Florence Sewing Machine Company VS..
the Grover & Baker, Wheeler & Wilson,
and Singer companies.
The newest western wonder is q soda
lake on tho Union Pacific Railroad
several miles in circumference, and ca
pable of supplying seventy thousand
tons of soda year
PUT not your faith in him who pre-
diets hot season-he keeps ices; nor
IN him who predicts cold one-he
owns cheap clothing store; nor yet
IN him who declares a wet one-he has
umbrellas; nor a dry one-he sells
beer.
ACCORDING to number of expert
ments recently made in the London
Chemical Society, the best mode of de-
termlning carbon in iron is by direct
burning III stream Of oxygen. A great
variety of tests proved, it is said, this
process to be at once the most accurate
and expeditions.
ALASKA diamonds have become very
popular for full dress purposes. They
are set by regular diamond settlers in
gold, and have been skillfully manipu-
lated by the lapidaries that they reflect
nearly all the lustre of the real gems,
and come in all the newest and most
approved designs.
PROF. LIEBIG, in a lecture on poi
sons, said that ''people were foolish in
using arsenic to poison their enemies,
for the billionth of a grain can be
traced i'll the stomach" and eff the
person should die it remains there for
ever" Arsenic is so injurious when
used In colOring materials that he even
objects to children using green-cOvered
school-books.
AT Jacksonville, H., on the18th, the
Rev. William ID. Milburn obtained a
decree of divorce from bis wife, from
whom he had been separated for sever.
al years. The ground upon which he
obtained the divorce was desertion
Mrs. Milburn was formerly a beautiful
belle of Baltimore, Md, and was unit
ed in marriage to the Blind Preach.
er while he was Chaplain to Congress
A vULTURE, it is said, can fly 15e
miles an hour, wild geese ninety miles
an hour, the common crow twenty-five
miles, and swallows ninety five miles
1t is said that falcon was discovered
at Malta twenty-four hours after the
departure of King Henry " of France
from Fontainebleau. If true, this bird
may have flown for twenty-four hours
at the rate of fifty -seven miles an hour
not allowing him to rest moment dur
ing the whole time.
The Danbury News publishes the
following item: can industrious
New Jon mechanic came to Danbury, Oh
Friday, to drive over a new purchase in
the shape of pig. He left here Will
his charge at three o'clock in the after
noon. At eight o'clock this (Wednes-
day. morning, he was reported being q
little to the east of Pittsfeld, Mass,
and appeared to be gradually working
around toward Providence, r.. l. He
seemed anxious to hear from his
family"
WITHIN the past fortnight there have
arrived at the port of Baltimore from
England. nearly four thousand tons OF
Bessemer steel rails, intended for the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the du.
ties on which amounted to upwards Of
hundred and seventy thousand dol
lars III gold. Illustrations like this are
valuable as showing the necessity OF
home manufactures and the necessity
of developing our own resources, to the
end that we may throw off our present
dependence on English labor and capt
tai, avoid the drain of money which is
paid out III the shape of duties, and
put in our own pockets the profits OF
manufactures which England now re-
ceives.