The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-02-10
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hundred pounds, is worth $1,000.
The Saturday Review thinks that
Robinson Crusoe is the best of all
stories.
THE cash receipts at tine New York
Independent for the last ten months of
1871 were $500, 50615.
FIFTEEN dollars is the price of tick
cts for the five nights in the Strakosch
opera company in Cincinnati
THERE were forty-two murders IL
New York last year, and one execution.
Food for reflection.
A KENTUCKY farmer refused to buy a
sewing machine. he sowed his wheat
out of a bucket.
THE famous Seminole chieftain Tiger
Tail peddles pumpkins at Key West.
How is that for 10!
The Evening Star, a twentyfour
column two cent daily, has made It's
appearance in Cincinnati.
CITIZENS of California will petition
Congress for a coinage of twenty cent
pieces.
The Pittsburg Gazette has COM
menced its eighty-seventh year. A
good old age.
The newest Partisan style Of ladys
hats is shaped exactly like a copper
saucepan.
ST. LOUIS has q Free Thinkers Socie-
ty, and Louisville caps it with Free
Drinkers Association.
The historic old headquarters of
Powhattan, on the James River, Nlr-
ginia, was recently sold for one hun
dred thousand dollars.
MEDICAL reform is now cry in
Southern Illinois; since castor oil IS
so cheap in Kansas the population re-
fuse to give more than quarter for a
box of pills.
The extreme huctuatlon In gold dur
ing the year 1871 was Just seven per
cent, the highest price having been
lbs, and the lowest 1889.
JOHN PARTRIDGE's Almanac, a COM
pound of astrology, fortunetelling and
vulgarity, has been discontinued after
a continuous existence of two centuries.
THE Springfield Republican says it
IS strange, but true, that no state has
so many temperance associations as
Connecticut. and in no state is there
more free participation IN strong
drink.
MARX TWAIN, III his advice to report
ers at the Boston Press dinner, said
that III reporting, what you want is a
basis of fact, and then you want to
"spread yourself to make it interest
ing
THE Niagara River has been spanned
within a few days with three new
bridges of ice-one below the Falls,
one at Lewiston, also at Youngstown.
Many people with teams were crossing
at Youngstown and Lewiston.
Two CHILDREN were found frozen to
death in a tenant house in Montreal,
recently, and their two parents were
found in one corner of the room, also
badly frozen. Strong drink was the
cause.
THE keeper of the Bird Island (Mass.(
lighthouse at Marion reports that one
day last week he saw over three hun
dred seals Oh the ice at one time. He
shot one and obtained from it two gal
Ions of oil. In eight years that he has
kept the light, he never saw more than
three at time until now.
EVERY year there die in England
about half million of persons, and out
of this number nearly fourth, or 120,-
900 deaths, are due to gymotic or MAS
matte maladies. In other words, 12O,-
900 lives are, roundly speaking, lost by
causes which are, or ought to be, pre-
ventible.
THERE is to be a Schubert festival at
Vienna i'll May. The proceedings will
include a grand concert and Liedert0-
tel, in which other associations will be
invited to take an active part. A medal
will be cast to commemorate the event
and the composers statue will be erect
ed in the park.
THE Chicago Post says: eve saw
funny thing the other day. Boxes
of goods were being unpacked in an
unfinished store, and scores of people
were rushing III to get New Years pres
ents, when the proprietor jumped upon
q box and cried in anguish Ladies
and gentlemen, will you please 60 out 2
Plee-eease We've got to clap on the
roof and put up the front this after
noon,'
SAYS an exchange, 1t may be inter
esting for some of those who pretend
that the Davenport brothers were aided
by an unearthly agency, to know that
at Montreal the hand which was
put out of the cabinet was caught and
held by one of the committee men. and
proved to be one of the brothers. The
little circumstance burst up the show,
and they failed to appear the second
night.
The New York Sun says: con Sat
urday squad of West Farms boys got
up fight between two bloodhounds at
the Bleach crossing Of Bronx River
Mr.. Gray, Mr.. Bergh's enterprising
agent, appeared just as the misunder-
standing had reached its meridian He
and both dogs pitched at
him and relieved him of his pantaloons
in about two seconds. He suddenly
thought of an engagement elsewhere,
and disappeared"
PUNCH gives the following views of
young Positivist:o
Parson-What is miracle?"
Boy-Dunno."
Parson-Well, if the sun were to
shine in the middle of the night, what
should you say it was2
BOy-The moon"
Parson-But if you were told it was
the sun, what should you say it was?
Boy-A lie.
Parson-I don't tell lies Suppose ]
told you it was the sun, what would
you say then?