The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-02-24
General Items.

Boston has seventy-six hotels, and
only thirteen of them claim to be sec
ond class.
ALL the Moscow students who signed
the address in favor of liberty of the
press have been banished to Siberia.
A SEAL weighing about $50 pounds
was caught recently In York River.
Me-, mile and a half above salt water.
SOME dressmakers are now beginning
to require forty yards of silk for a
dress. 1t is the last load, we all know,
which breaks the camels back.
The eleven Territories exceed by
nearly 200, 900 square miles the aggre-
gate area of all the present admitted
States of the Union.
A WESTERN editor speaks of his rival
as "mean enough to steal the sw1ll
from blind hog" The rival retorts
by saying, He knows he lies; Inever
stole his swIll !"
THE Tredegar works at Richmond,
which were SO useful an alley of the re-
belhon, give employment now to l,3OO
men, and will soon be extended by the
addition of an immense car shop.
| The latest advices from the Cape of
Good Hope represent that rich discov-
cries continue to be made in the dia-
mond fields. Among others, two dia-
monds had been found of one thousand
carats each.
AN action has been brought against
| T. J. Heron, tax collector, and his
sureties, by the State of Louisiana,
charging him with being a defaulter.
The amount sought to be recovered is
! $1,000
The Postmaster General has awarded
| the mail contract on the route between
! Vicksburg and New Orleans at 500, 900
wear. and also the Red River route at
SIT, 900 year, to Captain George
| Kauns.
The new Michigan State House will
be 1876 feet long, $50 feet deep, and $50
feet from the foundation to the top OF
the dome. The estimated cost OF the
building, according to the plan adopt
ed, is 81, 070, 600.
TwENTY-FoUR Ku-Klux prisoners from
! South Carolina arrived at the Albany
Penitentiary, on Saturday morning, IN
charge of an adequate guard OF sol
diers Their terms of Imprisonment
range from one to five years.
A MAN in Illinois has patented an
iron single roof. The shingles are
about six by thirteen inches, lap each
other so as to insure water proof roof,
and are fastened by headless nails.
The patent IS said TO be less expensive
than slate.
THE cotton manufacturing business
at Fall River is expanding at an I'M
precedented rate. New capital to the
amount of about SIC, 100000 has been
invested, and twenty new mills have
either been or shortly will be added to
the producing power of that enterpris-
ing city.
THERE are a great many foxes in the
neighborhood of Richmond, Va, and
parties are out almost every day hunt
ing them. A party of huntsmen, while
latter the varminfs, a few days since,
ran one to within 200 yards of the cor
poration before he was captured.
The Empress of Germany has pre-
scented to the Church of ST Thomas at
Strasburg, which is used by the Protes-
tants of that city as garrison church,
q splendid gold crucifix and two gold
candelabra in the purest Gothic style,
together with a Bible richly orna-
mented with silver, reposing on silver
| desk
MADAM TUssAUD's Wax Work Show
was first opened il. Paris, at the Palais
| Royal, in 1772, and was brought to
| London in 1902. 1t is thus hundred
years old. 1t is said to be ten times as
| la,c,n fn,.tv Effi &c
of George Hudson, "the railway King,
and the claimant In the Tichborne case,
have lately been added to it.
DURING the last five centuries moro
| than $3.50, 900, 900 worth of land has
been washed away from the eastern
coast of England by the encroachments
of the sea. Holland has lost $500, 000,-
000 Long Branch, too, is wasting
away, and it is feared that in time, some
time, New Jersey will be in the Union
no more.
A NASHUA fisherman, who recently
visited the bayous Of Winnipiseogee in
search of pickerel, hired a high-priced
assistant to show him the grounds, cut
holes, etc. On the return trip, after
three days OF bad luck, the high-priced
assistant remarked: oval, Mr.. =,
didn't think how you'd ketch many
You see the fact is, | seined 'em all last
fall
A CLERGYMAN on exchange found n
note IN the Bible to the effect that
Brother A. requested the prayers of the
church, that the loss of his wife might
be blessed to him, &c. The preacher
prayed most ferventlv. To his amaze
ment and modification he found that
the note had lain III the pulpit year,
while the bereayed gentleman was on
this Sabbath sitting, with his new wife,
In the congregation.
To WASH kid gloves, have ready lit
tie new milk in one saucer and a piece
of brown soap in another, and a clean
cloth, folded three or four times.
Spread the glove neatly on the cloth;
take a piece Of flannel, dip in the milk,
rub we'll with The soap, then apply
briskly to the glove, holding it firmly
with the left hand, and rubbing down
ward toward the fingers. When we'll
cieansed, let it dry, and it will look as
good as new
THE Erie Railroad Company and the
Pennsylvania Company, through their
respective agents at Boston, were vic
timized, on Tuesday, to the extent of
seven through tickets each TO San Fran
cisco by a sharper who represented
himself as being the steward of the st.
James hotel. The tickets were paid for
by forged checks signed M. NJ. Ballou.
The rascal was bagged by the detective
Just as he was stepping aboard the