The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-09
General Intelligence.


THE Salem Gazette reports the death
of a goose lightweight years old on
Saturday, on farm at Topsfeld.
GoLDsBoRo has three undertakers and
twenty-one doctors, yet no one has died
since November.
Az ivory manufacturer in New York
has 5000 contract for outfits for a
gambling establishment in Saratoga.
AMHERST COLLEGE now offers more
prize money for excellence in compost
ton and defamation than any other
institution in the country.
In 1850 but nine heats faster than
Lao we're run in America; in 1860
there were twenty-three III 1870,
thirty-one; and in 1871, forty-four.
A RECENT calculation estimates that
enough iron wire to belt the globe with
netting yard wide, is made yearly
into cages for birds.
AT Tampa, Fla, mulberries will
probably be ripe within week; at pres
ent that market is well supplied with
snap beans, peas, turnips, carrots,
beets, etc.
FISH were never more plenty Off
Portsm outh, n H., than at present. A
party of ten men on Tuesday caught
between eleven and twelve thousand
pounds of hasGdl(iiiockh, which they sold in
Boston for $40.
OLD-FAsHIoNED Christians in Indian
apolis assert that the converts of the
great revivalist, E. Payson Hammond,
have almost invariably relapsed, and
that most of them are now in worse
condition, spiritually, than they were
before conversion.
HARTFORD and Tolland Counties, CT,
contain five gin distilleries in opera
ton. at Warehouse Point, Broad
Brook, Scitico. Hartford, and Simsbury
In 1871 they used 100, 66S bushels of
grain, to make 295, 096 gallons of proof
''rye gin." The tax was $4,000.
THE Norwich Conn. Bulletin, says
''The Rhode Island ponds are being
stocked with fish. Ten thousand sal
mon spawn were put In the other day,
which it is expected will furnish the
population with cheap food for the
next quarter of century"
THE Limberger Fire Insurance Com
pany has inserted in its printed apph-
cations the following questions: L.
Do you keep a COW? 2. Is it a female
COW? g. Is it farrow COW? 4. Is it
kicking COVE 5. Is kerosene used in
milking9 Suits arising out of such
policies will rival Scion Shingles IA
nous "cow case"
A LETTER from Chicago to an Indi-
aua paper, says that a stock company
has been formed for the purpose OF
reviving the Chicago Daily Democrat,
with Col H. r. Whipple, late of the
Macoupin CID Times, as editor in
chief. 1t is to be Democratic, and a
rival of the Times
The eight selectmen of the town of
Columbia, n. H., have been indicted
for official peculation. Their opera
tons extend overa period of four years,
and the amount of their pickings is
SIC, 5O0-a "divvy of a little over
81, 900 apiece If any doubt exists as
to their receiving the full penalty OF
the law let the prosecution obtain q
change of venue to Chicago.
PETROLEUM having been discovered
in Nova Scotia, ooZing from the rocks
in certain localities, well was bored
aud an oil vein struck at a depth OF
seven hundred and fifty eight feet.
| Considerable excitement prevails, and
land ownerg in the vicinity aye said to
be building oil castles in the air.
THE Swiss Times tells of little kit
ten, which, unwalily playing on the
edge of the bear-pit at Berne, fell be-
tween the bars into the area beneath.
The spectators held their breath; but
the kitten, by no means overcome by
its foes appearance, bristled UP its
back in courageous wrath, and with such
effect that Brllin, when quite within
reach of.the tempting morssl, was sufi
GENTLY discouraged to turn tail and walk
quietly away, leaving the little kitten
master of the field.