The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-12-07
General Items.


PETROLEUM oil has been discovered
near Sydney, Australia.
An opal mountain has been discover
ed IL New South Wales
SEAIsKIN trimming for overcoats
will be much worn this season.
MILLINFRs are Offering handsome pre-
miums for pigeons wings.
A RIFLE good for twenty-six shots
minute has been invented.
The Chinese have 10000 square
miles OF untouched coal-fields.
Two Pacific steamers are running an
eleven thousand mile race.
THE grape crop on Kel1y's Island is
less by half than that Of last year.
AN Indiana man. has married his
sons step-daughter and is puzzled
about his relatives.
BECAUSE of the shape of soda-b biscuits,
it does not follow that square meal
can be made of them.
IT is said that the long, gray, belted-
in Ulster overcoats Will be much worn
on the street this winter
THE card-playing pig will soon be
eclipsed by a billiard-rlaying hen, which
is III training III Nebraska.
The three balls of the pawnbrokers
are said to signify addition division and
silence.
The New York HernId's chronological
inventor fell fainting on the floor after
evolving 4" Hipporhinorrhea,
The Prussian government will use
only American paper for its bank-notes
hereafter
THERE are altogether trifie over
siXty-onc thousand merchant vessels in
the world.
AN INSANE clergymen at st. John, N.
B., recently dumped his valuable
library into the river
DAVID Ross, OF Georgia, has been Of
fered $50, 600 for new match he has
invented.
LADIES i'll deep mourning tighten
their grief 10y wearing pearl buttons on
their dresses.
DR.. PATE, Of Holton, Kan, took
one of his own prescriptions last week,
and died instantly.
The English ''cheap newspapers
are raising their prices from penny to
eH1ct u'tlI-pcnCt-
MARQUETTE, Mich, claims to be in
creasing in permanent population at
the rate of 1000 yearly.
HALF Hungary is supplied with
brandy made from plums, which is
drank as freelyas cider in that country.
The new Internal Revenue law will
reduce the annual expense of collection
ohoIIf fem billions of 1ojIors
THIRTY millions of dollars are spent
annually in Louisiana for iquor-an
average of $50 for every man, woman
and Guild In the State.
MAN is the meteor of all things the
hand is the instrument of all instru-
ments, and the mind is the form of
forms. -ATistOtte
THERE is man at Green Bay named
Mark English, and man at Madison
named Mark Irish Somehow that re-
minds us of Mark Twain. -Superior
Times.
HENRIETTA ROBINSON, the notorious
(" yelled murderess,n now confined in
Sing Sing Prison, is to be transferred
to the State Asylum in Auburn, New
York. She IS reported -hopelesslv in
sane.
A NEwBURG, n. c., shoemaker has
done over pair of shoes for a lady,
that have been her " fix-upsn for %
years.
HE new Russia leather belt-bags
worn by ladies are considered by the
in the light of especial
providence"
BLAcK-LEAD pencil or crayon draw
ings may be fixed by smearing the back
of the sheet OF paper with solution of
shellac IL alcohol.
RUMFoRD FALLS, Me-, makes daily
converts OF $50 bpsheIs of potatoes
into starch. 1t makes the town pretty
stiff.
The German postal authorities have
fixed the maximum weight of mailable
ep1stle at $50 grammes, exclusive of
grammar.
IT is said that there is only one real
Chinese woman In the United States,
and she is the wife of a San Francisco
merchant. The olive-eyed females, so
common among the Mongolians of the
Pacific slope are all of Tartar extrac-
ton.
A SUCCESSFUL experiment was made
last week ON the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, by Forrest, of Washington, in
driving canal boat by current of water
taken into steam automatic pump at
the bow and driven through pipe with
great velocity in the direction of the
keel. All the machinery is of very
simple character, and the speed attain