The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-02-17
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A BLACK BEAR. the first in thirty
years, has been shot in New Jersey.
TIE death of Herman, the magician,
is announced.
Rev THos. K. BEECHER opposed to-
tai abstinence in lecture in Chicago
last week.
A POOR man in Summer county,
Kansas, has only u, 900 head Of cattle
in the world.
Miss ALICE PLLIE, an American girl,
has married Sc, 600, 0O0a the Marquis
de Chasseloup-Laubat.
II is said that the snow at the Nevada
summit, where the railroad crosses, is
fully sixteen feet deep.
Miss LAURA HARRIS has made her
debut In Lisbon, as Gilda, III Nerdl's
= RiSoletto, with success.
THE velocity of the galvanic current
In iron wire does not exceed is, GEO
miles per second.
THE farmers of California will not be
able to commence blowing until the
middle of February, SO excessively wet
is the ground.
On the stage road, between Pueblo
andCar son, buffaloes abound by the
million, stretching away over the plains
IN dense masses.
THE Lexington silver mine, situated
about mile from the famous Emma,
In Cottonwood canyon, Utah, has Just
been sold for $50, 900.
TIE value Of the manufactures of
n,,l l., i 70
81, 6S4, 900, being an increase Of 1854,
600 over the previous year.
THE Boston Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals, design to
establish an Animals Home " for dis
abled and strayed or neglected animals.
ONE thousand gallons of wine have
been made from the product of single
acre of vines in Gadsden county, Ala
bama, during the past season.
THAcKERAY's daughter, though she
still preserves her maiden name in lit
erature, is the wife of Leslie Stephens,
editor OF the Cornhill Magazine.
GENERAL KILPArRICK was recently as
tonIshed, at Rockford, His, to find
himself billed for a lecture on 1.-The
American Stomach.
An alfectionate wife, whose husband
is but too often inebriated. says he is
like the money market-the more he
gets tight the dearer he becomes.
THE National rubber works, at Bris-
tol, Ii. L., Ia e just finished belt IT'S
feet long, 4 feet wide, and half an inch
| thick, weighing 2, goo pounds.
TUESDAY last was a lucky fish day for
L. Of 4
haddock being caught by its fishermen,
who poclleted 81, $50 for their catch.
4 GOLDEN EPIsToLARY RULE.-Never
send off to m n, woman, or child let
ter which you would not like to read in
a newspaper some morning at breakfast.
THE following sentence, . John
quickly eXtempoTized five tow bags, "
contains all the letters Of the alphabet,
aud only four of them are used more
than once.
\ TIPsY fellow, who mistooh, a globe
lamp with letters on it for the queen of
night exclaimed, g / viii be blest il
somebody haint struck an advertise
ment ON the moon"
The total loss by the robbery of the
Trenton, \. J., bank, on Sunday night,
was $28, 600. rhe bank has offered
reward OF 50, 600 for each of the rob
beTs captured and convicted
The letter-carrier on the Pearl and
Federal streets route, Boston, was pre-
sented with a purse of 1910 by his
friends, whom lie had served for the
past four yeBrs.
The old government huilding at
Mackinac, known as the Indian agency,
was recently destroyed by fire It was
occupied as a dwelling by the Rev. Mr..
Stonax, Episcopal minister.
THE story of 3, 900 sheep having been
burned on the west side Of the San
Joaquin River, some weeks ago, is ma
terlally modified. "Ot1icial'' advices
place the number at $50.
Hoe cholera continues It's ravages in
Knox county, one farmer in Washing
ton township has lost his entire crop,
about forty head, by the disease since
Christmas.
SYLVIA ANN HowLAND's requests to
New Bedford have at length been paid
In full-S194, GOO on the principal, after
deducting the legacy, tax and sos, 915
as interest; total, 1922, 915.
A SERVANT GIRL, who had deposits in
the Third Avenue (New York; Savings
Bank, wishing TO draw fifty dollars 10
pay the burial expenses Of her sister,
was admitted into the line and given
fifty dollars extra by the President
OF the one hundred and thirty three
performances given at the Opera House
III Hartford, from January to Deem
Der last, only fifty-seven paid the mana
gers profit, fourteen paid expenses,
and sixty-two lost money.
The Louisville Hotel property was
sold by auction, on Wednesday, for
500, 600, by the Marshal Of the Chan
Gerry Court, the purchasers being Mi
chael Kean and. Philip Judge.
THE adulteration of silk goods with
other ibres is readily detected by
dropping a little hydrochloric acid on
a sample, when, if pure silk, a hole
will be made; if impure the threads
left will indicate the nature and extent
of the adulteration
The supply of India rubber is said to
be inexhaustible. Each tree can be
tapped for 20 successive years, and
Yields on an average three tablespoon
fuls day; $4,000 of these trees have
been counted on a tract of land 80 miles
long by eight wide.
A ROCHESTER young lady has sued a
photographer of that city for S8, 900
damages, because he displayed one of
her pictures In front of his place with