The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-09
Miscellaneous ParagranIIss


in the interior of Iceland
| Mrs. Dr.. CARL FoRMEs Joined the
noble army of women lecturers !hlS
| season.
PRINCE NAPOLEON intends to take
| legal measures to secure redress for his
expulsion from France.
Mr. G. r. BELL, well known to art
connoisseurs rs an admirable engraver
ons steel, died recently at Edinburgh
Mr.. CHARLES MORGAN, a New Orleans
steamboat and railroad man, has given
$40, 900 to build and endow a public
| school in Clinton, Conn.
| Miss SUSAN KING, of New York, has
the honor of being the first woman who
has bought, fitted out and sent a
steamer around the world.
SIMON CAMERON celebrated his golden
wedding on Thursday
EMILY FAITHFUL will never marry.
She will therefore be faithful unto
DEATH
FIVE dignifed buzzards composedly
roost on the Court House in Thomas
vile, Ga.
The fumes of Lucifer matches
strangled a premium bull that was be-
ing transported in a Kentucky freight
car.
THERE is great demand in San
Francisco, from Chicago and other
eastern cities, for Chinese domestic
| servants.
LITTLE RAVEN, the Arappahoe, has
| head Just like Beecher's, and is an elo-
quent orator.
| In Fall River, the total number of
spindles is 1,205, go said to be great
er than that of any city i'll America, If
not i'll the world. Aggregate number
of looms, 27,015. Capital invested III
cotton mills, about $4,000, 600.
A HORRIBLE parasite several inches
long and an eighth of an inch in diam
eter, supposed to be confined to the
regions about the Indian Ocean and
Mediterranean and Red Seas, was re
Gently taken out of a sailors leg in
Charleston, S. c.
The Clyde On " Times states that
Mrs. John Hill, of Geneva, "was taken
sick, vomitcd up a piece of cloth six
| by two inches, which she cannot re-
member of having swallowed, and then
died of congestion of the stomach AMI
| nervous prOStratlon.
A YOUNG English school girl for the
offence of receiving love letter from a
young man, was first severely repri-
manded by the lady teacher, aud then,
| being ordered to remove her clothes,
twenty-four strokes of birch rod were
applied to her naked person.
MINERS engaged i'll working a claim
III Clear Greek county, Col, situated
on the north side of Leavenworth
mountain, at an elevation of 1880
feet, found their progress impeded by
! frost-even at the great depth of $50
| feet, the earth and rocks being frozen
in a solid mass together.
The new silver coins issued by the
| British Mint are SO defective in work
manship that the London Times says
of some specimens forwarded by
/ banker that they care of character
| that would induce any one to reject
them on the ground that they could not
possibly have been sent forth from any
| Government establishment"
AN amusing anecdote is told of King,
the actor, who met friend whose
name he had forgotten, and took him
home to dinner After several at
ttluDbS To Dlll OUT Ills IdIlt, mig
said ''My friend and / have had a
dispute IS to how you spell your name;
indeed, we have laid a bottle of wine
on it." "Oh, with two p's," was the
| answer.
A LADY with very inharmoninous
voice insisted upon singing ut recent
party. What does she call that 2"
inquired q guest. "The Tempest, |
4 l.,
alarmed" said sea captain present
Its only squall and will soon be
| over -
The stove manufactures in Troy at
present number twenty-five. They are
turning off an aggregate of 5000, 600
stoves year, consuming %, 900 tons
of pig iron and $4,000 tons of coal,
and giving employment to about ., 600
men in different capacities, as mould
ers, mounters and filters, pattern
makers and laborers.
WHEN a man thinks that nobody
cares for him, and that he is alone in n
cold and selfish world, he would do
well to ask himself what he has done
to make anybody care for and love
him, and to warm the world with faith
and generosity. Generally those who
complain the most have done the least.
ADELINA PATTI has written letter
commenting the French musical
pitch She says her vocal organs have
been very much healthier, stronger and
capable of sustaining the whole of the
heavy operas throughout, without the
least fatigue to her voice at the close of
the London season, owing to the use of
te didpdson nOrnadt this year at Ccvent
Garden Theatre.
From a census recently taken in Paris
1T appears that there are in the city
|, 1872, $40 Catholics, 90, 42l Jews, II, 2S1
Calvinists, Il, $40 Lutherans, 9,482
Anglicans, Methodists and Quakers;
422 Mohammedans, Buddhists and
Brahmins; $500 persons who declared
that they belonged to no religious sect;
and two only who had the courage to
confess that they were FIR e-thinkers-
THE King of the Dogs" has re
Gently died In Paris. He was an iron
monger, and, being once bitten by
mad dog, after the wound was cauter-
lied and healed he took strange
fancy to stray CANNES. He kept mum
Der with him, and had them so trained
that they would stand on their hind
legs and salute whenever he appeared
10 these he gave tho uomec of Nip;c4o,