The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-03
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TWENTY NINE free schools are in ope-
ration III Jackson county, Fla.
A LAKE has been discovered in the
Cascade mountains, Oregon, completely
surrounded by wall OF rock 1000 feet
high.
THE cooks in London are as much
puzzled as the dressmakers on the in
ventlon of novelties. One of the latest
lmportations is cold asparagus served
up with ice and eaten with cold lamb.
A MDDLE-AGED German woman in
Cincinnati fell down the cellar stairs of
vacant house she was cleaning and
remained there helpless four days and
nights before she was discovered.
The value of the strawberry crop
this year to the st. 10 fruit region is
placed at $685. and the quantity
IS, 900 bushels. Grapes and peaches
promise finely.
g DON'T care much about the bugs
said Warmley to the head of genteel
boarding house, "but the fact is,
madam, I haven't the blood to spare 4;
you see that yourself"
The forest fires in California have al
ready destroyed thousands of acres of
woodland, and the buildings on several
ranches have been burned. 1t is said
that the light of the mountain fires can
be seen for fifty miles in the night.
OVER a thousand women are en-
ployed in the decorative departments
of the Leeds potteries. They work
nine hours day and get IS Sd, about
60 cents currency, a week Beauty of
free trade.
HE Beau Brummels now carry their
watches III their coat pockets, the chain
and locket fastened III the toHmost
button hole and conepicuously dangling
across the breast
A SCOTCH diver at work on sunken
ship was recently compelled to suspend
operations on account of the fierce at
tacks of the Holsters and crabs that
had taken possession of the vessel.
In the San Joaquin Valley is grain
patch thirty-tive miles long and eight
miles wide, covering an area of 179. 300
acres; the average yield is estimated
at sixteen bushels, which will give q
total of 1857, 200 bushels, or S6,O
tons.
A TENNEssEEAN killed rattlesnake.
the other day, that he had been hunt
ing for during sixteen years He est
mates that he had consumed three
months of his time, and had walked
twelve hundred miles III pursuit of the
reptile.
DEATH, says a Santa Fo paper,
with tieshless knuckles, raped at the
door of Mrs. j. n B. s soul, and ODE
dent to the inexorable call, the spirit
of that loved woman hoated up to its
Creator, leaving her husband, children
and friends to mourn over the mortal
casket.'
A CARGO of Palmetto leaves was re-
Gently shipped from Savannah to Eng
land, for the purpose of testing their
value as material in the manufacture
of paper. 1t is believed they will be
found well adapted to this use. If the
experiment is successful a new and pro-
htable business will arise in the south.
The steamship Great Republic sailed
for Japan and China on Wednesday,
from San Francisco, taking in one
shipment the immense sum of $1,11S,-
600 in specie. This is one of the straws
which show how our trade with the
Oriental nations is charging.
The following note was sent to an
by an unhappy widower:
4" Sunny Wiaf is ded and Wonts to
be berried termorror, At woner klok.
y nose wair to dig the Hole-by the
slad OF my too tother wiafS-Let it be
deep !"
A GIGANTIC floating dock has Just
been built by the British government
at Bermuda. It's extreme length is 3S9
feet; inside width. SO feet inches;
width over all, 124 feet depth, Is feet
The weight of the dock is $3.50 tons,
and vessel weighing ten thousand
tons or more may be easily lifted.
A GOOD story is told of clergyman
in Massachusetts town who forgot his
notes on Sabbath morning, and as 1T
was too late to send for them, he said
to his audience. by way of apology,
that this morning he should have to
depend upon the Lord for what he
might say, but that in the afternoon he
would come better prepared.
A MAUcH CHUNK paper tells pitifuI
story of a dumb boy whose legs were
caught and crushed in coal breaker,
md states as a marvellous circumstance
that though a mute from his birth,
while in this terrible position he APP
pealed eloquently to those around him
10 get him out quick, and prayed to
Heaven as fuently and distinctly as
any one could do.
ID. N. Brown, wealthy fruit grower
If ST Joseph, Michigan, recently
offered his wife, with whom he has
ived more than forty years, SO, 900 to
IGN bill of separation, in order that
he may marry his hired girl, a damsel
If sixteen, toward whom lis amorous-
y inclined. Mrs. Brown looked at the
transaction from a purely
commercial point of view, took the
'16, 900 and went her ways.
A FASHION reporter describes some of
he toilets at a recent party at Chey-
'nne 1.-The belle of the evening was
Mss W. She dressed faultlessly
n linsey woolsey of the palest shade
If cafe au lalt, cut Ell train, and
with Chicago relics. Miss
i wore a polonaise made of blue
cans, postilioned in the back, cut Wis
l-vis with a de trop bias, and eorcd i'll
he most sanguinary manner"
THE Lexington Ky) Press, of a day
II two since, had the following: at
s understood that Adam Harper has
brought suit in the WOodford Circuit
;ourt against Wallace Harper, for SLAM
[er GROWING ont of the horrible tragic.