The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-10-19
General Items.

verify lake, Minnesota.
THIRTY-Two thousand seed we're once
counted in the head of poppy
NEwBURYPoRT, Mass, puts in for
about s., 900, 900 of the Geneva award
A New JERSEY dog has been taught
to dig potatoes.
The. number of chemical rays varies
throughout the day, reaching the max
imum at noon.
A TTTUsvILLE, Pa, oyster opener
boasts of having opened 5000 shells ir
II hours.
| The Chinese have invented cloth
armor TO resist bullets
TOPEKA Kan.) ladies Gerry revolt
vers.
NEWFOUNDLAND is holding her first
fair.
! WIFE has drowned more men than
the sea.
A Troy, N. Y, maa. found 500
pearl III an oyster.
ELEPHANTS breath y is one of the
prettily named new colors.
THEEE has been no yellow fever on
the Gulf coast this season.
LONDON bakers and operatives agree
upon II hour system.
The white elephant captured i'll Siam
takes rank after the Queen.
IT takes 20 years to eradicate "nice -
from woman's vocabulary.
BURNING gas issues from tie ground
III the San Joaquin valley, Cal.
| Il, b
gold aud silver medals next year.
| CoAu has been discovered at Bak
City.
CuEsANNING, Mich, has pumpkin
five feet in circumference.
The fish in the river at Lynchbug,
Tenn, are dying by the thousand.
TRg Rhode Island granite works
have just quarried block of granite
weighing some forty tons, and valued
at IS, 900.
TOBACCO dances are the last new
thing.
A GEORGIA physician has had twenty
cases of twins In his practice this
year.
ADAM KERIG, of Depue, Bureau coun-
ty, ILL.,, raised squash this year weigh.
ing $50 pounds.
A MICHIGAN man of sixty lately cele-
brated his wedding and dropped dead
| from heart disease a few minutes after
the ceremony.
AN Iowa City horseman preferred to
ford the river rather than pay toll.
He bought new horse when he reached
the other side
The schooner Tropic Bird, from San
! Domingo for Boston, has been picked
up at sea with the crew sick and dying,
III charge Of "a negro.
AN old bachelor of Darlington coun-
| ty, S. c., offers fine silk dress to the
best preserved old maid, to be award
ed at the next Darlington Fair.
AT Minneapolis, last week, still
born child weighed twenty four pounds,
and its head measured twentyfour
inches around. The mother was Gully
seventeen, and weighed about 100
n MAN in Greenup county, KY, find
ing peighbor pinned to the ground
| by tree that had fallen on his leg.
| lifted it up. After the excitement was
over he and two others tried to lift the
tree again, but could not bulge it.
The government of Chill has granted
an American permission to put up,
| along the Bay of Valparaiso, an aerial
| railway upon wires affixed to posts at
certain distances. 1t is to be put up
without prejudice to the rights Of third
parties.
SOME mischievous youths in Bridge
port procured an Old suit of clothes on
MDlIuU ef, Hnl
then hung the figure from gaIlows
which they erected on one of the docks
of that city. A story was then circu.
lated that Il sailor had been hung on
the dock, which drew many people. in
Guiding some policemen, to the scene,
who were not long in learning that they
had been "sold"
NICHOLAS HITE, who resided short
distance north of Exeter, in Scott coun-
ty, Illinois, committed suicide on Sat
urday last by hanging himself. He
was on his way from his home in the
country to market with wagon load
of potatoes, and, stopping by the way
side, took rem from off his horses,
and hanged himself to the limb of
tree. No cause is shown Tor the act of
self-destruction
A NORTH STREET man went off Satur
day noon for a half day of fishing.
When he returned he had walked tirir-
teen miles, lost a forty-live dollar
watch, sprained his thumb, spoiled an
eleven dollar pair of pants by sitting
down on his luncheon, and caught q
four-pound mud turtle. He got back
In time to help the doctor cut from his
Oldest boys feet one of the several fish
hooks he had left at home He took
cursory view of the situation, and went
to bed.-Donbuy Ne,cs
A Rancho in San Diego county has
patch fifty feet square, planted with
tomatoes in April last, from which s.
600 pounds of tomatoes have been
gathered. The patch is now mass of
tomatoes. Sixteen tomatoes were
weighed the other day, aud the scale
marked eighteen pounds and two
ounces. A castor bean plant ON the
same rancho has grown to height of
seven and half feet since April. and
which measured around the branches.
Is thirty three feet in circumference.
Three bushels of castor beans have
been gathered from that plant.
A PECULIAR course of free lectures is
about to be opened in Boston. There
will be no tickets, no admission fee,
and no gentlemen. The object of the
course is to helm women in fbo ,uIt;yo