The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-09
General Items.

him, wheyeupon he inflicted upon the
abusive criminal 43 fines of $40 each
for every instance of contempt OF court.
The air is so clear and responsive
among the Litchfield hills, in Connect
cut, that strike by party of labcrers
in Kent was distinctly heard in New
Milford, Is miles distant.
The BARRIERS In New York have added
to the luxuries dispensed in their shops.
A customer can now get shaved, sham
pooed, phlebotomized, vacclnated,
and have tooth drawn at a single sit
ting.
NEARLY all of the farmers of the up
per Sacramento are suffering very
severely from the high water. Many
hundred head of stock have been
drowned, and the growing grain IS I'M
der water.
Ir is the fashion to give two dinner
parties on two successive evenings, SO
that the entrees. fruit, and dessert left
over from the first may do for the sec
ond-as the old proverb tells us, Econ
omy knows no laws
The problem is solved. Young men
can marry and get rich on salary OF
$500, and all will be well. Nichols, NJ
d., has discovered that person can
live on Canadian oat meal for fifteen
cents per day.
WHY is the sedate and sober hog
selected as simile for the irrational
man who drinks too much champagne!
And echo gives it up unless It's because
the human in such case becomes
(s)winish.
The Trinity College property at
Hartford. Conn, is valued at $500, OOO
to 1880, 900 by the real estate dealers
This is its price for building purposes,
tne institution itself affecting its price
only in very tritllng degree
A sToRy comes from Lawrence, Mass
of a pet canary-bird, which, during the
recent illness of It's mistress, was re-
leased from its cage and flew from room
to room, evidently in search OF her, and
at last finding her, perched upon her
chin and chitpsd its satisfaction.
THE origin of tie hrase, "The goose
hangs high, " is said to be "the goose
h0nks high, - referring to the cry of the
goose during its migratory fights
When the weather is pleasant and the
prospect favorable, the birds fly high,
and hencethe Significance of the phrase-
A NEW style of hat for gentlemen has
beer tHvapted, which resembles all or
dinary beaver, bnt IS lined inside with
thin plated steel, the object being If 81
man is attacked in the street at night
he can either ward off or give blows
with this veritable " crush hat. !"
A wELL-KNowN saloon keeper in Co
hoes made bet one day last week that
he could eat mouse which some par
ties had Just caught in his saloon The
bet was So. To the utter establishment
of all present the man eat the mouse,
body, tail, and all, and that, too, before
life had become wholly extinct!
A PARsMeNIoUs sea captain, answer
Inc the complaints of his men that the
bread Was bad, exclaimed: "What
complain Of vorr bread that is made
from flour? What do you think of the
Apostles2 They ate 'shew bread,
made from old boots and shoes. p"
A MAN named Elias Orrs, employed
at Tupper's camp, on Willow creek
was killed by falling tree, on Friday
last, and funeral service were attended
on the east side, yesterday. tie was
formerly a resident of Whitney, Maine,
where he has wife and three children
living.
HE swedish settlers III Aroostook
county, Me, use a peculiar END OF
sleigh. The bottom Is like common
sled shod with iron, but the top ls
nothing but a large basket woven upon
the sled, one or two feet high, and of
IN oblong shape The sleds are very
light when properly made.
PROF. RUTHERFORD, of Kings Col
lege, England, is now lecturing ON
physiology. He narcotiZed frog with
opium, and then took out it's heart and
placed it on a glass plate III little
pool of serum, just to keep the organ
moist Strange to say, it kept on pull
satlng precisely as when in the body
RETURNS for the past five years of the
Americail fice crop, which is grown III
the Carolinas, Georgia, and Louisiana,
shows that 1t has increased from twenty
million pounds in 1866, to ninety mil
lions in 1870, while the price has de-
creased from thirteen and One-half cents
to nine cents per pound during the same
period.
IT has been discovered that a gradu-
ate and bachelor Of arts of one of the .
Eastern colleges is woman. who, I'M
suspected, went through the entire
course under the style and habltlments
of one Of the sterner sex. She was
graduated in the class Of 1869, and took
a high part on the commencement pro
gramme.
The physician attending Miss Hattie
Thomas, who had her entire scalp taken
off by the machinery III a button factory
at Naugatuck, nearly year ago, is re-
placing the skin by transplanting pieces
of skin from other parts of her body
and from other persons. Three -htths
of the wounded surface is already very
successfully covered.
ABOUT two years ago society Tor the
suppression of vice In England was
formed in London, and in that time,
at it's request, have been condemned
140,214 immoral paintings or photo
graphs, 21,772 books and pamphlets,
7,O60 songs, 5,712 cards and snuff
boxes, 844 medals, and 43O photographic
printa. A similar society is to be es-
tablished in Paris.
A LADY in Temple, N. H., who wears
set of artificial teeth, went a few
weeks ago to bed with them in her
mouth as usual. Iii the morning the
teeth were gone, and thorough search
from garnet to cellar tailed to discover
any trace of them. About three weeks
afterward she found them under the
bed. The presumption is that she hid
them there in her sleep