The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-01-06
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

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MADAME FURY, wife of De Padra
Fury, Secretary of the Brazilian Lega-
ton, died at Washington, on Sunday.
The Rev. A. Coqurel, while in this
country, collected about $4,000 in aid
of his church, school, and charities in
Paris
The Albany Argus says that William
III. Tweed is the chief owner af the
contract to pierce the Hoosac tunnel,
and has invested q million in the enter
prise.
NORWOOD, the new Georgia Senator,
thinks speech making, letter writing,
and newspaper articles, the bane of the
south, and he proposes during the ses
sion to avoid them.
l.. 6. WHITE, the elocutionist, who
died recently IN Philadelphia, was the
teacher of Edwin Forrest Jas. E. Muir
docl and David Paul Brown.
JOSEPH BARABY, the English COM
poser and oratorio director, expf It's to
visit this country next summer, to at
tend the universal musical jubilee at
Boston.
JACCB PHINNEx, a veteran of Perry's
tottlC W lLdhc lLl1t, ulCo UG cOuCioCl,
Pa, recently in his SD year He was
one of only three persons on his vessel,
the Niagara, who came out Of the fight
uninjured.
TIE correspondent of Boston Jour
nal is authority for the statement that
4. L. Stewart intends to leave his en-
tire fortune, estimated at $50, 900, 900
to so, 600, 900, III public and private
charities, and that he recently made a
will to that effect.
4 CINCINNATI paper says that letter
received in that city states that Bis
marck pronounces Sherman the great
est General developed by the American
war, and that, on his arrival in Ger
many, the Prime Minister will invite
him to his Pomeranian home to spend
q few weeks with him.
Mr. W I. MANsINe, the Coroner of
Her Maiesty's household, has written
to Sir Charles Dixie, calling his atten-
ton to his justification of the fact, as
to Her Majosty's nom ayment of taxes.
The Queen has paid the income tax
from it's imposition in 1919 to the pres
ent time.
SCUDAMoRE, the active brain and
nerve Of the British postoffice, is said
to be the busiest man in the world. He
is restless and ubiquitous, Mentor to
the young, a God to Parliament, ben
efactor to his subordinates. One of his
orders to promote the health of the
postofiice clerks is their temporary
transfer from town to country, and
from city to seaside stations.
REV DIR. SAMUEL HARRIS, recently
President of Bowdoin College, and
now o Professor of Yale, had a narrow
escape from death, III Boston, one day
last week. He was staying at the
Marlboro Hotel, and, while writing ct
d table in his room, paused q moment,
placing his hand over his head, and
! fitting back his chair. Just then q
chimney of the adjoining house was
blown over, and, striking upon the roof
of the hotel, came crashing through,
striking and crushing the table on
which he was writing.
Ar trial not long since one of the
witnesses, an old lady of some 50 years,
was closely questioned by the opening
counsel relative to the clearness of her
eyesight. "Can you see me ?" said he
eyes, was answered Chow we'll can
you see me?' persisted the lawyer
| "Well enough" responded the lady.
''tO see that you're neither negro, an
Indian. nor a gentleman"
This is said to be an Ohio epitaph
Under this sod
Aud under these trees,
Iieth the bod
of Solomon Pease.
He's not in this hole,
But only his pod,
He shelled out his soul
And went up 10 God.
BERTHELoT, from investigations of
changes of pressure and volume pro.
duced by chemical combination. de-
duces the following proposition, VIZ.
That the heat invariably produced in a
chemical reaction, supposing it to be
applied exclusively and without loss to
warm the products, is such that an aug
mentatlon Of pressure always takes
place at constant volume, or, what is
esame thing, augmentation of volume
at a constant pressure.
SOME one has been testing the action
OF the thermometers. He took one
mounted on lockwood, one on metal
and one very dirty in the shade one
degree covered the range of difference
between them. In the sun they differ
ed sixteen degrees. The method of
mounting seems to make a variation in
the effects of heat, and may account
partly for the well known fact that
thermometers, as well as doctors. often
disagree.
THE Helena Daily Montana Herald,
IN view of the approaching leap-year,
publishes a list of eligible old bache-
Tors IN Helena, and follows with thirty
or forty genuine names of citizens who
III the main, it says, Gin good state of
preservation The darling editor pro-
poses to supplement the list with
another OF call the old maids and mar
rageable young ladies in Helena
A CETTE correspondent of the Pail
Mall fellcitates himself on the fact that
1.-THE counterfeit wines of the lowest
class, including the worst Madeira and
sherry, the vilest champagne, the poor
est Sauternes, the most WORTHLESS Rhine
wines, Alicante and Malmaey, are all
specially concocted for the American
market, New York receiving what 40
other port-save, perhaps, some OF the
Snntb yrn111l admit