The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
General Items.

! A Texas grazing pasture contains
| 115, 900 acres
| SwAsHJoGGERs is the name of clique
of Kansas politicians.
! An immense area of ground will be
| planted with corn In Kansas this year.
| A VIRGINIA man has gotten out
patent for bleaching peanuts.
The gross product of manufacturing
in the United Stated last year was 81
| 600, 600, 000
The Northern Pacific Railroad pays
Ben Wade SIS, 900 a year for his legal
| services.
HANDKERCHIEFs are now imported to
match the different styles of Dolly
| Warden costumes.
The Marietta Ohio Register,
weekly paper, has changed hands for
$4,000
AN Alabama cemetery bears the in
scription over It's entrance, positively
no admittance here"
A YOUNG girl was frightened to death
on Hudson River ferry-boat, by a col
lision with bridge.
| \ PNEUMATIC tube is to be tried be-
! tween the government printing Office
and the capitol at Washington.
| STRIPS of looking-glass introduced
into the roofs of the street lamps in
London cause them to give three times
as much light as the ordinary lamp.
4 LAKE has just been discovered
among the Cascade Mountains, III Ore
gon, which is surrounded by perpeu~
dicular wall two thousand feet high.
TnE Stonewall Cotton Mill, near En-
| terprise, Miss, erected at cost Of
$50, 600. was, last week. sold for s23,-
! 00O
FORTY thousand building lots are
now laid out in the suburbs of Roches-
| ter enough to give homes to a popula-
ton Of 10 600
4 COMPANY with capitol stock of
five millions of dollars has been char
| cred to bridge or tunnel the Missis
sippl at Memphis.
An estate of 5000 acres on the Bra
EOS, Texas, with buildings that cost
500, 600, was, last week, sold for $780,
coo in gold.
LADIES seem to have the coral mania
very badly at present, and enormous
prices are given for ornaments and
necklaces of a light pink shade of coral,
which IS very rare.
A CABLE dispatch received by Mr.
Gilmore announces the definite engage
ment of Strauss aud his full Vienna
orchestra of tifty-six pieces, FOR the In
ternational Jubilee.
4 CHICAGO congregation pricked up
it's ears when the minister said 81
have land to SELL" but dropped off to
sleep again when he added: "The
beautiful land on high.
IT has been remarked that in New
York, the conductors Of the horse cars
on the six cent. lines refuse to associate
with their professional brethren ou the
five cent line.
An insane inventor who has been
haunting the corridors of the White
House, and endeavoring to reveal the
secret OF perpetual motion to the Presi-
dent, has been sent to an asylum.
THE total stock of foreign rice at alf
the ports in the United States, incluing
the Pacific and Gulf, at present, is
about 100, 600 bags, or four to five times
as much as at the same time last year.
Four thousand dollars conscience
money was received by the United
States Treasurer, Tuesday, from a nat
uralized citizen who has gone back to-
Europe to reside.
BY careful attention to details, each
Congressman has this term managed to
get along with forty knives, twenty-slx
gold pens, twenty-five hair brushes,
and twenty-six cakes of scented soap.
| This is free country.
The California papers say that the
city of San Francisco numbers among
its inhabitants twenty citizens who are
possessed of over five million dollars
each. Money often comes easy III that
young city, and IT is apt also to go easy
The Provincetown Cape Cod fish
ermen are about leaving for the fishing
grounds. The Provincetown feet,
which is only fraction of what Cape
Cod turns out, now numbers about 200
sail.
THERE are twelve thousand profess
sional musicians in New York city, and,
estimating their families, twenty five
thousand people directly dependent
for their bread upon the popular taste
| VI tliC LiOtlopolio lol huoiC-
THERE is weeping and snUffiing in
many once happy country homes, ow-
ing to the "old mans foGdness for
early horse radish which he insists on
the " woman-folks" grating by hand to
retain the flavor.
WILSON G. Hunt sued his son in. law,
Chas. f. LivermOre, in New York, on
Tuesday, to recover the portrait of his
daughter, now dead, which he alleged
that he only lent to Mr.. Livermore.
Who can have any respect for man,
who, in passing a laundry and seeing
the girls at work, will consent to make
such a remark as Wiring out, wild
bellies 70
A WASHINGTON paper says: "Some
of our young men on the avenue don't
look as though they were made by
the hand of Providence Did any
Al