The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-02-03
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
MOST of the stained glass used in this
country is manufactured at Pittsburgh
TALLEYRAND's memoirs cannot be
given to the world before 1888. a3
CATTLE prisoners are destroying the
herds in Townsend Valley, Ky.
A CHILD at Warren, n. c., was born
with holes in both ears ready for the
reception of rings. ai[
PROFESSOR FARMLAND says the
larger portion of the water used III Lon
don is poisonous,
The Washington Star announces that
all the little girls in Philadelphia are
having their dolls vaccinated.
THERE is never man SO bad, says
celebrated writer, but some woman
loves him and has faith in him.
BLoGGs had his nose pulled, and was
asked by friend to resent it. He said
he would next tweak.
The life of an Ohio man was saved
by cutting open his windpipe and ex
tracing q burr which had nearly caused
his death.
CHRI.Es BARBER, of Peterborough,
N. H., has raised turkey which weigh
ed twenty five pounds, dressed.
THE Free Masons of Little Rock.
Ark, are talking of erecting 800, 900
temple.
THE Lowell Water Works Committee
officially pronounce the tilterlng gallery
system a success.
ARIZONA has discovered diamonds
worth from forty to sixty cents bush
ell, wholesale rates.
OCCASIONALLY a walrus is seen IN
Puget Sound. The hght-keeper at
Dungeness reports having seen one
lately.
CAL1No got up the other night and
iumbled round for the matchbox IN
vain. ooh" he cried, elf could only
get match to find the box"
81 AM glad this job is done, said
Edward Porter, as he fastened the last
Single on roof at Newburyport,
Mass A second afterward he fell to
the frozen ground, distance of thirty
feet, smashing his head to n Jelly.
THERE is yoke of oxen on exhibi,
ton in Bangor, Maine, seven years old.
Their girth is nine sfeet and eight
inches, and their weight is 5000 lbs.
These are probably the largest oxen
ever raised in the state of Maine.
The trade in lumber in Chicago far
exceeds that of any city III the land.
In 1S4S it amounted to 10000, 900 feet;
in 1870 to over |, ZOO, 600, 900, and IN all
probability will considerably exceed
this In 1871.
Four appointments of ladies to ti1st
class postotfices, with $4,000 salaries,
have been made during the present Ad-
men are employed III similar offices
throughout the country, though not at
such high prices.
On Saturday Daniel Braniff, while
sliding down hill on hand-sled, in
Oswego, n. Y, ran into Mrs. Ellen
Faulkner, throwing her violently upon
the icy walk, causing fracture of the
skull, from the effects of which she
subsequently died.
ACCORDING to the Halifax On. s.
Express, four pound cannon ball was
found in lump of coal taken from
depth of one hundred and sixty feet
below the surface Of the earth, at the
Arcadia coal mine, Maccan, n. S., not
long since.
The water in the Niagara River last
S ,turday was the lowest it has been in
several years. Were it not for the Ice
piled up, one might have walked by the
waters edge, from the foot of the stairs
at Winners mill, to Buttry's elevator.
Such opportunities are very rare.
PARIS has invented lively political
plaything in The shape OF a guilotine
q Uopeer, which can decapitate sixty
toy men an hour. 1t is in steel and
bronze, the knife moving up and down
without ceasing. The body is to fall
in reservoir of lime, the head III a
bath of oil.
WE read in the London Times of the
18th of December The re visers of the
New Testament company met yesterday
for their fifteenth session at the Jeru-
salem chamber, and sat, as usual, for
seven hours. The company is now
considering the second chapter of ST.
Luke's Gospel.
DURING recent thunder storm in
Dover, England, flash struck tele-
graph wire, and the helix of the electro
magnet was shattered into an immense
number of small pieces, all pointing
from the core outward, producing an
appearance somewhat like that of
wire brush for cleaning lamp chimneys.
Dr. GUTHRIE, in a recent address,
told q very suggestive story to this Ell
feet A friend of his, questioning
little boy said: ''When your father
and mother forsake you, Johnny, do
you know who will take you up2"
& Yes, SIR" said he "And who Z"
said the friend, "the police" was
answer.
THE Lowest private tuition per month
for pupils in Texas is not less than So
educating each pupil attending the pub
lie schools in the 9th judicial district
was only 81. 81 currency for the month
vicinity have subscribed $25, 900 to Sc
cure the location of the Texas univer-
sity in that section, and S25, 900 more
can be raised, if necessary.
On the public road between Meriden
and Hartford, in Connecticut, stands
low, dingy howell, within which, over a
rickety bar, concentrated death is dealt
out in decoctions of benzine at the
moderate pr1ce of five cents glass
Directly opposite is the town burying-
ground, and the thirsty wayfarer smiles
yrimly as he reads, over the door of
the saloon, the cheerful and appro-
pirate inscription, "Key to the GENE
terry within"
INFORMATION concerning the where