The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-10
General Items,

General Items.
A NEW drink called .etea sour~ :
held IN high repute by the spinsteus.
The gold and silver coinage of 1871
was s24 ,070,3 and the exports of
gold and silver S26, 233, 912.
COLUMBIA, S. c., freezes ice cream
by steam, The application is not di.
rect.
The Rev. Robert Collyer is to have
a sixteen thousand dollar residence in
Chicago.
WILLIAM j. KING, Jr., of Buffalo has
faled Tor $4,000 and !, 400 men in
his Iron Works are out of employment
NEWSPAPER called the Ticbborpe
Gazette has been started in London in
AID of the Claimant. 1t is sold for q
penny. ........
Ii is now said that orange is the
proper color for spectacles for persons
with weak eyes, instead of blue or
green.
WHITE wells are very fashionable in
Paris, and, Of course, will soon be
here. They are made with plain white
tulle dotted with lace.
TOMATO plants grow to be eighteen
feet high in California, and behold, the
birds of the air build their nests in the
branches thereof.
The highest office within the oft of
the Government is the superintendencv
OF the weather signal station on Pixies
Peak, which is 1900 feet above the
sea level
SoNoMA county, Cal, is convenient
place for trout fishing and cooking.
You can catch your fish III Sulphur
Creek, and cook it in hot spring
within. arm's length.
ALEXANDER DUNCAN, formerly of
Providence, r. J., but now resident in
London, celebrated the Fourth of July
by donating $4,000 to the Providence
free library
The druggists say the demand for
fly paper this summer is unprecedented
and housekeepers say there never was
such Swarms of flies
To LIVINGSTONE!
. In hfrics wilIs how sad thy lot
Where suns shine hot and hotter:
Where cen the very Hottentot
'ne secs grows Ho-and-totter.n
The proprietor of Lamartine's for
mer residence at Macon has sold. in
the last two years, to American travel
ers, over 4, 200 quilts with which La
maritime wrote his "JoceIyn."
A MAN in Indiana attempted to dis
lodge nest of skunks under his barn.
a few DAYS ago. He has since been
obliged to decline all invitations to i'll
bilees, funerals, and other festivities.
QUITE number of Northern people
have gone South to get rid of the op-
pressive heat, for it is fact that the
thermometer does not rise as high in
the Southern as in the Northern states.
A GENTLEMAN who had been arguing
with an ignoramus till his patience was
exhausted, said he didn't wish to see
him dead, but would be glad to see him
Y11O2C more.
AN English chemist AYERS that the
manufacture OF wine Is now conducted
on such highly scientific principles that
grapes are gradually being dispensed
with.
A NEW attachment is now being made
at,;.,,~ IA !. Il, die qutrti
feeder" by which 400 shots are dis
charged per minute.
In recent contest in Yorkshire, Eng
land, for Parliament, the expenses of
the successful candidate were S53,615,
and those of the unsuccessful one 49,.
1879
Two CONNECTS, named Goody and
Sheppard, attempted to escape from
the Oregon pentientary. at Salem, on
|, l.. e. ! 4
dead. Sheppard was recaptured.
A MrLAH, Duchess county, family,
named Hicks, consists of nine daugh-
ters and two sons, whose ages are re.
spectfully as follows 70, II, 90, 81,
50, GO, 81, 50, 81, 53, 80.
IL the San Joaquin Valley is a Ger
tain patch 80 miles long and eight
miles wide, covering an area of 179, 300
acres ; the average yield is estimated
at Is bushels, which will give total of
3, SCI. 200 bushels, or Sc, 015 tons.
JULIA SCHENCK, tho daughter of the
American Emmasary at the English
Court, Is better diplomatist than her
father She has negotiated treaty of
alliahce with Mr.. Sturgis, well-known
London millionaire
WACHrEL, with young American
lady, gave concert on board the Asa
tia. on his recent Journey home, and
the proceeds, $500, were given TO the
family of a sailor who had been knock
ed overheard and drowned
THE constant companion of Wander
l1ilt at Saratoga is DIR. Deems, Metho-
dist clergyman OF the Church of the
Strangers, and 1T is r,lmOred that the
tough old commodore has experienced
a change of heart and is about to join
that denomination.
A GRAY hair was espied among some
raven locks of a fair friend of ours few
days ago. con, pray pull it ont, " she
exclaimed. IF phil it out ten will
come to the funeral, replied the lady
who made the unwelcome discovery.
'Pluck it out, nevertheless, " said the
dark haired damsel, ''it's no sort of
consequence how many come to the fu-
neral, provided they all come in b,ack."
A WOMAN in Athens, Ga, was zig
tagging along the street the other day
under an overload of merchandise
solid and fluid-when a good Samari-
tan offered to carry her goods for her
''Thank you, (hic) Mister" said the
grateful dame. Il could carry-(hicl
evcrything I've got. if it wasn't for
the corns- (hic)-on my toes. They
hurt SO bad, 1T fairly makes my-(hicl
head swim"
The New York Mail tells the follow
lug nice little dsg story: AN apoth-
ccary IN Somerville, Mass, has Scotch