The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-07-06
General Items.

One half the slate pencils used in
the world are made IN Vermont.
MERTON. the London brewer, has
patented a process for making Xxx ale
in "A solid form.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has ffty-four savings
banks, with aggregate deposits of near
ly $50, 0000 900.
CHR1sr's Hospital, London, has been
sold for Il railroad depot, bringing
So, 600, 900.
A s., 900, 900 tunnel is to be con-
structed under the Mississippi at
Memphis.
A CALIFORNIA sheep-raiser owns co.
600 sheep, which brings him yearly
income of 100000.
A sTREEr-cAR driver was fined $40
and costs i'll Boston, last week, Tor
kicking one of his horses
FIVE coal banks near Clinton, Ind,
vii; be opened this spring, and Will
furnish employment for nearly five
hundred mel.
4 LAWRENCE Mass machine for
making wall paper p~oauceS seventy
nine miles of paper dails, oelhS run
| twenty-three hours out o. twe-i' 'ooi
A SAN Francisco chambormaio re-
Gently gave month warning, alleging
that she had recently made 5000, 600 in
stocks, and was no longer dependent
on her broom for support.
THE lady who was asking at the,p
| ture shop last week for something III
pre- Adamite style is now confined
| to her home by a severe attack Of dag
nosis.
"PRINcE JOHN" VAN buren, visited
| England during his father 5 Preslden-
| tial term, and danced witlf1hs same
| Queen who now, after lapse ot 81
wears. entertains the child of another
| President
| A LITTLE Rock church fair voted a
Young woman set of bedroom funl-
| ture, on condition that II she was not
married within year the furniture was
to be returned to the church. She was
married within week, and the furnl-
ture now graces the bridal chamber.
ONE HUNDRED Norwegians will sail
from New York OH June 10, to be
present at the celebration Of the one
thousandth anniversary of the exls-
tence of the United Kingdom. The
event will take place at Hangesund on
July IS
COLONEL Sn1PKINs. Il Florida engi~
neer, estimates the value of timber that
can be made available by the opening
of the Cboctowhatchie River, IN that
State, at from $50, 900, 900 to S14t,0O0,-
600, according to the distance it can be
profitably hauled.
II is estimated that there are 400 sa-
looms and groceries in San Francisco,
which dispense annually 30, 900 barrels
Of lager, 800, 900 gallons of wine, and
| 1000, 600 gallons of the more stlmulat-
ing fluids, the total value of which IS
! so, 200, 600.
BIOLOGISTS say that the immense
delta of the Mississippi was manufac-
tured by an ancient river OF prOd1glOus
magnitude, which ran from Lake Mich
! igan to the Gulf of Mexico, and flowed
| about three hundred feet below the
present land level.
GYPSUM exists III ineXhaustible guam
titles i'll Western Texas. The San An
tonia Herald says that within a few
miles of San Antonio, at the head of
the Calaveras aud neighboring creeks,
it abounds, and that it could be brought
to that city at a trifing cost.s
| A CONSIDERABLE rise has lately taken
| place in the price OF paper III England.
Some of the London newspapers are
now paying as much as 81, 900 a week
for paper more than they were paying
III February. The rise is attributed to
a combination among Il large number
| of paper-makers.
| FALMOUTH CHURCH, Cleveland, has
sold its chapel and grounds to medI-
cal college, for $50, 600. The congrega-
ton has made up an additional sub
scription of $40, 900, and new church
will be built on the corner of Prospect
and Perry streets, the lot being 100 by
| 300 feet.
| A NIAGARA FAILS correspondent has
spent some time III classifying the ar
rivals for last season, which numbered
| II, 975; New York heads the list with
| 1878; Illinois shows 1,490; the Brit
ish Provinces, 1865; Europe, LOO;
the Orient, 105, and Africa, L.
SOMEBODY has found a curious knife,
handled, one-bladcd, with a very
stiff spring, which bears the impress
| 1760-making it l12 years old. 1t was
found in the old residence of General
Winfield Scott, IN Elizabeth which has
since been turned INTO laundry, and
looks as if 1t might last twelve years
longer.
The Arctic wolves hunt together in
companies, and If they meet an animal
which they have not the courage to at
tack openly, they form into semi
circle or crescent, and rush down upon
1T, until the creature. terrified by the
number of its enemies, hurries over Il
precipice, and is dashed to pieces, when
they search out the body and enjoy the
| feast
4 CONTEMPORARY tells this funny an
ecdote: Wake up, here, aud pay for
your lodging" SAID the deacon, as he
nudged a sleepy stranger with the con
trlbutIon box. We were there, and we
heard the sleepy stranger murmur,
with glance at the minister whose ser
mon had narcotized him, Lodging
and bored, too. "
The entire Campagna Ill Roma, as
the territory in the vicinity of the city
of Rome Is termed, comprises over five
hundred thousand square acres of land,
and yet there Is not town or village
upon it, SO malarious and unhealthy Is
the whole district. We learn from a