The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-16
General Items.


FROM the great disturbance which has
been caused BIS the American case"
one would suppose there must be
lady in it.
A POOR little fellow in Quincy, Ill-
nois, mistook a bottle of ear ache medi-
cine for something good to drink and
it killed him in half an hour.
BED-BUGs are called Norfolk Towards
in England, because a gentleman
named Bugg has petitioned Parliament
to change his name to Norfolk Howard.
WIFE (complainingly): "I haven't
more than a third of the bed" Hus.
band (triumphantly): "Well, that's
all the law allows you. "-Erchange.
HUNGRY boarder-t'Some more bread,
if you please; always eat a good deal
of bread with my meat" Sarcastic
Landlady-'' SO see, sir; likewise
good deal of meat with your bread !"
If you want to talk heavy science,
say protoxyd of hydrogen, instead of
"ice." 1t sounds bigger, and not one
man in thousand will know what you
mean.
CHINA sends fourteen young men to
! the western countries to be educated.
1t is estimated that at this rate it will
require u, 500, 900 years to educate the
800, coo, 600 people Of China.
| PENNSYLVANIA railroad companies
provide members of the legislature with
passes, but take the precaution to
stick on each pass photograph of the
recipient.
The present bonded debt Of the city
Of Louisville, is Sc, 1873, 500-equal to 10
per cent. of the assessed value of the
real estate and improvements Of the
city.
A BLUsHING bride at North Platte
handed her marriage certificate to the
conductor, instead of her ticket, and
was Mortified to hear the announcement
that it wasn't good.
AT recent baptismal ceremony of
| the immersion persuasion at Layfay-
cite, Indiana, six OF the unregenerate
who were looking on broke through the
! ice, but were rescued.
| The Arkansas State Auditor adver-
tlses for sale, IN consequence of the nom
payment of taxes, 1862, $40 acres of
land, OH which the taxes unpaid amount
! to S651, 462. The advertisement of the
! sale IN one paper cost S12, 312.
! The new Manhattan market building
at New York, the cornerstone of which
was laid on Thursday last, will be the
largest structure of the kind in the
world. 1t will be 500 feet long by 200
feet wide, and will cost over 81, 500, 900.
ALL Kentucky is crazy over Mollie
Morton, the belle of the Russian ball
! at Louisville, who, when asked to dance
by the Grand Duke, refused to break
| her engagement with another partner
for the privilege.
A CANADIAN has instructed an agent
to purchase 5000 acres of land near
Winston, n. c., as soon as he is assured
IS he early completion of the railroad.
IT, IT, intention to settle colony of
Canad,ar. and erect machinery
Ir col hat over $3.50, 900 will be
ovnandod n h,, ball clubs this year.
NE I Hayro Ok =, epital stock is $780,
on ne A tho ln Rasto,S IS, 1000; the Balti
, w. This oh s15 200 ena the Clevelands
$4,000.
Mr.. STURGEON, in a recent p. 'ollc 40
dress, said: "People were Often seen
trying to teach children, as it were, py
moonlight, in cold and repellant mar
ner-teaching them at distance, and
carrying their lambs, not in their arms,
but with pair of tougs."
A YANKEE in England, being annoyed
by the constant Boosting as to the SUI
periority of English girls, finally
silenced laudation by declaring that
'they had a gal in Boston, only II
years old, who could chew gum in seven
different languages, with her eyes
shut
On Tuesday morning of last week the
thermometer on the summit of Mount
Washington showed the velocity of the.
wind to be 1872 miles per hour, or a,
pressure of 81 pounds to the square
inch. 1t is a heavy gale that. blows at
the rate of 60 miles an hour.
GEN. WEIrzEL's dam at Louisville
has stood the severe test of the running
ice, and remains as solid as the river
bed itself. The work will be actively
prosecuted during the coming summer,
and when finished there will exist a,
water-power greater, it is claimed, than
the whole of Massachusetts, water
powers combined. The sluce in the
dam will be about 400 feet wide.
STREET suits made III Berlin are the
first lmportations for spring. The fab
RIGS are pongees of 1oT6oteanps (sprine)
gay, and lavender shades, soft flexible
WOODEN stuffs in narrow stripes of fawn-
color or gray with white, and new
wiry pongee mixture of linen and wool
IN pale nankeen and dark buff tints.
The suits consists of skirt, over-skirt,
waist, one double cape, or else skirt
and polonaise with talma cape.
In the canon between Wellsville and
Brigham City, Utah, during January,
some travellers saw dog standing by
the side of telegraph pole. The ap-
pearance of the animal struck them,
for, as they rode up towards it, it did
not move or give any signs of life, but
stood as motionless as if carved out of
stone. A closer inspection revealed
the fact that the dog was frozen TO
death. He had died leaning against
the telegraph pole, and stood as natur
ally as if alive.
AFTER the great fire in London in
1866, bench of judges, of whom Sir
Matthew Hale was chief, sat at Cliff
lords Inn to arrange all differences
between landlord and tenant during the
great business of rebuilding, and thus
prevented an endless train of vexatious
lawsuits which might have ensued. Sir
Matthew Hale was chief manager, and
the result was SO satisfactory to the city
of I~x, Il,