The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-30
General Items.

IL TWO 10 one Oh ohulDIlUS6 lOT tIl6
next English University boat race,
which will be rowed ON the 23d of next
March,
Corn is knee high in some parts of
Texas. All kinds of vegetables have
been planted, and there are Indications
of an abundant crop.
MANY of the negroes living along the
line of the Kentucky Central Railroad
have left their homes, recently, to en-
list in the army.
Sin1itid sin,ilibus c,trnntur, which
being freely translated meaneth that
the hair of a dog is good for his bite,
and that sulphur from Vesuvius will
cure eruptions.
WILLIAM BENNETT, a British soldier,
who assisted at the burial of Sir John
Moore, and was discharged in 1914, on
a pension of shilling a day, died in
Inichore, Ireland, on January 23d.
THERE are now in the state of Ala
bama six cotton factories. Two are
short distance northwest of Florence,
running 5000 spin0les each; the Bell
factory at Huntsville 1000 spindles;
two at Prattvile, 1000 and 5000 spin
dies; one at Tuscaloosa of 600, and the
Tallahassee factory of Is, 500 The fac
tories named consume 10000 bales of
cotton annually.
IT is said that the reservoir of the
Spring Valley Mining Company at
Coneow Valley, California, is the larg
est in the world, computation show
ing that it contains water enough to
make body thirty miles long, thirty
feet wide and twenty feet deep. The
dam is eighty feet high.
The bills of certain physicians in
Cleveland for vaccinating the children
of the public schools during the small
pox scare, which have been in the crops
of the City Fathers for several weeks,
have been ordered to be paid whenever
the price should be reduced to twenty
five cents per arm the bills being 80
cents each.
The Gaulois states that Fort Issy is
completely demolished. Vanvres has
been valued at 6, 700 francs, and its re.
moval will follow Immediately. In the
course of few months new forts will
be constructed at Chatillopi Montre-
tout ant. Hautes Bruyeres. At Garches
and Moulin Sagnet smaller works will
be established. Bicetre will be dis
armed and become military hospital.
will Re entirely demolished.
thin performance of the Louisville
ben has been eclipsed by New Lon
don, Conn, pullet, which laid one
pound of eggs i'll twelve hou4's, III TOUR
instruments, weighing four ounces
each.
A YOUNG lady entered a store ll
Wayne county, n Y, recently, and
asked for long hose" The obliging
clerk was absent up stairs for some
time, and returned with a couple of
loDg-handled corn hoes, and insisted
upon selling them to her,
Mr.. J. NJ MERRIcK, IN the American
Chemist for January, gives a favorable
of new yellow dye called
1t is a brownish yellow
powder, wholly organic, neutral, and
not very soluble in water. The process
Df manufacture is kept secret, but it is
certain that it is not an aniline product.
M. ANAsTAsI, of Paris, who was
struck with blindness in 1870, has been
generously presented with pictures by
his brother artists, which, when sold
realized $4,000.
The temperature at the French Ma
5ional Observatory, on December 9th,
vas deg. Fahrenheit below zero, the
greatest cold observed since January
18th, 1874. At the observatory of
Montsouris the mercury fell to 1O} deg.
below zero
The submarine telegraph cables in
China are suffering from the attacks of
some minute crustacean SO small as to
De scarcely perceptible to the naked
eve Various breaks have been traced
% the agency of these animals, who
themselves in the gutta percha
SOME jealous scoundrel attempted to-
poison an expectant bride in Oswego.
the other day, by means of package
Of cake favored with arsenic, which
was sent to her room with a request
that she would dream upon it.
The oldest wood in existence that
bears the marks of human labor, is
found in two wooden statutes, little
larger than life, that were found by M.
Belzoni on opening one of the tombs
of Thebes. The only decayed parts
are the sockets.
THE aggregate valuation of the steam
boats afoat on the western river ls
500, 643, 500, and that of the barges is
s., 1853, 400. ST. Louis is the largest
owner in this class of property.
Mr.. BEST and his wife have been
living on the Water Works crib, at
Cleveland, all winter. Last week MIR.
Best came to the city on the ice, and,
being i'll, was unable to return. His
wife remained on the crib alone for
week. She has no bad neighbors to
trouble her out there.
The Cleveland Fire Department is
low made up as follows, the last part
II its new equipment having been adj
led: Eight steam fire engines, th1r-
cen hose carts. two hook and ladder
rucks, one supply wagon, and one tele
sraph wagon, eight exercise wagons,
hlrty-five horses, and upward OF one
hundred firemen. There is an aggre-
# 5000 feet of hose on the carts.
OF the 1, 544 fires in New York during
he thirteen months ending February
st last, 100 were caused by coal oil
nd its compounds. Of the 112 deathG
rom burns and scalds, during the
anne period, SO were from the same
ause. The quality of petroleum sold
is more alarming than even
efore.