The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-12-14
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The number of drunkards in Kansas
is from 10, 900 to $4,000.
In Methodist college at Sonoma,
Cal, are 159 students of theology.
Troy, Kan, yields a six foot pump
kin, weighing $50 pounds.
YOUNG men who smoke in the streets
of Halifax are fined one dollar each.
SCRATCHING tickets in Teaas is
called horning off. %
The Troy On. W banks propose to
have a bank alarm telegraph put up in
that city, at a cost of $4,000.
Poor SPAIN! To all her other affiic-
tions is shortly to be added book
about her by Mr.. Hepworth Dixon.
THERE is young lady in Los An
geles county, CAL, who ownes 1905
acres of land and 4, 900 head of cattle
The people of Lincoln, in Nebraska,
have been boring artesian wells nearly
a fifth of mile without reaching
water.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL turns up her
nose at the Americans. She can't help
1T, for nature has fastened her bugle
that way.
Four HUNDRED miles of narrow guagc
railways are to be built in California,
and a company with seven millions of
capital has been organized to do it.
A THOUSAND American girls. for whom
the schools on this side of the water are
not good enough, are receiving their
education in France and Italy
PROFESSOR Law, of Cornell Universe,
ty, has discovered that the horse inhu-
enza ravased Greece i'll the year 412
B. G.
GEORGE SAND, alias Madame Dude
want proposes to start female Masonic
lodges. They would not be objection
able great while-as secret societies.
AN epizootlc prevails among the deer
on the Michigan frontier, similar to
that affecting the horses at the East,
and large numbers are found dead and
dying in the woods
THE man who sat up all night weigh
ing ton of coal with a pair of steel
yards, and by the pailful, to see that
lie had received full weight, thought
he was ahead few pounds until he
remembered that he had not deducted
the weight of the pail.
THE fruit crop of England this year
is the smallest ever remembered The
Gardeners Magazine says the peach
wall is as bare as the apple orchard.
There are very few plums Id cherries,
while pears are thinly sprinkled. The
cause of this dearth is the cold weather
which prevailed during March and
April
The most conscientious conductor in
employed upon the Catawissa railroad.
The other day a woman gave birth to
twins upon his train, and the condIIc~
tor, after doing all that he could to
make things comfortable for the par
ties, tried to collect two half-farcs from
the father of the twins for the little
passengers.
AT BanchoTy, in Scotland, lately, the
parish schoolmaster, out of curiosity,
put the question to the scholars,
"What is nothing?" A pause ensued
until an urchin, whose proclivities for
turning a penny was we'll known among
the school fellows, got up and re-
Piled Its When d man asks you
to hold his horse and jist says thank
ye." The answer has since earned con
siderable notoriety for the youngster.
ALICE OSWALD, the young American
gOverness, who committed suicide in
England, was followed to her grave by
a score or more of fashionable Amer
lean and English women Mrs. Alt
man, of New York, covered the coffin
with flowers, and Mrs Callahan drop
ped g a miraculous medal of the I'M
maculate Conception into the grave
The English custom of burying a sui
eide at night was not insisted upon by
the lindeftakers and sections.