The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-30
General Items.


THE catalogue of Amherst College
shows list of 269 students, Of whom
eighty-two are freshmen.
A NUMBER of New York capitalists
have ordered vessels built in Nova Sco-
tia.
OMAHA has just manufactured a COM
plete train of ears for the Union Pacific
Road.
GARDENING around Paris is danger
Gus on account of unextioeied bem5s
in the earth.
THE authorities of Yale have aboI-
ished the rule requiring attendance at
church on Sunday afternoons.
Four buffalo hunters left Great Bend
Kan. and killed and skinned one hun
Gred buffalo in one day.
A LITTLE girl III Pittsburg was recent
ly drowned by falling into post hole
filled with water.
COMPELLING persons charged with
crime to sit for photographs is police
rule in Memphis.
ROBERT SToCKwELL, of Lafayette, has
presented Indiana Ashbury University
with second donation of S25, 900.
ST. LOUIS will be represented at the
Worlds Fair, Vienna, by an eminent
Austrian.
MOONLIGHT prairie chicken hunts are
the latest things with LeaN enworth
sporting men.
A MAN reaches his majority on the
day preceding the twenty first anniver-
sary of his birth.
LARGE quantities of oak slaves are
shipping from Kentucky to France, TO
be made into wine and brandy casks.
SwANToN, Mass, is to have a reunion
next month of all the minister's now
living who have ever preached there.
The Junction and Kearney Road i'll
grading struck stone cut and had to
kill 1877 snakes.
A MAN in New Hampshire has discov-
dred how to send messages IN opposite
direction on single telegraph wire.
A PROMINENT citizen of Olympia, w.
T., has been sued by squaw for
breach of promise.
GIVE an American a newspaper and a
pie, and he will make himself comfort
able anywhere.
THE Shakers at South Union, KY
have raised pumpkin vine measuring.
474 feet and bearing 352 pounds of the
fruit. "
DRINKING gill of cream day is
what gave Rondout young lady eight
pounds OF flesh.
GROUND was broken Oh Monday last,
at Lawrence, Kan, for the new Mstho-
dist church 1t will cost $780, 200
The Lima PERU municipality have
prohibited masque balls as being indie.
cent.
THERE are i'll Boston and immediate
vicinity tifty-one manufactures of fur.
nitUrc.
New LONDON, Conn, has arranged
to get it's drinking water from Lake
KonomOc.
THERE are but four strictly temper
ate men among the crowned heads of
Europe
A BILL is before the Vermont Leqis-
lature to repeal the law for Furnishing
blasphemy
JOHANNA SIMN. of Bryan county, Ga,
recently died from the bite of rattle
snake.
BELOW Fourteenth street, so:
above Fourteenth, $40; and funerals,
$50 each are the hack rates in New
York during the horse malady,
THE berries of the mountain ash are
employed in some of the forest regions
in Europe for the manufacture of alco-
holic drinks.
Mr.. JOHN B. GoUGH subscribes f1OO
to the fund for testimonial to George
Cruikshank, the veteran temperance
artist
MANY gentlemen have pockets made
In the sleeves of their Uvercoats, where
IN lady may keep her hand warns
when walking arm in-arm with thea,
A ST. PAUL COW, in attempting to-
open a gate, lifted it off the hinges
and carried it seven miles on a frantic
run, when she fell exhausted
SILVER hunting parties are now d.
rectlng attention to the Pianchasde
Plats, seventy five miles south of .-Tuc-
son, III Arizona territory.
On has been STRUCK noor Bvhabwclf-
er in Aisace, and a company of German
capitalists have acquired these petro-
leum wells.
The largest coal breaker in the world
is the Coal Brook breaker, at Carbon
dale, Pennsylvania, which turns out
1000 tons per day.
Gov. JEWELL, of Connecticut, has
resigned his place on the commission
for State Capitol building at Hart
ford. He is dissatisfied with the plans.
The architect is Upjohn. of New York
A SHIPMENT of choice California fruit
was recently made from San Francisco
to Dublin, Ireland, to fill a special or
der. 1t is expected they will reach
their destination in not more than 20
days, In good order.
FLETCHER WILLIS, Philadelphia in
surance clerk, is short S43, 900 in his
own accounts, and has made confess
sion involving the usual points-fasf
women, fast horses and two establish
ments Mr. Willis has been arrested.
THE wife of a professional gambler at
Omaha, lately, seeing a needy woman
begging, went into her husbands gam
bling den and raised considerable
sum of money from the blacklegs there
assembled, which she presented to the
poor stranger.
AT q masonic festival in Kentucky,
recently, the grand master delivered an
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