The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-01-13
News and Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

News and Miscellaneous Paragraphs.
A GENEVA, Illinois, foundry manu-
facture seven tons of sad-irOns week.
MILE. CERETo, the celebrated dan
seuse, is coming to America.
GREAT damage has been done by
floods in Benga+.
THERE are said to be so, 900 different
shades in ribbons.
a DANGEROUS rising of Sepoys had
taken place at Goa, the Dutch colony.
A MOUNTAIN of pure magncsia has
been discovered on Butte Creek, Ore
gon.
COOPER wrote SO volumes, 80 of which
we're novels: and most OF them were
written before breakfast,
THE wife of a Methodist minister
killed deer with an axe, near Coryal-
lis, Oregon, recently.
THE women of Rome are getting up
subscription for statue of Garbaldl,
to be erected before his death.
A SWISS editor in the canton OF Uri
was recently prosecuted for advocating
woman's rights, but was acquittal.
Max Won SCHLAGEL is the name of
the new German novelist, whose stories
are pronounced full of imaginative
power.
SOLOMON SEAGRovEs, of Chambers
county, Alabama, died recently at the
age of 107 years, leaving a widow over
100.
A LONDON husband, pounding his
wife, was attacked so fercely by the
family cat that the woman had to take
her of to save his life.
A CONFESSION on the Clark County
Indiana) Democrat set twenty-fou1
thousand ems in twenty-four .consecu-
tive hours.
THE armies and navies in Europe are
said to contain at present ., $4,000
men, SO, 294 horses, 10, 224 field guns,
and 800 mitrailleuses.
GRAND jury duty in Arizona is rather
monotonous. Out of Ill indictments
recently found, all but three were for
murder.
TIE woman increment is the revolt
of woman against the harem idea and
it is the last and highest outgrowth of
Christianity, as political revolution.
COUNT DE FLAv1GNY has done what
there is hardly a precedent for, de-
clined the cross of the Legion Of Hon
or They have become too common.
The Buddhist priests in Japan have
been notified that their temples will be
closed, and they must enter the army
as soldiers or earn their living inme-
chanical occupations.
SONGS promising vengcnce upon Prus-
STA are all the rage just now in Paris.
In each of the cafes chdutOnt6 there is
lady singer who, as the genius of
France, excites the audience to a fury
by the recital of Prussian cruelties-
In taking down a beautiful painted
canvas ceiling lat All Souls, College,
Oxford, England, recently, fifteen an
cient paintings were discovered attach
ed to the roof, where they had been,
unknown to any Ole, for two centur-
les.
FURTHER details concerning the re-
cent burglary at the office OF the town
clerk of Middleboro, Mass, fix the
losses at 800, 900 in cash and bonds, the
latter belonging to various parties, VINO
with others, considering the town safe
one of the best repositories for their
valuable papers, had placed them there
for safe keeping.
A SOUTH Boston widow has just re-
ceived SIS, 900 the proceeds of the sale
of land decided to her by wealthy adj
mirer, who was only prevented from
marrying her because she found out
that he had wife living from whom
he was not divorced.
GEN. RosECRANs is using those splen-
i I
him in the foremost rank of military
men, in bringing into practical opera
ton narrow gauge railroads through
ont the West, particularly i'll Califor-
MA and Ohio.
A VALLEJO, Cal, Nimrod having gone
ten miles after game, and finding it
plenty, was highly disguised on dis
covering that he had brought a box Of
pills by mistake for percussion caps
He went home a sadder and more HUI
CRY man.
~ Sweden a new polar expedition.
has been undertaken which Will leave
III the spring. The shipowners of Got
tenburg are to contribute largely 10
ward the expenses, and Professor Nor
densh1ld IS to conduct the operations
and superintend the fitting out of the
ships.
PHILADELPHIA has a confirmed pyrom-
manaic in the person of colored boy
Il yeaas old, named Providence Pow
ers. The boy, after his arrest, denied
all kno ,ledge of the fires alleged to
have been kindled by him, but at last
confessed, giving as his motive a fond
ness for 'seeing fires and hearing the
bells ring"
A YOUNG man having put crown.
piece into tee plate in an Edin-
burgh church by mistake, instead of
penny, asked to have it back, but was
refused. In once, in forever "AweeI.
aweel," grunted he = I will get credit
for it in heaven" "Na, ma" said
Jems, the doorkeeper, "ye'll get credlt
only for the penny We meant to sic"
WHILE digging found tor
lime kiln resident nf pulaski county,
Virginia, discovered under the roots of
a large tree, at least eight feet beneath
the surface of the ground, layer of
ashes and a large number of the smooth
est and incest bricks he ever saw, per-
feet in shape, and apparently composed
Of clay, which contained no grit what
ever. Many Indian arrow heads were
also found.
The New York Mail asserts that
many fashionable ladies who are partial
to low-necked dresses, and have not
,caol- yroar falco nook of ala-