The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-09-06
General News

General News.
Miss JOSEPHINE MANSFIELD is LIVING
is Paris and appears with great splen.
dor at the Bots de Boulogne.
IT is estimated that the recent storm,
carried off over 1,OOO,O cubic yards
of the Jersey shore.
Mr. p. L. BARNUM, a few DAYS AGO.
sailed III the steamship Scotia for En-.
rope and the Vienna Exhibition.
A NEW line between Liverpool and
New Orleans has been established. and
commences business next October.
VANDERBILT controls 2,15O miles Of
railroad, representing 1915, 00O, 900 of
securities, with gross income of S45.-
100000.
LAST year the Cunard steamers ear.
ried 1910 passengers from New York to
Europe, larger number than by anv
other line.
HE pioneer steamer of the Eagle
Lime was lately launched on the CIyde
and will soon make her trial trip. She
is called the Goethe.
THE famous "lightning calculator
is so popular III London that at one of
his recent exhibitions 10000 bottles
of ginger beer were sold
A WABASH Gnd) editor returns
thanks for centipede sent him by mail
from Texas, being the first cent of any
kind he has seen for month.
The Spanish Marshall, O'Donnell,
on his dying bed, when the priest asked
him to forgive his enemies, answered,
| | ha |
all"
| The steamers of the American Steam
ship Company Philadelphia and Liv-
erpooD are the only ones in the trans
Atlantic service carrying the United
States flag.
THE Comptroller of Florida says that
the state owes 81, 576, 1858, a large
debt for an impoverished common
wealth with less than 200, 900 people
but the true figures are believed to be
much higher
In the most central business loca-
tions land in London is worth S135 per
square foot, S113 per square foot in
New York, S36.67 per square foot in
Chicago, S22 per square foot i'll San
| Francisco.
| A Esprit PHOTOGRAPHER got 5000
from SILLY old man in Peoria for
picture of the old mans dead wife, but
some practical fellows ducked the pho
| tographer in the river until he agreed
to restore the money.
PROF. DANIELS, of Vermont, made
bet that he could look ferocious bull
ont of countenance, and competent
III n oat TO hat %
thrown up twenty seven feet. The
Doctor was eventually saved by the
courage and tenacity of his legs.
A MAN about fifty years of age, &C
companied by wife who looked still
older, applied for tickets to Jackson.
When told the price, he demurred, and
after Withdrawing for a consultation,
he returned. to the window and asked,
We'll, won't you knock off dollar if
the old woman will ride on the plat
form ?"-Detro6 Free Press.
The most practical lover has been
discovered. In one of his letters to
his sweetheart he wrote: 81 wish,
my dear, that you would not write
such long letters to me. If you were
to bring an action for breach of prom
Use against me, the lawyers would have
to copy the correspondence between us
and charge four pence for every folio
of seventy-two words. The shorter the
letters, the more we shall save from
the lawyers"
The effective force of the field army
III Java with which the Dutch General
Van SwieteIl is to undertake the new
campaign against the Sultan of Atchin
| amounts to II, 900 men. The army is
composed of $4,000 infantry, twenty
one batteries of artillery, three com
panles of engineers, and cavalry
regiment. All the officers are Europe
ans, save a very few of the sub-lieuten-
auts; but about one half of the men
are natives.
EDWARD EVERETT used to tell with
great spirit the anecdOte of a wealthy
Hindoo who called on him when he was
American Minister at London, to thank
the Americans for the benefits they had
conferred upon India. 81 thought he
might refer TO our mission schools, but
he astOnished me by saying he meant
the cargoes of ice sent from America,
and was anxious to know from what
part of America it came. 1t gave me
great pleasure to inform him that |
lived within short distance of the
spot from which it was brought"
In a Western State, there was occa-
sion, In suit before justice tC re-
quire security from two persons in be-
half OF the plaintiff for the costs of
prosecuting the action, and it was
agreed by the plaintiffs two counsel
that they should both sign themselves.
The senior did so, and turning to his
junior, whose reputation through the
country was that of jolly, clever, i'm
pecunious fellow, who never paid any
thing, remarked: CHOW, D., it's your
turn" ID. looked at the paper, and
then IN quizzical way shook his head
and remarked: "No, on the whole L
guess L won't dilute the security
WITHIN few months several baker
les have been established in the cap
Itol of Japan, and bread is now sold
regularly IN the streets to those who
wish to cultivate foreign tastes. 1t is
sold either in loves or in slices, and
vendors and purchasers appear to be
alike Indifferent as to the freshness of
OF the article. Some of tie loaves ex-
posed are covered with rich green
mould, which is apparently regarded
as an adornmeDt by the japanese. The
slices are toasted brown and then eaten
with native soy. Butter is not yet in
demand among the japanese, notwith-
standing that there is a large number