The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-01-18
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

GUILT I'RAMEs-Prison windows.
PEAR trees are blossoming IN Texas
4 WARRENToN (Ga.) man walked
fourteen miles to pay lawyer a debt
of SO.
A LOCAL paper says that John Hays
lecture "abounds IN splendid perora-
tons
Valuable bismuth mines have been
discovered 200 miles south OF Salt Lake
City.
The latest definition of a gentleman
is ga man who can put on clean col
lar without being conspicuous.
4 FIVE FOOT vein of zinc, sixteen feet
below the surface. has been discovered
at Olive Hill, III North Kentucky.
A LOST dog in Norfolk, having seen
his masters notice IN one OF the local
prints, promptly went home.
The ship timber of the Saginaw Val
iey costs about sos per 1000 cubic
feet.
Ter Postmaster Of Cambridge.
! Mass. has held his Office for fifty years
| In succession.
INDIANS are fined for drunkenness Id
| Olympia, w T., and made to work II
| ont on the streets.
| IT is thought that about $4,000, COZ
! feet of logs will be gotten out by the
| lumbermen of Manistee county during
! the winter.
GESEeAI. VoN RoEN will act provi-
sionaliv as President Of the Prussian
| Council of Ministers, the Emperor
! having granted Prince Blsmarck's re-
quest 10 be relieved.
MINIATURE conseryatorIes are the
latest thing III drawing furniture
They are OF glass, about the size of 81
piano. and are supposed to contain
choice plants and flowers.
BUT $1,000 of the money left by
Lucky Ostrom, the maiden miser OF
| Poughkeepsie, remains to be divided
among the heirs, and the lawyers have
not been paid. 1t was originally
500, 900
ONE of the most ipterestingand hotly
contested lawsuits ever witnessed III
the state has Just been concluded III
! Michigan. 1t originated f1oTn the fact
that two women claimed the same water
fall.
MADAME MELGUEL, one of Queen
| Marie Antoinettes maids OF hOnor,w
accompanied her unfortunate friend to-
the foot of the .scaffoij, has just died
at the age of 102 years.
The best dover to advance thu mar
riage OF q young lady IS, when she has
IN her countenance mildness, IN her
speech wisdom, in her behaviour mod
esty, and in her life virtue
". GoUNoD has given his total profit
from the sale Of the song Maid of
Athens" to Mrs. Black, now aged and
poverty stricken, to celebrate whose
beauty Byron wrote the verses.
A MASSIVE granite pedestal and iron
standard, surmounted by board, to
mark the spot where it shall be lawful
to hold public meetings, has been
erected in Hyde Park, London.
THE fear of witchcraft is so strong
with the Chinese in California that,
when on a journey, they will not lodge
IN Strange bed without first burning
over 1t strip of yellow paper, cabatis'
ticaily inscribed.
Mr.. HOLLOWAY, hcpatent pill poten-
tate, is about to bald in England, at
cost Of nearly e100, 900, an insane
asy ium presumably to show his graft
tndc totho class from whom most Of his
fortune was derived.
BALzIC used to say. ''There are three
OF as who know French-I, and Hugo.
and Gautier." Gautier has lust died,
and Baltic has been long dead. Hugo
Is approaching dissolution, and then
the Freuch language viii be extinct.
TaAoKERAY's son-in-law is the pres
ent editor Of The "'Corniiill " Magazine.
| onl lic Il 81 L.
of It's most constant contributors, Her
weekly receptions during the season
bring together one of the most charm
ing literary circles to be met, with in
! London.
DURING the last days preceding
Christmas it is still the custom for
CaIabrian minstrels to descend from
the mountains to Naples and Rome,
saluting the shrines of the Virgin
Mother with their wild music under the
/ poetlcal nation Of cheering her until
the birth time of her infant at the APP
/ preaching Christmas.
Two lines of steamships will soon
De running between England and Lii
berla, one despatching two and the
other three vessels monthly They
VIII carry the British mails, and will
| up GU AhdcSiId, ISNeflUe, ana other
places. As the United States cannot
develop the resources of Western Afri-
ca, we are glad that English merchants
and capitalists will do SO. Future
American colonists 10 Liberia NAV 90
by way of Liverpool
For the encouragement of birds
about country houses an "excelsior
birds nest has been invented and ie
displayed IN the window of a down
town establishment. 1t protects the
female bird while sitting from birds of
prey, and the wood of which it is com
! posed being saturated with asphalt re.
! pets insects. When this article shall
have been fully introduced birds will
lee enabled to retire from the building
| business altogether.
Miss HELEN TEMPLE, who makes ber
hrst appearance III New York at Booths
Theatre at the close of Miss Nelson's
engagement, as Joan of Arc in Mr..
John Brougham's Lilly of France"
Is one of those fortunate women for
whom play long Enacted for want of a
heroine was kept waiting. Like some
Old composer hugging his work with
childish delight, Mr.. Brougham kept
his play locked up III his desk till Miss
! IemDlP apppared whom bo 5o4o,,,,;xol