The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-12
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

THREE Marquette hunters killed 15S
deer between the Goth Of November
and the LIST of January.
A NEW volcano, with more than TWEEN
ty rent-hoIes, has been discovered near
Moleie, in Lower California.
A WASHINGTON belle can speak five
different languages, but couldn't bake
a loaf of bread to save her life.
OF the $110, 900, 900 invested in the
coal business in tbs United States.
Pennsylvania share is s67 900, 900.
CELERY stalks over two feet long,
grown this winter, is one of the great
green things of Oregon.
PRINCE HUMBERr, of Italy, is the
most charitable of noblemen. For two
years he has supported an acoustic
dispensary at Milan.
THos. JONES, of Newark, Ohio, looks
down upon his fellow-beings from a
height of six feet eleven inches in his
unadorned pedals.
sONLY 2, sos feet of the Hoosac tunnel
remain to dig, which, at the present
rate of progress, will last until January,
1874,
AT the game of baccarat, in the
Washington club of Paris, foreigner
lately lost 100, 900 francs, just for the
fun vi 1T. ="
A LOUISIANA man has demonstrated
the fact that pistol loaded with pow
der and water Will blow a mans head
off.
A YANKEE in Maine makes artificial
oysters out of flour paste. tapioca and
salt, which he places in secondhand
shells carefully glued about the bor-
ders.
THE High Church party in England
have raised fund of $50, 900 for the
purchase of advowsons, and presenting
them, as they fall vacant, TO clergymen
of their own school.
A MAN in Bath, England, bet f5 he
could roll eighty feet down hill in less
time than another could run three
quarters of mile He did it, and had
two minutes to spare.
A NEGRO was put upon the stand as a
witness, and the Judge inquired if he
understood the nature OF an oath.
" For certing, boss, said the citizen;
eff | swear to lie [ must stick to
him ~
AN Ohio man attached medal to an
eagles neck on Washington's birthday.
Two days later the proud bird made
descent on a farmers. sheep-pen, and his
brief career was ANONYMOUSLY brought
to a close by charge of buckshot.
Mrs SNYDER, an old shopllfter Of
Syracuse, New York, lately pa:doned
by Gov Dix, boosted that she stole
$2S, 600 in one year, and of being worth
$50, 600, all of which she had made by
stealing.
A VERY old inhabitant of France per
ished last autumn at Chantilly. This
was an exceedingly ancient carp, a per-
feet patri arch among fishes, bis age
being no less than 375 years. He was
a young fish in the reign of Francis |.
A GHOST is reported as having made
its appearance in Muney, Pa, III the
shape of a very beautiful young lady,
who goes from house, never speaking
to any one, and only murmuring, Il
cannot find it cannot find it..
In Valdosta, Ga, a few nights since,
a young colored sister who had expert
enced SO much religion that she could
not move at the conclusion of the
service, was turned heels over head out
of the church door by the parson and
elders
A SINGULAR explanation is given of
an apparent case of spontaneous COM
bustion in New Hampshire. The fire,
which was discovered III an unoccupied
room, was traced to stereoscopic
glass lying upon the table exposed to
the sun.
AUGUSTA, Ga, has organized a cotton
pool, to test the relative skill of com
petitors in making estimates of last
years cotton crop. The person coming
nearest the number Of bales as deter
mined by the official estimates gets the
money,
CORRESPONDENTS say that Dennison,
Texas, was a wilderness five months
ago. Now it has a population of A.
500; houses are going up III all direc
tons its streets are 100 feet wide a
hotel containing 100 rooms is nearly
completed, and there are three banks,
an opera house, and an immense freight
| depot.
RECENTLY proof sheet of the list
of members of the Michigan House of
| Representatives was given out, on
which corrections were TO be made If
any errors were discovered. Soon after
the compiler OF the Manual received
| the following note from one of the SIN
gle gentlemen: * In proof sheet OF
Manual IN House | see you say am
married. Please correct, or send the
woman round, and obljge."
THERE are two islands off the west
coast ofIreland called North ana South
Inishkea, where the inhabitants are
absolutely heathens. The religion Of
these islanders is confined to the wor
ship of large wooden idol. This is 9
rudely carved image OF a man, about
eight feet hight, dressed in long fan
mel gown. This is kept in a shed aoC
when storms arise it is taken to the
shore and besought to abate them.