The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-02-15
All SnrlS of Para~ranhS,

GeN. LEE $ birthday Is legal hoE-
day i'll Georgia.
The office of state printer has been
| abolished IN Kentucky.
THERE are three thousand whites in
the Sandwich Islands.
| PoEE PIUs TX. lost 5000, 900 by the
recent failure of Brussels bank.
| A New YORK teacher drills her schoI-
airs III the tire-escape exercise.
DIR. LIVINGSTONE is entitled to seven
years arrears of salary as British Con-
sui III Central Africa.
/ The quantity OF malt liquors returned
| as sold by the brewers of Philadelphia
during 1870 was $50, 145 barrels; 1871,
529, 902f; 1872, GOA, 0191.
Fl is said that an Indiana man, whose
wife has borne him twelve sons and
fifteen daughters, wants to know if
such conduct on the part of his wife
isn't sufficient ground for a divorce.
PoRcUP1NE, cooked Ike hare, with
wine sauce. jagged in fat, is a new del
icacy Of diet in Rome.
| The exports of cotton from Savannah
| for the last four months of 1872 were
| It's, 696 bales, Weighing 82,O21, 6S4
pounds. The greater part was shipped
| in foreign bottoms.
! AMERICAN oysters, relaid aud fattened
in English beds, are advertised in Lon
don papers TO be sold at one shilling
| dozen, delivered free on rail for any
part of the kingdom, with an oyster
| knife and receipts for cooking III the
| delicious ways known IN America, adj
ded gratis.
DE VIvo, the business manager of
! the Aimee Opera Bouffe Company, Is
IN Havana, arranging with Tamberlik
/ for bringing the Havana company to
| the Academy Of Music N April and
taking the Aimee Company to the
Tacon at the same time.
HE little son of very prominent
minister of Baltimore said to his father:
"Pa, St Paul was Yankee"
How do you know that, my son p
"Why, sir, III the 18th verse of 9Th
chapter of Romans, he says: For l
reckon None but Yankees say reck-
on"
EXCAVATIONS have recently been
made, with promising results, on what
is believed to be the site of Troy The
ruins of house have been discovered.
! the skeleton OF 4 woman with orna-
ments Of gold, the bones of a child,
and Il vast number of tiles.
A MAN named Mitchell, of Churwell
III Yorkshire, recently lost his life in a
horrible manner While in state of
iutoxicatlon he tried to go into hat
OF cabin by making his way down the
chimney. 4 fire was burning below,
| on ctn, 4
death.
| PRECIOUS gems were used to Tighten
the horror of the tombs, and we are
| told that the tomb of Edward the Con-
! lessor, In Westminster Abbey, con
tanned eighty four Jewels of great value,
and the tomb of Thomas A. Beckett, in
Canterbury Cathedral, was celebrated
for It's great wealth of gems.
A SOCIETY for the suppression of slang
has been formed among the pupils of
the girls high school of San Francisco.
Sad reporter to one Of its members
Your object is a praiseworthy one.
Do you think you will succeed in Grad
icatlng conversational slang2" Said
she: You bet -
| HERE has BEEN a terrific rise III
prices at Rome None but the long
pursed can this year afford Roman
winter Furnished houses are nearly
| double last years price: and apart
ments which, three years ago, were
procurable forS100 month, now
! cost S160.
| SARDINEs will soon be cheap, thanks
to severe storms in Europe, by which
| great numbers of sardines were driven
| Tn, la Ich 4
| fishermen from ST. Ives and Port Issac
| to catch them with seines to the num-
Der of $4,000 and so, 600 to the boat. A
decline IN the price Of this popular AZ
tlcle of food is fondly anticipated
MIR. HoDGsoN of Atlanta, Georgia,
has thirteen sons. He is carriage
maker, and as soon as eaoh boy became
old enough he received mallet and
WAS made to learn the trade. Having
| completed that, he was sent to school
and then to college, and the father defies
the world to match his family of young
men. e
| Two hISh-strung fools met IN mar
row road at Newark, Vt the other day,
and bantered each other for more than
two hours which should turn out. At
tins point the dlgusted women-foiks of
| the place turned out, Gummarily snaked
the combatants by each other, and sent
them grumbling on their respective
ways.
AN indianapolis man took his boy
up stairs 80 whip him as requested by
his step-mother but his Undertakings
prevailed, and he told the urchin to
take his coat off, hang 1t mp and yell
Justify while it was whipped The boy
obeyed orders, but spoiled his chances
Tor future similar clemencv by telling
his experience TO the whole neghbor-
hood.
HE statement that the lecture en-
gagement of Edmund Yates has proved
a failure is incorrect, the truth beipg
that the English novelist has been sue
cessful wherever he appeared, and the
lecturing bureau which engaged him
are very anxious to have him continue
his tour more widely. Mr. Yates in
tends to remain here till March, pick
| ing up material for notes
4 MISERABLE English char-woman has
had the audacity to call the Earl of
Wlnchelsea to court for debt, and his
lordshlp treated the matter with con.
tempt. An execution was issued
against his goods and chattels. The
officer with the writ was resisted by a