The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-22


FANNY FORESTER, a neted.zcow
that has taken premiums III hF''"S
states, died last week in Kentucky
That ghost is still frightening the
people on the line Of the New York
Central Railroad near Schenectady
A DAVENPORT street-car driver asserts
that 'Arkansaw was just alive Win
dead mules during the war.
WIsCoNsIN dairymen are so fashlona-
BILE that they sell cheese only by the
ton.
The catch of salmon on the Column
bia River. Oregon, this season, has
been 120, 200 forty eight pound eases.
THE finest cask of Johannisberg
wine in Prince Metterilch's cellar was
recently sold TO Russian nobleman at
the rate OF SIS 50 per bottle. 90
THE poor people on the eastern coast
of Nova Scotia are suffering greatly
from the effect of the storm OF August
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HARTFORD knows that she has
grown. because whereas ner streets tor
merly cost her s.. 900 annually, she now
eXpends 5000, 900 upon them.
The Troy Wing, one of the oldest
Republican papers III the state, has
added :" Morning to its name and
treated itself to new type.
A BALTIMORE paper says that unless
public confidence IS soon restored, the
oyster business there Will suffer badly.
The oysters are getting their spunk up.
The fact that the old Greeks used to
laugh over the same good Jokes that
we do, leads DIR. Hopkins to remark
that q irish bulls Were once calves LII
Greece
GEORGE KENNEDY, a Schenectady farm
err pIanted four barrels of peachblow
potatoes on one and aquarter acres, and
has dug one hundred and forty barrels
therefrOm.
THERE is story that an accepted
lover III a certain county IN Kentucky,
lately traded off his interest and good
will in his lady love to his rival for a
few Berkshire hogs.
THE ST. Louis Democrat thinks
that Jack Frost has put IN an appear
ance as an advocate OF the great Mis-
sissippi River route for grain Transport
tation.
The other day, as Portland black
smith was pairing q horses hoof, pre-
paratory to shoeiug him, lie found
cent imbedded in the hoof and covered
by the frog.
One of the attractions OF the West
chester County Fair was a copper cot
fee kettle, which was brought from
Holland two hundred years ago and
has been III use ever since.
A YOUNG girl in Troy, who became
ezasperated with her family, took her
revenge by stealing Il shawl, that she
might bring them into disgrace. She
was seut to jail for ten days.
A HtbLsBoRo', H., philosopher,
named JEFF. Yokum, after listening to
various exploits of early days narrated
by party of gentlemen, broke in with
Well, fellers, / tell You it seems to
me that as men get older fun gets
skeerser!"
KEY WEST, with its mild Winter eli
mate and Salubrious sea air, is to have
a tirst-class hotel, to cost 800, 600, ard
TO accommodate 800 guests. II will be
opened about February |, 1874, with
Major w. w Leland, of the Grand
Hotel, Saratoga, us lessee and proprie-
tor.
In order to prevent the possibility of
such a case as that of the Tichborne
CLAIMANT ever again recurring, it IS
said that early next session a blil will
be introduced into the British Parlia-
ment to the effect that if any presumed
helr to property should leave the coun-
try, aud through any ecceDtricity or
other cause purposeiy abstain from
making his existence known, he snail
be looked upon, after the lapse of a
certain number of years, as dead III the
eyes OF the law, the property to go TO
the next of kin.
A TENNESSEE preacher announced to
his congregation last Sunday that a
prayer meeting would be held in the
church III behalf of the Memphis sui
terers, and exhorted his congregation
TO put on sack-cioth ANA ashes for the
solemn occasion. One sister according
~ procured lot of old coffee sacks.
worked them into a wcll fitting dress
aPfnkied SAID unique dress profuselv
with ashes, and when the day of pray
ets arrived, put it on, and started for
the house OF God. She was stopped by
ner mistress, who had considerable diff
hculty III explaining to her the real
meaning OF the minister.
The Oldest organ in the United
States Is III the chapel of St Johns
Church at Portsmouth, N III. 1t was
imported III August, 1913, and pre-
sented by Thomas Brattle to the
Queens Chapel in Boston, which, after
the death of Queen Anne, was called
klng's Chapel. In 1855 the organ was
sold to St. Paul's Church, Boston.
where 1T remained until 1886, eighty
years, when it was again sold to ST
johns Church in Portsmouth for $3.50
new case was added, and it has re-
manned III the chapel ever since. and is
still IN good order.
PROF SILLIMAN has recently called
attention to the probable occurrence of
small diamonds III the sands left in the
slulces OF the hydraulic washlnps in
California, A microscopic examination
OF sample of these sands from Cher
okee, In Butte county, revealed the ex-
lstei'ce OF numerous crystals of hya-
clleh or zlrcon, associated with CRYSTALS
OF topaz, fragments of quartz, black
grams OF chromite and titanic iron ore
and few small masses of a highly re,
fractlng substance, which from it's
and oh al II,