The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-10-04
General Items

on the arts in Italy.
| "HooDENDooDAH " is the latest Geor
gla drink. One guzzle is equivalent to
two nights in jail.
nj. Du CHAILIU is said to be writing
a book OF his travels in Sweden and
Norway.
| PROF. REBECCA RICE, Of Antioch
College, Ohio, has returned from two
years sojourn in Europe.
REBECCA w. EAsTERBooK, well
known contributor to Harper's Maya
zine, and various periodicals, is dead
LUCY LARcCM will teach English lit
erature and composition at Bradford
Academy, Mass, the ensuing year.
A CoLoBED boy in South Carolina is
said to be the equal of Blind Tom as
a pianist, and is superior in taste and
culture.
| A VALUABLE mare was stolen from
Henry Ward Beecher' s farm last month,
| but Providence and Peekskill gentle
man brought her back to him
AT the Indianapolis Fix rosition they
have gorilla for ladies to hang their
shaw Is on; also few gOrillas for tail
ors to hang their clothes on.
The Mayor of Sioux City has sent a
troublesome cat twelve miles by ex-
press in a dark night, tied up in a sack,
but of course IT came back.
SIR JOHN CoLERIDGE is said to have
| declined the mastership OF the rolls
because he did not know which side
his bread was buttered.-HorRet
| INTERNAL REVENUE receipts since the
beginning of the present year exceed
| those Tor the same period last year by
about 81 100000
THERE are 1000 slaves at Ouiloa.
East Africa, offered at from half dol
lar to three dollars each, without find
| ing purchaser.
| NJ. RANCs TRIAL has again been de
| ferred, fresh evidence having been dis
covered which it will take some time to
sift.
| Miss NELLIE TRURsroN still thirsts
to cleave the "viewless causeways of
the air, ;" and assembled the other day at
Antwerp, III her pet balloon.
HERBERT SpENcEK's "Study of Soci-
| ology will be completed in the Dc
tober number of the Contemporary
Review.
The will of George ID. Phelps, many
years resident of New York, is being
contested iii Connecticut. He left an
estate of more than $1,000,000 in
| value
The London Cosmopolitan INDUCES
III the hope of seeing Judah Z. Benja-
min, Lord Chief Justice of England. 1t
would be odd if Hebrew Benjamin
should find his cup of gold in Victoria's
woolsack.
The charming Old Cabinet "
sketches in Scrlbner's are written by
| MIR. Watson Glider the assistant edi-
tor of that charming monthly. There
are few journals IN the country that
have more brilliant future before
them.
Mrs. AMEs has added to Phoebe
Cary's unfinished collection of poems
several ballads for little folks of both
| the writer's, and this is the book which
Is III press by Hurd & Houghton. Miss
Phoebe had begun the series of ballads
| short time before her death.
The Revue Catholique " of Brus-
sells has discovered another miracle in
tho case of Louise Lateau, OF Bots
q 'Halne, Belgium, who has taken no
nourishment whatever Tor the last
twenty months, and who is, neyerthe-
less, in excellent health.
The coal mining interests of Kansas
are rapidly becoming important. Dur
ing the mining season of 10 and '73
, 400, 900 tons of coal have been taken
from the Carbonate mines. From 800
to 800 persons are employed, and the
pay roll is So, 900 to $4,000 month.
Mrs. MARY MAPEs DODGE, for the
last four years editor of the children's
department In Hearth and Home, is to
have charge of the new illustrated
magazine for children which is to be
published this fall by Scribner & Co.
Mrs. Dodge is now in Europe making
arrangements for contributors, etc.
PLANET No. 127, which was discov-
cred early this summer, has been
named Dlberatrix, in honor of M.
liners. 1t has been also decided that
planets Nos. 1916 and 1913 shall be
known to the scientific world as Vel
Ida and Johanna, the latter name
being III honor of Joan of Are.
As pilgrlmages have been forbidden
III Italy, the Pope has found a conven-
lent substitute III Il spiritual trip to
Jerusalem and other foreign shrines.
lhe pilgrimage is divided into three
decades. During the first ten days of
this month the faithful have, III spirit,
visited the sanctuarIeS of the East
during the current ten days they will
VISIT the principal European sanctua-
mes; and the last ten days viii be
spent III visiting the Italian sanctu-
aries.
HE 6 Vedemosti, f." of ST. Petersburg,
gives an account of the pending labors
OF the agents of the Russian Geograph-
zeal Society in Mongolia Five trav-
elers, among whom are Messrs. Przhev-
alsky, Paderin and Fritsche have been
buslly engaged exploring III that most
distant region during the present year.
The last named has now left Kalgan to
take astronomical and hypsometrical
observations, while Nj. Paderin is
about to start southwards from UlIas-
utal to collect information on the
roads which lead from Northern Mon
Solla to the Tienshan and the province
of kansuh. The society also learn by
a telegram just received that Mr..
:Przhevalsky, who has already been
three years III Mongolia, has completed
an exploration of the upper waters of
the Yang tsze-kiang, and of the north
ern part of Thibet
BOY hero has been developed in