The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-08
Miscellaneous Items.

according TO tue idSG report OF lue
State Auditor, was S27, All, 204.
THE chief steward of one of the Ger
man steamers is genuine Count. He
speaks FIVE languages and IS a brilliant
performer on the piano.
JONES complained of bad smell
about the post-ot1ice, and asked Brown
what it could be. Brown did not know,
but suggested that it might be caused
by the derd letters.
THE granite platform quarrled for
the Winfield Scott monument weighs
$50 tons, and it is believed to be the
largest stone ever successfully quarrled
IN this country,
The French legitimists have invent
ed lew name for the government
which is TO be Of the count de Cham
bord. They call it the government
of the national reconciliation"
THERE Is a rumor that the Great
Eastern has been chartered by one of
the Transatlantic companies to make
eight trips from New York to Liverpool,
commencing IN May next.
The Italian papers say that pedd ers
in Catholic districts are selling bits of
straw, alleging them to have been taken
from a dungeon III Rome where the
Pope is confined by the Italian Gov
eminent.
BARNUM has offered the Fisher es-
tate $3.50, 900 for the northeast corner
Of Ninth and Chestnut streets; Phila.
delphia He purposes erecting on the
premises, which are so feet by It's,
new theatre and museum.
\ DETECTED man on the Wooster
House corner, recently, announced
to couple of friends that 1.-The panic
was playing the mischief with all
branches of business; he never caught
a fish yesterday.
The discovery Is SAID to have recently
been made III Rome on the Esquiline
Hill, of some enormous ancient vessels
IN pottery ware, the largest ever found,
and of such size that a man could
easily live in one.
A FIRM in Westborough, Mass, re-
Gently discovered II car load of corn
consigned to them, two men who had
hid themselves therein at Albany
When discovered they had been forty
eight hours without food or water.
WHY" asked a governess of her
little charge, "do we pray God to give
us our daily bread Why don't we
ask for four days, or five days, or a
week p " We want it fresh, - replied
the ingenious child.
AN unstamped letter was deposited
IN the Post Office at Marshall, Ill,
last week, and underneath the address
was the endorsement, "Let.her slide,
Z. NJ, she's all hunky, inside are one
OF them post hole kee1ds."
"WoULD you believe The witness
under oath ~ asked lawyer. 'fNo,
sir, was the reply. " If you should
ask him the time of day he would lie
about it."
WHAT is the greatest feat IN the eat
ing way ever known? That recorded
OF man who commenced by boiling a
door, after which he threw up a window
and then sat down and swallowed
whole story
A LADY was recommending to gen.
tleman medicine for the govt. "I
know many who praise it to the Skies"
she said. " No doubt, madam, said
he, g for it has sent many to the skies
to praise it."
CONSEQUENTIAL young fop asked an
aged country sexton if the ringing of a
bell did not put him In mind Of his lat
ter end. "No, sir, replied the grim
old grave-digger but the rope puts
me IN mind of yours"
CONNECTICUT school committee re-
Gently asked a school marin, What
was the seed from which sprung good
and evil Z" The school marin answered
meekly that she wasn't posted in the
seed business" and the matter was
allowed to drop.
JINKs had been indulging too freely
IN ardent spirits. At a street corner
his hat dropped into the gutter. Says
Jlnks g know-if / pick you up
I'll fall-if fall you won't p-hick me
-hlck-up goodnight ~ And he
walked off with smile of satisfaction,
describing innumerable zig -zags as he
went, leaving the hat in the gutter.
SOME idea of the California wine and
grape trade may be formed from the
fact that this year there viii be pro-
duced there twelve million gallons of
VINE, two million pounds Of grapes for
table use, and two hundred and iiftv
thousand pounds of rais1ns; besides
the brandy of which we have no sta
tistics Forty thousand acres are in
vlney yards, and the area is constantly
increasing.
HE other day, at a concert, a gen
tleman having put his hat upon chair
to keep place, returned to claim it
after short absence. The hat was
found, sure enough, where it had
been left, only there was stout lady
sitting on it. Madam said he,
$ you are sitting on my hat. /" The
lady blushed little, turned round,
and said III the biaudest manner, ooh,
[ beg pardon I'm sure / thought it
vas my husbands ~
Ii is an uncommon thing to see a
six or ''stevepipe hat worn at sea.
Passengers never put them on until the
vessel is nearing port. The first per
son who appears on deck in 'sstove-
oipe " is-according to the custom of
incient orr gin-expected to treat to
vine. 1t is an amusing sight to
ZEE all the male passengers huddled
ogethe1 at the foot of the cabin stairs,
Waiting for some courageous aud gen