The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-29
General! Items.

Happy marriages -.
when he is the butt.
An Eastern paper thinks that Stokes
ought to DO cannonlzed. 30 he o0on'
PERsIMMoN seeds is Georgia suooti-
tute for coffee.
Mp SoRrArs has invented an electn-
cal instrument which gives notice on
the occurrence of leak In ship, ana
nv means of dial indicates ITS extent.
"Is THE Colonel here?" shouted q
man. sticking his head into Kansas
City street ear. lie IS ans
thirteen men as they rose up.
Tive little girls were comparing
nrooress in catechism study. II have
DOT to original SIM" said one How
Far have YOU got?" 8 Me! Oh, I'm
wav teyond redemption SAID the
other.
Tur lowell Courier raises the query,
:, behalf of the good morals Of Boston,
| Woburn and other places, Whethef Tue
water OF Horn Pond is temperance
| drink
THEY hurry things up il Dubuque.
A Young man there met strange gifl
|
fare. and married her three hours
afterward Bless you, my children
! MUSCULAR Kansas preacher named
Benson. thrashed three fellows VINO
were disturbing the congregation re,
Gently, and his salary was increased
$40 year.
AMERICAS corn is largely used Ill the
manufacture Of alcohol III Germany anG
Italy, the export to ports connecting
with Germany during the last I'VE
months having raa"had 3hL thlU huSn-
els. and within II few weeks apo,' 80
600 bushels have been sent dire|e ~
Naples and 40, 900 bushels TO Leghorn.
A PROFESSOR, in explaining to a class
of Young ladies the theory according TO
which the body is entirety renewed
every seven years, said " Thus, MISS
B., in seven years you viii IN reality
be no longer Miss Il. g really hope
| shant demureiy responded the Slrl,
casting down her eyes.
SWITZERLAND supplies large portion
of the asphalt used in the construction
of roads in Europe, and also exports II
to America. About one hundred thou
sand tons have been extracted from
the mines within the past thirty years,
and during that period the prce has
, increased from "a cents to 81. 50 per
ton.
SEVERAL of the hot springs OF the
Yellowstone region are situated so
near to the margin of the Yellowstone
Lake that person might stand on the
silicious rim of the spring, extend his
fishing-rod into the water Of the lake,
and catch trout weighing from one to
two pounds, and cook them in the boil
ing spring without removing the hsh
from the hook.
A LONDON paper recently contained
) the following advertisement 10
) Amer1caus and Others.-A nobleman
and his wife, keeping most comtorba-
BILE establishment near town, would re-
ceive two American or English ladies
or gentlemen to introduce into the best
society. High references asked.
: Terms according to requirements
: Private sitting room, carriages, NC.
J Address Lady -"
A GIGANTIC cotton press has been con
structed which, it is said, Will com
press cotton bales three times as close
ly as the ordinary presses now IN use
Among the advantages expected to be
realized by the use of this press is the
important one that it Will enable cotton
T laden vessels to carry much larger
cargOes, besides securing increased ia
| ci!ltv in handling and decreased danger
from destruction by fire OF injury by
moisture.
For Boston criticism, this IS
unique: ''On Thursday night East
: Lynne was presented, for the benefit
of the MISUNDERSTANDING devotees OF
the emotio-sensatiOnal patrons OF the
house, who made a request for mid
, die of the-week rather than Il later rep
resentation, IL order that they might
; have their crying out of the way, so
; that Saturday nights baked beans and
: Sunday mornings devotions should not
, have their pleasures divided by so
fresh a remembrance of the fervor of
their floods"
A NEW street pavement has been
tried III San Francisco. 1t IS called
"hydro- carbohzed brick, and is made
of bricks of q soft porous nature,
which are boiled in coal-tar, which rem
ders them tough, and nearly as hard as
granite. A road bed is made by level
I ing the sand and packing it with water.
A layer of prepared brick is then laid
fatwise, each brick being dipped in
boiling tar as it is put down. This is
overland by second course of prepared
brick placed close together, each brick
dipped as before The interstices are
then filed with boiling tar, and the
, whole covered with a thin layer of
. screened gravel. The cost is about
thlrty-six or thirty-seven cents per
, square foot
3 A VEST VIRGINIA woman is thus de-
, scribed by a writer: "She was six
, foot long, with an ugly, angular face,
r the color of putty. Her nose was long
and thin. Tier mouth was like a cash
e in a frost bitten squash; Hopping open,
e 1t revealed three long front teeth, black
ened with smoke and calomel. On
each temple were three little flat blue
colored curls, which seemed to have
It been made and put there under the
d pressure of ton to the inch She had
d no other hair or hairs on her head A
b black clay pipe, with a long clay stem,
). was held tightly upside down between
: her snags. Her eyes resembled two
y large powder buttons dipped in lard.
e Her frame was the only thing she re-
y tanned of what may once have been a
y good-sized body"
A CURIOUS circumstance is mentioned
Il e