The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-17
Miscellaneous Items.

The immigrants arriving at the port
of Galveston in 1872 numbered II, 508.
A blood red bat with feathers is the
latest nataral curiosity at Atlanta, Ga.
The town of Norway, Me-, had thir-
teen feet five inches of snow last win
ter
NINE MARIE DE BEETHOVEN, a niece
by marriage of the great composer, lie
giving music lessons In Rocheste
A DOG in an Indiana saloon is said to
get drunk upon the waste beer that
drips from the barrels.
The late Judge Dana, of Ithaca, has
bequeathed to the library of Cornell
University a valuable portrait Of the
Duke of Wellington.
The Savannah river has produced
two immense oysters, one sixteen and
one fourteen inches long, and they
have been sent to Baltimore.
A WOMAN in New London, Conn,
lately ran pin into the end of her
finger while washing, and is likely to
die from the effects.
COUNT Won MoLTKE was born on the
2Sth of October, 1900, at Paschen, in
Denmark. His father was Danish
Lieutenant General.
LADY COVENTRY had a narrow escape
in the hunting field, at Elmly Castle,
recently. While following the hounds
in full cry, she took fence with drop
of twelve feet on the other side into an
old quarry. She was injured and the
horses back was broken.
Mr.. A d. WILLIAMS, of Richmond,
has become the wealthiest man in Vir-
ginia, by simply investing 81 900 few
years ago in 40, 900 acres of land, which
has since turned out to be immensely
rich III coal.
A MAN up IL Marion, Ind, went into
his cellar a few mornings since, and
on opening the door a small dog be-
| longing to a ne1ghbor made his escape.
As two bushels of apples were missing,
the man has no doubt the dog ate
them. The Chronicle says the grand
jury will investigate that dog.
A KENTUCKY paper tells the story of
mad cat which recently bit several
members OF a family, as also the dogs
and cows belonging to them, and of
"mad stone" which adhered to the
wound OF one of the persons injured
and extracted the venom of the bite.
| Two such "mad stones" only are DOS
sessed in Shelby county.
| MENTION is made of revolutionary
soldier who deposited his pension of
500 III New Hampshire savings bank
forty years ago, and shortly added to
1T the sum of $50 from his own savings.
| The money has never been touched
and now amounts to S2,218.S1. But
the revolutionary soldier is dead.
The centenarians living in the United
States in 1870, IT we may believe the
census tables, numbered thirty-fve
hundred. OF these 642 were native
whites, 1872 foreign born whites, and
1887 colored. The proportion of wo-
men was larger in each case, their
| numbers being 3S3, 1877 and 1852 re-
| spectively.
A BRONZE equestrian statue of Ibra-
him Pasha has been unveiled at Cairo.
The work is by Cordier, the celebrated
| sculptor, and the statue is six metres
l9.6S53 English teet) high, and it
weighs twelve thousand pounds.
The statue of Joseph Mazzini has
been set up in the great court of the
| and the gift of citizen named Rug
gero 1T is of the size of life, and with
the foundation it is four metres
GIBBS English feeD high.
The West Baton Rouge Na) Sugar
Planter of the 10th inst. says: CAT
the present the plant-cane is up in
every field of this parish, and never
since the memorable season of 1853
have the crops promised SO well. The
long rains, it was feared had injured
the seeds III mats and winrows. But
the contrary has proven the case with
planting In this parish, and the num-
Der OF acres OF plant cane is greater
this year than any time since the war
closed.
A NEW precedent in railway traffic
was recently established in this wise:
A passenger on the Kansas Pacific
road, who had paid for section in a
Pullman sleeping car, rendered sec
ond class ticket IN settlement of the
railroads ordinary charge for transfer.
The conductor demanded frst-class
fare, but as the passenger was a we'll
developed miner, who enforced his
side of the argument by the exhibition
of a revolver, he went on his way tri-
umphant
A VERY large number of houses in
Paris are let out in flats, so that one
house may contain half q dozen fami-
lies. 1t sometimes happens that each
family own a piano, and if these in
struments are all sounding at once,
each performer playing different
tune, the effect may be imagined. A
case of the kind was recently brought
before the courts, In which man
brought suit against several tenants
for interfering with his business by
their continued iingling, but he lost
his case, as the court decided that
everybody had a right to play as much
as they pleased, within reasonable
hours.
The question whether fishes have the
organs necessary to produce vocal
sounds is just now attracting consider
able attention. Charles Robin has
just reported to the Academy of
Sciences in relation to the investiga-
lions of NJ. Dufosse concerning the
production of voice in certain fishes.
The swimming bladder appears to be
the principal agent, acting as a sound
board to argument the sound pro-
duced by other means, even i'll
species, with which it is closed sac;
but that it is not exclusively the cause
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