The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-10-18
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"A ABasR Palsy is what they call
the ague at Mount Carmel.
4 ssow fly is the latest etom,o ioSlcal
discovery at Salt Lake.
A MILD winter Is predicted in thu
Northwest, because the corn husks are
thin
A SPANISH mackereI weighing eight
pounds was recently caught in Chesa
peake Bay.
RoLLING MILLS are soon ia be erected
in Cheyenne by the Union Pacific Rail
road.
If is timated that the bridge across
the Mississippi river at St. Louis, with
It's approaches, will cost S9,00o,00O.
The Boston Advertiser alludes to
one of the freshmen at Yale as MIR.
Montgomery Sears (of the Sears es-
tate)."
The new German ironclad now
building III England will be the most
powerful vessel in the German navy.
it is to be named :" Deutschland.
Arthur FIELD, London letter car
rier, has been sentenced TO five years
penal servitude for stealing letter. 1t
is different in this country.
The railroad train that is run into
by another is teiescoped; the man who
is run into by a Texas OK is steer CO.
scoped.
In the London Times report of the
Archbishop of York's sermon to the
British Association, reference to the
"Poet Laureate was made to read
Posi- office telegraphs"
The Newport Mercury of October
4th records the death during the past
week OF ten persons III that city and
vicinity whose ages were 81, 81, 76, SO,
SO, 50, rs, 81, SO and IS, an aggre gate
of ITO years.
A CALCUTTA dispatch of September
23d says that two more men have been
killed by the idol car in Madura. The
Bengal Government have at length or
dered the magistrates to prevent
danger to life from these Juggernaut
cars.
The marriage of Miss Gladstone,
eldest daughter of the Rev. j. E. Glad
stone, the PremIer's cousin and Vicar
of ST. Matthews In Wolverhampton,
to Mr.. Griffin, Cardiff solicitor, took
place on September 23d, at Wolver-
hampton.
A ooLoRED youth " cleaned out
parcel of boys Who pitched INTO him at
New Lisbon. Ohio, the other day, and
exclaimed: Z" Dress de Lord, dis niger
did not come all the way from Rich
mond for nothing"
The death OF the great painter, Land
seer, recalls the arecdote relating to
Sydney Smith, who, being asked to sit
for his portrait to the delineator of the
canine race, replied, els thy servant
dog that he should do this thing2"
MANY of our exchanges enormously
speak of the Modoc leaders as having
been executed for the killing of soldiers
and settlers. The fact Is. Capt Jack
and his companions were hanged ac-
cording to the laws of war for treacher-
ously violating flag of truce. They
were recognized as at war with the
United States, and had they carried on
far and open warfare they would not
have suffered
ENGLISH naval officers are, when on
foreign stations, III the habit of per
forming marriage ceremonies, there
being no Consul or Chaplain III the
neighborhood, on board their vessels
The law officers of the Crown have Just
decided that such marriages are not
valid, and III consequence the Commits
sioners of the Admiralty have directed
that no commanding officer shall in
solemnize a marriage.
CoLoRED MAN residing three miles
east of Jacksonville, H., named Prince,
sent his children to district school in
that nelghborhOod, few days ago,
when the Directors met them at the
school house and refused them admit
lance, for which offense Prince will
sue the Directors for so, 900 damages
at the next term of the Morgan County
Circuit Court
A SITKA correspondent thus describes
Alaska scenery: "Take one big
mountain, covered with trees from the
base nearly to the summit, with an
underground of brush, briers and
moss, almost passable-multipIy the
one by ten thousand and you Will have
Alaska. There is a terrible sameness.
One singular feature cf this mass of
forest is the absence of birds: ] have
seen but one robin in Sitka.'
IT is well known that leather articles
kept IN stables soon become brittle, in
consequence of ammoniacal exhala-
tlons, which affect both harness hang
ing up in such localities and the shoes
OF those who frequent them. The usual
application OF grease Is not always
sufficient to meet this difficulty but
1t is said that by adding to them a
small quantity OF glycerine the leather
will be kept continually in a soft and
pliable condition.
WICHITA is surely entitled to wear
the long horns. The biggest shipment
OF cattle ever made III one day was
made recently from that place, under
the management of Kline & Montgom-
cry. One hundred and twenty car
loads of twenty head each, or 2.4OO
head OF cattle, were shipped inside of
nine hours. Nhe first train of thirty.
one cars, or $40 mead Of cattle, were
loaded, the shipping bills made out,
and the tram away from the depot in
side of one hour and twenty minutes
tune. 1t took four engines to pull this
live freight. The value of this one
day shipment was not less than S28,-
800
COMMANDER BLAINE reports to the
Navy Department that at Wargate,
ninety miles north of Disco, Green
land, the Juniata's launch got fifteen