The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-12
General Items.

bankruptcy with debts aggregatlng
50, 600, and no assets.
THERE is &c snow hole in Williams
town, Mass, where snow can be seen at
any season OF the year.
IT is reported that all the logs are
now out of the PenObscot boom for the
first time in sixteen years.
A CONTEMPORARY says that the Lon
don Times is growing duh and slip
shod and second-rate, all of which is
very true.
OLD visitors scarcely recognize the
Ocean House, Long Branch, on account
of the many improvements made by
the Lelands
KENTUCKY elects a Legislature IN
August There is general sentiment III
favor of a constitutional convention IN
the State.
A HARVARD sophomore was among
the recently rejected applicants at West
Point.
i MAGIC TRAVELLING BUSTER" Is a
new article for women's wear now dis
played in the stores. 1t is only the
latest illustration Of witchcraft.
A New ENGLAND journal has discov-
cred that the degree of l.. L. d. was
conferred on General Phil. Sheridan on
account OF his knowledge of cannon
law.
THE farmers organization in Michi-
gau, began April l6, now numbers over
, 900 voting members, and there are no
elections in Michigan until November,
1874
THERE is tree standing in front of
the Dyersburg, Tenn, Presbyt terrain
Church that has been struck by light
ming nineteen times and it is a good
tree yet
4 HOUSE in which ten persons were
sleeping was forced from It's founda-
tons at the foot of ii cliff in Montreal,
a few days ago, by the fail of a huge
rock, and was pushed ont into the mid
die Of the road without any Injury to
the inmates.
4 MINNESOTA paper asserts that a
Kerosene lamp, SO set that the rays of
the sun passed through il and came to
a focus on Il window curtain, set the
curtain on fire.
THE Republicans OF New Mexico will
hold convention III Santa Fe on the
18th of July, to nominate delegate to
Congress. Hon. Francisco z. Abren
Is the leading candidate.
ANDnow the stove trade has its Jour
nal, a monthly magazine, published in
Albany, and devoted exclusively to the
warm advocacy of the burning interests
of stove manufactures.
As a schoolmaster was employed, the
other day, III Scotland, III teaching a
sharp urchin to cypher on the slate,
the precocious pupil put the following
question TO his instructor, Where dir
a the figures gang till when they're
rubbed out!"
Now THAT the ladies' fans have at
tanned a useful size, it is suggested
that fan parties for the purpose of
winnOwiDg wheat would be a seas IN
able and sensible pastime for the ladies
who are summering i'll the rural dis
tricts.
On the eve of a battle, an oficercame
to ask permission of the commander to
go and see bis father, who was on his
death bed. " Go, . said the General,
You honor your father and your
mother, that your days may be long
upon Utt ltllt-
The present population of the prin.
cipal cities OF Great Britain is as fol-
lows: London, 3,356, O72 Liverpool.
J05, 274; Glasgow, 1873, 462: MIanches-
ter, 354, 057; Dublin, 314, SOS Edin-
burg, 3GS, 553
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston
Transcript, who renews the cry that
INV /. I -.
suggests that WeStland might, per.
haps, be as good a one as England is
for our mother land. Our people, he
says, might then be called Westland-
ers, or, better still, Westerans.
The reconstruction of the Vendome
Column has begun, and is expected to
take three months. After rebuilding
the staircase in stone, it will have to
be cased with bronze That metallic
coating consists Of three hundred and
seventy distinct pieces, with bas-reliefs
IN spiral form, the whole making
twenty-five revolutions, Of the length
OF three and quarter feet each. The
principal difficulty of the operation
lies III the adjustment of these pieces.
Two LONDON swells recently had a
quarrel about bet, and, after a chal-
lenge had been given and accepted, a
difficulty arose about the choice of
weapons. They referred it to CIV
Livingstone, the author, who decided
that they should meet IN the middle of
PIccadilly with horsewhips, and be-
labor each other until one cried enough.
The plan was insisted on, and the com
bat actually came off in that manner,
resulting in the speedy satisfaction of
one of the parties.
The veritable flag which waved over
l ort McHenry III 1914, when it was
bombarded by the British forces. and
which suggested the composing of 'sThe
Star-spangled Banner" has been sent
to the navy yard at Charlestown, Mass.
tor repairs. The flag was originally
thirty SIX feet long and twenty four
wide, but from usage it has lost some
tour feet Of its length, and one of its
fifteen stars was also shot away. 1t has
fifteen stripes, for it was not until 1913
That the law was passed restricting the
humber OF stripes upon our flags to
thirteen.