The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-03-22
Miscellaneous Hens.

Conn, has invented tobacco saw, tc
cut the weed in the field.
A PARTY of Mexican capitalists.
among whom is General A. Busta.
mente, arrived at New York on the
steamship Ocean Queen, and are now
at the New York Hotel
Miss LEWIS, the American (colored)
sculptress, in London, has two $50. 600
orders from English aristocrats.
The New Hampshire Patriot. daily
and weekly. has been sold by Butter
| field & Hill to Edwin C. Bailey, late
proprietor of the Boston Herald.
THE Prince of Wales will, it is said.
preside at the National Eisteddford, to
be held at Mold, North Wales, this
year.
THERE is parrot in Addison County,
| Vt, which has been owned by the
same lady !hirty-six years.
Tue marriage of Prince Leopold of
Bavaria with the Archduchess Gisela
of Austria, has been finally fixed for
the oath of April. Louis has already
appointed retinne to attend the
young prlncely couple.
The English navy is about t. discard
the open-necked shirts which, from
time immemorial, have given British
sailors the bronchitis and pneumonia.
and adopt different style of throttle.
THE Grand Opera House in st. Louis
Is the poorest Investment that could be
made of bricks, it not yet having earn
ed enough to pay for the gas.
JOHN ROGERS is modelling statuette
entitled 1.-The Favored Scholar" We
have not yet seen the design, but sup
pose 1T represents scloolmaster kiss
ing big girl behind the blackboard.
A CHILD died recently at Allegheny
City, Pa, from the effects of eating
colored confectionery. The baker had
got up very pretty little cake covered
with sugar colored with red aniline, a
rank poison.
THERE have been an unusual number
of failures in the last class at West
Point. No less than eighteen Of the
cadets nominated last year have been
recommended for discharge. The va
cancies will be filled next May.
The compositors of the Louisville
Commercial have formed mutual
smallpox insurance company. When
one of the number is taken sick with
smsu pox the rest pay him a dollar a
week until he RECEIVERS.
A FARMER now in Illinois, who thir-
teen years ago sold load Of potatoes
in Maine, and by short measure made
twenty-five bushels out of twenty-four,
/ hn Ii Il 4 l.
return the dishonest gain, with inter
est at ten per cent.
THAT fellow that went around last
winter predicting mild and open win
ter, says his prophecies would have
come out all right if it hadn't been for
the new tangled invention Of " atmo-
spheric waves
A COW owned by a blacksmith in Al
, fred, n. Y, was recently butchered,
and her stomach was found to contain
four pounds of horseshoe nails and q
large quantity of old iron. Iron bein Q
good for the blood, of course she was a
healthy COW.
MANCHESTER, Del, still "tolls the
| knell of parting day" with a curfeW
| bell at nine p. NJ, as a signal for quiet
citizens to go to bed, but there occur
few instances of people paying any at
| tentiOn to it.
The cultivation of oranges in Califor-
mia IS extending. Hitherto they have
mainly come from Los Angeles now
they come in literally from several
other counties and are produced even
north of thirty nine degrees without
difficulty.
A WESTERN newspaper gives thrill
| ling account Of . steamers perilous
voyage, describing particularly her
dangerous passage over the Falls, with
only Zone inch of water between her
! keel and the rocks, and half an inch of
atmospere between her chimneys and
the bridge"
Or. TERRY. of Columbus, Ga, gave
the following wise testimony: - Saw
deceased after he was shot he was ly-
ing on the floor in pool of blood, in a
| dying condition; j don't know how
long he lived afterward / did not
make any minute examination for the
reason that [ did not want you lawyers
to prove that killed him with probe .
A GERMAN peddler is the innocent
author of problem of which we beg
the solution. He was asked if it was
not heavy work carrying d big pack
around day after day. " Oh, yes" he
replied, g it vas heavy" well, y
| said the qrlerist, ''doyou make much?"
"Well, L dunno some days | max e
nothing and oder days twice SO much. "
A VERMONT landlord has offered to
abandon the sale of liquor if his own
townsmen will pay him $500 p year,
thus ASSUMING part OF his loss. The
town people refuse, and threaten him
with prosecution if he continues the
traffic
NELLIE MAGFRN,E, formerly OF Pitts
fsld, Mass, recently died of starvation
and poison ut ST. Parl, Mimi. SO says
a current newspaper item-adding that
the poor girl had tried to earn her liv-
ing as sempstrcss, failed for want of
skill, fell sick into want, and ultimate
~ took opium
THE Cologne Gavottn eo-e that the
| tidings OF the Emperor Napoleon's
death occasioned general and deep re-
greet in Strasburg. Sympathizing with
the Emperor's reyerses and distresses,
his former subjects seem to retain no
memory for his blaneable deeds, but
only remember the good he had done.
The Gazette's correspondent adds
that he saw many tears shed at the ar
rival of the melancholy news.
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