The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-08-02
Facts and Fancies.


vessel to search for her.
ST.. PAUL has opened a lunch house
with oatmeal porndge and milk.
PENNSYLVANIA aronauts take their
wives out riding Ill balloons.
THE twenty-foot amphibous monster
has reached Lake Champlain.
THE stocking of Penobscott River
with valuable food fish IS still going on.
lee two feet thick was discovered in
one Of the Hartford sewers few DAYS
ago.
THERE is a mill at Clinton, Iowa, en-
gagged making "a good article of build
ing paper.
THEY do things differently IN China.
There, If II young man just hits his
father, of goes his head.
The indignant citizens of Memphis
shoot at the health officers who come
proving around their premises
SOME thieves who follow Lent's
Circus had to break into four different
places III Muscatine, Iowa, TO get
$3.50
IT took the Rock Island Argus three
days to publish the whole of Governor
Palmer's Fourth Of July Grafton
The potato bug has reached Quebec,
and the great question with the hdbi-
tons Is, does the striped little cuss eat
onions
EIGHTEEN physicians of Cincinnati
have declared that gymnastics IN the
public schools are hurtful to the health
of children.
THE Indians in Eastern Oregon COM
plain OF hard times, like white people,
! aud they say they cannot sell single
pony for anything like its value,
The gam in California population by
all routes of travel for the last SIX
months is "a, 416, including 200 from
China and Japan.
\ BOY named Coon, 1T Lansing,
Mich, shot his thumb and forefnger
off, and went aud told his mother lie
guessed his Fourth of July was over for
this year.
Two trusting young men III Michigan
were lately inyeigled into an out-of-the
way place to see big snake, and there
robbed OF such valuables as they car
RED about them.
Mr.. EMERSON, says an exchange, was
much pleased with his recent visit to
Egypt He had particularly agree
able interview with the Sphinx, which
Is understood to have remarked, with
Il confidential wink, " You're an
| other"
DOES one woman in fifty fill the
| lower half of her lungs with air2' is
the stern inquiry of sanitary ex-
change. The editor OF the paper new
er heard the voice of an Infatuated
| mother-iI-law.
New YORK boasts of a bank president
| who denied himself a contemplated
| trip to Europe this summer so as to
afford his clerks their usual vacation.
lie generously remains at his post,
taking the place of each one IN turn
as he goes for a period of recreation.
The report is revived that Edwin
| Booth will soon go to England to play
an engagement III London and the pro
Vinclal cities, appearing in Il round of
lbs favorlte characters. 1t is asserted
that the terms made with him are of
the most liberal sort
JONI BRoUGHAM's health, lust now,
IS reported TO be 50 delicate that his
trends fear he will not be able to re.
turn to the stage next season The
GENIAL comedian has been a bOnvivant
50 many years that he is paying for his
! pleasure with a shattered constitution.
BIERsTADT has completed another of
| his large landscapes, representing the
southern Slenas, and calls it "Autumn
IN the Sierras." 1t is really a bright
view of the south fork of King, River,
with Mt. Brewer in the distance, over
looks the narrow VALLEY of the river
winding and foaming 5000 feet below
the point of view, while beyond, the
peak rises 5000 feet higher.
The fa5cinati )n which the ocean has
Tor some temperaments amounts TO in
toXlcatlOn, and finds a. Long Branch.
In tins broad eXpanse OF wonderful
blue, It's fullest qualification. There
are men and wOmen-mOrG men than
women-whO watch the play of light
upon the waters, the passing of distant
ships, the edge, advance and sullen re-
cedlng of the waves, from sunrise to
sunset, and never seem to grow weary.
Are they watchers for that gallant ship
oi''AS Nt'i nan 0fli1o iN'if lItlSllittl VIII
precious hopes that never comes back
THE Louisville Commercial grappIes
with the cable questions manfully
''Then down il occ MS depths, upon
It's solid payemeute, where the coral
lays the foundations gifts temples, and
where the pearl glitters with it's pure
lustre, there are mysteries which have
not yet been revealed, problems that
have not been solved, teemiug multi
tudes of living things whose habits are
not known. 1t is no wonder then that
the first cables have been fund de
fectiye"
\ HOUND was chasing a fox, near
Laurel Hill, n c., few days since,
when the latter, being tightly pressed,
took refuge in hollow log, entrance
to which it effected at a knot-hole The
dog coming up, and finding that the
fox had gotten into the log, thrust his
head into the knot-hole after the fox,
and got his head fast therein. Being
unable to extricate himself the dog
died and the fox, being cut off from
the only avenue of escape nom the
log, likewise persisted, both of them,