The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-09-20
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einitS Hlly cents TO tne pound.
The . claimant" is wary politician,
he IS away most of his time.
THE latest Kansas City industry is
the discovery of Mastodon teeth.
THEY are cultivating the tea plant
near Oneida with success.
A LIFE of Washington has been pub
lished by japanese at Yeddo.
A HIVE of bees was sent to Western
postoffice for transmission by mail.
I" HOTTER than h-h-heretofore, :"
is the way the Mclean County Pro-
gress puts it.
A CIRCUS elephant stole paper of
chewing tobacco at Des Moines, and
swallowed it.
The Princess Metternich is the owner
of lace valued at 100000.
The bottom of IA we'll must be a
shocking place, for even Truth is said
to lie there.
For knocking out the last tooth his
mother-in-law had, California man
had to pay 800.
ENGLAND is now represented ut Zan-
zIbar by five war vessels engaged III
the suppression of the slave trade.
Mrs. GIDEON WELLEs broke her wrist
by falling down a PAIR of steps at New
port, r. [ -, on Tuesday afternoon.
A LOUISIANA paper states that the
| inscription for sale or " for rent
is posted on more that 5000 houses
aud stores in New Orleans.
BISHOP RANDALL, of Wyoming Terri
tory, while on recent Episcopal tour
through his diocese, narrowly escaped
being scalped by the Sioux
A CONNECTICUT paper-not the Dan
bury News-says the lobster is still
popular, notwithstanding its retroact-
i've claws.
A MAN with a wart on his nose has
recovered $500 III Baltimore court
against the brute who reminded him of
that protuberance by calling him
Warty."
THERE is no reason why those who
are not fond of bacon should tolerate
it, for according to the prOverb, only
that which can't be cured must be
endured.
- IRIS never too late to mend" is an
old saying, which we do not care to
dispute as far as regulations and old
clothes are concerned; but how about
broken necks
CHICAGO thinks 1T lucky for st.
Louis that her directory was finished
before the cholera set in Her ceme~
terry is growing in proportion as her
population is decreasing!"
THE new volume of Mr.. Longfellow's
poems. " Aftermath" will contain an
other series of Tales of a Wayside
Inn," and will be ready early III Sep
tember.-LOudOnA hen9un7.
EATING an Indian turnip two years
ago has produced Il moustache and
side whiskers on a three-year-old boy
III Salem, Ind The youths of the
town are now living on little else than
these vegetables.
Mr.. MoKcURE d. CONWAY is engaged
on a work called 1.-THE Sacred AuthOl-
which will contain collection of class
fled passages from the sacred books
of all races.
s. Will you have some strawber-
ries Z" asked lady of a guest. &C Yes,
madam, yes | eat Strawberries with
enthusiasm" " Do tell Well, we
haven't anything but cream and sugar
for 'em this evening" said the matter
of-fact hostess.
RESTORED Chicago has now 212
churches in operation, SO benevolent
and other public societies, 40 Masonic
and 10 other secret societies, not in
Guiding iudutrial unions, 81 uewspa-
pers, 81 railroad companies, and ], 100
public streets.
A WESTERN paper says that " along
the sidewalk the watermelon and the
undertaken go hand in hand typhoid
lever Sails in an invisible shallop on
the lake of the green scum and chol-
era morbus fam1liarly swings on the
front gate"
THOSE who complain of General But
ler's unfairness, aud say that he
g never takes back anything" are mis-
taken. In justice to him, it is proper
to say that he does so sometimes very
willingly. A conspicuous instance of
this IS seen IN the alacrity with which
he took back pay.
A NEGRO stole the CARPET from u
Tennessee church, and cut it up into
horse blankets, and the congregation
all Weht over Broad River to see HIM
immersed. From some unaocountable
accident, he was held under the water
just one minute too long.
The Galveston (Texas) News saws :
9 We learn from Capt Glen, TIE State
Geologlst, that the discovery has been
reported to his Office of cave rear the
first station from Devils river. the in,
terror of which contains very remarka-
BILE painting and sculpture, apparently
of Atzec origin"
A SHORT time since the Indians at
Washoe Lake drove the young ducks
as yet unable to fy--through the titles
bordering the lake till they got them
INTO point where they surrounded
and captured three or four hundred,
and with the spoils loaded themselves
and ponies.
REPORTS from Columbus, Nevada, do
not speak well for the prospects of that
town. The population is estimated at
25O, OF which $50 are professional
gamblers, fifty laboring men, working
at st per day, and 80 dead-brokes, who
live on what they can beg of those who
have money.
HE Tlchehorne claimants butcher
shop at Wagga Wagga, Australia, is for
sale. The possessor offers to sell it
n,,f, 10 4 FA,, .