The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-06-28
Miscellaneous Items.

DIT DeuUlnSGOH, VI.
GEN. BABCooK, the Presidents pri-
vate secretary, will have a $50, 900
residence at Long Branch completed
in July.
The oldest inhabitant of Illinois. "
as reported by the Monmouth Demo
crat, Is Agnes Asson, of New Egypt,
who was born in ITO, and enjoys good
health and her pipe to a remarkable
degree"
SHAD fishing on the Hudson results
Ii an average daily catch Of 2, 600 fish.
One hundred and ninety-two boats
valued at SIC, 459, 205, nets worth $751;
GA, and $50 men to manipulate them,
are employed in the fishery.
Ii is now the fashion in Paris at re
ceptions for ladies to sit IN the center
of room, back to back, on a large OF
toman, and on sofas against the walls;
the gentlemen stand and walk around
the beehive. No position, let it be
understood, can be more effective for
the display Of dress-if this be the
grand object of holding receptions.
in the Holy Trinity Church, Minories.
1t is nothing less remarkable than the
head of the Duke of Sussex. the
father of Lady Jane Gray 1t is kept
in a small tin box. There is a mark as
from a cut with an axe upon the neck
The skin is very much like thick parch-
ment.
A JUvINILE marriage has Just taken
place III Galveston. Texas, which re-
minds one of the runaway children in
Mr.. Dickens pretty story. The Texas
bride was only Il years old and the
bridegroom but Il. What is curious
and embarrassing is that the husband
must go to school one year and the
wife three, under the compulsory edu-
cation law of Texas.
Ii IS rather suspicious when a lady
In Boston sends letter written on
black boarded paper, inclosed in a
mourning envelope, to newspaper,
asking the names of the old Board of
Health. 1t suggests actions at law,
especially as the aforesaid old board is
| SAID not to have been the most efficient
one in the world, and the recent raw
ages of the small pox in Boston are
partly ascribed to its negligence.
EARTHQUAKES seem likely to become
| a recognized characteristic of the north
west corner, If we may believe the
story of /. J. Mcbride, who prints in
the Walla Walla Statesman, of May 10,
a statement that 50 since the 14th of
February last the country in Washing
ton Territory between the Wenatchee
and Lake ChelaG has not passed a SIN
gle day free from earthquake vista
ton
NINE. NILSSON RoUzAND recently sang
at a tete IN Paris, given by the Baron
ess Adolphe de Rothschild to inaugu-
rate the new galleries of her houses on
the Rue de Monceau The prima
donna appeared as the personal friend
of the Baroness. During the tete she
sang in five different languages, and
was enthusiastically applauded in all
ONE of those dreadful accidents
which wait on suicidal acrobatism has
taken place recently III England A
performer, known as LenOati the
bycicle rider and spiral ascensionist,
has received frightful injuries by fall
ing with his bycicle from the top OF a
spiral column which he was in the act
Of descending, at the Vauxhall grounds,
Wolyerhampton. He fell at height
of forty feet.
THE new opera of adam and Eve"
it is thought, will be given up, the
only manager who has yet attempted
to produce it having had difficulty
with the prima donna in the matter of
costume. The lady declines to take
the character of g Eve unless allowed
to appear in yellow satin train and
n
hibits a marked preference for velvet
tunlc and rapier. The great moral
work will probably be handed over to
the ballet people.
AN lushman being recently on trial
for some otfense. pleaded mot guilty."
and the jury being in the box, the State
Solicitor proceeded to call Mr. Furkis-
son as witness. With the utmost in
nocence Patrick turned his face to the
Court and said: do | understand,
your Honor, that Mr.. Furkisson is to
be witness foreninst me again? The
Judge said dryly: ct seems 500
g Well then, your Honor" exclaimed
Pat, Il plade guilty, an your Honor
phase; not because am guilty, for /
am as innocent as your Honors suck
ling baby, but jlst on account o savin'
Mr.. Furkisson's sowl. y
SUCH thing as two crops of grain In
one year Is by no means rare in Cali
tornia. Apple trees have been known
to yield two crops, and pear trees three
crops but snch phenomenon as that
related Ill the subjoined item from an
Almeda paper will be likely to create
surprise; GA sixty acre field on the
rancho of Juan Peralta, near San Lean
dro, was sown to barley last year, and
good heavy crop of grain harvested
from 1t. This year 1t was allowed to
volunteer, ana it has produced a heavy
crop OF clear oats, which now stand
about three feet high, and are in
very thrifty condition."
A HOP in your walk is halt, but a
dance upon nothing is halter. A
deal of gold may be- plum, but deal
er OF lead is a plumber. You may
sometimes pat sauce into a cup, out
you should always put cup into a
saucer. You'rea fool if you re a walker
III pond you're q philosopher il you
ponder IN your walk. A cough makes
you wheezy in the chest, but of the
chest you can easily make Golfer. A
steel is what makes blade sharp, but
a blade that makes a sharper is a
stealer
A TEEToTAL orator recently delivered
himself as follows: tsNow hOvs If