The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-03-08
General Items.

THE Jaw bone of whale has been
dug up IN Jewel county, Kan.
SINGLE sleighs rented as high as SIS
in New York New Years Day.
IT cost a Liverpool clergyman $685.,
900 TO love two, we'll but not wisely.
SUMMIT, Miss, is about to erect a
college building at a cost OF $50, 900
BALTIMORE exports annually $780,
900 worth of canned oysters.
CLEVELAND has fourteen rolling mills
in operation, against eight IN 1870.
ALL Berlin is on skates stree the
Thiergarten lakes have frozen over.
VELVET boots are worn by the New
York fashionables, to match the dress.
THE new starch factory at st. Joseph,
Mo-, uses up 1,500 bushels of corn
daily.
THIEVES have been stealing city
| lamps from the streets OF Brownsville,
| Texas.
POCKET BOOKS that grew thin during
the holidays are now beginning to flesh
up again under the "swear-otf'' diet.
CALIFORNIA expects an average yield
of four hundred pounds of castor oil to
the acre.
A DEN of 10 full grown rattlesnakes
was recently broken up at Owensboro,
Ky.
CONNECTICUT farmers are Disguised
with tobacco, and viii raise beets here
after instead.
NEwFoUNDLASD's best Goldfish Gus
toner is Brazil. Portugal ranks next
best.
Two THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED people
died of small-po IN Philadelphia i'll
1872.
THE Vienna Exposition will have
special department for women's
work"
SoMERs, a little Connecticut town,
has eleven couples ready for their
golden weddings.
THh Officers quarters" at Fort
Howard, Wis, where Zach. Taylor
used to be, have been pulled down.
a CENSUS at Denison, Texas, taken
when the town was three months old,
shows population OF 300.
The Catholic increase In this country
has been much less during the last
decade than in the decade previous.
HERE is a man at Newburyport who
thinks he took the smallpox from a.
cat which he took in and fed.
HUNDREDS Of negroes have left Geor-
gia and gone to Mississippi.
JEREMIAH KINGMAN, of Darlington,
n. H., has bequeathol so, 600 to Dart
mouth college.
The small pox, which prevails all
over Kentucky, Is entirely confined to.
the negroes.
FEBDINAED DAVID has resigned the
post OF First Professor at the Conser-
vatoire at Leipsic, which he had held
for twenty-five years.
The hide of the deceased elephant
Romeo has been tanned. Ii contains
212 square feet OF leather about three
quarters of an inch thick.
The premium to be paid the volun-
teers for one years service in the
French army has been fixed by the AS
sembly at 1880 francs-say about
$500
DURING The first nine months Of 1872.
England made away with 10, JOG, OIL
gallons OF spirits-1, 1863, AS gallons
more than she drank the corresponding
time in 1871.
GOTHAM adjures visiting cards. The
correct thing on the hall table Of every
house is gorgeously bound visiting
book, wherin each visitor records his
name and any message he may wish to
send.
THE total cost of the Boston water
works up to May /, 1872, was S9,602,
$50 z. The number OF water-takers is.
80, Ill; and the estimated income from
the sales of water during the ensuing
year is 1850, 900.
THERE are vast quantities of sumac
in the Mississippi valley, which CON
tains two and half per cent more Of
tannin than the best OF the Sicily
plant Tannin is largely in demand
among tanners.