The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-05
General Items.


THE Rev Dr. Rutledge, of Illinois,
has lost not only his watch but his pull
pit by betting at " three-card monte"
Mrs. PARrINGroN says that there is
no blessin' like health, particularly
when you're ill.,
FARMERS i'll Connecticut Valley are
making more extensive arrangements
than ever for raising tobacco.
MASSACHUSETTS has nineteen cities
now, the last Legislature having grant
ed three new charters.
GEN. JOHN S. (Cerro Gordo) Williams
is a Democratic candidate for the Leg
islature OF Kentucky.
You can use postage stamp twice
The first time 1t Will cost you three
cents, the second time fifty dollars.
AN irate man who was disappointed
in his boots, threatened to eat up the
shoemaker, but compromised by drink
ing cobbler.
The married ladies of a Western city
have formed a Come-hOme Husband
Club" 1t is about four feet long, and
has brush at the end of it.
otSh DlLLlNIo say - us NOIhS
hard all day and don't do emmy thing
goes to bed at night, then gifts up next
morning and begins where shel oph. "
Ir is a Louisville woman this time
who bought feather bed and found a
shot beg inside of it, with $40 in bank
notes.
The people of Martin county, India
ma, are agitated over the elopment of
Catholic priest with the young daugh-
er of prominent citizen.
The masters of all the subordinate
oranges III Tennessee are to meet at
Humboldt on the 81 of July to organ
ize a State Grange.
WATERAIELoNs are selling in Key
West at twenty cents each, and with
the gaunt spectre of cholera lowering
over the place all the time.
The Boston Transcript advices that
the captured Modocs be sent to Vienna,
and suggests that they would fill
good zeal of empty space.
A WIDOW IN Maine has lately worked
out her tax on the highway, and the
surveyor said she did her work better
than any man IN the town.
a KENTUCKY man has named his six
teenth child, recently born to him,
Omega, hoping the fates will let her be
the last.
The necessary legislation having
already been had Texas viii elect on the
on the first Tuesday in December next
a full State ticket, both Houses of its
Legislature, and many minor officers.
A BOsToN paper asserts that more
men have been arrested for drunken
ness iii that city since the new Prohibi-
itory law went INTO effect than ever be-
fore in the same length of time.
THE sprighily Boston Transcript
asks - If Miss is as good as mile,
how good is a Mrs 2" If she is a widow,
she will be good for a league under
almost any circumstances.
ONE of the Ohio Liberals " who
have been sued for the value of fire.
works furnished i'll the last Presidential
campaign. intimates that the e-works
were spoiled by the tidal-wave.
A NEwFoUNDLAND dog, in Portland,
Me-, which was pestered by a small
dog, endured the infection for while,
and then took the cur in his teeth and
held him under water in Rock Cove
until he was drowned
THERE is an old gentleman in New
York, a descendant of the old Knicker-
bockers, who, though ninety years old {
has not been to bed sober in sixty-tive
years. He lately applied for the posi-
ton of inspector of liquors, but his
nose, one of tile Hovey's seeding
strawberry kind, betrayed him.
A YOUNG man IN Peoria sought to
win his sweetheart by strategy, so he
took her out for boat ride and then
threatened Ia jump overheard into the
lake If she did not consent to marry
him. But it dId not work at all She
offered to bet him dollar that he dare
not dive in.
AN aerolite, weighing sixty pounds,
fell and hit negro or the head in La
fay cite, Ind, the other day. When
the stone was picked up, (the negro
was not knocked down nor injured, save
tn at his wool was slightly scorched) it
was partially fused on one side, prob
ably by the heat generated by its srd-
den contact with the colored mans
skull.
IMMIGRATION to Brazil has succeeded
IN a single instance. that of German
colonization of the southernmost prov
lnce of the empire, where the climate
is temperate enough TO be propitious.
In the northern provinces immigrants
will be killed by the climate sooner or
later Oh the coast, and If they go far
inland to a better climate they find
themselves isolated in wilderness,
without roads and without market
or tier produce.
TYPE-sETTING may be a condenser
SAID missionary from Savage Island,
at one OF the London anniversaries, last
month, persons of literary turn Of
mind would do well, perhaps, to have
! a small printing press in the study, and
when they are very anxious to avoid
dltfuseness of style, just let them set ,
their work up, and If they ever after
use two words where one will do, the
compositor's task canes easier to them
than it does to me-"
JUGGERNAUT CARS still make their APP
pearance at certain Hindoo festivals,
but without the horrld features of sac
ritice which formerly characterized
| them. Curiously enough, however,
the natives make the present cars so
heavy and clumsy that they seriously
endanger life when dragged through
| the streets. At the Ruth Festival near
Serampore, six persons were crushed
to death by these machines of MUIR
der Z" lin which respect they must be
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