The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-08-23
General Items.

| Ii Is Sdlu uIldu DlOcklup blTuS anu
canaries sickened and died in Tonnes
see towns where cholera prevailed.
Con. GoURLEY, q member of the
British Parliament, is about to be mar
ried in London to an American lady.
THE fashionable ladies of London
have introduced a very stylish wrap or
jacket, called Shah. cit is all the
rage, " we hear.
AMERICAN newspapers and magazines
published IN German have been forbid
den by the German government to be
sold in that country.
LONDON papers announce that Ma
pleson has engaged Miss Kellogg for a
season of six weeks Italian opera in
that city, commencing In November
A NEW Conservative daily paper is to
be started in Glasgow in September,
with paid-in fund of f130, 900 to float
| it.
PARIS is to have grand cathedral on
| the heights of Montmartre, to be
| known as the Church of the Sacred
Heart.
SrR JOHN LUBBOCK has bought the
celebrated prehistoric mound at Sllbury
Hill, England, the largest of the great
British tumuh.
LAUGHING photographs are becoming
the rage, and various devices are re-
sorted to by photographers to get up
grim on the face of the sitter.
RUFUS PORTER, the original editor of
the Scientific American, has invented a
| flying machine, and viii be Just the
70 Of
Wise's balloon.
| THE photographs of some American
| beauties, exhibited at the Vienna Ex-
position by Mr. Kurtz, have attracted
| a great deal of attention and elected
great praise and admiration.
Travel along tie Rhine is very brisk
this summer. The little "ginger-
bread steamers are loaded down with
tourists, to the general delight of cap
taIns, pilots, engineers and stewards.
FLORENCE is comparatively deserted.
The arIstocracy have left the city, ditto
the Americans, and only the members
of the celebrated Can't Getaway Club
are left to brave the cheated term"
The recent unusual heat in England
has produced q crop of mosquitoes,
hitherto strangers III that climate, but
apparently brought into existence by
spell of hot weather.
A STUDENT at a veterinary college
being asked, If a broken-winded
horse We're brought to You to cure,
what would you advise p" promptly
replied, "Sell him as soon as possible?"
Won MoLTKE has left Berlin for the
Won Moltke homestead at Creisau, ST.
lesia. He is reported very feeble in
health and anxious for quiet and re-
tired life. SO is Bismarck.
THE Shah's visit to England has
given the burlesque writer's ample ma
terial for Christmas pantomimes in
London. In Paris they have already
shown him up }" at the cheap thea
tres.
ROME has a new and very large hotel
on the Via Nazionale, called the 8 Ho-
tel Philadelphia. 1t has not been
opened, and proprietor is wanted who
can see has way clear to pay 5000
annual rent.
A CLEVER English mechanic has in
vented drag by which he can stop, liz
short time, a vehicle going at full
speed and better still, he stores up
The impetus and renders it available
for starting the vehicle again as soon
as the drag is removed.
A GENUINE autograph of John Bunyan
has been discovered in the fy-leaf of
an old book called dwelling with
God the Interest and Duty Of Be
heyers, a once well known and popular
work of Puritan theology, published III
1910.
SOME idea of the value of land near
London may be had from the fact that
the government has recently paid 600
coo an acre for Norwood Scrubs, in
order to keep it as a drill practicing
ground for the troops and the volun-
tceTs..
\ WOMAN II years old, at Ripley,
Miss, walked five and a half miles to
lately, carrying on her back
seven turkey gobblers, twenty-five
chickens, twenty-four dozen eggs, and
six pounds OF butter" and she does
that sort of things regularly. How the
express companies must love her !
AN angler on Trout Lake. Ontario.
lately had his hat blown away. and
while rowing hard to recover it was
surprised to see it spinning across the
water at tremendous rate. On over
taking it he found that a large trout
had taken an artificial fly affixed to the
hat, but the line broke before the
trout could be secured.
The Univers ioyfully announce that
Mr. Darwin was rejected by twenty-six
against six votes IS corresponding
nember of the French Academy of
science, Mr. Striensce was named
member in the place of
Alr. Agassiz, who has became a foreign
associate; Nj. Dana, in the room of M.
Plete, deceased; and Dr. Carpenter, in
5he place of Nj. Pouchet, deceased
A MEDAL has been struck to com
nemorate the entry Of the Italians
nto Rome. 1t is to be distributed TO
ii who have rendered meritorious ser.
ices III obtaining the Independence
liberty and unity of Italy. The King
to receive the medal III gold, Gen.
III silver, and deputies
enators and others in copper. Not
acre than thousand of them are to be
truck.
HE New York Commercial Adyer-
Iser tells of Western Congressman
no carries his back pay in a leather
ouch attached to a strap about his
erson. Whenever he has any talk
nth good, conscientious people, and
eCInS to feel that ba oro,l4 -