The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-12
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preparing to gointo a convent.
JEFF DAVIS private secretary has
started Texas paper.
REV. Mr. SHOCKS is the singular
name of an Iowa clergyman.
Two terriers killed rat minute
each for an hour IN Baltimore stable,
on Monday.
THE Detroit Post, Zach Chambers
personal organ, says "Pomeroy is a
dead man, anyhow. and the Senate
simply did not bury hIm-that Is all. "
A RASH carpet-bagger, addressing a
colored audience in South Carolina, the
other day, remarked: my friends and
fellow citizens, my skin is white, but
my heart is as black as this audience ~
CANADA wants name for an island dis
covered In one of It's unpronounceable
lakes, which is said to swarm with bea.
vers enough to supply the fur trade for
all time.
As far down as Costa Rica the exper-
iment of Chinese cheap labor is being
tried by the contractors of the Costa
RIca Railway Six hundred and fifty
four of the Acknowledged and amiable
Celestials constitute the first INSTALL
ment.
CHARLESTON, S. c., with popula
ton of 80, 600, has imported, during
the past season, 81 cargoes of fruit
from the West Indies, consisting of g.
1856, COS oranges (besides over 80, 600
from Florida), Is, 900 punches bananas,
and 507, l9l cocoanuts.
A SPLENDID bale of upland cotton was
-. III,
Vienna, Saturday, by Messrs. j. W.
Jefferson & Co, Memphis. The bale
weighed 450 pounds, and was packed
III blue silk reps, the ties being richly
gilt.
The Island of Barbados is more
thickly settled than China, with her
800, 600, 900. With a superficial area
of only about 166 square miles, without
any large towns, without manufactures
of any description, a purely a9ricultu-
raj colony, she actually supports a
population of 100000 souls, or over
/ 084 to the square mile.
The little post office at Rockland,
Me, takes in more foreign money
orders than New York or any other
| Office III the country A large number
of Scotch, English and Irish stone cut
tiers are employed in the granite quar-
Yles there, who take this mode of send
ing money to their families in the Old
World.
An old man was tnrne q out of doors
i'll London, Out, by a son, well-to-do,
so far as this worlds goods are con-
cerned, and was compelled 10 apply TO
d police magistrate for conimittal to
II To loon CT
lstrate sent him down for four months,
and aid not send the unnatural son to
keep him company
New YORK has 1,502, 6S4 children of
school age, of whom 494, $50 are 10 daily
attendance in the common schools
that is to say, less than one third of
the whole number receive regular in
structIon, although upward of a million
attended the schools during some por-
ton OF the past year
a CAYUGA COUNTY, n Y, Justice Of
the peace has held the office five years,
and has never issued summons. A
creditor did come to him once to col
lect debt, but he bought the demand
and obtained his money without
summons
A PENNSYLVANIA college proposes to
establish a department of cookery A
bill is pending in the Legislature which
provides for an appropriation of $40
600 to build the general cook-shop as
an adjunct to the college, and the sci
ence of cookery will, therefore, become
part of the curriculum if the bill
passes.
WHERE" asks the Danbury News.
= is that elderly scamp who has howled
for slXty-threc years for an old fash
Toned winter? Where is the old rep
tile, that We can get at him2 How we
would like to run him through plan
ing null run by ice water, and cut him
open with snow pillow, and fill him
iull OF snow balls, and sew him up with
an lcicle, and strap him to the north
pole until the spring rains release him.
The awful wretch !"
The Mayor of Schenectady. like the
| Cahph Haroun al Rasch d and other
| famous rulers, it is said, recently dis
guised himself as - rough, and stag
gered through the streets to test the
vigilance OF his police. He was arrest
| ed, and examination showed burglars
! tools, policeman whistle, and other
uncanny things concealed on his per-
son. He was about to be locked up TO
await trial, when his disguise was dis
| arranged, and he was recognized and
set free by his thunderstruck subordi-
mates.
The Greeley Tribune AYERS that the
Rocky Mountain turkey never sings
until dark, and even then it fails to do
itself justice, unless the sky is cloudy.
1t frequents the deepest and most in
accessible canons of the mountains.
and it can only be trapped during the
the early spring and autumn months.
A piece Of bright Tin tied on a long pole
Will attract scores Of these turkeys.
Mr. Dunbar, Denver naturalist, saws
that 1T is species of the albiaon-a
bird that is found among the Andes in
South America. 1t is certainly
strange animal, and at times its singing
is really beautiful
A RECENT English work on billiards
gives some interesting particulars con-
nected with tho game. 1t was only in
1927 that slate tables were substituted
for wool and marble, and only in 1875
that India rubber cushions took the
place of flock and list. Again, it was
not until 1907 than leathern tips were
invented for cues, which rendered side
strokes possible About 1918 the side
stroke was discovered by one BARLEY.
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