The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-10
General Items.


AN old bachelor farmer in Iowa
thinks it rather hard that he should be
compelled to pay 81, $50 school tax.
A MAN in New Braintree, Massachu-
sets, has just passed the fftieth an
niversary of his marriage with his third
WIFE
A VIRGINIA paper says it ought to
have put the damage by recent fire
at 50, 900, and not $500,000 its first
estimate.
LARGE deposits of borax have been
discovered in Inyo and Mono counties,
Nevada.
THE wheat crop in California this
season promises to be the largest ever
known.
A MONUMENT to Col. Ellsworth is
contracted for. 1t will cost So, 900,
and will be of Quincy granite.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, contractor or the
Rock Island Rap ids, sustained loss
of from IS, ZOO to $40, ZOO by the going
out of the ice at Hampton.
Z TRUNK recently exploded in bag
gage car at Indianapolis, Ind, from
rough handling, injuring the porter
somewhat severely.
DR. THOMAS EVANS, the well -known
American dentist in Paris, averages
one gift month from the Prince of
Wales.
IT is said that in Scotland one man
in every thousand goes to college; in
Germany the proportion is one for
every $500; i'll England it is one for
every $500.
LONDON has forty-six regular thea
tres, and one now in course of erection.
This is exclusive cf music halls, con-
cert rooms, and entertainment galleries
which number over one hundred.
NArcHEz, Mississippi, which has a
population of about 5000, boasts that
it has recently passed a whole week
without losing a single citizen by
death.
THE local editor of Natchez paper
fell asleep while crossing the river the
other day, and when he awoke he owed
the ferry company So 20, at ten cents
trip.
ONE of the corpses picked up at the
Atlantic wreck had on a quilted vest,
there was a sovereign, there being in
all about eighty, equal to s40o.
IN Paris the diary of Louis XVI, has
just been published. The existence of
the manuscript has been heretofore
unknown, and the volume lay forgot
ten in portfolio of the national IL
brary.
An ardent lover, pouring out his pas
slonate devotion in verse, spoke of that
night when, walking with his sweet
heart, he "kissed her under the silent
stars. In print he was made to say
that he bad clicked her under the eel,
lar stairs"
THE famous Watkins Glen, near the
head of Lake Seneca, New York, which
less than three years ago was pur-
chased for S25, 900, has just been sold
to Philadelphia firm for 500, 1000
Ten years ago the property could have
been purchased for $4,000
A RHODE ISLAND paper contains the
information that the people Of liver
ton got tired of their female school
commission In one years trial, and last
week elected a new board composed
wholly of men.
INDIANAPOLIS is to be surrounded by
railroad, to facilitate the transfer of
freight by connecting with the twelve
railroads centering there. It will be
about twelve miles long, and the COM
pany has capital of $1,000 900.
II is reported that Moses Sengman
has formed an organization of English
and German capitalists, and will short
~ start a new bank here with a paid-up
capital of e3, 000,00O or SIS, 900, 900 in
round numbers. San Francisco Post.
A sTEET-CAR conductor in Detroit
picked up navy revolver from the
floor as several passengers were depart
ing, the other day, and a we'll dressed
woman claimed it, with the remark,
" That's the second time I've lost that
lhis week.
WHILE the civilized world was feel
ing the full shock of the wreck of the
Atlantic, and the bodies of the dead
still lay frozen on the beach, man in
Toronto sent the following unbique
dispatch to Captain Williams 'sThis
is the best market for sale of damaged
goods. Let me hear from you.n
MANY of the Catholic Cardinals are
old men. Billet is ninety De Ange-
lis, eighty-one Cateriui, seventy
eight ; Amat, seventy six Grasselini,
seventy-seven Matthew, seventy
seven Antonucci, seventy-tive Pat
rizi, seventy-fve.
THE Potomac. fisheries yield every
year weight of fish equal to what is
taken on the Newfoundland banks-to
net about 10000, 900 pounds. About
1000, 900 of Goldfish are annually t * en-
on the banks, weighin5 about 80, OOO,-
600 pounds-but in the Potomac about
10000, 900 pounds of herring are cap
tured, and an equal weight of shad and
perch.
A NEWSPAPER reporter recently asked
the Hon. Joseph Medill if he would
run again for Mayor of Chicago. Here
is his response There isn't poll
teal, or social, or pecuniary induce
ments enough in Chicago to hire me,
not if the unanimous vote of every soul
IN the city were added. 1 have had
enough"
The manufacturers of Manila and
similar grades of paper held CONVEX
ton at Brattleboro, VT, recently, at
which it was stated that orders were
frequently received from dealers for
paper put up in twenty, and even six
teen sheets to the quire, instead of
quires of twenty-four sheets. Reams
put up In this way were imposed on