The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-05-16
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bonnets are the old ones sat down upon
| for an hour or SO.
| SEVEN hundred styles of mourning
cards are advertised by London
statloner.
NEVADA is the smallest of the states
in population, but she has a very able
state prison, with 125 convicts In it.
A WORTHY mother says that her
daughters beaux are like Juliet's only
love-" known too late sometimes as
late as 11;30 p. m.
ALL that Colorado wants to make it
comfortable place is good water, good
climate, good soil, and a few more Office
hunters.
NASHVILLE reports the advent of a
wonderful grasshopper, which is sup
posed to have been blown from the
sunny South by the recent gales.
A ST.. LEWIS man has invented a
cracker so exquisite that persons "sigh
as the flavor dies away upon their
breath
The American Sardine Company, on
Jersey Beach, bids fair to excel its
foreign rivals. Last year the company
disposed of half million cans.
BEECHER's advise is Don't drink
at all but If you must drink, let it be
of the right kind, at the right time, and
under the right circumstances"
TIE woman's crusade has already
succeeded III producing $4,000 newspa-
per puns, Of which the threat of the sa-
| loon keepers to malt-treat their visitors
is perhaps the best-that is the worst
The Patrons of Husbandry in the
southern states number at present
1900 oranges, and are rapidly increas-
ing This is about one third Ct al the
subordinate oranges III the United
States.
\ BROADWAY restaurant shows up a
turtle weighing nearly 900 pounds. 1t
is supposed to be the first tortoise that
some time since run race with a hare.
But his racing days are over now, we
soup-pose, for he Will soon lose his
steaks.
YoUNG Greene emigrated from Maine
to New York few months ago, and
wrote to his anxious parents that he
was doing tine-in fact, moving in the
first circles 1t subsequently transpired
that the clarion voice of the young man
of Bowery Theatre.
The Massachusetts, Anglers Associa
ton having been convinced, from the
result of their Investigations, that smelt
during the spawning season are not
healthy food, since they then are
full of parasites, have procured the
passage of a law to prevent the taking
of them at that time.
OK the last trip of the steamer Siberia
to Boston, among the steerage passen-
gers was family of Italians aged as
follows Father, AZ /; mother, 43, with
fifteen children, aged as follows %,
-, 20, 10, II, 10, -, II, II, II, 10, 9,
8, 7, 6. Twelve were boys and three
girls
FAILURES III the United States during
the past four years, as recorded by the
mercantile agency of Dunn Barlow &
Co., of New York:
Year. Failures. Liabilities
1870. ...................3,5 51 ! 8S, 242 600
1871 ....................2,9 15 So, 252, 600
1872 .....-..............4,06 9 121, 056. 900
The Rome Commercial states that the
gold district of Georgia is about to be
more effectually developed than hereto
fore. An Ohio company has possession
of 80 miles of the Chestatee river, and
a Boston man of ten miles. This
stream traverses the gold region, and
its bed contains rich deposits of the
precious metal.
DURING the session Of the Board of
Trust of the Vanderbilt University, at
Nashville, the Secretary If the Board,
the Rev. r. U. Young, read a commu-
nication from Mr.. Vanderbilt, donating
800, 900 to be used for a building. fund
in order that the university buildings
may be completed IN accordance with
the plans heretofore approved by him.
L. 1913, the French mails carried 1872,
600, 600 letters ; in 1919, 15S, 600, 900 in
1858, 1S5, 00G, 900 in 1857, 30, 100000
in 1862, 2S3, O00, 600 in 1864, 300,0 00,-
600; in 1870, 28I 900, 900; III 1871, 305,-
0OO, 900; IN 1872, $40, GOO, 600 Since
1S4S, the number of letters are trebled,
which is owing mainly to the effects of
the postal reform effected that year.
FIFTY of Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds
died recently of rabies. Writing of
this, Mr.. Hunting, of the Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeons, says that The
increase of the disease and its fatal con
sequences are due entirely to cOnta gIOn,
and he thinks the spread of the disease
is as preventable IS cattle plague, by
proper regulations.
THE Nautical Gazette thinks that the
reports which have recently appeared
that the storms on the Atlantic have of
late years increased i'll frequency and
violence are nonsense. 1t says the
modern steamers are constructed on
such wretched models that they are
unfit for rough weather. The old pro
portion of beam and depth to length
are now disregarded, and tie modern
steamers, like velocipedes, must be
kept going at high rate of speed or go
down.
A TRAVELLER writes that nothing re-
mains of the American colony which
went to the Holy Land several years
ago to reform the Turks and rebuild
the Temple, but the site of their settle
ment The German colony from Wir-
temburg, which followed the American,
was more practical and successful.
| They number sixty families, and have
converted the waste land near JOppa
into a garden, having hundreds of lem
on and orange trees The Americans,
it may be remembered, were brought
home at the expense of the Government.
ONE of the most distinguished of
English living physicians, Sir Henry
| Thompson, said In a recent speech that