The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-06-27
General Items.


newly discovered coal beds.
An Indian tribe i'll Michigan is said
to consist OF IN old horse, a chief, and
a demijohn of whisky.
\ CONVICT, on being offered the
choice of being taught one of several
trades, chose that of a sailor.
A MICHIGAN editor suggests that now
Is the time to ''let your cow browse off
the onion tops. 1t imparts tone to the
milk.
HUNDREDS of hunters are gathering
for a grand slaughter of butfaloes west
of Fort Dodge, whittier the animals are
moving Ill immense numbers.
A SPLENDID sapphire, valued at So
600, was recently found i'll Ceylon, and
is to be presented to the Duchess of
Edinburgh.
Doors made of kangaroo skin leather
are commonly used in the cities of
Australia, and are more durable than
ordinary leather
IL a Miss is as good as a mile, how
good is a Mrs? If she is a widow,
she Will he good for a LEAGUE under any
circumstances.
The young men Of South Carolina
announce their intention to put down
the enormous frauds and every species
of corruption which exist i'll the state,
city and county governments. "
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety expended last year a little more
than 81 100000, for which they issued
:, 65l, 0S9 copies of Bibles, Testaments
or portions Of the Scriptures.
WESTERN people who desire to aid
the Hood sufferers ought to realize that
Il peek of corn will go further than six
bushels of dressing gowns, smoking
caps and pen-wipcrs.
AN old clergyman, spying a boy
creeping through a fence, exclaimed
What, crawling through fence.
Pigs 90 that % Yes" retorted the
boy, and old hogs so along the street.
GERMANY has sold her needle-guns to
China, not because she has no more
need OF them, but she has found an
other kind which can kill twice as many
trenchmen.
IMITATION has its uses after ALL A
naturalist has demonstrated that the
best way to preserve caterpillars is by
imitation. Humanltarians will please
take the hint
SHAD are now being caught in large
quantities in the lake ut Port Dalhousie.
These are probably some of those
placed IN the lake by American fish
breeders.
\ RECENT birmingham, Mass, we'd
ding had a sad ending The parties,
Eugene 4 Rogers and Lizzie S. Gard
ner, started for New York, and. return
ing up the Hudson river, the young
bride became deranged and reached
home ravinG maniac
II Is positively announced through
the Zurich papers that the Castle of
Orenburg IS to be prepared for the re-
ception of the Empress Eugene and
the Imperial Prince, who shortly in
tend taking up a residence there per-
manently.
\ MAGNIFICENT feather cloak was
wasted when King Lunalilo was buried.
They wrapped him in it, though it was
worth 800, 900; us if a cheaper article
would not have served the distinguish
ed corpse as well. \ million of birds
OF rare plumaga were sacrificed to fur
niSh the material of which this gorgeous
garment was made, ana it had been
handed down to LunaIilo through gen
eratlons of royal chiettains.
AN English baronet, who has been
hunting on the plains, recently applied
to the gentlemanly clerk of hotel at
Jacksonville, Fla, for a suite of rooms.
HIS unclvllized appearance aroused the
wrath OF the man with the diamond
breast pm, and he was shown the door.
The next morning the opposition hotel
boosted of IN English aristocrat and
his forty companion hunters, and the
lHcklcss scribe is now looking for an
other situation at the express wish of
the proprietor of hotel No. l.
An Augusta stonecutter has recently
finished a headstone, on which is carved:
Stranger, pause and shed a tear,
For | was very beautiful
But sickness came had to die;
Aud have gone TO play with the angels.
II is u beautiful sight to attend an
Arizona wedding. The bride in white
the happy groom-the solemn minis
tcr-the smiling parents, and from
twenty-five to forty shot-grlnS standing
against the wall ready for use, make up
Il panorama not soon forgotten.
HERE is a story of traveller, who,
wishing to reach Taunton, Massachu-
sets, had somehow got turned round
and was trOtting along very composedly
III the opposite direction from the right
one to that town. Meeting farmer in
the road, he drew up and asked, "How
lar Is 1t to Taunton, if | keep straight
on? ?" "Well, said the farmer, with
twinkle III his intelligent eye, if We
keep straight on the way ye are going
now, it's about %, 900 miles; but if We
turn right round and go t'other way,
it's about half mile"
"HoWS business, now ?" inquired
one Nashville merchant of another, re-
Gently. Dull, fearfulIy dull" was
the reply. 1.-The fact is nobody buys
anything Just now but provisions and
whis1y-the bare necessities of life, as
1t We're.
LIE many frieuds whom she made in
this country during the time in which
she presided SO gracefully over her
uncle's house in Washington, will be
glad to know that Lady EIma Thurlow,
by the death of her husbands elder
brother, has Just become Baroness
IhurIoW and q peercss of England.
Lady Elma was the daughter of the
Earl OF Elgin, who became 50 well
known III America as Governor General
Of Canada, and the niece of Sir Freder-
lex BrUcp " no died 11rrino b,c form, of