The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-07-11
General Items.

CURE for felon-take it to the pen
itentiary.
WE have thirty-eight women preach
ers now.
A MUSIC teacher should be man of
sound judgment.
GEN. HOWARD has sold his residence
IN Washington for $32, 900
HUNTED STATES SENATOR Ross is
sticking type in his rural newspaper
Office III Kansas.
WHAT are you doing ?" said father
to a son who was tinkering at an old
watch. Improving my time, sir
EXCURSION tickets to participate IN
the festivities attending the execution
of Sam Davis, are advertised in Texas.
THE Charing Cross Hotel, London,
well known to Americans, is to be merg-
ed into freight depot.
MORE than 81 per cent. of the wealth
er predictions of "Oid Prob" in May
were well verified
CALIFORNIA shows no sign of giving
out as producer of the precious met
ais. New gold and silver mines are
frequently reported.
HE latest triumph of "similia simili-
bus: A western veteranian announces
that brandy is an unfailing remedy for
"staggers.
HE following Is an epitaph over the
grave of a sea captain at Truro: Hes
done a-catchmg cod, and gone to meet
his God.
HUNDREDS Of dead turtles, it is said.
are floating in the canal east of Roch-
ester, having been frightened to death
by recent storm.
HE sportsmen are now reaping
rich harvest of fish from Cayuga Lake,
the result of $50, 900 young trout placed
therein several years ago.
WHILE Texas women claim to ride on
both sides of their horses, the New
York Herald claims that all sensible
people only ride on the outside
COUPLE recently married at Taun-
ton had been counting thirty years, hav-
ing been atfianced before the birth of
the clergyman who united them.
INDIANAPOLIS makes tiourishing ex-
hlhIt of her growth since 1860. In that
year the population was $4,000, and it
Is now estimated at $4,000
Thou rainest in this BOSOM - as the
chap SAID when a basin of water was
thrown over him by the lady he was
serenading.
The cremation poet of the period is
Nathan d. Urner, of the n. Y. Ledger.
He writes words that burn-if You put
them IN the stove.
Two boys at Aurora, ILL.,, who wore
stealing ride III a gram car, were kill
ed III q curious way The car capsized.
and they were buried under its contents
of wheat.
They are looking for man in Lon
don to regild the ball on the tip of st.
Paul's. Twenty pounds in money and Il
life insurance policy will be given for
the job
On the mammoth new bridge across
the Mississippi river at ST. Louis the
Democrat of that city SAYS, it is now
clear that its revenues will make the
fortunes of its owners
IT is said that Westminster Abbey is
a great rendezvous on Sunday alter
moons for Americans i'll London Dur
ing service they employ their time in
copying inscriptions from grave stones
Now, Sammy, tell me, have you
read the story of Joseph q ooh, yes,
uncle. - "Well, then, what wrong did
they do when they sold their brother?"
4" They sold him too cheap, think"
The Christian Union thinks that if
all the kings and queens should now be
commonly spoken of as Mr.. and Mrs.
So-and-so, they would all have to abdi-
cate III six months.
The Castle of Arenburg, at Zurich.
is to be prepared for the reception of
the Empress Eugene and the imperial
prince, who shortly intend taking up
their residence there.
SPEAKING of the southern grain crop.
which is III a very fourishing condition,
travelling correspondent says it re-
minds HIM of the tradcsman's conven-
honal motto, Wheat rye to please
Two immigrants left 5000 in gold I'M
der their pillows on steamer at Fall
River, few days ago, and had got to
Boston before they missed it. They
went back, but the cash was gone.
The son of Henry J. Raymond, who
graduated with honor from Yale Col
lege few years ago, and who was
expected by his father to succeed him
III the Times newspaper is now law
reporter on the Brook yn Union.
JUST now, when boy INDUCES before
his parents in audible "reminiscences of
last Fourth of July, he is really more
interested III financial questions than
was Secretary Chase during the darkest
hours of the rebellion.
A LONDON correspondent says that
the most valuable library of it's kind in
the world, that at the India Office, con
tanning thousands of Arabic, Persian
and Sanscrlt manuscripts, is entirely
without protection from fire.
HE young muskrats who were suck
led by cat at Newburyport have come
to grief. When they got their eyes open
and saw what n curious creature their
mother was they set up a terrible
whereupon the cat ate them.
The old Nathan mansion in twenty
third street, New York, where Benja-
MN Nathan was murdered having
stood idle and unoccupied since the
tragedy, is now being rapidly demol-
1shed to give way to another structure
The special correspondent of the
London Times in the locked-out dis
tricts has called attention to the wretch
ed manner in which thousands Of
EnCliShmen are bouSed or rather