The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-06-13
General Items.

CoNSTANTINOPLE goSSIpS over the con
tents of sixteen daily newspapers
4 WOMAN seventy years old drowned
herself in Vermont recently, having
become Respondent through illness.
II is rumored in Boston that Benja-
min f. Butler is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the Atlantic Monthly.
AsAHEL Nix of Poll1ville, Conn, a
sprightly youth of so, was married the
other day to Bella Landon, aged a.
Who says that - grabbed age and youth
cannot live together %
An English writer estimates that there
are II, 900 hymns in the English Ian
guage. OF these 16, 900 are or have been
u sed in thesAnglican Church, and the rest
are used by the dissenting sects.
| THE Eendome column will be entirely
reconstructed by the anniversary of its
destruction III 1871 The bas-relief No.
81 has just been laid, leaving only four
more spirals to be added, with the cup,
pediment and statue.
The rumored betrothal of the Princess
Beatrice, of England to the Grand
Duke Alexis, of Russia, is, if true, cred
liable to the Cars strategy as parent.
With Victoria's daughter as n hostage at
| St. Petersburg, the English nobility
viii have to stop turning up their noses
at AleXandrOvna.
A VESSEL has recently been launched,
to be called Brignoli. She must be
| bark of note NetO York Sun And
pursue the even tenor of her way
Brooklyn Aayus. When she once
reaches the high C's.- C0n1merciaL
| 1drcrtiSer
The high C's ? She may pass the bar,
but isn't it foolish to suppose she will
ever get off sounding3
\ DISTINGUISHED English physician
writes that he has observed that pecu-
liar and rather common deformity of the
chest IS caused by the habit of sucking
the thumb in infancy and early child
hood. He says that the weight of the
arm ON the thorax Of the child during
sleep, produces depression of the ribs In
| the line occupied by the arm when the
thumb is placed in the mouth.
WE learn from the Territorial Enter
prise that a Methodist preacher, while
engaged III little game of draw poker
at Salem, Oregon, the other evening,
moved little in his chair, when the
hammer of his pistol caught in his peck
ct III some way and the weapon was dis
! charged, frightening the divines oppo-
nent IN the game very badly. He wants
to know what preachers carry pistols for
IT IS reported that the steamer Queen
Elizabeth, lost near Gibraltar, had on
boart: one Of the most valuable cargoes
ever shipped from Calcutta. The entire
value of the cargois estimated at 81, $40
600, including 81 $50, 000worth of indi-
go, $3.50, 600 worth of tea, and 415, 900
worth of silk, Shellac, and other articles.
The vessel was valued at $135, 900, making
the aggregate loss 81, US, 600. The yes
sci and cargo were insured for nearly
-, 600, 600
\ NUMBER of Indian skeletons have
been eXhumed from an ancient grave
yard near GAINESVILLE, Tenn. The fore
heads are receding, and the Jaws and
nose very prominent, unlike the features
oi any tribe known to the earliest set
tiers. Flint weapons and pottery were
found, and the graves were closed above
and below with slabs of slate stone.
Strangely enough a leaden bullet was
found fastened III the shoulder bones of
ono of the skeletons.
THE Grashdanian, IA Russian paper
noted for It's good court intelligence.
says that in numerous letters to her fam
Ily and friends, the Duches OF Edinburgh
describes her life i'll England as one of
perfect happiness. She speaks with
great gratitude of the cordial and friendly
reception she has met with from all with
whom she has come into contact-the
Queen, the royal family, the court. and
the people at large. The letters have
occasloned great satisfaction in st. Pc
tcrsburg.
WITHIN the last few years great i'm
provements have been made in crane
culture and wine making in Italy.
Italian wine can now be sent abroad
across land and sea not only without any
risk of spelling, but actually gaining in
strength and flavor after every voyage.
The principal markets for Italian wines
are Central and South America. Epypt
Turkey, and Russia. The importation
INTO the United States, though on the
increase, IS hindered by the Inability of
the ltailans to understand the require
ments of the trade.
BECAUSE n late French nobIeman
secured rich wife through the mere
accident OF having his portrait on exbib-
Ition mt public gallery, portraits are
hung IN every conceivable place in Paris,
Men who are in need of funds are put
ting out their likenesse8 with the hope
that rich orphan will come by on
the arm OF her guardian and say that S'the
portrait OF that man suits her: she will
marry the original" Perhaps impe-
cunlous Frenchmen viii take wives on
Snch terms, but it Is not the safest way
to secure domestic happiness.
EDWARD HIGGINsoN Jolly. a theatre
gong resident of Leicester. ENGLAND
dlslIked the singing Of Miss Carrie Mel
son II a burlesque. The rest Of the
piece pleased him so well that he attend
ed NIGHT after night but ALWAYS when
Miss Nelson began to stag he went ont
to return when she was done. This
went on for about a week, until one
IA 2ht he met a very LARGE man in the
lobby where he WAS saunteriag during
the lady's vocalism: * What do Won
leave your seat for whenever Mis- Mel
son Sings 2 asked the large man. say
lSely. Because | don't admire her"
'Ta'i the reply. Wheraat M. Jolly was
II o"ce badly whipped by In large man,
v M explained between blows,hat hewas
IIss Nelson'# huaband, and had come
III th9 way from London TO ayence the
slight upon her.