The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-01-31
General Items.

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| DANDELIoNs bedeck the little Massa-
chusetts island of Nantucket this sun
ny January.
The w(h)ig party is very strong in
Congreas just now. There are 70 bald
| headed men there.
UTICA, N. Y, has had poultry show,
and among its wonders were a $50
brown Leghorn cock, $40 white Co.
chin and a gobler weighing 40 pounds.
THE Kansas State Prison convict is
allowed to wear wide paper collars and
| flowing necktIes, If he is good and
obedient.
The amount of gold dug in Califor-
MA since 1047 is $3.50, 700, 900, of
which 1913, 100000 was mined ID
| 1858.
The newest Iowa names for hog is
root grubber, corn shelter, apple grind
er, gate-lifter, double-a action back
spring sod piow.
EXTENSIVE and well -organized gangs
of colored banditti are said to be scat
tered along both banks on the lower
Mississippi.
LARGE fans are gradually being
folded and laid aside, probably for seven
years, when fashions repeat themselves,
like history.
EITHER the weather or something
else has made it 50 warm for the New
York butter spectators, that their
lard margins have all melted away.
II has been lately proved that fire
cannot advance through grass. even
when it is blowing a gale, faster than
six miles an hour.
ANY young man DESTROYS of fame has
only to start full beard, assume a
hang-dog look. and blush when eyed by
policeman. He will then be taken
for Sharkey.
EMERSON says that eve ride four
times as fast as our fathers did; grind,
weave, forge, plant, till and excavate
better, and have better shoes, gloves,
glasses, gimlets and newspapers.
New YORK has two great rivers by
her sides, and a magnificent harbor at
her feet ; yet there are scores of thou
sands of her inhabitants who do not
wash themselves AL over" on an av-
erage, once year.
New JERSEY iron mines yielded, last
year, $50 tons OF ore. of which 150, 600
were manufactured into pig iron. The
value of the product is about $2,000,-
600. In 1867 the product of the mine
was only 800, 900 tons.
A BALKY horse III a double team may
always be started by tying his tail to the
whiffletree and starting the other
horse SO said Geo. NJ Pullman, of
palace car notoriety, some twenty years
ago.
Two IBIsHMEN were in prison-one
| FOR stealing a cow and the other for
stealing a watch. sHullo, Mike. and
! what O'Clock is it 2" said the COW stealer
| to the other. can sure, Pat, [ haven't
any timepiece handy, but / think 1t IS
about milking time"
The wicked wag of the Detroit Free
Press is responsible for this: A st.
Louis reporter has talked with a man
Ill years old, but what's that to sitting
up all night with Susan Is. Anthony
and hearing her personal recollections
of PompeiI.
| A FARMER living in the eastern part
of Pittsfeld, Mass, did considerable
blowing last week, and turned quite
handsome furrows-in January. a
farmer in a neighboring town plowed
| half an acre December Is.
THE following advertisement appear.
ed i'll the Philadelphia Ledger of
! Thursday last Wanted-TO trade
Ia vault in Monument Central Tor ..
| piano"
| \ CHICAGO paper mentions 1t as a
singular fact that there is firm in
that city whose style is Robb g. Steel.
That paper ought to know, if it knows
anything, that there are dozens of
firms in that city whose style is rob and
steal
"JULIUs, can you tell me how Adam
got out of Eden 2" "Well, / s'pose he
clum de fence" "No, dat amt it."
"Well, den he borrowed a wheel-bar
row and walked ont" ono" 81
CUBS ii up, den" He got snaked
out"
A WORKSHOP connected with the
Rhode Island State Prison was par
TALLY destroyed by fire Friday morn
ing The loss is estimated at 5000.
VIM. Sweeney, an upholsterer, lost his
stock, valued at Sc, 800 insured for
$4,000 III city offices of Providence.
| The state has no insurance.
| A RISING "poic" thus expatiates
upon a prize fight
And Isaac pitched into hymn
And hymn pitched into he
The way they fytte it a sin
And horrybel to see.
Two and half millions are invested
in the shoe business in Auburn, Me.
The value of the product of 1873 was
nearly $4,000, GOO an increase of 40 per
cent. over that OF the preceding year.
The Warren Cotton Company, West
Warren, Me, have begun work on a
third mill, with a capacity of 10,l76
spindles, and expect to have the
machinery IN operation fall.
"BREvITY is the soul of wit" A New
| Hampshire lecture committee recently
wrote to Boston TO Learn what Mrs.
| Scott Siddons would read for. The re-
| ply was $500 and expenses answer,
as Mrs. Siddons will sail for Europe at
once if you don't want her" Let her
sail, was the enigrammatIc answer.
THE Troy Wing has this:
Bring out the Grape and toll the knell
She's dead-a lovely Lockport belle;
Her stomach failed away get
With ninety oysters on a bet.
AN Irlshman remarked to his com
| panion, on observing a lady pass
/ tf Pat did Won ayar 500 ca thin uO.