The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-07
General Items,

Mississippi.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE students have
stopped publishing their Anvil and
gone back to old sledge.
STALKS of wheat measuring three feet
high, nicely headed out and almost
ready for harvest, have been exhibited
in San Bernardino.
MORE than 500, 900 lives are now in
sured by the 900 and odd companies
engaged III that business.
PERSONS are living who have wit
messed plays III twenty-five different
theatres in Boston within fifty years.
In Arkansas, when man walks into
a house and shoots the proprietor and
others he is styled San intruder.
SOME of the prettiest aigrettes seen
this season are of spun glass, tinted
every imaginable hue ard color.
NEw-FAsHIoNED wedding cards are
| long and narrow, and have the initials
and monograms in the left-hand corner.
AT the minimum estimate there are
$4,000 unemployed women in the city
of New York.
BUTTERMILK is attracting great atten
|
duce longevity.
Ten THOUSAND AND SEVENTY. SEVEN
PhiladelpLians became " drunk and
disorderly" last year.
CLEVELAND has /, 100 saloons, and 1T
is but natural that she should ask Con-
gress for a breakwater
THERE died in Philadelphia last week
| thirteen persons who had lived to or
| beyond four score years OF age.
CHICAGO proposes to institute series
Of Sunday afternoon scientific lectures
for working men, after the London
| fashion.
| A CoNNECTGCUT paper proposes to
fine every man $500 who adulterates
liquor, aud only 81 where he sands his
| sugar.
If the new proposition to burn the
| dead prevails, what are the medical
men to do for subjects for the dissect-
ing table
| The latest dramatic rumor from New
York is that Booths Theatre is to be
sold to Jarrett & Palmer, Of Nibio's
| Garden.
The present famine in Bengal is, in
measure, owing to the decline IN the
rice culture in the United States, and
notably IL South Carolina.
LONG BRANCH is promised two new
| hotels, next season, one to accommo-
date over thousand guests on the
European plan.
A New YORK firm have Ill their store
a piece of lace five yards long worth
! ST 200 yard, which man could crowd
into his watch fob or pocket book.
Ara recent Dickens party in New
York, over 300 persons appeared in
| different characters from the books of
Boz"
MAINE Is GOING into the cheese bust
ness pretty heavily. Petitions for the
incorporation of no less than twelve
| factory companies are before the Leg
lslature.
TIE difference in the length of pas
sage made 10y the Cunard steamship
Parthia, on her last two trips from
Queenstown to Boston, was Just eight
minutes.
THE largest legation in Washington
is the Spanish, which consists of eight
members the next is the British. and
the French legation ranks third in
point of numbers
A CALIFORNIA youth rejoices in hav-
ing his mother, grandmother and great
grandmother resides under the same
roof, and keeps them al employed to
supply his wants.
New YORK has adopted an English
idea, and the different railway stations
now contain boxes for the reception of
newspapers and other reading matter
for daily distribution ii the various
hospitals.
The entire root of a very large tree
was found III a perfect state of preser-
Walton III an Indiana coal mine the
other day, at great depth below the
surface.
A MAN has been fined S1795 in Cam
bridge, Mass, for profanity. We are
surprised that Cambridge people in
dulge i'll such expensive luXuries.
IT is expected that the United States
Hotel at Saratoga Will be COMPLETED
about next June The drawing room
carpets are being made in Europe.
The original patent for metallic tips
for shoes was sold for 500, and the
company which bought it became
wealthy. Now, upon its expiration,
the inventor has obtained its renewal,
and compels the company to pay him
100000.
A LONDON paper suggests that as Ivy
is the only plant which seems TO flour
ish III the smoky atmosphere of the
city, it might be advantageously used
to cover some OF the public statues,
the natural uglincss of which are in
tensilied by the deposits Of SCOT which
covers them.
A "DEAD BEATS DIRECToRY, CON
tanning the names Of thousand men,
including ministers, lawyers, actors,
aldermen and officials who habitually
neglect paying their bills, has APP
peared unanimously IN Chicago. There
are suspicious that this is only another
fiendish scheme, having it's origin i'll
the brain of some euvious denizen of
st. Louis.
MIR. BEECHER, in a recent sermon on
Hero Worship" said: $50 long as
the world stands we shall admire the
intellectual force of Napoleon but, as
the world grows older, it Will less and
less call him full hero, because in his
disposition and nature he was malign,
without moral principle, and without
any spiritual instinct. He was hero
on the lower plane of life
SAMUEL JOHNSON was ALWAYS drawino