The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-01-24
House..
General Items.

GERMANY requires about 5000, 600
more rifles to place It's army on peace
| footing.
LARGE quantities of Australian pearls
| have appeared for sale III the English
market.
ECONOMY in fuel is urged very gen
orally throughout England this Win
ter.
ANXIOUS about public opinion for
private use-SOme members of Con
gress.
W. ". STORY, the poet and sculptor,
Is of the opinion that the Elgin Mar
bles, heretofore attributed to Phidias,
were not executed by MIN.
A RICH old fellow in Georgia pur-
chased two cameis in a circus, and is
teaching his children to ride them.
ACCORDING to DIR. Livingstone, the
Victoria Falls on the ZambesI are 500
feet wider than the combined Falls of
Niagara. Their native name is Mosia-
tunya.
1t is pronounced an enormous sign
when a man, who has been married
scarcely twelve months, begins to be-
tray an abnormal interest in the causes
of lockjaw
ANTHONY TROLLoPE is going to serve
up to the English public, " The Way We
Lave Now, in twenty monthly parts.
How to become practically acquaint-
ed with the "Rule of Three Live
with your wife, mother, and mother-in-
law.
A CULPRIT i'll Chicago police court
began his address to the Justice with
"Now, jest look'ee here, old Blinky."
and got ten days for contempt
New ZEALAND has invited Joseph
Arch to visit that country, with the
view of inspecting iss advantage for
agricultural emigrants from England
wELL-DREssED man, apparently
mechanic, recently created sensation
IN Boston by walking about with
placard on his hat, on which was in
scribed q want work"
A COUPLE in Colebrook. Mass, tied
their sick child to the bed and went to
church. They were gone four hours.
and when they returned the neighbors,
attracted by the prisoners cries, had
broken in the door The parents were
arrested
MATHEMATICS is a delightful science.
A Name woman ate gallon of oysters
the other day for 800. After deduct
ing SS5 Tor funeral expenses, how much
did she < clear -
A LITTLE Washington newsbov anfic-
lpated Christmas by presenting his
mother with a 500 sewing machlne, Of
ter paying her So per week board, all
from his earnings since March last,
and he has attended school regularly
every day, at that.
LAY figures of papier mache are now
manufactured for artists use: thew are
more flexible than wood, ard young
girl costs about thirty seven dollars
III London.
HERoIsM is limited after ALL A girl
who, the other day, jumped into the
MeTrimack river, and rescued drown.
ing child, tainted away when she saw
her false curls floating down the
stream.
A DRY GOODS merchant at River de
Chute, NIB, recently missed a sum of
money which ne had placed between
some goods on the counter, whereupon
he applied for warrants of arrest against
everybody who had traded With him
that day.
An immense deposit of shale filled
with oil has been discovered on the line
OF the Union Pacific Railroad, about
three hundred miles west Of Cheyenne,
Wyoming. The shale burns freely.
and can be used as fuel to manufacture
the oil.
A MAN in Evansville, Ind, recently
had the pleasure of attending the we'd
dung of his own parents They had
been divorced thirty years bat the
number of times each had been married
IN the interval is not stated.