The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-09-19
Odds and Ends.

clothes.
SHIpBUr,D1NG is depressed on the
Delaware.
The Baltimore Gazette is again a
folio sheet.
MERRIE England is not nearly SO jolly
just now as it might be.
BRIGNoLI is to travel through the
English provences next fall.
The case of the first alderman ever
sunstruck is recorded at east ST. Louis.
How to get hard-up-send your
family to a fashionable watering place
ENGLAND is threatened with general
water famine.
STOCKTON, Cal, is suffering from a
visitation of poisonous spiders.
SIR ISAAC NEwToN's residence III
London is now used as Sunday school
room.
The number of Protestants is increas-
ing at remarkable rate in Rome and
Mexico.
CHEYENNE is smitten with dryness,
and the trees are dying for the want of
water.
MARsEILLES proposes a monument to
Berger, and the cremationists feel
badly.
THE buff postal cards have met with
replaced by ighter-colored ones.
SACRAMENTO thinks nothing of a
radish thirty inches i'll length ana
twelve inches in circumference.
The minister who preached sermon
from the text, Goodness is profta-
ble," also believes that " Honesty is
the best policy y
The Vendome column without the
statute of the Little Co rporal is likened
to the play of "Hamlet with the
melancholy Dane omitted.
IT is proposed to erect two extensive
asylums for priests banished from Ger
many-one in England and one in the
United States.
SCHNEIDER's jewels, including those
given by the irrepressible Albert
Edward, are to be brought to the
hammer.
NEVADA boasts of matrimonial
deadhead, who has been married five
times and has never paid cent to the
officiating minister.
BANTING, the celebrated funeral fur
nisher of London, has proved himself
good friend to the living, after all.
He successfully fought corpulency all
his life, and now that he is dead con
valescents benefit by the asylum he has
founded.
The difference between a topper and II
COW is in favor of the latter. Two horns
last her a lifetime, while the topper
needs more than that every day.
RUSSIA, it is said, produces annually
1875, 900 tons of flax; Austria, $4,000;
France, 40, 900; Belgium, 20,0 Great
Britain, $4,000; Italy, 1000 Bavaria,
5000; Saxony, 5000; other countries,
5000. The total production in Europe
is 350,0OO tons.
A BEGGAR posted himself at the door
OF an English Chancery Court, and
kept saying, ga penny, please, sir Only
a penny, sir, before you go in" ''And
for what, my man % inquired an old
country gentleman. because, sir,
the chances are that you will not have
one when you come out"
A CLERGYMAN in one of the rural
towns of Maine, who had preached al
most two hours, the other Sunday, was
interrupted by one of his hearers, who
remarked IN very loud vogce:
" There, there, you have preached Meng
enough If you preach any longer We
shall forget the subject of the text ~
The meeting closed Immediately after
"WHAT are you holloaing abofSf.
Billy p said mother at the stair-fossot
one evening, after her two boys had
been put to bed. 'Please mother"
said Bill, '"Jim wants bali the bed"
=" Well, said she, "let him have it
and you can take the other half"
" Yes, mother" says Bill, "But he
wants his half out of the middle, ana
make me sleep on both sides of him"
WHAT meaning and unique express
sion was that of young Irish girl who
was rendering testimony against an
individual in a New Orleans court not
long since Arrah, SIR" said she,"
. m shure he never made his mother
smile" There is biog faphy of I'M
In that single sentence.
An hour passed on-the Turk awoke.
lie had been sleeping in front of
grocery In Cairo, and as he got up he
pulled out revolver and wounded
:nree men, saying: "Somotho-S 1 don
eel lively to-day
A RECEIPT FOR getting up fashion
able summer bonnet: Let the lady run
Ter head into sheaf of oats, and at
erward stick in few field flowers here
ND there to light up her couture. and
hen the thing is done.
"MIssUs SNowDRor," said a gentle
nan of color, during "a shower, to
ady of his acquaintance, cas- de web
'er is somewhat amphibious, will you
10 me de honor to step under nv UNI
'reller an form quorum. In dis
vebber 81 umbreller is RAIDER cosmo-
'olitan.''
IHE Providence Press relates this
necdote: A young gamin applied at
he Central Station for ticket TO the
'oor chlldren's excursion of the Chris
ian Association. He was asked if he
7as Christian, and promptly said he
ias. Are you an honest boy 2"
Yes, slr The phrenologist of the
0rce lifted the lads hat to examine his
4mp OF consclentiousness, when out
ell ticket for the excursion.
SCENE, Central Park, near the statue
Scott. A little throng SURROUNDING
lie etfigy OF the Wizard of the North
nd admlring it from several points
inter- gOod-natured old Irish lady