The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-22
All Sorts.

A PORTSMOUTH woman has been
severly injured by the explosion OF a
baked potato.
In a Montana newspaper appeared
the following: a number Of deaths
ars unavoidably postponed"
AN old cynic says; With many
woman, going to church is little better
than looking into bonnet-shop. "
A New YORK Judge prescribes ginger
ale rs refreshing drink to the in
ebriates brought before him.
"UNMASNED by the loss of her nus
band is the newest style OF indicating
a widows grief.
IT is a remarkable fact that there
has never been a murder III Lawrence
Mass, since its incorporation as q
city.
"THERE," said little girl, while
rummaging a bureau; there now,
grandpa has gone to heaven and left
his spectacles.
CALIFORNIA has II Baptist churches,
Oregon 50. Washington Territory 5,and
Nevada l. making a total of 1876 on the
Pacific coast.
THE great locomotive works at Pater-
son, n. J., have now about 80 men at
work, and soon will be full to their ut
most capacity.
The snow was two inches deep on
Oliver Greek, Grant county, Oregon,
on the 18th of June, and remained on
the ground twenty-four hours.
An Iowa Editor recently announced
that & certain patron Of his "was thiev-
ing as usual" He claims that he wrote
thriving"
\ CHICAGO magazine, which is fur
nished at s., 30 per year, offers $3.50 IN
premiums to any one that will take 1t.
PROFESSOR, will you have ai,Ear?"
said man III the office OF a Boston
Hotel. Nineteen men stood up and
replied Thank You don't care II |
do.
COLORADO is a fine place for specu-
lations. A pauper recently escaped
from the poor house there and made
81, 300 in land speculations before he
could be recaptured.
TIE "Potato King in Bangor, Me,
who bought up all the old potatoes i'll
the market at 80 cents Il bushel and
refused to sell them except at eXorbi-
tant prices, lost So, 600
John Collins baby, two and a half
years old, tumbled out of a third-stOry
window, twenty-five feet upon a side
walk at Boston, recently, aud got
only little bruise on one Gifts cheeks.
DEAR me, how fuidly he talks"
said Mrs. Darlington, recently at a
temperance meeting. 81 am always
r.aI WIZ no re a
for his eloquence warns every cart
ridge III my body.
THE West Shore (Hudson River
Railroad Company keep two men Mt
work on She West Point tunnel, one OF
the conditions of the permission being
that york should not be stopped after
it had commenced.
SMITH has done this in honor Of
the lady he has just taken out of her
weeds
The CLEAN of her eye was bright
The CLEAN Of her gold was brighter.
The first was a beautiful sight.
The econd beautiful sighter.
A RIVAL journal says of the San
dusky Register that it contained one
editorial and only one local item for
four days, on account of repairs in the
Office. The "repairs" consisted in put
ting lock on the door and washing the
windows.
THERE are forty-three girls in Quinc-
H., ahmed Betsy, but still what
sweeter sound can be heard at even
tide than an old fashionable mother call
ing Ill the old-fashioned way: Betsy,
if You don't git down off'n that fence
I'll maui We to death =
A GENTLEMAN lost his hat the other
day from the balcony of the little hut
on the brink of the Kuterskil Falls.
CatskiH. lie went down all those little
steps to the bottom. and in searching
for the lost article found pocket book
containing nearly 800, probably lost in
the same manner.
HE AgriculJurist advises farmers
and fisher men to dry their boots when
wet, by filling them witlxdry oats. The
grain rapidly absorbs the moisture, and
as it takes it mp swells enough to fill
the boot like a tightly fitting last
When the oats alo emptied out, pat
them in bag by the fire to dry for
future use.
MISS IsADoRE PRATT Of Massachusetts,
has succeeded in gaining admittance
to the royal Ant Academy of Berlin; but
being ''only woman" her name does
not appear on the roll of students, and
for the same reason no money will be
accepted from her, which she says is
the only advantage she ever gained by
wearing skirts.
:" A soLLUM kamness steals around,
bred orecums the sole, when in my
pockits depths | sound and only find
hole. O thus when LIES breef span IS
past, and deth yauks out my sole, how
dreary life will seem at last, when taken
as hole. But still this consultations
left, to cheer the dropping sole, though
through it I'm OF all bereft, I cannot
luse the hole
RIBBED glass for roofs and cellar
windows is comparatively d recent in
PRODUCTION. The Boston and Lowell
railroad station at Boston is rooted
with ., 900 feet of this glass, weighing
three pounds to the square foot, ana
the Boston Providence station has ON
Its roof $4,000 feet weighing four
pounds to the square foot
A little story about Chicago church
usher: A man indifferently dressed
went to his church. The usher did
not notice him, but seated several well
dressed persons who presented them
selves, when finally the man addressed
"a, 4 al q