The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-05-30
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TWELVE street. cars lOI DOI1DdY nave
Just been finished in Troy.
ALABAMA is said to be shipping con-
siderable coal to Cuba.
WHAT'S the difference between the
side of a right-angled triangle and an
cid maids teapot? One is hypoth=
enuse, the other is tea-pot-in-iise.
A LARGE eagle was caught at Port
land, Conn, the other day, In the very
act of swooping down upon a young
child, but was scared away, and after
ward shot.
Now that the word a." hymeneal" is so
commonly used in reference to we'd
dings it is suggested that births should
be headed ''crymeneal" and deaths
"diemeneal.
TENsYsoN is said to have become
4 greatly indignant lately at the ignor-
ance of an American who knew moth
ing about the works of Joaquin Miller,
whom the poet laureate termed "the
greatest poet of his country"
THE heirs of President Lincoln pay
taxes upon quarter section of land in
Crawford county, Iowa, in accordance
with land warrant issued to him ion
services rendered as captain N the
Black Hawk war
ALFALFA must be the pasture grass
of the great half barren plains of the
northwest. Experiments in Utah have
shown that it can be sown on the most
barren soil, and will be productive
without much attention, yielding two
crops a year of rich, nutritious aliment
for cattle.
PUr on your right glove first, stupid.
Then you have your left hand ungloved
to button your right withal. If you
put on your left glove first you have to
button your right glove under double
disadvantage
A BUFFALO editor, commenting on
the price of gas III London, gives vent
to his feelings as follows: What
only rs cents per 1000 cubic feet of
: gas (the Illuminating power of which
is legally fixed under penalty at the
light of sixteen sperm candies and
coal higher than with us. We pay s.
, per 1000 cubic feet of gas, which
sometimes requires sixteen sperm can
dies to see it burn"
ONE of the X. p. boys tells a good
+ story on an engineer running on that
J.. road. When the train stopped at st.
e Marys Mission, the engineer saw
: young squaw, with her pappoose strap
ped to her back, standing on the plat
: form. "Have you got Il little Indian
!, there?" said the driver of the iron
e horse. "No," said she, "half Injun,
= half injuneer.
on CITY, Penn, will probably soon
be added to the list of mushroom cities
f which grew up with the oil production
and as swiftly dwindled away, for we
read that not only are the inhabitants
: leaving, but they even take their houses
$ along with them, SO that it Is very easy
| to calculate the decrease of population.
! In the "reminiscences of Holland
. House." Is the following anecdote of
: Voltaire 'While learning the Eng
: lish language (Which he did not love-,
! finding that the word plague, with six
;. letters, was mOnosy Liable, and aguC,
= with only the last four letters of
: plague, dissyllabic, lie expressed the
, wish that the plague might take one
. half OF the English language, and the
ague the other"
: A DANBURY girl WHOM accompanied
. home quite late Sunday evening, was
taken to task by her parents for the
q length of the session at the gate, and
% went up to her room in what is popu-
o larry denominated a " huff. The next
% morning her mother going to call her
70 was Mortified to find her In bed with
~ ~ her bonnet on. She was 50 mad on re-
70 firing she forgot to take it off. We
: believe this is the only instance Of the
10 kind on record.
y OVER 1000 tons Of Bessemer steel
s rails were rolled at the Rensselaer, Iron
IN ITn,,iyo ~ vol h. iii hoe
- furnaces, i'll each Of which were heated
10 81 ''blooms" per turn, or an aggregate
% of 333 pieces ~Eleven of these turns
% were made during the week, thus
30 making a total OF 3, 663 rails equal to
~ / ,0124 tons) in all. The Saturday pre-
30 vious to the beginning of the trial, 1872
30 rails were rolled, all of which were per
70 feet The unprecedented feat there
% fore, was accomplished of rolling 1926
10 rails without spelling a single one.
8 A PARAGRAPH has been floating about
- the literary columns of the press to the
effect that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, on account of i'll health, Will
e e not give to the public anything from
= :. her pen for several years to come.
= This is true to the following extent ::
: that Mrs Stowe is III excellent health,
hb IltI 1O1itld llOlHC III AIdllttdI III, anu
g that early in May she commences III
the Christian Union new seriel story,
5 called "We and Our Neighbors, upon
e which she has been engaged during
. the past year, and which has been
u u largely inspired by consideration OF
u u the social follies and profound domes-
u tic miseries resulting in the temper
: ance agitation" of the public mind at
= the present day,
r. Mr.. JOHN WARREN, of Nashua, New
If Hampshire, has the colors of the sec
v ond squadron OF the second New
n Hampshire regiment, which served in
h the war Of the Revolution. They were
IF carried by color-bearer Robert Reed,
& father of the late Robert Reed, of
Nashua. The colors are blue silk, with
woven fancy border and a green
fringe One side of the field is orna
ii mented with a shield in red, white and
70 blue, and displays seven stars. The
"a diverse side shows an eagle and the
r. notices, "E Pluribus Unum, and
ne Second Squadron, Second Req,
y ment. The relic is In a good state OF
al preservation, although somewhat faded,
an tattered and torn.
is Il COMPANY is to be formed to raise
tn the treasures which are still lying II
H. / I,o NH a chin, which wont DOWN