The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-02-06
Miscellaneous Foreign Items

THEY notice at the Paris masked hall,
more dress coats and fewer fancy cos
tunes than formerly.
A MOST entertaining autobiography io
promised by the literary executors Of
Mr.. Blackstone, the famous London
dramatist, actor and manager.
LIVERPOOL, England thinks that if is
old enough to be city. Heretofore if
has been only a town.
A MANcHE 5TER policeman. named
Grafton, was ordered by the Judge of
the County Court to pay the sum of
"a, as compensation for an assault
upon woman whom he had dragged to
the police station on an unfounded
charge.
BY order of the Earl of Dudley, who
has taken a new lease of the far-famed
Black Mount Deer Forest, and the fish
ings connected Herewith, inclined pas
sages have been cut in the rock form
ing the Falls of the Orchy, for the free
run of salmon.
LONDON is about to follow the exam
pie of Birmingham IN providing shell
ters for cabmen. A correspondence
has been opened in the Globe upon
the subject. Towards the erection of
the first REST " e70 has been sub
scribed.
FANNY ELssLER is residing near Ham
burg, and is writing her history for
publication after her death. She is now
a devout Roman Catholic, relying as
much on the confessional as once she
did upon the excitement of the foot
lights.
AN extraordinary attempt mt whole
sale poisoning was recently made at Cal
stock, Ill the west of England, where
there is a large mandatory of arsenic.
The 80 people employed in the estab-
lishment all get their water from one
tank, and somebody put pailful of
arsenic into it one night. The next
morning sixty persons were poisoned,
and it was only by the Immediate use of
remedies that their lives were saved.
The blind king of Hanoveri is to have
his own again if he will only bow TO
Bismarck and the empire. This comes
of having a queen Of England for a
first cousin and the future empress of
Germany for a cousin German one re
move
THE British Society of Arts recently
offered 81, 500 III prizes of $3.50 each for
essays on the development of improved
means for the economic use of fuel III
private dwellings,. There were 204 es-
says submitted, not one of which was
deemed worthy Of prize, or even of
favorable mention.
LADY WENTWORTH, wife of the son of
Lady Lovelace, Byron's Ada, is a fair
Won an, with brown hair, and girlish
contour Of face. She was very Psyche
Of girls, and is yet SO beautiful that her
appearance III public is a signal for
rush.
THE London Standard says; "The
time is not far distant when the states
manship OF Prince Bismarck, as far as
Rome IS concerned, Will seem very
hasty and shallow when compared with
the far-sighted patience of the pupils of
CavOur
DURING the current year no less than
1904 assertions have taken place from
the English army, and the military
prison now contains nine hundred ar
rested and condemned deserters Ii is
so full that the authorities say no more
can be received.
AT Douay man has just been tried
for ''vlolation of sepulchre," because
he poured half glass of gin on COM
rade's grave, having previously swal-
lowed the other half 1t had been long
OBVIOUSLY agreed between them that
.ney should take aglass together III that
way.