The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-08-25
GLEANINGS.
IN has female BARRIERS.

"A GUILIOTINE that mas cut or ZZ,UUU'
French heads is on exhibition in London.
ONE company in Lima, O., turns out
5000 churns and 10000 washboards an
nually.
In sandy soils the greatest force of
pileengine will not drive pile more
than Is feet
ONLY one doctor can be found within
twenty miles of Lapwai, Idaho, and he
is practicing law.
A MAN in Carteret county, n. c., has
raised seventy-fiye thousand watermelons
this year.
HALF a ton of pure gold is used an
nually for filling the teeth of the people
of the United States.
PARTING address of the Russian land
wehr to his family, 81 Muscovite the
Turks
a FISHERMAN in France lately got in
the line of a rife range, and received In
his body dozen bullets, but none pene-
trated to any vital part.
THE Ithaca Journal says that farmer
came in there lately with load of but
ter packed in sno,, which lie had dis
covered beneath straw pile that he had
moved in the morning.
For the small sum of % cents, says
the Worcester Press, you can hire at al
most any seaside resort bathing suit
that viii make the sad-eyed little fishes
stand on their bald heads and weep.
WHY, there are families in this city
who have been living ever since the panic
of 1873 upon their plate and jewelry, and
keeping up appearances, too.-Neee York
PGWRbr0ker.
Nor many are aware Of the fact that
piece Of ice placed on the wrist pulses
or the temple will in a short time etlectu-
ally cool the whole system. Try this
rather than draughts of ice water
A GALVESTON man was divorced and
married again. But the divorce proved
invalid, and be committed suicide after
his bridal trip, his estate of $4,000
thereby going to his first wife.
A MASSACHUSETTS COW came home the
other day carrying on her horn the fol-
lowing note: Enclosed find six cents
for one quart of milk taken this fore
noon" And the six cents were there.
EQUTMAUx JOE, who took part in the
Polaris expedition, wrote to Captain
Howgate for position on the Florence,
saying in his letter: "Me good man; no
SO good man like me. Catch seal, dog,
everything for ship. Me want $50
month and come back when Florence
do" As Joe's terms were exorbitant,
Captain Howgate refused to employ him.
PARENTS should carefully guard
against allowing the yellow jasmine to
get into the hands of their children.
The plant, root and flower are all deadly
poisonous, and numbers of deaths among
children, some quite recently, have oc-
CURED from eating the poisonous article.
: Wilmington (N. CO. Press.
A GOOD man leaveth an inheritance
to his children's children, and
the wealth of the sinner is laid up for
the just" The first part of this Scrip
tlre verse was printed on the backs of
all policies in the Universal Life Insur-
ance Company, and now policy-holders
are waiting for the application of the last
clause.
a COMPANY has been started to supply
downtown New York merchants and
brokers with lunch at their Offices Each
is called upon between 10 and
l o'clock every day by one of the COM
pany's carriers with Theoretically scaled
containing an assortment of
fresh sandwiches, made of French rolls
and meats of every kind.
A MAN who could not read was dis
tributing handbills of a drinking saloon.
He put down his bundle and went to
dinner. In his absence a temperance
advocate substituted temperance tracts
for the handbills, and during the rest of
the day the saloons were not helped, if
not hurt.
GOVERNOR BROCKAIYER, of Missouri,
when somebody said to him, " You can't
expect men to work for dollar day.
Why not? When / came
to this country a boy of eighteen / work
ed as bootblack in the streets of New
York. Thirty years ago ! worked in
foundry for 50 week, and | saved my
money until / had enough to buy piece
If land, and then / was independent. |
would have spent the balance of my life
IN the piece of land, but was routed out
If it by the war.
WRITES the famous. though retired
Jenny Lind, from England:
| want to speak to you OF my baby.
Well, | must tell you that God asgiyen
nv dear husband and myself an ad-
nirable little girl, born March 3lst, last.
She is the perfect image of health and
happiness. She laughs and crows IN
way to delight all sympathetic hearts.
We have given her a little Katharine
among her other names, but we call her
Jenny, | need not say III honor OF
whom"
THE old war horse of the ex-Confeder-
,te General B. J. Hill, dled rev Jays
700. The General had the amman de-
emily buried, and intends 10 nave
-ombstane erected over the grave WIN
his inscription: "Albery-SIdney 1ohn-
ON, a noble, gallant, faithful anu tIue
,orse. after bearing his rlderanu MASTER
J. J. Hill. through forty-Seyen oa'tles'
eceiying three severe WOUNDS anu sur
, In them through many years OF use
Is died July q, 1877, IN the TWEEN
fourth year of his age
THREE little girls in Springfield, Mass,
in II H days AGO, began playing with an
a NV rink left in yard to air. They
L,it one Of their number inside and sat
n ~ the lid to make the spring-lock catch.
V = the prisoner had been in the bastile
mo me, enough they tried to let her out and
onId not. The servants came to the res
ne but in vain. Then the whole house
old went on a search for the key, which
)uId not be found for twenty minutes,
lille the children were sent in all direc-
ons for a doctor. Finally the trunk
as opened and the screaming child was
,leased, terribly frightened, but other