The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-09-12

SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.
VARIOUS TOPICS.
ACCORDING to the United States
Circuit court in Oregon an alien must
prove his good moral character during
all the time he has been in the country
ere he can be entitled to citizenship.
A TRAMP went from Kentucky to
Tennessee, passed himself off as an immi-
grant painter, got the work of painting
the house of widow worth 800, 600,
and soon after married her. Tramps are
not altogether unenterprising.
CREMATION is favored by the medical
fraternity of New Orleans. The nature
of the soil about the city is such that
only the poor are inferred in the earth
most bodies being deposited in tombs
raised above the surface. There are
several cemeteries within the limits of
the city still used,
WILLIAM NJ. TwEED's summer house
at Greenwich, Conn, has gone to ruin,
and an air of neglect and decay is on
everything. The mansion is closed.
There is no money to keep things up,
and the smooth shaven lawn is overgrown.
The fine lamps are broken and disman-
tied, and the costly stables are closed.
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THE total amount of donations received
by the Mexican government for the first
six months of this year toward the pay
ment of the American debt amounts to
$50, 440. The government has forwarded
100000 to the Mexican minister at
Washington as the advance instalIment
of the 100000 to be paid yearly to the
United States.
THE skill with the rifle exhibited by
Captain Bogardus and DR.. Carver is
something of which to be proud but it
is pleasanter to record their victory in
breaking glass balls of piercing coins
tossed in the air than to announce that
they have succeeded in killing an aston
ishing number of inoffensive pigeons.
A TURNIP pest has appeared in Ireland
in the shape of an insect a quarter of an
inch long, which is preying upon the
turnip in the country of Kildare. In forty
eight hours field of twelve acres were
almost wholly destroyed. The worm
speedily ravages all the leaves except the
center one, and shows wonderful powers
of getting over the ground.
A SUIT for So, 900 was brought against
George Y. Barger, wealthy contrac tor
of Cincinnati, by Mrs. Fanny w. Meeks
who claimed that she picked him up
when boy, cared for him, educated
him, and finally advanced him $500
to begin life with, with the understand
ing that he was to care for when she
became old. Barger is very wealthy,
having made fortune in city contracts.
IN choosing Kentucky as his home,
he settler will have the satisfaction of
settling in a state which is absolutely
out of debt, where taxation is conse-
quently low, and where the native pop
ulation are among the healthiest in
body and mind, and most hospitable and
manly in spirit in the world. 81 have
seen," said old Daniel Boone, call kinds
of climate and land, but | have found
but one Kentucky"
AMONG the British Indian troops now
quartered at Malta there are, the Jsocish
World says, some black Jews, members
of the community of the B'nai Israel,
existing on the coast of Malabar. They
claim to be descendants of the Jews sent
by King Solomon to India to collect
ivory and precious stones. They differ
very materially from other Jews in many
OF their religious ceremonies, and only
observe the Jewish Sabbath and the
Passover.
The law against the employment of
female walters to serve Intoxicating
liquors has been determinedly enforced
IN Pittsburgh, a number of saloons have
been turned into contemporaries estab-
lishments, where only light drinks, such
as buttermilk, lemonade, mineral water,
settler, etc, are dispensed. The police
call them buttermilk foundries"
They do not meet the demands of the
former patrons, and will probably soon
be discontinued.
The Mansion house, Hackensack, n.
j., Is one of the oldest public houses in
land, and was once the residence of
George Washington. The building,
which is of stone, with wall three feet
thick, is more than one hundred and
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