The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

thirty suits pending against it-not quite
two to each thousand adult persons.
The San Francisco Clearing house
having declined to make further ex-
changes in subsidiary silver, and the
banks having suspended separate silver
accounts, one of the brokers of the city
proposes to test the feasibility of keeping
silver accounts for merchants.
OHIO produced $4,000 tons of butter
and cheese in 1877, more than one-half
of the amount being furnished by the
Western Reserve and three or four
counties Immediately joining it in north
eastern Ohio. This is better than max
ing ofice-holders of all its citizens.
AMERICAN cheese has so crippled the
market for the home made article in
Ayrshire, Scotland, that the farmers
turned their attention to butter making
and silk selling, and the supply of the
two latter articles is now SO great that
butter is worth emily half the price of a
year ago, and milk has to be fed to the
swine.
A GOOD health preservative, especially
in the summer, is to sponge the body in
cold water, containing small percentage
of some alkali such as ammonia. The
ammonia combines with the oil or grease
thrown out by the perspirstion, forming
soap, which is easily removed from the
skin, leaving the pores open, thus pro-
noting health and comfort.
The Indiana state museum has
acquired copies of the presidential tickets
used in the elections of 1924. One is
headed Indiana electoral ticket-For
President, John Q. Adams, who first
recommended to congress a system of
internal improvements; the other
begins, " The peoples ticket-Gratitude
Glory, Patriotism-For President, An
drew Jackson"
The health commissioner in charge of
the st. Louise quarantine tried to brighten
of grand jury, which had come in
boat to investigate the place, by telling
them that he had five cases of yellow
fever in the hospital. They persisted in
landing, and not only found that there
was no fever there, but that the mis-
management justified an indictment of
the commissioner.
MAJOR BACoN's bill before the
Georgia Legislature excites much inter
est. By the provisions of this bill the
courts must drop all business to hasten
through any murder case that comes be-
lore 1T, and if there be no court in ses-
sion the judge must call session and at
once try the case; it must then 90 direct
to the Supreme Court, and there be
affirmed or reversed at once; if reversed.
new trial must be had at once.
PRESIDENT CHADBoURNE, of Williams
college is to have charge during the next
two years as editor in-chief of a work
on the Wealth Of the United States"
which is to be published in half dozen
different languages. 1t will be distrib-
uted by the United States consuls, and
Is designed to direct attention to every
thing that this country can sell. An
association of capitalists have contrib
uted $4,000 toward the undertaking.
QUEENSLAND, the youngest of the
Australian group, occupies the northeast
ern quarter of the Austrian continent,
and stretches from the northern bound
airy of New South Wales to the Gulf Of
Carpentaria. 1t is twelve times the size
Of England, twice the size of Canada,
and half as large again as England, Ire
land, Scotland, Wales, France and Spain
combined. 1t is rich in gold The au-
rlterous country now worked is less than
1900 miles in area.
IN the Chicago St. Vincent's Home
for the Insane is a grave, quiet gentle
man, who converses intelligibly upon
everyday topics, such as he finds dis
cussed in the newspapers, and on relig-
ious subjects speaks with a wonderful
precision of judgment. 1t is only when
he tells visitors that he is the Catholic
bishop of Chicago that they doubt his
sanity; yet his assertion is true. He is
Bishop Dugan, whose reason was de-
throned ten years ago. He has never
been turned out of office, and still re.
talns his episcopal signet ring, but is
dressed in civilian costume.
JERUSALEM is becoming daily more
and more German, and the language is
very generally spoken there. The Ger
man settlers are both Jews and Chris
tlans and recently a magazine, to
appear once in three months, has been
started, giving an account of all that is
interesting " down in jude" and bear
ing especial reference to the archeolog-
lcsl researches made in the district. The
conductors Of this periodical will paw
particular attention to the various moot
points as to topography in and around
the holy city.
The societies of provident and in.
dustrial character in England are ia.
creasing very rapidly. There at present
SOS of them, with working capital of
considerably over SIS, 600, 600. and with
nearly $5,000,000 more in loans and
deposits. In addition, Wales has IS
such societies, with capital of about
S244,0oO, and $51, 200 in loans and
deposits. Scotland has 24S societies
with Sl,125,000 working capital. and
over S=SI OOD Ioors 81 A.