The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-13
PITHY PARTICLES.


AN Eddyville, Kentucky, cucumber is
twelve inches long and twelve inches
thick.
THE first Turner society in America
was established in the city Of New YORK
in 184S.
The wealth of California has been
slowly but steadily accumulated IN the
hands of few men.
A MAN overcome by the impure air i'll
q Texarkana we'll was drawn out by
means of hook stuck through his wrist.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE man found live
eel imbedded in the hard-pan, six feet
below the surface of the ground the
other day.
In 1907, when Daniel Webster lived
at Portsmouth, he had red morocco
pocketbook, which is now in possession
of Colonel Hoyt, of Cincinnati.
The man who was slightly bitten by
shark at Long Branch on Thursday
will lecture. Thus, the shark Is taught
the folly of sighting his work.-Atbany
Journal.
JAMES BULLOCK, of Walton county,
Ga, while hoeing in cotton field, found
concealed in stump SO, 900 in gold and
silver and a pile of greenbacks. The
paper money had rotted.
EBEN WATERBURY,, aged Y, fell in
love with young woman at Ellsworth,
ILL.,, and gained her consent to marriage,
but his stern son interposed, and the old
man committed suicide.
BoUCICAULT sold his yacht, the
Shaughraun, at an advance of $4,000 on
the cost. The new owner is having the
yacht altered and reftted although she
has never left the dock of the builder.
The Greenville, Miss, advertiser says
that a saloon keeper on the Arkansas
side of the Mississippi river, after selling
the contents of whisky barrel, found
therein the remains Of a child. The
stamp on the barrel was four years old.
DIR. THOMPSON, of San Francisco, is
in London showing the profession there
his new method of replanting teeth. 1t
is said that he takes them out, keeps
them in warm cotton while he fills them
or builds them up, and then replaces
them.
"GIvE me a glass of water, if you
| please" said a visitor to his host, an
avaricious millionaire. The water was
brought. Now" asked the visitor,
"will you have the kindness to bring
a straw? My imagination will furnish
the rest. '-Puck.
THE Carson Appeal tells of Carson
goat which swallowed lady's purse
containing 10 shares of Sierra Nevada
stock and $3.50 in small gold. A cross
cut was Immediately run across his
throat, and subsequent drift on its
1900 stomach level resulted in striking
the loft bonanza.
A SAN FRANCISCO woman was run
over on Market street the other day, and
has since died of her in uries. When it
was suggested to her husband that the
driver of the vehicle be arrested, he
very modestly and properly replied that
she didn't want to do anything disa-
greeable in the matter"
A LITTLE plain marble tablet, three
inches thick and about four feet high,
resting on fat freestone socket, bear
ing simply her name, and valued at
about twenty dollars, is all there is to
mark the resting place of Charlotte
Cushman, the tragic queen, who left
half million to her next of kim"
A YOUNG man who went to circus
and stopped too near the monkeys cage
had his arm seized and savagely ierked
by one of the monkeys. He would have
escaped safely had he not said it was
merely a monkey wrench" but when
they head that the Infatuated crowd
threw him into the lions cage-An OIL
dom Paper.
ONION parties are popular in Tusca-
rora. Six young ladies take an onion
with them into a room and one of the
number takes bite of it. Then q young
gentleman is admitted, and, after kissing
all of them, if he fails to tell which one
of them bit the "inyun," then the girls
are all of them compelled to kiss him,
or he is compelled to kiss all of them,
the chronicler forgets which, Virginia
Nev.) Enterprise.
THE Jacksonville Union tells remark
able story of how two colored men got into
a fight on Thursday morning last and
one of them shot the other in the head
with pistol. Though the combatants
were only two feet apart the bullet fat
tened against the mans head and fell to
the ground. 1t knocked him down but
did no further damage. After the shoot
ing both parties were taken to the station
house and locked up.
WHEN the auctioneer at Leavitt's
said that a man who would pay forty
dollars for a secondhand postage stamp
ought to be sent to lunatic asylum, he
expressed what many people think.
Still, when John Rice's thirty years col
lection of stamps was sold at Clinton
Hall, $32. so, $22, $40, ETC., were among
the prices paid for cancelled stamps OF
small denominations, but very rare,
from all parts of the civilized, that is,
the postage-stamped, world.-N Y
Mail.
THERE are at the present time nearly
100000 miles of telegraph lines in the
United States Excluding railway, in
volving the use of about 100000 miles
: of wire. There are over 10000 officers,
and during the past year nearly 100000
900 of messages have been sent. The re-
ceipts were nearly $12,000000, and the
expenses about 81, 100000. Next to the
United States, Russia has the most ex-
tensive system of telegraph lines,
namely, So, 900 miles; Italy comes next
with $4,000 miles; next France with
"a 900; Great Britain has about $4,000
: miles, and Germany 1000 miles.
A GERMAN gentleman who keeps a
seven-by-nine larger beer shop at the
South End treated himself to a days
! vacation recently, leaving his son in
charge of "ter pizziness and a keg of
beer. On his return he found the kep
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