The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-20
PITHY PARTICLES.

11ln IAN I1CAEOs
VIRGINIA, Abingdon-snake-perfect-
ly white.
THERE are in Paris Al, 749 tobacco
nists' shops.
THEY make watermelon syrup in
Georgia.
A NEGRO woman IS years old is going
to school at Carsonville, Ga.
A PARIS, Tenn, family of eight drinks
ten gallons of milk day.
IT has not rained in Grimes county,
Texas, for four months and two weeks.
OREIN GOTHAM, of Epping, n. H., ate
Sc peaches ON wager, and they killed
him.
ABOUT 10000 telephones are now in
use in this country, and about 500 Eng
land.
A BARREL of swallows were killed by
smoke in Woburn chimney the other
day.
Two hundred gallons of wine were
made from one Florida grape vine last
| year.
A CHICKEN was recently Matched i'll
Eden. VT, which had three bills, three
pair of eyes, and but one body.
ONE tramp accidentally shot and killed
another in Ohio, and the jury rendered
verdict of justifable carelessness.
So much ice was gathered along the
Hudson last winter that many houses
will remain untouched this season.
| GEN. LoNGsTREET, of Confederate
fame, has raised turnip in his Georgia
| eo rdan wniUhipu fOurtnau mounds
A WAGON train has been started be-
tween Macon and Buena Vista, Ga, to
avoid the high railroad freights.
Two twin brothers are said to be SO
much alike that they frequently borrow
money of each other without knowing it.
A HARTFORD faro bank lost 50, 100 to
green countryman, and the discour-
aged proprietor thereupon attempted
suicide.
A DooR-BELL has been mysteriously
ringing in Demopolis, Ala. 1t was dis
covered that a snake did it by crawling
over the wire.
A MONTGOMERY, Alabama, man was
choked to death the other day by a
negro woman, with whom he had fight
about his washing.
MILLEDGEvILLE, (Ga.) bellies have
been giving phantom party by moon
| light. There is no internal revenue tax
on the spirits produced by these MOON
sinners.
AN eight-day clock was blown through
brick wall at the time of the explosion
in the Montague mill at Turner's Falls
and was not injured sufficient to prevent
its running.
SOME gentlemen in Tarrytown, on the
Hudson, have offered to give one thou
sand dollars for a monument to Wash
ington Irving, and also the land on
which to erect it.
A sEvEN-YEAR-OL OLD boy at Philadel-
phia recently picked woman's pocket
| in the street, and spent the money in
treating two little girls to supper of
Goldfish cakes and peaches.
THE pastor and deacons of church at
Gainesville, Texas, are said to have
| played poker, at five cents ante and fifty
cents limit, while waiting for quorum
at business meeting.
A TEXAS boy was bitten by rattle
snake and was in critical condition.
A physician injected three drops of
carbolic acid under the skin with a
hypodermic syringe, and gave instant
relief.
THERE is no passenger train between
| New York and Buffalo which pays so
well as the night milk train on the Har-
lem-$1 500 daily for the corporation.
| Profit to the farmer, half cent per
quart Westchester Times.
WHEN John Dixon, a Savannah ne
gro. sat up in bed in the midst of his
| own funeral services, the assembled
mourners ran yelling from the house,
soma of them getting out through the
windows.
A LADY who had refused to give, after
hearing a charity sermon, had her pocket
| picked as she was leaving the church.
On making the discovery she said:
GOOD could not find the way to my
pocket, but the devil did"
THE coniuring materials taken from
| Georgia negro consisted of goose quilts
filled with broken needles, vial of iron
rust, the feathers of various birds, and
a snake skin. The negroes of his neigh
borhood had long believed in and feared
his power of working mischief with
charms
TEACHER, to boy, who has to be cor
rected frequently; "Can you tell me
where the Blue Ridge is?' Boy Grub
bling his shoulder,) ono, but can tell
where the black-and-blue ridge is" He
is treated more vigorously than ever
now Cincinnati Saturday Night.
BUCHANAN, a prisoner in the Bruins
wick, (Ga.,) Jail, went to the bath room.
with other prisoners, for wash, the
other day, and was SO changed in ap-
pearance by the application of water,
that the turnkey allowed Inn to walk
into the street, not recognizing him as
prisoner. He is now a free man.
A TENNESSEE darkey preacher held
forth recently as follows: You girls
call your sweethearts darlings,' and
you men call yours daisies and you
girls are afraid to come up here for fear
some other girls will get off with your
'darlings,' and you men for fear some
| other fellow will get away with your
'daisies,' and," said he, "between this
darling and daisy business lots of you
niggers are going straight to hell"
SENATOR CoNKLING's residence over
looks Utica, being placed on the highest
point of land. The house and grounds
probably are worth $4,000. The house
is square, with high steps and a portico,
large treble Widowed step, gallery
running all around the skyline and a
tall flagstaff topping red, fattish, con-
ical roof. The carriage way in front