The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-09-04
GLEANINGS.

SHOOTING alllgatOrs for their hide!
has become recognized industry IL
/ Louisiana.
A CHINAMAN, who was looking Mt a.
Enghshman eating t1pc, said: "Anc
yet he hates dear little mice"
SAN FRANCIsCo servant girl made
$4,000 in stocks, and III one afternoon
purchased COB different articles at dol
lar store
A PAPER giving an account of the
death of a venel able woman, patheticallN
adds: "She leaves an orphan son aget
50 years.
A FARMER in western Michigan haC
six different organs and five sewing ma
chimes in his house at once on trial. DE
t'OH Free Press.
THE plate owned by the Duke of Vel
lington is estimated to be worth 81 800,
600. Wonder how much his cup and
saucer would be vaucd at?
CRANBERRY plants imported from
Maine to Susanville, Cal, have succeed
cd well and the experiment of raising
cranbernes III that locality is considered
a success.
IL the chime in the tower of st. Anne's
! Episcopal church in Lowell is a bell in
scribed as the gift of Ole Bull III 1857,
he having appeared III a concert there to
raise funds for its purchase.
A CNCINNATT clergyman recently paid
/ his alfectiOnate respects to the class OF
men who pay $50 for carriage hire at q
wIfe's funeral, and never spend 81 for
/ riding while the poor woman Is alive
! THE extreme low water in the lake at
! Geneva, \. Y, has brought TO light two
mineral springs containing sulphur and
| iron. One of the springs is very cold,
and the water is excellent for drinking.
TIE little smOke-stained angels in
Madagascar are playing mumblety-peg
with American jack-l knives, and the Arab
of the desert trims his beard with shears
made IN Connecticut. - Detroit Free
Press
NATURAL lime, occurring in large
beds, is reported among recent discov-
cries in Kansas 1t is described as of a
clear white color, and fine texture, being
readily converted into plastic condition
by the addition of sand and water.
An exchange comments on the heavy
business done in California i'll shipping
to China the shells of the shrimps.
which are caught in great numbers on
the coast. These shells are made to
serve In China as n manure, and rs a
poison to the worms which cause de-
struction to the tea plant.
A LETTER written by Martha Washing
ton from Mount Vernon on the 9th of
April, 1862, is owned by Mrs. J. Reid,
of Andovcr, Mass In it Mrs. Washing
ton acknowledges the receipt of some
"syder," speaks of her own and Mr..
Washington's "helth," and begs her
friend, to whom she is writing to eek
cept" her love
CHICAGO has new industry. a hospi-
tai for diseased and orphaned birds.
Mrs. \. I. Moir is the chief physician
and matron of the institution, and is
also head nurse and instructor-in-c chief
to young birds There are medical,
surgical and obstetric wards, an asylum
for the blind, and an orphan depart
ment.
MANY a fathers pride is shocked and
many a mothers heart blceds trihe as
their boy cup at grandpa's' writes his
little scraWl home, "This is a hos plac.
[ Xix living hear better than to home, .
and they inwartlly vow never to be harsh
with the little fellow when he comes
back. Make home the boss" place for
your children, even if they seem to be
boss of it.-New Harcn RcgiSfcr.
GEORGE W. SMITH, of Dover. Mass.
took ether that he might not suffer pain
during the extraction of sixteen teeth
The ether caused severe vomiting after
the operation was over, and the jaw WAS
associated in consequence. For two
days he was unable to swallow any food,
and it was only when a physician re-
stored the lawbone to It's proper position
that the man could receive any nourish-
mCnt.
JACK INcE had just fttedup his saloon
at Arkana, Texas, with fine blackwell
nut bar. Tom DAILY, desperate, took
drink at the new counter and began to
carve his initials with a bowie knife on It's
polished surface. Ince protested with
out avail, ana then commanded DAILY to
stop. I'm going to cut this bar or
you, and | don't care which, was the re
/ tort. :" You won't 10 either, said Ince,
and shot the bully dead.
/ Iris generally supposed that the bronze
/ cents and the nickel scent pieces are
worth intrinsially the value marked up
ON their face. Very far from Reckon
ing nickel at s. per pound, the scent
4 piece is worth Il cent and quarter. 1t
weighs seventy~tive grains and a frac-
i ton. The proportions in the compost
/ ton of It are scyCnty-fiye per cent. of
nickel. Copper is reckoncd at 43 cents
/ per pound. If then, a nickel Scent
/ piece is lost, the government clears 3 /
] cents on the issue.
\ BRIDGEPORT man refused TO eat meat
or any other dish containing meat when
he was a child of two years or so. and
has held steadfastly to the same platform
/ through a life that counts upnearly forty
years. His appetite Is good-for any
thing in the way of vegetables, and he
has never suffered days sickness, but
he says with seeming sincerity that he
believes he would allow himself to starve
rather than to eat meat In his child
hood days his parents tried to overcome
+ his unnatural scrlples III the way of in
geniousIv prepared dishes containing
some preparation of meat, but his IN
stinctiye aversion was such that he could
not be deceived.
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