The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-03
WINNOWiNGS.

money for his defense
A FELLOW who stole a church contri-
button box containing only twenty cents.
at Canandaigua, n. Y, has been sent to
state prison for ten years, being one wear
| for every two cents stolen.
P. NJ. BAGGs has purchased for s1O.-
900 the two hundred acre farm at Bemis
Heights, near Saltwater, where the bat
tie of Saratoga was fought and the indie
pendence OF America assured.
LYDIA E. P1NKHAh's Vegetable Compound,
the great medicine for the cure of all female
complaints, is the greatest strengthened of the
back, stomach, nerves, kidneys. urinary and
genital organs Of man and woman ever known.
Send for circulars to Lydia E. Pinkham lynn.
Mass.
MR.. SALTER, stonemason of Sher-
wood, Quebec, flew into a passion be-
cause something was lacking on his table,
went to restaurant for his supper and
choked to death with a piece of beef
steak.
Two hundred thousand bushels of
beets raised In Saratoga aud Science
tady Counties, New York, are being
shipped to Wilmington, Del, tor the
manufacture of sugar. Twenty five
canal boats will be required for the pur-
pose.
OVER 1000 robins were killed by one
man in a Kentucky roost recently.
Every branch of a cedar thicket sixty
acres in extent has its red. breasted LODI
ger, and although the slaughter by
hunters. who use a lantern and club, is
terrific, their numbers do not seem to
decrease
SOCRATES, at an extreme old age learned to
play on musical instruments. Cato. at 80 wears
OF age, learned the Greek language Piutarch,
when between sixty and seventy, began the
study of Latin. DIR. Johnson applied lmself
10 the Dutch language but few years beio ore
his death; Mrs. LYDIA f. Plnkhsm WAS nearly
fifty years of age when she discovered her Veg
etabie Compound. By these facts we see that
1t ls never too late to learn.
THERE was killed near Hot Springs,
Ark, a few days since d buck that had
twentyseven points on one beam of
his horns and nineteen on the other.
making in all forty-six. As these points
are supposed to appear not exceeding
one each year on one beam, the deer
must have been twenty-seven years old
A PARTY of ladies and gentlemen were
sailing on the Potomac, near Piney
Point, when one OF the ladies felt her hat
lerked from her head, and turning round
saw it IN the jaws Of shark. The Ish
was attracted by long ribbon hanging
over the side of the boat, and luckily
took the hat and not the head.
AMONG recent inventions in this coun-
try Is the manufacture of barrels of
pulped wood-one kind for fruit, -four
and other dry substances, and the other
for oils, beef, pork and liquids. They
are SO strong that they may be dropped
from wagon without harm Each bar
rel Is made In one piece, of coarse wood
pulp, subjected to a pressure of 400
tons, and is light, strong and cheap.
MILTON received $25 for Paradise Lost"
Pope $4,000 for his translation of Homer,
Edgar Allan Poe so for his famous poem.
The Raven" Tennyson $4,000 for single
poem. Shakespeare received only $25 for
Hamlet, while Lydia E. Pinkham receives
1000 per month from the sales of her Vege-
table Compound, Liver Pills and Blood Purifier.
SIDNEY DILLON, one of Jay Gould's
partners, is about to build the costliest
and most ornate private residences on
this continent. 1t is.to be erected at the
corner of Fifth Avenue and Sixty-sixth
Street, New York, and the house with
the grounds surrounding it will cover
thirteen full city lots, four of which will
be on Fifth Avenue.
The man who secured the contract for
taking down the old brick county jail at
Battle Creek, Mich, has found it more
profitable job than he anticipated In a
crev1ce of the wall he discovered two
500 greenbacks, and near by large
amount of gold jewelry, all of which
had evidently been hidden by thieves in
order to avoid having their spoils found
upon their persons.
THE physical ills which are peculiar to women
are seldom mentioned, either in conversation
or through the press, through false modesty;
and yet the percentage of these diseases are
the increase. Thousands of women to-day
cherish grateful remembrance of the Vegeta-
BILE Compound which is prepared by Mrs. Lydia
E. Pinkham of this city. We learn that more
of this preparation is sold in this city than is
sold of any other medicine; and all the world
should know of its curative effects. See adver
tsement III another column.-Lyran Transcript.
GREAT POND, between Asbury Park
and Deal Beach, on the New Jersey
coast, has been very full for several
months. The other night the high
tides cut away the sand-bar between the
ocean and the pond, and the next morn
ing the pond, which covers hundreds of
NSASo, Woc hO6iAiy
THE excavating for the Hudson River
tunnel has progressed a distance of $50
feet under the river from the Jersey
shore. The Roadway made is from three
to five feet daily. Operations on the
New York side will begin In about
month. Under fair circumstances the
tunnel will be completed in about two
years and half.
REMEDY that will successfully relieve female
weakness cannot fail to be popular with women,
and when meritoTious article IS placed on the
market it meets with ready sale. Among the
most reliable of this class is LYDIA F.. Pinknam's
Vegetable Compound, which is guaranteed to
cure all diseases of female weakness. This
is fast taking the place of all
others as q sure and reliable remedy, and is en-
dorsed by druggists and others wherever it has
been introduced. Rockland H., Argus. See
advertisement in another column.
The Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake
,ity, which has been twenty five years In
process of construction, and is not yet
has granite walls nine feet
our inches thick, is 200 feet in dimeter
and seats $4,000 persons. 1t is very
perfect whispering gallery, and the drop
ping of pin or the rustic of dress can
De heard from one side to the other.
LYDIA E. PINKHAMs Vegetable Compound
lures all female complaints. The following is
he sort of testimony which Mrs. P1nkham re-
elVes: l had been troubled with female weak
hess for seventeen years. The three last years
was great sufferer, fourteen months of the
lime not able to leave my bed. Many RENE
hes from many physicians were tried by me
'ut to no avail. am now well and work at my
rade, dressmL king. / was cured by taking six