The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-11-19
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to be planted a weeping beach, a pyra-
midal oak, buckeye and silver fir.
CORK mouthpieces for cigars and cigar
cites are the latest dodge -Four hundred
thousand OF them are turned out daily.
A LITTLE California boy sent 81 to the
Garfield fund, stating that it was the first
money he had ever earned.
JERSEY cashier: 81 am guilty and
! willing TO go to the penitentiary. The
depositors can go to the poor house.
GENERAL SroNEMAN has raised &c.
900 worth of grapes on his vineyard at
Los Angeles, Cal, this year.
HENRY WILLARD declared in speech
at a reception In Portland that he will
ride from New York to Oregon in Octo-
Der, 1888, over the Northern Pacific.
The Wyandotte Cave, in Crawford
County, Indiana, is said to be nearly as
large as the Mammoth Cave, and mach
finer and grander.
WILL SMITH, county convict at
Huntsville, Texas, Is working out q fine
of $141 at fifty cents a month. 1t VIII
take him twentythree years and six
months to square the debt.
A COTTON sampler at Rome, Ga, put
his gimlet intoa bale and, finding soma
thing hard, made a close inves igation,
which revealed an iron crowbar weighing
twenty-five pounds.
UNTIL lately, the smallest size Of mar
ketable coal was termed pea; lately two
smaller sizes are being prepared. They
are buckwheat and diamond, the latter
only at one or two collieries IN the Lehigh
region
JosEFFY, the pianist, travels with four
pianos, namely, grand, for concerts; an
upright, for daily practice; a dumb up
right, for practice at very early or late
hours, and small dummy, for practice
on railway cars or steamboats,.
THOMAS G. ALyoRD, of Syracuse, n.
Y, recently received the one hundred
and forty-first annual rental of Il salt
farm of 800 acres in the town of Sclag-
ticOke. The farm has been in the AlyorI
family since 1910.
AN old timetable has cost the Central
Pacific Railroad Company 81, 200 and
costs. 1t had been given to an emigrant
III New York by on agent, and at Sacra-
mento the emigrant followed its direc-
tons. and was left, losing his baggage,
his ticket and his time.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, n. Y, still
maintains the first place in the number
of bushels of potatoes raised. Rens-
selaer County, n. Y, stands second, and
produces 100000 yearly. Buyers are
| to sort the stock. East of the Hudson
River the crop is large and good.
The chaparral cock ofArizona (paisano)
is a very delicious bird, but hard to kill,
its motions are so rapid. These birds,
it is said, are the natural foes of the rat
tlesnake, and build a corral Of chollay
(cactus) around him, and irritate him
until he lashes himself to death against
the thorns by which he is surrounded.
ONE curious phase Of the Yorktown
celebration resulting from the meeting
OF the state soldiery from all parts of the
Union was general swapping Of buttons
among them. Nearly every man who
went home through Washington had on
his coat buttons of the militia of every
state represented at Yorktown.
CARRIE CARR and ]. J. Underwood
met casually in a store sat Bear Greek,
Tenn. A rumor that she was about to
be married was mentioned, and she said,
| ooh, no; nobody viii have me. "Pu
take you;" he replied. An engagement
was made to meet at an appointed time
to have the marriage ceremony perform
ed. Underwood said it was all joke,
neither party intending matrimony, and
he did not make his appearance. But
she claims that they were both in sober
earnest, and has brought suit for $1,000
! damages.
DURING his recent trip to the Adiron-
dacks, G. 0. Colt, of Fitcl burg, Mass.
purchased a stone monument which was
| found twenty-eight years ago in the
township of Saranac. The monument IS
about 81 feet long by foot wide, and
when found was facing the east, and
about half its length embedded in the
| earth. On the monument are strange
! characters, which are said to resemble
! those found on ancient PhHnician monu-
ments. The part OF the monument that
! was above the surface of the earth when
found was much worn, apparently by
! the storms of centuries, while the part
that was below the surface has sharp
corners as when first cut.
SEVERAL young men of Webster
| County were bathing III the Kinche-
foonee, one day last week, when one of
! them was suddenly seized by the foot
and dragged under the water. He
turned and caught hold of the thing
D.. with his hands, thinking it was one of
his companions, when he was surprised
to find an alligator. Siezing it around
the body, he started to the bank with
his prize, but, III his own language,
"the dern thing wiggled and twisted
and twirled It's tail SO much, and
scratch with its claws so | had to turn it
loose" A few scratches was all the
hurt the young man had. He says it
was about three feet long. -Sbnster
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