The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

| 1UJ years OAu.
FoRr WORTH, Tex, saloon men are
endeavoring to regulate the pr1ec OF
beer per glass
SELMA, Ala, has over sixty artesian
wells, and the water from no twoof them
is exactly alike.
/ The old parsonage at Fort Hunter, \.
| Y, was built IN 1712, and is pretty
good house yet.
THREE Syracuse, n. Y, lads have
been sent to the house OF refuge for
stealing ore cigar.
| ELwooD SMITH picked up copper
| coin IN Bedford, Pa, a few days since
that bore the date 100.
HEALDsBURG, Cal, people amuse
| themselves killing brown bears, which
are numerous IN the vicinity.
| A LADY is 10 become the general de-
| livery clerk IN the postoffiee at DarIen,
Miss.
FROM less than an acre of blackber-
ries 500 has been realized by Mr.. Smith,
living north of Sherman, Tex.
A GENTLEMAN in Washington County,
| Texas, raised twelve pounds of cocoons
| this year and shipped them TO silk fac
| tory.
.''SIsTER DORA" the self-sacriicing
| Anglican Catholic, whose biography
| created such sensation a year or two
| ago, Is to have statue to her memory
| at Walsall.
A CHINAAIAN caught sturgeon weigh
| ing 165 pounds, in Feather River, below
| Oroviile, Cal, last week. The fish
pulled him overheard, but he was res
cued by his comrades.
WHILE excavations were being made
IN Elmirs, n. Y, day or two ago, three
| human skulls and part of a leg bone
were unearthed. They are believed to
| be the bones of Indians.
RED BLUFF, Cal, boasts of a genuine
haunted house. The ghostly tenant is
the spirit Of a courtesan, one Hattie
Stewart, who lately died there. Scores
Of people claim to have seen the ghost.
JOSH Billings is a native of Lanes
boro, \. H, and there he hopes to be
buried He has directed his children
to mark the grave with a rough stone
from the quarry near by.
Mr.. 2. t. BARNUM was at the White
| Mountains last week, and one day went
up the inclined railway. Then he tele-
8IdDlE0 ~ q lIltuus dLl1 at t4lt Top
of Mount Washington. 1t is the Sec
ond greatest show on earth.
Mr.. A. d. Smith, of Fauquier, claims
to have the "boss" apple tree IN Vir-
ginia. 1t has produced seyenty-fve
| bushels Of apples IN one season, and
| one seasons bearing has made a forty
gallon barrel of brandy.
IT is stated that at Red Rock Canon,
Cd the regular road from Mohave to In
| dependence, New, the carcasses of two
hundred sheep are lying, polluting the
atmosphere for miles about. 1t is sur
| missed that they were poisoned by the
bad water of that place.
JAMES HENNEssY, aged Is, of Troy,
| \. Y, died few days ago from swallow
ing water while II swimming III the
| Poestenkill, the water having been
poisoned by vitriol allowed TO escape
| into the stream after being used to gal
vanize wire at the Griswold Mill
By pouring oil on the floor, and set
ting it on fire, then gouging out the
eharred portions by the means Of
sharpened spike and piece of scissors,
and then repeating the operation. three
prisoners IN the Corpus Christi, Tex,
| J
DR.. ". 3. FEwELL, of Ebenezer,
York County, seined his fish pond
recently, and caught from it forty Ger
man. carp measuring from twelve to
| twenty two inches IN length. This pond
was started two years ago and was made
on land previously planted in cotton.
The new game law In Idaho is very
strict. No buffalo, deer, elk, antelope,
or mountain sheep are to be killed be-
tween the 1st of January and the 1st Of
| September of each year, and at no other
time If killed to obtain their hides or TO
| ship their carcasses out of the territory.
GoRDoNsvHLE (YA.) Gazette: The
| old corn. mill, about three miles from
town, known as Cowherd's Mill, is now
one hundred years old. On a square
stone above the door are the figures
17S1. Years ago wheat was made into
-four there, but the old machinery gave
way and has never been renewed.
A WILD man, naked and with long
matted locks, is having the run of the
range near Boerne, Tex. He Is repre-
sented as being over the medium IN
height, slight In frame, limp in the left
| leg, and swift IN speed. Hopes are en-
1 a
party organized for that purpose.
LITTLE Mrs. Whedleim spent forty
| five minutes in a vain effort 10 convince
Mr.. ". that a sealskin sacque was
| necessary to her existence. Then she
startled him with the question, s'John.
| hadn't you better sell me for a car
wheel?" ''Why2" Because I've go
a cast iron hub. Sh5 got the sacque. +
ALLIGAToRs are getting more and
more impudent every day. Yesterday
| quite large specimen of the species
| took the water at the foot of st. Francis
| Street, and became the target of half
| dozen poor marksmen. When last seen
the amphIbious lizard was gaily swim
| ming up the stream. Mobile Reoister.
The total amount of the county taxes
| IN Ohio under the Scott law amounts to
| 81, ,622, 1868. The returns from the
| counties not heard from will make it go
over 3, 600, COO. and this is an annual
! income for the several counties and
cities IN which itIs collected. The funds
ali go to the benefit of the localities in
which they are collected.
JULIA Brown has brought suit against
/ Henkel, hotel man OF YounpstoVn
!
/ agreed to become man and wife. that
they lived together (without ceremony
| Of marriage} from 1872 to 1881 and
that Henkel then married another
woman. She now prays for divorce and
| alimOny.
A PTUTE Indian killed his sduaw IN
Butte Valley, White Pine County. Ne
vada, last week, and the tribe Ivpched
| hin--not after the American plan. but
after style Of their own. They Iassoed
him with ropes and after dragging him
around for a while hitched the rope to a
horse and dragged the murderer about
on the mountains until his body was
mangled beyond recognition.
Nor long ago, as an elderly couple
we're out walking, lady on the oppo-
site side Of the street tripped and fell
down The old gentleman rushed across