The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS

nj ISIS ELAINE GOODALE, the eldest of
the s. Sky Farm sisters" has become a
teacher in the Hampton Indian school.
THE peanut crop of Tennessee, which
is beginning to come in, IL the best for
years.
HERE are twelve cities in Japan each
having population of over 1000, 600
4ouls.
A SNOW WHITE opossum has been ex-
hibited on the streets of Mount Pleas
mt. Tex, which was captured III the vi
cinity.
AN apple tree which has been bear
ing fruit for seventy-tiye years has iast
been cut down III Bracken County, Ken
lucky.
JUDGE Deadly, at Portland, has de-
cided that gamblers must he tried in the
state instead OF the municipal courts of
Oregon,
FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria, has a
horror OF card playing and will allow
the practice III only one of his palaces.
the little hunting chateau of Neuherg.
A GENUINE Chinese lei er was found
in the brush along the banks Of the
American River, near Sacramento, Cal,
recently.
A HERKIMRR COUNTY, New York, man
named Johnson has dog whi,h has
adopted two pigs in place of two pups
which had died
AN English firm writes to a Baylor
County, Texas, cattle raiser that 1t wished
to send out several young meu as "pu-
pills on cattle ranch"
Mr. JAMES B BOYD, of Concord. east
Tennessee, has just grown agourd which
Is five feet eight inches In circumfer-
nee, and holds eighteen gallons.
THE three largest companies in Name
packed 1864, 900 cans of sweet corn this
season, and the forty other factories are
thought to have made over ], 900, 900
cans.
LORD CoLERIDGE said the hotels of
America have attained perfection. Mat
thew Arnold is pleased with them.
and Miss Terry had no idea of their
elegance"
MRS. J. @. AVER has inherited the
81. 900, 000 which her husband made in
patent medicines. Her daughter Iii
liam, is reigning belle in Paris at the
present time.
THE jaws of an Avon, n. Y, cat had
to be pried open before the finger of
little boy could be released, and the flesh
was terribly lacerated. Pussy had a fit
and died in commissions.
The United States has 16i doctors to
every 10000 persons. In England the
proportion is 6 to 10000; in France, 3;
Germany, and traction; Hungary
and Italy, 6, and Switzerland, 7.
A SUCCESSFUL Cesarean operation was
performed recently near Catskill, n. Y.
Seven dead pigs were removed from a
SOW, which survived the operation and
at present weighs four hundred pounds.
A STRANGER in DenisoD, Tex, offered
to bet his two mules that they could pull
three hundred pound sack of sand ten
feet hitched to the end of rope three
hundred yards long. He made failure
and lost his mules.
MRS. ELLEN GIBBS, of Raymond,
Miss, is in possession of the rifle carried
by ber husband (of the Mississippi regi-
ment commanded by JEFF Davis in Mex
ico) during the storming Of Monterey,
IN September, 1916.
ALL the women smoke IN Spain. In
italy the like habit is general; IN Ger
many, Austria and other parts Of the
continent it is the fashion to smoke CT
gars. In Turkey every female has her
hookah. narghileh and chibouque.
There is less lung disease in Turkey
than in any other country, and the
women retain their teeth longer.
WHAT would we do without poets?
The latest piece of information in verse
begins, 1.-THE golden rod is yellow"
how horrible it would have been had
the public been Obliged to remain under
the hallucination that the golden rod was
scarlet!
CHARLES GREEN, of West Virgins,
supposed ne loved Ella Foster, and, as
the parents objected, he got two FRIENDS
to steal her out of the house one night
and secure a preacher. When every.
thing was ready, Charles remarked that
he guessed he wouldn't marry for a
month or two. Then the two friends,
disgusted with Charles, covered him
with their revolvers. The marriage took
place.
AN umbrella to cover the city Of
Buenos Ayres is described by letter
writer as the newest thing proposed in
the Argentine Republic. Messrs. W.
Bournhofer and John Fluckingen say in
formal letter to the authorities tbatfor
So $50, 900 they will erect in the Plaza
de Lorea base go feet in diameter and
|, 500feet high, the ribs to be of cast
iron and 81 inches ID circumference.
These ribs are TO be s feet apart. The
i,c, =, L. s
and half thick.
AFTER having played a bar or two of
" Midsummer Nights Dream" at con-
cert in Memphis, recently, Herr Stern
berg suddenly ceased, looked up at the
gallery, then made little bow to the
audience, and declared that he could
not play while peanuts were being
cracked, and that the gentleman 30 en-
gagged must cease or he must ask to be
excused. There was dead silence and
Mr.. Sternberg resumed. As the APP
peal reporter critically remarks-the
peanut has no soul for music.
VARIOUS are the methods OF initiating
Harvard students into the secret socle-
ties. All aspiring young men are put
through, for two weeks, series OF
mental and Illuminating drudgery and
subsection. One New Yorker Is said to
have been lately made to sell papersfor
week, dressed in striped bed-ticking-
A well-dressed young man obedientIy
dashed through Harvard square, hold
ing out long-handled dipper, and
pathetically imploring, Wont youe give
me a little something ?" at the same
time devoutiy crossing himself. Others
we're Enthusiastically dressed and placarded,
and sent on ridiculous errands. The
penalty of disobedience is closing of
the doors of the societies forever to the
candidate. Violence is not resorted to
in the limitations, which are curious and
ingenious methods for making the can