The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-05-19
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are giving us.
AN lthica On. Y. man ate seven dozen
oysters IN stated time and won 80 A
physician visited him several times after
ward and charged him $40.
A CHICAGO glove dealer employs sales
women with the biggest hands to be
found SO that the hands of his GU 5tomers
will look small by contrast.
Non more than helf the usual supply
of maple sugar has been made in Maine
this season, owing to unfavorable con-
ditions of frost and snow during the
winter,
The poet Bryant used to sit in d saw,
mill, sometimes, and make verses. Mr..
Bryant, however, was always respectful
to the buzz-saw, and he lived to be an
old man.
CHINESE cheap labor turns out not to
be so very cheap after ALL The railroad
contractors on the Pacific coast have
dis5ove+ed that SeaHdinayiaps and men
OF other nationalitles pay Better than
the Chinese.
The sexton of st. Johns cemetery,
Winnipeg, Canada, discovered a few
days ago, large number of human
bones, supposed to have belonged to an
ancient race of Indians, while digging
grave in the cemetery
A KAUFMAN County fTexas1 physician
belieFes in treating meningitis heroical-
ly. He saturated paper with terpentine,
applied it to the back OF The patients
neck, and set fire to it. The patient was
fearfully burned, but was cured.
THERE is, says the Boston Herald,
''a good deal of fitness in the selection
of Mr.. Eyarts as the orator for New
York at the opening of the big bridge.
He can suspend a sentence in the air
longer than any other man in America. "
The bellies of the Piute tribe of In.
dams walk along the railroad tracks of
civilization IN Nevada and gather the
black "dope" which drops from the
axles of the cars. With this they smear
their arms and cheeks and grow more
beautiful.
ONLY eight insane asy1ums had been
built IN the United States in 1904, be-
ing state institutions; by 1910 sixteen
were built; in 1850; twenty-four; by
1860, forty-four, and by 1880, ninety, of
which sixty-six are supported wholly or
III part by state aid.
IN Surprise Valley, Modoc County,
CAL, marine MONSTER that walks off
with full grown Angora goats, and which
'cuts the placid bosom of upper lake "
as swift as an arrow, has created some
CONSERVATION, says the Lakeview Exam
lner, III that usually quiet neighborhood.
II is stated that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will discourage all
tent shows at Altoona this season, in
consequence of the decentralization
which such entertainments invariably
cause among the employees of the shops
there, accompanied with no little drunk
ennesS.
THE expenses of Arabs defense were
81, 800, all of which sum was advanced
by MIR. Blunt, and not more than 81, 800
of it has been repaid to him, this mainly
through the efforts of Mr. Frederick
Harrison. A subscription has been
started for the purpose Of making up
the remaining $4,000.
SOME headlines in paper in New
Haven, Conn, read: can Old Man
Drops Dead-His Life Shortened by
Hard Drinking Drinking Cup
of Tea He Starts for His Room in
Barn and Falls to the Ground His Sub
sequent Death at His Boarding Place"
New Haven boarding house tea must be
stronger than it used to be.
Mr.. Chiffon, of the Baltimore bar.
happening TO see a photograph of Fred
erick Marsden, the playwright, thought
that he recognized in the picture W.
A. Silver, with whom he had been asso-
ciated as a law partner IN Philadelphia.
In reply 70 a letter, Marsden wrote to
Mr.. Chiffon that the detection was ex-
act, Marsden being stage name
merely.
In March. 1912, Brooklyn could not
boast single barber, j. Burke, who
had long done business in that capacity,
having removed to New York. The ~
convenience was so great that a number
of citizens met at the hotel then kept in
Brooklyn by Barnum (afterward famous
as a Boniface in Baltimore) to raise
funds to tempt a man to come, which
was DONE
Mr.. HAYDEN, of Washington, is the
inventor of an apparatus for burning Pc
troieum as fuel. which is claimed 10 be
the only one in the world that will per-
form the work for which it is construct
ed. Some years ago woman, Mrs
Amanda Jones, invented an apparatus
for burning petroleum under steam boil
ers, which has been continuously and
successfully used in the oil regions.
A NORTH END deacon IN Springfield,
Mass, drove to church with his wife the
other evening and became so absent
minded after the service that, Instead of
going for his horse, he started home on
foot and alone, and did not come to him
self IN season to retrace his steps before
nearly everybody had left the sanctuary.
His wife was found distractedly pacing
up and down neighboring street under
the impression that the horse had been
stolen and the deacon had gone after it,
DURING the second week in April a.
800 punches of primrose were sent from
town in Devonshire for sale in London.
They were gathered by children, who
were paid penny for 6 punches, and
great shew of them was made at the I'M
yelling of the statue of Lord Beacons-
field. The primrose was his favorite
flower, and appropriately enough the
liberal party was represented on that oc-
casion by the earl of Roseberry, of
whom he was personally fond, and whose
family name is Primrose.
A DELICATE scale for weighing dia-
mOnds, balance screws for watches, etc,
is the subject of patent issued to Mr..
Ferdinand F lde, of Springfield, III.
The importance of a simple weighing
machine for precious stones and like
valuable and delicate articles which shall
be weighed accurately is well under
stood. Mr.. Ide, in his newly patented
scale, claims to accomplish this, aud
certainly his mechanism is very simple
GREAT excitement exists at Alburg,
VT, over money find, comprising over
forty pieces of old coin, dating back to
1850. Mr.. John O'NeIl, while blowing
on Mr.. NJ. Motifs farm, lying on the
west shore, known as the old Logan
farm, plowed up some coin both of gold
and silver. The coin Is Spanish, and