The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

THE hop harvest has commenced i'll
the state of New York.
A TAME crow belonging to D. L. Peck,
of Clinton, Conn.,, spends the daytime
with the COWS.
CAYoTEs are so thick and tame at Min.
eral Park. Arizona, that they come into
town and play with the dogs.
Two sunflowers in Lancaster, Pa
measure respectively forty eight and
forty-nine inches in circumference.
A BROOK trout 80 years old is kept in
well by James Sherman, of Lafayette,
n. Y. 1t has lost It's spots, and looks
aged and faded.
l NOTICE there is new piece of mu
sic called "The Coming Man" One of
whom | am which.-&. j. I. in ~ Y.
Com.
ONE hundred and sixty -four bodies of
drowned persons were taken from the
East River, Brooklyn side, during the
year ending July 81, 1888.
SIX thousand women, according to
MIR. Dyke, a member of the Divorce
Reform League, de yearly in the United
States from attempts to destroy unborn
children.
BINGHAMToN, N. Y, draymen, when
ever an alarm of fire is sounded, are
hired by the different hose companies,
and receive 81 for drawing the carts to
and from the fire
HE body Of Joe King, one of the
rioters who was hanged on the goth of
last October, at Eastman, Ga, aud
buried at Cochran, was unearthed re-
Gently and found to be petrifed.
A RAFT measuring 1900 feet long, u
feet deep, and "a feet wide, and consist
ing of $500 logs, has just been towed
down in safety from St John, N. B., to
New York, distance of $50 miles.
FIVE sixty pound weights used in the
execution of William Fee, who was
hanged in 1860 at Lyons, n. Y, have
since been playing a useful part in press
ing out the white paper on which local
newspaper is printed.
EGBERT W. LYON, of Bristol, Conn.
makes living by training wild steers.
He trains them within few months to
tricks, without whipping or resorting to
noisy demonstrations.
A FEW nights ago some one entered the
hop-yard of Andrew Lewis, in the town
of Parish, N. Y, containing about two
acres, and cut near the ground nearly
every vine, totally destroying them.
The estimated yield was /, 500 pounds.
AN industrial school for Indian girls
will soon be established at Muskogee,
Indian Territory. Cooking, sewing, and
all the details of domestic arts to pre-
pare them for thorough Christian home
keeping, as well as from text books in
the school-room, will be taught the
girls.
A WOMAN named Heinse arose from
her bed at Bowery Bay, l.. l.. the other
night to quiet her baby who was crying
She walked across the room half awake
and leaned through the open window,
thinking she was stopping over the
child's crib. She lost her balance and
fell to The ground iDjuring her spine so
severely that she is not expected TO re-
cover.
A NOVEL invitation card was recently
issued by the 18th New Hampshire Mol
unteers. 1t consists of miniature hav
4.
Eighteenth annual reunion of the 18th
New Hampshire Volunteers, on. Thurs
day, Sep. 27, 1888, at Ashland, n. 81. !"
Inside of this dlminutive haversack is a
card on which is printed the names of
the fourteen battles in which the reg
iment was engaged.
THREE sons of Bryan McGinnis were
eating dinner at milk house about ten
miles south Of WellsYille, n. Y, during
a recent thunder storm. The building
was struck by lightning and the oldest
SOD, Denis, was instantly killed. He
was about 20 years old and well known
IN the vicinity. The other two boys
were stunned, but soon recovered and
threw water on their brother, at first
thinking he had tainted.
A LUNATIc in the general hospital at
Buffalo, n. Y, was given a private room
on the third floor, and, taking advantage
of an open door recently, he rushed out
and jumped through the window oppo-
site of the door to the ground, a distance
of fifty feet. His keepers, who saw him
leap, FASTENED down steirs expecting TO
find q lifeless corpse. Instead, however,
they were surprised to find him sitting
up in the grass as complacently as If he
had used the fire-escape in descending.
THE steamer st. Paul, which locked
at San Francisco recently, on her return
from the hunting grounds of the Alaska
Company, has commenced discharging
69, coo sealskins valued at $1,000, 900,
the duty of which due the government is
$4,000. The skins are being sailed
and packed in barrels containing about
sixty each. The barrels are then made
tight, and when ready will be shipped
to London, where the skins will be
promptly cured, and then shipped back
to the United States.
In commenting on the various methods
for keeping birds away from fruit-bear-
ing trees proposed by California papers,
Nevada paper winds up by sugg esting
the following plan for Kidding the trees
of the troublesome little pests: Let
the ranchmen send east to the manu-.
facturers of toy balloons and get Them to
manufacture lot of artificial hawks, the
bodies of which may be inflated with
gas. One or two of these let up into the
air two or three hundred feet, by means
of small cord, will protect whole acres
of ground against Dir Is. If there is any
thing that causes loss of appetite to n
small bird it is to have large and able
hawk plunging about over his head.
When the rubber manufacturers take
out patent for this invention of ours,
either as toy or scarecrow, we shall
claim a royal royalty"
A Military Man Made Happy.
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