The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE negro " Othello" company in New
York has gone up.
GoLD-PLATED spoons are the thing IL
best New York restaurants.
| ANACONDA is the somewhat soul
creeping sme of a town in Montana.
PoNEGRANATEs are being cultivated
III 5he south. They yield S700per acre.
! A CoRsET-MAKER declares that Ameri-
can girls are the worst in the world for
tight lacing.
| DURING the first six months of this
| year 1l3 foundhngs were picked MP In
the streets of New York city.
THE Free Masons claim to have 1885,
50 lodges distributed throughout the
world, with a membership of 14,16O,-
! 543.
FIVE thousand acres of tobacco viii
be raised in Bourbon County, Ky., this
year. Ten years ago not ten acres were
raised.
KANSAS crops are said to be large be-
yond precedent. The finest spring
wheat is now selling at 80 cents a
bushel.
FRED. GRUENwALDER's baby, at Am
sterdam, \. Y, has two ugues. Meth
er can be removed, as tine physician
fears the child might bleeu , death.
A BEAUTIFUL white Gil. aged Is
years, recently eIoped at Sraunton, W.
Va, with 2 coal-black negro dwarf,
scarcely four feet high
RUSSELL SAGE, the vet..lu dealer IN
puts" and "calls," has -npletely re-
covered his health, which seriously
impaired during the last panic ia Wall
Street, and ne Will soon return TO the
street"
THE mahogany trade OF Boston has
increased wonderfully in the last three
years. The total amount handled by
wholesale merchants in 1880 is es-
imated at less than one million feet,
while in 1888 over 4 100000 was dealt
in.
AMERICA exports popcorn by the
thousand barrels. Popcorn was first
made in this country in lS49. Some
medical men recommend it for dyspep-
sia, and patients at the summer resorts
can be seen munching 1t at all hours of
the day
THERE lis such q tremendous de-
mand now in Paris for Bavarian beer
that the Eastern Railroad Company
runs beer trains from Munich six days
l. the week. Paris has now $4,000
beer shops, and the daily sum spent on
beer Is estimated at Sl50000.
THERE is lake near Buchanan called
Clear Lake that derives its name from
the remarkable clearness OF its water,
which is so clear that the bottom may
be seen at depth of several yards all
the year, except during July and Au
gust, when 1t becomes extremely roily.
New ENGLAND has contributed Just
4,064 to the population of Texas. The
rest of the country north of the Ohio
River contributed 60,325. and the older
Southern States have furnished 556, 1897.
OF the native population of Texas SO
per cent. is OF Southern and per cent.
of Northern extraction.
THERE is not wax match factory in
| the states. All those that are used are
imported from England, France, or
Italy. An English company is the old
est match factory III the world, having
been started more than fifty years ago.
Now they make only wax vestas," and
employ 240 hands at this alone.
The Puget Sound oysters are some
times two feet III diameter, and weigh,
inclusive of the shell. as much as sixty
pounds. Two of these gigantic mol
lGsks were lately transported and plant
ed in the south bay. Either the trip or
the new habitat disagreed with them,
as both died few days afterward.
Il FEAR, sir, that my noise has rather
Inconvenience you" said somewhat
boisterous politician, who had been
talking good deal to more quiet oc-
cupant of seat in railway carriage,
recently. Not in the least" he replied.
Il thought" remarked the noisy man,
"that you did not seem interested by
my stories" "Quite the reverse, my
dear sir" said the quiet one; Il am
very much SO. In fact, | am a bit of
liar myself"