The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

STATISTICS show that clergymeu live
only two years longer than the wicked
lawyers.
New YORK had four mayors within
twentyfour hours, allowing everybody
| claiming to be one was one.
THE overhead wires in New York
City, if in straight lines, would extend
from San Francisco to London.
A FAIR quality of artificial stone is
n ade of equal parts of lime and sand.
1t costs about the same as brick.
AT recent examination for teachers
certificates at Sonora, Cal, there were
seven spphcants-six women and one
man-and all failed.
An Omaha paper can count AS de-
hberate murders which have occurred in
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado since
the 1st of last August.
THE ostrich chicks Matched at Los
Angeles, Cal, are featherirg out bean
tifully, and the owners hope for great
results in money way.
A GAME pie containing i've quails,
which flew away when the pie was cut,
was feature of the supper at New
York children's holiday party.
THE supreme court of Iowa has de-
cided that hghtning-rods put upon 8
building not paid for carry mechanics
lien the same as any other fixture.
A New YORK lady is said to have
dress of spun glass trimmed with cut
rystal beads, the glass being IN the
palest amber tone, in exact coloring of
the hair of the fair wearer.
DRUNKENNESS is common in the army
the Army and Navy Journal confesses,
but it "fesls bound to say that the
worst soldiers are not always those who
drink"
a MAN who paid a plumber $500 for
putting the water on every floor of his
house said when the chimney caught
fire the engine company did the same
job without charging him penny.
A CANADIAN farmer fell in love with
a pretty waitress, who promised to mar
rv him N Rochester, n. Y. He sent her
$500 but arriving in Rochester failed to
find her.
IN just one point the record of bust
ness failures for 1884 is favorable. The
their liabilities is the largest for at least
six years.
To Don Antonio de Mendoza, viceroy
of Mexico, the honor seems TO belong of
establishing the first printing office in
America. The first printer was Juan
Pahlos, Spaniard.
THE number of postmasters in Mon
tana who may be appointed under the
new administration without encounter
ing the ordeal of confirmation by the
Senate is eighty-one.
IT has just transpired that the chill
dren originals of @Helen's Babies" had
been dead year before their amusing
pranks were written up and published
for the world to laugh at.
A NEW use for ballet girls has been
discovered by dancing master, who en-
ploys them as partners for his male pu-
pills at the waltz, thus greatly augment
ing and dehghting his pupils.
A VAMPIRE bat was recently captured
at Lewis Station, Ell Dorado County,
Cal, the wings of which, when extend
ed, measured q inches. 1t had tail
2 inches in length, like rats.
THE Rothschilds have succeeded in
preserving their old homestead, the
house of the red shield, in jews Lane,
Frankfort on the Main, and will convert
it with the adjoining house into re-
pository of family relics.
AN Indiana couple waited until the
ages of 20 end "a before making up
their minds to wed, but, having come to
that conclusion, they were SO impatient
that they rode thirty miles N snow
storm to get clergyman.
The building of the Georgia state
capitol, at Atlanta, develops the fact
that granite can be quarried in Maine,
brought to Savannah, and thence by
rail to Atlanta at less cost than it can
be bought at quarry only sixteen miles
away.
The "Bell' conservatory at Sacra-
nento, Cal, just completed by Mrs. h.
B. Crocker, covers IA 600 square feet of
ground, inclosed with % coo square feet
of sash. 1t is the Sc, opd largest private
structure of the kind III the United
States.
Two lots of sheep, one numbering
2,7OO and the other $500, were recently
driven by rail from Washington Terri
tory into Montana. The sheep sent
eastward from the former territory this
year greatly outnumber those of former
years.
The New York Herald editor. who
writes like man of experience, declares
that q man knows Immediately whether
it is ghost he sees by the way his own
hair stands on end if it is ghost. This
is an infall BILE test, and never fails ex-
cept when the man is bald.
THERE is an incubating establishment
in Albany, n. Y, which has turned out
1000 chickens since October, when 1t
began running. About 125 eggs are
used weekly. When the chickens ar
rive at a weight of one and one-half
nounds thew are sent to market.