The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-26
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A PURE-BLOODED negress, at Louis
vile, has blue eyes, and is considered
a rarity.
In Montreal man is not allowed to
work at the shoe business unless he is
vaccinated.
A GRIZZLY bear weighing seven hun
dred pounds was killed in Josephine
County, Ore, recently.
THE only four-in-hand at Long
Branch this season is the property Of
professional gambler.
THERE is an attempt to show that
feminine college graduates do not get
husbands as readily as other girls.
THE Salvation army is threatened
with prosecution in Boston for pro-
family because it gives ''three cheers
for Jesus"
DURING the year ending June 80,
LOO, $50 volumes were consulted in
the reading room of the British Muse
UNI.
AT Adams, Umatilla County, Ore,
one year ago, 1000 tons of wheat
were shipped. This year it will be
10000 tons.
DIR. +. l.. NICHOLAS claims that
mems eyes are more sensitive than
those OF women to the colors red, yell
low, and green.
A PITrSBURG restaurant-keeper Is
said to have discovered that salt
sprlnkled over the refuse of his kitchen
keeps flies away.
UNDER seventeen was the French girl
who savagely murdered her father with
club because he would not let her
marry her sweetheart.
THE Chautauqua Literary and Scien
tltic Circle has 100000 pupils in all
parts of the world reading the re-
quired books for 1886.
A 15-YEAR-OLD boy in Mississippi
has, unaided, cultivated twelve acres
OF land this season and expects to
make twelve bales of cotton.
THE California volcano, like that in
North Carolina few years ago, proves
upon investigation to have been the
invention OF crafty persons or the re-
suit of deception OF credulous ones.
So many OF the boys sent to West
Point prove unable to pass the exami-
nation for admission that about fifty
congressional districts are unrepre-
scented.
CONNECTICUT is now the only state
in the Union it is said, whose legisla-
ture retains judicial functions. The
Connecticut legislature is still SUI
preme court IN equity.
IT is figured that a pirate vessel
could leave San Francisco and run
course of at least 100 days before
being captured, while her plumber
might run up into the millions.
A LEMBERG dispatch says seven
Jews have been murdered at an inn
at Greemboca. Four arrests have
been made in connection with the
murder.
NOTWITHSTANDING all that has been
written about Persia, United States
Minister Benjamin declares that ignor-
anceconcerningit is so general that no
correct map of the land has been
made.
ARTIFICIAL honey, imported into
England from this country, has been
found, on analysis, to be made of
wheat or corn starch, treated with
Oxalic acid. The fraud cannot be de
tected by the taste.
THE cigarette nuisance has become
so general in New York that small
signs have been printed and are kept
for sale, which read: "No cigarette
smoking allowed in this Office" The
greatest demand for them comes from
the banks.
The cutaneous exhalation of Alex
ander the Great, according to Plu-
tarch. had an odor of viOlets. A smell
of prussic acid is said to be given off
by dark complexioned individuals,
while blondes are said to smell slight
ly OF musk.
THE Republic of Chill now owes on
account OF her railways $24, $4,000.
In 1888 these railways earned a reve-
nue. of So, 516,O49. The railways of
the Argentine Republic are on the av-
erage earning an annual dividend OF
81 per cent.
The number ofnon-workingholidays
in France, including Sundays, amounts
to 100 whole days in each year. In
Greece they have 100 days; in Russia,
66; in Belgium, IS; in England, so; in
Scotland, 50. In the United States
it varies in different states. But few,
if any, of the latter have more than
seven or eight holidays in addition to
Sundays.
A FACETIOUS mob out west, who
pulled horse-stealing Indian to the
top OF a telegraph-pole by a rope
around his neck and left him there,
hung q card on his hat bearing these
words. High! the poor Indian"
A MAN became bankrupt with liablli-
ties Of $50, 900, and in the settlement
ofthe estate, which yielded 7Sper cent.
to the creditors, the cost OF the adj
ministration amounted to less than
SO. This happened away off IN Sma-
land, Sweden.
To keep pOstage-stampsl III the peck
ct or Observation-Disclosures without
sticking, a post-office clerk advises
people to rub the sticky side over the
hair two or three times. The oil OF
the hair coats the mucllage and pre-
vents it from sticking.
A SEEMINGLY dead pigeon was picked
up from the ocean near Dover, Eng,
but it revived while lying in the sun,
and proved to be carrier pigeon with
a letter. The bird had been waylald
by hawk while flying from his mas
ter's yacht to his home.
LONG ago the Portuguese supremacy
in the Roman Catholic Church IN In
dia was bestowed by the pope, as
against the Jesuits, who are now re-
voting under this control, and the
conflict is said to be the most bitter
ever known within the church.
A FIRM at Georgetown, Del, has
contract to FURNISH five million wooden
pie-plates with crimped edges, exactly
like the tin plates. The advantages
claimed for the wooden article are
that it will not allow the pie to burn
nor the lower crust to become soggy.
The statement is made that the
American family is falling off IN the
number OF persons 1t includes. In
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