The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-25
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FLATS in the best apartment houses
/ in New York havefallen from 10 to 20
/ per cent.
ARIzoNA's legislature has appropri-
/ ated $4,000 for a territorial univer-
/ sity at Tucson.
\ MAN named Cleveland, who Is not
related to the president, has been found
at Gadsden, Ala.
! DOES G. Q. p, signify: Gone Out
Permantly, or, Get Office Presently?
I-TeNaS Siftugs.-Gone Of PtishIng,
maybe.
\ LAW was passed by the Montana
; Legislature prohibiting the killing o
/ quails for the next SIX years.
THE only international street rail
road in the world is in this country.
1t connects Paso del Norte, Mexico,
with FL Paso, Tex
THE United States is provided with
over so penitentiaries and ? 400 ialIs
| They contain over fifty thousand Grim
inals, and their estimated cost is
$500. .000. 900.
Mr.. RoEBLING, the engineer, says
| that heavy engines and cars must not
be run over the Brooklyn bridge, as the
cables have ON them all the load they
ought to carry.
Those now in London who were here
during the war say that the excite
ment and constant extras, cried some
times up to midnight, recall TO
them vividly 1929.
THE Goshen Hole Irrigating Com
pany is the latest and largest ditch
I Id
Will dig thirteen bitches, and has a
capital of 81 900, 900.
IL Washington there were erected
last year thirteen hundred buildings,
valued at $4,000, 900. One OF the
most valuable residences in the city Is
that of Bell, the telephone man. 1t
cost him Sis, 5000.
THE inhabitants OF the Farce Isles
are reported to utilize the stormy
petrel for Illuminating purposes. \
large amount OF oil exists in the bird,
and a wick drawn through its body
gives a good light
The Winnipeg sun says that many
| OF the men who went to Egypt from the
Dominion as vOyageurs, were not voy-
| ageuTs at all, and had no qualitica-
tions for the work which they were en-
gagged to perform.
PROTRACTED drought and extensive
irrigation in the neighborhood have
reduced Tulare Lake, in California,
/ from a length of II miles and breadth
of % miles to length of 22 miles and
/ a width of 4 miles.
/ WHEN the new roads in the Yellow
stone valley are completed, the tour
| ist can then make a circuit OF 40
miles in comfortable coaches running
on good roads, with new glimpses OF
scenery the whole distance.
/ A DIVER who has had experience IN
/ almost all quarters of the world dur
/ ing a period of twenty-five years says
! that fish will seldom attack a man IN
/ armor, and that sharks are especially
cowardly when faced boldly.
/ NEAR Chickasawhatchee, Ga, n line
of earthworks can still be seen which
were thrown up by Gen. Jackson (Old
/ Hickory as protection against the
! Indians, on his march to Florida
| through this section in 1918.
THE property qualification for vot-
ers in Rhode Island does not apply,
/ as a requirement, to aii citizens, but
only to those OF foreign birth, though
| any citizen may qualify 10y the owner
/ ship ofproperty.- y.-Provideuc Journal
| THERE Is a boom in uthemanufactUre
OF fine paper. Prices are down but
remain firm One Observation-Disclosures
says that never in the history OF sta
/ tionery has there been such a demand
( for elegant and fine papers at present.
/ Cheap papers are drug.
THE LongfeIlow Memorial AssOcia-
/ tiOn has James Russell Lowell fOrpresi-
dent, and Oliver Wendell Holmes,
/ John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles W.
| Eliot and E n HOrseford vice presi-
dents. It has been finally decided to
/ carry out the original plan OF park
and monument.
! SENATOR EyARTs tells his friends in
/ Washington who express the hope
/ that his daughters, who used to pre-
4 side over their parents tea things at
/ the capital" will be with him next
/ season, that his daughters are omar
ried now and busy with teethings in
| their own households"
IT may be hard times, it may be
! some new rule OF fashion, 1t may b
/ something else, says the New York
/ Times. but some cause seems to he
! thinning out New York's livery estab-
lishments at a pretty rapid rate. One
out OF every five stables open a year
ago has been closed for good.
\ MASSACHUSETTS paper-mill has
adopted a safety paper which Will
make it extremely difficult for anyone
/ to tamper with bank notes or checks
printed uponit. The coloring matter
Of the paper is so prepared that the
/ application OF any chemicalto remove
ink will permanently change tie color
/ OF the paper, and an ingenious device
( is added which betrays at once any
attempt to make an erasure. Be
tween the two the enterprislng forger
I will he sIlr4 10 come to grief