The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-05-09

ooO POUNDS, including TWO persons.
ILLICIT distilling is greatly on the in
crease in the hill counties OF Tennessee.
THE Mount Vernon estate was
bought by public subscription for
$3.50, 900.
THE ground upon which Virginia
Cityis located has moved thirty inches
east since 1875.
LOUISVILLE, KY, is said to be about
the only city in thecountry not atfilct-
ed with the roller-skate craze.
CTRON raising is receiving attention
in Florida. The fruit, picked in brine,
Is worth $3.50 per ton in the London
market.
PARIS contains 10000 children of
both sexes, waits and strayS, who are
III need of help from the benevolent
societies.
BLAINE, Dawes, Sheridan. Logan,
and Sioux are the names OF five new
counties. created by the last Nebraska
legislature.
SIXTEEN thousand eight hundred
and twenty-five families in Boston
were provided with free soup during
the past winter.
A REEF ? 500 feet in height. about
six miles west OF Tucson, 4. r., con
tains many fossilized shelltish IN excel
lent preservation.
ANuLILON crows took possession OF
the grove near a Pennsylvania town
and the people thought the day OF
judgment had come.
PROF BECKMoRE says that Holsters
are liable to become extinct within
few years. They are now taken from
the very deepest water.
AT Dublin Castle Drawing Rooms,
the lord lieutenant Is compelled by
custom to kiss all the "cOming-Out'
ladies presented to him.
A COLoRED family named Silence, it
is said, holds five positions in the de
partments at Washington, with sala-
ries aggregating 50, 500,
THE largest prune orchard in the
world is situated one mile from Sara
toga, Cal, and contains 10000 trees.
1t was recently sold for 81, 600.
THE San Juan district OF Colorado
is rapidly developing into a gold pro
ducing country and is good ior $780,
900 OF the yellow metal this year.
THERE are no such things as pure
white natural teeth, says a dentist.
Whenever you read ola young wOman's
pearly teeth you may know that they
are made out OF porcelain and sold
at so much per tooth.
IL some German cities a bell is placed
above the public receptaCles for the
dead, and the hand OF the corpse fast
ened to the rope, so that 1t may he
rung by the chance victim OF burial be
fore death.
ONE hundred and forty thousand
eucalyptus trees are being planted
near Los Angeles, Cal, for fuel. 1t IS
said that an acre OF them after alapse
OF four or five years will yield as much
as an acre OF grapes.
/ Is Great Britain 10000 landlords,
! for doing nothing, receive from the
| soil more than twice as much as the
/ total wages paid to $4,000 laborers
/ for working twelve hours through the
seven days i'll every week.
/ A BURIED graveyard exists near
/ Mesila, New Mexico. In 1862 the
! burial-ground was hidden from sight
! by the sands; this year the capricious
/ silica was lifted from its resting place,
exposing graves and tOmbstOnes that
were covered more than twenty years
ago.
MAINE papers say that Bath board
ing mistress surprised one of her board
ers, who was learning to play on the
banjo, by reducing the price OF his
board on the ground that his singing
and playing had frightened away all
the rats. The compliment has dis
cOuraged the young man 50 that he
has given up practice.
A TRAIN Of cars near Pittston the
other day struck a two-hOrse delivery
wagon containing only the driver, who
clung to the engine pilot and was saved
from injury. The wagon was knocked
to splinters, and the harnesses. lnclud-
ing both collars, were torn from the
/ horses, but strange to say. neither
man nor horses We're at all hurt.
The Tower of London contains
specimen OF hammerless gun madem
the seventeenth century, which, says a
writer. was far more OF an achievement
OF that day than the most complex
specimen can be for us. I'm thematter
OF firearms it is supposed there is not
one principle known to the present
generation that had not been applied
at least 100 times two centuries ago.
NEAR Bombay. on the island OF Goa,
there is a singular vegetable termed
the ''sorrowful tree" because it only
fourishes in the night. At sunset no
flowers are to be seen, and yet after
an hour it is full OF them. They yield
a sweet smell, but the sun no sooner
begins to shine upon them than some
of them fall off, and thus it continues
Towering in the night during the whole
year.