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

THERE We're over s, 100000 inhabit-
ants IN Ireland in 1915; there are less
than 100000 now.
W. K. KNOWLES, an umbrella tinker
OF Atlanta, Ca, has fallen heir to an
estate IN England worth 100000.
A PHILADELPHIA chemist saws that
the American style of kissing is what
plays hob with the teeth.
THE annual amount paid to the
teachers OF the United States is $50
600, 900, an average of about 500
apiece.
The Figaro, in imitation of the
Pail Mall Gazette, has turned the
lights on the immoralities OF the attn
Quarter in Paris.
A STREET in San Bernardino is so
overgrown with sunfowers as to OBJ
struct travel along it.-SacranleDt0
(Cai) Record Union.
THE apple crop in Orleans County.
n. Y, promises this year to be good
beyond all precedent. The crop is es-
tlmated at 500, 900 barrels.
HANDSOME umbrella handles have
large balls of lapis Iazuli, which are
fastened to the end OF the stick with
gilt bands. The prettiest Innings are
OF changeable silks.
THREE Cincinnati brides last week
were named Ida Bone, Christian Hamm
and Carrie Damn. Imagine the feel
Ings OF bridal trio called Damn
Hamm Bone.
ONE OF the residents of BIandford is
known as "the cricket woman" from
her penchant for crickets, her collec-
ton OF these musical insects amount
ing often to IS or 00.-WestfeH
(Mass.) Times.
A YOUNG man near Shin Creek, SuIli-
van County, caught a white squirrel
Whlle hayng last week. The animal,
which has since become quite tame,
has pure pink eyes. It's mate, which
escaped, was an ordinary red squirrel.
}, b. flaming, of Newton County
Miss, was wounded in theface in 1S63.
Last week the bullet fellinto his mouth.
EaVlng been p years working an inch
doWnward.-Atlanta (Ga.) COnstitu-
ton.
A YOUNG woman at Omaha, Neb.,
committed suicide because she was
not married, and another at Council
BLUFFS, Ia, did the same thing because
she was married. The moral is OBJ
vlous.
A LADY at a Long Brach hotel has a
pet monkey for which she pays board.
She keeps it in her own room and oc-
caslonally plays at the piano and has
1t dance for the amusement OF the
children.
The Swedish government has aw ard
ed sum Of money to DR.. G. Tiselinn
for the study during the summer of
the attempts in progress n certain
parts OF Sweden OF forest cultivation
from seeds.
A MAJORITY OF people who visit the
great hotels in the Catskill region sit
on the piazzas or lounge about the
house all day long, and, after few
days, depart without having visited
one OF the points of interest Still,
they have "been to the Catskills. .
CatskiH MOuntain Breeze.
THERE is a fourishing school at
SweetWOOd. The teacher is w. A.
Rogers, thetax collector. A remarka-
bic thing is that in a school of II
pupils each and every one is related
to the teacher and to each other.
Only one of the scholars is over Is
years OF age.-SaVannah (Ga.) News
ELAINE GOODALE, one of the Skye
Farm poets, who has been at Gen.
Armstrong; Hampton Institute for
two or three years as teacher and ed
itor of the Indian department of the
Southern Workman is going to Ne
braska and Dakota to study the So
cial and educational needs and posi-
bilities of the Indian at home.
LORD PLUNKET, archbishop of Dub
lin, in opening a church fair a short
time ago, spoke in favor of bazaars,
and put himself on record as approx
ing rallies, viii were not, he said, in
centives to gambling. He had himself
invested in more than 800 rallies, but
had never secured a prize.
july has been a fatal month for
presidents and ex-presidents. John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson died
July 4, 1926; Monroe, July 4, 1881;
Taylor, July 9, 1850, while in office,
and Grant, July %, 1885, while Gar
field received his death wound upon
the I'd of the same month, ISL
Boston Post.
SUNDAY, July Is, while there was
not a cloud to be seen in the sky,
bolt of lightning descended into a past
urenear the village of Seymour, Cham
paign County, tore up the sod, kicked
up the dust, and badly astonished the
natives who witnessed it. The hole
still remains, and if the story is
doubted there is the hole to "show for
itself. "-MOndceTO (W,) Bulletin.
A BECOMING couture for a bride is to
have the hair combed up in the back
Of the neck and taken in ringlets on
the top OF the head like puffs. Among
these are small punches OF orange
blossoms with one very large one in
front. The hair is curled over the
forehead and combed back on the
sides. The long tulle veil taken over
the head is fastened in front by two
MINIS wit h cold tons