The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-20
MS LLItEOIS.

dyspepsia physician recommends
patent insides.-Boston Courier.
THE man who has nothing to say is
unfortunately the man who is always
talking.-New Orleans Picayune.
A DYsPEPTIC in Kittanning, Pa, pro-
poses to cure himself by abstaining
from all food for fifteen days.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE netted S639
in two lectures recently delivered in
New Orleans, and has given the
amount to the Southern Art Union.
THE sulky to which Maud Sis driven
weighs only thirty eight and one-half
pounds. Jay-Eye-See's weighs one
pound more.
THE Suffolk jail contains two doc.
tors, two lunatics, one idiot, and some
halt dozen minor prisoners.-SufoK
! VA Herald.
| THE Italian government will erect q
monument sixty feet high to the mem
ory OF Cavour, the regenerator of
Italy. He died in 1861.
THE pendulum of the new clock in
the Chicago Board OF Trade building
weighs $50 pounds. The dials are
ten teet ten inches in diameter.
| THE $3.50 which the manuscript of
| Tam O'Shanter" brought at a recent
auction sale was more money than
the author OF it possessed at any time
| in his life.
The French Academy of Medicine
has Just awarded a prize to Dr. Muir
rell, OF Westminster Hospital, London
| tor his discovery that nitro-glycerine
Is remedy for angina pectoris.
THEcOming sculptor, it is said, is a col
! Ored lad III leavenwOrth, Kas., who
has developed n wonderful talent for
| shaping statuettes out of clay. His
name is Abram Hanson.
IT is the popular fancy in Scotland
| Just now to heap honOrs upon Burns.
! Several monuments have Just been
erected or are under way in different
parts OF the country.
IT is said that more than 10000
stamps are found every year loose in
| the letter-boXes of the English United
Kingdom, indicating lack OF mucilage
or lack of wetting.
THE largest Touring mill in France
has recently adopted rollers, fact
which has not a little disconnected the
stone mill advocates, Ui whom in
France there are not a few.
DR.. ZINTGRAFF, of Bonn, has taken
a phonograph with him to Africa He
intends to bring home phonograms of
the savage dialects which he will hire
the natives to speak into the ma
chine
CABUL is pronounced Kawble; Merry
is Mahriv; Herat is Hermit; Kurrachee
* IA 'ra hPhN-E q nd tho Of Af,,l,,,,
lstan Is on the second syllable. In all
OF these words the ga is pronounced
as in ''ah."
THE water OF the st. Lawrence at
this point and both above and below
is covered with dead menhaden. This
phenomenon has been noticeable here
for several years in May and June
Ogdensburg Journal
A CAMPING party at ThurstOn Lake,
Lake County, butchered a goat one
day last week, and while engaged in
cleaning it a mountain lion put in an
appearance. The campers "ht out"
and the lion took the game.-San
Francisco CALL
run for the doctor, quick help!
help! dot baby has swallowed a
nickel, " exclaimed Mrs. Schaumburg.
''Mine gott, you make so much fuss
as If 1t was a twenty dollar gold piece.
Be calm, Repecca," replied Nose
Texas Siftings.
A NEW kind of shooting match is
coming into favor in some parts of
the country. The Louisville and
Knoxville Gun Clubs had a contest
the other day, each side shooting on
its own grounds, the clubs being con
nected by telegraph.
THE new school law in Nevada pro-
hibits the appropriation of county
school funds to districts which have
less than 10 children between the ages
of 6 and IS. The area of new school
districts is limited to eight miles
square-San Francisco Call
PROF. JOHN OGDEN, a scientist and
one of the new settlers of Mcintosh
County, sees the possibility of utiliz-
ing the steady winds of the prairies,
and predicts that in time they will be
used to drive machinery for all sorts
of purposes.-MayvHe (Dak.) Trib-
une.
JUSTICE GRAY, OF the United States
supreme court, has returned to his
| DOtJOD IOlllt, NltIt ne Will ItilldiIl
most of the time until October. JUS
tice Miller, of the same court, is going
to Block Island, near Newport, r. l.,
for the summer.
DURING the first year of the Crimean
war the value of exports of farm prod
ucts of this country increased from
S33, 500, 900 the previous year to $67,- :
600, 900. The following year the
value was $40, 100000 and in 1856
we exported breadstuffs amounting
to ST. ,6S6,4
DRAB white, or pure white cloth
trimmed with gold braid when in the
hands of first class English ladies'
tailor, makes the prettiest and most
elegant gOing-away dress and new
market, or travelling ulster that a
bride can wear This white or drab-
white cloth cleans admirably.
A YOUNG minister of Oglethorpe
County, Georgia, in order to raise
funds for his Sunday school, requests
the scholars in his school to bring an
egg every Sunday, for which he pays
them, and by re-selling the eggs secures
the needed money to pay theexpenses
of the school.
\ CITIZEN at Los Angeles received a
letter last week that has been nearly
three years coming from Berlin 1t
passed through Germany, England,
France, and several OF tie South
American states. The address is said
TO be very explicit, giving city, state
and nation.-San Francisco Chronicle.
THE Argentine government is more
successful than that OF any other
Spanish-American country in securing
immigration from the Mediterranean
countries. 1t pays part OF the passage
money and assigns each family immi-
grating to the confederation farming
lands, to be paid for in instalments.
PARIS is cleared by rats by her munic.
ipal council Offering a premium fOr
= their skins. Two years ago the
| premium was SO per l 900, but it has