The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-05-16
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IN Virginia peanuts are now ground
| into what proves very fair flour for
making pie-crust and other light pas
| tries.
A BILL has been favorablv reported
in the Pennsylvania legislature to i'm
pose a license of 81, 900 on skating
Kinks.
The old bones lying around loose
IN Nevada are being collected and
shipped to San Francisco to be used
in refining sugar.
HOOP RIVER, Oregon. claims to pro-
duce the most luscious peaches in the
| West, and will have an abundant crop
OF them this year.
PATIENCE has a limit. 4 French
tailor recently committed suicide after
paying torty-six unsuccessful dunning
visits to a single creditor.
| TOAST and marmalade and a cup
OF tea is the fashionable breakfast for
young society men, in New York. who
never retire before 3 A NJ.
| A BEET was grown in Suisun Valley.
Cal, that measured sixty-five inches
around, tifty-fve inches long, and
| weighed seventy-tive pounds.
The London Times is inclined to
make fun OF the Americans who have
lavlshed so much praise and attention
on Mr.. Irving and Miss Terry.
CHILDREN grow taller, it is said, dur
ing an acute sickness, such as fever,
| the growth of the bones being stimu-
lated by the febrile condition.
! A BROOKLYN woman has lust sued
| her brOther-in-law for abducting her
husband and sending him abroad.
| The husband was subject to epilepsy.
"GoNE to oven" is the correct ex-
| preston for the retirement of the Rus
sian peasant at night, since he has no
bed, but sleeps on the top of the oven.
WHAT is said to he the largest dia-
mOnd in the world is about to be cut
/ in Amsterdam. TWAS recently found
| In South Africa and weighs 475 carats.
| \ ROSE bush in Chico, Cal, is be
| tween thirty and forty feet high, and
/ fifteen or twenty feet III diameter, and
the top Is now a mass OF white
| roses.
| CINCINNATI stands fourth among the
| publishing centers OF the country, her
annual product of books and papers
amounting in value to more than So
| 100000.
! BETWEEN wolves and eagles the
! farmers in the interior of West Nir-
| glnla have been losing thousands of
dollars worth OF sheep and other
small stock.
! The territorial government OF Da-
/ kota has offered a reward OF SIS, OOOfOr
the discovery and development OF a
mine OF anthracitecoali in the territory,
| and prOspectors are busy.
| 1T is singular fact that many OF the
most popular hymns were written by
| persons who were not religious at all,
or whose claims to religion were based
on very slight foundations.
! The height OF apartment houses in
New York is preposterous. a house
| 17S feet high has actually been erected,
and one of - stories, 1872 feet high,
with acupola 40 feet higher, has been
| projected.
PHILADELPHIA consumed during the
| year / ,213, sol barrels of beer and ale.
| This is little over 800 glasses a year
| for each man, woman and child, IN
| that city, or about two glasses a day
all around.
CARSON, NEV., is excited over the
reckless scattering of strychnine by
some idiots or knaves for the purpose
| OF killing dogs. Several valuable ami
mails have already been killed through
the criminal practice.
IT is fact, perhaps not generally
| known even to the citizens OF this
state, that Georgia is the largest state
east OF the Mississippi River Every
body knows that it is the best.-AH-
gusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
THE Medical Journal states that a
few handfuls OF common salt thrown
| daily into closets, and an occasional
| handful into wash basins, goes faI to-
ward COunteraCtlngt the nOXIOus effects
OF the Omnipresent sewer gas.
THE United States consulate at No
gales, Sonora, Mexico, is without Il
flag. This is probably the only case on
record where a branch of the United
| States consular department Is not
represented by the national ensign.
| THE seven bibles OF mankind are:
The Bible, the Nedas OF the Brahmins,
| the Tripitaka OF the Buddhi-ts, the
Zend AVesta OF the Parsees or Per
slams, the Chinese sacred books OF
| COnfucius. the Chinese sacred book OF
Laon.tsze. and the MOhammcdan kO-
ran.
THE schools established for boys
and young men and young women. by
| Evangelist Moody, at NOrthfield and
| Gill, Mass, cost sos 900, and two
more buildings will soon be completed
at cost OF 100000. The money
was obtained from rich friends OF the
| distinguished evangelist.
| THE Prussian Diet has been asked
| for grants for the extension and com
| pletion OF the network OF state rail
| roads to the extent OF go, 700, 600
marks. OF this sum -, 4S4 900
| marks are required for the cOnstruC-
ton OF fourteen lines OF total length
| of 365 miles and the balance is needed
for the completion OF existing rail
roads.
| THINGS one would rather have left
unsaid: He taking herinto dnner)-
eyes, ! know both slightly, and con
! TESS | don't think much OF him. She
i know him little, too. He took
me into dinner a little while ago He
-"Ah, that's Just about all he's tit
| forr'-PUnch.
"WELL, remarked the divorce law
yer, what alimony do you want?"
II think 100000 cash, and an in
come of $50, 900 a year, besides law
vers' lees, would only be fan" replied
| the lady. Fair, madam" answered
| the lawyer, in surprise. What bust
ness is your husband in?' He owns
a skating rink New York Graphic.
FRENCH bakers are making large use
of yaseline in pastry. Its advantage
over lard or butter lies in the fact
that. however stale the pastry may
be it will not become rancid. Inc
council of hygiene disapproves OF this
practice, on theground that the derry
atives of petroleum contain no nutrl-
ment 1t does not say distinctly, now
ever, that they are injurious to health.
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