The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-31
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HALLOo, Louisiana town, wants
It's name changed.
IN 1884 there were 100000, 900
pickles raised and sailed in this coun-
try.
A woAfAN's club will be opened in
Madison Avenue, New York, Novem-
Der /.
THE demand for American black silk
Is steadily growing, TO the detriment OF
that OF foreign manufacture.
WILLIAM 5. COOMBs, OF Freehold, n.
j., raised three hundred bushels OF fine
potatoes to the acre this season.
ABOUT 100000, 900 worth of dia-
monds have been taken from the Kim
berley mine during the last fifteen
years.
SOME young womenin Pueblo, Mex,
have started a paper called the
Mother Law. Its spicy paragraphs
are called broomsticks.
FRANK DE LEON, New York boy,
Is a human pin-cushion, and sticks
500 pins and needles in his breast
without pain to himself.
The new railroad bridge across the
Colorado River at Yuma, Ariz., which
cost 5000, 1000, was totally destroyed
on the 18th.
THE sword which Butcher wore at
Waterloo has been sold for $50. 1t is
also in two other museums. From
this We infer that the swOrd must have
been triplets, at least.-Puck.
Mrs. EVA WATSON, of Greensburg,
Ind, wants a divorce from her hus-
band because he sealed her lips with
court-plaster in order to stop her talk
ing.
A PENNY edition of Nicholas MCKEE
by" complete, is on sale in England
A single line of advertising at the foot
OF each page makes the publication a
paying one.
a FRENCH musician has succeeded in
making piano from musical stones.
The tilnts are suspended by wires from
a sounding board and are played up
on by two other f1ints.
THE soldiers of the Queen of NADIA
gascar say that two powerful allies,
Gen. HazO and Gen. Tazo, or, in other
words, fever and forest, are fighting on
their side against the French.
THE number of florists in the United
States is put at 5000, who produce
5O,OOO,OO0 plants yearly. 1t is es-
timated that at least "a, 900, OOOroses
were grown in the winter OF 1S84-85.
No white child has ever been born in
Creigh tOn's Island, which is situated
near Brunswick, Ga, and embraces
about /, 400 acres, though people have
lived there for the past 100 years or
ore.
PUTsBURG now seems to be assured
OF a permanent industrial exhibition,
and a building OF IRON and glass is to
be erected, at acost of$2OO, 1000, much
OF the money having been already sub
scribed.
81 WOULD not" says Rev. Sam
Jones, wipe my feet on a professional
base ball player" Why should Mr..
Jones wipe his feet on a ball player
when the umpire is there for that pur-
pose Ken lucky State Journal.
LOWELL Mass has six chimneys of
200 feet and upward. The great Mer-
rimac shaft, which is the most lofty of
boiler smOke-shatts in the world, is
2S3 feet tall, with straight circular
tiue twelve feet in diameter.
THE obelisk in Central Park at New
York is being painted with melted
paratfine to protect it from the action
of the weather. The London authori-
ties gave their obelisk a coat OF hydro
carbon. wax, and corrosive sublimate.
PETER LARGE, the well-known citi,
zen OF Wheeling, was attacked by a
dog some time ago, and it is thought
he will charge the owner with allowing
a ferOClOus dog to run at Large
PittsbUTg ChrOnicie-T Telegraph.
No man who is not a hOusekeeper
can be grand Juror; and citizen Of
Louisville is COntending that he is a
housekeeper and eligible to the grand
Jury because, though living with his
father-in-law, he pays part of the
household expenses. Such a man may
be housekeeper, but as a business
man he is a failure. A good business
man would have his father-in-law pay
all the expenses.-COurier-JOUrnaL
THE Union Pharmaceutique says
that an eminent chemist prepared with
great care a mixture of manganese,
permanganate OF potash and OXaliC
acid, only TO find that the mixture ex-
plOded a few minutes afterWard In the
patients pocket. 1t also gives an in
stance OF a tOoth-pOwder composed OF
cachou and chlorate Of potash explod-
ing in the mouth Of a person engaged
IN brushing his teeth.
A HIGH school boy was gathering
grapes recently, when he was APPROACH
ed by a street arab, who ventured a
"give US a grape, will you, Bob ?" The
high school boy had been complying
with similar requests till his patience
was about exhausted, so he turned
and said: "What do you take me for
"a misanthropist? I" But the
arab had given one wild, terror-s trick-
en- glance and taken to his heels. Who
says a high school education isn't
practical ?-LaWrence (Mass.) Ameri-
can.
A SINGULAR document has been filed
in the recorders office of San Joaquin
County, Cal 1t is an agreement be-
tween the Sargent brothers Bradley
V. Sargent, OF Monterey County;
James p. Sargent, of Santa Clara
County, and Ross c. Sargent and
Jacob l.. Sargent, OF San Joaquin
County their affairs in common
are so mixed up that it is impossible
to straighten them out, and that their
heirs shall never ask for an accounting.
They have been in partnership since
1850. Each has drawn money as he
needed it, and no proper books OF &C
count have been kept. They therefore
bind the heirs never to ask for an &C.
count. and provide for a division of
the property share and share alike.
Shying Horses are Near-sighted.
TFrom the New York SUM-