The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-10
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with an ordinary COD nook ana line
at Monterey, Cal, recently.
THERE is a society in Memphis the
object of which IS to furnish cottins TO
its members at greatly reduced prices.
CANON FARRAR will be the guest of
the Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooke, in Bos-
ton, from November to 9.
A BAPTIST church at Ocala, Fla. has
expelled all its members who have
signed petitions for liquor licenses.
OVER 81 500, 900 in drafts and cash
were found in the ASSOC letters
sent to the dead-letter Office last year.
F. H. DARwIN's biography OF his
father, Charles Darwin, is to be pub
lished the coming winter.
A New YORK doctor thinks he has
made himself look young by eating
5000 lemons annually for ten years.
A CONNECTICUT bridegroom burst into
tears in the midst of the wedding cere-
mony, but made no attempt to es-
cape.
STEANtING white wood and submit
ting it TO an end pressure renders it so
tough, it Is said, as to require a cold
chisel TO split it.
'PRoHEBTIoN law successfully evad-
ed = is a form OF advertisement sug-
gested by summer visitors for some
hotels in Maine
AN Essex, VT, man recently paid
debt, it Is said OF So, 600 with the hard
Cash-all in silver-he had boarded up.
The box weighed $50 pounds, and the
new owner stays awake nights watch
ing it.
THE American who has taken the
prize of 81 900 and the order of the
Red Cross tor the best hospital shown
at the Antwerp exposition Is a college
man and the head OF a great cracker
bakery.
THERE are about seventy steamers
of various sizes plying the st. Johns
River, Florida, and its tributaries.
The largest Is the Alice Clark-592.12
tons gross-while there are thirteen
under four tons.
An autopsy on a California horse,
recently made, showed that death was
caused by a 5O-cent piece, which had
lodged in the animals heart and
worked itself into such a position as
to stop the flow OF blood.
OWING to the frequency OF fatal mis-
takes through the great similarity IN
appearance of morphine and quinine
a physician urges the plan OF coloring
mOrpine red and enacting a law pro-
hibiting the sale OF white morphine.
A PAPER presented before the French
Academy OF Science estimates that a
man at so years OF age has slept an
aggregate of 5000 days, worked the
same length of time, eaten :, 1000 days,
walked 500 days and been i'll 500
days.
THE Amador (Cai) Sentinel says:
One of the strangest things wenotlcedln
Calaveras County was a wire fence near
San Andreas, on every panel OF which
was a swinging sign. Each sign had on
it: Horses, beware This Is a wire
fence"
AMONG the animals eaten by differ
ent nations which are not used
as food in civilized countries, p Il.
SimmOnds mentions monkeys, lemurs,
| bats, skunks, foxes, lions, pOrcuplnes,
CrOcodiles, salamanders, snakes, cater
pillars and ants.
EXPERIMENTS show that the average
person can taste the bitter of quinine
when one part is dissolved in %, 900
parts of water. Salt was detected
with one part in $40 OF water, sugar in
2SS OF water, bakingsOda in forty
eight of water. In nearly all cases
women detected a smaller quantity
than men.
A MORNING paper has this truly SEN
sational heading to one OfIts columns:
Edward Graul shoots q woman with
whom he was madly in love three
times" Nothing Is more common
than a mans being in lovethree times,
but it Is not usually with the same
wOman.-San FRANCISCAN.
GOLD is the best material yet found
for filling teeth. Silver and compost
tions of various kinds, being cheaper,
are used, but the royal metal is the
only one which ought to beused. The
manufacture of gold foil or leaf for the
business Is immense and hundreds OF
thousands OF dollars worth are con-
sumed every year.
''HOw are you to-day, my dear?'
asked the High School girl OF her friend
as they met this morning. 90 ! feel
under the weather to-day, Mildred,
was the reply. Had you not better
say 'subOrdinated to meteorological
conditions OF the atmosphere, instead
OF under the weather 2" gently cor
rected Mildred Pittsburg Chronicle.
A CHINESE viceroy has propOunded a
new cart thuuake theory. in "A memo
rial to the throne this high official at
tributes an earthquake OF last Janu
ary to the mildness OF the winter, which
caused an excess OF ''yang," or male
element OF nature; although the shock
was in a measure due to local officials
who neglected their duties, and thus
failed to gain the harmOnizlngln influence
of Heaven.
LITTLE boy (near the polo groundsl
Hey Johnny, was dey a blg aw-
ience at de game terday?" Johnny
/ who observed the game through a
/ knot-hole) Bout 1000" Little
| boy (incredulous) Must have ben
more'n that" Johnny-"D'ye mean
cops and all ?" Little boy Yes"
Johnny-"'Bout 5000 guess. New
/ York Sun.
! JEwELER to new boyl-Did you
sell anything while was out, JOHNNIE?
New bOy-Yes, sir; / sold SIX plain
gold rings. Jeweler very much
pleaSed-GOOd, my boy. WEI II MAKE
a frst-class jeweler Of you one OF these
days. You got the regular price. OF
course2 New boy-O yes, sir. The
price was marked on the inside, sc,
/ an the gentleman took all there was
/ left, sir.
EDWARD EGGLEsTON, who is now IN
/ London making researches in the Brit
/ ish museum and the public record Of
/ fee, has been at work FIVE years upon
/ his History OF Life in the American
/ Colonies" several chapters Of which
have been published in the Century.
/ When ne began the undertaking in
/ I178Ohe thought it would occupy three
] wears; but now he sees at least three
! more years work before him, making
| eight in all. Hesays he Is beginning to
realize that it IS only q rich mun who
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