The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-12-26
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made next year at Mount Vernon by
the ladies in charge.
A CHINAMAN at Sacramento has es-
tablished factory for manufacturing
idols and devils for use in Chinese pro.
cessions and temples.
SEVENTEEN million acres of land III
Oregon are, it is said, held by three or
four corporations which have not the
shadow of a just title.
ANOTHER Old Defender of Baltimore
Is dead, leaving hut four now living in
Baltimore out ofthe l ,259 who formed
an organization in 1S42.
THE will OF Maj Andre, the British
spy, whose monument was lately de-
stroyed, Is on file in New York. He
left an estate valued at 100000.
LABOR is so scarce in Mexico that
the coffee and sugar planters are offer
ing a bounty of S25 a head for China
men to work on their plantations.
A NEW Russian ironclad, the Admiral
Nakhimof, is the first of the Cars
war ships in which all the steel and
iron used Is OF domestic production.
Gov. KNOTT of Kentucky, has COM
missioned a citizen a member of his
staff with the rank and title OF mis-
ter" The Kentucky Colonel must
60.
A BROKER who has made careful OBJ
servations on the subject claims that
stocks are generally the lowest on
Monday and highest on Thursday or
Friday OF each week.-Boston Gazette.
GEORGE CABLE has organized in
Northampton, Mass, large Sunday
school class of young men and women,
OF which ne will become the regular
teacher.
A SHIP railway is being built across
the neck of land connecting Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick. This will
shorten the voyage by some 800
miles.
Two leading questions in the mind
OF every suburban citizen are the sal
vatiOn OF his immortal soul, and will
he catch the train in the morning.
Merchant Traveller.
GEN. LONGsTREET spends most of
his time in literary work at his house
at Gainesville, Ga. His recollections
are vivid asthough the war had closed
but month ago.
New YORK Judges are accused of
compelling the stenographers in their
courts to divide their salaries with
them. One Judge is said to take one
half OF the stenOgrapher' pay.
A PARTY o. Englishmen not long ago,
it is said, killed, in defiance of law, 20
or 80 bison in the Yellowstone Nation
al Park, without taking any part of
the animals for use. The slain num-
bered One-fourth OF the entire herd.
The Bad Lands Cowboy says that
all the Black Hills wants is a railroad
and a newmoral character for its busl-
ness men. The Black Hills Is not the
only place suffering for want of these.
\ PHILADELPHIA man created a SEN
sation by enticing his boy away from
his divorced wife long enough to buy
him a pair OF new boots. The papers
got out extra editions to report the
abduction.
JOAQUIN MILLER says we are the
laughing stock of all Travelled and com
petent critics for our propensity at
the national capital to scOur or paint
a building the moment that time and
weather set in to make it mellow.
THE pet pigeon of young lady at
Columbus, Ga, Is so fond of music
that when she wants it all she has to
do is to play on the piano, and, no
matter where the bird Is, it will start
Immediately for the parlor and perch
on the piano.
THE cotton crop OF Central Asia has
been unpsally good this year. Many
owners OF cotton mills in Russia seem
to prefer Central Asia to American
cotton, and have established direct
relations with the planters OF Bokhara,
Tashkend and Khiva.
JAMES GAMBLE, a Baltimore gam
bier, was stabbed the other night, and
would have been killed but for pack
age OF pool tickets in his vest pocket
which saved his heart from the knife.
Pool checks answer the same purpose
as the Bible in such cases.
AFTER waiting three months for his
pay, says the Montreal Witness, the
caterer for the banquet rendered by
the citizens OF Ottawa to the returned
volunteers has had wrlts issued against
the members of the committee to COM
pei payment OF the amount still due.
LORD CHIEF JUsTiCE CoIERIDGE is
said to have yielded to every demand
made upon him by Mr.. Adams, his
daughters husband. Hehas given his
daughter f6OO a year and her husband
is to have life interest in it. Their
children If they have any are to be en-
dowed with $4,000.
A NORTHERN Michigan postmaster,
says the Detroit Free Press, lately
wrote to the post-otfiCe at Detroit say
ing he came to headquarters for I'M
portant advice. He wanted to know
If revenue stamps were good on letters.
He was informed with neatness and
dispatch that they are not.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL gives his
guests the choicest cigars, but pre-
fers for his own smoking a common
clay pipe filled with Durham" OF
which he occasionally sends a bag to
Tennyson, who, since he became a
baron, has advanced from clay to
brierwood.
A I,Ew years ago a law was passed
in New York to compel storekeepers
who employ women to provide them
with seats. The past week women OF
Buffalo belonging to the PhlianthropIc
Committee of the Women's Union in
spected the leading dry goods stores
OF Buffalo and found that the law IS
obeyed.
Two fun loving servant girls IN a
New York village started a story that
the house of their employer was
haunted and kept up the Joke so well
that, though there have been no mani
festations since they left two years
ago, the building came to be called the
haunted house, and has Just been sold
for hall OF its actual value.
THE Cpur d'Alene Record, according
to the Portland Oregonian, still comes
without a head, save for plea line OF
caps, which says, Still an Aching
Void, " and on each side of this thefol-
lowing: We've got a heading. Do
you want TO see it? So do we. It's
at Thompson. Subscribe quick, so