The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-18

| excess IN trimming spring cashmeres.
TREE-PLANTISG is Systematically
/ fcstered in China, and during the last
year 100000 were planted in Hong
( Kong alone.
SANTA CLARA County, Col. has been
cleared OF skating rikS by its ''enor-
mously high license tax OF 800 per
quarter.
/ THE legislature OF Massachusetts, re-
/ fused TO permit woman preacher OF
Nantucket to perform the marriage
/ ceremony.
No Connecticut regiment ever lost a
flag during the civil war, according to
the statement recently made by a
public speaker
A PERFECT skeleton, to which was
attached a ball and chain, was lately
unearthed twenty-five feet below the
surface OF the earth near Savannah.
\ long courtship has just ended in
marriage near Trenton, \. J.-that OF
a couple who had been keeping COM
pany continuously for twenty eight
years.
WHITE shelled" eggs are becoming
the rage in New York. Some pro-
ducers scour them with sapolio
before bringing them to fastidious
customers.
A FLOCK OF crows, estimated at from
two thousand TO three thousand, APP
peared at Coxsackie. \. Y, the other
day. and horses as well as people were
frightened.
THE latest puzzle now vexing some
persons Is how to play eight checkers
on a board so that no two viii be
either on Il straight or diagonal line in
either direction.
THE highest chimney in the world is
said to be the circular one built of
brick and stone at Port Dundas, near
Glasgow, Scotland. 1t towers to a
height OF 456 feet above ground.
"MAIN Street, about half way up. on
the left side, IN a tall building, was
the address on a letter received re-
Gently in the Buffalo post-otfice and
destined for delivery in that city.
NEwYORK city has 500 churches OF
these 90 are Presbyterian, 81 Protes-
tant Episcopal; Roman Catholic, 81;
Methodist Episcopal 81; Baptist, AZ;
Jewish, 81, and Congregational, 9.
The recorder OF deeds for the Dis
trict OF Columbia is III demand. The
salary is $4,000 year, and a former
incumbent of the position is quoted
as saying that his Office hours were
from II 70 11:30 every other Wednes-
day.
THE mountain ranges OF the West
are nearly clear of snow, and there is
a poor prospect of feed in the summer
stock ranges. An old stockman says
that in thirty-two years past snow
has not disappeared so early.
THE ruins OF the Ursuline convent at
Somerville, Mass, which have stood
for moret than half a century as silent
reminder of the violence OF the anti
Catholic mob which destroyed the
building on the night of August II,
1884, are at last tobe remov ed.
ANOTHER royal authors name may
be added to the list which recently
appeared. The Princess Theresa of
Bavaria, daughter OF Prince Leopold,
and consequently a cousin OF the king,
has Just published her Sketches and
Impressions of a tour IN Russia"
If London newspapers used Ameri-
can headings, this Is about the way
some of the reports from the seat OF
war would lead off: Another Brilliant
Nictory-The Rebel HOrdes Crushed
Five English Generals Bravely Die with
Their Faces to the Foe-One Arab
Badly Scared. '-PhiLadelDhia Call.
As a rather singular coincidence, the
recent session ofthe Arizona legislature
was organized on the 18th day OF
January for the thirteenth time in
Arizona. 1t adjourned on the 18th,
and had, during its session, thirteen
fights There was a tie politically in
each branch, as we'll as in matrimony
and bachelOrhOOd.
THERE is a great difference in valu
between a carrot that runs down into
the soil a foot and a half to two feet
in a nearly true taper, and one that
puts the same weight into the first SIX
to ten inches and then suddenly
shrinks to q fine root that breaks as
easily as cotton thread.
NEW YORK trades people, says Town
Topics, complain that they have
greater difficulty this season III collect
ing their accounts against delinquent
fashiOnables than they had during5l
year lust closed. 4 bright man at on
OF the clubs, the other evening, sum-
med up the whole matter by saying:
A member OF New York society must
now either have wealth or the appear
ance OF it."
A GLASGOW dog went regularly with
his master to the butcher 5 to get his
dinner. He carried a little basket and
2 pence to pay for it. Finally he was
allowed to 90 alone. But another
butcher sent in a bill for the dogs
daily supply OF food. 1t was ascer-
tanned that the animal, having a
voracious appetite was gettingdouble
rations. After he had eaten what he
received at the first butcher 5 he would
take the empty basket to anotherand
eat on credit.
THE proprietor OF q skating rink in
Sing Sing has lately adopted an IN
genious way OF hOaxing the public.
He offered a prize for the first success
full attempt to give the meaning OF the
name "Belvonia," which he had APP
piled to the rink. The local editor,
school-teachers and others puzzled
over the name. and finally declared
that it was OF Italian origin and meant
s'pIace OF beautiful resort" They were
highly indignant when informed by the
proprietor that the word had been
coined by his wife, and had no mean
ing.