The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-24
BITS OF EVERYTHING.

ing and loan societies, doing an an
nual business OF about $4,000, 900.
No country yet was everin love with
its wntax system.-Nacou Ca Tele-
graph.
MosT OF the game killed by the Alas
ka Indians Is shot with hiut-headed
arrows.
EUROPEAN goods sold SO per cent.
cheaper in Paso Del Norte, Mex, than
in Fl Paso, Tex, Just opposite.
THE price OF young giraffe is from
50. 500 TO 5000 Of an old one from
SIS, 700 TO S25, 200.
PETER was the first man who event
out on fowl ''-BoSton Commercial
Bulletin.
JUDIC Is 8 more important person
in New York JUST uow than Canon
Farrar, Jay Gould, or John Kelly.
Judlc is French comedienne.
A RICH man with constitution able
to endure all the medicine that is
thrown into him Is a treasure to doc
tors and druggists.-New Orleans
Picayune.
A PARIsIAN sign-board reads: LA
dies and gentlemen's outfits on hire
for balls and marriages. Black dress
coats and pumps. Bridesmaids let
out by the day"
A NOTICE in this torn appears on
tree not far from New Britain 10y the
side OF the road leadingto Kensington,
"Thls miserable road belongs to the
city of New Britain. ."-HartfOrd
Comm Times.
WITHIN the past two months as
many as two hundred Cinnamon have
crossed the boundary line from Brit
ish Columbia into Washington Terri
tory at or near a place called Blaine.
THE Medical Journal states that a
few handfuls OF common salt thrown
daily into closets and an occasional
handful into wash-basins goes far to-
ward cOunteracting the noxious effects
OF the eomnipresent sewer-gas.
A DEALER in natural Curiosities
sends out circulars to American ply
sicians Offering to pay literally for
prompt information as to the births of
SIamese twins, dog-faCed boys and the
like, so that he may beat his rivals.
Is Arizona and Northern MexicOex
periments are being made with the
castor bean for the manuiactur of oil.
The estimates give fifteen hundred
plants to the acre, which produce six
hundred pounds of beans, worth $50.
The wholesale dealer who charges
100 per cent. profit Is always IN
position to take 80 cents on the dol
lar in settlement wnen a retail Gus
toner fails. Other creditors may be
less fortunate.-NeW Orleans Plea
yune.
A GENTLEMAN travelling on a railway
lost his hat, when, without moments
hesitation, he pitched out his hat-box,
on which was his name and address,
wisely Judging that the latter would
lead to the return OF the former, which
it did
An Englishman has been condemned
to twenty years penal servltude at
Lyons for plundering churches. While
secretly prosecuting his career of
crime, he was received into fashion
able sporting circles and became a pa
trOn OF the turf.
FORT LEWIS, in La Plata County,
Col, Is said to be the highest military
post in the world, being $500 feet
above sea level. At present there are
six companies of infantry and two
companies OF cavalry with II officers
stationed there.
II New York City 90 per cent. OF the
inmates OF the House OF Industry
were sent there for crimes resulting
from the use OF Intoxicating liquors,
while of the 5000 liquor sellers OF the
CABS have been confined
in jail or prison.
IT is claimed that a young girl from
Glens Falls, \. Y, who had been blind
for some years, and who visited La
Bonne Ste. Anne with her mother Ona
on Sunday last, mlracu-
Iousiy recovered her sight.-MOntreaI
canada Witness.
HENRY DIvEL, OF the city OF Erie,
cannot swim, but on Tuesday when
he saw boy fall from the dock into
the water he sprang after him, caught
him, and managed to rescue him.
How he did it Mr.. DiveI does not
know himself.-PhHadelDhia Record.
THE hen Is prominent at the state
fair grounds this year by virtue not
only OF her good lungs but also by vIr-
tue OF what she does for her state.
There are more than O,OOO, 900 hens
in Maine, and the egg crop ofthls state
is as valuable as the apple crop
Lewiston (Me.) Journal
A LADY in Athens, the mother OF a
large family OF interesting children,
has never struck one a blow in anger.
When a child does wrong she keeps a
bottle OF castor oil and rhubarb on
the mantel and at once forces the cul-
prit to take dose OF the mixture
Columbus Ca Enquirer.
THE New York Herald figures the
cost OF living for the average young
man in that city as follows: Apart
ments, S4OO: brea kfasr and dinner,
$500: club dues, $50; clothing, 5000,
and sundry small expenses for neces-
saries and amusement swell the figures
to the round sum OF 81, 500.
AT a franchise demonstration at
Galashiels, Scotland, a man was OBJ
served in the procession staggering
along with a huge banner on which
was inscribed Down with the Peers ~
On being asked why he was so much
opposed to the peers, who had never
harmed him, ne replied: Il dinna ken
what we're saying; but | wish peers
was doan 10 the same price as alpies-' r.
MAIL carrying IN Arizona Is attended
with some danger. Lately the horse
Of a carrier failed him while he was
thirty miles from his destination, Aqua
Caliente. but he kept on his way on
foot. After he had gone fifteen miles
he became exhausted, and was found
on the road IN a dying condition, his
mail bags having been dragged of by
wild animals and torn to pieces.
PRoF. c. T. RTCHEL, in June, 1873,
made an experiment at Hartford with
a f7ving-machine which went against
a wind OF six miles an hour. There
was no balloon attached 20 the
machine. The gas-holder was a cylIn-
der with square ends, was twenty-five
feet long by thirteen feet in diameter,
and contained 5000 feet Of gas. An
horizontal screw propelled as well as
zraernd the machine