The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-12-12
FROM ALL SOURCES.

The big price of 50, ZOO was paid for
a hunting dog at High Point, n. c.,
the other day.
A LARGER ratio of people born in
Vermont have emigrated than from
any other state in the union.
1t is expected that about 80 cheap
gas bills will be offered in the New York
legislature at the first days session.
TULLE fronts have vermicelli de-
signs run with silver, with tiny pend
ants OF spun silver.
EVERY drayman in Griffin, Ga, fol-
lowed a dead mule to its last resting
place the other day. The animal was
aged and had been faithful.
A COLONY of wine producers will
leave France about January l to set
tie III Greenville County, South Caro-
| lima.
| A MILK white alligator was discov.
cred in a pond at Escanbia, Ala,
lately, and also one that is parti-col-
| ored.
THERE are 445, 100000 acres of for
est in the United States, and this area
is reduced at the rate of 25,000,OO0
acres annually.
| IT Is said that there will be % per
cent. more lumber cut on the PenOb-
scot and kennebec waters the coming
winter than last season.
| CONFEDERATE bonds are booming,
and sell readily for i cent on the dol
lar. At this rate they will soon be as
dear as good wallpaper.
| THREE young Cuban ladies who had
been studying pharmacy in New York
| recently opened drug store in fash
lOnable quarter of Havana.
IT is estimated that there were over
13, 900 marriages in Pennsylvania
during the week previous to the taking
effect OF the new marriage law.
THE bank of the Mississippi River
at Hopetield, Ark, is caving in. The
wharf and several streets have gone
! in.
"BLUE-RIBBoNb beer, made at Toron-
| to and sold as temperance drink, is
found to contain between and 3 per
cent. of alcohol, or about half as much
as is put in lager beer.
A NEVADA prospector, digging in a
! hole made by some squirrels, In which
| to bury their winter food, found a
gold ledge which he soon afterward
sold for $4,000
THE life of Beau Brummell occupies
two octave volumes-a revised edition
at that. Darwin has Just been dis
posed of in a 12mo of about 100
| pages.
TWELVE life prisoners in the Ken
lucky penitentiary work at chairmak-
ing. Not one of them is under six feet
| in height Eleven OF them are Exon
| federate soldiers.
"THIs French cooking is a great art,
isn't it ?" Chow so ?" "Why they
disguise the dishes so nobody can tell
what the ingredients are" ooh, yes,
we have that at our boarding house
we call it hash THE Rambler.
A LITTLE girl in one of the suburbs
had one day as playmate a child
named Bacon. Wishing to play with
her another day she said she would
''like to play with the little Cooking
girl"
In New Zealand recently an English
woman committed suicide by throw
ing herself into a hot spring. When
the body was discovered it was found
that the flesh had been boiled away
from the bones.
CHINESE labOrers discharged since
the completion Of the Canadian Pacific
are causing much trouble on the main
land. They resort to thlevery and any
Legitimate means they can employ to
obtain livelihood.
THE tax book, says the Albany, Ga,
Medium, shows that cOlored men pay
tax on $4,000 worth OF property in
Albany. The Medium does not know
single property owner among them
who is a frequenter OF bar rooms.
A FASHION authority states that
Glow -necked dresses will be dropped at
the opera this season." The time Is
fast approaching when the opera will
be no place for respectable people to
frequent.
SAYS an exchange: Attention Is
called to the advertisement OF horse
lost, which appears in another col
umn." After such evidence as this,
who can doubt the benefits OF adver-
tising.-BOstOn Transcript.
THE Morning Star, the paper printed
by the Indian children at the Carlisle
! school, announces that "three car
loads of tinware and stovepipe, made
by our apprentice boys, were shipped
! to different Indian agencies IN the
West during the month OF October
There are $50 packs OF stag and fox
/ hounds in England and Ireland The
eeventy-five couples constituting the
| Duke of Beaufort's pack OF hounds at
| Badminton consume about forty tons
of meat, three tons OF biscuits, and
| $50 horses annually.
| A PHYSICIAN in Maryland put a
! human skull into tree for sale keep
| ing during a temporary absence, ana
forgot it. When he thought OF it again
and went to get it he found that a
sparrow had taken possession and
raised a family in 1t.
/ A TRIAL Justice of Marion County,
| South Carolina, has advertised eight
chickens taken up and to be sold under
the provisions Of the stock law. The
| charges are as follows: For taking up,
| 50; for maintenance, 81; Tor damages,
| so cents; costs, Sl.5O.
AN application lately came to Prof
| Baird from Perak, in Malacca, TOR
Young Wh1tehSh TO De placed l. Cbe
| mountain streams of the Malay pen
insula. but he was obliged to say that
it was practically impossible to send
even eggs so far, let alone young fishes
A MAN gave himself up to the Ale
gheny police authorities a few days
| ago and asserted that, having dis
nosed of q stock OF counterfeit money
except one lead dollar. which he had
not because he did not try to pass II,
he was now ready to suffer for the o.
! tense.
IT may be said that one-half the
world does not know what the other
half eats. At large bakery IN New
York the bread that is two days old
and as hard as a rock is sold TO ltal-
ians for almost nothing. Alter they
soak the dry bread in stale lager ana
! = han call n for