The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-13

A MILLION and a quarter of cat
skins are used annually by furrIers.
THE Ohio Valley, not Dakota, is the
great center of wheat production in
the United States.
REGULAR shipments of rhubarb are
now made from Salem, Ore, to BOs-
ton.
ITALY has 100000 lemon trees,
which bear l ,260, ZOO, 900 lemons an
nually.
/ IT is stated that 10000 men come
in every year from the country to
London.
E-FIGHTs in Boston are now held
in private club-roOms from which the
police are excluded.
ABOUT 900 new families settled,
during the past winter, in Florida as
permanent residents.
THE ordinary revenues OF the city OF
Paris are 254, ,494 ,9S3 Francisco,
S9S, ,996-per annum.
A BASE ball should be struck at the
angle of twenty-three degrees in order
to send it to the greatest possible
distance.
MESsRs. Il. NJ. PULslFER, OF the Bos-
ton Herald, and Charles A. Dana, OF
the Sun, are both devOut and active
SwedenbOrgians.
An Arkansas paper says that
| Michigan has more cOld-blooded
murders than any other three states
in the Union combined
A New HAVEN man, william
Shredder by name, has been vainly
striving after the principle ofperpetual
motion for over thirty years.
/ CHARLOTTE NJ. YoNGE, who isnow 50
years of age aud did not begin to write
until 30, has written 400vOlumes.
THE prevarications of this springs
circus posters have been manufactured
with so much art as to make the ordi-
nary epitaph feel anxious for its iau-
rels.-TeXas SiftiHgs.
A PIECE Of lace worn by Gen. Wash
ingtOn when sitting to Gilbert Stuart
for his famous picture has been pre-
sented to the Mount Vernon Associa-
! ton by a Mrs. Richardson of LOulsi-
ana.
/ JAMES ID. FAIR, the Nevada silver
/ senator, keeps no establishment since
| his wife secured a divorce and 81, 800
/ 900 of the common property. Public
/ opinion was against him at the time OF
! the divorce suit of his wife, and moth
/ ing has since changed it.
/ STRIPED velvet Is worn in the form
/ of petticOats this season. The fine
| stripe is more elegant than the wide.
/ Two colOrs are woven in these vel
vets. and are more often OF dark
shades than light. Blue and deep red
or red and brown are favOrite com
/ binations.
/ THE house in London which Dickens
describes in "David Copperfed" as
/ containing an nexrraOrdinary staircase,
down which David describes himself as
/ tumbling and having at the time a
vague impression that somebody was
/ falling down stairs, is now occupied by
/ William Black, the novelist. It was
once the London residence Of Peter the
/ Great.
/ A TELEGRAPH operator who copies
directly from the sOunder upon n
( typewriter Is reported from Nashville,
/ Tenn, the first and only operator in
| the world who has succeeded in doing
/ this One night recently he received
/ and copied fifteen thousand words Of
press matter. delivering it to the news
editor Of the paper in handsome type
writer copy.
H. c. GAM came to Dakota in the
summer OF 1884 and secured a home
/ stead in Buffalo County. He laid out
a town on it, and this is now the
county seat. 1t will become quite a
town and possible candidate for the
location of the capital OF South Da-
kota. Gam has made a fortune be-
fore he has had time to grow a crop.
St Paul MINI. Globe.
THE New York dudes are divided, IN
theatrical parlance, into 'streeters. ="
"boxers," and "officers." "Streeters"
loaf around the stage doors to escort
pretty actresses, the boxers" take
private boxes and pay for immense
bouquets, and the "otiicers" wait IN
the managers room and send blllets
doux through the box office.