The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-11-14
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the altar.
A GERMAN statistician finds that
there are /, 100000 blind persons in
the world.
A WOMAN 73 years old was an appG-
cant for a divorce in Hartford, Conn,
the other day.
ACCORDING to the Medical World
every farmer wears out, on the aver
age, two wives and a hall in his life
time.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, possesses a
curious guide-stOne on State Street,
near the head OF Walnut, which was
placed there in 1868.
THERE are now more than 103, 900
buildings in New York City, and the
number IS rapidly increasing, as is also
! the population OF the city.
The Baptist Church o. Ocala, Fla,
| has expelled every member whosename
has been found on q petition in favor
OF granting liquor license.
/ A VICTORIA, b. c., dispatch says that
/ Chinese labOrers from the railway are
/ coming in, and the sidewalks OF China
/ town are almost impassable.
| SECRETARY WHITNEY will add ball
room to the Frelinghuysen mansion,
which he will occupy during his resi-
dence in Washington.
/ Miss MARY 4. Brown, OF Oxford,
Mass, had her ear bitten off by q
vicious horse while she was walking
/ along the street.
! THEKE are no old maids in Turkey.
/ The system OF taking wives on faith,
without seeing them, is responsible for
this happy state OF Turkish society.
R.M Garrett, of Irwin, Pa, recently
! deceased, had properly inscribed grave
stones set up IN his cemetery lot for
himself and wife a year before he died.
! THE naval observatory scientists
/ thought they observed the effects OF
/ the Flood Rock explosion at Wash
| ington in the disturbance OF the mer-
curry.
AT the Los Angeles Call Opera
| House on hot evenings the male spec
tators in the gallery strip off their
coats and enjoy the performance in
! shirt sleeves.
| A MAN who has that wonderful thing
called ''sense" by New-Englanders, and
that climax thereof which they style
''horse sense" ," can't help succeeding
| Boston Herald.
| DOCTOR-NOw tell me, colonel, how
do you feel when you've killed a man?
/ COlonel-Oh, very well, thank you,
doctor. How do you?-LOHdOn
/ Punch.
! SINCE February, 1854, when Marinus
/ Willett was made sheriff OF New York
! City, no German or German-American
. ~.
! held that Office.
AMBROSE CLoQUET, of Rochester, \.
Y, has the original application OF Riel
! for naturalization and certitiedcopy
of the paper making him Il citizen oil
! the United States.
| THE Chinese are engaging in the re-
/ tail grocery business at Augusta, Ga,
so numerously that the native dealers
have petitioned the city government
! to "abate the nuisance"
A HUMANE burial society Is to be or
ganized in Bridgeport, Conn, the object
being to take charge Of the bodies OF
those whose death may admit OfdOubt,
and thus prevent anyone from being
| buried alive.
A CERTAIN Springfield Mass, attor-
ney, it is said, has resorted to the praC-
tice of having his card lett at peoples
doors, asking that the people bringhim
cases that other lawyers have lost or
are afraid to tackle
THE New Ladies' Club, projected
with enthusiasm, has died before 1t
was formed. It's aim was simply
amusement, initiating the features OF
the mems clubs, and its premature
death is not surprising.
THE following is the reply given by
one OF our prominent scholars:
Teacher - What are metamorphic
rocks2 Pupil Metamorphicrocks are
rocks containing metaphor.-SOuth
Abingdon (Mass.) Courier,
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND cOlOred
children in North Carolina attended
school in one thousand and ninety
school-houses, last year. The average
cost OF the buildings was less than 500
each.
JOHN HILL, OF Randolph County,
North Carolina, tears large hickory
sticks into shreds with his teeth, and
drinks his coffee boiling and scalding
hot. He wants everything at white
heat.
A NOVEL but profitable business in
the mountains OF North Carolina and
East Tennessee is that OF collecting
roots, mostly laurel. The roots are
shipped to Philadelphia and Boston
and used for the manufacture OF door
knobs and pine bowls.
A LADY OF Red Beach, Me, has
wonderful swarm OF bees. Having
filled its hive to overfiowing, it has
gone to work depositing honey on the
outside, and has now ten pounds IN
sight.
A CARRIER pigeon was released in Or
lean on Saturday and made the dis
tance between that place and Port
vile. where its owner lives, in 40.
The distance is six mIles.-ElnlIra Ga
zettc.
THE State Department has sent for
translation to Prot. ROehrig OF
Cornell University, an official docu-
ment lately received from COrea. Prof.
Roehrig is master Of over a score Of
languages.
THE Truckee Call Republican says
that up in the Businesses Of the Sierras
is a lake so surrounded by bold cliffs
that it is impossible to reach its
shores, save by one narrow cleft in the
rocks 1t has a circumference Of at
least mile and beautiful fiat sur
rounds it which IS utilized for pastur-
age.
Is Iceland women have votes as well
as voices in church affairs. The Gus
tom has existed there fer ages, and Is
kept up by the Icelanders who nave
emigrated TO this country and settled
in Dakota. There are in Dakota, Mon
tana and Manitoba nearly dozen
Icelandic iccOngregatiOns. Theserecent-
" met in convention at Mountain,
D. r. and adopted a synodical con-
stitutiOn.
JOSH BILLINGS delivered a thousand
lectu, Is in seventeen years, and where
a--..L. be urent he 10. MaLcnmel. Whe