The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-07-18

| so Is Delaware Standard.
| A DOUBLE white rose Towering on q
| red crab apple tree is one OF the sights
OF of South birmingham, Mass.
20-YEAR-oLD lad is among those
| seeking a divorce in Toccoa, Ga. He
has been married two years.
| Two boys OF Polk County, Tenn,
killed big bear the other day with no
| other weapons than clubs.
Two notable idols were found aban-
| doned in Tixtla, Mex, and have been
taken to Chilpancingo by order of the
governor OF Guerrero.
| THE unfinished statue of Salmon
| P. Chase, modelled by the late Clark
| Mills in Washington, has been sold for
its value as old metal.
| THE famous Pietfers hot springs,
near Ragatz, Switzerland, which gave
out at the time ofthe recent eruption
| OF Nesuvius, are running again.
| WHEN a girl is young she wants nu-
merous dolls, but when she grows old
er her wants increase and she desires
| several dollars.-BoSton Budget
WONDERS will never cease. Some en-
thusiast offers to run for governor OF
Kentucky on the Prohibition ticket
| Galveston (Texas) News.
| A CONTRACT has been let for the erec-
| tion of four electric-light masts at San
| Diego, Cal. An Eastern company has
| the matter in charge.
| COMMON brown wrapping-paper and
| indigo blue paper used by grocers are
| the aesthetic wall decorations OF the
present fashion.
A MAN 81 years old is registered at
the Oregon State immigration Society,
who has gone west to growup with the
country.
A SALMON weighing ISL pounds was
| caught in the Columbia River last
| week.-San Francisco Chronicle, June
IS.
AN oil-well is to be sunk in the city
of Los Angeles, Cal. It's believed that
the oil stratum will be tapped at less
than three hundred feet.
THE new city directory OF San
| Francisco contains 10000 more
names than that OF 1893, and the
population is now estimated at 325,-
900.
PAPER plates for bread, butter,
cake, etc, have been introduced at
the Berlin hotels. They are in papier
mache with gray-colored borders in
relief.
MIDDLETON, n. H, has no doctor,
| lawyer nor clergyman. The last ply
sician lived there in 1855, and thelast
clergyman moved away two years
| ago.
An Indiana man has applied for the
position of sexton OF the post-otiice
department. This is tomb much We
suspect he wants to inter the dead let
| ters.-NOrriStOwn Herald.
IT was the summer concert Thomas
cat who remarked, ''If | can sing the
midnight songs for the people, donot
care who gets the applause. ."-Cincin-
| Eau Commercial Gazette.
ACCORDING to manufacturers OF
| wood mosaics, hard maple on end Is
| four or five times as durable as mar
BILE, and equally durable with the
| hardest baked tile.
STRAWBERRIES, on which Paris green
! had been blown from a nelghborlng
potato-tield, have occasiOned several
| cases of serious illness in and near
| Easton, Pa.
The horse Gen. Grant rode the day
| Lee surrendered is owned III Vernon,
| Oneida County, \. Y, and marched IN
the procession on Decoration Day this
| year.
FLOGGING is the best treatment for
wife beaters, but it is probably impOs-
sible to fog into such a man a proper
conception of the cowardly and brutal
| Il, o. No conduct fhat M
| cures him the lash.-ChicagO Times.
WHEN the Prince of Wales went TO
Killarney, during his recent tour in
| Ireland, he was entertained at Lord
Kenmare's splendid house facing the
| lake, but Lord Spencer was the host
| of the occasion. Lord Kenmare is i'll
| low financial waters, in great measure
through his wife's extravaganza.
THERE is a mortgage and lien on
record in the clerks office OF Pickens
| County, S. c., given to secure the pay
ment Of 50, in which the mOrtgageor
conveys to the mortgage all ms sstOck,
| farming implements, crops, and alfhls
household and kitchen furniture
augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
CHILDREN were born to Il mother
and daughter at the same time and IN
| the same house in Illinois the other
day. The babies were dressed and put
in the cradle together When they
were taken up soon after neither
mother knew her own child, ana to-
day they are still wondering which Is
| which.
ABOuTt the only thing that the Sharon
| divorce proceedings, which are still
dragging their tiresOme lengths out IN
| San Francisco, have developed, Is
| that both OF the principals to the suit
ought to be sentenced to ten years
confinement in each others society
philadelphia Times.
| A TENNESSEE editor keeps two large
| snakes in a glass case in his editorial
room. The probabilities are that he
| swore off on the first Of January, and
! has taken this precautlon to keep the
reptiles out of his boots. a snake
| in the glass" is more harmful than
two snakes under a glass.
MEMPHIS will never again have the
yellow fever Every factor which aid
ed it's outbreak and strengthened its
virulence in 1878 and 1879, has been
removed. The clouds are breaking,
the dawn comes onward, and the sun
! grows brighter beyond the hilltops.
| The golden future IS our own.-NcHn-
phis lTcnn.) avalanche.
The English sparrow, a very fine
table bird. is exceedingly fond of ripe
and Juicy locust, for which it has been
whetting It's till for II years. "How
| bright the summer prospect would
| be" exclaims the Baltimore American,
IF 17-year lOcusts were only fond OF
mosquitoes, By this process OF in
corporation might suffering man get
back some OF his lost blood.-CIHcin-
natl Commercial Gazette.
| THE dome OF the Pantheon where
Hugo is entombed rests on rollers.
Recently an exact duplicate OF the
/ dome was constructed for the observa-