The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-11-21
From ALL SOURCES.

Italy.
A COLONY OF wine producers will
leave France about the 1st OF Janu-
ary to settle in Greenville County,
sc.
The five hundred lords OF England
have an average income Of 100000
each. Their united income is about
S75, 100000.
WYANDoTTE, Kas., has a ghost that
drives people out of their houses at
midnight. He simply tells them to va
cate and they go.
PHILADELPHIA merchants are dis
cussing the project OF having stationed
at the port a training ship for boys,
conducted as is the st. Mary's at New
York.
A BOILER inspector in Mobile has
been omitted from the salary list. He
carries gold-headed cane as an evil
dence of his popularity among steam
boat men.-New Orleans Picayune.
THE working people in Columbus,
Ga, reckon from the settling days of
the factories; thus baby Is described
as 1.-TWO settings old the coming set
tling." Settling day comes once a
fortnight.
AN experienced Georgia balliff was
sent the other day to arrest one George
Flewellyn, alias Brown. He returned
with F'lewellyn, but reported that
Alias Brown had escaped him and fled
to Alabama.
A WESTERN lecturer recently adver-
tised a lecture for ladies over 25 years
of age. The lecturer was promptly on
hand, but the audience consisted OF
only one person-the lecturers aged
grandmother.
A PROMINENT physician OF Athens,
who has had many cases OF sore throat
lately, made an investis sation and
found nearly every one OF them was
caused by cigarette smoking.-Savan-
nah (Ga.) News.
A GOOD collector, says a Georgia
contemporary, must be patient as a
post, cheerful as a duck, sociable as a
flea, bold as a lion, cunning as a fox,
weatherproof as rubber and as watch
ful as a sparrow-hawk.
A WESTERN paper says 1--WE are liv-
ing in q half-fedged civilization" Yes.
But hope lives in the fact that we
know it. A recognition OF evil is to
abolish it. And what is evil? Simply
Observation-Disclosures Times.
FROM having a population OF six
thousand, and the reputation OF being
the liveliest town in the state, BOdie,
Cal, has become in less than five
years n neglected village with little
more than five hundred inhabitants.
THE penny is not in circulation at
Atlanta, Ga. a prominent business
man of that city, says that the mer-
chants are opposed TO its introduc-
ton there, because they would then
have to sell for cents what now
brings a nickel.
THE Journal says that almost in
side the corporate limits OF Albnquer-
que, New Mexico, and within hearing
of the steam whistles OF the machine
shops, men still thrash wheat by driv-
ing goats over it and hull beans by
beating them with sticks.
THE equipments of the fashionable
''autumn hotel" at Long Branch are
open fireplaces, tiling, rugs, beautiful
hangings, wax candles, embroidered
bedspreads, decorated waste-baskets,
and other articles, considered by the
visitors "simply beautiful"
On an original map OF the world, by
which Alexander VI. divided the dis
coveries between Spain and Portugal,
and which is now in the possession OF
the Vatican, all the present United
States form a blank space marked
''Tera de Baccalaos," or, The Land OF
Goldfish.
A FARMERS wife atNOrthport, Long
Island, was making soap under a pear
tree, when a pear fell into a pail OF
potash, splashing some ofthe contents
over herface, neck and hands, destroy
ing the sight of both eyes and burning
her so severely that her physician
has no hopes for her life.
In the garden of residence on the
banks of the Delaware, near Chester,
a ships yawl has been set upright,
painted red and turned into q flower
holder. Living blossoms and foliage
plants fill it from stem to stern and
climb its mast and twine about the
rigging.
SINCE one OF the Lowell corpora
tions made it optional with their en-
'ployes to receive their pay weekly or
monthly, the number asking for week
ly payment has been only a small
proportion of the list of workers, and
has steadily diminished since the first
month.-Lawrence (Mass.) american.
A YOUNG man in CoIusa County, says
the Chico (Cal) Record, shot himself a
year ago because a young woman re-
fused to marry him. The girl said ne
was a fool, but the boy recovered.
y . /, I'll = tal
eide because the boy refused to marry
her The world changes, and so do
boys and girls.
THE Mansfield correspondent to the
WillimantiC Chronicle says: civilian
f. Fenner lost a COW lately by eating
too many apples" 1t is to be expect
ed that Mr. Fenner, under the cirCum-
stances, will give up eating apples, or,
if he persists in eating them will give
up keep % a cow.-NeW London
Comm Day.
THE general statutes of Massachu-
sets provide that any woman can
vote for school committees who IS 21
years of age, has resided within the
state one year. and within the city or
town with which she claims a right to
vote six months next preceding any
election, and who has. paid by herself,
her parent, guardian, or trustee a
state, county, city, or town tax as
sessed upon her or her trustee in the
state within two years next preceding
such election.-BOstOn transcript
THE Paris American Register says
the cleaning OF the windows in the new
Vienna City hall is no sinecure. That
building contains 4, 200 windows, with
full panes and 500 stained windows,
making a superfcies Of 22,1OO square
meters, and entailing upon the munic-
ipal authorities an annual expenditure
OF 10000 florins. 1t has been found
more profitable to increase the per-
sonnel sufficient so as to dispense
with outside aid in the window clean
ing process and yet to make saving
OF 2,7OO flOrins.
ABOsToNIAN built two houses sideby