The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Sltltt SNdNS kJLISOA anu LOU patients III
the state insane asylum
a ROUGH statue of a man wearing
tall hat and bearing the date 1910
was found recently in the ruins of the
old fort at Pemaquid, Me.
A GLASS bedstead has been made at
a Birmingham, Eng, factory for a
Calcutta millionaire. 1t is of solid
glass, the legs, rails, etc, bling richly
cut. The King OF Burmah also has
one.
SUCHgreat manufacturers as Krupp,
| WhitWorth, Armstrong and Hotchkiss
! have to send to America for all their
| screw-bar wrencheS. About eighty
thousand dozen are exported to Eu-
rope annually.
BISHOP CLAwsON is Of the opinion
that California ought to reach out
| helping hand to the Mormons and in
vite them to come there. The invita-
tion that he suggests might be extend
ed by the Legislature.
ONE who knows from experience says
that if people will drink buttermilk
''crow's feet" and wrinkles will be
| kept in allegiance. Buttermilk Is a re-
| freshing drink, and as its beautifying
| qualities are vouched for, it ought to
become popular.
THOMAS STEVENS, who traversed
America on bicycle tower around the
| world, and has now crossed Europe,
writes that thegood country roads are
the exception in this country, but
| common in the parts of the Old World
through which he has passed.
| UNIQUE and curious panels are made
| by linking etched plates and then tax
ing the impression by covering them
with liquid plaster of Paris. The INK
is transferred to the plaster as per-
fectly as if it were carefully painted.
These panels may be framed.
FRENCH railways annually kill one
| passenger in every 100000 carried;
| English railways one in every q, ,5OO,-
600. Frenchrailways annually wound
one passenger in every SOC, 900 carried;
English one in $50, 900; Belgian one in
| l, ,650,000, and Prussian one in A.
| 100000.
BY an automatic tea or coffee pot
devised by Messrs Malen and Deglise
and used by the French army, 1t is I'M
| possible to obtain a drop of coffee un-
less the water is boiling. The water is
underneath the coffee, but when it boils
| it rises up through a central tube and
| falls over the coffee or tea, percolates,
goes down to the lower part of the APP
paratus, IS warmed again, and once
more travels upward.
OK the 7th OF May, NJ. Dareste hung
up an egg in q little bag, lying on its
side, and marked the upper part ofthe
| shell with a little X. The 7th Of June
| he let the egg down, still inclOsed in
the bag, into a saucepan of boiling
water. When hard, he cut the egg
open. The yolk he found adhering to
| the membrane, not of the lower, but
| OF the upper shell, and thus was dis
proved the common belief that the
yolk was heavier than the white, or
! albumen.
ALL infants and young children
would die in a very few weeks if not
| allowed to eat anything containing
| sugar, because they need the carbon
| of the sugar to keep them warm, their
| extravagant. Their Observation-Disclosures
| for every thing sweet is a wise instinct
of nature. If candies were used as
desserts in winter, and fruits and ber
ries, in their natural state, ripe, raw
and perfect in summer, to the exclu-
sion of pies, tarts, pastries and pud-
| dings human life would beextended.
ROLLED gold is made by casting an
| ingot of brass, and while this is still
hot pouring upon it thin layer of
gold alloy. The ingot when cold is
forced between steel rollers until
long, thin ribbon is produced, of which
the proportion of gold and brass is the
same as of the ingOt. The percentage
| OF gold is reduced as low as two or
| three per cent. This rolled gold is
| used in making cheap bracelets and
watch chains, and costs but little more
| than brass. 1t wears from one to ten
| years.
THE velocity of light has been deter
mined by an arrangement adopted by
Fizeau, consisting of tOothed wheel
which may be made to revOlve with
great rapidity. A ray OF light is made
| to pass through one of the intervals
between the teeth, and to fall upon q
| rejecting mirror placed at a distance
in such manner that when the wheel
is at rest the ray will be reflected back
through the same interval.
AN exchange says that a every pret-
| ty cover for a milking stool is made OF
gOlden-brown silk serge, with a con-
ventionalized apple blossom in shaded
| pink with the stamens in gold silk be-
| tween the petals" We now under
stand why milk is sadulterated. With
out admixture of water, no mllkman
could afford to sport a silk milking
stool, with cOnventionalized apple
blossoms TTansCTDt.
"SEE here, "growled a Brooklyn resi-
dent as the milkman drove up, 81
don't want any more OF your milk"
| 'FWhat is the matter with 1t p ''lt
isn't pure" "How do you know?"
at has tasted like brass the past few
days" as that SOP" Well, | know
what caused it. My best COW swal-
| lowed a book agent last week, and :"
| But the customer was so mad he
! banged the door with such force that
it soured all the lacteal fluid in the
milkman's wagOn.-ExChaHge
A sEA-GIRT letter to the Philadelphia
! News says: "a kiss came near costing
a young Philadelphia girl her life one
! afternoon this week. She went to the
station to see some friends off. just
as the train was starting she kissed
one Of her friends who was leaning out
Of the window. While performing the
osculation feat her hat fell off and
rolled near the wheels. The young
lady stopped and picked it up. AS
she did so her head came in contact
with the lower step at the rear end of
the car. Shewas thrown to the ground
and came near being drawn under the
wheels. She was luckily snatched
away just in time. 1t was avery close
call" +"
s'THE leaves OF a Glove branch re-
semble those OF a peach, and the
cloves come in clusters on little green
twigs They are not the fruit OF the
tree, but the undeveioped flower, the
stem being the calyx, and the head
the unblown corolla The strength