The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-07-17
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CANADA has 534 newspapers.

CANADA has 534 newspapers.
IN Philadelphia there is one licensed
drinking saloon to every twenty nine
voters.
THERE is more undeveloped land in
the state of Maine than in any West
ern state.
A CITIZEN OF Allendale, S. c., 81
years old, has Just begun cutting new
set of teeth.
A GEORGIA editor has a rose bush
producinga stem of this years growth
containing about ninety roses and
buds.
AN immense turtle was caught in
lake near Pekin, Ill. On the creatures
shell was found the following inscrip-
ton: -. NJ, Havana, 1870"
THE 11-year-old daughter of An
drew Rosemer, of Louisville, has lust
died after matching herself against
some playmates at jumping rope.
WAGES in the mines in the Black
Hills range from 81 so to $5 day,
and are regulated by the amount and
character of the work performed.
ToRNADoEs have so scared the citi-
zens of Meridian, H., that they talk of
building huge 'cyclone cellar" where
the whole town can take refuge when d
wind storm comes along.
IN the Peshawur Cemetery in India
is the following epitaph: Sacred to
the memory OF the Rev. -, mission
ary, aged -, murdered 10y his chow
kidar. We'll done, thou good and
faithful servant
LARGE flocks OF beautiful plumaged
birds have recently gone to Arizona
which have been strangers there be-
fore. 1t is said that they came from
Florida and other Southern states,
arriving in the southern part OF the
territory shortly after the cold spell
in the former places last winter.
A LONDON newspaper man recently
dressed himself in blue and gold livery
with pair of green spectacles, and
appeared with the clown at circus
performance given before the Queen.
He wanted to report to his paper how
her majesty looked when the clown
got off one OF his old Jokes.
THE boys at Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy, New Hampshire, took a pro-
fessor's horse up into his sleeping
room. In the morning all the boys
condoled with him and wanted TO find
the perpetrators. Everybody knows
what becomes of the perpetrators in
such q case.
THE marshal OF Baltimore, at the
request OF the grand jury, has issued
instructions to the police force TO no.
tify all dealers in tobacco, whether in
cigar stores, drug stores or hotels,
that if they are hereafter found selling
on Sunday they will be liable to prose
cution.
DEvIzEs CASTLE, in Wiltshire, En-
gland, which for several centuries
formed part OF the dowry OF the
queens of England, will shortly come
under the auctioneer's hammer if not
disposed of soon at private sale. The
original structure of the castle was
built by Roger, bishop of Salisbury
and councillor and treasurer of King
Henry /.
A Woodruff, H., barber shop was
changed to a saloon. An absent
minded preacher who was one of the
BARRIERS regular customers dropped
in, and seeing a crowd ahead OF him
sat down to wait his turn. The men
at the bar, thinking that the preacher
had come to learn their names, fled in
dismay. Then the good man discov-
cred his error and quickly left.
SOME OF our New England villages
are rapidly losing their lovely and
picturesque features and will soon
look as stiff and mathematical as geo.
metric figures. The Improvement"
societies have been let loose, and are
relentlessly chopping down trees,
squaring curves, and relieving the
landscape of the beauties of nature
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead.
\ PECULIAR freak OF nature is pre-
sented IN the result that attended the
experiment of stocking Lake Ontario
with shad seven years ago. Millions
OF them were Matched, but they were
dwarfs. None of them grew to over
inches long and they are not fit to eat.
They increase rapidly and have be-
come choice morsel of food for the
pickerel and bass.-Niagara Falls
Courier.