The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-01
FROM ALL SOURCES.

| five guards on duty every night.
TWENTY Y-FoUR tons OF snuff were re-
| Gently thrown into Dublin Bay for
non-payment OF duty.
A WOMAN at Easton, Pa, who is "a
years old, has had four husbands in a
married life of ten years.
| IT is estimated that about two hun
| dred passengers arrive at San Fran
cisco daily from the East.
Col. BATTERsBY estimates the trade
value OF the bridle-bits of the country
at more than 6,500,000.
STRANGERS complain that they are
not treated with ordinary civility at
many New York churches.
Four couples at Westmoreland, Pa,
took out licenses and performed the
prescribed marriage ceremony for
themselves.
To a four-wheeled red wagon San
Francisco boy harnesses two large
goats for wheelers, with two Newfound-
land dogs as leaders.
A COUPLE OF Tulare County (Califor-
MAJ farmers are negotiating for 200,-
600 sacks for usein the coming harvest
in their own grain fields.
IT helps one to appreciate the value
OF political nomenclature to recall the
circumstances that Alderman Jaehne,
was elected on the ''reform" ticket.
SUGAR cultivation has been initiated
in Southern Florida. Over two hun
dred acres have been prepared for the
| planting OF the cane near klsslmmee
City, where a sugar factory will be
erected.
A Gent A MILE" fare bill has passed
the New Jersey House, providing for
fares on all railways within 90 miles
of New York at that rate between the
hours OF five and seven, morning and
evening.
Mrs. JOHN WATKINS of Almena,
Mich, dreaming the other night, kicked
violently as she dreamed, and when
her husbands shouts woke her she
found she had broken several bones in
one OF his feet.
THE largest plate glass window in
this country was put up IN Broadway,
New York, few days ago. 1t is pure
French plate, thirteen feet eleven inches
in height, eight feet four inches wide,
and one and a half inches thick.
THERE is a deaf man in Macon who
never ceases to smile. "Why do you
smile ?" somebody asked of him. "Oh,
because, | can't hear all the foolish
things that people say" was thereby.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
THE New YORK papers announce
the payment of $4,000 in that
city for single painting, and
also acknowledge the receipt of $1.49
from Michigan Sunday school to aid
in building the Grant monument.
AN OK was recently killed near
Eureka, Humboldt County, Cal, and
in its stomach was found over hall
a pound of two-penny finishing nails.
They were worn smooth and bright by
the action of the acids of the stom-
ach.
THE Royal Irish Academy OF Music
holds an annual examination and re-
wards exceptional skill with valuable
prizes. At the recent examination
awards were made for singing, harmo-
ny, playing at sight, violin and violon-
cello playing.
| GAMBETTA's s new monument in Paris
comprises pyramid on which is raised
a group in bronze representing "Le
Trlomphe de la Democrat" 1t is to
be given over by its makers to the peo
pie OF Paris on the French Fourth OF
July {, uly 14), next year.
WHEN, three years ago, two lakes i'll
Lyme, Conn, were stocked with black
bass they swarmed with perch and
pickerel. The bass have been pro-
tected by law and have increased large
ly, but the perch and pickerel have en-
tirely disappeared.
A NEW theory, propounded by M
Ludovic Breton, as to the formation
OF coal is that it is produced by the
sinking OF floating islands like
those which now occur on many
lakes and rivers. These islands
are composed chiefly OF turf, which,
being swallowed up by the water, be-
come fossilized at the bottom.
A BANGOR newspaper says that SO
many fortunes were made by Bar
Harbor (Mt. DESERT real estatesPecu-
lators that many OF the adjoining ISL
ands and part OF the sea coast are
being bought up by capitalists in the
hope that some day the spots will be
in demand as summer resorts.
GEORGE GERsTLEY, of Norristown,
Pa, was "gormandizer, and fell a
victim to his own uncomfortable ap-
petite, dying few days ago from in
digestion. On one occasion he de-
voured five pounds OF beef, with side
dish accomplishments, not as a feat,
but because his insatiate appetite
craved it.
THE Texas & Pacific bridge over the
Trinity River at Dallas, Tex, is 80 feet
above the water level. A negro walk
ing across the bridge recently was
overtaken by train and so scared
that he jumped from the bridge, went
plumb down into the water, and after
half a minute arose and swan ashore
unhurt.
An illicit distilery near Gainesville,
Ga, which for six years has escaped
detection, has been discovered and
raided. The proprietor had damned
a small creek, ostensibly to make a
fish pond, and under the dam he
placed his distillery, with tunnels for
ipgress and egress. The smoke was
conveyed to his house and passed out
through the kitchen chimney.
AMOS BONsALL, one of Kane's eI
plorers with the Advance, still lives in
Philadelphia, where he is widely known
for his interest in city charities, being
on the board OF trustees OF the House
OF Refuge and other eleemosynary in
stitutions. He is gentleman OF
quiet ways and tastes, OF middle age
and well preserved, and to look at
him one would never suspect his early
life was coupled with an Arctic adven-
ture which made every participant "a
nous in greater or less degree.
AT canvass held in mining dig-
trict, Hibernian cried out vociferous-
": 81 nominate John O'Rourke for
wan o. thin thingsi" (referring to
some minor position on the ward
ticket 10 be voted for at the charter
electionl zone OF what ?" inquired
the president. "Oh, wan O. thin
things yer maxim" "Who is John
/ O'Rourke?" asked a gentleman, stand
ING near. fPye been in this neighbor-