The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-13


register before the first of Jsnnary
lose the right OF suffrage for the ensuiDe
year.
THE only signal service stationin the
country that uses electric lights for
storm signals is the one stationed at
Boston
1T Is SAID that pearl-divers are among
the healthlest OF men, Notwithstanding
lhe constant strain upon their respira-
tory organs
PROF. BAIRD says that a fair esti
mate OF the annual product of the
American fisheries would not fall short
OF Sl0O,OG0,OOO.
1T Is reported that an effort is to be
made for the return of the Chinese to
Eureka, Cal, whence they were elected
nearly year ago.
GIRLS II you want red cheeks. rub
them with snow" says a writer.
Don't you do it, girls. Rub them with
mustache; 1t gives liYeIier color.
HALE COUNTY, Ala, gave over ST.
QUO to educate negro children last
year, and about $4,000 for the edu-
cation OF white children.
MINING enterprises employ $780,
Ooo,OO capital in the United States
and produce over $500, 600, 900 worth
OF metal.
A POUND Of coal will evaporate ten
pounds of water only, while a mound
OF creosote llquetied by steam will
evaporate thirteen pounds.
SIX thousand loads of snow were
collected in New York, mainly in
Broadway, directly after the storm.
and dumped into the rivers.
A srREET-CAR brings the haughtiest
man down to a common level. Par
tlcularly If it starts suddenly, before
the naughty one has had time to pick
out his seat.
THERE is an association in Paris
whose object is to help drunkards
home at night. If the patient is too
drunk to give his address, the club
looks out for him till he can.
ATLANTA considers herself the most
important fire insurance center in the
South. Seven companies maintain
general departments there. Nearly
5000 agents report to them.
A BANK clerk in Westfield, Mass, has
ridden 5,O56 miles on his bicycle,
measured by a cyclometer, during the
past six months, and challenges any
one to produce an equal record.
CONNECTICUT's returns show 1869
men liable to military duty in that
state, and the Communication tax of the
state this year will considerably ex-
coed the entire military expenditure.
A GREAT number of sea CLAIMS, torn
from their ocean beds and thrown
ashore by the late storm, line the
beach at Ocean Beach, n. j. In some
PAGES they lie IN heaps two feet high.
TWENTY years ago bankrupt Ken
tuckian settled on a small island of the
Bahama group. He allowed neither
women nor whisky on his island and
consequently is now very rich.-Troy
Press
Pig IRON is made in 20 states, and
Georgia IS the fourteenth state in rank
Her product In 1884 was 1868 tons,
or about 3, 700 tons less than the prod
uct OF the previous year tlanta
Constitution.
"TONiMY," said a San Antonio
mother TO her little boy, "your uncle
will be here to dinner today and you
must have your face washed" Yes,
ma, but s'pOsin he don't come. What
then ?"-Texas Siftings.
THERE Is a steady growth in the use
of the trawl, by our fishermen on the
Newfoundland banks and so greatly
has this implement been enlarged and
perfected that some schOOners now
set as much as fourteen miles of trawl
at one time, with twelve or fourteen
thousand hooks.
PRETTY shaving paper holders are
made OF broad faille ribbon with some
pretty design painted or embroidered
upon them. japanese paper is then
securely fastened in the silk cover,
and a silk cord is fastened upon the
case by which it is suspended.
A PASSENGER on train from Allan
ia, Ga, the other day, while counting
his money, dropped his pocketbook.
He had the train stopped and secured
the book, but vas left by the con-
ductor to spend half day waiting
for another train. There was IS
cents in the pocketbook.
AN exchange says the latest style in
photographs for dudes is to have them
taken with the overcoat and hat on.
That's all right, BUTT isn't every dude
that can raise enough money to get his
overcoat "out.' Unless, possibly, he
cheats" the photographer out OF his
harge-Yonkers Sta tesmap.
On the first day of January, 1885,
a contribution box was placed In the
IL
cony,ersatlon-room OF the Working
Mems Institute, at Melville, n. j., the
object being to raise $500 to place a
town clock in the belfry. The other
day the box was opened, and was
found to contain exactly l 5 cents.