The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-07-10
FROM ALL SOURCES.

a NEW 1Ohh uluiLS- IOOul Is lldIIlel
after Tweed.
In the Arctic region there are 762
kinds of flowers.
AN Anglo American bar has been
opened in Berlin.
HIGHLAND COUNTY, Ohio, has a
Folsom" post-ottice.
A FIRM in New York sells boots for
dogs that have sore feet.
A MULE died OF hydrophobia in
| Houston, Tex, last week.
MEMS corsets are constantly kept on
| hand for sale by Gotham tailors.
A New YORK teacher has been fined
twenty days pay for thrashing boy.
THE daily newspapers published in.
the United States now number over
1900.
MORMON proselytes are having con-
siderable success in Victoria County,
Canada.
refuses to employ married ladies as
| teachers.
A POPLAR tree in Wilkes County,
Ga, measures twenty seven feet IN
circumference.
FORTY SEVEN flats are said to be for
rent in Paris. They would accommo-
date 100000 people.
MANY of the medals of the Canadian
volunteers have been found In the
pawnshops OF Montreal.
SCHOOL property IN the South is
valued at $4,000, 100000, against
$SS, 100000 in the North.
| I>-+ Lal lot Of ha Sxra 10 oft IF
the world, st. Petersburg stands last,
and Paris is not included.
A SEWING machine which is held in
the hands and operated like pair OF
scissors has been patented.
THE sheep-raisers in North Callfor-
MIA are complaining OF the ravages OF
wolves and wildcats among their
sheep.
THE docie donkey hitched to low
two-wheeled cart will form a promi-
nent feature at the summer resorts
this year.
THE prison labor problem has been
narrowed down by the New York COM
mission to the state contract or the
piece-price plan.
The timber raft now being built in
Halifax and destined for New York Is
nearly done. 1t will be 41O feet long,
so feet wide and 80 feet deep.
A TEXAS paper describes q recent
rainstorm as "a regular root-soaker
and gulley washer" The yernacular
OF the Lone Star State is expressive.
BJoRNsTJERNE BJoRNsoN has broken
up his nest in Paris and gone for a
long stay in the Norwegian mount
aims.
DIDN'T bother him. Lecturer
will pause until that young man in the
back OF the hall stops whispering"
Young man cordially i" Go right on;
you are not bothering me-"
THE Congress to be chosen next fall
will be the tiftieth, and will complete
the century under the present consti-
tuition. The first Congress convened
March 4, 1889.
A FARMER living near Tiffin, O.,
found one of his valuable steers dead,
hanging with its head caught between
two branches of a Eastwood sapllng on
q hillside on his farm.
EVERY member of the Los Angeles,
Cal, Woman's Temperance Christian
Union has signed pledge to abstain
ITOm uSlIS VI OuclI WlllSS
or plumage for ornaments.
SENATOR STANFORD has q portrait OF
himself painted by Meissonier when
the senator was in Paris a few years
since. The price paid for it was $1O,-
900.
A LOT of colored people living near
Live Oak, Fla, are herborlng and con-
cealing negro murderer, whom they
are said to contemplate surrenderlng
just as soon as a reward is offered.
The cattle ranges in Montana, if
the Helena Independent may be be-
lieved, are rapidly becoming over
crowded. The cattlemen are loudly
demanding the opening of the Indian
reservations.
WHAT is claimed to be an original
water color portrait of Washington,
painted on ivory in 1856 by J. Lacon,
owned in Springfield, Mass, is offered
to the government for the modest little
sum of $25O,OOO.
JUST as England has the headache
over the Home Rule business, Paris
goes to the ''grand charity amateur
circus performance, given by the
Duchess d Uzes, in which live mobiles
dlSpOrt on the trapeze.
| A SMALL girl tried to tell of the
preparation OF little German Luther
an friend who was getting ready for
confirmation. LENA is going to study
hard in the Bible all winter" she said,
and then she is going to be crucified in
the spring. ."-BostOn Record.
THE American Yacht Club gives Col.
Glider it's flag to be taken on his Arctic
expedition and planted at the North
Pole And the chances are that, If
that flag is not lost, Col. Glider will
} some day wish it were made OF leather
so that it would relieve his hunger.
CRYsTALLIZED violets at So pound
are the very latest things in confec-
tionery Candied rose leaves are also
very popular. Girls like to eat flowers
and will pay as high as $40 a pound
for some OF the more expensive kinds.
They are all brought from France.
AN albino baby was born recently
at Harrisburg, Pa. 1t has shapely
little head, luxuriously covered with
hair as white as snow, OF fine texture,
and softer than silk, and the indica-
tions are that it will have similar eye
brows The eyelashes are long and
white, and beneath them are pink eyes
of wonderfully brilliancy.
MANY years ago resident OF Yaki-
ma, Washington Territory, planted
six hundred $50 gold pieces in a stone
lar at the foot of q tree in that place.
, 1t had been buried so long that roots
as large rs a mans wrist had grown
over the jar. He LETT for the East q
few days ago, but before going dug up
|, the Jar and carried off the coin.
, THE London Electrician is the au
thority for new and easy method OF
relieving the toothache. 1t says that
! if thin plate OF zinc be placed on one
side OF the gum and silver coin on
the other side, with the aching tooth
between them, and then the edges OF
the metals brought together, a weak
, galvanic current will be established
- 4 L.