The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
From ALL SOURCES.

IT is suggested that Senator Jones
might well submit his Detroit trouble
to arbitration.
| VICTOR HUGO left ten volumes of
poetry, plays, and romances for post
| humous publication.
| A SON of Thomas Mast, the artist, is
| studying chemistry and learning some
| thing about hard work as an employe
at the Assay Office, New York.
THE Dublin, Ca, Post has a cat
which never thinks about catchingo one
rat at 6 time; it always waits for an
opportunity to catch two.
AN Ohio young woman has lust
started for Dakota to take charge OF
a 325 acre farm which she has taken
up under the culture act.
RHODE ISLAND is generally consid-
cred ''pocket borough" but it con-
tains 9 6,216 farms averaging 103 acres
each, having totalvalue OF $26, $685.
079.
A SACRAMENTO (Cal. man was saved
from drowning by his moustache.
Whan he arose for the last time
friend grabbed the mousta ache and
pulled him ashore
NEVADA citizens are agitated over
the question as to the legality of bible
reading in schools. The attorney gen.
eral has been called upon to decide the
controversy.
THERE is a law in Massachusetts
which enacts that any person selling
short Holsters shall be fined So. Short
Holsters are those that are ten inches
In length or less.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer calls for
the admission together OF all the ter
ritories Washington, Idaho, Monta-
ma, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wy
oming and Dakota.
! CINCINNATI talks about opening the
public library Sundays. In the moral
aspect of the case it is at least true that
the theaters in full blast would keep
the open library in countenance.
| A BOY Ii years old was found In
| charge of the boilers and engine-room
in Brooklyn manufacturing estab-
| lishment employing over one hundred
hands by the boiler Inspector OF that
city.
THE political indictments against
| Royal A. Johnson, ex-surveyor general
| of Arizona, charged with violating the
| civil service act in contributing for
campaign purposes have been nolle
pressed.
A FRESNO, Cal, lawyer was fined
| $50 recently for telling the Judge that
he was going home to bed instead OF
being in court when the jury brought
| in a verdict in case where he ap-
peared as counsel.
| A NORMAL institute will be held at
the State Normal School for Women,
in Farmville, Va, to continue four
weeks from June 7. There will be no
charge for tuition; board and washing
will cost $12 for the term.
THE New York Morning Journal says
that Katie Stokes, the pretty bare
back rider, who was the charm OF the
circus ring few years ago, will bring
suit against John Stetson, the theatre
cal manager, for breach OF promise,
claiming $4,000 damages.
SQUIRE WHITE, who died at Quine-
baug Conn, last week, at the age OF
! SO, was one of tAe active persons OF
the famous Dorr rebellion, OF 1S42,
when Thomas w. Dorr undertook to
seize the government of Rhode Island.
Mrs. REBECCA LILLEY, who died in
Dyer Brook, Me-, recently, aged SO
years 8 months, was the mother OF
thirteen children, grandmother OF
ninety-five, and great-grandmother OF
eighty-nine.
The Rev. J. c. C. Clarke, of Shurtleff
College, Upper Alton, ILL.,, las pre-
sented to the University of Rochester,
n. Y, Bible once owned by DR.. John
Clarke, the first Baptist pastor in
America. The Bible is the Geneva
version, published in 1903.
A 16-YEAR-OLD young man, heir to
a large English estate, has arrived IN
the Red River Valley consigned to q
large farmer by his guardian, who pays
the farmer $50 besides his services for
instruction in Dakota farming for one
year.
In the camp at Yogo, Montana, a
colored woman named MilIie Ringgold
has quite a reputation as prospect
or. She spends most OF her time In
the mountains, and handles the pick
and shovel with as much vigor and
dexterity as man.
A BADGE OF white silk was seen upon
the coat of a Raleigh colored youth.
On one side was arude sketch OF bar
rel, and underneath this inscription:
"Moe Whisky and Betr." On the
other side was another barrel and the
words: "Whisky Mo and Puer."
SAID the lady visitor to the 2-year-
old boy baby, "You love me, don't
you, Johnny? ?" Johnny looked into
her face for amoment, and then turned
away with an expression OF WEAKNESS
upon his features, with the remark,
80, don't be so fresh ~
A GENUINE Albino was exhibited to
the Oneida County Medical Society at
Utica, recently in the person OF To-
year-old boy with perfectly white hair
and clear red eyes. -Four other chill
dren Of the family, as well as their
parents, are perfectly normal.
By the carelessness OF the pressman,
saws the San Franciscan, the music on
the fourteenth page was printed up
side down, and the mistake was dis
covered too late to reprint the edition.
Our musical readers have the option
OF standing on their heads or turning
the page over when they want to play
the piece.
IL Surrey County, n. c., is q pecul-
iarly formed mountain that much re-
sembles the figure of q a lion. IL Is
designated the "Pilot Knobe." The
head is OF solid rock and has an alti-
tude OF several hundred feet. The
breast and shoulders are finely pro-
portioned, and at distance it looks
| ike an animated object. 1t can be
seen fifty miles away
WHEN a man kills milk snake in
| his spring house, three water snakes
in his duck pond, and big black
snake in his back meadow, and sur
prises a toad in the ' cry act OF being
introduced into the nav OF another
black snake not 10 rods from his
| kitchen door, all on the 18th of April,
it is tolerable good evidence, says q
Pennsylvania philosopher that the
gentle spring is with us.