The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-04-24

statue.
A CABIN on Western prairie is bet.
ter than q castle in Spain. New York
Herald.
The mining men OF Butte CITY, NJ.
t., have presented Senator Beck with
bril- K Of pure silver in recognition of
his sp -ech in favor OF free coinage.
In Michigan there Is a new factory
Tor q new purpose-to make substi-
tute for whalebone out of the quilts OF
geese and turkeys.
NEWBURYPORT woman was awak-
ened by the glare OF the great fire and
mstaking 1t for sunrise glow remarked
that it would be a warm day, and
turned over and went to sleep again.
WOMEN are liable to make mistakes,
but the one hasn't been borne vet who
would mistake a plush sack for a seal
SKIN If her neighbor had it on.-New
Haven News.
The estimates OF the Canadian gov
eminent for the fiscal year 1886
amount to $38, 500. This is a re-
ductlon from those OF the current year
of about $9,00O,0OO.
MEXICANs have a passion for mir
rors, and Traveller says that the 10
teriors OF some OF the city houses look
like steamboat cabins. He remarks
also that mirrors are among the COM
monest articles in the pawnshops
there.
LIME cartridges are coming int o use
Tor blasting pucpO Ses. A holeis bored
the lime cartridge inserted, and water
Is poured over it. The increase in vol
nme OF the slack limesplits and cracks
thu substance which it is desirr d to
blast.
MAN likes his newspaper t o be served
warm, like pancakes. The Boston
Transcript notices that no matter how
interested he may be in il, she will
throw it down with a spiteful slat the
moment he discovers it Is yesterd ny s
issue"
The massive iron chest in which the
manuscript of the Doomsday book
was formerly kept is still preserved in
the British Office OF public records,
and 1t will be an object OF curiosity at
| the coming of the 800th doomsday
anniversary.
MONTREAL is preparing to meet the
spring flood on the st. Lawrence. The
sewers, which have been the CHIEF
cause OF trouble in the past, have been
| damned, and series of pumps have
been arranged to draw off the sewerage
| when 1t becomes necessary.
A WATER tunnel 5000 feet in length
was completed recently at Riverside
Cal. The work was such skillful piece
OF engineering that when the two forces
working from oppO ends of the tun,
mel met there was not one-fourth of an
inch difference in the two divisions.
A FIRM OF Connel ticut cigar manu-
| facturers, who have been underselline
rivals, explain that the use OF cheaI
tobacco In the mouth end of a cigar i;
the secret Of it all. They claim that
the smoker throws the cigar away be
fore the fire has reached the poor to
| bacco.
THE prairie. dogs which have will
age at the Philadelphia 800" got into
a terrible fight, and two CT them were
killed being literally torn to pieces
There are about fifty of them in thu
village, and they divide into faction.
and engage in fights until one side o.
the other succumbs.
A MEDICAL lecturer in New York sug
gested that the great remedy for tn,
ravages of excessive heat in cities i
the planting of trees. He proposed
that shade-trees should beplanted on,
to every twenty-five feet in all tn,
streets and avenues below Contra
Park.
THE annual exodus of French Cana
dams to the brick-felds of the United
States has commenced. For severa
weeks from $50 to 200 have left Mon
treal daily. They will return home il
the fall The spring immigration from
the old country has set in, and larg
arrivals from Englad and Scotland ar
noted in the Montreal papers.
STUDENT-"Well, we treated the pa
tient in the most approved way.
Doctor ?" Student "Well
: we put him on milk diet; then he wa
put on wine; then we put him on tn
electrical treatment, then we put hin
on quinine, and now" Doctor
; 'You will put him on ice."-Hote
Mail
A PENNSYLVANIA lady raised fami
ly of twenty four boys. i thirteen wer
in the Union Army and one in the Con
federate. Eleven out OF the thirteel
were killed on the field of battle, ant
the one in the Confederate Army ha
not been heard from. Two out O
; thirteen returned home, and one O
them has applied for pension.
THE Bancroft rose is a new Amer
can product, which owes its being t
George Bancroft, the historian, Il
whose garden in Washington City /
originated. 1t is described as a Won
derful flower, dark pink in color, sun
, passing the Jacqueminet in its e
forscent richness. Mr.. Bancroft call
it the american Beauty" and thu
far it has been growing only in WASH
ington.
, IT is now claimed that the chlorc
phyll, or green coloring substance {
leaves, is most liable to pick up MT
tallic matter absorbed by the roots
o plants. When vines have been treat
: ed with sulphate of copper, most
the metal is deposited on the leaves
y hardly trace appearing the juice
: the grapes. The leaves contain niue
n iron, and this is due doubtless to tf
:. nature of soil.
j "IT's a curious fact" said the col
: ductor, chat Friday is the llghtes
l. day of the week for travel. I've M
) ticed it for years. | suppose it's b
K cause so many people have supe
Il stition about the evil influence OF ths
: day. The effect is particularly motto
l. able on local travel, where there woul
|, seem % be no other explainable re-
l. son except popular superstition" -
It Baltimore Herald.
|. A CORRESPONDENT sends in the &c
u lowing: Mrs. A, Mrs. H. and Mrs. K
aud their daughters, bought cloth ar
laces. The purchase was IN yard
:, ard each person paid as many cen
- Der ward as they bought yards. Eat
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