The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-10-23
FROM ALL SOURCES.

THE London suburbs are crowded
with unlet houses and shops.
A DRUNKEN man at Canadian
camp meeting bet $5 that he'd go on
the platform and sit through the serv-
ices between two ministers. He won.
A FRENCH quadroon in New Orleans
named Antoine Luton is said to be the
richest colored man in this country.
His wealth Is estimated at over ST.
| 100000.
WORK on the Calhoun monument in
| Charleston is progressing despite the
earthquake, and the fourth course OF
| the granite base is almost ready to be
| placed in position.
| AT the present moment, so says an
English paper, fortune telling is one OF
the most fourishing systems OF impos-
ture in that country, and there IS
scarcely town or village without its
resident or visiting cheat OF this de-
scription.
A BIG bird with head and face like an
| ape, with bulging eyes surrounded
| by a fringe Of gray hair, and with ears
| like a mans, save that they are COW
! cred with fine gray hair, was captured
| in Fort Wayne the other day, and
crowds visit it daily.
BUTTER takes nothing from the soil
| that affects it's fertilization as do
crops of cereals. 1t is almost wholly
carbon, which is derived by the plants
| from the air. Butter, though some
| times high in price, is really produced
| from the cheapest element known.
DR.. ANDRES estimates that the peri
| from lightning is now from three to
| FIVE fold greater than it was fifty years
ago, owing to the vastly increased
! electrical intensity induced by the
| charging OF the atmosphere with steam
and smoke at ali centers OF popula'
! ton.
| A SAN LEANDRo (Cal man hid a
| loaded revolver in Il stove oven 80
| that his boy might not find it. The boy
| afterwards built a FIRE in the stove,
| and in a short time the pistol made its
presence known by exploding and
| sending e. bullet through the youths
| hand.
! A CIGAR contains acetic, formic, buty-
ric, valerie and proprionic acids, creo-
! sote, carbolic acid, ammonia, sulph-
uretted hydrogen, pyridine, viridine,
| picoline and rubidlne, to say nothing
! ofcabigine and burdockic acid. That's
Thy you can't get good one for less
! than five cents.
! AN Indiana tramp was seen hiding q
package in hedge, before he entered
! Chatham on begging tour. The
| package contained $40 in nickelE,
/ $4OO in greenbacks, and a certificate
of deposit for $500. All this wealth
was handed over 10 the tramp and he
was told to move on.
WHEN the Doxey Music Hall, at An
| derson, Ind, was opened Tor the sea-
son two hundred complimentary tick
| cts were distributed by the managers
with a partiality that angered the
citizens and the newspapers, and the
result Is a boycott on the hall, which
| is proving very effective.
a GRAvEsTONE ir a acemetery at Beth
el, Conn, was erected by a man over
the grave OF his wife, and is rough
| boulder from a neighbOring bill. 1t
was selected because, as the husband
said: at was on that stone that my
vile and sat when proposed 70 her
and 5he said she'd have me-"
THE valuable collection Of books
and documents belonging to the New
York Academy of Sciences has just
been removed to the Columbia College
library. The collection consists OF
eight thousand volumes, and is re-
markable for it's files OF American and
forelgn scientific publications.
A FUNNY story comes from Georgia
to the effect that Henry Sampson, an
escaped convict, who was pursued by
bloodhouads, used his shackles to
fasten one TO q tree and when two
Others overlook him he made friends
OF them and taking them with him
to a negro cabin traded them for his
dinner He is still at large.
TWENTY FIVE Cinnamon were WORK
ing among large force of Indians
picking hops on O'Brien's ranch, on
White Revec, w. II. On Thurs day the
Indians struck, refusing to work with
the Cinnamon, and the proprietor Cf
the ranch concluded to discharge the
latter, and the Indians returned TO
work.--San Francisco Bulletin.
TEN years ago a set OF afterdinner
coffee cups worth $50 to 800 was
salable in London, Paris or Vienna,
but was rarely found on this contl-
nent. and the sale OF adinner set costing
more than 5000 or $500 was rare
event here. But now dinner sets costing
several times the amount are sala-
bic in almost any OF the large trade
| centers in America.