The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-10-09

A SINGLE oyster opened the other
day by Fair Haven, (Conn.) man
contained 1853 pearls.
ABOUT eighty Columbian collegians
have been spending the summer at a
resort near Waterbury.
THE Pacific coast now produces
yearly 100000 cases OF canned
goods, worth 81 100000.
AFTER spending So, 100000 in sur
veys, there is still no actual map in ex-
istence OF the United States.
The milk of the "tuno," an East
Nicaraguan tree, furnishes an mex
haustible supply of gutta percha.
AN extract similar to Liebig's ex-
tract of beef is now made from whale
flesh, and is said to be just as good.
ANOTHER doctor who has impaired
his reason by too much cocaine has
been admitted to Bellevue Hospital.
WITHIN five days the temperature at
Fargo, ID. t., dropped from los de-
grees Ia the shade to freezing point.
The size OF the Russian garrison at
Sebastopoi, which has been greatly ex>
aggerated, actually amounts to 5000
men of all arms.
THE average height OF land above
sea level Is about 1000 feet, and it
would take forty times as much land
as is above sea level to fill up the
oceanic depressions.
THE Maine newspapers report that
ship building firm in Bath is prepar-
ing to build a fve-masted schooner,
which will be the largest fore-and aft
rugged vessel afoat.
SNoWDEN DISNEY, of Baltimore, is
"a years OF age, has twenty-five sons
and SIX daughters, fourteen of whom
are still living. The Oldest child is 81
and the youngest s.
THE agricultural department has
been testing a new pea, to be eaten
pod and all, likesnap beans. 1t tastes
like combination of bean and pea,
and is enormously productive
In is proposed to give the new Bos-
ton court house when completed
some five or six years hence-a dome
and spire reaching an altitude OF 100
feet above the main building, which
will be about eighty feet high.
The White House of the Confeder-
acy at Richmond, Va, is now used as
public school, and the halls in which
the Davis cabinet held their war
councils now echo with the voices o
children reciting their lessons in geog-
raphy.
A BIG bear attacked colt on Dry
Creek, Cal. It's mother came to the
rescue, and, while she fought the bear,
the colt ran to the house CT its owner,
who went out to see what was the
matter, and found the faithful mare
dead and the bear sitting on the
body.
AN Ottawa OH. man bought a new
hat one evening and went home. He
saw q large owl sitting on his gate
post. Slipping up to it he threw his
hat over it. The owl proved to be
made of wood, and the blow by which
it was captured tore the crown out OF
the captor's brand new hat.
ANXIOUS INQUIRER: You are perfectly
right. There is a game called base
ball. There are eleven on a side and
an umpire. The sides toss up for the
umpire, and sometimes further on in
the game toss up the umpire. The
side that wins the umpire generally
gains the game.-DetrOit Free Press.
THE following are some anatomical
localities newly mentioned in current
literature: "He kissed her upon ap-
pearance." "She whipped him upon
his return" "They seated themselves
upon his entering" HE kissed her
back" "She sat down On his invita-
ton"
MCCARTHY, the Boston man upon
whom the wonderful surgical operation
was performed short time ago, is
doing well. He swallowed his teeth,
and physician cut open his side,
took out his stomach, in which the
teeth had lodged, and removed them
from it. The stomach was then sewed
up and replaced.
A RoCKLAND (Mass.) man who &C.
commodated a neighbor with pail
of water from his faucet of the new
Water Works was made to think he
had acted contrary to the water COM
missioners' regulations, so he drew an
other pailful and toted it to the pond,
where he emptied it, saying chat he
didn't wish to cheat the town."