The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-20
From ALL S0IRCES.

"No Mans Land, Just south OF the
/ far corner OF Kansas, has been seized
by settlers.
THE Philadelphia Normal Schoolhas
substituted cooking for mythology IN
the studies.
THE new Boston directory contains
1900 Sullivans, 1000 Murphys, aDd
700 McCartbys.
THERE are more than IS, 600 mar
riages entered IN he register OF the old
Swedes' Church in Philadelphia.
THE New Orleans Picayune thinks
there Il no need OF another major gen
eral until another war comes on.
Or Charles Wesley great-grandsons
three are members OF the clergy OF the
Church Of England.
TzERE are twenty-five counties in
Mississippi, including Copiah Comfy,
in which the sale Of liquor Is prohibit
ed.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY asserts that
twenty-six members OF the United
States Senate are IN favor OF woman
suffrage.
Mr. WHITTIER has new volume in
/ the press. 1t contains the poems he
/ has written since the Publication OF
/ The Bay OF Seven Islands" IN 1888.
ELDER THOMAS p. DUDLEY, OF lie
I ington, KY, who began preaching IN
1920, Is said to be the Oldest Baptist
minister in the country.
/ IT Is proposed TO erect statues Of
/ Robert Fulton, De Witt Clinton, and
| Hendrick Hudson IN Riverside Park,
1 New York.
I PROF. HUXLEY says II would require
nearly !, 1,0OO,O 600 barrels OF herring to
/ supply the cod on the Norwegian coast
/ with one breakfast.
/ Boston patriotism Is aroused by
/ the building OF a high hotel on Beacon
/ Street, which shuts out the view OF
/ the gilded dome on the State House.
4 THEODORE THOMAS has used his right
/ arm so much lnconduCting his orches-
/ ira that he Is said TO be threatened
with a new kind Of paralysis.
TIE Oklahoma War Chief, official
I organ OF PRyne's Oklahoma colony,
I can be had for one year, with two
books on thelabor question, Tor 81 so.
/ a REGISTER OF every horse and mule
IN France Is kept by the government
! for reference IN case OF war, when the
! government may need to call Tor
/ horses.
4 PENNSYLVANIA woman deserted
/ Der husband and then brought suit
against him for failure to support her.
And Yet women think they are abridged
IN their rights.
AT Birmingham, Conn, a corpse Of a
I To- ! u ha
! pins IN the hair and shroud removed
/ to quiet her ghost that had been dis
4 turbing the neighbOrhOod.
Mrs. ELLIOT, OF Frankford, Pa,
/ wears male attire, and her husband
\ makes no objection. il Is difficult to
/ tel which Is the wife when they walk
on the street.
/ PTTsBURG physicians propose to
/ boycott a number OF druggists who
I have been making out prescriptions
as well as filing them for patients who
I applied TO them and saved the doctors
I Tee.
SEVERAL Of the Ontario cities, Tor
/ onto and Hamilton among them, have
memoriahzed the Dominion govern
ment to cease spending public money
for the purpose OF inducing immigrants
/ to come to Canada.
TIE Atlanta, Ga, prohibition cleo
/ tion case has at last got before the
supreme court Of that state. Mean
time the prudent ones who thirst are
I providing against what SEEMS the in
4 evitable result when the law shall be
/ come operative.
( THE bell in the steeple OF a church in
/ ElzabethtOwn, Ind, left its fastenIngs
/ and came crushing down into the
/ church during service the other day.
/ Il had lust been ringing out its call TO
/ the people to come TO worship, and
/ probably came down to see how sue
cessful il had been.
/ a GEORGIA man has a violin which
was given to his grandfather, during
the war of 1912, by fellow soldier in
/ the American army. The instrument
/ Is known to be "A years old, and per
haps several years older. 1t made
music around the camp fires OF Gen.
| Jackson's army.
TIE Raleigh IN. O. News says that
/ Cornelius Vanderbilt, one OF New
! York's milliOnaires, Is making arrange
/ ments to buy an island on the coast
/ Of that state, near Morehead. He Will
build a club house on this island.
/ Much property on the coast OF North
/ Carolina Is now owned or leased by
/ Northern people.
/ Dr. MARY WALKER is arguing a rev
olutionary war claim before the House
/ committee on finance OF the Rhode Isl
and LEGISLATURE. The claim Is for
! 5000 for vouchers held by Sarah
! Briggs, an aged and impoverished
woman in Newport, with interest from
/ date, 1898. The full debt Is now fig
Jred out TO be 100000.
Az esteemed citizen who recently
/ bought a railroad ticket from New
! York TO Florida by the Pennsylvania
/ Road was amused at the length o. 1t
/ 36 inches by exact measurement. be
/ tried to be witty whenever the con
/ ductor punched II, but that officer
persisted IN greeting his remarks with
a tired expression Of continuance
/ Harper's H'eeBly.
/ JOIN z. FRIES says TO the st. Louis
/ GlObe-DemOCrat. Edwin Booth has
written me a letter from New York IN
/ explanation OF his middle name, which
was discussed pretty lively here for a
/ time, some actors saying Il was For
rest, and others it was Thomas. Mr..
/ Booth says his middle nameis Thomas,
and that he was called Edwin after
/ Edwin Forrest and Thomas after Tom
Flynn, the man who broke the elder
Booths nose.
/ SOME weeks ago, 1t viii be remem-
bered. the statement was made by the
I London Times that q British officer IN
Burmah had treated with great in
humanity some Burmese captives
about 10 be executed. He was said to
. have delayed their death and pro-
]onged their agony IN order TO photo
/ graph them while dying. Investiga-
ton shows that photographs were TAX
en- by the officer IN question, but that
the men were not aware OF the fact and