The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-07
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| CALIFORNIA farmers are raising foxes
| for their pelts.
Big, mouse-colored Danish dogs are
| favored as pets in Paris now.
BEES recently stung horse to death
| near Wheeling, w. Va.
| ELECTRICITY is now applied to the
| bleaching of cotton and fabrics.
ST.. LOUIS will make bid for the G..
A. r. encampment in 1887.
PEARL-GRAY Suede gloves are worn
| instead of white in the evening.
OVER 500 persons are engaged i'll
the customs service at the port OF New
York.
| WIGMAKERs complain that bald
| headed men do not patronize their
trade as formerly.
THE population OF Wheeling, w.
Va, was increased by 1885 persons
during the past year.
THE pay of doctors in China is from
| 3 to 10 cents a visit, and they are
kept exceedingly busy.
New HAMPSHIRE breweries are clos
ing up on account OF the falling off in
| orders from Rhode Island.
SOME vandal has been mutilating
Dighton Rock by cutting his initials
right into the face of the rock between
the hieroglyphics.
ONE hundred and twenty-one tons
of fish were destroyed at Billingsgate
| Market, London, last month, as un-
| fit for human food.
THE Corean government has issued
an educational law which requires all
| children between s and 13 years OF
age to attend school.
A PITTsBURG glass firm has lately
been making glass spindles, which take
the place of the woopen spindles in the
New England cotton-mills.
THE camphor laurel, from which the
camphor OF commerce is obtained, has
been successfully introduced in Cali
| fornia. 1t is native OF China.
| A YOUNG woman of Ithaca has near
| ly 1000 silk-worms suspended in pa
per cones, and all spinning away in
dustriously.
| CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER says
Plymouth Rocks good deal cracked
and patched up, as if it had been
much landed on.
AN immigrant who arrived in Los
Angeles, Cal, the other day, made the
trip from Kansas in a wagon, &C
companied by his wife and FIVE chill
dren.
THE blood orange is produced by
grating an orange scion into q pome-
granate, and at the eud OF two years
again grating scion from this growth
back into an orange tree.
THERE is q grain OF comfort for
thirsty souls in Georgia and Rhode
Island in the new post office regula-
tions allowing liquids to be forwarded
in the mails.
THE Yale College Boat Club had a
floating debt OF $500 at the beginning
OF the year, but under President Ames'
administration the income has ex-
exceeded the expenses by more than
5000.
A WoAlAN's labor union has been in
corporated at San Francisco for the
purpose OF manufacturing wearing ap-
parel, establishing laundries, eating
houses, restaurants and reading
| rooms.
THE real estate transactions of Los
Angeles on July 1 were $171, 1880
This is certainly creditable show
ing, or else there is terrible prevari-
cation lying around loose.-San Fran
cisco Alta.
A SHEPHERD dog raised in Valinia,
Mich, was taken to Nebraska by its
master. A few weeks afterward it ap-
peared at it's old Michigan home, hav-
ing every appearance Of having made
the long Journey.
THE inhabitants OF Maine are not
deteriorating physically, Judging by
the graduating class at the Nichols
Latin School, OF Lewiston. The seven
young men who compose 1t average
six feet in height.
WHILE Charles Rasch, OF Sprague,
w. r., was taking a bottle of soda
water from an ice chest the bottle ex-
ploded and the patent stopper was
to tear out one of his eyes.
THE Mexico Two Republics OF July
4, says: "And so We celebrate to-day,
not only as holiday OF the American
nation, but as the Easter morning OF
humanity, from which blessings, hap
piness, and prosperity have come to
all the world"
THE Northern settlers in, North Caro-.
| lima will hold q convention at Raleigh
in October, coincidentally with the
opening of the State Agricultural Fair,
and all Northern people who desireto
invest money or find homes In the
South, are invited TO attend.
IT does make a letter carrier bowling
mad, this blistering, breathless hot
weather, to pick up his favoIite paper
for few brief minutes on the sultriest
morning of the week and light the first
thing on a long able editorial entitled,
"We do not walk enough. ."-Burdette.
WHAT has become OF the daisy?
Some time ago whatever was partlcu-
larly beautiful, excellent, or able was
termed daisy" and If OF extraor-
dinary superiority it was called q
daisy with large golden centre. Now
it seems to have faded and gone.
Why, oh, why?
Miss NOME WALMsLEY, OF Match l.
toches, La, killed two big alligato RS
in one day last week. One OF them,
after being wounded, showed fight, but
| Monte was cool, and, when the gator
made rush for the boat, put rifle
ball through it's ugly head.
"Do you find sufficiency OF caloric
in the circumambient atmosphere ?"
asked the high school girl OF her moth
er at the tea-table yesterday. "Well,
| don't care if you doput little more
sugar in my cup, Mildred" replied the
old lady.-Pittsburg Chronicie-Tele-