The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-04-17
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THE women students in the Universi-
ty OF Michigan have organized for
muscular development.
THE income OF the Union Pacific
Railroad is S25 ,00O,0 900 a year, and
at times 500, 900 day.
A COMPANY OF deaf and dumb anna
teurs are TO play Hamlet" IN Lon
don.
DR.. SAvEUR, will the coming summer
move his school of language from Bur
lington, Vt, to Oswego, n. y.
THE Oldest Episcopal church in the
United States is that at Williamsburg,
! Pa. 1t coutains the font in which Po-
cahontas was baptized.
A CHINESE washerman OF Watson
vile, Cal, recently offered a young
white girl 81 900 il she would elope
| with him.
CALIFORNIA newspapers are begin
ming to kick against the large influx OF
| Italians who have been imported by
vineyardists.
SOUTHERN capitalists are about TO
start the American Pulpit, a new re-
! ligious journal. About $50, 900 has
been invested IN the enterprise.
SWEDISH papers announce the COM
ing betrothal OF Crown Prince Oscar of
Sweden and Princess Louise, daughter
/ of the Prince OF Wales.
| CANvAsBACK ducks have been hard
to secure on Chesapeake Bay this win
ter, owing to the legal prohibition
against big, long guns, and have been
steady at $4 pair in market.
THE new Philadelphia directory con-
tains 63 Ashes, 4 Ems, 8 Wslnuts,
IL Pines, 3 Cherrys, 13 Oaks, sim
gle Poplar, 4 Chestnuts, ard a single
Spruce.
NEARLY S2,00O,OO0,0O0 would be
due were all insured Americans to die
at once. Nearly 81 900, ,0O0have
already been paid on death losses IN
America.
THE Cumberland Presbyterian
| Church, at Lebanon, O., has a bell
which was made in Malaga, Spain, in
1852 and brought TO this country in
/ 1888.
1t is as notable to be the possessor
OF water-soaked letter brought by
the Oregon as to be the owner OF
vase from the Morgan sale, each arti-
Gle being a relic from valuable
wreck.
WHEN man is hanging by his toes
| from the corner OF a high building and
expects momentarily to drop, nothing
so thoroughly satisfies him as the sud
den discovery that heis safely at home
in bed.
THE most popular novels IN large
circulating library in New York City
are "Monte Cristo," Uncle Toms
Cabin" "David Copperfeld," ''The
Old Curiosity Shop" and "Oliver
Twist"
BoTH England and Ireland showed
an increase in 1884 in the production
of barley, amounting to 5,3SS, ,519
| bushels in the former country and
463, ,99S in the latter. Barley means
business.
SOME English political economists
are said to be getting frightened at the
growing tendency toward simplicity IN
the dress of women. They say that II
women should dress all alike, COM
merce would be ruined.
A MAN in Marcellus, Mich, whose dl-
vorced wife had been awarded the Gus
tody of their two children, has pur-
chased the latter from her for 81 800
each, all other methods OF securing
their custody having failed him.
THERE is said to be q decided reac-
ton against fats in New York. In
this part OF the country the reaction
has prevailed for long time. 1t ls
applied with the toe OF 0oot.-Bur-
HngtOn Free Press.
To test her affections, Fulton
County, New York, man had his sweet
heart told that he was killed. The
girl was frantic with grief, and at
tempted suicide by hanging herself In
a barn. She was discovered and cut
down in time to save her life.
| BoTH the Rhode Island senator's
come from Providence; both the
Georgia senators come from Atlanta;
both the Louisiana senator's come
from New Orleans, and both the Cali
foInia senators come from San Fran
cisco.
A NEW gun, 50-calibre, has been
tested in Kalamazoo, which, with one
ounce OF powder, drove steel bullet
two inches long through four $-inch
iron plates, and dented the fifth. 1t
I
principle will throw q ball fifteen
miles.
THIS is a thoroughly Friday year,
saws the New York Sun. 1t came In
on Friday, and will have 53 Fridays.
There are four months in the year
that have five Fridays each; changes
OF the moon occur five times on
Friday, and the longest and shortest
day OF the year eachfalls on Friday.
"EGG sociabIes' are now prevalent
in Kingston, n. Y. Every young lady
brings an egg along, writing her mans
on it. Each young man draws one OF
these eggs out OF a bag, and must act
as an escort for the young lady whose
name Is inscribed on the egg he draws.
Particular care is taken TO have the
eggs boiled hard.
IT turns out that Edgar FaWcett is
the author Of the anonymous story
published some time ago under the
title OF THE Buntling Pail" The
! publishers offered prize OF 81 900 to
any body guessing the author. so
many people suspected Fawcett, ow-
ing to the turgid style, that the purse
has been divided up, and the guessers
; will only realize 121zz cents apiece
! THERE was an interesting relic on
exhibition at the Grand Army OF the
Republic fair at Perry, Ia, in the
shape OF a Testament and another
small book, the two being pinned to-
gether by Mimic ball. The relic was
sent by member OF Company Il OF
! the Tenth Iowa Volunteers. The ball
was received while on duty in line OF
battle at Champion Hill, May 16,
1868.
II you offer an office boy 80 cents
. to walk up to the park with small
: package for you he will assume a long,
sour cast of countenance, and will tell
! YOU he has something else to do; but
give him 90 cents and tell him to ride
up with the package and back, and he
: will start of and walk every foot oi
the yav there and back, to save the