The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-11-27
FROM ALL SOURCES.

APPLES are only 35 cents a barrel
IN Oregon.
KANSAS CRY is to have a half-mill-
ion-dollar bank
SOME Connecticut factories make
ton OF pins per day.
PuTsBURG turns out $4,000 tons of
railroad spikes a month.
THE mouth of Miss Bartholdi Lib
erty Is just a yard wide.
SIGNOR SUCC has engaged to fast
thirty days in consideration OF guar
antee of $4,000.
THE New York World says Mrs. Par
sons is an Anarchist for revenue only.
So was her husband.
ONE grape vine in North Carolina
has produced $S2 worth of grapes for
is owner this year.
JAPAN is manufacturing Jackets of
paper, linen threads being introduced
to give them strength.
A FIFTEEN foot vein of pure white
chalk has been discovered in the hills
near Eagle Rock, Idaho.
A PUFF BALL forty-six inches in di-
ameter is on exhibition at the state
university in Lincoln, Neb.
FLINT RIVER, Ga, is so low that the
steamboats, running in it are drawn
| by a half dozen steers each.
SILK culture, accordingto a dispatch
from Washington, is more active in
Missouri than in any other state of
the union.
THERE is no field for magazines in
the West, where the newspapers are
so big people have no time to read
anything else.-Picayune.
| THE people of Atlanta who don't
want drink are called "Dries," while
the people who long for drink with q
"Wets."
| EX-SENATOR LYMAN, ,,TRUNIBULL, who
looks as young as he did thirty years
| ago, lives in a little frame cottage,
near the Douglas monument, in Chi
| cago.
A PEAT bog has been on fire at
Shrewsbury, n. j., since the 4th of
July, and it is impossible to put it
out. The fire was started by fire.
crackers.
A BRIGHT little girl who saw three SIS
ters with hair of rich auburn, re-
marked to her mother: "Seems to me,
mamma, that kind of hair must be
redheaditary in that family"
THE Forthcoming Life OF Charles
Darwin" by his son, will contain an
autobiographicai chapter devoted to
an explanation OF the writer's religious
| opinions.
THE Empress OF Japan has received
| from Berlin set of diamond jewelry,
consisting of diadem, necklace and
bracelets. The diadem contains g.
600 brilliants.
MICHAEL DAvITT, it is given out, is
about to marry a Miss Yore, an
heiress, residing in Oakland, Cal. She
is 20, and possessed of 100000 in her
own right. Davitt's age Is 80.
THE "big trees" OF California will
soon be extinct. Seventeen lumber
companies, owning from 5000 to 25.-
900 acres OF red wood forest each are
waging the war of determination.
HUSBAND (going fishing)-Good-by,
wiley; won't come until late, unless
Icatch something. Wife-If you don't
come until late, hubby, you will be
sure to catch something, you hear me!
THE phrase, "Llberty Enlightening
the World, lis mistranslation. What
Bartholdi called it in French is "Liber-
| ty Lighting the World" Theidea was
illumination, not instruction. But
the false title got out, and it is now inn
possible to step it. Washington Post.
Mr.. WNKs-Well, we'll The paper
says rich Kentucky farmer, blessed
with a charming wife and children,
committed suicide by hanging himself
in his dining-room. What could have
possessed the man? Mrs. Winks-I
suppose the dinner wasn't ready,
dear.
RUSSIA is going to have railroad
tunnel three miles long, at cost of
| SO, 100000. She has / ), 900 miles of
| railway, but her only tunnel is 700
yards long. More great works OF this
kind are contemplated, ard as Russian
engineers are ignorant of tunnel max
ing, there is a demand for foreign
skill.
The "pinhole camera" is novelty
il photography. 1t is little tin box
two inches in diameter and three
quarters of an inch deep. Simple as
the construction is, with paper instead
of glass for the negative, and a pinhole
in the cover for the light to enter,
some interesting work may be done
| with the instrument.
OMAHA man lat q restaurant
"May | trouble you for the salt? ?"
| Cowboy from Way ayback-"Youb bet you
kin, stranger. Don't care for salt my
self" 81 should consider it very
necessary part Of diet. a Berlin scien-
| tist proves conclusively that the gen.
erous use OF salt is conducive to long
evity." "Wall, there's no denyin'
that fellers as is too fresh don't live
long out our way. ."-Omaha World.
IT was very ragged but an exceed
ingly polite be1gar, who took off his
greasy cap to a gentleman on Broad
way and said: "Pardon me, sir, will
you please grant me the favor OF
gratuity OF cents? | have not vet
dined." Neither have l." said the
gentleman, more to himself than to
the beggar, because he was hurrying
home for that purpose. '"Then make
it 10 cents" said the beggar, "and
we'll dine together. "-Texas Siftings
IL speaking OF a recent deialcation in
the Troy post-office gentleman said:
at is never safe to inclose an old bill
in an envelope to be cent by mail.
Why" said he, "men who are experts
can tell whether q letter contains
money or not simply by the sense of
smell. If you will notice an old green
back it has a peculiar smell about it
that can readily be perceived even if it
be inclosed within letter. 1t is bet
ter to send registered letter or pos
tai note, or if yo1 inclose bill be sure
that it Ia q new one. That will not
smell.-AIbany journal