The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


divorce suits is named Concordia
CHAussIER dried a man in kiln and
there resulted only twelve pounds Of
solid matter.
DURING the last five years 425 hives
have been lost at sea among the English
herring fishermen.
A SARATOGA dame comes out all red
one dav, all white the next, all black
the tn ird, and so on.
THE wool interest in Australia has
suffered severely from drought. The
sheep have died by millions.
The deaf often hear conversations
when there is music going on, which
they could not hear when there was no
music.
AN artesian well sunk under the salt
waters of New York Bay on the jersey
side produces pure fresh water in
abundance.
A HUNGRY coyote that had wandered
in from the mountains was killed in one
of the main streets of Denver few days
ago.
TaE English a-nickel-in-the-sIot
machines have got so far along that
they now give a chew of tobacco to any
one who drops in penny.
The Chautauqua lecturer who chose
"Fudging" as subject for his address,
must have been led by desire to find
something new under the sun.
JAMES JESTER has sued the city of
Baltimore. Md, for 81 900 damages, h
household goods having been injured
by the bursting of waterpipe.
THERE is small canyon near San
Miguel, Cal, which is said 20 be oCcu-
pied by seventeen families, each named
Jones, and they are not related.
AT the 14th of July fete in Paris one
Frenchman carried about a star-bangled
banner and shouted: "Hurrah for the
real Republicp ' He was drunk.
THE cyclone in Kansas was not alto
gether an i'll wind. Thousands of En-
glish sparrows were killed by lightning
or beaten down and drowned.
A 6-YEAR OLD girl passed through Al
bany this week on her way to New
York Cit :, travelling alone. She wore
card giving her name and destination.
A RUNAWAY horse in Norwich, Conn,
ran into an open doorway. up a steep
fight of stairs, through a long hall and
down a flight of back stairs before he
was captured.
Mr.. Sim, of Rovston, Ga, dreamed
the other night that he had shot a
burglar, and awoke to find that he had
shot himself, and was minus finger by
the operation.
A GUN which will throw a shell 10
miles (and there are SUCH will drop it
upon the deck of ship before the ship
can be seen, as at that distance any ship
is "hull down"
THE first unmarried colored woman
sent out by the American Board of For
eign Missions is about to start for South
eastern Africa. She is graduate Of
Fisk University.
A PHILOSOPHER writes that the first
five years of marriage are dangerous;
the second lustrum is still more danger
Gus. Yet there seem to be people not
unwilling to meet danger.
IT is proposed in England to provide
Judges at race tracks with an instantqn-
eous photogi aphing apparatus by which
to tell beyon possibility of mistake
what horse has won in close finish.
THE English Court of Appeals has de-
cided that relatives of a dead person
have no right to place flowers or other
tokens on the grave except with the
permission of the cemetery authorities.
JOSEPH CARTER, Of Brentwood, Ca,
ought to grow rich if "Holdfast is the
only dog that wins" He has just retir-
ed upon a pension a sieve in use 80
years; and still sits at dinner in the first
chair ever owned by his father.
The wife of a Breton peasant, for
whom the doctor had prescribed
leeches, fried the leeches and gave
them to her injured husband to eat.
He WAS taken fatally i'll and died before
the physicians knew what allied him.
THE trial of six Austrian merchants
and assistants on a charge of brlblng
custom house officials has ended in all
the accused being found guilty and sen
fenced to terms of imprisonment, with
hard labor, varying from one to SIX
months.
An English writer declares that the
custom of pairing off guests at dinner
arose in the middle ages. when there
was only single plate and drinking cup
for each couple, and that while the man
cut up the meat the woman put the
pieces in his mouth and they both
drank from the same cup.
PERSONS who respond to an advertise
ment that promises ''25 useful house
hold articles for IS cents, are receiving
by return mail literally pointed re-
sppDSe--O ietuiSS. ne SUI piIFillS
thing about it is that the sharp who OPP
crates the scheme doesn't send pins, as
they are cheaper.
In New Mexico the Spanish language
is the language Ofthe courts, the coun-
Gil and the assembly. Legislative de
bates are carried on in Spanish, and
laws are framed in that language. En-
glish Is secondary tongue, and per
son is at decided disadvantage even in
transacting business unless he is famIl-
lar with Spanish.