The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-11
LIENS OE INTEREST.

AMONG recent imports were IS go
campaign buttons.
Thus far the watering place season
has not been Success.
THREE-FouRTHe.of England's export Of
tinplate comes to America.
ACToRs whose voices fail them seek
relief from Russian baths.
WALLoP is the suggestive name Of
California school teacher
A BEooKLYa woman supports lue-
band and fifteen children by selling pa
pefs.
The Canadian railways have about
doubled III length in ten years, being
| now over ~ 800 miles.
Two-THIHDs Of the land Of England and
Wales is held by l0,207 owners, and six
teen Of this number own JOB OPS acres.
The estimated consumption Of raigins
| IN the United States is 200, 900 boxes
of twenty-five pounds each, at an aver
| age cost of 81 per box.
MRs. WALLACE, living in Bagdad near
Pensacola, Fla, was mother at IS
| years OF age, grandmother at 81 and a
greatgrandmotheT at 80.
| A gIRM at Fort Gaines. Ga. Skinned
| recently "A car Of melons which they
| claim didn't contain melon that would
| weigh under % pounds.
Az "inch Of rain" means a gallon of
| water spread over a surface Of nearly
| two square feet, or fall Of about 100
| tons on an acre Of ground.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, is the great
| furniture making center OF the United
| States. 1t has iorty-two furniture fac
| tories which employ 1900 men.
An unusual accomplishment for a dog
| is Smelling peas, but the setter who
lives IN a town near Boston shows that il
Is entirely canine possibility.
| An exchange says bit Of camphor
| gum the SIZE OF walnut held over a
lamp till 1t is consumed will Danish the
! festive mosquito from the room.
AT Grove City, Pa, sixty-fiye sheep
| gathered under tree during a heavy
! thunder storm and were all killed by a
single stroke Of lightning that struck
| the tree.
THE United States has about half
| the railroad mileage Of the world, being
| 600 miles, which cost s., 900, 900, 900
aud gave employment to more than | :
100000 men.
They sell a cigar walking stick at the
| Danish Exhibition in London. The
| stick, when full, holds eight or nine ci-
| CARS, which are brought TO the surface
| by turning the handle Of the stick
| THIEVES entered the apartments of
| the Crown Prince of Sweden at a hotel
| at Franzensbad, broke open his level
case and escaped with 100000 worth OF
| property, including some trinkete Of
| great historic and artistic value.
| AN eccentric cooper, who committed
| suicide IN Baltimore, left a provision in
| bis Will that those who attended his
| funeral should be given n lunch. He
| also stipulated that the clergyman Of
| ticiating at his funeral should receive 81
| THERE are only five blast furnaces
| in the Dominion of Canada, and three
| Of them make charcoal iron, two max
| ing coke iron. There are, besides, ten
| rolling mills for rc-working scrap and
puddled bars, mostly into nail plate
| a rolling mill for making a butt weld
pipe and two FORCES for working scrap,
| mostly into car axles. The production
of iron ore in 1886 was A ,3S3 tons, and
of coke 81 ,G04 tons.
| A TRAMP, who lately made the rounds
Of Hartford, Conn, had an ingenious
| scheme-not new, though-for raising
the wind" He exhibited a letter
| which, he said, he wished to mail al
once, and asked for a stamp TO put on
IT, explaining that he had none himself.
Many persons, not having stamps with
them preferred to give him cents,
and in this way the tramp was able to
do thriving business.
Mrs. SUSAN Tore, wife of farmer OF
Devonshire, England, while driving out
with her husband, was struck accident
ally just below the left eye with a lash
of the whip and a slight wound was in
tlicted. Little notice was taken of 1t,
but few days alterward Mrs. Tope's
face began to swell, and subsequently a
small knot Of cord was removed from
the wound. Lockjaw set i'll, and she
died in short time.