The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-11-10
INFORMATION IN BRIEF.


furnish free text books to the public
schools.
An Englishman recently stated IN
court that he married at the age of 10,
| because he was out of work.
ED DAVIS, of Lexington, Ind, died
recently of lockiaw from a snakebite.
| He was bitten by blacksnake.
ABOUT 700 tons of silver dollars are
| row stored in the new vaults of the
| treasury department at Washington.
Pomona, Cal, is forcing the Chinese
laundries outside the city limits by
lining the proprietors for maintaining
nulsances.
MAN has Just been released from the
New York penitentiary after he had
undergone thlrty-three years OF con-
nnuous imprisonment.
IN is estimated in England l man in
800 gets college education. In this
glorious country l man IN every 20
takes a college course.
The ladies of the nobility of Malta
are about to give the Queen a dress of
black silk pillow lace, made by u lead
ing manufacturer of the island.
AMONG the winters lecturers, at Yale
will be Bishop Potter, the Rev. DIR.
Prof.. w. NJ. Sloan OF Princeton.
A STEAMSHIP arrived at San Francisco
witw 100000 seal skins and large num-
Der of other skins and furs, the value Of
the cargo being estimated at S2,0O0,OC0
THE Legislature of Georgia, Just
chosen, contains a larger proportion of
young men than any of rs predecessors.
Several members are under %. and
large number have not reached the age
of 30
Two women, of Appleton, Mo, bet on
the recent election of a certain state
senator, the winner to wheel the loser
through tie streets in wheelbarrow.
The wager was settled the other even
ing with considerable noise and hilar-
ity.
THERE was trouble in the editorial
rooms of a Cincinnati newspaper last
week. The journa! has a department
headed Men and Things bout Town."
and new compositor set it up Mean
things About Town" and ii appeared
in the paper.
a KANSAS CRY clothier ingenuously
advert ses that he has Baltimore and
Washington suits for boys and men
which are just like those | myself have
seen in New York" 1t would seem
that Kansas CIty-zens hold the effete
East worthy of imitation.
HELENA, Mont, is a rapidly growing
city. Ove1 100000 worth of i'm
provements in and about the city will
be made during the next three
months. over 81 900 900 worth of
residences and business buildings are
now in process OF erection.
a KANSAS City carpenter has invent
cd che e, ~, 81
aid of which, he claims to cut a corner to
the desired angle at one stroke. There
IS no repetition of the planning process,
the machine being passed only once
over the corner to be chamtered.
WILLIAM SHANAHAN and Dennis DON
oyan, of Garry Owen, Iowa, were born
and raised IN the same town. Both
We're y years of age. Both were mar
ried the same day. Both their wives
DIED the same day. They both died on
Monday and were buried on Sunday.
A PONY was recently lost for ii DAYS
at Mold, England. 1t was found in
culvert when conveyed water from a
colliery, up TO its belly in mud and wa
ter. The culyert was too narrow to al
low the creature 10 turn, and the men
had to dig down several feet to rescue
ii.
As Mr. Stufiebean, of Texas, was
drawing water from his well the other
day big black snake dropped down
about his neck and began squeezing
him so vigorously that he was utterly
yoiceless and only csc ped choking to
death by forcibly tearing away the rep
tile.
a. CoNICH, cigarette manufacturer in
Plymouth, Eng and, las Just finished,
after eight months work, a miniature OF
Mount Edgcombe House, the residence
of an English nobleman of that name,
and it IS made entirely of cigarettes
He says he has put 1900 of them to-
gether 10 make the toy.
CARPENTERS and other tool-users who
keep up with the times are now using
mixture of glycerine instead OF oil for
sharpening their edged tools. Oil, as
is we'll known, thickens and smears the
stone. The giycerine may be mixed
with spirits in greater or less proper
ton, according as the tools to be
sharpened are fine or coarse. For the
average blade two parts of glvcerine to
one OF spirits will suffice.
A SQUIRREL attacked J. Taylor while
he was sitting reading a newspaper,
near his home in Sinta Anna, Tex.
The animal dropped from the top of
the house, and after it had bitten him
several times Taylor threw it to the
ground, but il sprang back upon the old
gentleman, biting him more severely
than ever. He was bitten through both
ears and on the neck, and it was neces-
sary to call in physician to treat the
wounds. 1t is now feared that the
squirrel which Mr.. Taylor finally
killed. had hydrophobia.