The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-25
FACTS IN BRIEF

CAMPERS out are plenty in the Adiron-
dacks.
PHoToGRAPHs have been taken bv the
light from fireplace.
STAGE scene. showing life in New
York fiat, has been patented.
cHILD's doll in which a small pbo-
nograph is fixed is novelty.
The Germans call this the "sauer-
gurkenzeit," or the pickle season.
A LITTLE Toronto girl has tortoise
shell kitten which she describes .as a
plaid.
EARLY news alb out the coming autumn
bonnet is that it will be considerably
larger.
Investigations at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard revealed a theft of 1900 pounds
of sugar.
ORANGE trees about Clearwater. Fla.
are now Ill full bloom, the third time
this year.
A WOMAN at Visalia, Cal, has two pet
humming birds that will alight on her
hands when called.
LONDON now has several lines OF half
penny buses" which connect with the
various horse car lines.
THE population of Rome grows at the
rate of $4,000 to 10000 year. At the
close of 1887 1t was 3S2, 1913.
"MAMMA," said little Willie, inspect-
ing porous plaster; "are them holes
where the pain comes through ?"
The Kings Daughters, of Atlanta,
Ga, have just opened a hospital there
to be under their exclusive charge.
THE state of Coahuila, Mexico, is lust
af bav - IL,
nal excellence and extraordinary yield.
DETROIT proposes to decorate its
Council Chamber with portraits of the
city's mayors from 1876 to the present
time.
Two thieves who broke into New Or
leans feed store and opened the safe
got $500 in Confederate notes for their
pains.
AN excellent syrup-at least it's SO
pronouuced-is being made from water
melons by farmers in Dougherty Coun-
ty, Ga.
A KANSAS salt maker has constructed a
Lots wife" Of his product and sent it
as an advertisement TO the Cincinnati ex-
position.
FOURTEEN thousand bathers sported
III the waves at Coney Island upon one
warm day this week. Other beaches
were enjoyed proportlOnately
MoRMoNs are focking into Wyoming
in great numbers, and it is said tnat two
years hence they will control the local
elections in the Western section.
A RADDIsH weighing 81 pounds and
measuring 20 inches in circumference,
is on exhibition in Dublin. 1t was
grown by DR.. Buchan Of Reedy Springs,
Ga.
WHEN Lawyer Henkle, of Washing
ton, had first to reply to Lawyer Belva
Lockwood in the district court he re-
ferred to her as my learned sister-in-
law"
THE city of Pueblo, Mexico, has Just
bad a hailstorm so violent that her
streets and roofs were blanketed with
white, and all traffic for the time sus-
pended.
IN good faith the sister in Swed n of
Swede lying in the Marine Hospital,
New York, sent Confederate money for
his return passage. The woman had
been swindled.
A GEORGIA editor makes the an
nouncement: eve do not want any
more watermelons at this office. We
are not a railroad company, and
enough's enough"
The weather in the Alps has been SO
bad this season that the hotelkeepers
look in vain with dismal faces for the
usual stream of foreign guests. A con-
tinuous rain has been calamity to the
region.
THE Leavenworth Times saws the corn
IS so tall In Kansas that strangers pass
ing through on night trains, looking out
on the corntields by moonlight, talk of
the oak and maple forests they are pass
ing through.
The walters in New York restaurant
having struck. the sharp proprietor
rang for a number OF district messenger
boys, and thus temporarily supplied
the places of the strikers until other
walters could be secured.
TIE British consul at Hankow says
that China, though still spoken of as a
country of stagnation and stere otyped
ideas, is really only little behind its
pushing neighbor Japan in its haste to
get rid of ancient prejudices.
The judges Of Jasper County, Mis-
souri,, nave decided to dispose of the
county poor farm and purchase twenty
acres of ground on which they will erect
a large brick building, with arrange
ments Tor the care OF insane patients,
who are becoming too numerous for the
present accommodations.
THE extravaganza of the British civil
service has been revealed by recent
investigation. 1t was found that the
solicitor of the treasury had staff of
forty-eight colleagues, that when special
work was on hand outside help was OBJ
tanned, and that the office was so man
aged as to produce the least work at the
greatest expense. All the arrange
ments are wasteful and costly. The
yearly outlay is $4,000. and the same
work might be done for half the money.
THE seventeen-months' daughter
of Timothy Harriet of Melrose, Mass,
was cross, being much troubled in get
ting her teeth, and Timothy sought to
alleviate her pain by feeding her raw
whisky. When the physician got there
the baby was in commissions, and Tim
othy was arrested. The report says
that lowing to the prisoner having a
wife and three small children, the Judge
sentenced him only to the house of cor
rection for three months" The child
recovered.