The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
SMALL ITEM S.

Forty NINE suicides make Monte Car
| los record for the last two and hail
months.
WILD grape vines festooned with gold-
enrol made a pretty decoration for a
country festival.
AT this season Of the year piano deal
ers think themselves in luck if they sell
one piano week.
Or the 5000, 600 francs worth of china
made last year at Limo-es, onc-hali
came to America.
TIE latest English word in Paris is
''struggforli err" me- aiming one who has
to struggle to get living.
THERE will be an international horse
show In Paris rext year, where $4,000
VII be distributed in prizes.
An eXperimentor made lens OF
ice with which he was able to light a
pipe by means of the suns rays.
"a sPiDER," in Newport vernacular, is
a high phaeton with a seat for a driver
behind and drawn ny two horses.
'STEr-EAtK FATHER" is a new term OF
relationship. 1t deeignates mans con-
nectlon with his widows SOL by a sec
ond marriage.
MINNEAPoLIs has decided to build an
art school. VII. II complet, d, it will be
the finest building devoted entirely to
art erected west OF Chicago.
SWEET potatoes are two or three weeks
late tins season, 81 backward crop lnsur-
ing greater appreciation the pota-
toes when they arrive IN abundance.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY, who WAS recent
~ ad}udged insane at Washington. inn
agined that lie had just returned from
a "Trip to the planet Venus, where he es-
tabllshcd telephone communication
with the earth. While on his trip he
saw Clay, Calhoun, Webster and other
famous men.
TIE great white marble palace which
Wilbur t. Storey, of Chicago, built, and
hIch is one OF the features OF that city,
is again offered for sale. Although still
unfinished, more than 5000, 900 has been
spent on 1T, while it is doubtful if one
quart Of that amount will be offered
by purchaser,
ENGLISH papers say that the swallows
are scarce In various parts of the coun-
try where they used to be abunant.
In some localities tley are hardly seen
at all This is att ibuted to the rain.
which has deprived the swallows of the
necessary supply of winged insects,
which are fostered by sunshine.
DEeKERTowN, n. j., comes to the front
with the champion lightning tighter. one
Coykendal, who has had four tussels
with tie electric fluid and still lives.
His last encounter took place during the
past week. He was in hay NOW at the
time and he was badly burned and con-
siderably shattered, but is recovering.
A PORTLAND, Me-, man has invented
bicycle engine. The machine con-
tains one large ground wheel, which
Will run on two rails, one on the ground
and one suspended over the engine
The inventor thinks a speed OF 100
miles an hour can he obtained, and he
intends 10 put the engine to a practical
test.
BosTON's biggest Unitarian clergyman,
Drs. Hale and Bartol, have eacn a
daughter who. has skill as painter.
Mis- Hale has painted her fathers por-
trait, Miss Bartol has done the same by
her sire, and Miss Clarke, the daughter
of another late famous Boston Unfair
ian clergyman, has Just completed a
good likeness of her late illustrious
father.
A DRUM owned by Horace Thomas, OF
Nisalia, Cal. was carried bv his father
in the battle of New Orleans, and after
wards sounded its notes of alarm at the
battle OF 11ppecanoe and Rising River.
i was made from a sycamore log. the
heart OF which had been followed out,
and both heads are gone, but 1t is highly
priced as a relic.
CATS as general thing do not like
water, even though they are good swim
meTs. \ man in Clayton, n. y, has
large Maltese that Is an exception.
This animal takes TO water even more
kindly than spaniel. He will go into
the water on his own account, and
seems to enjoy it hugely. Like dog
he will bring back a stick thrown in the
water. e7
CAPT. JACK WILLIAMS, Maltese swim
mer, tioated down the Mississippi River
from Alton to st. Louis with his legs
tied together and his hands tied behind
his back. He started at IL A. NJ. and ar
rived at st Louis at in the evening, "a
large number OF people being on the
bridge to receive him. He foated all the
way on his. back, and was accompanied
by few friends in small toat. The dis
lance is twenty-five miles.