The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-26
BY THE WAKSIDE


cheaper telephone service.
wax monument of Gen. Grant is on
exhibition in New York.
PINK teas are more fashionable than
green teas, but are less common.
AT Los Angeles, Cal, few DAYS ago
the mercury stood at 96 in the shade.
THE anti Chinese sentiment is appar-
emily gaining strength throughout Aus
tralia.
Noah WEBSTER was acquitted in Mary
land recently of the charge of violating
the oyster law.
A BREAKFAST salad recommended for
this time of the year consists of lettuce
hearts and new tomatoes.
The human heart has to do as much
work in twenty-four hours as machine
would to lift 125 tons of iron.
THE name of the noted writer of nov
els picturing the life of Norwegian sail
ors is, very appropriately, Jonas Lie.
Miss MoLLIE LoCKHART, of Socorro.
n. NJ, has parrot that sits on its perch
and sings "Mollie Darling" all dav
long.
New England constable, who has
had great experience with tramps, SAYS
he has never seen one with bald
head.
A FLORIDA town has sent a petrifed
ham to the Sub-tropical Exposition,
and all the railway restaurants have an
eye Oh it.
AN English peer, whose revenues
have been reduced, has accepted po-
sition as drummer for piano forte
manufacturer.
The Salvation Army conducts 9,1OO
professions weekly through the streets
of the British Kingdom, or an average
of l 300 per day.
A New York scribe says that the
typewriter as an invention for catching
husbands becomes more and more sue
cessful everywhere.
A LOUISVILLE man called on hotel
keeper at Bullitt County, Ky, the other
day and paid 70 cents for meals he had
eaten fifteen years ago.
A YOUNG man in Reading, Pa, is seri-
ouslv i'll from the effects OF kissing
girls rouge painted cheeks. Tie warn
ing will not be needed however.
A YOUNG man in Maine is accused of
having voted thirteen times at one
election, and he is in fair way to be
convinced that the number is unlucky.
THE principal liquor seller in South
ern town is named Nermillion, and he
plate painting the town red.
A KENTUCKY man, who is the son Of
congressman and brother-in-law to two
state senators has been sent 70 the pen
itentiary for the theft of a suit of
clothes.
A Swiss watch manufacturer has lust
invented watch for the blind on the
dial of which the hours are indicated by
twelve projecting pegs, one of which
sinks every hour.
An Albany cattle broker is so much
afraid of meeting death in a violent
form that he cannot be persuaded to
ride on railroad train or steamboat. or
even behind a horse.
NORFOLK, Va, claims the distinction
Of being the worlds greatest peanut
market. 1t disposes every year of 2,
000,0 bushels of peanuts, most of
which are grown in Virginia.
The managers of the Cincinnati Ex-
position have obtained number of
gondolas from Venice, and propose to
have them on exhibition on small lake
attached to the fair grounds.
". w. Brown, of Wayne County,
Ohio, is the oldest office holder in that
section. He has served fifty years as
school director in Clinton Township
and has just been reelected.
MATTHEW WEIGH, of near Burgetts-
town, Pa, was disturbed the other
night by dreaming that.his sons horse
had died. He arose early, went to the
stable and found the animal dead
AN Indiana lawyer, who has been
looking up the matter little, finds there
are 800 dead laws on the statute books
of that state, every one of which can be
q ken al vunta0a nf Inv a ri la
TIE severest trial encountered by the
Women's Council at Washington is said
to have been when the president asked
those who were present at the Seneca
Falls meeting, forty years ago, to stand
up.
NONE of the general officers of the
army is credited TO the West or South
Ohio has three sons in commanding POI
sitions, New York three, Pennsylvania
two and Maine and Massachusetts one
each.
SrEILACooM, W. T., although a very
small town, is incorporated and under
the laws of the territory receives 5000
per month from liquor licenses, al |
though there are but two saloons in the
place.
As an evidence of the progress that
modern ideas are making in Japan, it is
stated that that country is now building
tbirty-four new railroads, at a cost of
$50, 900, 900, and it has hundreds of miles
already built.
EDWARD j. I.EEDoM, the Reading Rail
road conductor who has been sent 10
the Harrisburg Lunatic Asylum, was an
inyeterate smoker, and 1t is said that
his excessive indulgence in the habit al
fected his mind
AT Reading, Pa, an unknown man
sprang upon Mrs. w. j. Miller, a
young woman, while she was in her
kitchen, covered her face with a shawl
and cut from her head her long and
superb suit of hair.
SAN Francisco is short of sailors The
coasting trade is so brisk that all the
seafaring men who want jobs can get
them; and the result is that, at last ac-
counts, twenty ships laden with wheat
were waiting to find crews.
A KENTUCKY newspaper claims that
the invention of the drink known as q
Tom and Jerry for Jack Shingler, an
eccentric old shoemaker, who original
ed it third of century ago and
named it after Thomas Jefferson and
the biblical prophet Jeremiah.
YEARS ago we heard a great deal about
May day; but May is too early a date
for healthy plcknicklng in this country,
and the festival fell out of the calendar.
Arbor Day is a natural and proper sue
cessor. The Maypole has been dis
placed by an April sapling Philadel-
phid Record
A RECENT lecturer warns his hearers to
have nothing whatever to do with a
man of genius. This is going little too
far. We may venture to shut the door
alter him. or we may try to keep him
from losing his keys without getting
serious harm in return.-LomsriUe
COurier-J0urndI
A 5-YEAR-oLD daughter of John Col
son, of Americas, Ga, was feeding their
young chickens, and they had gathered
in her lap as she sat on the ground. A
large hawk darted down and caught one
of them, carrying it off. The little girl
was very much frightened, and ran cry
ing to her mother.
PULP WINTER. of New Haven, CT,
Smelled something in his cellar and IN