The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-13
INFORMATION IN BRIEF.

MoNRovIA, Cal, boasts of plenty of
Crawford peaches weighing a pound
apiece.
A NEW dinner-table wrinkle is dish
OF dark-colored Jelly, in the center of
which is an electric light.
AN honest driver of Pawtucket, r. l.,
who returned bag of silver forgotten
on his ear to the owner, was showered
with thanks, but nothing more sub
stantial.
IT is rumored that the real object of
the German expedition for Emin Pasha
Is the acquisition OF territory, the Ger
mans thinking that that is SANKEY'S
real purpose.
ADwELLER in the country has observed
that good file Is now a part OF the out
fit OF the professional tramp. He finds
it useful when there is barbed wire
fence between him and something de-
sirable.
Two Russian savants, Prof. Markoff
and NJ. Popoff, accompanied by six
guides, succeeded IN reaching the top
of Great Ararat recently. They erected
cairn at the summit III commemora-
ton of the event.
PRINCE EUGENE, youngest son of the
king of Sweden. is r radical and believes
III republican form Of government.
lie has Just withdrawn from the Free
Masons because he thinks that order, in
Scandinavia, is too conservative.
THE immovable boy" is the latest
device to attract notice to shop. He
stands outside the door without moving
a muscle, wlnklng, or smiling. He is
so noticeable by his impassiveness that
one naturally inspects everything that
he wears.
THE following notice is posted promi-
nently IN a downtown office in New
York; We Have Time for Business or
Social Calls, But our Opinions on Reli-
gion, Politics and Baseball Are so set
tied that We Do Not Wish to Discuss
Them.
THE German military authorities have
experimental successfully with night
attacks by the aid of electric light. The
beam of the iigat is reflected from a
mirror go yards distant from the lamp,
SO that the enemy cannot tell where
the battery is.
GEORGE w. CHILDs, of Philadelphia,
has Just received a perfect copy of the
rare Saur Bible. This rare work was
presented to him by a grandson Of the
original printer of the book IT is as
large as a modern pulpit Bible, with a
mosaic cover, and IS strongly bound.
IL digging we'll near Cherokee, last
week, the digger dropped on something
about 80 feet below the surface that is
wtite as chalk, free from grit, and
about the consistency of dough. 1t is
thought to be Chewinggum vein. If
1t proves to be such it will be bonanza.
TIE champion fat boy of Virginia is
Melbourne Grubb, of Wythevllle, who
is 10 years old and weighs 2lO pounds.
He is five feet two inches tall and meas
ures forty-seven inches around the
waist, orty-iour around the chest and
twenty four around the thigh.
A LOBSTER weighing twenty-five
pounds was caught at Pier l, North Riv-
er, by small boy. who being hungry,
sold it to a New York restaurant pro-
prietor for cup of coffee and two rolls.
The restauranteur putthe lobster on ex-
hibition in his window.
WHEN the great gun which has
thrown a ball eleven miles happens to
be aimed north, a lateral deviation of
two hundred feet must be taken into
account for the difference in rotating
speed between the spot where it is fired
and the spot where the missile will
strike