The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-11-03
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one tWo-hunuredthS OF an inch thick.
HUDSON, n. Y, has Stingy Club,
whose members pledge themselves
neither to treat nor TO accept treat.
The people OF Hudson always were
noted Tor their good sense.
ACCORDING to Prof Potter, asphalt, the
article OF prominent commercial inn
portance of the present day was used in
the building of the tower of Babel and
other ancient structures.
LARGE meteor passed over Minden,
La, recently, lighting up the sky for
several minutes so brightly that one
could see to read. 1t exploded with IA
report like that of a cannon.
HIGH up in the topmost branches of
large tree that was lelled near Winches-
ter, o., recently, petrltied fish was
found. 1t is supposed TO have been
dropped by all eagle or some bird of
prey.
THERE is such thing as being too
good. A womaa in Maine got a divorce
from her husband because he went to
temperance meetings six days during
the week and on Sunday went to church
twice.
The first cargo of pig iron shipped di
rect from the Birmingham and Chatta-
-nooga furnaces of Alabama and Tennes-
tsee has just reached Philadelphia by
the way OF Savannah. There were 1900
tons of it.
TIE Empress of Japan has established
| college for women, which is to be
| ruled by a committee of foreign ladies'.
Two OF these are Americans, two En-
gllsh and the other two French and
German, respectively.
The discovery and utilization OF
naturs gas have proved a powerful slim
| illus to the manufacture of iron pipes
and tubes IN this country; there are now
100 miles of mains i'll the United States
for conveying natural gas.
SYDNEY SPRAGUE, farmer living near
WapakOI eta, O., placed $475 in stove
for safe-keeping. Someone built fire
IN the stove while he was away from
nome, and the next money he gets he
Will put III the savings bank.
TIE sight of a negro butler CARRYING a
com on a silver salver to an organ
grinder in the front yard of one OF
Sprlngtie rs finest residences, the other
day, showed that Springfield is not to
be outdone in a matter OF Formally.
A ST. LOUIS hair-dresser says that
bald-headed women are far more num-
erous than people suspect, and that the
marked among society women than
among shop girls and working women.
A RESIDENT of Sioux City, Ia, who for
thirty years or more has grudgingly paid
taxes on 20 very poor Jersey acres, has
just sold them for above $37 900, in con.
sequence of the discovery thereon of a
bed of fine clay for tile, brick and pot
terry making.
'ali hot
Chinese of ii at state have leased
large farms at Fresno and are buildinga
packing house at Selma. This is an en-
deavor 10 head Oft the movement to sup
plant them with boys III picking and
canning fruit.
A NOVEL electric railway has been
completed, running from the shore of
Lake Lucerne over bed cut in the
solid rock to the summit of the Burgen-
stock, 800 feet up. 1t has 4 gradient
OF from 81 to 5S per cent. The electrici-
ty is generated by water wheel in the
River.Aar.
DR.. DONALD G. HOOP has collected
MANY facts relating to the use of salicylic
acid for rheumatism. OF 72S patients
treated with salicylates 523 were re-
lleved of their pains within seven days,
whereas of 6l2 patients treated by other
methods only 40 were relieved within
The same time.
AT recent fox hunt in England the
fox ran into church where afternoon
services were being held and hid himself
in the pulpit, where he remained till
dusk. His baffled pursuers came to
the church door, but could 90 no far
Their, and had TO give up the chase
much to their modification.
sTNnr-tn ha Nou,
York safe manufacturer, Eat the num-
Der of sham pasteboard safes in New
York, and they're made so well that
any ordinary person would be deceived.
They have a buslness-like appearance
and give an office thrifty look, all for
80 or So, whereas the real article would
cost something like 500.
THE people of Evanston, H., have hit
upon a device for rendering church
soclables more pleasant. Each person
Is gwen card on which dozen names
are written, and is required to talk five
minutes with every one whose name is
on the card. At the expiration of five
minutes a bell is struck and a new part
ner is sought. BY this plan wall flowers
are eliminated, everybody receives at
tentlon and cliques are broken up.
a NOVEL bet has been made between
Lockport, n. Y, newsman and a poll
tlcian, on the result of the national cleo
ton. If Cleveland is elected the poll
tician is to walk from the Opera House
square in JOckport to the soldiers mon
ument in Buffalo, and if Harrison be
elected the newsman will make the
pedestrian trip. Both men are in
earnest, and, to make the bet still more
novel, they are both lame, walking with
the aid of canes.
SETH ALLEN, aged II, of Columbia
Falls, Me-, is likely lad and will make
ms way in the world. When he was s
years old he, picked blueberries enough
10 buy pair of steer calves IN the fall.
lie broke them that winter, and the
following winter hauled laths from the
mills and thus earned enough to pay
for wiutering them. Last winter he
hauled wood with them and did other
Jobs enough to pay for their keeping,
and now has well grown yoke of cattle
worth S75, which he proposes to sell.
He will then raise another pair of
calves.
FROM Brownsburg, Ini., comes the
story (true OF course) that young lady
sent note to discarded lover, re-
.questing the return of lock of hair,
which, in the Wholesome hours os court
sup, nc ildA CliDpcu lIOLl bcl NidlblS
tresses. Rummaging his trunk he col
lected number of locks, culled from
various "best girls" during his love
making career, and forwarded them in
a bundle to the girl, inclosing a note to
the effect that he had really forgotten
which was hers, but she might select it
from those forwarded, and return the
rest at her convenience.
CITIZENS of st. Louis who were up
carly the other morning saw rare
sight. Two big flocks ofpelicans passed
over the city on their way South. They
flew SO low that the pouch under the
lower bill and throat of each could be
seen. The first flock, numbering over
100, flew slowly and in almost an I'M
broken single line. crossing the river to
the Illinois side and disappearing in the
distance. The second flock. following
close behind, seemed to have lost it's
way and circled over the river for ten
minutes; and then the leader suddenly