The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-08
BITS OF INFORM ALTON.

The San Francisco authorities are
considering an ordinance requiring
| uel petroleum to stand a 80 degree
| flask test.
The contingent of recruits for the
| Russian army this year Will be 250, coo,
| against 235, 900 men called out last wear
| it is understood.
SENATOR CHACE, of Rhode Island, has
never had his picture taken, although
p, photographers have often tried to en-
| trap him into a sitting.
| TIE largest market for the purchase
| and sale of mules Is St Louis, where
the trade reaches $4,000, 600 year. At
| lanta comes next with trade of 81 0O0-
| 600
THE old Confederate cruiser Shenan-
doah, Waddell's privateer, is being fit
ted up at San Francisco for service in
the coal-carrying trade on the Pacific
| coast.
THE controller Of Tennessee estimates
| that the increase of valuation in taxable
| property over the enJire state over
! 1887 will be between 100000 and
| 500, 100000.
SCULPToRs' clay is something that does
not GROW wild" everywhere, and it is
said that the best now in use by Ameri-
can artists comes from Federal Hill
near Baltimore.
| TIE wealthiest man in st. Louis is
| John i. Davis, dry goods merchant.
| He has fortune of from So 600 900 to
| 500 600 900, the foundation Of which was
laid by his father.
| TIE Knights of Columbus, in Bridge
port, Conn, have voted to take part in
| a movement of their order for celebrat-
| ing the tour hundredth anniversary of
the discovery of America.
| THE negro prisoners in jail at Macon,
| Ca, had IA fight the other day in which
the bones from round steak played the
part of brass knuckles. and a syrup jug
answered for a slungshot.
| SOME big peaches have been grown in
| Oregon this season. The record was
| beaten by an East Portland fruit grow
er, who raised peach that measured
II inches III circumference.
AN Iowa man has annihilated 40
snakes this season. He could have
made it an even 30 without numbering.
| his yeraclty, as the wiggters are multi
| plying rapidly in the state.
A SUIT in England has been carried to
| the Queens bench to decide whether or
| not q cemetery board must pay damages
| of 30 shlllings for removing an artificial
wreath from grave under their charge.
THE authorities of Green County, Ken
| lucky, recently imposed a fine of 5000
on the Louisville snd Nashville Rail
| road for breaking the Sabbath by dis
| tributing ties along the line of the road
A LUMP Ofpure copper, weighing more
| than eighty pounds and showing traces
| of an attempt to work it with made
tools, has just been found in Michigan
| fold fr1Ita ,,lana x1-ln
| such metal is usually found
LAST week in Sumner County, Ten
| nessee, at a wheat threshing, sparks
| from the engine fired the straw, and in
| the twlnkling of an eye almost the sep
| arator, wheat stacks and 800 bushels of
grain were turned to ashes.
THE French minister of war has Just
| issued an order forbidding soldiers to
salute by taking off their caps; they are
to touch their hair, reversing the hand
and showing the palm. Officers are to
touch the brim Of their kept.
An Italian physician claims to have
| discovered that the blood of an eel con-
| tainS poison of similar character to
the poison of vipers. He says an eel
of two kilogrammes has In its blood
enough poison to kill sly men.
THIRTEEN years ago a young man
named Iooie went West. and just before
| the Ashtabula disaster wrote bis family
in New Haven that he was about to
start for California. Nothing more was
heard of him, and he was mourned as
one dead of that tremendous accident.
The other day he walked into his old
home we'll and prosperous. He said
that he had written several letters home
and had received no answer; he was not
IN the Ashtabula disaster, but had been
making money in California.