The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
PECULIAR APLS

ARMoRY Brown, of TAYLOR County
| Georgia, has hen egg that seems TO be
| magnetized. 1t will not lie on the side
| or on tie large end. 1t makes no diff
ference IN what position il is placed. it
| Will turn until it stands on the small
| end.
HE penny in SLOT machine must
| have reached its elimination in that
invent by a Mr.. Engelbert, which,
after the prescribed rule has been com
| pied with, will take your photograph,
finish 1t, and drop it out already
! framed.
THE most valuable catseye in the
world" has come 10 London from Cey-
+ Ion. 1T weighed originally when found
| by laboler ATS carats. He sold it for
80 rupees. 1t has teen cut and now
! weighs l70 carats, and is insured for 80
/ 600 rupees.
For forty-eight years there was not
law case In the town of Meddv-
| bemps, Me-, neither was there a LAWYER.
| But two weeks ago a lawyer hung out
| his sign in this primitive paradise, and
now two citizens are going to law over a
| fence line.
SOME people in Michigan made onions
J pay this year. A girl up in Dorr raised
| $50 bushels, which she traded for an
organ. Her father raised several thou
| sand bushels. held the IN for a raise, and
| then was tickled when he, at last, re-
ceived IS for the lot.
SEVERAL days ago lady in Perry. Ga,
saw a jay bird eating chicken on top OF
fence post. Only short while before
! the chicken had been seen III the ward
alive. OF course 1t was small chicken
| do al OH
large as its captor.
since the termination of the dynamite
| patent in 1881, there has been immense
| industry In the invention Of high cx-
| plosives, and there are now more than
30 varieties. A dynamite cartridge
| one foot in length. takes only LA 900 OF
a second to explode.
| JOHN FRANKLIN, of Athens, Ga. was
| very much surprised when he went TO
| his home the other night to find tina,
| during the day swarm of bees had
| taken possession of his house. They
| entered through knot hole in the
| weather boarding.
Tie French papers announce the ar
rival of two lions and two lionesses
| tanned by the "cele brated American.
| Daniel Boone" They are exhibited at
| the Folies- Bergere, and all Paris is flock
ing to see the moving spectacle provid-
| ed by the gallant Colonel.
ONE of the applicants for a public Of
| flee last week told President Harrison
that he was engaged TO be married, and
il ne didn't get the appointment he
would have to break the engagement
| The President promised to consider the
application at an carly date.
| a FISHERMAN at Winthrop, Me-, tells
that he caught a pickerel through the
ice on Lake Maranocook last January
and found in its stomach a roll of undi-
gested bank bills amounting TO $500.
| lie thinks that the money was lost by a
sporting man whose boat was upset on
the lake more than a year go.
One ofthe most fashionable of Phila-
delphia physicians always kisses his
| hand when waving farewell to his
wealthy lady patients; but some of them
were comparing notes the other day.
and found that for his visits when he
kissed his hand he charged $40, while
for others he charged only So
THE most grateful man in the world
has just died IN South African town.
After his death the following no ice ap-
peared in the local papers: "Died-At
the Albany Hospital March 3. 1889
Ebenezer Pike, aged SO years. +. Pike
| WISHES 10 express bis thanks TO the
| Superintendent of the hospital and the
many doctors who attended him in his
| late illness"
WoRKMEN digging for the new sewers
at Burlington, VT, came upon a group
of three skeletons, supposed to be the
remains of soldiers buried during the
war of 1912. Alter the excavation had
made further progress six more skele-
tons were found, two iron buttons with
| ~. S." on them, an old coin, a scarf
pin, and small green glass bottle.
A GENTLEMAN from Jackson County,
| Georgia, says that he hasa saddle horse
that has more sense than the average
school boy. He can ride his horse up
to his front gate, hitch him to a post,
and 90 into the front porch, and by
command make the horse unbuckle the
saddle and shake it off, slip the bride,
| open me lot gate with his nose, 60 into
the stable and close the door.
| THE London Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals directed its
officers to observe ''the thoughtless-
ness, heedlessness or cruelty of coach
men who keep their horses checked
while waiting outside of theaters and
public places. At the last drawing
room the duration of waiting was three
hours and quarter, and out of go
coachmen twenty-nine only had
| loosened the check rein.