The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-03-15
ITEMS OF UNREST.

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A SANTA Rosa, Cal, furniture man last
week filled an order for a mattress. 1t
WAS seven feet SIX inches long, and Will
be used by newcomer from Missouri.
A Polk County, Fla, hunter has taken
novel contract. He has agreed to
capture alive an lo-foot alligator for the
Sub-Tropical Exposition.
EDWARD Il. O. MOORE, of Brooklyn.
claims to have solved the problem of
squaring the circle, and has written a
pamphlet to prove it.
A LARGE number of people ate nded
the free recital which the members of
the Milwaukee School of Music gave last
evening at the Atheneum. The per-
formers acquitted themselves very cred
itably.
AN American just returned from st.
Petersburg says there are only fifteen
citizens OF this country resident in that
city. If the minister only had to en-
terrain his countrymen he could lay up
some of his salary.
An Emporia. kas., girl wrote to Jay
Gould and asked him To give her black
silk dress, as she was about to be mar
ried and her folks were too poor to buy
her one. Although she has written
four melting episiles to the autocrat she
still has no black silk.
IT very seldom happens that bees will
make their honey and comb in the open
air, but such case has been found in
the orange grove of W. L. Dolive, south
east of Orlando. Fla. where swarm of
bees have made a large piece of honey
on the limb of one OF the orange trees.
TIE winnings of Melchior Farkas, the
lottery swindler, who was arrested a
ch nrf
all told, TO 655, 900 guldeG. During the
quarter of century in which he
carried on his neiarlous practices, he
paid 100000 gulden for tickets and
chances.
DR.. S. WEIR MITCHELL, of Phlladel-
phia, recently received a rather curious
present from young lady whom he
had rescued from nervous invalidism.
1t was a cord of white oak, chopped
dow n and sawed Up by her own hands,
and sent as cIrcumstantial evidence of
tie health she had gained by following
his directions to live an opens air life in
the woods.
AN llyear old negro boy was bitten
by a rattlesnake on the c. Z. Charles
plantation, six miles east of Tallahassee,
one dav last week, and died from the
effects of the poison. He ran his hand
INTO hollow log TO catch a rabbit; the
snake was coiled up inside, struck the
hand with its poison tangs, and death
soon followed.
THE rigid enforcement of the game
laws in the state of Massachusetts will,
at no late day, result in restocking the
nearly devastated woous, which, espe-
cially IN the region from Plymouth to
the Cape, are agniticent. Already
q ct q u q
wich, and in few seasons quail and
small game will again be plentiful.
The English Government has been
redeemiug at their nominal value the
old gold coins that have become short
weight through much use, with the idea
of ge ting them out Of circulation. 1t
was supposed that there We're 500, 000,-
0t0 worth of such coins in the country,
but the call only brought out about half
that sum. This month the old rule of
taking such COINS only by weight will
90 into force again.
The family of Lyngos have long been
famous as bandits In Greece The most
renowned was the old chief who was
killed in 1870 by his nephew, who gain
ed a reputation for daiIng bravery in the
Peloponnesus almost equal to that of
his farfamed uncle. He was captured,
however. a few days ago, and now
awaits his fate behind the prison bars OF
one of the villages which he often pill
LACED i'll days gone by.
ABOUT year ago Miss Kate 3. Me-
Laughlin, 22l Monroe Street, Chicago,
was made n notary public. Since that
time her hame has been changed to
Mrs. Kate B. Reynolds by marriage.
Now she writes to the secretary OF state
asking if her former notarial seal and
name are good. The secretary Of state
replied that she cannot now perform the
functions of a public notary under her
former commission. This is said to be
the first instance OF this kind which
has arisen in the state.
Two barrels of fish entirely new to
New \ ork markets were received late
lv at the Fulton wholesale fish market
from the Bermudas. They looked a
little like porgies, and everyone who
bought them supposed they were por-
gies, though four months ahead of the
season. They were p!ntish, or Charles
ton Dream. These fish are usually SO
small off the South Carolina coast that
they are not used as food. Off the Ber-
mudas they grow large and fat.
THE old Garibaldi homestead, at Cliff
ton, l.. L., which WAS presented to the
| l.
Bachmann, is likely to revert 10 the lat
ter. The Italian consul in New York,
and the trustees appointed to look after
the property, refuse to pay 6 bill of $500
for taxes and repairs, the latter saying
that the Italian Government should pay
the bill, and the consul insisting that
the trustees must meet the debt. Mr..
Bachmann SAYS he will take the house
back.
A FRENCH official, returning to his
home in the suburbs, a few days ago, his
wife and family being absent. found
burglar asleep on the sofa in the parlor,
with his Jimmy and skeleton keys bv his
side, and a lot of jewelry and other val
uables packed up to take away. He was
unable to arouse the man, even by shak
ing him, and when he sent for the DO
lice they had 10 throw cold water in the
mans ACE to bring him to. 1t turned
out that he had found bottle which
contained something that looked like
| wine, and had taken drink. 1t was
really powerful narcotic and put him
to sleep.
TIE London correspondent of an En-
glish paper alleges thai the Prince of
Wales has Instituted the custom OF
weighing both the coming and the part
ing guest at Sandrlneham Palace. At the
first opportunity after arrival the
guest is weighed, and his weight record
ed in book kept for that purpose, and
he Is weighed again on the morning OF
his departure, and another record
| made, accompanied by the autograph of
the guest One OF tne latest signatures
in the book is that Of Salisbury, and his
weight is put at IS stone plump.
ETHAN ALLEN, Pickaway County co.
farmer, hiss had a 5000 renter on his
farm. When he came to settle with him
the renter told him be had not realized
q cent Oft the property in Fix years.
The owner said: 81 do not want man
to work on my farm and make no
money. You say you have made moth
ing for the past six years: the times
have been hard and you are the kind
OF a man We want Oh our farm. | want
You to stay on the farm. and Ii you will