The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-04-19
ALL ROUND ITEMS.


AN Eastern syndicate has bought the
street railroad system of Pueblo, COL,
Tor $4,000
THE Gainesville, Fla, Furniture Com
pany has Just completed a table COM
posed of 900 pieces of wood OF differ
ent kinds and coiors.
IT is said that the Georgia Railroad is
the only railroad OF its size in the word
that has never killed a passenger and
never had a mortgage on 1T.
Two Chester fishermen quirrelled
about the ownership of a boat ana
neither would surrender his claim.
The boat was finally sawed in two and
each took part.
Hello, Jakey. What's der natter"
Jakey (crying 81 just swallowed a
dollar bill. Now Pm in dollar and
out a dollar, and can't keep my books.
-Ne,o York Uerald.
A MAN with a penchant for statistic IS
has computed that more than 100000
miles OF blood pass through the veins of
an ordinary human being during life
time OF seventy years.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Times-Star, writing from Nashville, SAYS
that i'll the Tennessee penltenlarv wo-
men are stripped to the waist and
logged on the bare back.
A CAT in Millville, \. j., finds pleas
| ure i'll swimming, and often catches fish
IN shallow water with its paws. at has
been known to swim in pursuit OF a
dock rat clear across the river
A PARIS thief stole the horse out of
the shafts of a cab while the driver
slept, and, mounting 1t, was riding OFT,
and would have got away if Lassing
citizen had not wakened the driver.
Mr.. Il. |. YouNG brought to the office
Of the Press, at Middletown, Pa, q
glass of apple butter that was made by
his mothers grandmother in the year
1926, making it slxty-iour years old. 1t
is a little tart.
TIGER hunting is pleasant pastime in
Georgia. The man who wants to en-
gage in this dangerous sport can find
good, healthy tigers in Bullock and
Newton counties. L, has not been set
tied how the tigers got there. All the
same they are there.
TIE supervisors of San Francisco have
passed an ordnance for the removal OF
Chinatown from the heart ofthe city. 1t
provides that alter sixty days it shall be
unlawful for the Chinese to reside or do
business in the locality where they now
have their quarters.
BARNEY MCGUlE, aged So, who has
been i'll prison thirty-hye years of his
life, pleaded guilty in Rochester to lar
ceny, saying he had no home or friends,
and wanted TO go to prison for life.
The Judge gave the old man fourteen
| months sentence to Auburn.
A LINcoLNvILLE man, James NJ. Snow,
| who pissed 1.-The weed, lately died.
and in his will he provided for the edu-
cation OF his two grandchildren, James
w. aid Fred Allen Snow, on condition
| that they abstain from all Intoxicating
| liquors and also from the use of tobac-
CO.
john CozZENS was buried at New
Brunswick, \. j. Just as the funeral
procession was moving away 1t was dis
covered that thirteen carriages were in
the line. One carriage was hastily
withdrawn IN Difference to the opinions
o those who believed that the mum Der
thirteen was unlucky.
WOLVES are very thick on Beaver
| Creek, in the northwest part o. Aipena
County, Mich. They have driven a
Woodsman into the river, and il his cries
HAD not brought help they probably
would have eaten him. After nighttall
| they have followed the teams to the
| landings, coming within few rods OF
| the log woOdsmen.
ATthe last drawing of the Panama lot
terry one OF the prizes of 100000 francs
was drawn by the number of the ticket
held by poor man living on the 18TH
| mus. Unfortunately, however, owing
| to poverty and distrust, he had neglect
ed to pay the remaining installment due
fr,.lyn Il fnr Fa
| the luck that had come to him.
THE Columbus Railroad follows in a
| straight line the trail of the Indians
1GG years ago. 1t also follows the path
| taken by ten. Andrew jackson in his
| march to Florida in 1918. At that time
| he camped for the night at what is now
the present village of Sasser. BIazes
made by him are now seen on some of
the trees along the route.
MARGARET THoRNE, Of Accomack, Va,
| is veritable "strong man" in strength
and size, for though she is 80 years old
she weighs nearly 800 pounds and
equals any man in physical proves.
| She has at last been placed under lock
and key by the authorities of the town
| in which sht, lives. For many wears
she has defied arrest, though convicted
by the courts.
II tearing down the steeple of the
Baptist Church in Iumpkin, Ga, one of
the workmen found a smoothing plane
in a secluded corner. The tool had
probably been forgotten and left there
by carpenter who assisted in building
the church over forty years ago. The
plane is in good state of preservation,
and after its long rest will again be used
in making shavings.
EVAN ADAMS, of Pleasantvil!e, \. j.,
who has had 1875 house-keepers since
the death OF his wife, about seven years
ago, was driven, the other day. to the
roof OF mis- house by his last house
keeper, who, armed with an ak, had de-
manded her wages and letter which
she claimed he bad intercepted. She
recovered her letter, but was compelled
to leave without her wages.
A BROTHER and sister took to the
| woods near Athens. Ga, when their
father was removed to an insane asylum,
They suffer no one to approach them,
always running away. They have an
ak, pistols and vicious bulldog with
them, and it is ssid the dog is as venom
| Gus in his onslaughts against mankind
as wild tiger. The negroes live upon
parched corn and such game as they
can kill during the day, and sleep in a
little shanty built IN the remotest forest
| IN the neighborhood. The negroes are
terrified almostto death.