The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-05-16
LITTLE PARAGRAPHS.

a NEW Yorker PAID SZ,oDlof Drown
diane nd.
CHICAGO boasts of / ,46a hotels, with Il
total capacity of 135, 0G0 guests.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, has pair of twins
which weigh less than five pounds.
THE Ist of May was Chicago's moving
day, and 1900 homes were changed
ALLEGAN, Mich, has an oil well. but
its production is only twen1y-tour bar
rels daily.
LIGHTNING struck ten COWS at one
crack in Brown County, Has, the other
day.
The tide of immigration is rapidly
turning toward the states of Washington
and Oregon.
\ YELLOW hen with a blue tail is the
subject of an interesting lawsuit IN the
Alabama Court.
THE old plantation mel ,dies are said
to be giving place to Moody and Sankey
tunes among the negroes.
THE center of the spruce gum industry
is St Johns, n. b. The crop is the
most profitable of any in the farmers
category.
AN Idaho newspaper has been ex-
changed for mule. IN explanation
the new editor states that the mule was
old.
THE prisoners in the city jail at Atchi
son became so interested in a discussion
of the Scriptures that they came to
blows.
THE citizens of Athens, Ga, beseech
their Council to pass an ordinance for
the mllzzllng of cats. The animals are
too noisy O nights.
THERE are twentv-six monarchies and
tx, ~ N a. rIN
world to-day; sixteen republics are in
South America.
THE pool sellers in New York, having
the conviction of one Of their number
before their eyes have changed their
designation to commission houses
IT is said that an effort is being made
to purchase, for the Worlds Fair in
Chicago. the house in Salem. Mass, in
which Nathaniel Hawthorne was born.
ANDERSON GRAY has 600 acres of
wheat in Sumner County, Kan, and
has leased 5000 acres in the Cherokee
nation which he will put III wheat this
fall
>ANDFoRD MiNTER, a negro of Amer
icus, Ga, having prophcsied that he
would die Tuesday last. disappointed Il
a large number Of friends 10y continuing
to live
\ YOUNG LAWYER in Springfield, Mo,
took an appeal from a justice because
the court was suffering from a severe
attace Of grippe when Ii" rendered his
decision.
\ QUAIL flew straight through heavy
glass window in the Hannibal, No, post
office the other day 1t was moving
in the glass very little larger than its
body.
AN 1S-year-old West Virginia girl
smashed the head of a burglar with an
AK Il night or two ago, and while the
married men of the community are
pointing to her with pride, the unmar-
ricd ones are viewing her with alarm.
VICE is slowly encroaclIng on virtue.
Last year men were allowed to smoke
on the two back seats Of the summer
cars; this year they are allowed to
smoke on the three back seats.
THEmain reasonwhy there are so many
back Sliders in the church Is because
they never intended to take more than
short walk toward heaven to begin
with.
One of the assessors near indianapolis
called at the house of an old woman
whose furniture was valued at 30 cents.
Under the law he had to place the
value at 81, which would make her tax
a fraction over a cent. As he was about
to leave he discovered that she was the
owner of six dogs on which she was as
sessed Sl1.
NEXT fall a gentleman 53 years of age
will enter the class of ~ of Princeton
College. During the civil war he was q
sophomore in that institution, but left it
to fight for his country. As he consid
bot I, I.,t. I'm
settled now. he intends to return and
finish his college course.
THE Young ladies who reside upon
Foundry Street, Detroit, lave petltioned
the City Council for change in its
name, declaring that the Young gentle
men who call upon them 'wlckedly,
maliciously and against thc peace of the
State of Michigan refer 10 1t as Pig
Iron" alley.
DEs MolxEs' Prohibition mayor has
been found in state of helpless lntoXi-
cation. He says he drank two glasses
Of cider which did not agree with the
medicine he was taking for the grippe.
His enemies say the medicine was
whisky.
\ VOTING man at Lawrence, Kan. took
his best girl buggy riding and kept her
out until o'clock in the morning. The
family remained up to receive them,
and the mother of the girl caned the
Young man until she was exhausted.
ANoNG the recent inventions Is cal
endar tina: will register for the next 200
wears. besides telling any date figure
within that period. \ gum moistening
apparatus for postage stamps Is also an
invention.
4 KANSAS woman boasts that she
never appeared on the street twice
within the same week in the same
dress Her husband Is wearing a suit
| this spring which he bought four years
ago. and a hat of the vintage 1879
\ NEW motor. utilizing ordinary gas
as well as petroleum. j announced,
! compact in form, requiring little space
and no extensive foundation Ur attend
! ance. In one-hdlf minutes time start
| ing can be accomplished
| ORNTTHoLoGISTs tell us that when feed
! ing the stride of the ostrich l. from 20
! to - inches; when walking but not
| feeding. 26 inches. and when terrified,
| from II! 10 II feet, or at the rate Of about
! - miles an hour.
! AN artist has been looking through
/ the Boston cemeteries and finds to his
/ surprise that there Il. no monument IN
anv of the cemeteries there that II
/ worth over 5000 The Chadwick
I tomb cost about S25, 100, but that Is not
! classed with monuments.
! THE Vienna House Uife's Society
I started about seven years ago, and mas
/ taught the noble art Of housekeeping to
| more than Go girls, and il now TO give
! courses Of instruction To nursemaids and
! governeSSes.
NEGEIAIL.s in the Alps recedes down
| ward from year to year, Formerly Al