The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-04-25
SNAP SHOTS.

taking business at Bolivar, Mo.
II 1889 there were l53,9 dogs in
Kansas; in 1890, HI ,929; decrease, 6,0OS.
\ BETHLEHEM, Pa, saloonkeoper pro-
hibits gaming in his place on church
holidays.
\ MIRROR brought to this country in
l116 stands in the window of a Chester,
Fa., furniture store.
AT Baptist sociable TO be held in
Bristol, Pa, the attraction will be a nail
driving contest between four girls.
Two society women of Albuquerque.
from the use of cosmetics on their
faces.
\ LANc ASrER, Pa. man recently re-
ceived $50 through the mail, with a let
ter stating that ii was stolen from him
10 years ago.
EIGHTY THREE per cent. of the inmates
of Norristown. Pa. insane asylum had
the poetry habit before being sent
there.
\ RESIDENT of Jasper, Ga, killed
hawk q few days ago of great size. 1t
measured ) feet and : inches from tip to
tip of its wings.
A WELLINGTON. Kan. couple, who
met, were separated IN just two weeks
after they were married.
MENTION is made of child born at
Hartford, Conn, last month, which
weighed only two pounds and three
ounces when it was ) days old.
THERE is movement among the So
ciety young men of Jefferson City, Mo-.
10 have Just one more dance before new
onions annpar in he, mar kpt
WHILE the Canadian Dominion is CON
trolled by the Conservatives, every
province except British Columbia
will have Liberal government.
THERE lives at Fonda, Ga, man &
feet :; inches tail, and whose reach be-
tween finger tip and finger tip when
his arms are outspread is i feet.
BAY COUNTY, Mich, has paid for S.
045 sparrows since the sparrow law went
into effect, and it is claimed that these
birds are getting decidedly scarce.
\ l2-yEAR-oLD boy carries the mail
from Tucson to La Pas, Ariz. The dis
lance is seventytive miles, and the trail
is thought one of the widest portions
OF the territory.
\ LITTLE boy living near Lexington,
ia, though hardly / years old, can
spell from a book almost any word and
pronounce it, and can read as glibly as
as many child twice his age.
\ FAIRToN, y. i. ;, man locked his wife
in the hencoop because she had not
gathered enough eggs 10 satisfy his APP
petite for dinner.
II Maine, where prohibition has been
the law tor generation, Judge of a
municipal court has just been removed
from Office by the governor and Council
for continued drunkenness.
WHArisland was discovered Columbus
on his first American voyage is still I'M
known. The popular idea that Cat
Island was the one WAS exploded long
ago.
\ FEW years ago the great Selklrk
glacier Ill British Columbia was pure
water. Now IL is grimy from ashes scat
tered by the wanton burning of forest
trees.
IT is a mistake to suppose that polar
research has cost enormously in human
life. Despite all the great disasters 81
ont of every 100 explorers have returned
alive.
TIE lowest body of water on the
globe is the Caspian Sea. Its level has
been gradually lowering for centuries
and now it is - feet below the level of
L.
\ FARMER near BrOokViliC Ind. has a
hen which has laid two eggs of the soft
shelled variety, each large and fully de-
welcomed, and connected by a band like
an old fashioned pair of saddle BAGS.
TIE expedition of the National SEQ
graphic Society last year Knocked about
t 900 feet oil the top of Mount st. Elias,
but European scientists refuse to accept
the result until after further investiga-
tons
A PETITION was recently brought be-
fore the German Reichstag to enable
! women to practice medicine. The pc
tition was unsuccessful; and one of the
arguments brought against it was that
| in Russia the privileges accorded to
| women had led to the spread of revolu-
! tlonary doctrines.
\ LADY came to the polls in Fort
Scott, Has, who refused q ticket from
| those doing them out, saving she had
her ticket already prepared. She was
! allowed to have her own sweet way, ana
| when the ballots We're counted out her
registration certificate, with her name
| in bic letters. turned up all right.
| WOODEN nutmegS were a i ankee no.
| ton. but the manufacture of artificial
| coffee beans is German industry.
| These beans are intended to be used in
! trade for mixing with the genuine ar
! ticle, so that fastidious customers may
| have the whole roasted and ground be
| fore their ewes without suSpccting the
| fraud.
ONE hundred and fifteen servants is a
! great number to do the work of one
| house, but that is the size of the staff OF
| the Manhattan Club, New York, since
! it went into the Stewart mansion.
,It Il : !, 4
| board.
FoR the tirst time in the history of
| Savannah, ia, !; colored man was the
other day admitted to practice at the
! bar after passing Il most severe exam
! ination. \ leading member Of the bar.
I prominent in social life, advocated his
! admission.
| TIE stability Of the bicycle is due to
! turning the wheel to the right or left,
whichever way the leaning is, and thus
keeping the point Of support under the
| rider, Just as boy keeps upright on his
! finger a broomstick standing on its
smallest end.
! TIE fact that many of the houses OF
| Portland, ore, and San Francisco are
| built Of redwood j. given a. a reason for
the few destructive fires that occur in
| those cities. The wood is almost nnin-
tiammable. and, though fire will
| smolder in it, ii never blazcs.
! 4 RESIDENT of Camden, opposite Phil
| adelphia had nightmare and yelled
.'burglars - and murder" so loud
! that he drew to his house two letter
| carriers, who were promptly bounced
| upon by a policeman who thought thew
/ were the burglars, and he marched
| them off.
1HF following amusing advertisement
| evidently written in good faith, APP
| peared recently in a West Coast paper:
II want to let my furnished house
! shOotabic for legations or any other
| man. And if it does not shoot the lega-
| ton, can shoot himself elsewhere. Ap-
! ply 10 -
AN absurd case came before the ninth
! criminal court OF Paris recently. y
| chemist some time ago made some imi-
tatlon bank notes to prove the POSSIBLE
" of initiating a new issue. For this
| the Bank Of France is now irving 10