The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1905-02-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES


1900 has been presented TO the Nation
oil Bible Society of Scotland.
The eagle was chosen as the symbol
of the United States by congress and
as such has been placed on certain of
the coins Of the country.
Six soyereigns have paid visits to
Dublin before Edward VII.-namely,
Henry H., Richard IL, James H., vii
liam Ill, George ". and Victoria.
1t was stated In the house OF com
mons the other day that thirty mem
bers Of the Irish Nationalist party
had served terms Of hard labor In pris-
on.
At sale of pictures In London a
portrait Of n lady by Gainsborough
realized $500 guineas, while q Romney
portrait OF a lady fetched 1000 gum
ecs.
More than 100000 of the 13, 100000
people Of Mexico do not work, and Of
those who do work 1,4SS,024 are in do
nestle service and 1lG,OOO are salary
earners.
The American Bible society, which
docs not pretend to print It's Bibles In
all languages, issues either the whole
Bible or portions of it in 242 languages
and dialects.
While scores of people We're running
from supposed mad dog in New York
a black tomcat sprang upon the ami.
mails back. and it quickly disappeared,
yelping as 1t went.
Abyssinia produces the finest ostrich
feathers the price there being S1.44
to 1921 per dozen for the best white,
96 cents to Sl93 dozen for black and
half as much for gray feathers.
Frank L. Frugone CBig Frank,
editor of the Italian Evening Bulletin
of New York, is going to stand for con-
gress, as Republican. against that
other big fellow, Tim Sullivan.
The Norwegian adelsthing has passed
a bill prohibiting the sale or export
abroad of ancient national relics, such
as old Morse coins, arms, Runic inscrip-
tons. remains OF Viking ships, etc.
The Montgolher balloon which made
the journey from Paris to Rome on
Dec. 2, 1904, the day Napoleon was
crowned by Plus VII, has just been
found in one Of the storerooms OF the
Vatican.
During the last twenty-four years
bS,651, 4I3 frozen meat carcasses have
been imported to London, an6 of this
huge total New Zealand has been re
sponsible for Al, 1o4, 020 and Australia
12,TG9,S50.
1t was noted with mingled awe and
delight by attentive English reporters
that King Edward on bis recent visit
to Ireland wore his hat slightly tilted
to the right" All loyal hats will now
be worn slightly tilted to the right
Some time ago 1t was decided to
plant In the garden OF Anne Hath.
away's cottage at Sbottery all the va
rious shrubs, flowers and plants men.
toned In Shakespeare's plays and son.
nets, and they are all in a fourishing
condition.
The Egyptian government has got Sir
William Arrol & Co., builders of the
Forth, 'Tas and Glasgow railway
bridges, TO construct the Nile bridges
Mt Rodda island, near Cairo The con-
tract, which is for 100000, was Sc
cured In face of strong continental
competition.
Statistics show that in the past
twenty or thirty years New York has
lost much ground in the export trade
relatively to outside ports. Its ship
ments Of wheat and corn in 1881, for
instance, were 60 per cent of the coun-
try's entire exports, whereas in 1903
the ratio was only ii per cent.
1t is reported that the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship company and
the Friedrich Krupp company intend
to erect shlpbulldIng yards on the Ems
Dortmund canal. in the vicinity Of the
coal lands which they recently pur-
chased. These shipyards are only to
build canal and river craft.
Duke OF Wellington, the Old time
battleship which led the British Baltic
TO be sold III auction. She is built OF
wood, has three decks and is $40 feet
long She has been used as Il depot
ship at Portsmouth for many years.
In war times she carried 10+ guns and
had crew Of over 1850 men.
4 young New York broker whose ia
ther has dropped two fortunes In Wall
street about year ago fell heir to
$50, 900 from the estate Of IN aunt. lie
at once employed an expert and pur. |
chased at pawnbrokers' sales and else /
where diamonds that took his whole
fortune. The other day be sold the |
whole lot at an advance OF $4,000. (
French society has begun TO rebel at I
tie printed list OF wedding presents.
1t Is no longer good form in certain
sets 10 run down the gamut in public
print Of the parental check down 10
the fish carver OF the servants han
TIE custom has become very ostpata.
tons aud given rise to much vulgar
speculation and mental arithmetic.
In order TO encourage Industrial en-
terpvlse The municipality Of Catania.