The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1906-11-10

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u Bible Society of Scotland.
The eagle was chosen MS the symbol
Of the United States by congress and
"a such has been placed on certain Of
the coins Of the country.
Six sovercigns have paid visits to
Dublin before Edward NU.-namely.
Henry H., Richard H.. James H.. VII
liam ILL.,. George Nv. and Victoria.
It was stated in the house os COM
mons the other day that thirty men,
bcrs Of the Irish Nationalist party
had served terms Of hard labor In pris-
ou.
At sale Of pictures in London .
portrait Of lady by Gainsborough
realized $500 guineas. while Romney
portrait Of 4 lady fetched 1000 gum.
0AS.
More than 1900, 900 of the 1880 ooo
people Of Mexico do not work. and Of
those who do work LASS, 024 are In do.
nestle service and 10000 are SALARY
earners.
The American Bible society. which
DOES not pretend to print its Bibles In
all languages. issues either the whole
Bible or portions Of 1t in 242 languages
and dialects.
While scores Of people were running
from supposed mad dog in New York
q black tomcat sprang upon the AMI
mails back, and 1t quickly disappeared,
yclp!nx AZ It went.
Abyssinia produces the finest ostrich
feathers. the price there being Sl.4A
to $2.31 per dozen for the best white,
90 cents to $1.03 a dozen for black and
half ~ much for gray feathers.
Frank L. Frugons c'BlG Frank'h
editor OF the italian Evening Bulletin
Of New York. Is going to stand for con-
gross. AZ 4 Republican. against that c
other big fellow. Tim Sullivan,
The Norwegian adelsthing has pusseti
Z blu prohibiting the Saie or export
abroad Of ancient national relics. such
- old Morse coins, arms, Runic inScr1p.
tons, remains Of viking ships, etc.
me Montgoldes balloon which made
tho journey from Paris to Rome on
Dec. Z, 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 Year,
%, AIS frozen meat carcasses hare
been imported to London. ana of this
huge total New Zealand has been ~.
sponsible for 41.154 020 and Australia
12,788.s50.
It was noted with mingled awe and
delight by attentive English reporters
that King Edward on his recent visit
to Ireland worc his hat slightly tilted
to the right" Al loyal hats will now
b worn slightly tilted to tho right
Some time ago 1t was decided t.
plant In the garden Of Ammo Hath.
away's cottage at shottery alI the Va
rious shrubs, flowers and plants men
toned In Bhakespeare's plays and aon-
nets. and they are oil in = nourishing
condition
The Egyptian government has got Sir
william Arrol e. Co.. builders OF the
Forth. Tay and Glasgow railway
bridges. to construct tho Nile bridges
at Rodda island. near Cairo. The con.
tract. which u for 100000, wns ~
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 trlAs
relatively to outside ports. Its ship
ments of wheat and corn In 1881, for
insta nee, were 90 per cent OF the coun.
try's entire exports. whereas in 1908
the ratio was only ~ per cent.
1t 10 reported that the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship company and
tho Friedrich Krupp company intenA
to erect shipbuiIding yards on the Ems
Dortmund canal, In the vicinity Of the
coal lands which they recently puH
chased. These shipy ards are only to
build canal and river craft.
Duke Of Wellington. the Old time
batueship which led tho British Baltic ;
neet In the Russian war In lS54-oG. - :
20 BE- sold at auction. She - built Il
wood, has three decks aud Is 40 test
long. She has been used A. depot
ship at Portsmouth for many ysArA
In war times she carried 1A guns and
had q crew Of over 1000 men.
A young New York broker whose IA
Their has dropped two fortunes In Wall
street about 4 year ago fell heir to
$50 900 from tho estate Of An aunt He
at once employed an expert and pur-
chased at pa wnbrokers' sales And elss-
where diamonds that took biz whole
fortune. The other day hs sold the
whole lot At an advance Of 5000.
French society has begun to rsbsl at
he printed list OF wedding prssents.
II II no longer good form in certain
ssts TO run down the gamut in public
print Of the parental check down to
the ash carver Of tho servan0' hall
The custom has become very ostenA-
tious and :.-an rse TO much vulgar
speculation and mental arithmetic.
In order to encourage industrial "a.
terprise the municipality OF Catania.
Italy. has decided to award 4 premiun