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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
HYDE Park.

Hyde Park is a great place to study
English society from outside. Before
noon it is given up to children riding
with their masters or grOomG, or walk
ing with their nurses and governes5es-
such children as one seldom sees no
where else, with golden hair, great
eyes, angels faces and prise calves. =
From twelve till two o'clock daily hun
dreds of men and women on horseback
pass along Rotten Row, the great ride
of the park, where no wheeled thing ev-
er enters, and almost without exception
these men and women are well-dressed,
well mounted, and followed by we'll
dressed, well mounted grooms. Under
the noble trees of the wide gravel
walks which border the ride lounge
hundreds and hundreds of men and
women on foot, watching the riders
Between two and three o'clock riders
and walkers have disappeared; every
body is at luncheon. Three hours
later the park is crowded again, but
everybody is driving now; you see few
on foot, and hardly any one on horse
back, but every sort of vehicle, from
the four-in-hand drag, down through
all varieties of the coach species, open
and close, to the pony phaeton. And
what strikes an American most is that
none of these people have anything to
dO.-Octo6er Number Of Lippincot's
MOQuzipe,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
Products of France.

France, with an area of 1872, 900, 900
acres, leas than Texas, 154, 000,0 900
acres, produced in 1868 100000, 900
In the same year produced but no.
600, 600 bushels In 1867 we exported
50, 500, 900 worth of wheat to England,
while France exported S11, 900, 900 of
butter alone to spread upon 1T; or more
butter III money value than all our
breadstuffs together.
France produced $50, 900, 900 bushels
of oats against 10, 000 900 for the Uni
ted States 10000, 900 bushels rye
against our 10000, O00 10000, 900 bu
shells barley against our II, 800, 900
and $4,000, 900 bushels buckwheat
against our $4,000, 900. And though
her grazing area and pasture IS soimlt-
ed in comparison with ours, she had
4, 900, 900 horses and mules against our
4, 250,0 900 $4,000, 900 of cattle TO our
Is, 900, 900 and 80, 900, 600 sheep to our
"a, 900, 600 We regard the smaller agri-
cultural industries Ill this country as
of little value, and not deserving ser
ious attention but France exported to
England alone III 1866 as much in value
of eggs as we did of bacon and ham to
all the world France has territory
that divides but 81 acres to each in
habitant, while ours divides more than
fifty.
In all her industries, III fact, France
proves more than match for us, as
well as in agriculture. We beat her Ill
cotton and tobacco, and there we rest
| For the year 1868 her imports were
S679, 900, 900, and her exports S5Sl,
| 900, 900 while for the same year the
imports of the United States We're 1881, ;
! 900, 900, and the exports $44l, 900, 900,
of which S72 000,C00 was gold and sill
yer, and $163, 900, 900 cotton !; and as
France exported neither of these, there
was really, but S206, 600, 900 left to re-
present the whole product of our agrl-
cultural and manufacturing industry fol
export, against the S5S1, 600, O96 which
represents the exports Of France. Two
ffths of the population reside III the
cities and three fifths in the country
and more than two thirds of the people
own the houses they occupy, and two
thirds of the entire area Is under yearly
cultivation,
This is because Of that minute sub
division of land which gives SO many
freeholds to the people, and makes the
once vast idle estates of the mobiles and
clergy forever impossible. The law
rigidly divides all patrimonies equally
among children, SO that there are row
over 3 600, 900 farms in France of ten
acres, and less, area. France has q
population of $4,000, 200, and that OF
the United States is about the same.
Who can question the ability of the first
nation in Europe, industriaily consid-
cred, to rise triumphant from its recent
military reverses, and resume her form
er place and influence among the ma
tiOnS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
A Horrible Scene,

A correspondent who witnessed the
Saturday, thus describes the death of
Wilbur:
ed to climb into the Lasket, but was I'M
able to do SO, and the balloon shot up
rapidly with the professor hanging be
low. The spectators were thrilled with
horror at the terrible scene, which end
ed III dreadful manner At the height
of about one mile, the doomed man
loosed his hold ahd came whirling to
the earth. At the height he had at
tanned he looked like little stick about
a foot long As lie approached the
earth he was coming down feet foremo st
and then spread them out sideways; then
doubled up and turned over; then
Strengthened out, head downwards. As
he struck the earth he fell upon his
head, and the back of his head was
mashed into az indistlnguishable mass
and his body bruised and crushed hor
rbly. The conclusion was so great
that half gallon Of blood was thrown
from his mouth. His body made an
ldentrre in the ground eight inches
deep, and rebounded four feet from
where it struck 70 add to the painful
character of the accident, the profess
sOr's young wife and little daughter
were on the grounds and witnessed the
terrible affair. The remains of the I'M
fortunate man were properly cared for,
and buried at PaOn.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
Morning..

Perhaps there is no description of the coming on
of light perfect that which Shelley has given u,
in his little poem, g The Boat ON the Serchio -:
The stars burnt out in the pale blue air.
And the thin white moon lay whitening there:
To tower, and cavern, and rift, and tree,
The owl and the bat fed drowsily.
Day had kindled the dewy woods,
And the rocks above and the streams below
And the vapors in their multitudes,
And the Apennine's shroud of summer snow,
And clothed with light of airy gold
The mists in the eastern caves unrolld.
Day had awakened all things that be
The lark and the thrush and the swallow free:
And the mikmaid's song and the mowers scythe,
And the matin bell and the mountain bee
Fire-fies were quenched on the dewy corn,
GlOw-worms went out on the rivers brim
Like lamps which student forgets to trim;
The beetle forgot to wind his horn;
The crickets were still in the meadow and hill.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
Two Buttons.

We sat under the porch bright autumn day,
On our knees was the checker-boa lying:
Both intent ON the game we leaned forward to play,
And to beat each the other was trying.
In the reach of my hand my white wristband was
shown,
But no button the two sides connected:
They tied up and held by white string alone,
And they looked very poor and neglected
SO / laughingly said to my foe on the board
She was best of all fair and all true ones
"Won't you lend me your buttons? They'll both be
restored
just purchase me new ones.
From her own wrist she took them and pu them on
mine,
And wore them two proud days elated:
But paths then diverged, and her loan to resign
/ was forced, by my destiny fated.
In the hight OF the moon, as we walked arm i'll arm,
gave back the two buttons forever;
But although they gone, they have still lett :
charm
| On M wrist that shall part from it never
For the soft hand of Kindness, the boon OF good
deeds,
How the heart loves their mem'ry to cherish !!
How turns to them still, the time still recedas,
And allows not their ntlu'nce to perish.
| SO in checkers / won, and to win i'll the game
! Of kind deeds too | tried, hut never;
! So i'll butt ming my wristband, she butoned he
|
In my heart and my momry for ever.
N. Y. Commercial 4drertiser.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
Russian ChOlera-The Present Scourge
Not the ASIatic.

The London Times is of the opinion
that the cholera which has caused so
much speculation and no little alarm is
not the real Asiatic malady 1t origin
ated, not Oh the Ganges, but in Russia,
where it has been more or less preva-
lent for the last six years, and has even
ragged more violently than during the
present season. 1t IS not a travelling
pestllence, but q contagious malady.
This is rendered apparent by the i'm
possibility Of tracing that well defined
and rapid advance which has heretofore
characterized the true AsiatIc cholera.
In reality, during the critical
season of the last six weeks
it can hardly be said to have
advanced, " though it has certainly
been spreading from center TO c1rcum-
ference. 1t has never bodily reached
Berlin, still less Paris, and with the
approach of winter its sphere may by
possibility be contracted once more.
If this Is encouraging in one aspect it
is not III another, because where the
disease comes it is apt to stay. Be
sides the disorder is not yet at all UNI
derstood. Uuder any treatment or no
treatment, Il certain number of patients
die and a certain number recover, the
proportion being for the most part uni
form. Some preventive means seem
to be etf,ecutal. 1t is doubtful If the
disease ever crosses the Atlantic, though
no precautions against it should be
neglected.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21

WHO has not heard of MooRE's RURAL
New YORKER, whose twenty years of
success and usefulness have taught our
people the important facts of Agricul-
ture and their kindred sciences, and
created departments for the naturalist,
the herdsman, the gardener, the dairy
man, and others. But this is not all.
The farmer has found it paper for his
family, full of instruction and interest,
and giving varied information in litera-
ture and the arts. It's moral tone is of
the highest, and its domestic depart
ment such as the farmers wife finds
most useful The issue for 1872 will
appear IN more venIent form, both
for reading and binding, though it will
still be larger than Harpers Weekly.
The price, however Gas will be seen by
the advertisement in another columnl.
Is reduced to 81. 80 per year, and only
81. 90 to clubs. This must still more
largely increase the popularity of a
journal already in advance of all others
in lis sphere,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21

AN old Chinaman killed young one
few days ago in San Francisco, be-
cause he was correcting him for treat
ing his joss irreverently. All Chew was
smoking opium in the house of All Wah,
and persisted in dropping the ashes on
the Ioss's head, which All Wah didn't
like. So he gave him sound reproff
by striking him on the head with a
heavy cudgel. All Chew returned the
action by drawing a knife and dropping
All Wah on the spot
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
How a Joke Ended.

Some two weeks ago party of Car
roll township boys started home about
midnight, going up the pike on horse
back. At the Valley Lnn school house
they halted, to have a moments talk
before separating. While there a man
rode somewhat hastily down the pike
The boys determined to find out who
hewas and where he had been. So
they called out in sport, " Stop, thief
Halt !" The rider, instead of stopping,
spurred Oh his horse. One of the
boys followed, crying out, "Halt -
The stranger, finding himself il danger
Of being stopped, got off and took to the
woods. Somewhat dismayed at the Sc
rious turn the Joke was taking, the I'M
known was told to come back. No at
tention was paid to this, however, and
the mysterious stranger fed through
the woods out of sight. The horse was
taken back and put in stable at Val
ley Inn. Now comes the queer part of
the story. The next morning a man
came down the pike with word that a
horse had been stolen the night before.
He was told about the strange horse,
and on going to the stable found the
lost animal. So the intended Joke
turned out to be the pursuit of a actual
horse thief. No wonder the rascal was
scared when the young men called out.
"Stop thief Extravaganza Repatb-
Hc0R.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21
Foreign.

JUAREz has a majority Of eighteen in the
Mexican Congress rendering his election Ger
tain.
The Japanese merchants threaten to burn
half the stock of silll-wOrms eggs and force
the market.
SPAIN Is to have revolution. with the over
throw of the present Government. before the
month Is ended.
The shipwnghts of the CLYDE, who have
joined the Nine-hour League, have been locked
out by their employees
FOREIGN letters report the completion of the
alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy,
with an army of 2,250. 900 men for the insur-
ance of European peace.
THE municipality of Paris has voted two
million francs for the repair of the monuments
and public buildings damaged during the Siege
and reign of the Commune
The submarine cable between Shanghai and
NaGasaki is in successful operation. The ma
te1lal for a line between Nagasakl aud Yoke
hama has been ordered, and the line viii be in
working order within year.
A THIEF entered the Banking House of F..
rickson. Jennings Il Mumford. in Rochester
n Y. on Wednesday, and snatched package
containing S6,490 in Canada money from J
T. Briggs he was about to deposit it. The
thief escaped.
II New York on Wednesday, Isaac Davis
was arraigned for misdemeanor and pleaded
not guilty. He was admitted to bail in $50
600. Davis is said to have offered medical as
sistance to females through the medium of
business cards thrust under the doors of nu-
erous houses in the city.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21

A CONFEDERATE monument is in
course of construction at Athens, Ga.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-21

Virginia is re-establishing her whip
ping posts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
A Good Doctor.
some Excellent Advice.

An exchange gives its readers some advice
how to choose a doctor. The advice is as
good for the doctor as the patient. Here it
IS:
First, let us advise you to avoid the drunk
en- doctor as you Ould viper.
Avoid mean man, for you may be sure
he will be a mean doctor, just as certain as
he would make mean husband.
Avoid dishonest man; he will not be
honest with you as your physician.
Shun the doctor that you can buy to help
you out of scrape-a good doctor, cannot
be bought.
Avoid licentious doctor, if you would
protect your family. There can be no COM
pact between virtue and vice.
Avoid the untidy, coarse, laundering
fellow, for the man who is clumsy in hitch
ing his horse, you may be sure he is net
handy at midwifery or surgery.
Avoid the doctor who hatterS YOU, and
humors your lusts and appetites.
Avoid the man who puts on an extra
amoHnt of airs; be assured it is done to
cover his ignorance.
Avoid the empty blow-horn who boasts
of his numerous cases, and tells you of his
seeing 40 or 80 patients a day, while he
spends two hours to convince you of the fact.
Put him down as a fool.
To be doctor one must first be a man in
the true sense of the word.
He should be a moral man, honest in his
dealings.
He must have good sense, or he cannot be
good doctor.
He should be strictly temperate. No one
should trust his life in the hands of an intern
perate doctor.
He must have some mechanical genius,
or 1t is impossible for him to be a good
surgeon.
It is good sign if he tells you how to
keep we'll.
1t is good ST. IN if the members of his own
family respect him.
1t is good sign ifthe children like him.
It is good sign if he is neat and handy
in making pills and folding powders.
1t is good sign il he is still q student,
and keeps posted in all the latest improve
ments known to the profession for al
leviating human suffering.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
From the Orphans Home Banner.

We are pleased to see how nobly and how
nromptly the Masonic Fraternity are res
bonding to the claims which the children
their deceased brethren have upon them;
Another, Canton Lodge, No. g, has asked
to be furnished with the name of an orphan,
the child of a deceased brother Mason, that
il NAV be adopted and supported at the
Institution as the ward of that Lodge. Inc
name of little Jimmie Knight has been for
warded them. Thus, if one by one, the va
rious Lodges adopt these children, until all
that are the children of deceased Masons,
are permanently provided for, the, Home
will be SO materially aided as to make such
disposition of her own resources as VIII
best secure and establish its permancy. IN
other words the Home will be upon more
self-sustaining basis.
May all the Lodges throughout the stare
that have not yet adopted ward, ard are
able so to do, follow the example OF their
sister Lodges.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The National Publishing Co. OF st. Louis.
Mo-, has just Issued \ very valuable history
of the late war between Germany and
France, from the pen of one of our most
popular writers, Mr.. JAMES d. McCABE, JR.
In large volume of 800 octave pages, the
author tells a wonderful stOTy-ail the
stranger because of its truth He tells OF
battles which have shaken Europe 70 It's
centre, and the consequences Of which, even
we of the Western World must feel; OF
patriotism. heroism, military skill ana
craftsmanship. never surpassed In history
The author writes with the weight and force
of truth, and the great merits OF his BOOK
are its reliability and strict Importantly.
The book is complete in every particular
Is describes the causes of the war, and the
events which preceded it; the opening cam
paign. and the first reverses of the french !;
the effect of these reVerses upon the frencn
people; the frantic effort TO rescue the
beaten army, and the terrible disaster OF
Sedan; the capture of the Emperor Napo-
leon, and AN entire army; the Revolution IN
Paris; the rise and formation of the Repub-
lie; the flight of the Empress from Paris;
the siege and surrender of Strasbourg ana
the frontier fOrtresses of France; the trl-
umphal advance of the German armies TO
Paris; the efforts of BaZaine TO escape from
Metz, and the final surrender of his army I;
the investment and siege of Paris; the de-
tailed history of this great siege; its plans
sorties, battles, successes, and failures; the
course of events in the beleagured city,
given in the form of full diary OF the
events Of the siege; the campaigns on the
Loire, and in other portions of France; the
peace negotiations, the surrender of Paris,
and the treaty the naval history of the war
the diplomatic history on both the German
and French sides; the history OF the forma-
ton of the Great Empire; the proclaiming
of King William Empeor, and the realiza-
ton of German unity; the events of the
civil war and second siege of Paris, its ter
rible scenes of bloodshed and vandalism.
with a minuteness, graphicness, and brill
| liancy, which leaves nothing to be desired.
| No intelligent person can afford to be unin-
| formed as to these events which have left SO
| deep an impression on the worlds history
and few win fail to read this splendid work
or, having read it, to endorse it as the Stand
ard American History of the War.
In this age of sensational literature, we
cannot too highly commend this brilliant
and thoughtful narrative to our readers
| The book is handsomely bound, and illus
trated with $50 maps, portraits, battle scenes
and views OF the principal localities con.
nected with the war. No expense has been
spared by the publishers to make it worthy o
the support of the public, and we predict fol
it an immense sale, especially as its low price
brings it within the reach of all. 1t is pub
lished in both English and German, sold by
subscription only, and the publishers wan
agents in every county.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
Masonic Notices.

The undersigned will visit and lecture the
following Lodges, at the times herein men
toned:
Currie Lodge, No. 3O2-25, &c, q, % and
20, July.
willis Lodge, No. 92-S1st July, /, ?, 3, 4
and 5, August.
August.
Morton Lodge, No. 254-11, Il, IA and Is,
August.
Scott Lodge, No. sO-17, Is and 10, August.
Falconer Lodge, No. 1874, >, 6, and 8,
September.
China Grove, No. 2Ss-lI, II, 13, IA, Is and
10, September,
White Plains Lodge, No. 1918, 10, 20
and Fl, September.
New Ireland Lodge, No. 253-22, %, q
and 26, September.
Evergreen Lodge. No. 77-27, %, % and
80, September.
Hickory Lodge, No. 1872, 3, and >, Oc-
tober.
JOHN +. MCCORMICK,
ID. ID. G. NJ. 9th District.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

Mr.. James Brown, eldest son of our old
friend, Mr.. John Brown, of Linn county,
disappeared in 1863. from jackson, Missis-
sippi, and his relatives have long mourned
him as dead. James was a soldier of the
35th Missouri Infantry, and was taken
prisoner by the confederates in one Of the
battles preliminary to the siege of Vicks-
burg, in 1868. aud was sent to Jackson, Miss
and imprisoned. Here he was recognized
by an old Linn county friend, Capt. VIM.
Sandusky, of the confederate army, who
effected his release from prison. He left
jackson. aud no trace of bis subsequent
whereabouts could ever be discovered by
his relatives, although diligent efforts have
been made to solve the mystery. Recently
information, believed to be reliable, has
reached Mr.. Brown, to the effect that his
long-lost son is one of the United States
prisoners confined at the island of the Dry
Tortugas, off the coast of Florida, though
by what means or how he came to be sent
there has not transpired. Col. j. r. Asper.
of this city, we learn, has taken the matter
in hand, and win investigate it to a salts
factory solution.--Chillicothe MOI Con-
stitutiOn.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

WE HAVE heard of death bed marriages
but marriage after the death of one of the
parties is motion" so strange that we
could only possibly owe it to a Yankee
brain. A romantic young lady i'm the
State of Maine. we are informed, recently
attended seance, and implored to be told
ifthe spirit of her departed lover were pres
ent. The spirit, we are told, raped ont
readily the assurance of his vicinity, and
added a warm expression of his desire to be
(spiritually) united to her in the bonds of
matrimony for this world and the next.
The sweet girl, blushing and trembling, but
yet anxious TO meet the fond aspirations of
her beloved, begged that a Justice of the
Peace might be called in. and the ceremony
performed on II e spot. With the aid of few
raps. all was quickly accomplished, and the
maiden converted into the bride. The
enthusiasm of the s'circle" was naturally
ardent; we apprehend, however, that it has
been slightly damped on hearing of the
claim now laid by the spirits wife to wild
ow's share Of the properly of the departed
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

NEw York, July pa private letter, re-
ceived by last steamer from an American
resident at Para, Brazil, dated July 4th, says
yellow fever has ASSUMED a very malignant
city has died. The writer says: THE
British Consul died few days since, and
hear to-day that his wife is dying. Drs.
Lamar, Watcher, Juaderas, and Labas, and
all the other Brazilian physicians. are
fever.
"AI strangers are liable to take the fever
in Para, and nearly every Portuguese who
emi2rated to Para in the last six or eight
months, has died."
Several steamers, which have lately ar
rived ut New York from Para, have been
guaranteed in the lower bays but the last
steamer from Rio was permitted 20 reach
her dock, though she had touched at Para.