The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-04-13
THE SUPERIOR TINES.
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1879.
SPRING stays at the entry.

OLD Sol has struggled with clouds to-day.
WORK with will and you work with
way.
Do you watch your stove hampers during
these high winds?
MAILS are little irregular now, owing
to ice and benzine
THE tug Danforth viii soon be at the
dock, also the Zero.
r. W. FREScu returned Monday night
from his trip to the Island region.
THE slight rain in the early part of the
week was welcomed by householders.
Snow fell, and drifted during the north
easter. The shovel brigade went for it.
WHAT with the condition Of the Bay and
roads, but little work can be done just now
SLEIGHs still manage to wagge across
the bay. Can't play that game much
longer.
THE railroad to Superior will play out the
trestle work tram way, on the north side Of
the St. Louis.
Our railroad men are all liz good spirits,
and look lately as if they "knew a thing or
two not yet made public.
RIcE's Point expects to be on the Post
Office list And so the Ricespointtolies
multiply. All! Docther dear, things is
moyin' over to the Pint.
THE last Wisconsin legislature passed
some wholesome and much needed laws.
They will not reach the dead letter office
either, from all we hear.
Folks in general VIII see from the papers
served by ]. Q. Sargent on Duluth, that the
opposition to the canal and dyke is not
buncombe as much as it was
N1EETEaN teams left for, and six returned
from Ashland, during the week by the ice
route. Capt. Greenfield found the Lake ice
trcacherous at several points on his up trip
last Thursday.
WHEELS now fling the mud just as nat
turaIly as if winter had gone. But the old
fellow still grips the fence corners and
water courses, and blows a little, or whis-
ties in whisper.
SUPERINTENDENT Andrews, Paymaster
Hayes and Contractor Starkey of the
branch Of the S. & St. Croix II. r., went
out on the inc yesterday, with the money
to pay off the men.
Nc man is good leader who is liable to
become mach elated, or much depressed.
Never ask such men for their opinion, nor
regard it when given. IT'S sterner stuff
that moves the world in steady course.
CHANCELLOR Howard Crosby of New
York city, now sojourning in Florida, re-
ports adversely to its claim of being the
invalid's Paradise. 1t is too damp and too
hot, the very conditions Of miasma, and
death.
There are some twenty-seven editors now employed
on the Superior TIuEs.-DaluM Tribune.
And if the matter is to be reduced to
figures, how large minus quantity would
represent the editorial force on the Yri
6eupe? We give it up.
THERE are more steady church goers to
lie found in Superior in proportion to it,
population than III any town in the North
west. The Lutheran, Episcopalian, Meth
odist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic
services are well sustained.
QUARTERLY meeting services in N. E.
Church at Superior, commencing on Sat
urday 18th at p p. M, and continuing
through the Sabbath, the Presiding Elder
being present only at evening service OIL
Sabbath and at . p. N. on Saturday.
II Barnum could tame the editorial trio
at Duluth, and put them all in one cagr
together, he would have ''show' that
would east his famous happy family entirely
into the shade. And it would "draw" too.
in all this region, for all in sight, better
than a magnetic plaster"
SUPERIOR has enjoyed good health this
winter, while towns in lower ATTITUDES have
been afflicted with spotted fever, scarlet
fever, small pox and all the ills that flesh is
heir to. Folks that want TO be sick three
or four months every year had better not
come to the Lake Superior country. 1t is
too healthy.
Lo1s in Superior are 25 feet front. In
Middletown 40 feet. In Superior City Go
feet Any lot on First, Second or Third
Street, is good investment. \ cheap. sub