The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-19
General Items.


A DANBURY man says he has read of
beggars dying with stockings full of
silver, but the only beggars he ever
saw had real estate in theirs. ia
FLOATING down the sea of matrI
mony, by the light of the honeymoon
is the way city editor touchingly al.
iudes to the marriage of his son.
GENERAL ULRICH, lately command
ant at Strasburg, has, at his own re-
quest, boon placed on the retired list
| with pension of 5000 francs.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM GATES, the oldest
officer of the Royal Artillery, his com.
mission dating from 1909, died last
month in England, at the age of 81.
An ingenious Baitimorean has in
| vented the name of Camdeniine for an
infans daughter unexpectedly present
ed to him few days ago or the Cam
den Railway. |
"CoME, gentle spring." signs Jones,
as he YEARLY losses his aching bones
at night; but Jones's landlady thinks
slat bedsteads good enough for any of
her dodgers.
A WESTERN art critic describes one
l.
"the foreman of fire company tied
to chimney and calling for the b'hoys
not to let old Dix take their water"
A sHREwD old gentleman once siad
to his daughter, ''Be sure, my dear,
you never marry poor man, but re-
member that the poorest man IN the
the world is one that has money and
nothing else"
ITALY has nineteen illustrated pa
pers, with an aggregate circulation of
rs, 900 copies. None of the political
dailies have circulation of over 10, 600
and the compensation paid to editors
and reporters is very small
a PLEASANT little reunion was quite
upset, recently, by one of the children
asking, in painfully audible tone,
mamma, why did you tell me not to
say ANYTHING about Mr. Jenkins nose ?
He hosn't got any"
AN innocent young man in Des
Moines was asked by the Rev. M.
Hammond, the revivalist, if he was
laboring fer the good of his soul.
mo, was the reply; $ work for Billy
Moore"
AT Furvllle, Henley Thames, a
girl of II, afflicted with spinal disor-
der, fell into trance on the 10th of
May, 1871, since which time only
breathing and pulsation have showed
her to be alive. g
The cerebral meningitis, or spotted
fever, is raging iercely on the Pacific
coast. In one instance four members
of a family died within twenty-four
hours The disease has assumed an
epidemic type and proves fatal almost
invariably. sEsf ~ este aat
Mr.. PHILIP HAFFNER, a wealthy
brewer of Marietta, Pa, died last week
literally of grief for the agitation of
the proposed temperance law, his only
utterance during his brief illness be-
ing the constant reiteration Of the
words, "local option aalEa< sri.
The usual process of subdivision OF
the soil into small freeholds is reversed
in Bourbon county, KY, where, among
other similar transactions, one capital
ist has bought and consolidated TWEEN
tyfour adjoining farms, the former
occupants of which. 161 IN number,
have emigrated to the West.
TIE editors and publishers of Maine
newspapers having met in convention
in Augusta the other day, the Portland
Press ventures to affirm that there
were gathered the every wisest and
most virtuous little crowd of men, in
the seediest of last years clothes, that
ever met in the State capital"
A DRAMATIC critic overheard gen
tleman observe to another in stall at
the theatre: Look at that painted
I Il Il ol he,
they say she can still turn mems
heads" eyes but the other way"
was the reply.
A FAMOUS French physician described
to student undergoing examination
disease eliminating by degrees to the
most dangerous symptoms, and asked,
(" What would you then prescribe or
do?" TIE student, after slight hesita
ton, replied, 81 should send instantly
for YOU. He got his diploma.
A VERMONT farmer sent to al orphan
asylum for boy that was smart, ac-
tive, brave, tractable, prompt, indus
trious, clean, pious, intelligent, good
looking, reserved and modest. The
superintendent wrote back that unfor-
tunately they had only human boys in
that institution. -
AN opera, founded on Sir Walter
SCOTS Talisman, the manuscript Of
which was nearly completed by Mr..
Balfe Just before his death, will be
produced at Drury Lane next season,
Sir M. Costa is to write the finale, and
several numbers )" which the compos-
er left unfinished. Mile Nilsson will
appear as the Queen.
A TEN year old, Boosting to school
mate of his fathers accomplishments,
put it thus: my father can do al
most anything. He's "a notary public,
and he's 'pothecary, and can pull
teeth, and he's a horse doctor, and he
can mend wagons and things, and can
play the fiddle, and he's a iackass at
all trades"
A CLERGYMAN who left notice in his
pulpit to be read by the preacher who
exchanged with him, neglected to
donate carefully a private postscript,
and the congregation were astonished
to hear the stranger wind up by saying:
g You will please come to dine with me
at the parsonage.
FORTY years ago Fanny Kemble wrote
from Boston of 6 a bitter, bleak, east
wind, which is the only air that
blows In Boston, and keeps us all in
state Of misanthrOpv and rnivarral