The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-06
ALI Sorts of ParagranllS.

Keama being especially valuable.w,
! By Kansas City editor the fluid that
propels the Geographic dispatches is
called 6 electric tightening, to dis
tinguish it from that other sort.
A KANSAS paper says: 1.-The gay
jumping grasshopper, the brown-color-
ed grasshopper, the cussed old grass
! hopper is here"
VICTOR EMANUFL wears a moustache
so long that, as be rides, it floats back
like the waving locks of a young girl
His beard also reaches to his breast.
WHAT is the difference between a
| tube and foolish Dutchmanl One is
a bo' low cylinder and the othera silly
Hollander. zazzzzzssszzssa
A HAPPY misquotation by young
| lady, whose gentleman caller stald too
late, caused speedy good bye. The
clock struck r.. and she remarked
Nov is the watching hour of night
when people yawn."
FASHION presents some curious prob
lens. When skirts were worn three
yards in diameter, eighteen yards of
material were enough for a dress, but
now they are made TO fit cl0selyto the
figure atleast thirty yards are required.
An English marketman has written
to the London Times letter, in which
he states that the English poor are
very unreasonable in complaining of
the scarcity OF meat when rabbits are
only fifteen cents pound!
FIRST colored womanAIs you gwine
to set up wild de copse tonight Sec
| l. l. ,-x I-txDo
First woman-Sha | neber seed such
a husban' as you is got. He neber
wants you to see any pleasure.
A DOCTOR lives in the Fauberg st Ho-
more, Paris, over a poulterer's shop.
Their si9nboards, perhaps, do not
clash. The first announces tiIat the
surgeon is Z" Visible al al bours, " and
the second Killing every day on the
premises.
4 KIND father tried to encourage his
son to rise early by relating the old
story of person who, early one morn
mo, found Il purse OF gold. ''Well,
replied the youth, but tae fellow
who lost the purse rose earlier, you
know"
ACCORDING to the London Spectator,
|
that tea leaves mixed with dung, iron
filings, and other substances, powdered
fine, suit the English market, and are
sending compounds Of this sort over in
huge masses.
AUNT ETHEL" But when his breth-
rem next saw Joseph, they found him
III a position of great authority and
power" Alice" Was he king,
Aunt Ethel 2" Aunt tlthel-' No; but
he was very hieh-nearly next to the
king" Alice who IS fond of cards.
l." Was he a knaye, then -
AM economical bridal pair at Spr ing
field partoOk of their wedding feast,
composed OF smoked herring, crackers
and cheese, spread ont on the head of
a barrel. A meddiesome crowd around
the door was dispersed by the bride,
who exclaimed, "What'n thunder you
lookin' at.
&C If boys and girls" said a clergy
man at Evanston, H., ''do their spark
ing at church, | say amen to It, | have
a daughter whom [ cherish as the
apple of my eye. When she is of SUIT
able age ] had rather she would be
courted IL the house of God than in the
theatre" ..
A MAN at Logansport, Ind who sub
Scrlbed $4,000 to Universalist college
OF that place year or two since, now
refuses to pay his subscription on the
! ground that he was insane. The trus-
ices, however, do not believe in such
emotional insanity, and have sued him
for the money.
A GERMAN banking house in Bruins
wick has pasted In its window hun
dred dollar share Of one of-untiI late
ly-the most popular banking enter
prises of the German Empire, with the
following pathetic inscription
Worth last spring $3.50. Worth now
O." ~. e.. ..
Nov, WILLIE, do hive little
courage When L have a powder to
take don't Ike II any more than you
DO; but L make up my mind that 1
Will take 1t, and | do" "And when /
have powder to take, replied Willie,
= make up my mind that | won t take
1t, and | don't
A YOUNG lady upbraided al admirer
Tor his tijrtations during long alb
sence. g You are too bad to b, par
doned, she said, - but if | discard yoy.
| shall punish myself most, and so
Will ignore what il past, and enjoy
your society as much as [ can while [
1--we, for when [ die | shall never see
you any more-I am going to heaven. "
a VAST deposit of guano, extending
Tor miles IN a plain which terminates at
the foot of a range of hills, has been
discovered about forty miles from An
totagosta, IN Ch1llan territory. 1t is
covered by a crystalline crust. which
has to be broken through. Great
results III the way OF revenue to Chill
are expected from the discovery of this
stratum.
IT Is proposed to submit TO the peo-
pie OF Michigan an amendment TO the
Constitution providing that an annual
tax of $500 be imposed on each person
| engaging In the traffic in Intoxicating
drinks; that TO engage in the business
| without license shall be a nlsdemenor.
and that the sale to minors, persons
under guardianship, insane and idiotic
persons, paupers, aud common drunk
ards is wholly prohibited.
STEPHEN GIRARD's will prohibited
clergymen FROM ever entering the doors
OF GIrard College. AT a recent visit of
the knights Templar of Boston to the
institution, one of the Knights. a we'll
known physician, who wears q white