The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29
General Items.

WHEN You bury quarrel do not put
up tombstone.
WHY is Sunday the strongest of all
the seven? The others are week days.
DAINTY buttons are made of pink
lining Of the conch shell.
SOMEBODY defines Irritation to be at
tention without intention.
SHORT crops-The Bowery style of
hair cutting
VIRGINIA hopes to send IA woman one
hundred and twenty-five years old to
the centennial.
POTATOES are SO scarce III New
Orleans that they are retailed at three
cents apiece and so to $15 barrel
-GovERNER Charles J. Jenkins, of
Georgia, has been selected rs umpire
by the arbitrators appointed to settle
the Maryland and Virginia boundary
line.
We often hear Of people who are too
poor to marry; but q California couple
who had been engaged for some time
married because they could not afford
to keep two separate rooms in board
lng-house.
al itCtIt ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ill the
West a young girl read fine essay On
the way home from the hail she heard
one of the lady listeners remark to an
other: Wasn't that fine ?" Eyes, "
was the reply, "but what a mean little
train she WORE +"
The season is fruitful in hat trim
mings. Pretty hat-bonnets are made
of black lice-stIaw, and trimmed with
either currents OF cherries, with their
respective leaves, the fruit falling like
large beads on the back-hair. The
flowers, fruit and leaves of the caper-
plant are used in similar manner
Your future husband seems very
exacting; he has been STIMULATING for
all sorts of things" said mother to
her daughter, who was on the point of
being married. Never mind, mann
ma, said the atfectinnate girl, who was
already dressed for the ceremony,
these are his last wishes"
THE proverb that "God helps those
who help themselves " was well para
phrased by a little fellow who tumbled
into fountain and was nearly drowned.
Pale and dripping, he was put to bed,
and when his mother requested the
young man to thank God for saving
him, Young America answered: 81
'spose God did save me, but then / held
on to the gwass, too"
The Palace Hotel, which is now being
built in San Francisco, ii is claimed
will be the largest III the world, 35Ox-
275 feet, and will contain 700 rooms.
There will be 800 bathrooms, and 374
bay windows. Accommodation will
be furnished for 1,200 guests. The
hotel is to be completed in August,
1879, and will cost altogether, 81, 100
900. OF this amount 100000 will
be the cost of the lot, 81, 220 900 of tie
building, and 500, 600 of the furniture
4 LUDICROUs incident occurred OF
board the Thomas P01CeU the other
day. The Captain was accosted by an
aged colored lady, who came up on the
boat last night, and who is blind and
was asked to subscribe something to-
ward her maintenance. The Captain
asked her why she came to him first.
to which she replied, Cease, sab, I see
you's SO good lookin', an Iallus want de
hansome meu down fust." The Captain
subscribed at once.-TjOy Times.
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, has taken
the sentiments of It's women on the
woman suffrage question. Forty-two
want to vote on all matters. ninety-fivc
would prefer not, and sixty-six have no
opinion. On questions of tenn GRANGE,
or moral, Or political reform, however,
100 would vote if the law allowed
them, thirty-four would not and fifty
three are Indifferent.
BARNHURsT, the Vicksburg fighting
editor, does his jobs thoroughly. 4
stout fellow attacked him in the street
recently, and inst as Barnhurst was
about to brain him, he was pitched
over by blow from behind. Then he
drew his prompt pistol, shot the new
fellow through the head, killing him.
then turned and put bullet into the
first, and leaving both for the police to
pick up, he betook himself to the
Times office and wrote up the item
ST. LOUIS claims to have in the hands
OF one OF her citizens the identical snuff
box presented by Louis XVI. to Henry
Essex Edgeworth de FirmoIt, better
known as able Edgeworth, on that
memorable January morning of 1893.
when Loniss head was forced under
the knife III the Place de la Concorde.
Tie inside case is tortoise shell and the
outside OF papiermache inlaid with sill
yer tleur-de-lys and dolphins, and on
the I'D under a crystal cover is a paint
ing on ivory OF Cupid, with dolphin
emitting flowers, IN his arms.
LIE rocks named Pons August. bv
the Romans, and known in later DAYS
as the Iron Gates, which have for ages
obstructed the stream Of the Danube
about the point where that river enters
the turkish d0minions, are now about
70 be removed at the joint expense of
the turkish and Austrian governments
he perfection to which the art Of en-
8ihee1ng has reached, combined with
0lle immense power Of modern ex
pIodents, has rendered that possibla
which detied the Romans, great as was
their skill in mechanical operations
Ihe cost is fixed at low sum. 1880 600
SMALL child of Mr. Edmundscn Of
Concord township, Louisa county. Ia
came rushing INTO the house, exelaim
llnnS., Lcok, mamma, pretty, pretty"
cue mao caught rattlesnake around
'he neck, its body and tail were wran-
pei around her arm, and the child
thought she had the prettiest thin
The mother. thorouobIT
frightened, tainted; but the father
T >, II great presence of mind caught tba
'itid hand and held his snakeshiD ca
l2htiy that 1t could not bite. until
Vlth the other hand he had unwonnd
ne snake from the child's arm ~
Nth a sudden jerk he threw il o,t %
ioors and then killed if VI