The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-07-25
Women. with tOng11f
Storms, thunders, waves
General Items.

| VtHcIdl IttIHS.
| SCOTLAND suffers from drought.
JANIN was once foolish enough to
speculate in coal mine. He had no
chance to say good buy to it, either.
THE colored gentry at Long Branch
are much pleased with the white
element of the population this season.
"CARBoLIC acid plentifully sprink-
led i'll room will drive out the
flies" And the occupants, two.
A GENTLEMAN late one eveningme his
servant. Hello where are YOU going
at this time of night? for no good, /
warrant. q was going for you, SIR
was the reply.
I'm glad that this coffee don't owe
me anything" said Brown, a boarder,
at the breakfast table. Why?" said
Smith. because / don't believe it
would ever settle"
"SAM, why don't you talk to your
master, and tell him to lay up treasures
III Heaven I" whats de use of Law
ing up treasures up dare? He never
see UNI again.
a CREMATION epitaph:
Sarah Amanda was her name.
She lived and died without Islander:
Had she suryi yed the funeral flame
She would have been Sal Amanda
In Springfield, Ohio, there is a fes-
! tive hen who laid her eggs up III an
apple tree, and is now setting on a bare
| bough III blissful ignorance that her
eggs went to grass as fast as she laid
'em.
WHEN Michigan woman was taken
| frx L. Ill. g
upon which she had been caught and
carried half mile, she said with feel
ing, 81 was jest scopped up like gosh
almighty, wasn't ?"
\ MONSTER black snake measuring
eleven feet in length, was shot lately
at Bedington, Pa, by Mr.. August
Gerlie, while out on a cunning expedi-
ton, accompanied by his dog, who had
a fearful tussel with the reptile.
a TEMPERANCE orator has figured it,
and arrives at this result: "a file of
topers, sevcntytive miles in length,
marching steadily to drtlnkards' graves
at the rate of three minute, or one
every twenty seconds, all the year
round.
n NEW slate quarry has been unearth-
ed at Littletown, Me How this new
slate, suggests the Boston Transcript,
which is SAID to be promising, Will
affect state politics and the senatorial
elections remains open to conjecture.
ONE evening, after long and weary
march over the desert 'Mahomct and
his followers pitched their tents for the
night. Said one of the tired men
s. Will loose my camel and commit it
70 Il
said. Friend, tie thy camel, and
commit it to God.
HERE are at present fifty eigh
tobacco factories i'll Richmond, Va.
working on full time, and employing
on an average about one hundred
hands each. Of cigar manufactures
there are torty-four in operation i'll
Richmond, but the number of hands
employed bears 40 comparison with
those in the tobacco factories.
JOSH Billings says: Hearings in
habit the sea generally; but those
who lnhablt the grocery always taste
to me as though they had been fatted
on salt. They want deal of freshen-
ing before they're eaten, and also
afterward. If [ kin have plenty of
herring for breakfast, | generally make
the other two meals out of water?"
\ MAN whose house was struck by
! lightning, shocking his wife to such an
qucntly desired to rent the house to
friend, remarling that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place 'Ah"
said the friend, land that's the very
reason why | don't want your house.
The Albany Journal says: "There
IS another big streak of light in the
| South Carolina mink. In spite of all
the thieving and robbing and organ
lied anarchy, the number of schools in
! the state ran up within four years
from ga to 1919, and of school chill
dren from 10000 to nearly 1900.
/ There Is an encouragement and hope
III these figures"
a SMALL boy approached the great
Snowman Barnum, in Montpelier,
the other day, and asked him what he
would give for a cherry colored cat.
Ten dollars, replied Barnum, :" if it
is really cherry colored" Soon the
! boy returned to Barnum's hotel
and unloaded black cat at Barnum's
| feet. The Snowman saw the point
and paid the youngster so, the
remark, boy you've stolen my trade.
JUDGE WHITE gives us an evangelical
story of the first water. One of his
students was a convert at a protracted
meeting, but not finding the peace he
hoped from his conversion, he waited
on his minister, and informed him of
his backsliding condition. "Yourheart
IS hardened by your profession" sol
emily said the man of God. "Quitthe
law Office retire on your knees to your
study, and be brought out either
J Christian or a corpse.
1t is styled ga reciprocating yarn
regulator" and consists of chains at
tached to stout iron springs above and
below the welt or yarn beam, and on
which the chain is also coiled round.
By this means the use of weights and
levers is entirely dispensed with, and
consequently the sudden jerking mo-
ton of those things is also done away
with. The finest yarn can be woven
with as much ease nto cloth as the
coarsest, without the liability to break
ages, as is the case upon the looms not
fitted with this patent. AS the inven-
ton has been attached to 800 looms at
the above mills for some time, it has
had a pretty fair trial, and has given
the greatest satisfaction to both master
/ and iOyaDtor Tho ov+ra,ooa finish and