The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-05-02
Wit, HumOr and Wisdom.

WEAK men never yield at the proper
time.
THERE are no small steps in great af-
fairs.
Too LATE for the fair-An old bach
elor
The head of navigation-A ship cap
tain.
A VOICE from the grave-The tomb
stone.
Two heads are better than one
especially in a barrel
DIVORCE lawyers are now known as
patent separators.
DIsTRUsT is the death of the soul,
belief is its life.
A MAN who distrusts himself never
truly confdes in any one
MEN never believe others can do what
they cannot do themselves.
REMEDY for thenailers strike-Knock
it ON the head.
How Patrick proposes tie get over his
single blessednesS- proposing to
Bridget.
To commonplace people the extraor-
binary appears possible only after it has
been executed.
INITIATION is less to be dreaded in
California than elsewhere, for the very
river banks rest on specie basis.
THE origin of the word mutf, applied
to fool is said to be that muft' holds
woman's hand without squeezing it.
DID Elijah take kindly to the food
brought by the ravens because he was
to the mamma born?
UPON men of small understanding
nothing makes SO deep an impression
as what they do not understand.
WHEN fear rises to q certain height
1t produces the same effects as temelity.
Fear never applies the proper remedy.
If a stick of wood is too long for
stove, kick it IA few times with your heel.
Then take it out and saw il off.
A FEMALE bill poster is doing an ex-
tensive business III New York The sex
was always good at running up bills
Debtors are we to- life, and every day
Comes as a messenger demanding pay.
Until the debt is cancelled we remain
Subject to all his faults errors and pain
A PREVALENCE of the measels is re-
ported III Connecticut, but there's one
town there not at all alarmed. It's
Haddam.
WE should never play with favor we
cannot too closely embrace it when it
is real, nor fly too far from it when it is
false.
If there is one time more than moth-
er when a woman should be entirely
alone, it is when a full line of clothes
comes down in the mud
A PARsoN once prefaced his sermon
with, I" My friends, let us say a few
words before we begin" This is about
equal to the chap who took a short nap
before he went to sleep.
WAITER Ito old gent at restaurant
" Take any pastry. sir p Old gent
. Yes, bring me pancake; will it be
long p Waiter Ito old GENT" No, sir,
round"
Och! said a love-sick Hlbernian,
what recreation it is to be dying of
love 1t sets the heart aching so deli
cately there's no taking a wink of sleep
for the pleasure of the pain
IT is estimated that it takes domes-
ticated fly a two-billionth part of a
second to wink, while an industrious
time.
POVERTY is very terrible to you, and
kills the soul III you sometimes but it
Is the north wind that lashes men into
vikings it is the soft, luscious, south
wind that lulls to lotus dreams.
WERE we to take as much pains to be
what we ought to be as we do to dis
gulse what we really are, we might
appear like ourselves, without being at
the trouble of any disguise at all.
JONES presented his wife on her last
birthday with beautiful silver service.
She was thankful, but said that one
piece IN the set was wanting, for the
proverb says lone good Turn deserves
another"
IT is IN vain to put your finger in the
water, and pulling it out, look for a
hole and equally vain to suppose that,
however large space you occupy, the
world will miss you when you are dead.
ILL-FoUNDED enmities are ever the
most obstinate. The reason of this is
clear. AS offenses of that kind exist
only In the imagination, they never fail
to grow and swell in that receptacle,
too fruitful in evil fancies.
The Biddeford, England. church
yard, has the following epitaph
The wedding day appointed was
And wedding clothes provided;
But ere that day did come alas,
lie slckened, and he-die did
ANOTHER English graveyard contains
this:
Stranger, pause-my tale attend.
And learn the cause of Hannah end.
Across the world the wind did blow.
She ketched cold what laid her low
We shed quart of tears. tbs true,
But life is short-Aged So
On landlord
Beneath this stone in homes of Zion,
Here lies the landlord of the Lion
Resigned to the heavenly will
His son keeps on the business still.
One OF the most melancholy things
LII the world is the enormous power for
evil Of the dead over the living. There
Is hardly great painter or writer, or a
man who had achieved greatness in any
direction, whose name has not been
used to repress rising genius.
IT is settled principle. your honor,
said an eminent lawyer, that causes al
ways produce effects. They always do
tor the lawyers, blandly responded the
Judge, but I've sometimes known a sim