The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-06-19
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JOAQUIN MILLER is in Boston.

",nh VAIN Is proposed as a Canul-
date for Mayor of Hartford.
" ORTHoGRAMMANIA," is what they
are calling the rage for spelling matches.
SEVEN years is the time counted for
the construction of the tunnel between
England and France.
MIR: SETH GREEN has begun the
Matching and distribution of shad spawn
at Shad Island in the Hudson.
"A FRENCH statistician has fipured
1t out that brunettes are more likely TO
be married than blondes.
The Prince of Wales in his tour IN
India will be dressed like an Eastern
Potentate, in big turban and baggy
trousers.
A WIRE connects fourteen houses in
Waterloo, Iowa, and the young women
telegraph the freshest gossip to each
other.
MosT arts require long study and APP
plication but the most useful art of
all, that of pleasing, requires on'T the
desire.
In his speech of acceptance of the
Mayoralty of Bridgeport Barnum is
said to have remarked: "And now /
will give you all separate cages"
BAsHFUL compositor refused to ac-
cept situation in an office where girls
were employed, saying he never set uD
with a girl in his life
LADY CHATTERToN has grappled with
the toughest passages of Aristotle's
works, and viii publish translation of
them.
THE special committee of the bond
I If hA ID -
road have reported in favor of the pur-
chase of the road by the bondholders.
GENERAL LOGAN threatens to write
reply to THAI part of General Sher-
mans recently published memoirs
which refers to himself and General
Frank Blair as mere political generals.
WHAT is the difference between
sailor and plucky pugilist One is
dashed to the mast and the other is
mashed to the last.
A DISEASE resembling the murrain
spoken of in the Bible is causing great
havoc among the fiocks and herds of
Turkey. On the plains of Troy, tens
of thousands cover the ground
TAKE life easy, and don't always be
trying to beat the sun up, says an ex-
change. You may win for a while, but
IN the long run you are sure to be
beaten, and some morning it will rise
when you don't.
The Gilroy, Gal Advocate asks its
readers to believe that little son (three
years old OF Mrs. Anna Badd drank
pound of quick silver, gave no other in
dication of having taken the mercury
than drowsiness, and is still alive.
BEDBUGs- the whites of five
eggs to a stiff froth, add to this one
ounce quicksilver; apply with feather,
in every crevice, and / think You will
find this an infallible remedy for bed
bugs.
SENATOR SHARON, of Nevada, in pur-
chasing the interest of Mr.. Ralston
in the Palace Hotel San Francisco, as
sumed mortgages to the amount of a
million of dollars held by the savings
banks of that city.
The Empress Augusta OF Germany
sent photographs of herself and of the
Emperor William, which were sold by
the young ladies Ill attendance on the
German table at recent centennial tea
party i'll Cincinnati.
tOrian, Runke in Berlin, and observed:
well, Professor, l suppose you work
as hard as ever in your old age. eyes, "
replied the veteran tenderly. my wife Is
dead now, you see, and ! have less
annoyance and can accomplish more"
A MAN will carry five hundred dollars
In his vest pocket, but woman needs
morocco portmOnnaie as large as q fist,
and too heavy to carry IN the pocket, to
escort fifty cent scrip, a recipe for
making Jelly cake, and two samples of
dress goods down town and back, every
pleasant afternoon.
BRooKLYN's great centennial viii oc-
cur next year. 1t was on the morning
of the Both of August, 1916, that Gen.
Washington, then residing in this city,
remarked to his wife: Martha, high
taxes will be the ruin of lis here" and
moved with his family over to New
York. Brooklyn ArguS.
A PAPER up In eastern Oregon has
this generous announcements: cali
those who are IN arrearage for the paper,
by calling and settling the same, can
have the marks and brands of their
hogs published gratuitously; otherwise
they will be placed under the black
list and their names published.
THIS question was lately put to can
didate for a position in the English
civil service: What is the distance of
the sun from the earth :" The reply
made was that he couldn't tell the exact
distance, but he didn't think that it was
near enough to interfere with his duties
as post Office clerk.
THE New York Evening mail has col
lected the current puns on the crooked
whisky business, and punches them to-
gether in this way: "The whisky
men are still making rye faces about
Secretary Bristow's flank ovement on
them. Their spirits are gone, and
they are now all convinced of the truth
of the cry about seizerism.
THE first onnce of blood injected
into General Frank Blair caused effects
upon the General similar to intoxication.
Upon investigation, the physicians dis
covered that the subject who furnished
the blood had been on bit of a spree
the day before, and with the blood had
been transferred some of the alcohol,
1t was clear case of drunk by proxy.
A PARTISAN belle became the wife of
-Tun-Ling, from the Celestial en-
pire, in 1872. Their three years OF
married life did not all prove a dream
of bliss, as Tin-Tun-Ling treated the
lady badly, and, to crown all, she found
recently that her spouse was an adept
in "ways that are dark" having left