The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-11
WASHINGTON.
Letter from Former superiorite-
Personal and Impersonal.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
August 7th, 1876.

blessing TO the public is evidenced
by the fact that the dread of his
little vagaries has prevented me
from infiicting upon the readers of
the TIMES occasional letters from
the Capital. | once wrote what
called casual description of a ball
in this city. The typo, instigated d
by the foul tiend himself, set it up
Fcdrnai. This trifing matter acted
as wet cloth upon my aspirations
to become knight of the pencil,
but time blunts the tenderest sus-
capabilities, and | once more essay
to bore the public with the Hbright
sclntlllatlons Of wit, the sparkling
emanatIons of massive intellect" :"
(Ahem y | take it that the first
thing for correspondent to do. is
to give facts which will be of inter
est and use to his readers.
This IS tough on the correspond
ent, tor in these degenerate days of
telegraph, an event is known all
over the world within an hour or
two after it occurs. Another stun
bling block in the way of the genu
me "Occasional" is the vast number
Of ''correSpoudiug bureaus" which.
for a small consideration, will fur
lsh letters upon all subjects. \
Bureau generally consists of one
versatile Individual, who first (after
resolving himself into Bureau)
sends circulars 10 country wccklies
Offering to wIite upon anything they
may wish, stating his terms, which
are very lew, rs he uses manifold
paper, thus making one writing an
SWer for perhaps a dozen letters to
be sent to rs many different papers.
lie then goes to some public read
ing room, stuffs his note book with
extracts from newspapers, and in Il
short time he produces, as original,
a letter made up entirely Of clip
pings. | am glad to see that the
TINES is not one Of his victims.
Now, Mr.. Editor, a word to you,
and | will % ahead. | have not
the honor OF 4 personal acquaint-
ance with you, but | have every
reason to believe that you are what
we " esterners call "a brick The
TINES | look as anxiously for as |
would for a letter from home; in
fact it is, in great measure, home
letter, for it tells me all that hap
pens IN and around my old homie,
and makes me long to revisit the
scenes of my boyhood. Keep on
with your good work, and make
your Great Family Journal the
brightest star in the galaA y of-ot-
ot-ah, h,-yes, Observation-Disclosures
it AS lively and spicy as You have
done heretofore and maintain your
reputation as "a brick, and when
any of the "boys" get married and
become paternals, please state the
Welght-whIch you neglected to do
the last time you chronicled such
an event.
/ The Centennial Exhibition is the
means OF drawing large numbers
to Washington, as the majority OF
those from the West who come to
Philadelphia cannot resist the temp
tation of running over here before
they return.
Among the Centennial visitors
here last week We're DR.. L. Smith,
wife and son, of Itasca, H. Mrs.
Smith was formerly a resident OF
Superior Last mouth Mrs. Wm
I Nettleton and son, of ST. Paul, fav
ored this city with a short visit
The weather was so terrific ally hot
that they concluded to return to
Minnesota and await cooler weather
There is a travelling encyclopedia
who writes for various Lake Supe
rior papers, among them the Ash
/ land Press, who took occasion il
Que of his letters to speak of me a
his "corpulent friend, or words t.
that effect. Now, | am extremel,
sensitive on the subject of size, an'