The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06
GLEANINGS.

A PORTER in a Southern hotel was
worth $3.50, 900 five years ago.
A New YORK storekeeper sells only
cast-off shoes.
GILT is largely used in everything this
season, from COSTUMES to wall paper and
furniture covering.
IN Paris, when they want to say that
woman is charmingly plump, they OBJ.
serve that her corsets are well filled.
THE Indian summer is at hand and
perhaps by and by General Howard may
see an Indian fall, Commercial Bulletin
HAT manufacturers everywhere say
that they are doing good business
The results will, we trust, be generally
felt.
OVER and above the cost of powder
Buffalo Bill made $4,000 by his the.
atrical performances during the last six
months.
DIR. GOODWIN, who prescribed pills
potions and powders for the late james
Lick, has presented his little bill to the
estate, this account amounting to s., 900
Mr.. MONTGOMERY SEARS, the wealthy
young Bostonian, who was married the
other day to Miss Choate, gave his bride
wedding present of residence costing
$4,000,
The male partner of an aged couple
who had been married forty-nine years
recently applied for divorce in court at
Sedaliaj Mo! The Judge very properly
told the old man that he ought to be
ashamed of himself, and summarily dis
missed the suit
CHIEF JUSTICE GRAY, the head of the
Supreme court of Massachusetts,, has
revived an old custom by riding on horse
back to court from Pittsfield to Boston
a distance of 100 miles-and back again
just as the judge used to do 100 years
ago.
Now is the season when the sportsman
starts out at early dawn with gun and
dog and game basket, and returns at
eyentide bringing brace of partridges,
which he. procured from boy who tends
snare, and leaving his dog at distant
farmhouse with his forelegs in sling
IF0rcesttr Press.
A SON of the late John Y Mason, of
Virginia, is captain in the French
army. At thirteen years of age he was
the bearer of dispatches from Napoleon's
Court to the Confederate Government,
and subsequently served on General
Hampton's staff during the civil war.
GARIBALpI has advised the demolition
of the famous old Castle St. Angelo
which commands the bridge of the same
name over the Tiber at Rome 1t was
formerly used as a Papal fortress, but
since 1870 the secular authorities have
held it with only a corporaPs guard fol
firing off the traditional midday gun.
CHE Bashi-B azobks are wild beastsp
exclaimed the Grand Duke Nicholas
when an envoy from Mehemet Ali's camp
opened negotiations with him concerning
the treatment of the Bulgarian popula
ton. ooh. +" was the response, Il an
not expected to defend them. | Away.
take an escort myself when 1 must pas;
through their camp.
On the summit of the Sierra Nevada
mountains, in passing over to Silver lake
is seen the name of Kit Carson, carved
by himself on hemlock tree in 1874
He shaved off the rough bark with q
butcher knife, then cut his name and the
date 50 deep in the bark underneath that
both are yet perfectly distinct.
A FARMER woman in Canada last fall
plowed seventeen acres of land. This
season she moved with a scythe for six
days, raked ten acres of hay, and broke g
three year-old colt to harness. She
hauled all the lime and sand for a new
house, loaded and unloaded all the hay
and grain grown on the farm this year
and did her homework and MIXED seven
COWS besides.
4 sEvEN-DAYs' sensation at Ansonia
Conn, has been the marriage of white
man, aged 50 years, to full-blooded ne
gro of %. The neighbors have made il
so hot for this mis-mated couple by
means of midnight uproars and various
petty prosecutions that the bride has
been forced to leave town, but the hus
band says she is coming back and thai
they propose to live together.
The first wife of Colonel Nick Smith
Ida Greeley's husband, was secession
list, and, during their courtship, wOulC
never permit him to wear his uniform II
her presence. When he married Mis-
Greeley he gave UP his religion and be
came Roman Catholic. Not long since
he had his boy baptized Horace Greeley
dropping the name of Smith. $50 i
may be said" says Miss Grundy, "'that
he gave up his country for his first wife
his religion for his second, and his name
for his child.
GONE extreme leads to another
That is the reason a young man who be
gins by treading on a lady's foot otter
ends by kissing her lips. And, we may
add, the same rule applies on the Other
side, when a girl who has wasted hours
of time and skeins of chenille embroid
ering on a pair of slippers for Henry
exquisite feet, soon begins to claw the
capillary vegetation out of the top of hi
head for coming home at 2 A. NJ. and try
ing to go to sleep i'll the coat-scuttle.-
Ha,okeye.