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

At a banquet recently given to the
tenantry of the Williamson estate, in
Wales, by its owner, Sir Owen Scour-
field, one of the speakers mentioned
something interesting to Americans in
connection with the estate. Some 200
years ago" he said, ga man named
Adams, residing at Penback, near Liam
boldly, one of the farms of the Williams
ton estate, emigrated to America, and a
descendant of his became second Presi-
dent OF the United States"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06

A Colossal statue of the late Andrew
Johnson is to be set up as monument to
his memory near his old Tennessee home.
Il is of white marble, and is being carved
in PHILADELPHIA.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06

\ Moscow letter gives a melancholy
picture of the amount of household
goods thrown on the market there by the
breaking up of peasant families, whose
heads have been drafted into the army.
Thousands of mattresses and tea-urns are
offered for sale, the price of provisions
are rising, and the quarter settling day
for rent and all bills was looked forward
TO with apprehension.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06
SUPERIOR. WISCONSIN.
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE grounds surrounding the war
monument at Berlin are to be paved with
stones from theseveral battle-fields of the
Franco-Prussian war.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06

ZANE, flsh, seaweed, tobacco, leeches,
frogs, serpents and lizards, were sent
through the British postoflice durino the
past year; some Others hidden away in
newspapers in breach of postoffice rnIes.
\ horned frog and two live lizards ar
rived thus from the United States ard
were delivered to the consignees. \ live
snake was less fortunate. 1t escaped
from It's parcel, and was found. without
an address, in the Holyhead and Kings
town main postofiice, and was thence
forwarded, as unclaimed lost property,
to the Dublin Geological Gardens The
London Times says: 1--WE have our
selves received what purported to he an
enclosure of Colorado beetles but we
destroyed the whole parcel unonened
and cannot, therefore speak positively as
u It's contents"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06
Foreign

LONDON, SeptemAer29-12 80 p. M.-Con-
soils 90 11-l6. Liverpool wheat market
opens quiet Spring at 13s 3d@11s Tod.
Floating cargoesquiet; on passage not much
demand
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06

HE French Minister of Agriculture
and Commerce gives his report in the
journal OGic'el of the rules adopted for
the bestowal Of premiums at the Paris
Exhibition. He says that the expert
ence CLEANED from preceding Exhibitions
IN France and elsewhere enables him to
offer the exhibitors a perfect guaranty
OF lmpartiality. OF go Jurors to be APP
pointed, $50 will be foreigners to be
named by their respective Governments.
\ million and half of francs is appro-
prlated for prizes. There will be II
medals of honor 1000 gold medals,
1000 silver medals, 5000 bronze medals,
and 5000 honorable mention. Industry
ana agriculture will be allotted pre-
Elums and rewards in money.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06

bank of CORTLAND, N, Y, on the 22d inst.
The loss was not discovered until Monday,
the oath. A reward of $1,000 is offered for
the detecting of the thieves and recovery of
the property.
THE patent office building at Washington
was partially destroyed by fire on the 2lth
inst. The number of models destroyed Is
variously estimated at from fifty to seventy
five thousand The Interior department is
a sufferer, owing to disarrangement of docu-
ments in the efforts to save them. The
building is damaged TO the extent of about
100000.
FIRE in Key Port, n. j., on the 22d
inst, destroyed thirty houses and stores in
the business portion of the village. Los
$150000.
The steamship Diego, which sailed from
New York for Liverpool on the 1st inst,
burned at sea on the Sth inst. No lives lost.
She was owned in Bilboa, Spain, and was
insured for $4,000.
POLITICAL.
The Minnesota republicans met In con
vention on the 9th ult, and nominated
their present state ofiicers-Gov. Pillsbury
Lieut.-Gov. Wakefield, Secretary of State
Irgene, and Treasurer Pfaender-by accla-
nation. Resolutions were adopted endors-
ing the administration policies.
| THE Democrats OF Wisconsin, in conven-
| ton at Fond du Lac, on the Goth inst, nomi
mated James A. Mallory, of Milwaukee, for
Governor; r. +. Davis, of Dane county, fol
| Lieut.-Governor; James B. Hayes, of Dodge
county, for Seeretary of State; John Ringle
of Marathon, for State Treasurer; JOS. NJ
/ Morrow, of Munroe, for Attorney General
and Edward Soaring for superintendent OF
/ public instruction.
THE New York Republicans met al
! Rochester on the Goth inst, and after organ
izing and adopting platform, adjourned fol
a day. A resolution to endorse Hayes
! policy was voted down by large majority
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06

Though the hard times since 1873
have been of much longer duration than
at any previous period, such absolute
lmpecuniosity has never prevailed in the
last tour years as occurred thirty-fve
years ago. Then Mr. Tieknor writes to
or Charles Lyell, under date November.
1913; There has been great suffering
IN all our states, and in some like Indiana
ana Illinois, proper currency has dis
appeared, and men have been reduced TO
barter in the common business of every
day life. What you saw in PhiIadolphia
was nothing to the crushing insolvency
OF the West and South. The very post
oihce felt the effects of it-men with
large landed estates being unable to take
out their letters, because they could not
pay the postage in anything the Govern
ment officers could properly receive"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06
MORE HONORS
SHARP Turks.

The Times, strongly pro-Russian, prints
prominently: at is said that the Turk
ISL soldiers have received strict orders
not to fire at the Russian general, lest he
should be killed or disa bled and replaced y
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-21
Atrocities of the Eastern War.

A war correspondent writes: I was
told that during the battle of Karahas-
san, while Nedjib Pacha, the general
commanding the main attack on the vii
lage, was standing beneath a tree, look
ing at the progress of the fight, a Turk
ish soldier passed by carrying, skewered
on his bayonet, the head of a Russian.
As he passed the general he laid the
head triumphantly at his feet. Nediib
is an exceedingly humane and enlight.
ened man and turned away with an angry
exclamation Of disgust, whereupon the
soldier promptly ran his bayonet
through the head again, shouldered his
ghastly trophy and marched on. A SINH
lar incident occurred at the battle of
-Kuzeljevo at which Mshemet Ali COM
.manded in person. The general was
standing with his staff looking On at
the development of the attack on the
Russian position, when a Turkish troop
or galloped f%uriously past holding out,
at arms length, a dripping head which
he grasped by the hair. The man was
mad with the fury Of battle, and actually
shook the dripping head-so they say
-inthe face Of the commander-in-ohief,
who Immediately ordered him under ar
rest.
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of voices rejoicing over what they have
made Chorus of voices wailing ovel
what they have lost. This temple o.
which I speak stands open dayand night
and there is the glittering god with his
four feet on broken hearts, and there Is
the smoking altar of sacrifice, new
victims every moment on it, and there
are the kneeling devotees, and the dox-
ology Of the worship rolls on, while
Death stands with mouldy and skeleton
arm beating time for tho chorus
more more more!"
Some people are very much surprised
at the actions of people in the Stock Elk
change, New York. Indeed, it is a scene
sometimes that paralyzes description, and
is beyond the imagination of anyone who
has never looked in. What swapping of
finger and thumb, and wild ges%ticulation,
and raving like hyenas, and stamping like
bufaloes, and swaying to and fro, and
jostling and running n upon another,
and deafening uproar, until the president
of. the Exchange strikes with his mallet
four or five times, crying, "Order! Or
der +" and the astonished spectator goes
out into the fresh air feelingthat he has
escaped from pandemonium. What does
it all NEAR? p T. will tell you what il
means. The devotees of every heather
temple cut themselves to pieces, and yell
and gyrate. This vociferation and gy-
ration-of the Stock Exchange is all ap-
propriate. This is the worship Of the
golden calf. 20. - . 3"
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What Agriculture Does.

An exchange says: Without agricul.
ture there is no wealth. Gold and silver
are not wealth-they are its convenient
representatives !; commerce produces no
wealth-it simply exchanges it manu-
f~acturea and, the arts combine it., iAgri-
culture is the prolific mother of wealth.
the rest simply handle it when produced
and delivered into their hands.
The earth breeds savages. Agricul-
ture breeds enlightened nations ; it
breeds houses and ships, temples and
seminaries !; it breeds the mandatory ;
sculpture, painting and music are its
offspring. The wheels of the workshops
the sails of commerce, the implements
of science, the pen Of genius. the pencil
and chisel Of the artist, the eloquent
tongue of the orator, the scheming brain
of the statesman, the equipages of
wealth, the banquetings Of pleasure-all
that renders earth, in its, tides of life
anything but a great sepulchre, move
and have power of being, because the
fields yield their fruits to the patient toll
of the husbandman. -..3
We might manage to live without
merchants, without mariners, without
orators, without poets; perhaps We might
possibly survive the loss of demagogues
but sure I am we could not do without
plowmen. tp .
The state of husbandry in my country
is the best test of its enlightenment.
The thermometer of civilization rises or
falls as drives the pillow. "You must
send the plow," exclaimed a man who
had travelled all over Christian mission
ary ground, Gin heather lands, q bar
barian nation needs but to be plowed up
deep, subsoiled, planted, and the newt
able harvest will be an enlightened
nation"
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An Excellent Reason.

Romieu, the French actor, was an in
corrigible joker, but n day he was
very neatly taken in by o clockmaker
in the Palais Royal. Enter Romieu,
pretending to be agentleman from the
country, Of a very simple type indeed.
Romieu, with strong provincial accent
"Pray, sir, can you tell me what are
those little round machines hung up in
your shop window ?rHT = *
!Olockhaker rThey are called
watches, Sir" Unhooks one and shows it.
All, watches! And what
are they for, please ?"
ClDckmaker-"To indicate the time,
SIR w. 49,. ~.
Romieu-"To indicate the time
And how, pray?"
Clockmaker-"I will show you" En-
tiers into brief but lucid explanation,
then concluding "You must wind up
the watch every twenty-four hours"
Romieu-"Every twenty-four hours
Morning or EVENING""
Clockmaker-" Morning" ~
Why, morning {"
Clockmaker, blandly-"Because Mon
sieur Romieu, in the evening you are
tipsy"
Exit Romieu.
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The Iguana.

Among the lizard tribe, the iguana
may be regarded as a sort of king, from
it's size, or the appreciation bestowed on
its flesh. It is found in the eastern parts
of South America. and the West Indies,
and is easily known by the great pouch
at the neck, and by the bristling crest
that runs along the back, from head to
tail. The tail, the claws and body, are
all covered with scales, green in color,
shading off above into a slaty blue, and
below into a yellow. Though three or
four feet long, and thus terribly armed,
it is quiet, i%noffensive and easily caught.
To man it seldom makes any resistance,
and as its food is vegetable, and it's flesh
white and delicate, it is much hunted for
food in Brazil and the West Indies.
But the means of defence are adapted
by nature to the mode of life, and every
animal has it's weapons. This lizard
uses against beasts Of prey it's mail
ed tail as a most effective defence, lash
ing about with it to the right and left,
with such force as to make even the ia
guar relax his hold.
The Bahama Islands abound in this
lizard, which is caught by dogs, trained
to pursue it to the hollow rocks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-21
A Runaway Train.

From some cause or other not yet re-
ported the engineer Of the continental
express goods train. running from Lon.
don to Dover, in England, o few days
ago lost control of big engine when about
half way between the two. cities.
"Shortiy after the time that it was due, "
says the London Times, "the trains
with the brakes on and the whistle blow.
ing, dashed through the Priory at Do.
yer, md, running through the tunnel
under the town, tore through the harbor
at a tremendous rate" An empty truck
on the track wa doubled up like. match
wood. Some large gates and an immense
brickspier were carried way. SIN the
soft mold OF a garden, not fifty yards
from q number of dwelling houses" the
engine finally imbedded itself. The
fireman jumped from the train, and wa
only slightly hurt but the engineer re-
ceived severe injuries.
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Interesting Facts.
Coal was first dug as fuel in 1889.

Coal was first dug as fuel in 1899.
Carthage was founded by the Ph@ni-
clans in 1856 B. @.
Utica and Cadiz were built by the
Phenicians in 1850 B. @.
The Bank of England suspended its
payments In cash in 1872. il e
Adrea, which 1000 years ago was upon
the yea, is now twenty miles from it.
The pillow was invented by Dagon, the
brother of Cronus, in 1880 B. @.
The Ganges rises from April to Aug
ust, thirty-two feet, and then Greats a
food 100 miles wide.
Richard Person, celebrated for his
memory, learning and eccentricity, was
born in 1859, and died in 1903.
Springs are formed by the interven-
ton of clay and sand strata, the former
holding water and the latter permitting
ts free passage.
In 476 Rome was taken by Odoacer,
who was made King of Italy, which put
an end to the Roman Empire, 1929
years after the building of Rome.
In 1922 and 1928 Chill was visited by
q continuous series of earthquakes, which
raised the whole coast from three to four
! feet above the former level.
Jumnotree, in the widest part of the
| elevated Himalayas, has a temple visited
by distant G!%evotees, sacred to the goddess
Jumna. Demderpouch, near it, $4,000
feet high.
The Amazon, the Oronoco, the Missis-
sippi. the Nile, the Danube, the Zaire,
and the Ganges rivers all have islands at
| their mouths, and the sea is muddy for
a great distance.
The Hindoos believe in the unity of
| God. and in subordinate deities repre-
scented by the element. stars and planets.
They teach fifth element. which effects,
attracts attentions, repulsions, etc., and
! call the sun adety@, attractor.
Spanish wives do not take their hus-
bands name. Spaniards uncontaminated
with Moorish blood are called "honor-
| able" however poor, but no rank secures
them from the stigma of malasangre If
they have any moorish mixture. In
Spain the passions are the causes OF
crime, and Of 5,400 crimes in a year
about 5000 are murders.
In 1776 every colony had a staple COM
modify peculiar to itself as: Canada,
fur Massachusetts, fish ; Connecticut,
lumber ; New York, wheat P%ennsylva-
mia, wheat !; Virginia, tobacco ; Mary
land, tobacco; North Carolina. pitch
and tar South Carolina, rice and indi-
90 Georgia, rice and silk.
The great bell which was rung upon
the Declaration Of Independence, was
one that had been brought from Eng
land in 1852 and having been almost
Immediately cracked, was recast in 1903.
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A Curious Sound.

Manitobah Lake, which lies northwest
of Fort Garry, and has given a title to
the province formed out of the Red
River region, derives its name from a
small island, from which, in the stiffness
of night, issues a mysterious voice."
On no account will the Ojibways ap-
proach or land upon this island, suppos-
ing it to be the home of the Manitobah
-''the Speaking God" The aus of
this curious sound is the beating of the
waves on the "~shingle," or large peb-
bles lining the shores. Along the north
ern coast of the island there is a long
low cliff of fine grained compact lime
stone, which, under the stroke of the
hammer, clinks like steel. The waves
beating on the shore at the foot of the
cliff cause the fallen fragments to rub
against each other, and to give out a
sound resembling the chimes of dis
tant church bells. This phenomenon
occurs when the gales blow from the
north, and then, as the winds subside,
low, wailing sounds, like whispering
voices, are heard in the air. Travellers
assert that the effect is very impressive,
and they have been awakened at night
under the impression that they were
listening to church bells.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-21
A Suggestive Fact.

It is strange what an effect the mere
wording of an advertisement has. The
following was inserted in a Pittsburg
paper: ~. ..lI
.WIANTED-Ayoun man competent to take
w charge Of q set of books. Apply, by
letter or in person at No. s. street, Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania.
This card called out one hundred and
thirteen applicants the first day. Then
this notice was published in the same
journal 81. ...
W7ANTED-A good, experienced farm Ia;
w borer. None need apply who are afraid
of work. Apply in person at No. - s.
street, P%ittsburg, Pennsylvania. ;.. 49,.
Eight persons responded to. this. The
foregoing would seem to indicate that
people are perhaps not: so anxious for
hard work as they are for quin-driving
situations. -Detroit Free Press. a,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-21

Disease Is in 3 great many-perhaps ythe
majority-of instances the underlying cause
of mental depression. It will almost invaria.
bly, be found, for instance, that hypochrondriL;
persons who have had any experience Of such
cases are aware that sufferers from diseases
Of the kidneys and bladder are especially sub
iect to fits OF dependency. The sure way to
overcome depression is to try q course Of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, 8 cheering cor
dial which is peculiarly ~antagonistic to the
".blues," as we'll tss to the causes which pro-
duce them. This popular and eficacious cor
rective Of o disordered condition OF the system
remedies the most obstinate cases Of indiges-
ton, biliousness and constipation, overcomes
disorders Of the urinary organs, puri6es and
enriches the blood, and restores vigor to the
BODY as well as elasticity to the mind.
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When the Grass Shall Cover Me.

When the grass shall cover me,
Head to foot, where I am lying
When not any wind that blows,
Summer blooms nor winter SHOWS,
Shall awake me to your signing
Close above me as you pass,
You will say ; Chow kind she was,
You will say Chow true she was,
When the grass grows over me.
When the grass shall cover mo,
Holden close to earth's warm bosom ;
While I laugh, or weep, or sing
Never more for anything;
You will find in blade and blossom,
Sweet, small, voices, odorous,
Tender pleaders in my cause,
That shall speak me as I was
When the grass grows over me.
When the grass shall cover me!
All, beloved, in my sorrow r.
Very patient, 1 can wait
Knowing that, or soon or late, .
There will dawn q clearer morrow
When your heart will moan, "Alas!
Now I know how true she was :;
Now I know how dear she was"
When the grass grows over me.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-21
Timber Statistics.

Within ten years 40 less than 2,000,
900 acres of forest have been cut down
or burned over in the United States.
Much of the timber is used for fuel,
twenty-five cities being IN record as con-
Stunning from 5000 to 10, 0G0 acres each.
Fences use up much timber, and rail.
way sleepers require the product Of
$50, 600 acres per annum The amount
of pine and hemlock timber yet stand
ing in the forests of the timber States
is estimated at 225, 600, 600, 900 feet
The sum of $144, OOO, 900 is invested II
the timber industry, employing 200,O O(
man. ! =
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-21
A New York o%Iiu.treI COMPANY.

The headquarters for minstrelsy in America
always will be in New York, and to be tie most
excellent in point Of enterprise and entertain
ment in; the metropolis is to BIO at the very top
Of the business IN the country. Phis distino-
ton is unanimously accorded to Bryants, Min
strels. Neil Bryant, Survivor Of the famous
brothers., has organized d! company on the
basis of talent and perfection, and the triumphs
Of the bygone years are revived. The company
now playing at Bryant's Opera House, 728 and
73O Broadway, is in all respects q splendid and
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.~.a~ ,..t
80: ,-n,l Ion gu%ig Ifyuni. .aI {. s.,8T .
- 81 FOR REMOVING
Tan, sunburn, Frecklss, Rednsss and ,Erup
tons Of the Skin, and for Rendering the
~. Complexion Clear and Beautiful. b.

OF all the effects that exposure Of the skin te
the air or sun produces, the most disagreeable Il
called freckles, or tan. II spread over the entire
surface Of the parts exposed, II l. called tan; II
scattered at intervals, freckles: The finest skins
prepared By Joseph Burnett & Co., Boston, con.
rtains q peculiar erasive' property which Win re-
move these disagreeable stains. It 10 at the Same
time perfectly harmless, allays all tendency to
Ard heautifuI. . -.,g mn. . , ....s. . r
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A lover of good coffee entered "a
grocery recently, and holding up a hand
full of ground coffee from a big can he
inquired, care there any beans in this
coffse?" "No, SIR promptly replied
the grocer. "How do you know7"
asked the man. "Because I was out of
beans and had to put peas in," was
the answer. ...a.g ...... ..s~
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CIeo.on,s Publications..

Glenson's Publications.. -.
Great reduction in price for 1878 OF Gleason!
Pictorial to 90 a year. Single copies five cent?
The Home Circle to 81 year, single copies
five cents, for sale by all newsdealers.
Geason's Monthly Companion to 81 q year
single copies ten cents. AL postage free.
The price Of chromos has Just been greatly
reduced. No one now gives such liberal terms
to agents as we do. Send for new free circular
Address F. Gleason g. Co., 1888 Washington
Street. Boston, Mass,
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-. Mrs. General Sherman,
wife Of She general Of the United States army
says: az have frequently purchased Durang'i
Rheumatic Remedy for friends suffering will
rheumatism, and in every, instance It WORKED
like magic" Send for circular to Helphen
slime and Bentley, druggists, Washington, D. G
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The, elegant company. from Duh's Brood.
way1Theater,f NewIYerk city, are playing t.
a succession of crowded houses in New Yori
State and Canada. In the, hands Of -thli
talented organization the play Of Pink Dorni
noes. has made q decided hit, and is spoken
Of rs 3 mastery performance. w.
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Rur,er,,s Flovorinu .Rxtracts

Burnetps Flavortng Extracts |.
The superiority Of these extracts consists IN
their perfect purity and great strength. They
are warranted free from the poisonous oils and
acids which enter into the composition Of
msnyId thefaotioious fruit fasorsnow in the
n,arkat n. vur q