The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-20
SUPERIOR. WISCONSIN,.

SUPERIOR. WISCONSIN,.
VARIOUS TOPICS.
The law prohibiting the carrying of
concealed weapons, which the Mississip-
pi legislature passed, is asserted by the
Vicksburg Herald to have been framed
in so bungling a manner that it is likely
to prove dead letter.
A TEXAS paper advised its readers to
sell their vacant town lots, and the Gal
weston News hurries in with the sue-
gestion that they may spare themselves
the trouble, as the tax collector will at
tend to all that kind of business in due
season.
THE famous standard of Mohammed
is said to be at the museum of artillery
at Turin, Italy, having been purchased
by the Sandman ambassador at Con-
stantinople in 1889, and sent to King
Charles Albert. 1t is of red silk, with
verses of the Koran upon it in yellow
letters.
PARIS street-cars are warmed by small
rot water pipes connected with little
stove placed beneath one of the plat
forms. The cost is about ten American
cents day, the fuel used being just suf-
fcient to keep moderate quantity of
water hot The Parisians are greatly
pleased with the plan.
The most luxuriant thing about Mrs.
Ben Wade, says a Washington letter,
was her long, waving and beautifully
golden hair. OF all the ladies that have
moved In the upper circles of society in
Washington for the last twenty years,
none has surpassed Mrs. Wade in the en-
chanting beauty of her magnifcently
beautiful golden hair. 1t was the one
strong personal mark of her appearance.
LUCRATIVE EMPLOYMENT" in Lon
don means-as two young ladies found
out who answered an advertisement-th
embroidering of colored clocks" on
women's stockings at the rate of one
half-penny clock This liberal offer
was hampered with one condition. The
candidates for employment have to pay
five shillings in the first instance to be
taught in the art of clCck embroidery.
GOOD luck has come to genial Sam.
Ward. Keene, the California speculator,
grateful to him for personal kindness, is
said TO have settled on him $50, 900 for
life, the proceeds then to revert to
Keene's family. This substantial addi-
ton to the income from the Aston
estate makes the king of the lobby COM
Portable for the rest of his DAYS. So
shines good deed in the naughty world
VISITORS to the late centennial show,
doubtless remember the hydraulic eleva-
tor that brought them to the upper story
OF the buildings to "view the landscape
Ger" The same old holster will crawl
up the towers of the rotuuda on the ex-
hibition grounds at Paris, and visitors
can 60 up by the hundred or two at
time. The view from the top will take
in the valley of the Seine for miles on
either side, and every prominent build
ing the city will be easily seen.
The garbage scow fleet of the street
cleaning department of New York is
floating village, having a society pecu-
liarly its own, which is just now interest
ed In the marriage of one of it's mem
bers. Miss Matilda Baker, daughter of
the captain of scow 60, and long known
as the queen of the garbage feet, has
welded Capt. Thomas Matthews, of the
garbage scow Highland Rose, who, by
virtue of the marriage, becomes prince
consort.
IT has always been the custom when
the acting-secretary of state presents a
newly-elected pope with the white skull
cap, in the conclave where the election
occurs, for the pontiff to proclaim that
official always monsignor) a cardinal
by placing his own red skull-cap upon
the secretary's head. Monsignor La
sagni, however, was disappointed at the
election of Leo MIL, for the new pope,
on receiving the white cap, put the red
one into his pocket.
PHILADELPHIA rejoices and is glad
over the possession of probably the old
est hearse-driver in the world. For
nearly fifty years has this sombre indi-
vidual held the ribbons of death and
driven slowly gravewards. He has aver
aged three funerals day, but what he
Is particularly proud of is his connection
with obsequies, real and ceremonial, of
John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor,
Abraham Lincoln and Henry Wilson.
He expects shortly to patronize the
grave craft of drivers himself
VENEZUELA is referred to now and
then in presidential messages as coun-
try, the government of which, is pretty
slow pay, and that is about all that the
majority of our people know about it.
But in a recent book, the author-Mr.
spence-tries to give us notion of it,
by telling us that Venezuela covers the
same extent of superficial area as France,
Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Switzer-
land, Portugal, and the United King