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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02
Wellin gton's Veterans.

After the peace of 1915, the Duke of
Wellington took into his London house
hold several of the veterans of his Pen
insular army, whose habits, being more
in accordance with the battle fields of
Spain than the saloons of Apsley House.
were source of unfailing amusement to
the great generals fashionable visitors.
One battered old fellow with one eve,
who had figured conspicuously at Orthes
and Toulouse, was installed in the gar
dening department. The duke answer
ing all doubts of his fitness by saying,
decisively: "Well, he dug the trenches
in every vineyard of the south of France
| should hope he ought to know some
thing of gardening after that" Another
veteran, who had been wounded at
Waterloo, was under discussion one
evening at dinner between the duke and
Lord Anglesea, when the subject of the
discourse entered with the measured
step OF the parade-ground, carrying a
huge pie. Now" said Anglesea, 'Flet
US try if the old boy remembers his
facings;" and turning suddenly round,
he cried sharply: "Attentionw the
old soldier instinctively dropped his
hands, and with them the pie likewise,
which exploded like a bombshell over
the rich carpet in a shower of steamine
gravy. The poor fellows look of dis.
may at this catastrophe drew a smile
from the Iron Duke himself; but the
jester fastened to console his victim
with the assurance that no English sol.
der could be blamed for knowing his
drill.
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a Hint to CONSERVATIVES.

A correspondent of Les M0ndes calls
atten ton to the fact that butchers,
though they may be pale and thin when
they enter on the business, quickly gain
freshness of color, stoutness and a gen.
orally comfortable look. 1t is a pure
fiction, of course, that they put aside
the best portions of the meat for them
selves, and it is known fact that most
of them lose appetite. The correspond
ent attributes the general well-being to
assimilation, through the respiratory
passages, of nutritive juices of the meat
volatilized in the air-a kind of nutri-
ton by affusion. If this be really a
fact, it is argued that young people, suf-
ferlng from deficient or impure blood,
and especially children of weak or
Emphatic constitution, might be sub
Jected with advantage to hygienic treat
ment based upon it. A well-known
French physician commends the idea,
and offers the following plan for the
treatment of consumptive persons, in
place of sending them on to distant
places with reputedly mild climates. In
a well-ventilated, sun-lit and sheltered
room, with southern exposure, he would,
by means of a MOusserOn brazier, the
high moist heat of which is salutary and
favorable to respiration, form for the
patient an artificial climate, like that OF
Nice or Florida, having all the advan-
tages, without the inconvenience, of the
real climate. To aid the antiseptic
action of the warm moist air, rich in
vapors, charged with dissolved carbonic
acid, he would place in one or more cor
ners of the room an open bottle of water
saturated with sulphurous acid. By
this arrangement he thinks the progress
of the differentiation would be arrested.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02
WASHINGTON.

The secretary of the treasury has ap-
pointed a special committee to visit the
bond paper manufacturing establishments,
with the view to obtain the fibre paper for
bonds and notes at cheaper than present
rates.
GEN. HOWARD telegraphs from Fort Van
eouver, that Umatilla Indian was murder
ed on the Goth ult. by white men, and that
the Umatilas have within three weeks lost
800 horses taken by whites. He asks: "Can-
not the United States district attorney be
instructed by the encouragement to attend
to this and other cold-blooded murders of
Indians by white men? A few examples of
justice would do more for peace than p
whole summer campaign" The foregoing
was endorsed by Gen. Sherman, as follows
The UmatIlla Indians should be protect
ed in their lives and property as far as pos
sible by the civil agents, as also by the
military, but after crime is committed, the
civil courts should try the case and adjudge
the measure of punishment" The dispatch
thus endorsed was sent by Secretary Nc
Crary to the Indian bureau, and Acting
Commissioner Leeds has referred it to Sec
rotary Schurz, with the recommendation
that measures be promptly taken to bring
the guilty parties to punishment.
The October returns to the department
OF agriculture indicates the average of the
cotton crop, the same as September Com
pared with October, 1877, the growing crop
shows an Improvement of IL per cent The
October condition equals that of the splen.
dla crop OF 1870 and exceeds any interven-
ing year. Insect In juries are unimportant.
With the increased acreage planted the
crop now premises to produce more than
FIVE million bales.
1T is now officially known that awards to
American exhibitors at the French exposi
ton number $50. namely; Ten grand
prizes, 80 diplomas OF honor, 1874 gold
medals, 200 silver medals, 300 bronze
medals, and 156 honorable mentions. Tho
aggregate is larger than the whole number
OF American exhibitors at the Paris exposi.
ton in 1867, or at the Vienna exposition of
| 1873, and is larger proportion of awards to
exhibitors than to any other nation repre-
scented at this exhibition.
! THE Supreme Court of the United STAGES
met at Washington on the 14th inst, and in
accordance with usage adjourned to paw
respects to the president, the latter received
| the judges i'll the blue room, where thew
pleasantly spent short time in general
conversation. Before adjournment for the
day Fred B. Mason, of Chicago and Fl. s.
! Chauford, of Cincinnati, were admitted tn
practice.
THE New York bank statement for the
week ending October 18th, was the most I'M
| favorable one issued for some time past, the
surplus reserve being reduced from 81, 49,
$50 the week previous to S3,531, 900. A
heavy decrease in specie is owing to absorb
ton of gold by the treasury for customs and
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hoed twice, and then what is called the
long water is let on, and allowed to
remain a fortnight. With the appear
ance of the first joint in the stalk the
rice is hoed again, and is then over
flowed for two months by the "joint
water" By that time the grain has
matured, and it is harvested with a
sickle, and carefully dried by being
spread on stubble. When cured, it is
stacked.
Formerly most of the southern rice
was threshed in mortars by the slaves on
the plantations, and the poorest was re-
tanned for their use. But now, with the
exception of what is reserved by the
negroes, it is all sent to the large mills In
the cities to be threshed. The largest of
these is to be found at Charleston. In
these mills the grain is rubbed between
stones until freed from the husk; 1T Is
then shaken in revolving sleeves or wire
screens with perforations gradually in
creasing in size. First the -four is sifted !;
then the different grades of the kernel up
to the last and best, ranked as prime,
which is swept in a brushing screen
and cleaned of all the -four cling
ing to it. The average yield of
rice to the acre is thirty bushels; on the
best land sixty bushels are not uncom-
mon, while ninety bushels have occasion
ally been obtained. The crop from the
southern states reaches an average of
10000 tons per annum. The rice lands
are very unhealthy, and no white man
should spend the night in their vicinity
after the crop begins to come up. They
are infected with the most poisonous
malaria. The negroes build their rude
shanties on the dikes and hummocks in
the midst of the rice swamps, and dance
and play on their One-stringed fddles
with infantile security. No doubt they
endure malarial ex posure and blazing
torrent of sunlight far better than the
whites, but even they not rarely sue
cumb. A planter told me that in one
deadly summer he lost most of his ne
groes on rice Plantations. q. w.
Benjamin., IN Harper's Magazine.
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Historic Postoffces.

Two United States postofices have
been established at places of historic
note in Virginia. While there are
twenty-three Mount Vernons in the
United States that have postofhces, the
one from which the name sprung has been
without postal facilities. The subject
was brought to the attention of Post
masterGeneral Key few weeks ago,
and it being understood that the lady
regents desired postoffice there as con-
venience as well as for the business of
the Mount Vernon association, and of
the neighborhood, arrangements were
made for an office, which was ordered
established. 1t is thought that the post
office will derive some especial revenue
from visitors who will desire to send a
letter home direct from Mount Vernon.
Another postoffice on the same route
is also established at GunstoR, Fairfax
county, former seat of George Mason,
the author of the Bill of Rights of Vir-
ginia. Gunston is now owned by COM
pany, and cooperative farm is estab-
lished there. 1t was here that James M.
Mason died, several years ago, well
known at one period as United States
senator from Virginia, and afterward as
confederate minister to England.
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GENERAL.

THE Grand Order of International Fire
men of the Union has been merged into the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of the
| United States and Canada.
THE Harvard graduates offer their boat
club $4,000 to send crew to England.
| AT meeting of the executive committee
of the yellow fever relief commission at
Washington, on the 18th inst, the sad an
nouncement of the death of Lieut.. Benner,
of the United States army, commanding the
relief boat, John NJ. Chambers on the ex-
petition down the Mississippi river, was
made by the chairman, who paid tribute
to the courage and bravery of tne officer,
who had voluntarily risked his life in the
cause of mercy and humanity.
THE grand jury in the United States DIS
trict Court at Richmond, Va, has reported
indictments against between ninety and
one hundred assignees in bankruptcy, who
have failed for the years, 1873, 1875, 1876,
1877 and 1873, and for some one year or
more of these years, to make the annual
report required by section 10 of the amend
atory act relating to proceedings in bank.
ruptcy, approved June 22nd. 1874.
AT Appleton, Wis, on the 18th, in a runa-
way accident, Miss SCHNEIDER and Mrs
Stark were killed by being thrown from a
carriage. Another lady named Roudemacker
was quite seriously wounded.
TWENTY or more prisoners, including
some of the worst burglars in the county.
escaped from the Rochester N. Y. Jail on
the 18th inst.
/ 10 Ind
jan four negros charged with ravishing
white women, and hung them in the iail
yard. An Old man named Harrison, father
of one of the victims, who shot and killed q
deputy sheriff, who attempted to arrest his
son, was cut to pieces by the infuriated
mob, and his remains thrown into a privv
vault.
A FIRE at Edenburg, Pa, on the 18th. al.
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The Gregorian Calendar.

The GregOrian calendar, introduced by
Pope Gregory XIII, towards the close of
the sixteenth century, was adopted at
once by the Latin and Catholic coun-
tries. Germany, however, chung to the
old style till the year 1902, and England
till ffty-two years later, when a statute
of George II, provided that the year
should begin, not on the 25th of March
but on the first of July, and that after
the 3rd Of September, 1852, the next
ensuing day should be regarded as the
18th, thus dropping out eleven days.
The Russians, in common with the
Serbians and most of the Slavonic people
subject to Turkey, retained the old cal
endar, although Russia has given coun-
tenance to Pope Gregory by reckoning
leap years. 1t is reported now that a
commission will shortly sit in St. Peters
burg to consider the propriety of giving
up the old system and adopting the
calendar in vogue in other civilized
countries. The World remarks: "Iti is.
of course, desirable that the cars peo.
pie should reckon time as the people of
western Europe do, but it seems to be
suspected that some difficulty will be
experienced from the common people in
introducing the innovation, who Will
think themselves cheated out of the
number of days by the proposed reform.
When the change was made in England
the populace was greatly excited over it,
and favorite cry at the hastings was
"Who stole the eleven days? Give us
back the eleven daysl" Some piece of
folly similar to this seems to be expected
in Russia if the change shall be made.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

Mr.. EDMUND YATES is taking George
Augustus Sala to task for treating lee
ture tour in the United States as dan
gerous, and in doing SO shows a vivid
recollection of his own reception in this
country: 81 lectured," he says, CLIO
times, and travelled $4,000 miles, during
a seven months run in the United
States, and had never an hours illness
from the date of my leaving in the
Calabria. Mr.. Dickens, whom G. A. S.
quotes as his example, was considerably
older than Mr.. Forbes, and nothing like
SO tough; he went to his work unwilling
ly, and fretted the whole time he was
away. Mr.. Forbes will be warmly well
coined by the most hospitable people
IN the world, and he will have good
time
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

AN English court has decided a very
important master and servant case. The
landlord of an inn was sued by maid
servant lately in his employ for e2 los
SD as wages due. She asked permits
sion to go for a days holiday, which was
first granted, but subsequently with
drawn. This led to a quarrel, in the
course of which she said she would
leave there and then," and that the de-
PENDANT could deduct months wages
from the amount of six months wages
due to her. The defendant, however,
declined to pay her any part of the wages
due. The Judge held that so long as the
plaintiff remained in the defendants
service he had a right to control her &C
tions, and was at liberty to withdraw
the permission he had given her. 1t
might appear rather hard that the de-
tendant should get six months of her
services for nothing; but it was very
good thing to have some sort of hold
upon servants. Apparently the modern
idea of servants was that they could
enter into a contract of service and
break it at pleasure. The plaintiff was
non-suited.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

A GENTLEMAN in the agricultural de-
partment relates the failure of a great
national effort on the part of General
lie Due to suppress the grasshoppers. 1t
seems that he accidentally heard that
rocks would eat them, so he decided to
start a national rookery. He drew on
the contingent fund for eleven hundred
dollars and on England for one hundred
rocks. Before he got them through the
New York custom house all but eight
died from the ocean voyage and the Gus
tom house regulations. These reached
Washington alive and were put in the
rookery. A few days since, through
some mistake in giving them an airing
one chilly day, they all died but one.
He still lives, but the expectation OF
having grasshoppers devoured next sea-
son are no longer entertained by the
commissioner
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THE EAST.

DUNCAN, SHERMAN Il Co., have received
their discharge in bankruptcy.
The two-mile sculling race for a purse OF
$4,000 between Edward Morris and Fred
Plaisted, was sculled over the Fulton course
at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th inst, and won
by the former who crossed the line about
three lengths ahead of his opponent. Time
Is :45.
1T has been ordered that work in the
mines at Pottsville, Pa, be commenced
Additional allotment to the Philadelphia
and Reading companies being about 10 ,OOC
tons, it will give miners another weeks
work for October. After finishing the extra
alIottments, it is likely work will be contin.
ued without interruption until the Novem.
Der quota of 343, 800 tons is filled, requiring
two weeks wO
QUITE a sensation was caused at Brook.
Ign, n. Y, on the 10th, by the resignation
of assistant district attorney Hoxie. He
accompanied his resignation with written
confession that he had lost in Wall street
moneys entrusted to him as a government
official The amount of his defaIcation is
supposed to be large.
The Vermont legislature on the 18th inst.
reelected Justin j. Morril to the United
States senate.
ARTHUR CHENEY, manager of the Globe
theater, Boston, died at South Manchester,
Conn, on the 18th inst.
THE defaulting mill cashier, George T.
Hathaway, was arraigned at Taunton, Mass.
on the 18th, and sentenced to ten years in
the state prison. The prisoner wept pro.
fusely.
THE First National bank of Tomaqua,
Pa, has suspended, awing to the failure OF
Chas. I. Schooner, Of Phila., who was a
principal stakeholder. Assets $4,000.
THE most severe storm known for fifteen
years prevailed along the coast on the 18th
inst. Immense damage to shipping attend.
ed with the loss resulted therefrom.
SINCE the discovery of body near Silver
lake, Staten island, the names of no less
than five missing girls have been discovered
through the efforts of the police to solve the
mystery,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02
Rice Fields on the Savannah

On nearing the Savannah river we
came to Ihunderbolt-a most singular
name for quiet summering place. The
rice fields were now entered, which form
so important a position of the wealth and
trade of Savannah. They extend on
each side up and down the river for
many miles, until the limits of brackish
or salt water are reached. The best rice
lands are those which feel the influence
of the tides without, however, being
touched by saltwater, which kills the
rice. 1t may not DE generally known
that the incoming of the tide checks the
flow of rivers, and to a degree pushes
back the fresh water until ebb tide sets
out again A rice field should also be
below the line of freshets. There are
many varieties of rice, and some kinds
can be raised on a dry soil, when it is
capable of irrigation, but most of the
southern rice requires marsh lands easily
overlooked. The preparation of rice
field requires a large outlay; embank-
ments must be raised, bitches, sometime s
large enough to float boats to carry offthe
crop, must be dug, and foodgates
must be constructed. The land is
ploughed during the winter; it is allowed
to dry in March, and in April the seed
is sown, sometimes soaked in clay water
to keep it from blowing away, and some
times it is merely covered with a thin
layer of earth. Great care is requisite
in the selection of the seed. Water is
then turned on it for several DAYS, until
it sprouts. After five or six weeks it is
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

IN eW York

NEW YORK, October 1913 100 P. M.-Cot
ton-Quiet at Toe for middling uplands.
Flour-Steady and rather quiet; receipts
$4,000 bbls sales 200 bbls at SIS. 55@5 90.
Wheat-Quiet receipts 241, 900 bus; sales
5000 bus No. winter red seller November
at $1.03. Rye-Quiet. Confirm and
unchanged; receipts $4,000 bus; sales &c, 900
bus at 43H@47c for western mixed. Barley
Quiet. Oats-Steady; receipts %, OOObus
sales $4,000 bus at 26@33c for mixed west.
ern; 27K@33c for white do. Pork-Dull
at 1886. Lard-Dull at $780, Whisky
AT $1.09. Petroleum Crude at sc; refined
at SIC. Coal-Steady. Leather-Hea at
20@223c. Wool-Quiet at 3G@42c.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

A SCHEME has just been proposed by
NJ. Emile Pagan, Belgian, for reach
ing the north. pole in a balloon. The
aerial machine, which is of a special
form, will be used as a sailing vessel as
far as the eighty-fourth parallel. There
he will fill the balloon, of a capacity of
$500 cubic metres, with pure hydrogen,
which he will make in the Arctic ,gions
with $4,000 cubic metres of sulphuric
acid and 5000 of iron filings. He will
be supplied with boxes of preserved
meats, buiscuits, bottles of brandy, alco-
hol, &C., which he will throw overheard
as he advances toward the pole.
The car will serve him, according to cir
cumstances, as a sledge or boat.
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Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE,, October 1890 P. M
flour-Very dull but steady; choice spring
extra $4.25@475; common $3.25@3. So
Wheal-Active and strong; No. held at
Sac; No. sold at sou @S013c; November
at S1H@S2c; December at 831a@84c; No. 3
at 69@69Hc. Corn-Dull but firm at 34Lc.
Oats-Quiet at 1SHc. Rye-Tame at 43c.
Barley-Srong 964c cash and 99c seller
November No. 3 at Soc. Pork-Quiet at
$3.50 cash. Lard-Quiet at 6Ac. Hogs
Steady at $3.O0@325.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, October 1890 P. M.-Flour
Dull. Wheat-unsettled at 1910; fresh at
801sc; seller November at SOAc; seller
December, SIC bid No. 3 at 67a6S nc win
$1,000 bus. Corn-Easier; 341sc bid; re-
ceipti $4,000 bus; shipments $4,000 bus.
Oats-Quiet at 1870; receipts Al 900 bus
shipments $4,000 bus. Rye-Quiet at AZ nc.
Barley-Quiet; No. 2 nominal at $1.O2%;
seller December at $1.04. Pork-Very dull;
S755 asked; seller December, $3.50 bid.
Lard-Dull; $6.12K bid; seller December
1918 bid. Hogs-Dull and 12kc lower
mixed at $3.10@3.25. Freights - Tame;
3Ac on corn to Buffalo.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

SOME papers are explaining that TIL
central African names which begin wit
-" Nj" before a consonant are pronounce
as if The an" were Cum" This i
not quite exact. The sound is not
broadly "Um," but an obscure ele
mentary utterance of ON" No one
should say Umtesa" for "Mtesa," IN
less he also calls an elm an "ellum."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

A MOST eccentric will is that left by
the late Allen T. Wilson, of Marin
county, Cal. He leaves some ST., 900 to
his son, but declares it forfeited if he
ever gives any money to Catholic in,
stitution, person or cause. If he uses
any hind of alcoholic liquor after he
reaches the age of ten years, he shall for
felt his rights, or pass a month on a diet
of bread and water for each time he
commits the ofense. If he smokes, also,
he shall forfeit his estate, or work stead
lily for year as a common farm laborer
and save one half of his wages.
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FOraiQn

LONDON, October 1912 80 P. M-Liver-
pool wheat market opens steadier. Float
ing cargoes about ed per quarter dearer
there is a continental demand. On passage
steadier. Good cargoes mixed American
corn of coast at 22s cd; good cargoes No. 2
spring wheat of coast, 3Ss; good cargoes
red winter off coast, 40s 6d@41s.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

LORD DYsARI, whose death was re-
Gently announced, rarely left his rooms
in Norfolk street, London; indeed, had
such an aversion to being seen by a
stranger that on one occ aston, when being
measured for new pair of boots-a rare
event, by the wayne put his feet
through the doorway and secluded his
sacred person from the gaze of the at
tendant tradesman.
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GENERAL TOPICS.

PITHoLE is dead. The department
withdrew mail services from the Office
October 9th. Pithole was at one time
the third postoffice in the state, Phila-
delphia being first and Pittsburg second.
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most completely destroyed the town. Loss
$3.50, 900 or 100000.
IN Cincinnati Jewish pastor named
Jacob L. Levinson, but lately in the cigar
mandatory business, in the same city, has
absconded forger. Amount $4,000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-02

The pension Office in Washington
gives notice to whom it may concern that
the services of pension lawyers and
claim agents are of no value whatever in
advancing the interests of applicants for
pensions. The bureau furnishes blanks
that cover the whole business on appli-
cation, and they can be filled by any
notary public without help of the pro-
fessed experts.