The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-14

Ants, bedbngs, cockroaches and
ere eping things are all killed by it,
while it has no danger of poisoning
the family or injuring property.
Mess. |. w. Gates, James Ed
wards, Geo. w. Perry, Thos. Clark,
James Bardon, William Kimball,
Vincent Roy and James S. Richie
have received special invitations to
the St. Paul convention, and we I'M
derstand all or nearly all will at
tend.
The ice on the bays and rivers
is now strong enough for light
teams, and is gradually growing
thicker, SO that travel between here
and Dulu:h, which has been inter-
rupted for several weeks may be
soon renewed with safety and con-
venience. There is no ice on the
lake and no signs of any.
The great difference in the
amount Of cream contained in the
first aud last milk taken from the
COW, appears to be satisfactorily
explained on the supposition that
the fatty matter of the milk obeys
the same laws Of gravity in the
udder OF the COW that it does when
set aside in Oh open vessel.
The railroad Is finished to Win
nipeg, and the cars are making reg
ular trips between that point and
he States" Under the present
arrangements the time is q hours
between Winnipeg and St Paul or
Duluth, but it will probably be
shortened several hours on the
opening of navigation in the sprir g.
The graders are getting along
first rate lii their work on the rail
road, and will have nearly the
whole six miles finished by the lat
ter part of this week. There will
be 10 more grading done then until
next spring. This winter the com
pany viii go to work on the bridge
across the St. Croix river, put in
the piers and get out the timber
Burnett County Sentinel.
-Peck's Sun says story is go
Ing the rounds that a Miss Mollie
Fancher, of Brooklyn, has lived
fourteen years without food, and
doctors certify to the story. That
woman should marry country edi
tor. What this country needs is to
have a race of people raised up that
could live fourteen yaars without
food, and Mollie and an editor is
the best cross we can think of One
of us will sacrifice ourselves tor the
good of humanity if Mol wants to
marry.-Norb " isc0nSin Neacs.
Here is what the Thunder Bay
Sentinel says of Il e recent discov-
cry of silver ore il the streets OF
Prince ArtLur's Landing: "Two
pieces of the vein rock, from the
discovery mentioned 10 our last
issue, have been assayed. The
concentrations from the first, in
which no mineral of any description
was visible, assayed Al ounces OF
silver per ton. The rest in which
no mineral was visible on the out
side, but on being broken showed
some small specks of blend, assayed
llO4 ounces per ton of concentra-
lions. The rich pieces which con
tanned native silver have not been
assayed, as their Iichness was d
self evident fact"
Says an exchange, of the use of
tobacco by boys: at has utterly
spoiled and utterly ruined thou
sands Of boys. 1t tends to the
weakening and softening of the
bones, and it greatly iGjures the
brain and spinal marrow, and the
whole nervous fluid. \ boy who
smokes freely and frequently, or in
any way uses large quantities OF to-
bacco, is never known to make q
man ofmueh energy, and generally
lacks muscular and physical, as
well as mental power. We would
particularly warn boys who wan'
to be anything in the world, to shuu
tobacco as a most baneful poison
The last shipment of copper
was made on the oath inst, which
cleaned up the Productions OF oul
mines for about the last twelve
months. The yield of copper OF
the lake for the year ending witt
the above date, is few hundred
! tons in nNnasS Of the cnrrnSnnn lin q