The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-21
LOCAL AFT AIRS
"A MERRY CHRIsTAAsl

The public schools closed yes
terday for two weeks vacation.
60 to Roy's for pop corn and
anything else you want for the holt
days.
Hon. Thsd. c. Pound has our
thanks for q late Report of the
Commissioner of Agriculture.
We received a pleasant call
last Saturday from J. D. Howard,
Esq, Of Duluth.
"A mans temper is most yalu-
able to himself, aud be should keep
it.
%. B. Churchill has removed
10 Duluth and Afr. |. LORD will oc-
cupy the house be has vacated.
Now is the season when the
sturdy wood-ehopper will be judged
By his Ak.
"A light fall of snow during the
week but not yet enough Tor good
sleighing.
Mr.. James Syer has gone to
River Falls to spend Christmas
with bis daughter, Mrs. ?. Z. Brad
shaw.
When alone we have our
thoughts to watch; in our families,
Our tempers and in society our
tongues.
An old negro cook says: "Sass
is powerful good in everything but
children. Dey need some other
kind OF dressin'."
We are deeply panied to an
nounce that Judge Thomas CLARK
dted of congestion of the lungs, at
his residence yesterday at noon.
An obituary will appear next week.
Il. W. Gates, James Edwards,
Jas. Syer and J. 5. Richie went
down to St. Paul on Tuesday as
delegates from Superior to the har-
Dor convention.
A Vermonter has invented a
bottle that will always turn right
side up, thus failing to spill the con-
tents, no matter how drunk the
owner is.
Josh Billings suggests that
many young poet might be able
to collect his scattered thoughts, ii
be could only look into an editor 8
waste basket early in the morning.
No one feels able to explain
why it Id that man feels he is
more likely to get up in time in the
morning by keeping his watch OF
clock half an hour fast.
The winter bridge over the Du-
lnth canal is being put up. When
up it will be convenience to the
Superior people "a well as to the
DuIuthians below the canal.
Y. Roy has just received q
large ard select assortment Of fancy
candies for the holidays. Ii he can
not suit you it will be useless to
look further.
Christmas is nesr at hand, and
church decorations are the order of
the day; consequently the woods
are suffering from the onslaught OF
ye evergreen gatherers.
Isaac Staples now has four
hundred men, eighty-four span of
horses and fifty yoke Of oxen at
work in the woods IN different
camps. The outlook for the logging
business is better this season than
last.
TOYS AND HOLIDAY GooDs.-Th e
largest assortment Of toys, toy
books, gsmes, blocks, puzzlesy writ
ing desks, work boxes, albums, gift
books, paintings, dc. in Duluth at
L. +. Johnson's Book Store, Supe
rior street opposite Clark House.
y. 3. Bell, one Of the early set
tiers Of Superior, has become editor
and proprietor Of the Daily Times,
neat little paper published at
Minneapolis, Mimi, as an adYcr-
Using medium, at the instance of
the leading business firms of that
city.
A school boy being asked By
his teacher how he should fog him,
replied, "If yon please, sir, | should
ike 10 have it on the Italian system
Of penmanship, the heavy strokes
and the downward ones
light
-Ontonagon Miner: There IS
I'll, Of rnnninc. The steamer Ivan