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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15

EAT APPLEs.-Apples, in addition
to being n delicious fruit, makes a
pleasant medicine. A raw, mellow
apple it digested in an hour and a
half, while boiled cabbage requires
FIVE hours, the most healthy desert
that can be placed on the table, is a
baked apple. If eaten frequently
at breakfast, with coarse bread and
butter, without meat or flesh of any
kind, it has an admirable effect on
the general system, after removing
constipation, correcting acidities,
and cooling off febrile conditions
more effectually than the most ap-
proved medicines. If families
could be induced to substitute ap-
piles, ripe and sound, for pies, cakes
and sweatmeats, with which their
children are frequently stuffed, there
would be dlniinution in the total
sum of doctors bills, in a single
year, sufficient 10 lay in stock Of
this delicious fruit for the whole
seasons use.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15

MARY's LITTLE LAMB.-The fol-
lowing is the Chinese version of
Mary and her little lamb:
Was gal name Moll had a lamb,
Flea oil same9 white snow,
Evly place Moll gall wakee.
Ba Ba hoppee long too.
We heard son OF Erin irving to
surround Mary and her little lamb
the other day, and this is the way
he understood it:
Pegorry, Mary had little shape,
And the wool was white intoirelY;
An wherever Mary wud sthir her stumps,
The youny shape would follow her com.
plately.
So celebrated poem should
have a French version:
La petite Marie had lie june muttong,
Zee wool was blanchee az re snow;
And everywhere LaBelle Marie went,
LIE june muttong was sure to go.
Oui, monsieur; you avez un very
imagination; mais comment est this,
pour Deutsche:
Dot Mary half got Elm leedle schaf;
Nit hair yust like some wool;
Und all der place dot gal did vent,
Das schaf go like Elm fool.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
TRAINS CONC WEST.

Trains run daily, Sundays Excepted
*Dinner. tSupper
Trains run on Chicago time which is 23
minutes faster than Winona time
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15

yYcan make money faster at work for tnan
u any thiGg else. Capital not required; will
START you. S12 per day at home made by the indus
trious. Men women, boys and girls wanted every>
to work for us Now is the time. Costly outfit and
terms tree. Address, True Co., Augusta, Maine.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
Is the Only Line
that runs on any Of its trains the celebrated
Pullman Palace Cars.


All trains Of this great route run through
without change Of cars. Pullman Palace
Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars are run
on all its trans.
All Express Trains ou this route are
equipped with Westinghouse Patent Air
Brakes ana Millers Patent Safety Platform
and Couplers--The Most Perfect Protection
against Accidents known.
This popular route is unsurpassed for
Speed, Comfort and Safety. The Smooth,
WeH-Balasted aud Perfect Track of Steel
Rails, the Celebrated Pullman Palace Sleep
ing Cars, the Perfect Telegraph System OF
Moving Trains, the Regularity with which
they run, the admirable arrangement for
running Through Cars between Chicago and
all Points West, North and North West, Sc
cure to passengers all the COMFORTS IN
MODERN RAILWAY TRAVELLING.
IF YOU wish the Best Travelling Accommo-
dations YOU will buy your Tickets by this
Route AND VIII TAKE NO OTHER.
All Ticket Agents can sell you Through
Tickets and Check usual Baggage Free by
this Line
Passengers for Chicago, Detroit Toledo,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Port
land, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltl-
more, Washington, indianapolis, St, Louis,
Cairo and all
POINTS SOUTH AND EAST.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
THE CHICAGO, ST. PAUL AID
MINNEAPOLIS LINE."

Il is the ONLY LINE between ST, Paul and
Minneapolis and Chicago that passes through
Hudson Eau Claire, Black River Falls Elroy
and Madison and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15


FROM the report of lands sold
and contracted to be sold by the
West Wisconsin Railway Co. for
the year ending May lst, made to
the County Clerk by H. H. Weakly.
Land Commissioner for the railroad
company, it appears that the COM
pany sold 4,988.l6 acres of land in
Dunn county during the year. The
price paid is not given in the re-
port but estimating it at an average
of Ss per acre and we have $780,
905 paid, or agreed to be paid,
from this county alone. IF each of
the ten counties along the line of
the road pays as much as Dunn
county the company derives a reve-
nue. of $400,O 900 from the sale of its
lands this Year.-Duhn County
Necs.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
EASTERN led SOUTHERN POINTS.

1t is the only Northwestern Line connect
ing in same Depot in Chicago, with any OF
the great Eastern or Southern Lines, and 10
the most conveniently located with reference
to reaching any depot, hotel or place Of bust
ness in that city.
MINNEAPOLIS DEPoT, cor. Third st. and
Washington Ave-, South city office, Nicos-
let House
ST. PAUL DEPoT. cor. jackson st. and Levee,
city Office, lis East Third St.
WNoNA DEPoT, head of Center ST. on Mark
St. city Office, corner center and Third Sts
LA CROSSE DEPoT, on Vine st. and Levee.
THE ONLY THhOUGH LINE BETWEEN
Minneapolis st. Paul, Winona, La
Crosse, Sparta Milwaukee, Chicago.
C8~ Palace Sleeping Cars and Day Coaches,
with Westinghouse improved Automatic
Air Brake on ell trains.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15

DTNFT1 business you can engage in. IS to $50
0GD 3 per day made by any worker Of either
samples worth SIS free. Improve your spare time at
lis business. Address sTIN~oS Co, Portland,
Maine. mar23-1y
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
should buy Their tlckets wa
The Chicago. St. Paul & Minneapoli:
Line"

Close-Connections are made at Chicago. with the
Lake shore & Michigan Southern, Baltimore
ONO, Michigan Central, pittsburah, Fort Wayne
Chicago Kankakee Line and Pan Handle houtes for
sl points EAST and SOUTHEAST, aud with the
Chicago & Alton aud Illinois Central for all points
SOUTH
New York once No. 4f5 Broadway; Bostou Office,
No State street; st. Paul Ticket Offices, Corner
Third and Jackson 81. aud al Depot on SibIy St. :;
Minneapolis Ticket Offices. NO. Nicollet House
Block and at St Paul Pacific depot; Chicago Ticket
Offices % CLARK St, under Sherman House; 75
Canal corner Madison St; Kiuzie St Depot, cor.
West Kinsie aud Canal Sts; Wells st, Depot, cor.
Wells aud kinzie Streets.
Time Of departure Of Passenger Trains from
St Paul, in effect May p, 1877.
Leave for Chicago and :he East, 1000 a. m.
8" $50 p. m.
Ar from Chicago and the East, 6:25 a. M
S:55 p. III.
F. q. CLARK,
dPA,, ". ": R'y, St. Paul.
". IL. STENNETT,
Gen. Pass. Ag't. Chicago.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
Green Bay & Mime
sofa Railroad.

Summer Time Table, in Effect Mar. 8, 1878,
TRAINS GONG EAST
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15

fesslon, "Our sense of justice
prompts Us to come to the rescue
Mr.. Davis wore a cross grain silk,
cut bias with George Francis
Train, which he carried under his
arm to keep it out of the mud. 1t
had deep skirt, adjusted by two
bust darts, and narrow under arm
gore on each side of the front and
on each front of the side, togeth er
with beautiful arched centerpiece
with raised seam which proceeded
to the breast-bone at the back,
thence diagonally by degrees to
the shoulder blade at the 'front.'"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15

papers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13

}'some receipt that that shiftless Mary
tucked away here to get it out OF the
way! No, it amt It's a love letter !
and to me-'My dearest Mary, and
Signed at the foot George Washington
Bergamot; and that's his name. Well,
do declare! Amt he far gone? All
opposition | s'pose he means Mary
and my two brothers-in-law, that think
woman over forty haint no business
to marry! But I'll see 'em furder afore
I'll let 'em overture my matrimonial
prospects-see if [ don't. Tell him
with my own lips OF course l will!
I'll go right over there at once. Delay
is dangerous And if he really is in
such hurry
Miss Polly's fingers trembled as she
took her little cork-screwy curls out of
their papers, and pinned on fresh col
lar tied by blue ribbon.
"Blue's the color Of love-" said she
to herself, with a shipper, "and it was SO
romantic of my dear George to think OF
proposing in bag of seed-cornE'
The squire was at his supper when
Miss Pepper walked in, flushed with
her long expedition on foot.
''Sit down and have bite, won't
your" said the squire. MARY, fetch a
clean plate
Miss Pepper took advantage of the
momentary absence of her step-daugh-
ter elect to proceed directly to bust
ness.
George" cried she, almost hysteri
cally, II am yours?'
lsINb id tbo Co,,iro
Forever and ever!' said Miss Pepper
flinging herself upon the collar of his
coat.
care you orazy?" said the squire
jumping up.
You asked me to be your wife" said
Miss Polly, meltlngly.
Il didn't?' said the squire.
"Then what does this letter mean
eh?" demanded Miss Polly. "It's as
clear q declaration of love as ever was
writ And good ground to sue on"
The squire started at the sheet OF
paper as Miss Pepper waved 1t triumph
antly over his head.
''But | didn't write it." gasped ne.
''Then who did, demanded Miss
Pepper.
Just at this moment Mary, entering
with fresh tea and a clean plate, caught
sight of the letter. + E .r.ej1
'It's mine she cried, with a sudden
dyeing of the cheek and glitter of the
eyes. MY letter! How dare you read
it, Miss Pepper?' ....
II got it out Of the bag of seed-corn, .
protested the spinster. ,...
"Papa." said Mary, .'pleasc NAV |
have George a.s-
81 don't care" said the squire s-
And that in bis case passed for an af-
| firmation. But the squire remains a
widower still, and Miss Peppers chance
grow ''small by degrees and beautifully
| less" t-f d f..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
{ WasIlington's Temper.

These reflections from the Commercial
Bulletin come home forcibly to every
married man: "The question is raised
as to whether G.. Washington was in the
habit of losing his temper. Bless your
buttons there were not so many mod
ern cOnyeniences for losing the article
In Georges time. He never got all
ready for bed, and then remembering
that the furnace-fire had not been at
tended to, staggered down in his night
attend to it. He never
wanted to retire at an early hour. and
then had Martha remind him that he
must sit up to let the hired girl In. He
never had a gas bill to pay, and the
plumber had not been invented then.
He never missed q railway train by
thirty seconds, or had to stand up all
the way home in q horse-car on wet
night. He never had district tel
egraph-box, or a telephone put up in
his house, and then, when he wanted
to astonish visitor by summoning a
carriage on a stormy. night, had the
burned thing refuse to work, compel
ling HIM to pull ON his wet boots and
wade out through the slush after the
desired vehicle. There were no book
agents, chromos or lightning-rod men
in his day. Beautiful Snow was IN
written then, and Private Dalzell and
Sergeant Bates unborn. Pooh! pooh!
do not tell us about G. W. We believe
if be had been dressing for party and
expecting the carriage every minute,
by the time he had drawn the third
shirt over his head and found the back
collar-button gone, he would have kick
ed the bedroom furniture around and
made use Of explosives like any other
man. ~ g
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
MINING IN COLORADO.
Rich Returns for Investors from st.
Louis and Other Points

correspondence OF tnc " lobe Democrat.
The discovery in 1875 and subsequent
development Of the immense carbonate
Of lead deposits at and near California
Gulch have been followed bv more
gratifying results than were Anticipated
by the most sanguine. The veins of
lead deposits extend in three parallel
belts, for a distance of from twelve to
fifteen miles across the gulch, and are
of immense size, in many places from
twelve to fifteen feet in thickness The
ore is soft, and, as q rule, easily remov-
ed with the pick and shovel blast
ing becoming but very seldom neces-
sary. Mining has been carried on en-
ergetically, ore has been mined faster
than it could be sold Or smelted. The
Harrison Smelling Works, erected here
by st. Louis parties last summer, will
have their capacity doubled in the
coming spring. Round these works a
lively town, Leadville, has been estab-
llshed, which has 200 houses and cabins,
two large stores, two assay Offices. four
hotels, half a dozen saloons, two saw
mills, that are always busy, and a popu-
lation Of / 800 people, which is conf
IDENTITY expected to increase to 5000
next year The ore handled by the
Harrison Works, at Leadville, contained
on an average $33. 40 per ton in silver,
and about fifty per cent. of lead. which
would make ton of bullion worth
about $115 Up to January /, 125 tons
Of this bullion was received at Colorado
Springs railway station for shipment.
This, with twenty-five additional tons on
the road, will make 80 tons of bullion
shipped by the st. Louis works, repre-
senting value Of $17, $40 The yield
of Lake County, entire, for 1877, shows
a vast improvement over that of the
previous year. In 1876 the product of
the county was only $4,000, of which
$65,5OO was gold. Last year the yield
Of the county amounted to $545, $50
the product Of $4,000 tons of ore-with
$4,000 tons Of ore still on hand for sale
or smelling the next season. 1t is ex-
pected that a much larger amount of
ore will be mined next season. and that
the yield Of metal will be enormous.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
A New Tribe Of MONKEYS.

The first live specimens of recently
discovered tribe of monkeys have just
reached Europe, and six specimens
have just been sent via Hamburg to
England by Messrs. Rice and Hagebeck,
and are at the Alexandra Palace. These
are a large male, presumably fully
grown, a small male, two females, and
two young The large male has con-
siderable name, as Ruppell describes it,
and is hairy over the whole of the body,
though Ruppel gives the front legs free
from hair. On the chest is a somewhat
heart-shaped pink patch free from hair,
and a space around the throat of the
same color. When the animal becomes
angry or excited these become a bright
red color. The nostrils are high up
from the upper jaw, and the upper lip
is so mobile that it is often turned up
SO as to show the whole upper teeth and
gums. The tail is long and large, and
ends in tuft resembling roughly lions
tail. The color of the hair is brown,
except around the breast where it is
gray. The bare part of the chest shows
two male indications of teats, and the
suture seems to open into pouch,
which, however, it has not been posi-
BILE to examine, as the animal is still
somewhat savage after it's Journey.
| The female has not such long hair as
the male, and on the bare space in front
are two well-developed teats. The
young takes one in each hand and sucks
from both at once. While these ami
mails have rejected all fruits, ETC., they
eat Indian corn and grass, taking the
grass, pulling it apart and making it
into little balls. AS Ruppell says, they
sleep in caves; a large box was intro
duced into the cage and the whole OF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
Remarkable Contest.

The correspondent of a French paper
relates remarkable contest which he
witnessed in the Isle Of Java between o
parrot and a gigantic spider. The spi-
der, whose body was as large as small
birds, dropped down upon young par
rot whose mamma was from home, and,
spreading its huge claws over the nest,
began sucking its blood. When the
mother returned she naturally event
for" the enemy, and seized hold of one
of its legs, but whether 1t be that legs
are not a sensitive portion of spiders
organizations, Or that this particular
insect had an overpoWering penchant
for the blood Of young parrots, he
wouldn't let go, until his pain becoming
too intense for endurance, he turned on
the mother, and, twining all his legs
firmly around her neck, was just ar
ranging for d good long suck in that
quarter, when she gave him an awful
dig in the belly with her beak, where
upon he fell over, dragging her to the
ground with him The naturalist then
shot him and released the parrot
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
The Charter Oak.
Correspondence New York Tribune


The report of the special insurance
commissioner to the legislature adds
nothing of importance to the history of
the Charter Oak Life as given already
in this correspondence. 1t confirms
what | gave as an opinion in my first
letter, that Of the 100000 capital pro-
yided for in the charter, only $4,000,
or 10 per cent, was ever paid in, the
balance being represented by notes to
the amount of $1S0,0OO, which were
paid by special dividend in 1868 out
of the undivided earnings of former
years. From that time till 1874 these
respectable stockholders openly paid
themselves the S per cent. permitted
by the charter on the capital stock of
100000, which was, In effect 50 per
cent. on their investment and absorbed
as much of the remaining profits as
they could in extra dividends distribut-
ed on the sly, and other indirect and
circuitous ways. This part 0! the his
tory Of this unfortunate corporation
has not been brought out SO prominent
~ in the investigation and in the pub
lie discussions in the press, as the later
portions, in which Messrs. Furber and
Wiggin figure as wreckers, and the jew
ell management appears in desperate
effort to rescue the concern. [ note it
as Il somewhat remarkable fact, that
the efforts of Gov. jewell and the
board of directors associated with him,
to save something for the policy-hold-
ers out of the wreck, and preserve, if
possible, the reputation of Hartford,
have been more criticised and censured
than any Of the performances of the
Walkley-White management, or even
the Furber-W iggin crowd. 1 have en-
deayored in this correspondence to
trace the history Of the company from
the beginning, in such manner as not
to weary the reader with details, but to
bring out the salient features in the
management, ard the successive steps
by which it was brought to its present
condition. That | have comm ented
very freely upon some Hartford people,
as charged by the Courant, is in some
measure true, but do not really see
how I could have done otherwise with
out concealing some of the most i'm
pOrtant facts in the case. Hartford
people controlled this institution for
many years; they organized it; they di
.vided its profits; they brought it to the
desperate straits in which Furber and
Wiggin found it, and Of which they
took advantage The whole blame of
this criminal mismanagementd does not
belong to Furber and Wiggin, by any
means. The men who squeezed the
corporation for years, and at last hand
ed over its anatomy to Furber for dis
section and bone-boiling, must bear
some, and, as | think, the larger, share
Of the responsibility and the blame.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13

There is food for thought on the part
Of "whom it may concern" in the state
ment made by the chief Of the state de-
tective force Of the commonwealth in
his annual report, that about the first
of last August there were nearly 400
tramps scattered along the line of the
Boston and Albany railroad, waiting for
a strike Of the employees to serve as a
pretext for season Of general pillage
and destruction. Fortunately, the OPP
portunity did not come, but so long as
the tramp nuisance is allowed, there is
no telling how soon a chance may
come, or be made, for an organized as
part of the community. The informa-
ton about these tramps comes from
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
4 Doctors Queer Story.

The Cincinnati Times tells the follow
ing on the authority Of a physician in
that city, VINO says the incident hap
pened on the 4th Of September last: A
lady drove to my Office door about 9: As
O'Clock, and asked me to visit her sick
child. In order to learn of the child's
illness I questioned the lady as to the
symptoms, and she stated that she had
not seen the child in four months, and
that when she last heard from it it was
well. l then asked why she wished me
to 60 to the house. She said, Because
it is sick now. You can see her in the
cab. She got in at the depot with me,
and her face is pinched and pale, and
she seems to be in great pain" 1 took a
seat beside her and examined the car
riage closely, but could see no child nor
shadow of child The lady stated that
DR.. M. was her family physician, but
that she knew she would be unable to
find him at his office at that late hour,
and she had 10 wish to be delayed, as
she feared the child would die. On ar
irving at her home, | found that an
hour or more previous the little girl had
been taken with severe pains in the
stomach, and was crying terribly. The
father asked his wife how she came to
return without letting them know, and
asked who her companion was. She
stated he was a physician she had
brought to treat her child, and then
proceeded to tell her husband the same
story she told me. She had no means
of knowing that her child was i'll, and
had no thought of such an occurrence
until she took the cab at the depot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
Heavy Contract to Let.

A gentleman who came down from
Lexington on Saturday was asked how
times were in that section. He said
About all [ have heard of lately is
joke on an editor, who, going away
left his paper in charge of a minister
During the minister's stay in the sane
tum the following letter came from
mountain subscriber:
" You know very we'll / paid my sui
scription to yovr paper the last time
was in Lexington. If I get any NOR
such letters from you as [ received las
week l will come down to Lexingto
and maui h-ll out of you
The minister answered:
II have been trying to maui thu
thing out of the editor for ten yeal
past, and if you will really come dow
and maui in out Of him, then, my dee
sir, | have twenty members of m
church | will also get you to operat
on '--LouismNe Coas5er-Journol.