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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
THE EAST.

| TWENTY-FIVE tons of fine silver bars,
valued at $4,000, were shipped from the
assay office at New York on the 26th for the
| Philadelphia mint for coinage into stand.
ard silver dollars
| PETER BRFsKEHAN, who killed Michael
| Daulther in April last, was hanged at SYRIA
| cuse, n. Y, on the 26th
a REMARKABLE accident occurred on the
oath inst. at the Painter mill, at Pittsburg,
Pa, which manufactures two-thirds of all
the cotton ties used in the country. The
belt slipped off the governor, which caused
the machinery to revolve with a lightning
rapidity, bursting fly wheel thirty feet in
diameter and making perfect wreck of the
structure, which was of iron, 50x100 feet.
THE New Hampshire legislature passed
bill for the punishment of tramps, on the
oath inst. 1t provides for punishment by
Imprisonment from fifteen months to five
years.
MINNIE WARREN, the well-known dwarf,
died at Fall River, Mass, on the sd inst,
in child birth.
THE suspension of VIM. H. GIadwin, an
old member of the New York stock ex-
change, is announced.
On the 22d instant, Mr.. John G. Tappan,
treasurer of the Boston. Mass, Betting
company resigned the position he has held
since TIE organization of the company
thirty years ago. Upon the resignation of
Tappan, f. S. Converse, treasurer of the
Boston Rubber Shoe company was chosen
his successor, and he found the affairs in
such condition that he called meeting Of
the stockholders and creditors on the 22d
instant, at which it was stated that Tappan
bad issued notes TO the amount OF 5000, 200,
aud is also held for $4,000 on outside in
dorsement, as treasurer, the proceeds OF
which have not been received by the com
pany. Total liabilities of the company
$3.50, 600; nominal assets SeS0,0o0; notes |
payable as above stated S62S,000 also ap. |
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
GENERAL

| THOMAS KELsO, a well known and inlu
entail citizen of Baltimore, died on the
Goth, aged 81.
THE French minister of commerce in
formed the central committee of the Paris
exposition that he has decided to reduce the
value of gold medals, so as to double their
number. There will now be $50 grand
prizes and $500 gold medals.
IN IA race at Cleveland on the oath
instant, Edwin Forrest made 2:1SH.
The New Orleans ice ring have raised
the price of that commodity from $50 to 500
per ton.
IN the pigeon shooting match between
Capt. Bogardus and Mr.. Wallace, of Eng
lond, for 600 side, at London, on the oath
inst, Wallace killed II birds and Bogardus
81. OF the first 35 birds Bogardus missed
10.
THE international chess tournament at
Paris is concluded. NJ Seukertort, of Ber-
lin and London, receives the first prize.
having gained sixteen games with one draw.
Mackenzie, of New York, takes the fifth
prize, being the winner of twelve games,
with one draw.
THE land upon which the New Orleans
mint has been built, has been decided to the
government, ana final steps for putting the
mint into active operation will soon be
made.
THE republicans of the Fifth Ohio dis
trict, nominated VIM. Allen, of Darke
county, for congress. Hon. Charles Foster
declined the nomination for congress in the
Seventh district.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT is in commune
cation with the navy department regarding
the Arctic exploration, and proposes con-
verting the yacht Dauntless into screw
steamer and sending her to the north pole
by way of Spitzbergen, asking only that the
navy department furnish officers, men and
provisions for the voyage. The Jeanette.
which Mr.. Bennett has fitted ont for sea nv
way of BehriDg Straits, is now on the way to
San Francisco.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
Ready to Buy Out the Thing. /.

Edward King writes from Paris: A
good story is told of Mrs. Mackay, the
wife of the illustrious bonanza Califor-
Rian. | do not for moment suppose
that ii is true, but that does not matter,
as 1t Is at least ben tr0Uct0. 1t is said that
the lady applied to the project of the
Seine for permission to place electric
lights in front of her house in such a
manner that they would illuminate the
Arch of Triumph, so that her guests on
certain occasion might have dazzling
view of that architectural wonder-the
Mackay mansion being near the Arch.
The project found it impossible to grant
the request, but the lady, like all ladies,
insisted, and when a fat refusal was
given she said, well, owmuchis your
Arch worth?'
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
How a Great Desert May be Fertil-
1Zed.

After all, the great problem of irri-
eating the Colorado desert, says the Ari-
IONA Sentinel, may be accomplished by
natural means, and without the expen-
diture of vast sums of money, as has
been proposed. The surveys made IN
1873 of the desert lying west OF the Col
orado river and extending into Mexico,
demonstrated fully that it was cut OFT
from the Gulf of California by the sedl-
ment deposited by the Colorado river.
The old shore lines are distinctly recog-
nizable away up in San Bernardino
county, and great beds Of oysters and
other marine shells attest the presence
at no very remote day of sea-water at
places from which it is now $50 miles
distant. The Southern Pacific railroad
crosses this dried-up part of the gulf,
running for over so miles at levels from
/ to 240 feet below that of the sea. The
Colorado river has deposited sand and
mud along It's course until its bed is, In
places, fully 400 feet higher than it was
in the old days when it emptied into the
gulf at least 100 miles nearer Yuma than
it does now. 1t continues to pile up
sediment until a dam was formed reach
ing across the gulf to the Lower Cali
fornia shore. The head of the gulf thus
became q lake OF salt water, and, being
fed by no streams, gradually dried up.
This dam now averages only a height of
q feet above mean high tides. The Col
orado now flows to the south of it, but
some trifing change of its currents may
yet cause it to cut away the dam to the
north, and to reconvert the desert into a
lake. This does not seem as impossible
as that the river should abandon its old
bed, north of Fort Yuma, and force its
way through rocky bill; yet we all can
see that the latter has actually occurred
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
Pen Picture of LORD Beaconsfeld

This is a description of the present
Lord Beaconsfeld made many years ago
by n. F. Willis:
" Disraeli had arrived before me, and
sat IN the deep window looking out upon
Hyde Park, with the last rays of day
light reflected from the gorgeous gold
flowers of a splendidly embroidered
waistcoat. Patent leather pumps, a
white stick, with black cord and tassel,
and a quantity of chains about his neck
and pockets, served to make him, even
IN the dim light, conspicuous object.
lie has one OF the most remarkable faces
| ever saw. He is lividly pale, and, but
tor the energy of his action and the
strength of his lungs, would seem to be
the victim to consumption. His eye is
black as Erebus, and has the most mock
ing, lylng-in-wait sort of expression con-
celvable. His mouth is alive with a
kind OF working and impatient nervous
ness, and when he bursts forth, as he
does constantly, with partially success
tul cataract of expression, it assumes
curl of triumphant scorn that would be
worthy of Mephistopheles His hair
Is an extraordinary as his taste in waist
coats. A thick, heavy mass of jet-black
rlnglets fall over his left cheek almost to
his collarless stock, while on the right
temple 1t is parted and put away with
the smooth carelessneSs of a girls, and
shines most unctuOusly
With thy incompatible oil Macassar!,D
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

breadth of New England, wherever there
may be paper mills, and gives his Mon
days to picking up bits of character for
his stories, and in rummaging the stock
room of the mills for prints, pamphlets
and books that might not otherwise be
saved for the historian of the future.
Another of the same ubiquitous calling
calls Monday his garnet day, and half
the old mansions of this section of the
country have revealed many treasure
beneath their caves. Such friends of
Iiteratu are a boon to their generation
and to succeeding ones.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
Queer Place for a Worm

Henry r, Funk, of Allentown, has for
some time been the victim of a disease
which he believed to be consumption.
He wasted away under his besetting
malady until there was hardly anything
left on his bodily frame save the skin,
and he had about made up his mind that
it would be best for him to prepare for
the inevitable. He had for considera-
BILE time experienced at intervals queer
sensations In his windpipe, as if there
was some creeping thing in it, and fire.
quently remarked these experiences to
his family, but was as often talked out of
1t as being the natural results of his
sickness or mere Imagination. On a re-
cent day while seated in a rocker the
sensation again presented itself. 1t felt
exactly, he says, as if some reptile was
endeavoring to crawl up and out of his
trachea, and being about the same time
taken with severe coughing fit he to
his great surprise, as well as the utter as
tonishment of his family, expelled GU
rlous worm about two inches in length,
and thick in its middle as straw stem.
1t was of a whitish color, and so trans
parent that the blood in its vitals, and
which it had absorbed from its victim,
could be clearly discerned. The worms
head was sharp as needle and its hinder
part fiat and stumpy. 1t was remarka-
bly, active and worked its head with
great energy. How it came to the man,
or IN what manner it originated is a
thing altogether inexplicabIe, his doctor,
to whom the worm was given, and who
has it preserved it alcohol, never having
heard Of like case before. The man
has since experienced change for the
better, and feels so much improved that
he Is inspired with confidence that be
will soon again be well man. Reading
EGOle
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
Forgotten Lore.

Enormous quantities of old books,
pamphlets, &C., are sent back TO the
paper mills every year to be reduced to
pulp and made over into new paper. In
this mass of rejected literature, there
are, of course, not a few treasures which
only competent photographer is able
to sift from the rubbish, and it is said
that there are several such enthusiasts
who make practice of raking over these
heaps before they are thrown into the
watts. The Boston AdUertiser knows of
one gentleman in Particular who, in pur-
suance of his calling as preacher, eff
fects his exchanges throughout the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
Sixty-Five Miles to the Nearest
House.

[ have often heard people say of such
and such a place that they are so lonely,
and the women in particular have com
planned that they never see anything,
never 90 anywhere, and that they might
as well be dead. But what do you think
of this place for loneliness? Altogether
there are six of us-one lady, quiet and
young-four employees, one away most
of the time, or perhaps two or three alb
sent; often during the day all gone, and
when night comes each has his special
duty to perform, and is out Of sight, or
is seen only for a moment. SO the sun
goes down over the mountains with
cedars on the north side, and one looks
down the narrow valley which opens a
little a mile or so to the nOrth-looks
along the wagon road where only one
track has been made this year, as if some
one were coming tired and ready for a
warm supper, looks out through the gap
in the range as if a four horse team
might be discovered in a hurry to make
the five or six miles before night; but
not soul is seen, nothing moves unless
it be Indian ponies, boy riding behind
to seek fresh range; and the sun slants
its long shadows by the desolate stock
ade and among the four Indian houses,
where supper is cooking over a fire out
doors. If there were neighbor five
miles away, or ten or twenty miles, it
would be quite cheerful, and one could
ride over for visit once month, and
receive one as often, but it is sixty-fye
miles to the nearest house, where, by the
way, no family is now living, the woman
having gone east because it was 50 lone
ly. The lady here came two years ago;
the one who left recently had been here
four years, and never been out once; but
she got fashion paper once a week, and
how she felt when she reached the rail
road, nobody will probably ever know.
-GrppZeU Tribune.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, July 27.-3.00 P. M.-Cotton
STEADY. Flour-Dull receipts $4,000 bbls;
sales 5000 bbls prices unchanged. Wheat
10000; No. spring seller August at $1.04(G
1.04K. Rye-Quiet. Corn @1Ic lower;
receipts $4,000 bus; sales $4,000 bus at A.
@4SHc. BarIey-Nomiual. Oats-Steady ;
receipts $4,000 bus; sales $4,000 bus at 81
@35c for for western mixed; 33M3Sc for
white. Pork-Firm at $l0.35@10.60. Lard
Firm at s. 200740. Whisky-Unchang.
ed. Petroleum Unchanged. Leather
Steady. Wool-Fnm.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
Theirs Busy Life.

When | was preparing for war in
1S40," said Theirs, g. / sat every day
eight hours with the ministers of war,
marine, and the interior | always be-
gan by ascertaining the state of execu-
ton eff our previous determinations. |
never trusted to any assurance if better
evidence could be produced. If | was
told that letters had been dispatched, |
required a certificate from the clerk who
had posted them or delivered them to
the courier. If answers had been receiv-
ed, required their production. | pun
ished inexorably every negligence, and
even delay. | kept my colleagues and
my bureaus at work ali day, and almost
all night. We were all of us half killed.
Such a tension of mind wearies more
than than the hardest bodily work. At
night my servants undressed me, took
me by the feet and shoulders and placed
me in bed, and | lay there like corpse
till the morning. Even my dreams were
Yet he lived to be
active and have the fate Of empire on
his hands, and at eighty; and this with
out ever having recourse to coffee, on
which the first Emperor Napoleon was
so dependent, or tea, and his only spirit
uOus liquor was light claret.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

AT the Missouri state prison, at Jefier-
son City, during the last six months OF
their term, prisoners that have been well
behaved are allowed to go out and work
in the city as teamsters, laborers, &c.
They are perfectly free, and are not I'M
der any supervision by guards. OF course
at night they have to return to the peni-
tertiary. While in the city they are
not allowed to enter any stores or
saloons; if this regulation is infringed
they are Immediately confined to the
prison. Attempts at escape while thus
working free from all surveillance have
been very rare, for should they be recap
tured they have to serve double term
under more stringent rules ana regula-
tions.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
Chicago.

CHICAGO, July PIP 100 M.-Flour-
Firm and active. Wheat-Actiye and firm
at $1.05A; seller July at $10515; $3.50 bid
for seller August; receipts 5000 bus; ship.
ments $4,000 bus. Corn--Steady and mod
firm at 27c. Rye-Scarce and firm: SAC lid.
Barley-Irregular; old seller August at Csc
bid; new September at So bia. Pork
Steady and firm; 50 90 bid for seller August
Lard-Steady; seller August at $40
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
MILWAUKEE,.

MILWAUKEE, July 27.-3 90 P. M.-FIour
Quiet but firm. Wheat-Irregular and
active for futures; No. 2 seller August at
95I@97Hc; seller September at 9OM92c,
closing at 9613c tor the former and at 81 nc
for the latter. No. and No. cash wheat
sold at S1.12A0L14; hard sold at 115.
Corn-Quiet at 3935c. Oats-Firm at &c.
Rye-Quite firm at 54c. Barley-Firm at
S6M67c for cash and seller August, and 92c
for seller September. Pork-Firm So. 1927.
Lard-Firm $40. Hogs-Dull at $4,000
4.25.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

The cultivation of the opium poppy
which has hitherto been exclusively con-
fined to the east, bids fair to become
thoroughly established and remunerative
in Eastern Africa. Seeds of the best
kinds have been imported from Malwa
into Mozambique, where $4,000 acres of
uncultivated state land have been grant
ed to a company with a capital of $780,
600 for the purpose of cultivating and
trading in opium.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

AN English company has obtained
from the native Rajahs the cession of the
northern part of the island of Borneo
The district is known by the name of
Borneo, and is about the size of Great
Britain. The country is stated to pos
sess great mineral riches, consisting not
only of gold and diamonds, but also of
the most useful metals, iron and coal.
The soil is suitable for the cultivation of
coffee, and tea has already been grown to
some extent by the natives on the hill
sides of the mountains, which are $4,000
feet above the sea level. The forests
contain palm and cinnamon trees in pro-
fusion.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

HEAT, says the Lancet, oppres, IS the
spirits, lowers the tone OF vitality, and
pervades the whole body with a feeling
of lassitude and incapacity. This con-
dition points to a necessity for a reduc-
ton of exertion and excitement when
the physical world is over, Gated. In
stead, however, of complying with the
plain teaching of nature, and lessening
activity, people resort to various devices
to lessen the sensation of heat. Perspi-
ration is a moisture which nature spreads
over the surface of the human body for
much the same purpose as an intelligent
housewife sprinkles water over her butter
cooler. But perspiration is checked by
sitting in draughts, by wearing very lit
tie clothing, and by adopting light colors
for dress. The remedy is taken for the
disease, and through impeding the pro.
cesses of nature, summer colds and other
allied evils are contracted. "The con-
ditions of health require that, within
very narrow limits the temperature of the
human body should be the same, wheth- |
er the thermometer stands at 90o in the
shade or sinks 10 few degrees below |
zero"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

MANITOBA is getting lots of immi-
grants this year. The presumption and
and purchase OF lands at the Winnipeg
land-office during the first half of this
year was nearly equal to the entire en-
try of last year, and there was more land
taken in the single month of last June
than in the entire year of 1876 and
1875. The emigrants to this new coun-
are largely Scotch, Swedes, and the ma
tives of eastern Canada hard and in
dustrious set of people.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

The Speckled Trout, a small sail boat
built at the headwaters of the Yellow
stone, has arrived at st. Louis, after a
trip OF $500 miles. The boat is A feet
IN length, and was built by the owner
He claims that his boat has made one of
the longest river trips on record.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
S1rpEniOR, WISCONSIN.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

THE three-cent piece nuisance is now
in fair way to be abated, postmasters
having been ordered to send all money
of that description which they may re-
ceive at their offices to Washington, in
order that its circulation may be stopped.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

THE James Lick estate in California
is still in litigation between the trustees
and the academy of sciences, which is
taking advantage of its privileges of ap-
peal to the Supreme Courtof the United
States to keep the matter open. The
year in which appeal may be made will
expire IN January next.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

KNEE breeches and silk stockings for
gentlemen's evening dress are sure to
come in fashion, they say, within a year
or 50. 1t is well to have an inkling of
what is to come in this respect in order
that gentleman with feeble understand
ings may have a chance to build up a
trife by the aid of more generous diet.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

LONDON, July 27.-12 80 P. M.-Consols
95H@95H. Liverpool wheat market opens
steady. Floating cargoes frmer; the con
tinental demand is strong; on passage
steady. The weather in England unsettled
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

ENGLAND cannot begin to raise eggs
enough to supply her home demand, and
SO imports immense quantities every year
from other countries Some idea of the
vast consumption of eggs may be gained
from the fact that the small town of
Horsen, Denmark, alone shipped last
year about 100000 eggs to England,
and the industry has been so successful
that eggs are now sold in that district at
Is score, though before importation be-
gan they were sold at ID per score.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

CO-OPERATIoN in the matter of buy
ing provisions for family use has been
attempted in Washington on scale that
if only moderately successful will ruin
the retail provision business there.
The city is to be divided into quart ors,
with chief for each quarter and an as
sistant for each square, and the duty of
the assistant will be to go from house to
house in the square soliciting orders and
setting forth the advantages of the sys-
tenn. The company expects to have
twenty thousand members and patrons
within year, and will sell everything
a man and his family require at from
Is to 20 per cent less than the prices ruiz
ing at present.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10


ANYTHING pertaining to protection
from sunstroke is of most timely inter-
est Just now. DIR. Alfred l.. Loomis, Of
New York, a physician who has had a
large experience in the treatment of
sunstroke, furnishes some valuable sug-
geStlons on the subject. The primary
cause of sunstroke, he says, is the over
heating of the blood, and person may
De exposed to intense heat for two days,
and on the third day, which may be
cooler than the two preceding it, may be
sunstruck. The predisposing causes are
use of alcoholic stimulants, physical ex-
haustion, living in close, filthy rooms.
The treatment of the first stage is abso-
lutte rest, cooling applications to the skin
and head, and medicine to relieve the
bowels.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10
WASHINGTON.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY EARL, of South
Carolina, was at Washington, on the Goth,
with reference to the case of the internal
revenue officers Who killed Amos Laid, in
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

THESE are the days of evolution.
Every man is becoming a little otter.
So says q c9ckney friend.-New York
Post,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

peared. Mr.. Tappan, to make good the
losses to the company, tie responsibility
for which rests with him, lad handed over
to the creditors his entire property OF the
nominal value of 81 ,OO0,00o. In consequence
of the condition of affairs the company has
suspended.
THE Tuscarora Indians won the best three
out of five games of Lacrosse, defeating the
Union club, of Port Colbome, Ont, on the
Goth inst
IT is understood that the reditors of Jay
Cooke q Co., will receive another dividend
on some $780, 900 now in the hands of the
trustee. The sum of 100000 has been re-
allied from claims due the estate.
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