The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-02

pay the rent OF his little temple, the
plastering of which is all cracked
and scanned, and ready to tumble
about the heads of the worshiping
congregation.
"Beware Of the vidders," said the
elder Samivel Weller; and if James
Lorimer Graham had profited by
Mr.. Weller's experience he would
not have been brought to grief To
those of our readers who are at all
acquainted with the creme de la
creme Of our Knickerbockers, / need
] not say that James Lcrimer Graham
represents the highest seat in the
Sanhedrim. AS an old-time poll
tician he was success; his house
was the center Of social grace and
hospitality, and the dinners he gave
to wandering dukes and vagabond
counts were the envy of old Philip
Hone, who imported a French cook
for the purpose of getting even with
the Grahams. Daniel Webster,
Henry Clay, Kossuth, and even the
defunct Emperor of the French, at
different times have toasted their
toes underneath his mahogany. The
Grand Sachems of Tammany were
no less welcome than the Wings,
but that was before Sampson had
been shorn of his locks, or Delilah
had corrupted his heart. Well,
this ancient respectability under
took the management of widows
fortune, and as long as the divi-
dends came in regularly, everything
was lovely but in the mutations OF
these evil times, when the dollar
of our daddies required an act of
Congress to make it legal-tender,
the dividends fail to come, and
recent investigation showed nearly
seventy thousand dollars had van
ished into thin cir. Mr.. Graham
says that the invested for the widow
to the best Of his ability, and the
widow says that he had mighty
little ability to invest; all she knows
is that her money is gone, and it
now appears that Graham knew
that a long time before the widow.
Mrs. Mccall tried to get Mr. Gra-
ham put in Jail, on an order of ar
rest for swindliug, but merciful
| friends came at once TO the rescue,
and for the time at least saved him
from a feIom's cell. So many proud
heads have gone into the basket
during the past year that it is
scarcely safe to prognosticate what
may be Mr. Graham's future fate,
but may not be amiss to tell all the
old codgers out your way. to 'be-
ware of the vidders.''
We are now rejoicing in the
latest OF scientific discoveries-the
wonderful Psychometer. With this
marvellous instrument you can look
right into persons brain (if lie has
any, and you can tell what he is
going to think about. Mind-read-
ing is no longer the secret of show
men, and travelling mountebacks.
The shop girl who sells you a yard
of tape or paper OF pins, can look
in your eye and with a Psychome-
ter in her inside pocket can tell
exactly how much you are going to
beat her down. We had a private
exhibition at fashionable board
ing-house on Wednesday last, but
everybody knew too much about
everybody else that it produced
such disturbance in the company
that two suits for divorce are now
pending; there were five free fights
coming down stairs, and a couple
Of actions for personal damage, are
the results of the evenings enter
tainment. My wife has a lively
curiosity to see how The old thing
works, but mildly suggested that
peshaps it might explode, and there
the matter rests for the present.
Our savans are in grief, for we
lose the Castellani collection,
which, for the last year, has been
au unqualified source of delight to
all of our intelligent citizens. 1t
viii be long before we shall again
have an opportunity of studying
such gems Of art, bringing back the
most hallowed memories of the
worlds immortal dead. | was in
hopes that perhaps Judge Hilton,
Mir. Stewards lucky heir, would
cast some bread upon the water,
but | leaned upon a broken reed. l
had faint suspicion that, may be,