The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-16
GLEANINGS.

! hAHT w hio"' you, sdlu a pOllte
| butcher.
EDWIN BooTH's hair, once so black, is
now iron-gray.
| Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now
sixty years old.
SKILLED labor in Belgium gets from
90 cents to 81 day.
Now they are having ague in the love-
ly Island of Cyprus.
COLORADO will ship 100000 beeves to
the east this season.
JOSH Billings has one of the finest
turnouts in Central Park.
TooTHPICKs cost the army and navy
club of London f38 year.
IN the way of fine eating, the latest
Paris rage is turtles liver.
SwEETENING ones coffee is generally
the first stirring event of the day.
THE finest -four in Germany is now
said to be made with glass millstones.
THE chief street of Amsterdam is
called kalverstraat (Calf street,.
HOT Scotch: Those that lost by the
Glasgow bank failure.-Ai bany Journal.
Thy friend has a friend. and thy
friends friend has friend; be discreet.
l ALWAYS know something unpleasant
is coming when men are anxious to tell
the truth.-DisraeH.
"NoT lost" said the man who bet on
the wrong horse, but gone behind -
Burlington Ha,Ckeye.
The ladies of Holland, with their sill
yer and gold trimmings for the hair, and
their modern bonnets over all, appear
L.
Mrs, MARGARET HATCHERY, a be-
nevolent lady of New Orleans, out of her
private purse, supports an asylum con-
taioing $50 inmates.
In Chill sulphur has been discovered
in great abundance, and needing Simply
grinding and sitting to make it market
able.
A VERY trustful woman believes in
her lovers fidelity with her heart; a
very vain woman believes in it with her
head.
A COHoEs baby has been born with
only one eye, but we may at least trust
it will keep that out to the main chance.
-BufaLo Express.
JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States
court sitting at Albany, fined fourteen
grand jurors $50 each for voting to adj
journ before he was ready to have them
do so.
A BEE MASTER at Keswick, England,
wanting to sell his hives, advertised:
Extensive sale of live stock, compris-
ing not less than lao, 900 head, with I'M
limited right of pasturage." The trick
succeeded admirably.
SOME negro boys organized mock
court in Baldwin, Ga, condemned a
playfellow to death, and hanged him
from a beam. They supposed he would
tell them when to let him down, but he
only kicked, and they took that for sport.
THE spirit of emulation in funerals is
in strict obedience to public sentiment
Coming from the burial of friend,
Danbury young woman said to her
mother; did you ever see such q
cheap looking corpse ?"-Dannury Meas.
THE Brunswick (Me,) Telegraph states
that the poet Longfellow has presented
to the Unitarian church in that town an
elegantly printed and bound bible, and
that Miss Salome II. Snow, OF Boston,
who makes her residence in Brunswick
In the summer, has given a 81 200 organ
to the church.
DR.. O'DoNNELL loaded a wagon with
Chinese lepers, in San Francisco, and
exhibited them in the streets as proof of
his previous assertions that the leprosv
was common in that city. He was ar
rested but justice discharged him. He
declared that he could fill the court
room with lepers in two hours.
THE latest plaything for French chill
dren is q mechanical Newfoundland dog,
destined for the saving of dolls that fall
into the water. He takes them in his
mouth and paddles across a tank or very
considerable pond, keeping his head and
his precious freight above water until he
has reached shore, his ample tail being
used as a rudder.
The selectmen of Wales, Mass, pub
lish the following official notice: Gown
ers and keepers of dogs must Shet up,
chain up, or if running at large muzzled
) IN such manner as will not allow of
them opening their mouths for the next
90 days: The law will be strictly en-
forced"
In the Court of Chancery, at London.
recently, hotel-keeper sought an in
junction to restrain the cat of his neigh
Dor from mewing, his dog from barking,
his child from crying, and his bell and
tog-horn from being rung and blown.
The case will be handed down to poster
ity.
PETER BIBEAU, of st. Johnsbury VT
young man of 20, recently allow him
self to be operated upon at an entertain
met by mesmerist, named Carpenter
lie Is row thought to be fatally i'll with
stoppage Of the bowels as a result of the
influence" and his father has sued the
professor for $4,000 damages for trespass
on his sons body.
A CONVICT at Auburn escaped hard
work during his confinement of two and
a half years by feigning paralysis. He
was 50 successful in the fraud that he
was lifted about by attendants, and on
his release had to be carried to the depot
in chair and placed in the cars. An
hour afterward he visited the prison Off
Gals and astounded them at his speedy
and full recovery.
IT'S etiquette makes a woman say,
when at an evening review her pet corn
is crushed by young Lothario, and
deadly pangs gallop all through her,
; ooh, there's Do harm done | assure YOU; ;
/ shouldn't have noticed it but for your
apology" But frankness generally gets
the better of etiquette when she reaches
the sacred precincts of home and her
husband joggles the same foot and she
exclaims, Couch you horrid brute!
You'll be the death of me vet; Why