The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-02-16
T,OCAL -A-F7F' AIRS.
snow yet.

How many Valentines did you
get?
Theory OFFS dubbs" and ''knuckle
tight" is again heard in the land.
Raging prairie fires out along
the Northern Pacific.
e. IL Bly, has taken personal
charge of his big hotel, the, Sheridan
House, at Bismarck.
There is man on the Northern
Pacific who struggles along under
the name of Sakarias Aspjornson.
The woods on the townsite
east of the Nemadji were on fire on
Saturday last.
A Yankee editor, in a financial
article, says: money is close, but
not close enough to reach"
People are now securing
stock of ice. They are charged no
stumpage on that article, as yet.
How Jack Turner must have
laughed when Canute introduced
the bill to open the mouth of Clam
river.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY - Two
feet of snow for use in our logging
camps. Apply to THE WISCONSIN
AND MINNESOTA LUMBERMEN.
-Ifyour health is poor, devote
yourself to buekwheat this winter,
and you will be able to come up to
the scratch next spring.-Ec.
Mrs. Esther Douglas, the
mother of G. S. Douglas, formerly
editor of the TIMES, died recently
at her home in Beaver Dam, Wis
consn.
Tobacco was named in honor of
its discoverer, o. c. Cabot, broth
er Of Sebastian Cabot. They just
spelled his name Backward
Graphic.
The Vermilion Indian payment
is over, and most of the traders
have returned, and are now figuring
up to see how much they made or
lost.
The Rev. Mr.. Wainwright in
his discourse last Sunday demon
strated quite forcibly that he be-
lieved in hell-not exactly in the
"eoer1aSting" hell of our fathers-but
in good rousing, roasting hell.
County Treasurer Paine, of
Pierce county, Wis, and his bonds
men, have been released from all
liability Tor the loss of about $4,000
which was in the Prescott bank
when it failed.
Mining Gazette: If there is a
railway built from Ashland-up-the-
lake, to intersect the Northern Pa
cifo railroad, we're prepared to sell
"short" on property at Superior
City and Duluth.
The ice on the bays is in many
places cracked, hove up, or sunk,
warning the traveller to handle 1t
with care. Every day or so we
hear of some one getting a ducking,
or escaping by an extra display of
agility.
About 500 Indians are having a
big pow-wow at the Bad River res
ervatlon, near Ashland, and every
Ashland man that ever wronged
Mr.. Lo is afraid that the day of
retribution is at hand.
Those who ought to know say
that to inaugurate a moustache, a
standing collar or a stove-pipe hat
IN your own town, requires from the
average man quite as much courage
as Stanley displayed in penetrating
Africa.
Josh Billings always hits the
nail square on the head. We have
more than once seen, right here in
town, examples like the following:
"Men who hav the most real power
sho 1t the least, while thare amt a
more terrible engine ov the law
than fresh elected constable"
Our neighboring county of Bar
ron is in debt over $4,000, nearly
$4,000 of which is IN judgments up
on county orders, and the people
there are trying to get the legisla-
ture to authorize the county to issue
bonds to help her out of the scrape.
Mr.. August I'll. Hoefer, former
ly clerk in the Avery House here,
was married recently in Cleveland,
n - NTis- Gartrnde Weaver