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

They scatter sunshine on all they
meet; depression and gloom fade
away in their presence.
What are you about? angrily
exclaimed a country editor the
other day to his wife, who was
touching up her complexion before
the mirror. "Only getting up my
patent outside, DEAR" as the reply.
Oh City Derrick.
Thomas Clarity returned home
on Thursday from a three weeks
trip up the n. 2. Mr.. G. expresses
himself as well pleased with the
country and entertains serious
thoughts of moving his family "out
west" and settling down.
Little JOHNNY ran into the house
the other day while the mercury
was hugging ninetY-fve degrees,
with the Precipitation streaming
from every pore and shouted
Mamma! mamma! fix me; I'm leak
ing all over."- Cincinnati Break
fast Table.
The many friends of Vincent
CournoYer, our former townsman,
will be sorry to hear Of the death of
his little daughter, which occurred
at Duluth on Wednesday last. The
sorrow stricken parents have the
sympathy OF a large circle of friends.
During the week before last the
St. Paul and Duluth Railway Com
pany sold to Mess. Durant, Wheel
er & Co., Of Saltwater, 3,o00,oOo
feet of pine logs at auction. The
aggregate realized was $2O,532.24.
Competent judges say that the pur-
chasers have secured bargain.
The great worries of life are the
sc-called 'little things which are
from day to day left unadjusted,
till they fasten their victims like
a net. The men who die of 'over
work are not so much destroyed by
their great useful labors as by the
vexatious trifes which accumulate
till they produce a chronic fever and
unrest.
Those newspapers which are
too proud or too obstinate to retract
any unjust or improper language
which they have admitted to their
columns should profit by the exam
pie of an exchange, which gives no.
tice as follows: If any subscriber
finds line in his paper that be
does not like and cannot agree with,
if he will bring his paper to the Off
ce and point out the offending line,
the editor will take his scissors and
cut it out for him.
-Lockjaw is one of the most
terrible diseases to which mortals
are exposed. A California exchange
asserts that no one need be in dan
ger of such an attack from wounds
caused by rusty iron. The worst
cases of in famed wounds may be
cured by smoking the injured part
with burning wool or wooden cloth.
Anything that produces safety from
such a fatal disease Is worth
recording.
almost time for blackberries,"
jubilautly ejaculateth the editor.
When the blackberries come then
the rural editor goes forth in his
lankness, equipped with tin buck
eft, and provideth himself and his
family with a square meal. The
oleaginous properties of the festive
fruit sticketh to his ribs, and lie be-
comes fat, sleek and saucy. 1t is
then he gathereth courage unto HIM
self and denounceth his rival as
''pig-headed, lop-eared old parallel
ogram," and warneth him to
BE wa a.re!"- Chron0type.
The Northern Pacific and St.
Paul s Pacific companies have har-
moniously setteled all their differ
ences in relation to the terms on
which the former was to use the
track of the latter from Sank Rap
ids down, both having fully accept
ed the decision of the arbitrator to
whom these differences were refer
red, and exchanged the nece ssary
agreements. There seems to be no
reason why they should not work
tremendously together hereafter
Pioneer Press.