The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

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April showers-but they last more than
half an hour
Photographs and telephones taken on
subscription at this office.
ALI kinds of weather this week, from the
finest sun shine up to the heaviest shower.
On the 29th of next July the sun will
undergo a total eclipse.
Planting is all the so and our granger
friends are quite busy.
The dog poisoner is again abroad in the
land.
We circulate the laws of Wisconsin this
week. Read them carefully.
Fred Ehling talks of removing to Du-
luth
Wild ducks are plentiful hereabouts and
our youthful Nimrods are having fine sport
shooting them.
-Lo, the poor Indian, has finished making
his maple sugar, and now proposes taking a
rest until wild rice season
Mr.. Philbrooks is putting circular saw
rig into his shinge mill, so that he may be
able to saw lumber.
Opportunities are like birds, they will
slip out of your hands if YOU give them half
chance.
Mr. A. Langley, formerly of this place,
but now of Wadena, Mimi, was in town this
week.
The Propeller St. Louis, the first Buf-
falo boat of the season, arrived in Duluth
Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Thos. Gar"ity went down to St
Paul on Wednes !ay to purchase drove of
cattle to be disposed Of down the lake.
No man is born wise; wisdom and vir-
tue require a tutor, though we can easily
learn to be vicious without master.
Brooks new steam ferry boat is fast ap-
proaching completion. The boiler is ex-
pected daily.
Heavy storms and rains have prevailed
during the past week through Iowa, Indiana,
Illinois. Tennessee and other states, causing
much damage to life and property
The grass on the lot around the town
poor house was sold at auction this week,
and bought by James Collier for ten dollars
in town scrip.
Gen. Thos. L. Rosser has been appointed
Chief Engineer of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, which places under his charge the Pa
ciic as well as the eastern divisions of the
line
-Wakeen Miller is going to Paris, and
the Governmel of the United States is
making arrangements for holding this side
of the world down when the Corsair steps
ashore at Calais. s.-Ha,ckeye.
H. w Shaw bids fair to take the lead
among our local farmers He will probably
have more La. under fence and in cultiya-
tion this year than any other one man in
these parts.
If man beats his wife in Kentucky
hereafter, he can be made to work on the
streets for sixty days, and the usua, wages for
such labor paid to his wife Kentucky will
be a bad place for beats
An editor attending church last Sabbath
for the first time in many years, stopped at
the entrance After looking in vain for the
bell pull, he deliberately Knocked at the door
and politely waited until some one opened it
and let him in.
The editor of the Worcester Press has
one pocket for his gold and another for his
silver That was the policy we adopted |
when we commenced the printing business.
Those pockets are just as good to day as they
ever were, but we have worn out one dozen
and half pairs of Dantaoons.
Outside the meeting house Deacon Nor /
wood (to elder Tompkins)- sir; a man
with hope and without no faith is like
Young man in row-boat who amt got ONLY
Dne oar, and rows round and round in a cir
Gle and don't go nowhere" Small boy lat
safe dstance)-'' be warn't darned fool.
he d scul."
Sol Boutin came in. from Bark Point
ast Monday. He tells us that in short
time, he will place on exhibition at the Press
office, an eighty-pound lump of almost pure
copper. This monster speciment was picked
up close to the beach at Bark Poin, and
-hoir are indications of copper in paying
quantities to be found there.-Bazfld Press.