The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-25
January thaw /!
The beautiful snow.
Get out your cutters

" lsconsln ioggers sre making
ice roads to their landings over
which to run the logs.
The people af Afghanistan
must certainly be a simple set when
Amer Yakoob Kan rule them.
A law suit, involving the title
to two dollar horse, was one OF
the excitements Of the week.
There is an opportunity for
skating in Georgia tor the first time
in twenty years, but nobody has s
pair Of skates.
The ice men are securing thei.
crops. They have the best of ice
ths purest crystal twenty-tw o inche s
In thickness.
Some men are so fond OF
grumbllng that they grumble be-
cause they have nothing to grumble
about.
-Cordwood is being shipped in
box cars to ST. Paul from MOOSE
Lake Station on the 81. Paul & Du-
luth railroad, 40 miles south Of Lake
Superior.
DR.. Lafitte was In town
Wednesday, actirg as Interpreter in
che great horse case which occupied
the attention Of Judge Browns
court.
The saloon building at Left
Hand river owned by Thomas Shiels
wss destroyed by fire on Saturday
night. The origin Of the FIRE il
unknown but is supposed to be the
work of,an incendiary.
We are glad to learn that Ed
ward H. Foster, of the jamestown
Alert, and formerly Of Duluth, has
been elected second assistant clerk
Of the Dakota Assembly, now i'll
session at I ankton.
An observing politician says,
that the difference between those
going in and out of Office Is mainly
this: The former are sworn In, and
the latter go ont swearing.
w ednesday morning Vm.
Howeuste:n found q deer on the Ice
near his house on Minnesota Point,
which had been chased down and
killed by wolves.
"A man was taken up lately for
robbing his fellow lodger, He aaid
he commenced by cheating the
printer, and after that everything
rascally came easy to him.
-"Pants for s5?n said seety-
looking man, reading the sign in the
window Of a clothing store he was
passing-"so do l. I never painted
so for IS in all my life"
-Rumor has it that ~. s r"
has gone to Philadelphia to pur-
chase leather for the medals he in
tends to confer, in accordance with
the promise made in his letter to
the Madison State Journal.
"A Duluth girls hair TUNED
white in three days. 1t was neither
fright nor soriow,-but simply be-
cause che couldn't squeeze her num-
Der nine foot into a number three
shoe.
Tho St. Paul S Duluth railroad
time was again changed on the 10th
inst. The passenger train now
leaves Duluth at I +. N. and arrives
at $50 p. ma quarter of an hour
earlier and later than heretofore.
Severe colds and sore throats
have been quite prevalent in town
lately. Consequently q person is
hardly recognized in fashionable
circles if he or she does not display
. flannel bandage shout the throat
Or speaks above s whisper.
The Lake region has been visited
during the past week by a much
needed tall of snow, and the sleigh
ing, which herstofore has been very
poor. is now good. snowless win
tiers are not considered favorable IN
this neighborhood.
The Board OF Supervisors OF
Douglas county hiss sent Gus three
men for the purpose Of clearing out
hat portion Of the Bayfield, road To-
Gated in this county. THIS will
make the whole route 10 good con-
dition for overland travel between
here and Bayfield,.
Our tax eoilestor ongbt 80.
make q note of this, in view OF the
luties he will soon be obliged 20