The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-06
GLEANINGS.

PETER COOPER will add another story
and a dome to the Cooper institute, New
York
PRESERVE the privacy Of your house,
marriage state, heart, from relatives and
all the world.
A LANCASTER county, Pa, newly
married man offered a Middletown
preacher 45 cents for tying the knot.
GEORGETOWN, Col, has its advant-
ages. There isn't enough level land in
the place to permit of laying out base.
ball ground.
A MAN in New York who considers
himself the boss whistler wants some one
10 tune up against hiu for 800 side
and the championship CT the state.
In cornfeld at Browns Cross roads,
South Carolina, stands an old dilapidat
ed building, which used to be court
house. In it Andrew Jackson delivered
the first speech of his life.
GRAvEsToNEs do not mention the
fact, but there have been men whose
diving was the only good thing accom-
plished by them.-Neao Orleans P5sa.-
ylne.
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an early fall, giving as a reason that
robbins, meadow larks and swallows are
focking fully a month earlier than
usual, preparatory to their migratory
flights.
The purest white table linen should be
used tor the tinted and painted china, or
white and green is favorite cOmbina-
ton, then the delicate colors can be ar
ranged in exquisite and picturesque re-
lief.
In Hunt against the state (Texas) the
defendants cracked and ate I can nuts
in church during service, disturbing the
congregation, and causing the minister
to demonstrate. This indulgence cost
the defendants twenty-five dollars each.
Opossums are so plenty in Petersburg,
Va, that it is not uncommon to ran
against them in the streets at night.
Rabbits and cartridges also abound, the
latter being found in every yard which
affords them food.
The cottage in which lived John
Mackey, the "Bonanza King" when lie
used to dig gold in the Red Star Gulch,
is still standing. 1t is a tiny shanty,
about 12x16 feet in size, with little
porch.
Two little boys thought it good sport
to play in great bin of grain in an ele
vator at Goshen, Ind, but one day they
did so when the grain was being drawn
off through an outlet underneath, and
they were irresistibly pulled down and
smothered to death.
| In these words a correspondent lately
introduced piece of poetry to the no
| tice Of the editor Of newspaper: "The
| following lines were written fifty years
ago by one who has for many years slept
in his grave merely for his own amuse-
ment."
BOB MCCoRKLE, lately hanged at
Taylorville, n. c., was one of the few
murderers who did not feel sure of going
from the scafold direct to heaven.
"Kind friends" were his last words,
remember me in your prayers tonight.
for l don't know where Pm going"
THE Portsmouth Times says there isn't
a man in New Hampshire who can an
swer all the questions asked at the exam
nation of candidates for West Point
cadetship in that district. If any boy
could answer them he would be better
fitted for the presidency of Harvard col
lege than a cadetship.
| LAWYER l.. n. DEMBITZ was arguing
point in the Louisville chancery court
a few days ago when a terrific clap and
long lingering roll of thunder inter
rupted the proceedings. Mr.. Dembitz
waited patiently until the noise was
over, and said in all earnestness: "Gen-
tlemen, please excuse this interruption"
A LADY who lays some claim to hav-
ing studied human nature in its mascu-
line development, says that the man
who is of sufficiently calculating mind
to ask his sweetheart before marriage
how many yards it takes for a silk dress
will snort terror into her soul after
marriage if she asks for six penny cal
ico.-Andrelvs' Bdzar.
JOAQUIN MILLER says: off you
were to take a newspaper in your hand
and crumple it up, and then spread it
out again, the creases in it might fairly
represent the streets and lanes of Lon
don, SO angular, so awkward and irregu-
lar in this, the greatest of all cities OF
the world" The PHILADELPHIA BeJietin
says: off you were afterward to turn
it upside down and read it backwards, it
would fairly represent some of Joaquin's
poetry"
If the affairs of the world were brought
to a sudden close at this moment, it
would be a curious matter of speculation
how many people would be even with
their work. One ingenious person did,
we believe, attempt such an estimate;
and his conviction was that, taking into
account the few cases of superhuman
excellence in which people would be in
advance, we should, on an average, be
found to be a quarter of a year behind
hand all round, alike in work and IN
lnco1ne.-LondOa1 Times.
The busy bee on Long Island has
utilized novel receptacle for his honey
ed product. The ancient homestead OF
the Van Brunt family stands in the town
of New Utrecht. For 230 years it has
weathered the storms which have beaten
upon its shingled sides. Recently repairs
were needed and workmen, in tearing OF
the shingles which covered it, in lieu OF
clapboards, found their further progress
opposed by an immense swarm of honey
bees, which dwelt between the outer and
inner walls, and resisted the destruction
of their hive. By aid of sulphur the
bees at length were overcome and forty
pounds of honey were captured.
The news was carried to BOnay,
Texas, that Hank Parsons had been
murdered, at place twenty miles dis
tant, by a negro. Some of his friends
Immediately provided themselves witha