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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-04-22
MARRIED.

DUNNING-STARIN-At the Superior House in
this city April Sth 1882, by Rev.J. W .Hageman
Mr. j. B. Dunning of Des Moines Iowa and
Mrs. Eunice starin, of River Falls, Wis
The happy couple left US last Monday
morning for River Falls, where they will
make their future home, carrying with
them the best wishes of their many friends
here, for their future prosperity and hap
pineSs
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Thomas shiels, Defendant

IDOfnaS ShlciS, Defendant.
ID Y virtue of an execution issued out Of and
ID under the seal of the Circuit Court of the
county of Douglas, in the above entitled action
to me directed and delivered against the person
al and real property of the said Thomas Shels
and upon Judgment of said Court against him
in favor Of the said James Gillian for the sum of
one hundred and eighty three dollars and fifty
seven cents, have seized and levied upon the
following described real estate and all the right
title and interest which the said Thomas Shiles
had in and to the said property at the time of it's
attachment in this action on the tenth day Of
October A. d. 1881 or which he NAV have since
acquired of, in and 10 the same, to-wit: Lot 3l2
on West First street lot 80 on West Second street
lot 2ls on West Third street. lot 40 on West
Fourth street, lots l99 POI "a 276 on West Fifth
street, lots >, l56 1853 West Sixth street all sit
uate, lying and being in the TOWNSHIP of SUPERB
or, Douglas county. Wisconsin,
Which said real estate and right, title and in
terest. shall expose for sale and sell at public
auction to the highest bidder, on
MONDAY, the 18th day of NAY,
A D. 1882, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that
day at the front door of the Court House in Su-
perior aforesaid. in said county of Douglas to
satisfy said judgment and execution. and the in
terest and costs or 50 much of said property,
may thereto be necessary
Superior, March 10Th 1882.
LEWIS C. THOMPSON
aprlmsyl8 sheriff Of Douglas County.
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School Report.

Below are given the names of those pupils in
the highest Department of our school, whose
average standing did not fall below 70 per cent
for the school month ending Narch Slst 1872
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF CONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, !

OFFICE OF CONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
WASHINGTON, April 3rd, 1882.
Whereas by satisfactory evidence presented to
the undersigned, it has been made to appear that
The First National Bank of Superior" in the
Village of Superior, in the County of Douglas,
and State of Wisconsin, has complied with all the
provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, required to be complied with before an
association shall be authorized tie commeace the
business of Banking.
Now therefore, l. John Jay Knox, Comptroller
OF the Currency do hereby certify that The First
National Bank Of Superior. in the Village of Su-
perior in the County of Douglas, and State of
Wisconsin is authorized TO commence the bust
ness Of Banking as provided in Section Fifty-one-
hundred and siXty-nine of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my hand and
Seal of office this 3rd day of April, 1882.
JN0. JAY KNOX
Comptroller of the Currency
Seal No. 1858 a-15-j-l7.
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Lowell and Fields.

1t Is related by The Boston Transcript that
james Russell Lowell once wrote a careful
article on American humor and sent it anony-
mously to the Atlantic. A few weeks after
ward he adroitly led Editor James 7. FieIds
to the subject Mr.. Fields said: 1--WE get a
great deal of manuscript on humor, but it is
so poor that we cannot use it l threw into
the waste basket the other day long screed
cRrlstened the Essence of American Humor
which should have been styled the Essence Of
Nonsense for more absurd farrago of stuff
| have never seen" Lowell burst into Iaugh-
ter and informed Fields of the authorship
the article. The editor Turned all colors. and
swore it was one of Lowell's jokes. .Indeed
it is, !" responded Lowell, &and the best Joke i
have ever played never thought highly of
my scribbling, but I didn't believe it was the
most ridiculous farrago of stuff you had evel
seen"
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sHANT WE?

He struggled to kiss her-she struggled the
same
To prevent him, so bold and undaunted,
As if smitten by lightning he heard her ex-
aAvaunt sir!" and off he avaunted.
But when he returned with the fiendishest
laugh,
Showing clearly that he was affronted.
And threatened by main force to carry her off.
She cried @Don't!" and the poor fellow
donted
Then he meekly approached and got down at
her feet
Praying loud as before he had ranted,
That she would forgive him, and tried to be
sweet,
And said, "Can't you?"-the dear girl re-
canted.
Then gently he whispered, @How could you do
so?
certainly thought was Tilted;
Say, come thou with me, to the parson we'll
Say wilt thou, my dear?" and she wilted.
Then gayly he took her to see her new home
A shanty by no means enchanted,
Saying, "Here we shall live no longer TO
roam,
Say, shant we, my dear?"-so they shanted
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Table manners of Children.

Bill Nye.
Young children who have to wait till older
people have eaten all there is in the house
should not open the dining-room door during
the meal and ask the host if he is going to eat
all day. 1t makes the company feel i'll at ease,
and lays up wrath in the parents heart
Children should not appear displeased with
the regular courses at dinner and then fill up
on pie. Eat the less expensive food first and
then organize panic in the preserves.
Do not close out the last of your soup by
taking the plate in your mouth and pouring
the liquid down your childish neck You
might spill it, and it enlarges and distorts the
mouth unnecessarily
When asked what part of the fowl you pre-
fer, do not say you will take the part that goes
over the fence last This remark is very hui
morous, but the rising generation ought to or
iglnate some new table jokes that will be wor-
thy of the age in which we live.
Children should early learn the use of the
fork and how to handle it This knowledge
can be acquired by allowing them to pry up
the carpet lacks with this instrument. and
may suggest
The child should be taught at once not to
wave his bread around over the table while in
conversation, or to fill his mouth full of pota-
toes and then converse in rich tone of voice
with some one out in the yard He might get
his dinner down his trachea and cause his pa
rents great anxiety
In picking up plate or saucer filed with
soup or with moist food, the child should be
taught not to parboil his thumb in the con-
tents OF the dish and to avoid swallowing soup
bones or other indigestible debris.
Ioothplcks are generally the last course, and
children should not be permitted to pick their
teeth and kick the table through the other ex-
erclses. While grace is being said at table,
children should know that it is breach of
good breeding to smouge fruit cake just be-
cause their parents heads are bowed down
and their attention for the moment turned in
another direction. Children ought not to be
permitted to find fault with the dinner or fool
with the cat while eating. Boys should, be-
fore going to the table, empty all the frogs and
grasshoppers out of their pockets or those in
sects might crawl out during the festivities
and jump into the gravy.
Ii fly wades into your jelly up TO his gam
brels do not mash HIM with your spoon before
all the guests, as death is at all times depress-
ing to those who are at dinner and retards
digestion. Take the fly out carefully with
what naturally adheres to his person and wipe
him on the table-cloth. 1t will demonstrate
your perfect command of yourself and afford
amusement for the company Do not stand
up in your chair and try to spear roll with
your fork. Say "thank you" and "much
Obliged" and "beg pardon" wherever you can
work in these remarks, as it throws people off
their guard and gives you an opportunity to
get In your work on the pastry and other brio
a-brac near you at the time.
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London Newspaper Carts.

A newspaper cart is light affair on two
wheels naturally cart could not be on four
with one reckless driver and man to deal out
papers They rush along with all the head
long speed of the American butcher cart and
the rivalry among them is something lively
Of course the first paper on the ground is the
one that gets the cream of the trade. Proba-
bly, the handsomest carts are those of The
Globe and The Pail Mall Gazette The
former has raised hemisphere on each
side, typical Of the name; the latters
carts are oak-colored, with the title of the
paper on each side and on the ends. The Echo
carts are ugly and very serviceable. just be-
fore an edition comes out these carts can be
seen in row before their respective printing
Offices, each paper having about a dozen.
When the edition is published the carts are
filed in a twinkling with paper in quires-
twenty-six to the quire-and small bundles
wrapped up in contents bills. The latest con-
tents bills are pasted on the backs of the carts
and away they all go as speedily as if one of
Arabis bombs fell among them. They dash
through London streets with the rollicky reck-
lessess of a fire engine and soon scatter to
all points of the compass The bundles are
flung in at the doors of the news agents as the
carts hurry on without stopping. At the
street corners they pause and the newsboys
gather around, handing in all the former
editions that are unsold together with cash for
as many more as they wish to buy. The
papers are dealt out with great celer
ity by the man in the cart, who
has a trick of holding the sheets in
peculiar way in his left hand, while he runs
his right across the edges thus exposed, count
ing them accurately with the speed of light
ming. The amount Of cash, generally rendered
in pennies, seems to be almost instinctively
got at by netting them in his hand The
round has to be made within certain time
and the carts have to be back before the next
edition is due, and the cash and returns hand
ed IN before another lot is brought out On
the last round they collect the cash and the re-
turned papers from the news agents.
The evening papers here are hardly as hon
est in the matter of numbering their editions
as their American contemporaries. No Lon
don evening paper numbers an edition as
9frst;" for instance, The Echo's first edition
is called the second and is issued at o'clock.
The next edition they call the fourth and it is
issued at 2:2O. The fifth edition which is
really the third comes out at 4:20 The
special edition at and the extra special at Z.
Some of the evening papers begin business
with third edition which the unsuspectlng
Britisher buys under the impression that he is
getting something very late indeed
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1ouths companion.
Professor Fawcett, the blind, but very able,
English postmaster general, has recently made
report upon the postofice, which is full of
interesting and suggestive facts.
The English postofice has gradually become,
not only the great medium for conveying let
ters and papers, but sort of general con-
venience bureau for the benefit of the people,
1t is great national savings bank; it is a
financial agent for transmitting sums of
money; it is a vast express Office for convey
ing goods and parcels; and it is a universal
telegraph bureau. 1t will not perhaps be long
before the management of the telephone will
also be included among its functions.
Some idea of the extent to which the Eng
lish use their postofice may be gathered from
the fact that it yields revenue to the national
treasury of no less than fifteen and half mil
lion dollars annually. This sum is the net in
come from the postoffice after all its expenses
have been paid.
immense increase in the use of the
pC office by the people may be judged when
it is said that forty years ago that depart
ment did not pay its own way. Under the old
system of expensive postage, when it was
costly luxury to send a letter to a friend from
London to York, the postofice was burden
upon, instead of being contributor to, the
national treasury
About 1910, Sir Rowland Hill persuaded par
lament to adopt the uniform postage of one
penny for each letter weighing not more than
half an ounce; to apply this to the whole king
dom; and at the same time to abolish the priv
ilege of Thanking, which had been before en-
joyed by lords and commons.
This great reform, which put it in the power
of the poorest to make use of the postoffice, by
making postage everywhere cheap, was also
the beginning of the financial prosperity of
the department
Before the adoption of the penny postage, it
was calculated that every man, woman and
child IN Great Britain received on an average
three letters year. Now, every person re-
celVes, on an average, thirty-ive letters a
year.
More than twelve hundred millions of let
ters are annually sent through the mail Be-
sides these, the postoffice distributes two-hun-
dred and seventy millions of book packets and
circulars, one hundred and forty millions of
newspapers, and forty millions of kilograms.
improvements are continually going on in
the British postoffice. Prof. Fawcett is in
spired with great ardor for reform Parcels
will soon be sent through the office, weighing
seven pounds and under, for three pence (six
cents) pound. A system is about to be in
troduced by which a person who receives a
postal card may write and return his answer
on the same card
Tricycles and bicycles are now used by the
English postofice in some parts of the coun-
try. The postmen ride on these from hamlet
to hamlet, delivering the mails. Another re-
cent reform is the permission given to use
postage and receipt stamps Unfortunately
for both purposes
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
The Carolina Diamond story.

Gertrude Garrison In Indianapolis Review.
There are gold mines within four miles of
Glenn Springs, real, sure-enough gold mines
in active operation; and there are legends
about diamonds most fascinating to hear but
as difficult to trace to their source as the gold
at the end of the rainbow. Once year-in
the winter, I think-an exciting story about
South Carolina diamond makes the rounds of
the newspapers, dazzling the uninitatsd and
heating the imagination Of the creduious.
Reduced to its smallest compass it is this: A
mountaineer's child finds an odd looking stone
as big as goose egg. After playing with it
carelessly for six months, geologist of great
discernment happens that way, sits down on
the doorstep, asks for a drink of water, picks
up the child's crude-looking marble and pro-
nounces it diamond of the first water, worth
ever so many thousand dollars Then the
mountaineer takes little basket and goes ont
on the hillside where the child found the
treasure and picks up basketful, and the
family at once become swells and travel to
Europe. That is the beautiful and touching
story of the South Carolina Kohinoor which
we have all read with envy in our hearts and
wonder in our eyes, Well, have inquired
about that diamond that child, that noun
taineer and that angelic geologist Everybody
has heard of them, but nobody has seen them.
When you ask about them in South Carolina
you are told that the story is true, but the for
tunate diamond finders lived in North Caro-
lima, and up in North Carolina they will tell
you that it all happened in South Carolina.
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German and American soldiers.

The German army is machine of a COM
pick but most highly developed character
Each part of the machine is admirably adapted
to the function it has to perform, and none of
the parts are superfuous. The machine will
stand severe strains and rough usage with
out injury. This idea of inanimate machinery
as opposed to animate volition appears at
every turn in studying the German or any
other foreign army, and these armies have the
advantages and defects of the machines 1t
must not be supposed from this that the Ger
man army is mere slave to tradition and
routine, and deficient in individual intelli-
gence. Such is by no means the case. The
Germans, realizing that "the unexpected al
ways happens" have studied every possible
combination, movement, and accident, in war,
and they have drilled every officer and soldier.
each in the measure of his responsibility. to
be prepared for every emergency No matter
whathappens, therefore, the officer Is ready to
meet it, not by exercising his ready wit and
pies which have been drilled into his
very nature, and which cover every case. He
Is the very embodiment of professional spec
ialist This excessive development is, how
ever, made in some degree at the expense of
his general intelligence, of his self-reliance,
and of his independent initiative Outside of
his profession speaking of the whole body of
officers, not of selected corps he is narrow
minded and comparatively uniformed; in any
business but the one in which he has been so
thoroughly trained he would be helpless, until
he slowly learned its details and first princi-
pies. In other Words his mind acts, not in
tuitvely, but from prescription and instruc-
ton.
The grand American armies, which fought
the war of 1876, presented characteristics
the opposite of these. They had no training
but such as they acquired-often with bitter
experience-in the progress of the war itself,
and their officers acted almost invariably upon
their undrilled judgment The idea of a ma
chine was never a good simile for them Mill
tary subordination, in its strictest sense, was
almost entirely lacking. Yet they acquired
the most perfect knowledge of the es-
sential principles of war; and after 1868 they
were as superb body of practical soldiers as
ever existed; some of their campaigns (such
as Vicksburg and Atlanta on one side, Manas-
sas and Charlottesville on the other) can be
judged from the highest professional stand
point, and are the equals in brilliancy of the
campaign of 1870, or those of 1885, 1906, or
1914. The same result was obtained by two
exactly opposite systems; in one case special
professional training, in the other by develop
ment of reliance upon ready wit.
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n. Parmentier, in 1888, introduced potatoes
into France in novel manner. Having
planted considerable breadth of potatoes at
Montreuil, near Paris, he gained an audience
of the unfortunate Louis XVI, in the course
of which he inspired his majesty with ideas OF
the value Of the potato.
@But how are we to make people eat what
they are so prejudiced against?" inquired the
king.
@Sire, if your majesty will graciously afford
me little aid, that prejudice shall be re-
moved" replied Parmentier.
ITO overcome prejudice is difficult; but how
can l aid you, NJ Parmentier?"
IF your majesty will graciously order that
soldier shall mount guard in my potato field
at Montreuil, potatoes shall be all the fashion
IN less than six months"
The king laughed, and granted Parmentier's
request Thenceforward a military guard
might be seen promenading with measured
step the naturalist's potato field How pre-
cious must that blue Powered plant be, thought
the lookers-on. No more fear of leprosy-no
more dread of poisoning The highest people
IN France were proud to eat potatoes.
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The House of Lords.

fortn1ghtly Review.
As the composition of the house, such is its
action. On an ordinary night, when an ordi-
nary measure is debated, no one attends, and
when the constitution or the fancied interests
OF their order are not in danger, half dozen
members are sufficient to transact the business
of that august assembly. At such times one
reads in the papers paragraph such as this:
SThe lord chancellor took his seat on the wool
sack at 4:30 Lord Boremore asked a .tuestion
OF the lord priyy seal on the state of Ireland.
and made some remarks which were inaudible
in the gallery. The lord chancellor placed on
the table bill for the better remuneration of
Black Rod Several bills were advanced a
stage. Their lordships adjourned at $40"
But on grand nights, when, as the Conserva
tive papers are so fond of telling us, @there
was display of dignified eloquence and prac-
teal craftsmanship such as is never witnessed
in any other assembly in the world" then
they speed DER moor and fell, from shooting
crocodiles q the Nile or pigeons at Hurting
ham, pale from Paris or raddy from rural re-
treats and the house is thronged with the 400
and odd "great obscure" whose word is law to
the people of this country The position of a
Conservative minister in the house of lords is
indeed enVlable. truly 1t may be SAID OF HIM
that he has but to stamp with his foot and an
army of faithful voters springs from the soil
He can call spirits from the vastly deep, Medi-
terranean, Atlantic, Pacific, and no one dare
suggest doubt that they will come when he
doth call for them. Even with compact Lib
eral majority against him in the country and
in tine house, the Conservative leader of the
house of lords can make the most powerful
minister tremble for the fate of his measures.
Horace Greeley once emphasized the value
of vegetable diet by the remark that after
Nebuchadnezzar had been turned out to grass
it was never recorded of him that he suffered
from Indigestion
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The Country Fair.


The fairs are about over for this year, and
the prize pumpkin is laid to rest in the bosom
OF the CATTLE because it was not worth nickel
to make pies Of The prize potatoes, dozen
large ones picked out Of hundred bushels of
small ones, have been cut up and fed to ne
hogs because they were not fit for human be-
ings to eat owing to the black spots in the
center, and a strong taste all through. The
prize bread, made by farmers wife for the
occasion, has been sent to the editor who used
it as cake for week, and the farmers wife
will not make any more such bread till next
fair time. The big turnips that all admireds
and which were so pithy the COWS would not
eat them, have been thrown out
behind the agricultural hall to
rot The floral hall, where the inev-
table calico pieced quilt hung on rope
across the aisle, is closed, and the young man
from the country will no more lead his girl by
the hand through it's crowded passages, and the
city fellow who is looking for smash" will
no more crowd the old and infirm in order to
hurry around behind the exhibition of church
organs, where music teacher is hired for the
week to play Heaven is my Home" when she
lives on farm four miles from town, as many
young man knows who has asked to see her
home No more viii the young mother with
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@loud' pattern, gray checked trousers, yell
low riding boots and spurs, an opera glass
with yellow case and strap, yellow revolv
er belt, with cartridge case, yellow gauntlets,
violet pocket handkerchief stuck in his red
coat, gigantic pair Of black spectacles, and
flies.
Admiral Seymour is thiek-set of middle
height and comfortable round body, and his
appearance at once suggests to a spectator q
LIE OF good living and little exercise on board
ship. He wears white sun-helmet blue
coat, white trousers. yellow laced shoes, a
navy sword, a drinking flask, dirty linen
haversack, out of which projects a piece of
cheese, and carries a walking stick.