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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
Swell Dinners for RepOrters.
From the Brooklyn Eagle. ]

The st. Nicholas recently gave swell
dinner at which new rule was intro
duced by Mr.. Charles 5hermerhorn
Tbs gentleman was then secretary of the
CLUB. He had spent previous winter
in London and bad becone thoroughly
inft eted with Anglomania. Therefore
at the first meeting of the dinner com
mittee he proposed au English rule,
which was adopted. 1t was that the re-
porters from the morning newspapers
should be kept Ill an ante-room whence
they could hear the Speeches, etc,
through partly open dooe. THIS, it
seems, is the Euglish idea, In America
it Is the custom to send to every paper
two invitations for its reporters. They
are precisely like the invitations sent to
any other guest, exec pt the name of the
paper is written on them, and the re-
porters attend in full evening dress and
eat their dinner precisely in the same
manner as any other gentleman present.
1t is only when the speeches began that
there avocation is maize known by pen
ci! and paper. All the daily papers are
well represented at swell dinners,
and the result is that the best
men on the staff are usually
sent. The leading reporters of
metropolitan journals are very often
vastly superior in Intelligence, culture,
and address to the men at whose tables
they dine. But the ST. Nicholas Club
insisted on being swell. AT the same
time they wanted to get their names in
the papers. SO, rs usual, they sent
each paper two invitations, and when
the reporters arrived in their dress suits
they were uuceremoniously shown IN o
the ante-room by the huDkies and left
to themselves. By the time the dinner
had commenced all the reporters we're
present. The members of the club sat
down to dinner and the reporters calmly
went down to their offices. After the
dinner was over the members got up and
delivered their speeches IN loud and
ringing tones, one after the other, care
fully turning in the direction of the
half-opened door, and reading extensive
lv from notes. ibis went on for three
hours, when it occurred to one Of the
members, who was not quite go affected
by the English craze as were the others,
that the reporters might be thirsty.
Therefore he seized a bottle Of cham
pagne i'll each hand and started into the
ante-room. Oratorical flights fell below
par as soon as the door was opened, and
the diners felt depre The next day
not a line appeared in apy of the papers
about the great St. Nicholas Club bau-
quet, all of which proves that 1t is not
always good thing to be too English.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
Plantation Plpasantries,


Eff it's a sill ter b'leve dat its wrong
ter pay stout young swells 81 day ter
sponge 'roun' and beg money for de
church from men dat pcrspires ten hours
day fur fifty cents, an has families to
suppote, l specially ak ter be mem
bered in Yer prars.
| amt posed ter desc young doctors
'eperlmentn' wifi dead folks, but dunno
but il mout be 'visable to stop EN- fun
proit C. III wifi de live uns.
Who amt bit big snake on de head
70 now an kilt little one?
No 'lociped pedlers needn't ply at dis
cabin. When / straddIe saddle 1t amt
wifi de 'spectation of maxim my ole legs
do de canterin'. Ef [ ebber take fool
notion to ride an walk at the same time,
yer'll see me harness up bean pole an
,slay circus wifi de chilun.
When | hear a niger wifi SCUM teef
say he like mush cause he don't have ter
chaw If, | ell dat / ise man enough
ter tote all de rails dat he'll split IN one
day.
Po' manager dat baDklup' III dis coun-
try ef he know how ter tan dog skins du'
make gloves.
Yer can't jedge de farm by de fiel' dat
lays next ter de big road.
III yer frien' can't stan' prosperity
wise him to go skurity for somebody.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
NEWS OF TIE WEEK
EOGs esN.


TIN KELLY, for the murder of Cavendish
and Burke, in Phoenix Park, was hanged at
Dublin, on the 9th. This makes the fifth exc
cutlon for this crime. He made no confession
and died ''game
SULtEMAN DAouD was executed at AlexaIl-
drla, on the 9th for firing that city at the time
of its occupation by the British.
THERE is probability that France will have
to fight for Madagascar if it desires it as Frsnoh
territory.
BDeooD, JONES & WILSON, wooden ware
hohsemen, London, Eng, failed on the 9th.
Liabilities G115.000.
A POWDER magazine at ScutaIi, was struck
by lightning on the 9th number of persons
were killed by the explosion.
THE steamer Lively stranded near Stornoway.
Loss $35 ,000.
FORCE of 200 Turkish regulars, marching
to SiplaDik, were attacked and murdered on the
lst lnst., by a body of Hollis.
ACCOUNTS have been received of sanguinarv
fighting which took place on the I'd and Sd, in
Albania, between Turkish troops under COM
mand of Assym Pacha, and bodyof Castratis.
The Turks are reported to have lost 1,3G0 men,
and the Castratis 500.
SULIENAN DAUtB and Mahmoud Ssmi, who
fired Alexandra at the time of the lombard
AlCht, nave DS6u sentenced TO ueaIl.
Two aeronauts, on the 7th, attempted to
cross the English Channel in a balloon, from
Boulogne. The air-ship wouldn't cross, how
ever, and the experimeuters landed safely
few hours afterwaId at Desuer, IL miles south
east of Boulogne.
N1SE battalions of Turks were captured by a
force of Albanlans and held as prisoners of
war.
n,I It,r,l liyI,
died on the 7th
HE trial of seventeen members Of the Black
Hand Society commenced at Heres, SPAN, on
the 5th.
The nihilists of Russia are increasing in
numbers, and it is reported that officials of the
secret organization wele present at the corona
tioD,
The Quakers in Ireland have distributed in
County Donegal 270 tons of potatoes, relieving
the distress of 5000 families.
CHINA is preparing for war with France.
Tonquin will be the fighting ground.
FIFTY persons were roasted alive for witch
craft at Sierra Leone during the month of
May.
EDWARD HARRINGTON. editor, and printer
of the Kerry Sentinel, were each sentenced to
two years Imprisonment for publishing ali in
vitation to an invipcible meeting. Two com
poSltorS were sentenced 10 two months I'M
prlsonment for the same offense.
LoRD DUFFERIN on the 4th decorated
with the Order of the Bath.
TIE mayor of Moscow was banished on the
4th for expressing in his speech at the corona
ton the hope that the czar would institute
constitutional government.
DAvIrr, Healy and Quinn, imprisoned at
Dublin for melting to lawlessness, were released
on the 4th,
On the 4th the London police arrested
crank who was threatening to make mis-
chief.
On the 4th James Carey and the other in
formers were officially notified by the British
government that they would no longer receive
police protection.
THE earl of Westmeath died on the 4tb,
aged &C.
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Found in a Pine Log.
FROM the New Orleans picnrnne. l

From the New Orleans Pcayune.l
A few days ago, as the employees of
the Jacksonville saw mill, at the head
Of Poland Street, were running saw-logs
through the mill, cutting telegraph poles,
the circular saw came in contact with
some substance considerably harder
than the wood, causing great noise.
The saw ran through, and when the
plank dropped off a black object was
seen imbedded IN the wood. One of the
men took an ak and struck it blow un-
der the impression that it was an iron
spike, but the ak glanced off, aud on ex-
animation 1T was found to be au iron
shell. The shell was pred out and
found to be an eight-inch spherical with
the percussion cap still IN the anvil.
The relic was placed in the Office of the
saw mill, where quite number of per-
sOps have examined It. No visible mark
on the exterior Of the tree. which was
about forty il ches in diameter. could be
seen, and the bark and about eight inches
| thickness of wood had grown over THERON.
4 The log came IN raft from Red River,
and the she'll had doubtless been pro-
| jected into the swamp bordering the liv-
er during the war, from some federal
gunboat either ascending or descending
the river. After becoming imbedded IL
the tree 1t remained there, ard the bark
and wood finally grew over the missile,
concealing 1t from view, and accident
finally disclosed its lodging place.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
GENERAL

REPORT comes from Mineral Wells, Tex. of
the discovery of a cave containing an under
ground lake of crystal clearness about 25 feet
deep and filled with eyeless fish. etc. by party
of prospecting tourists.
THREE of the graduating cadets at Annapolis,
Md, ,-Glasscock, Webster aud Gray-were on
the 9th, sent to the frigate Santee, for applaud
ing during the commencement exercises.
RHODES, HUBS Il Co., notions, at Kansas
City, Mo-. failed on the 9th. Liabilities SS2.-
600.
JAMES O'MEARA, while occupying freight
car on the North Western Road, at Chicago, on
the night of the 9th, was shot and killed by
Joseph ndras. Cause unknown.
OK the 8th the leading faro bank in Chicago
closed ics doors. 1t was known as the Ar
cadian Club, and was run by Messrs. Bush,
johnson, Kines and Sheehy. During the last
two months the bank lost $50, ,000 causing its
callapse.
OK the sth news was received at Tombstone,
Arizona, by courier that Gen. Crook was en-
camped at Trescastillos, and his scouts are
securing the country round about. The In
dians have eluded him thus far.
II the wrestling match on the 7th at Roches-
ter, n. Y, between Duncan c. Ross and III. Nj.
Dufur, for 81 ,000 side, Ross won two out of
ELIPHALET CLARK, the Oldest homeopathic
physician in Maioe. died at Portland, Me-. on
the Sth, aged SO years.
EDWARD p. AlITzLER a stock broker. Pbila
delpLia, Pa, suspended on the 9th. owing
to his being short about 5000 shares of stock
purchased for him, aggreSatlng over S20,0 900.
a BLACK ring around The sun OH the 9th
inst, struck terror to the hearts OF the negroes
st Fort Worth Texas. on the 9th,
Hon. EDMUND L. Cushing, ex-chief Justice
of New Hampshire, died al Charlestown. n
H, on the 9th, aged 76.
MAD dogs are causing excitement at Little
Rock, Arkansas.
2. J. SHEAHY. one Of the jurors who con-
victed Guteau, was on the 5th taken ID St.
Elizabeth Hospital for the insane. at Wash
ington.
On the 5tb, reports were received of a severe
drouth in Virginia.
The Superintendent of fisheries in Ohio was
on the 5th, ordered by the commisso to
enforce the state fish laws.
r. UNGER, a travelling SALESMAN, died at
Denver. Colo, on the 5th, from hemorrhage OF
| the lungs.
| Or the ID, the grand jury at Austin, Texas,
| indicted over fifty members of the legislature
! for gambling. That night some one entered
| the court house and slole the indictments.
| Ar Blackstone. r. l., $40 operatives in a cot
| ton mil struck for higher wages on the 4th.
| DENVER. Colo, IS il trouble. The city
| charter vas revised and pending its final read
ing IN the legislature was stolen: copy was
procured and passed. and on the 4th the origi-
| nal document was found. Whether the new or
! the old charter holds good i. u MT Yaich the
! courts of that state can cracb.
Tue farmers near Muncie, Iul, who own
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
Preliminary hallway Work.
[From the Wall Street News.l

FROM tlle Nall street News
Last fall narrow gauge road twenty
two miles long was planned, and com
pany organized in Wisconsin, and an
eastern man who scented a chance for
profitable investment, called upon the
president to make some inquiries.
"How Is the new line getting on p he
asked after some general conversation.
"Splendidly. We have the night of
way for the first five miles, and have
taken steps to gobbIe it for the other
seventeen"
"Ho1 much stock have You issued ?"
1.-Two hundred thousand dollars"
"Aud how much has been sold ?"
"Wcll, you see, it has all been prelim-
mary thus far. We have sold enough
stock TO buy blue uniforms for all the
general officers, furnish up several rooms
with mahogany desks aud mOquette car
pets, and as soon as we can work of suf-
ticient to purchase horses and carriages
for president, secretary and treasurer and
furnish the superintendent with yacht,
we shall begin the real serious work OF
building up q grand trunk line
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
As Told by the Hero.

from the Macon 1etegrapn.I
The following Is an extract from let
ter written from Texas by young man
formerly OF Macon. to a friend here:
.'The other night L went into saloon
where there were eight cowboys who had
Just got in from a long drive. They
crowded around me and asked me to set
'em up. just out of polIteness / set
'em up. When they got through they
asked me to set 'em up again, and ! re-
fused. They crowded aroun1 me. evil
IDENTIFY taking me for sucker, and swOre
they'd eat me up. | stood nay ground,
aud tod them if they would
let the barkeeper hold Their pis-
tolls Td try 'em . few ronnds.
Then they took out their weapons and
gave 3 en tn the barkeeper, and IN ten
minutes hal whipped all eight of them.
They saw [ wasn't TO be fooled with aud
we shook hands. Every time l meet a
cowboy now he taks off his nat to me. "
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16

HANLAN beat Kennedy easily by about
twenty lengths, at Point of Pines, Mass,
Yesterday. 1t was a beautiful race for
the first hundred yards and kindled in
tense enthusiasm among the crowd upon
the shore, a wild cheer following the
men along the course. Hanlan was APP
parently not doing his best work, while
Kennedy was pulling for all he was
worth. He could not, however, increase
the lead of half leBgth or So which he
gained at the start. Every now and
then Hanlan would glance over bic
shoulder at Kennedy and 1t looked from
the Judges boat, as If he was forcing
his competitor to his highest and
watching him to see how fast he could
row. For third of mile there was
no change in the relative positions
of the men; then Hanlan as If salts
fed with his observations of Kennedy 8
work turned his face away from the
front and settled down to work as II he
meant business. The change was wonder
tuI. Inan instantthe champion boat shot
TO the fore, and before he had rowed a
dozen strokes, Kennedy's prov was
am1dships of Hanlan's shell. Despite
all Kennedy could do. and he worked
| hard to regain the ground be had lost,
| HanIan continued to increase his lead.
He drew away from his competitor with
the greatest apparent ease and at the
| pier. near the boatheuse, half a mile
| from the starting point, be had increased
| his lead 10 five or six lengths, and was
still gaining. At the turning stake, one
and a half miles from the start, which
II l. / Il a1u IN
10:144. The excitement as the cham.
pion reared the finish was intense, and
when he crossed the line IN 19 minutes
4 seconds, a leader by twenty lengths,
the spectators We're wildly demonstra,
tive. Kennedy came III IN 10 minutes
| 50 seconds. his time also beating the
best record of POLE made by Courtney
| at OSwegO.
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H. SUPERIOR WISCONSIN, SATURDAY. JUNE 16 1883.

self-binding harvesters, are the victims of a
conspiracy to destroy self binders. Several
barns and reapers have been destroyed by in
cendiary fires.
BISMARCK has been selected as the CAPITAL of
Dakota. The city gives bonus of 100000
i'll cash and $40 acres of land.
GEo. w. BURKE, at one time notorious
counterfeiter, killed Henry Madison, at Brad
ford, Fla, on 4th.
AT Ellinger. Tex, DR.. Abney and DIR. sauls
disagreed and tie latter was shot, probably
not fatally.
TWENTY-FIVE English and Swedish emf
grants, were swindled on the I'd out of SO. so
each by White Il Basted, New York, by false
promises of employment.
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CASUALTIES.

BERTE EDGEBToS, aged II, was drowned
near Rockford, H., on The 9th, wble bathing
IL the river.
The Meramec FIGURING Mills at Meramec,
No, burned on the 9th. Loss 5000
HENRY HESKLE. while digging a well at
Psrkef, Dakota. VAS klIed by the fan OF a
bGgkat Ca the 91n.
'Ha grain sareionse nf Douglass, Ste xart
& Forrest, at Cl cage, burned on the 9Th
Loss 500. coo.
The 25 ton vuicanizer in the Ansonia Rub
Der Works, al College Point, L, l., exploded on
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16
WHY Bows Dislike to Learn Trades.

TFroIn the Blacksmith and Wheelwrigbt
The old system ls, IN the main, re-
sponsible for the aversion that such a
large number of boys manifest for learn
ing trades. For the first year boy IN
a blacksmith shop, for instance, Is put
to the toughest and most disagreeable
work. He is made to do thousand and
one things that will be of DO use to him
when he grows up, and have nothing to
do with making him skIllful mechanic.
He knows this and naturally rebels and
wants to do something that viii be OF
benefit to him. He is brought to feel
that to be good blacksmith a man re-
uuires much Drawn and little bIalns.
That he obtains an erroneous idea of the
trade be is trying TO learn we all know,
but. nevertheless, this Impression IS apt
to become fixed IN his mind from tht
character of the work be Is put to. i
1t any wonder that he looks with envy
on the boy behind the counter or IN &
LAWYERS Office and longs to get away
from an employment that has become
irkeOme?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16

the kitchen, "that he marries one of
your grandfather's daughters before he
goes up there" And even then" sal
shrlll female voice from the kitchen,
"he doesn't always have sense enough
to go there" The boy didn't exactly
understand the explanation and its COM
mentery, and he wasn't old enough to
know just what happened, but somehow
he felt it would be pleasanter and safer
for him to play on the roof of the house
for little while. Bur. Haa0k.
Animals Exterminated by Man.
That animals have become extinct
withiti times called historic is shown in
an interesting Lippincott paper from
Mr.. G. L. Holder. IL the last century
the island of St. Helena, which had be
come covered with goats. had been from
year to year denuded OF Its young trees
with such rapidity that the wooded
country finally lost all its trees and be-
came pasture laud. A multitude of
iDse eis had been dependent upon these
trees, aud in consequence they died.
among them being eight species OF laud-
snails. which were peculiar 10 the island
and are now entirely extinct. On our
own shores examples of determination
are common, a notable one being the
oyster-beds once frequent on the shores
of Maine. Mr. Holder places upon mau
the responsibility for the extinction of
larger animals, including the mammoth,
remains of which have been found III
France in company with pieces of ivory
bearing ruoe drawings of the animal.
Elsewhere have been found in the sane
place the human jaw and the bones of
the great cave bear. So late as 1742, on
Behring's Island lived vast herds Of sea
cows, but " warfare was waged against
them by all corners with such effect that
twenty years later they were near
ly extinct, and now not one exists.
While this seems incredible, it remains
also tlue that, unless there is govern
ment intervention, "the sea-b ears OF
the far north will soon be Extinct" No
less remarkable has been the disappear
ance of tue gigantic pigeon bird COM
monty called the dodo. This bird was
extremely common in Mauritius when
the Portuguese discovered til island.
"The dodo was undoubtedly many
times sent TO Europe alive. Sailors, we
are informed, killed them to obtain the
stones in their crops, upon which to
sharpen their knives, and finally they
totally disappeared-a few pictures, a
foot IN the British Museum. head and
foot at Oxford, perfect skull at Copen-
hagen and fragmentary piece at Prague
being all that is left TO attest the reality
of the exi,tcbce of the king of the pig
cons, the last of which were probably
de str Dyed in the beginning of the nine
tpenth cepturv" "
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16

"How does a man keep warm at the
North Pole?" asked one of the little
Sandpipers, as be came home from
school the other night. g suppose,
said the father, grimly glancing toward
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-06-16

The fact that only three of the 2,565
couple whom the Rev. DIR. Miner Of Boston,
has married have been parted by divorce,
leads him to think that "the state OF
mind which brings people TO a univer-
salist clergyman for union Is that which
will enable them to live happily to-
gether."
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Striking Head Lines

Are used to call attention to the fact that this is an
advertisementof the CHICAGO. MILwAu-
KEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY.
Its EIGHT Trunk Lines traverse the best nor
uons OF Northern Illinois, WlSCON-
SIN, MINNESOTA, DAKOTA and
IOWA,
Located directly on its lines are the cities of
CHICACO.M O.MsLWAUKEE,LaCrosse,
Winona, ST PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS.
Madison, Prairie du CHEN, Mason
City, Sioux City, Tankton, Albert
Lea, ABERDEEN, DUBUQUE, ROCK
ISLAND, CEDAR RAPIDS and CouA-
GIL BLUFFS, well innumerable other
principal business centres and favorite resorts.
and passengers going West, North South or East
are able to use the CHICAGO, MILWAu-
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advantage.
Ticket Offices everywhere are supplied with Maps
and Time Tables which detail the merits of the line
and agents stand ready to furnish information and
sell tickets at cheapest rates over the Chicaoo-
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
5. s. MERRILL, A.v.Hc CARPENTER
1eneral Manager. Gen. Pass. and Tkt. Agt.
= 7. CLARK, GEO n HFAFFoRp
uehl supt Asst Gen. Pass. Agt.
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The best rife shot IN the senate is Mr..
Seven, Of New Jersey.
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QUEEN vIcroRIA's COUNSEL.

John Brown, @ leen Victoria's confden-
tial servant, is, according to the Paris
Figaro, spir;tualistic medium, and it is
because of his usefulness in keeping up
communication with the departed Prince
Albert that he has been suffered to sustain
his intimate relations with her Majesty.
At some great Cabinet councils she re-
serves her opinion: 81 must first,
says she, "consult the spirit of Prince
Albert" A Partisan journal draws the
following picture of ceremonies which it
says takes place at Balmoral Castle
She goes into the studio of the deceased,
who is always alive to her; she sits in his
favorite armchair facing her, on chair,
seeming to await mis- coming great fire is
lighted on the vast baronial hearth. John
Brown respectfully brings on a plate the
basin of Cruel which his master used to
take every evening and places it on hob,
as if he were going to take it. The Queen
has paper on her knee, pencil in her right
hand. She calls the spirit of her absent
husband. The chair moves, cracks and
answers by blows of its feet on the carpet
The alphabet of Spiritualism is known. so
many blows siguifying each letter. Her
Majesty asks questions and her servant
Brown translates to her the Princes an
swers. The living and the dead thus CON
verse Of the things of this world and the
other. These are pions vigils whence the
Queen goes forth Gained if not consoled,
for her grief is one of those which only
ends with life.
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and his arms around his box. He sighed
no more, but seemed asleep. Upon his
face color paler than the snowy sheets
extended. Another guest was in the bed (;
the guest that cometh like real thief In
the night.
"Mary !" cried the father, Mary, my
wife, come herel Robert is dying
The mother came on feet of doves wings.
She raised her son upon her breast. The
little lips Enclosed and spoke the last for
ever TO the world:
81 love my papa Mamma, I only
wanted his pencil, not his money. Dear
God, let papa love me.
And SO, among the little drawings he
had been working at every dawn, till his
pencils were worn to the wood and he
would have borrowed his papa noiselessly,
whose sharpened pencil was in his waist
coat pocket, the little artist yielded up his
broken heart. Only the room resounded
with childless fathers cry.
"Oh had my son again. even though
heawere thief. "-[ Johnny Bouquet, in the
New York Tribune.