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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-13

The Gartenlaube has an article on
those civilized nations a large portion
of whose peasantry eat little or no
unknown in many parts of
outh Australia or Italy, and
throughout the Agricultural dis
tricts OF Roumania. In the sil-
lagos of the Obersteiermark, not very
many miles from Vienna, bread is new
er seen; the staple food of the people
being sterz, a kind of porridge made
from ground beech-nuts, which is taken
at breakfast with fish or curdled milk,
at dinner with broth or fried lard, and
with milk again for supper. This sterz
is also known as heiden, and takes the
place of bread, not only in the Steier-
mark, but in Carinthia and in many
parts of the Tyrol. In the north of It
ally the peasantry live chiefly on polenta
porridge made of boiled maize. The
polenta, however, is not allowed toe
granulate, like Scotch porriLge, or like
the Austrian sterz, but is boiled into a
| solid pudding, which is cut up and por.
toned out with string. 1t is eaten
| cold as often as it is hot, and is in every
sense the Italian peasants daily bread
| The modern Roumanians are held by
many scholars to be descended from 8
Roman colony, in other words to be the
cousins Of the Italians; and, curiously
enough, a variation of the polenta
called mamaliga is the national dish Of
Roumania The mamaliga is like the
polenta III that it is made of boiled
maize, but it is unlike the latter III one
important respect, as the grains are not
allowed to settle into solid mass, but
are kept distinct, after the fashion O
| oatmeal porridge.
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his admoniton in these words Hereafter let
| the contest between you be who shall carry the
| furthest INTO the ranks of the enemy the sword
of the Cross" And this high mandation re-
| peat to all who follow the banner of the match
| less Blaine and the lion n-hearted Logan.
| Gentlemen of the convention, what Is your
| pleasure?
The speech was frequently inter
rupted by rapturous outhursts of APP
plause, and it was generally agreed that
1t was one of the most able speeches
ever delivered in a state convention here
| The Chair appointed a committee to
wait on the state officers and request
their presence before the convention.
The state officers were introduced
and spoke briefly their acknowledge
| ments for the honor conferred.
No resolutions were reported back.
Andrew +. ElmOre presented a reso-
luton urging the necessity for a system
| of examining banks every six months.
Henry G. Payne introduced resolu-
ton that the Republican party of Wis
consin was opposed to the employment
of convict labor in the penal institutions
| of the state.
Both resolutions were ignored.
The convention then adjourned with
three cheers for Blaine and Logan.
In the evening a grand torch-light
procession took place. Fully 1000
| men were in line with several brass
bands. The lines formed in capi-
tol park, facing Main Street, at 80
o'clock, and marching out of the
entrance opposite the Villas House
proceeded along Main to Carroll, along
Carroll to State, along State to Henry,
along Henry to Langdon, along Lang
don to Wisconsin Avenue, along Wis
consin Avenue to Gilman, along Gilman
to Pinckney, along Pinckney to Wilson,
along Wilson to Monona Avenue, thence
into the park and up to the capitol.
Among the organizations represented
in the procession were 200 from
Fort Atkinson; 300 and a band
from Richland Center; the Flam-
beau Torch Company from La
| Crosse; 100 and a band from Beloit
$50 to 200 from Dodgeville; $50 and a
band from GAINESVILLE; 75 to 100 from
Baraboo; Is from Mazomanie 80 to 100
from Stoughton; 80 from Oregon; rs
from Mt. Horeb; 80 from Elroy; 80 from
Reedsburg; large number from Fond
du Lac, Oshkosh and Milwaukee, and
squads from scores of stations through
out Southern and Western Wisconsin.
Fireworks and colored fires were dis
played both from the leading buildings
along the route and in the procession,
A large number of the stores and dwell
iugs along the line were decorated
with Chinese lanterns and tri-colored
festoons. After the procession, two
| meetings were held in the capitol
one in the assembly chamber and the
other in the senate chamber, Gen
Atwood presiding at the former and
Gen. Fairchild at the latter.
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At the Oper9,

They were at the French opera, says
brakes Travellers Magazine, and as
they seated themselves he remarked,
impatiently:
"Therel l have forgotten the opera
glass again ?"
"Oh, WE'LL" said his wife soothingly,
eve will get along nicely without it,"
Nonsense" he replied. Il viii have
an opera-glass if / have to rent one"
You didn't make such fuss about
forgetting the opera-glass when we went
to see Henry Irving, in Hamlet, she
remarked, a little sternly.
Il know 1 didn't. But Hamlet and
a French opera are very different things.
You don't imagine that a man can APP
reclate fine-er- er-m music without an
pera-glass, do you?"
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CASUALTIES.

A FIRE ON the Flats, Cleveland, on
the night of the 7th inst, burned over
the district from Scranton Avenue tc the
Bee Line tracks and back to the bonded
warehouse. Several mills were burned
and vast quantity of lumber. The
loss is over S2,000,000.
The Molino lumber yards, twenty
three miles from Pensacola, Fla, burned
on the 7th inst. Loss about 100000.
FIRE at Richmond Va, on the 7th
inst, destroyed the ice houses of the
J. G.. Smith Ice Company, with 1900
tons OF ice, and several other buildings.
Losses aggregate $4,000.
The Florence coal breaker nine miles
from Scranton, Pa, burned on the 7th
inst. involving loss of $4,000.
AT Gadsden, Ala, on the 4th inst,
j. Westcott, sawyer, became entangled
i'll the main belt of his saw and his body
was literally smashed to atoms.
\ DRY GOODS store, drug store and
saloon at Wamego, Kas., We're destroyed
by fire on ihe 4th. The losses .ggre-
gate in the neighborhood of 100000.
DURING a soldiers reunion a. Fre-
mont, Neb., on the 4th inst, platform
gave way, precipitating large 1nmber
of people to the ground. Fifty persons
were injured, several fatally. There
were 5000 people on the stand.
WHILE John Carrier and a party of
five including his wife were driving in a
wagon near Dodge Center, MINI, On
the Sd inst, the vehicle was struck by
lightning. Mrs. Carrier and both
horses were killed, and the wagon made
into kindling wood.
LARS HANSEN was killed by lightning
while plowing in field near Lemond
Mimi, on the 4tb inst.
FIRE at Rockville, Mass, on the 4th
inst, destroyed Enoch Waite's felt mill
andWilliam Haynes wire mill. Loss
$40. 600.
WILLIAM AYERS was fatally and two
others seriously injured by the pre-
mature explosion of a blast of giant
powder at Sharon, Pa, on the Sd inst.
On the afternoon of the Sd inst a
train on the Madison division of tae
North Western road struck a wagon
containing James Fisher and 2. Hun
bert. The farmer was instantly killed
and the latter fatally hurt. The acG-
dent occurred near Milwaukee.
A FIRE at Dubuque, Ia, on the ID
inst. destroyed over 100000 feet of
lumber, the property of Moore and Robe
son and the Dubuque Lumber Com
pany and valued at nearly 81 100000.
THE almost completed freight house
of the Santa Fe Railroad at West Kan
sas City, Mo-, was destroyed by fire or
the Sd inst. Loss $4,000.
AN old man named Caspar Borrhard,
of Bangor, Wis, was killed by train
on the North Western road on the
morning of the Sd inst.
The shoe factory OF Rice & Hutch
ins at Marlboro, Mass, burned on the
I'd inst. Loss 100000.
FIRE at Eufala, Ala, on the | st inst.
destroyed property to the value of $780,
600.
1HE hotel newport, at AsDury Park,
n. j., burned on the 1st inst. Some OF
the guests had to abandon their trunks.
Loss, S35, 900.
CHARLES WooLF, aged 10, and Frank
keer, aged 10, were drowned at
Chippewa Falls on the 1st inst. Keer
fell III and Woolf attempted to rescue
him. Both were carried over the dam.
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Drinking Ceremonies.

from the London Brewers Guardian.l
The custom of touching glasses prior
to drinking health is very common in
England and many other countries, and
| especially in Germany. 1t is curious to
| trace how this custom has prevailed,
| and still exists, even among savage
tribes. To drink out of the same cup,
| and to eat OFF of the same plate, was one
| of the ways III which the ancients cele-
brated marriage, and the wedding
feast continues to be not the least inn
important of the marriage ceremonies
to the present day. The Indians of
Brazil retain a custom OF drinking
| together a little brandy, as a sign that
the marriage is concluded. In China
similar customs are met with. III the
| medieval banquets of Germany it was
the custom TO pass " loving cup" from
hand to hand, but this gradually neces-
STATED that the cup should be of enor-
| nous size, and thus smaller cups or
glasses were adopted, and the old Gus
tom was conformed to by the drinkers
touching their glasses before drinking.
The ceremonies attending the passing
and drinking out of the glowing cup"
| as practiced at our great city festivals
| and at some of our college halls, is said
to have arisen from the assaeaination of
King Edward. 1t was then the custom
among the Anglo-Saxons to pass round
a large cup, from which each guest
| drank; he who thus drank stood
up, and as he lifted the cup with
both hands, his body was exposed
| without any defense to a blow.
| and the occasion was often seized
by an enemy to murder him.
To prevent this, the following plan was
adopted When one of the company
stood up to drink, he required the COM
panion who sat next to him to be his
pledge-that is, to be responsible for
protecting him against any body who
should attempt to take advantage of his
defenseIess position; this companion
stood up also, and raised his drawn
sword in his hand to defend the drink
or while drinking. This practice, in a
somewhat altered form, continued long
after the condition of society had
ceased to require it, and was the origin
eff the modern practice of pledgirg in
drinking. In drinking from the "lov-
ing cup" as now practi3ed, each person
rises and takes the cup in his hand to
drink, and at the same time the person
seated next to him raises also, and when
the latter takes the cup IN his turn, the
individual next to him does the same.
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CLOSE CONNECTION IS MADE WITH THE
C.,,St. P, Nj. and @. K K.
at MERRILLAN, enabling passengers to
reach
St. Paul and Minneapolis the same
EVEN 1TG.
CONNECTIONS :

AT GREEN BAY-With Chicago & n. w. Ry
to and from OCONTO. MARINETTE, MENOM-
INEE. CRYSTAL FALLS, FLORENCE ESCA-
NABA, NEGAUNEE, ISHPENtING, MAR
QUErTE, HoUGHTON. L'ANSE, and all
points in the iron aud copper region, also AP-
PLETON. MENASHA. NEENAH, OSHKOSH
FOND DU LAC, MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO
and all points south and east.
With Milwaukee & Northern Railway for MIL
wAUKEE and all points north and south on
that line.
AT NEW LONDON-With Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western Railway TO and from all
points on that road.
ATGRAND RAPIDS-With Wisconsin Division
of the Chicago, Milwaukee s. st. Paul R'Y.
AT MERRILLAN-with Chicago, ST. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Railway to and from
EAU CLAIRE, CHIPPEWA FALLS, ME-
NOMONEE, Wis, HUDSON, STILLWATER,
ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS. and all points
beyond.
AT WINONA AND LA CBOSSE-with C. b
n. w. Ry and c.. NJ. g. St. P. Ry to and
from REDWING, HASTINGS, ST. PAUL
MINNEAPOLIS, and all points In MINNIE
sofa, DAKOTA. IOWA AND NEBRASKA
DURING season of navigation, with steamers
for all points NORTH and SOUTH on MISSIS-
SIPPI RIVER.
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THEPASSENGEREQUIPMEN7

ef this road has lalely been improved and in
creased. and now embraces all the modern I'M
proyements and conyeuiences that tend TO
make travelling by rali safe and comfortable.
IF YOU are travelling between any of the above
named points, see that your tickets read over
this line.
For time cards, rates and information not
obtainable from local agents, apply to
TIMOTHY CASE,
GenI Passenger Agent,
GREEN BAY WIS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-13

AT one of the Block Island summer
resort hotels the manager, room clerk
and head waiter are all college gradu-
ates, and the dining-room table staff is
made up from students now vacation
ing.
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A yenturesOme Small Bow.
From the San Jose iCa..) Herald.l


Yesterday afternoon Mrs. William
Kennedy, who lives on Fourth Street,
missed her 4-year-old son Carl, and in
state of great anxiety made search for
him up and down the various streets in
that vicinity, when she was attracted by
seeing some people running wildly
about on the corner of Fourth and ST.
James Streets, and upon approaching
the dwelling of Dave Williams nearly
tainted with terror when she saw the
frightened people pointing with their
fingers to her little son, who was hang
ing to ladder on the windmill tank
seventy or eighty feet from the ground.
One little hand grasped the ladder and
with the other one he was reaching out
for some pigeons that were sitting al
most within his reach. The mother
realized the awful peril of her little son,
but with a heroism seldom seen she
called IN firm voice, saying: Come
down, Carl. aud mamma will give you a
peach" The little fellow looked
cautiously around over his shoulder,
and, seeing his mother, started to de-
scend, while the group stood with faces
upturned blanched with terror for fear
he would lose his hold and be dashed
TO pieces; but he came safely down,
and as he approached the last rounds of
the ladder he said: Il am coming,
mamma" and the overjoyed mother
caught her child in her arms.
ABAD boy broke up camp meeting
down in Pennsylvania, the other day,
by stirring up a hornets nest which
hung above the congregation. 1t was
remarked afterward by a thoughtful
deacon that if the saints and sinners
had shown half the anxiety to escape
perdition and reach heaven that they
did to get away from the hornets and
reach that boy there would soon be no
further use for revival meetings. In
dianapolis Journal.
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CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE,
AND ST: paul:

1t owns and operates over 4 600 miles Of road in
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota and its main lines, branches and connec-
tions reach an the great business centres of the
Northwest and Far West, it naturally answers the
description of Short Line, and Best Route between
Cnlcit&o. milwaukee,. ST. Paul and
NE2GeapotIss
Chicago. MiisVaukee, Portage. La
crosse and binOna.
SniSa%o. INxauAee. Ortonvflle,
aberdeen and GLENDALE.
SHaSsA5ss. milwaukee,, Eau Claire and
saltwater.
Chicago, milwaukee,, wausau and
Merrill
Chicago. milwaukee,, Beaver Dam.
FOND du Lac aud Oshkosh.
ShichSo. Rii"aukee. Waukesha and
Dcon0nIoNoc.
Chicago. milwaukee,, Madison and
PraSr'e dI ChieD.
ChIc5fEos milwaukee. OwatOnna,
Mama zAto AND Earibauit.
Chicago, 4Seioit, JEnesviiIe and Min
erai Point
Chicago. Eigin, Rockford and Du-
Chicago. CI3nson, Rock Island, Cedar
kagIas and Eama.
Chicago. sfes Holmes, Council Bluffs
and Omaha.
Chicago, Canton, Sioux City, Sioux
#StaEs aud ankIon.
chicago, milwaukee,, Albert Lea and
southern Minnesota Points.
ch1on.9, s,.;., nlissa".:ee, ,'s st1. nason City,
Eotk sefnssd, snbnque, St. Paul and
minneapolis
BayeppoEt, Eaimar, ST. Paul and
HtauGapOEis.
milwaukee,, Raciue, KeSOit, FreepOrt
ana sock island.
Mitchell, W0I4ey, ashton and Abers
uGeEs
dim River Valley Line)
$'fElGss1Gss SsesDeFs and the Eiuest
Dining s'stS-s aSs fEs&s sEos-sd are run on the
main lines Of tie CgsECs Go, HELGsF-
II EE ~ ~ P4EH ELVsY, and
every attention s paid to passengers by courteous
employls If the Company.
g. 5. hlsrriil, A. v. n. Carpenter,
Gen Manager. Genl Pass AGENT
J. r. Clark Geo H. Hesfford.
Gcul Supt. Asst Gen1 Pass Agt
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WASHINGTON.

The public debt statement for May shows
q decrease of "a, 76S, 241. The available cash
balance is Sl47, 7,6GO.
1t was editorially stated In the Washing
ton Post, Monday, that Samuel J. Tilden
will not be candidate before the demo-
cratic convention In Chicago, and will un-
der no circumstances accept a nomination.
The colored people of Washington on
Monday INDUCED in run on the National
Savings bank. Payment was promptly
made to depositors, and the bank officers
state that they will not take advantage of
the thirty-day clause.
Attorney General Brewster, has written
to Congressman Springer, chairman of the
committee on expenditures in the depart
ment of justice, relative to the changing
from the fee to a salary system in compen-,
sating United States court officials. Mr..
Brewster says he has considered the subject
I'm every aspect, and the result of his DELHI
Grafton and reflection Is that the change Is
imperative. ,.g.st rs,l % b. Ytts7Is e
General o. 4. Babcock, Colonel Levi p.
Luckey and Benjamin p. Suter, of Wash
ington were drowned while making trip
along the Atlantic coast In connection with
the work of the lighthouse board. Only
the body of General Babc0ck was recovered.
He was private secretary to General Grant,
and his wife Is the eldest daughter Of Hon.
Benjamin IL Campbell, Of Chicago. - ST ;
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OWOSSO AND ITHACA UNITED
BY UNBROKEN BARS OF
STEEL.
A FINE OPENING ON TUESDAY. Mr..
ASHLEY WINS THE APPLAUDIT,
WELL DONE,

AT the invitation OF James M.
Ashley, General Manager, about 900
of the citizens Of Owosso assembled
at the Junction Depot, on Tuesday
morning for an excursion via the T.,
A. A. & N. Railway to Ithaca. The
day was beautiful one, bright and
cheerful, and all nature was in its
unrivaled spring glory The train
was made up of one coach and sever
al fiat cars on which seats were inn
provised for the occasion. The
Knights Templar Band furnished the
music, and despite the lack Of first.
class accommodations, everybody was
happy, and the trip a merry one. At
about ten o'clock the train pulled
out. The road bed from Owosso to
Maple River was fully ballasted, and
is as fine a new road as a first passeh-
ger coach ever ran over. The, rails
are steel, good heft and everything
indicates frst-class road in all re-
spects. 80 ssw l.-r' civ iaye ~
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FARM FOR SALE.

A rare bargain A first class grain farm.
consisting of 105 acres (6t miles south of
Owosso, and At west of Bancroft, gosa
buildings and located in one of the best
farming sections in Michigan. So acres
under good state of cultivation; good els
tern and q never failing well, with wind
mill; fine apple and peach orchard. Will
be sold at low figure as the owner is en-
gagged in business in the west. For par
ticulars enquire on the premises or address
E. q. Place, box II Bancroft, Mich. md.
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The station Al FIsi. Is quite a dis

The station at Elsie is quite dis
stance from the center OF the village,
yeta goodly number of the citizens
were on hand to welcome the first
train, and several, including some
ladies, joined the excursionists. Ban
mister and Ashley, new "bergs" Just
springing into existence, give promise
of being lively towns in the near
future, and North Star will not be
behind in the race for the business
enterprise that is sure to spring up all
along the line.
The train reached Ithaca soon after
noon, and the excursionists were met
at the end Of the track by the people
of Ithaca who turned out en- mass to
greet their Owosso friends and the
first train on the new road. There
was large number of carriages in
waiting, and the Ithaca Cornet Band
greeted us with some of their most
soul inspiring strains. The people
from ''the land of the South" were
welcomed to Ithaca by brief but
exceeding appropriate speech from
Hon. Marvin r. Slater, President of
tho village, and then procession was
formed, and the crowd escorted to
the several hotels, lead by the bands
in attendance.
/ A bountiful dinner was provided
at the hotels and private residences
for all, and great pains taken to make
the beauties and advantage of their
really delightful village known to those
who had not been there before.
Among which is school house not
excelled for convenience and ele-
gance inthe Peninsular State, an arte.
sian well 100 feet in depth, fine brick
blocks, and an elegant Court House
Square.
After dinner the KIT. Band played
from the balcony OF the Commercial
Hotel some choice selections, which
were listened to by a large number of
delighted spectators. About 3 o'clock
procession was formed led by the
Ithaca Band and escorted by several
hundred school children, and marched
to the new depot ground, which by
this time had about been reached by
the track laying brigade; when the
school children and some "children OF
larger growth" were delightfully."-
entranced by witnessing the work OF
track laying, which by aid Of the
engine and other modern inventions,
was put down more rapidly than it
seemed possible such important work
could be done, and at the same time
as we'll done, as we had proved the
track laying on the T., A. A. & N.
to be.
A picnic supper, gotten up in true
Michigan style, was given the railroad
boys, in the grove near the depot
grounds, at a o'clock, and then the
people were entertained for a brief
time by interesting addresses from
Prof. Pettengill, Sup't of the Ithaca
Schools, James M. Ashley, Jr., Gilbert
R. Lyon and Hon. Jerome w. Turner.
Following this the familiar call
aboard" rang out on the evening
air, and amid the booming of the
cannon, and the cheers of the people
the train started no meward, and after
a pleasant ride Of two hours we were
safely landed at the station in Owosso,
conscious that the day had passed
pleasantly, and that we were under
many obligations to the officers of the
road and the people of Ithaca for this
delightful trip, the first, to Ithaca over
the road for which SO many earnest
prayers have been made in the past
by people of Owosso and Ithaca.
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For SALE AT A BARGAIN Tor win ex-
change for cow, heifer, or something /
can use,) / three spring. two seated buggy;
canopy top baby carriage; good parlor
stoye; l sewing machine.
j. A. ARMSTRONG,
s.....as OwossO
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EARN FOR SALE.

A RARE BARGAIN.-A first class
grain and stock farm, consisting of
IIa acres, ~ miles from Owosso;
good buildings and desirable location.
six acres of timber, principally sugar
maple. Owner in poor health and
OBLIGED TO SELL. For particulars
call on or address J. A. Armstrong or
E. o. Dewey, TINES Office, Owosso.
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ARTISTS MATERIALS.

bave just added to my stock full line
of the finest quality of Artists Materials
consisting in part of Plaques, Brushes,
Imported tube paints, etc.
~ May 9th, 1884. G.. p. PARKILL.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-06
FOR SALE.

Poland China Boar, three months
old. For sale cheap. Inquire at
THE TIMES Office.
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Hanover, O., Feb. I

Hanover, o., Feb 70, 1884
After having lung fever and pneumonia
had dreadful cough and could not sleep
at night. The doctors told me had Con-
sumption and would die. have taken six
bottles Piso's Cure and my cough is entirely
gone and am as well as ever
EMMELINE FORD
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ATTENTION

A ATTENTION.
l am peddling needles, threads,
pins, combs, aprons, handkercheifs,
extracts, and other articles. Wait
and buy Of me.
G.. M. Harris
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-06
FOR SALE,

A quantity of the Minnesota early
Amber Sugar Cane Seed. Inquire of
A. Robertson. VIZ