The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-05-23
.uFSGEIL4NEOTS.

CANOEING promises to be favorite
pastime this season.
VICE-PRESDENT HENDRICKS and wife
intend to go to Europe during the
summer.
AN Indian doctor in Utah was stoned
TO deathrecently by his tribefor having
failed to cure a patient under his
charge.
IT is estimated that not less than
1 900 men viii make regular business
ofplaying base ball professionally this
summer.
THE American climate is treating
kindly the obelisk in Central Park,
New York, adverse reports to the
contrary.
EUGENE SCHUYLER was unani-
mousIy elected by the Rounanialq
Academy at its last general meeting
at Bucharest as one of its correspond
ing members in the historical section.
THE Rev DR.. Talmage says he Is 60
ing to Europe to rest and get acquainted
with his family. He has their
photographs, but has had no time to
get acquainted. 1t is the first rest he
has had in thirty years.
"JoHN," said a bright girl to her
lover the other day, Il am afraid you
are forgetting me" ''Ies, Jennie"
was the brave answer, Il have been
in for getting you these three years,
in fact, ever since | knew you. '-Bos-
ton Beacon.
IT is the young lover who finds HIM
self kicked down the front stOop by
the irate parent trying to save enough
on coal and gas to pay taxes with,
who makes his appearance before the
foolights.-PittsbUrg Chromcie-Tele-
graph.
"MYsTERY gold" a composition of
platinum, tin and copper, which stands
ordinary acid tests, and Is said to
weigh as much as pure gold, Is in favor
in England for articles OF jewelry, and
has been availed OF by counterfeiters
for the manufacture of sovereigns.
LAM acquainted with a man who be-
came utterly broken down from drink
but took the pledge and kept it for ten
years. At the end of that time he was
swept back by simply seeing his clergy
man take one glass Of wlne.-CoL 4.
". HigginsOn.
WHEN you take an opium pill see
what YOU swallow in the form OF al
kaloids, as the chemist calls them:
NarcOtina, morphia, coda, pseu-
dOmOrphia, thebania, narceia, papav-
erina, rhUadina, crytOpia, lauthopia
laudancodia, codamia, deuteropia,
laudanosia, protopia and hydrocot-
arnia
A YOUNG man named Payne, EN-
ployed in EmersOn's sCythe shop at
East Lebanon, \. H., while going to
get a pitcher of water from a spring
near the railroad track, fell through
the bridge into the river, but escaped
with slight bruises. Not returning to
his work, it was thought he was
drowned but he was found at his home,
where he had gone for fear his fellow
wOrkmen would laugh at him.-LOWcH
(Mass.) Courier.
TIE longest cotton row in the cOun-
try, and probably in the world, is on the
Shiloh farm OF Messrs, Station Il jeff
ries The row begins IN the center OF
a hundred acre field and goes round
and round, spiral-like. until the entire
field is gone over. To side up the cot
ton on one side requires only live and
a half days. In this field Mr.. Jetlrles
estimates that he will during the cultl-
walton of the crop save at least the
work of one horse for three weeks
Tarboro ~. c. Southener.
IL Paris a telephone ticket at half
a franc is issued at any OF the post
Offices, which entities the holder to q
five minutes conversation with per-
sons at any Other OF the city post-Of-
fees. or at any of the Telephone Com
pany's stations The Telephone
Company offers, at the same rate,
conversations at any OF its eleven sta
tions with persons AT any other sta
ton, or at the residence OF any OF its
members.
An alleged representative OF an al
legged company, says the Chicago Trib-
une. persuaded the hairless section
of Trenton's population that they
could each and all become the owners
of beautiful heads of natural hair, on
a professional scale of terms ranging
from S25 to $50 per head. The hair
was to be there within q certain given
time or money refunded. The stipu-
lated time has elapsed and the hair
isn't there yet, and worse still, the
hair elixir man isn't there either.
IT Is stated that during his con
nectiOn with Messrs. MoXOn Lord
Tennyson received on an average e.
500 a year in royalties. Later Messrs.
Stranan & Co. became his publishers,
paving him 60, 900 for his books then
in existence, and separate account
for his new works, which were to be
published on commission. During the
five years of the contract they paid
theauthOr somewhat more than f3l,-
900. Tennyson 5 next publishers were
Messrs. King & Co, whose engagement
was to pay 200 a year, with a sep
crate account for new works.