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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
What MilIers Find in Grain,

The use of wire binding attachments
to reapers led to some singular revela-
tlOns regarding metallic substances in
grain. First it was discovered that in
threshing, fragments of the wire bands
would get into the machine and so in
to the grain. As no ''smut machine"
used in the mills could separate these
from the wheat, gangs of horseshoe
magnets were set in the wooden
spOuts through which the grain flowed
on its way to be madeinto flour. The
pieces OF wire and other fragments of
IRON or steel were arrested and held by
magnetic attraction. Improvements
were MAIDEN this apparatus from time
to time, until finally very complete
automatic separator was made by
MesSrs. HOwes 4 Ewell, Silver Creek,
\. Y, which clears itself of foreign sub
stances arrested, without stopping the
flow OF grain. The use of these devices
revealed the fact that large amount
OF other metallic materials, besides the
wire used IN binding, were found mixed
with the grain. Among these were
small bolts, tacks. nails, pieces OF sheet
iron, etc. Wire for binding has been
largely, II not generally, superseded by
Irvine, yet the change has by no means
obvlated the employment of the mag
netlc separators. A good many
pounds OF iron and steel are drawn
from the grain every few days in the
large merchant mills....It is obvious
that this state of things must have ex-
listed before the invention of wire bind
ing reapers led to its detection. If any
considerable share of this iron and
steel became so finely ground as to
pass through the "bolts" with the
flour, the civilized world has been eat
ing more iron than any one could have
suspected.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
Photographs of Battles.

FROM llle L all MAI IdLtLle.
There can be no doubt as to the
progress and popularity OF the came
ra. The other day wementioned that
Lulu, the famous gymnast, had re-
turned from the Kalahari with dry
plates by the hundreds, which he is
now developing. Lulu photographed
lions Gin action" and on the warpath.
The gallant Cameron was q def hand
with the camera; and now Capt. Pc
ters writes to the Amateur Photog-
rapher, to say that during the late
campaign against the rebels in the
northwest OF Canada he obtained
some photos that have never yet
been equaled. II carried" he says,
ga Marion Academy camera on my
saddle through the whole campaign,
obtaining about sixty splendid pic
lures, 44x4& inches, including about a
dozen taken during the battles of Ba-
toche and Fish Greek, all under fire.
| have also some, about two dozen,
taken while on the chase after the reb.
ell Cree chief Big Bear, north of Fort
Pitt on the North Saskatchewan Riv.
er. | would have enclosed you some
actually taken IN action, but unfor.
tunately they are out of my hands at
present. | do not think that any
photographer has yet accomplished a
picture under fire. One of mine was
taken during volley from the rebels
pits, about 80 yards distant"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
AIittIe Menagerie.

Two thousand horned toads have
been shipped from San Francisco to
China. There they will be converted
into various kinds OF medicines, which
sell very high. A toad is placed in a
flask OF whisky for several weeks and
the stuff is sold as q tonic
In some parts of the African coast
the shark is still worshiped, and offer
ings of poultry and goats are made.
Once a year a child is sacrificed to pro-
pitiate it. The little victim is bound
to a post in the sands at low water
and, as the tide rises, mingles its
shrieks and screams with those OF its
mother until devoured by sharks.
A Portland man put q large spider
on chip in pond. After walking
all about the sides of the chip the
spider began to cast a web for the
shore. He threw it as far as possible
in the air and with the wind. 1t
caught on some blades of grass. Then,
turning himself about, the spider be
gan to haul the chip toward shore.
Joseph Booth, in the West Retiord
Mine, at Tinsley Park, while recently
engaged at a distance of $50 yards
from the surface, undermining, found
live toad embedded in the coal. 1t
Is black, about three inches and a half
in length, and is now in the possession
OF Mr.. Chambers, the manager OF the
mine. 1t died after being taken to the
light
DR., c. Hart Merriman, the ornithol,
ogist, Is investigating under govern
| ment authority, the INTERPOLATION of
birds and agriculture, particularly
from the entomologist's standpoint.
The inquiry will relate primarily to
the food and habits of birds, but will
include also the collection of data
bearing on the migration and geo.
graphical distribution of North Amer
/ lean SppCieS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
Consulting Her Father.


Young Mr.. Oh. H. Isidore Coshinlgin,
of Harlem, was plainly embarrassed.
For some minutes he had rested I'M
easily in his chair, and Miss Smith, OF
Ninth Street, near Second Avenue, up
on whom he was calling, knew what
was coming-or thought she did-and
her heart throbs were as the tick
ing of a clock.
"Er-Miss Smith," he said feverish-
ly, could I-er-see your father for
a moment or two?"
my father?" she repeated with a
blush, certainly, Mr.. Coshinigin, y
and, excusing herself, she swept from
the parlor.
Presently the old man came in, and,
after a short conversation with Mr..
Coshinigin, he stepped to the door and
summoned his daughter.
at is getting late" said Mr.. Coshin-
igin whose face was radiant, land as
have q long ride before me | think
will say good night. VIII | have the
pleasure of finding you at home
on Wednesday evening, Miss Smith ?''
Miss Smith blushingly assured him
that he would, and young Mr.. Coshin-
IGN was en- route for Harlem.
ooh, papa" she began, did he :"
and then she stopped.
"You must ask no questions" said
the old man, and he smiled as he
stroked his daughters hair fondly.
'Mr. Coshinigin wished to see mein re-
gard to a little matter which for the
present must remain a secret"
81 know, papa" pleaded the girl,
''but you might give me Just a little
hint OF what it was-just a word,
papa"
ooh, WE'LL" he replied indulgently,
'since you must know, Mr.. Coshinigin
wanted to borrow five cents to get to
Harlem with"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
Miss Parloa's Way of Making Cruel

To make flour Cruel properly you
must use one quart OF milk, three
tablespoonful OF flour, and a tea
spoonful of salt. Pour all the milk
except a cupful into a double boiler.
Mix the flour with the milk
you reserved, and stir it into
the boiling milk and let it cook
30 minutes putting in the salt 0 min
utes before it is done. The longer
milk cooks the more laxative it is. If
you wish to make the Cruel especially
nutritious cook half cupful of raisins
cut in two in the milk during the entire
time. This drink is very stimulating
and is often given in place of wine to
patients. In Indian meal Cruel the
meal must always be well cooked, an
hour or two being usually required
But it is better to use the very fine
| meal now in use rather. than that
milled by the old process, and always,
when needed quickly, put it into boil
ing water at once. To make this cruel.
| take one quart of boiling water, two
tablespoonful of medium meal, one
tablespoonful OF flour, one teaspoonful
OF salt; mix the meal, etc, with half
cup OF cold water and pour into boiler
Stir while it is cooking, and cook not
less than thirty minutes. Always
keep the saucepan covered.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
JEFF Hancock's Bull,

jeff Hancock's my neighbor. One mornin' last
spring,
| When skeeters were list a beginnin to sing,
| went over thar to get one OF his plows
| And found him a pennin' fine bunch of COWS.
What news ?" ses I, 'neighbor; you've iist come
mo news cept I've made my arrangements
| with Brown
| To git my supplies of guanner and bacon;
He said 'twere the fortieth mortgage ned
| taken"
You've got some fine stock" eyes; jlst look
He's the fines bull yearlin' round ere by half;
| His horns sets jist right, and do look what a
His daddy's half Jersey, n his mammy's all
| speck;
His hairs jist as soft an es fine IS split silk;
| I'll let him run out an have all of his milk:
An then he'll improve all my cattle, ye know"
We'll, yes, SEES l. JEFF, that is shore to be So
The yearlin' he growed and got powerful fat,
| An is hide were es slick es the parsons new
| hat;
| His horns set as purity es purity could be-
| An the purtiest neck ye ever did see.
| One day, 'twere along bout the middle OF June,
| An l were a-smokin' an takin' my noon
I looked and seed JEFF come pokin along,
| An knowed right imeietly sumthin were wrong.
| Come in-have cheer-been to dinner" ses 1.
| I've been through the motion" ses he, mighty
| dry;
But as shores yes horned, it's mighty poor
| eat,
When feIer's got dinged little bread an no
| meat;
| THAT yearlin' is not near so fine as he was;
| His hair ii are sorter beginnin' to fuzz:
| His neck air so spinlin' he never can't fight;
| His legs are too long an his horns don't set
| right;
He are gittin' to be-though s'pose he are
sound
| The ugiest yearlin on top o. the ground,
Ny craps but half made, an my store account s
An it's do on short rashuns, or butcher that
| bull.
| nHol, on" ses I, JEFF, yere in too big haste;
| To kin that buI yearlin' are absolute waste
Il know IT. but l can't work 'thout eatin' We
know"
We'll yes, ses l, JEFF, that are shore to be so.
So this were the eend of Jeff's bic speculation
| lmprovin' is stock with is big calkerlation;
They eat up is meat, used is tail for cracker
An bartered lis hide forsome salt an terbacker
Now, this are the moral, or else Pm mistaken:
| Ie can't have fine stock till We raise ye're own
| bacon;
| Mems notions are big when their stummicks are
full;
| 1t were skarcety of bacon kilt Jeff Hancock $
Dull. atlanta Constitution.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

| by the sixth annual report of the Indi.
ana bureau of statistics. They are
too stiff and dry to stretch to suit
any one. By glance at them one
may readily size up exactly the rela-
ton dogs have to the sheep husbandry
of Tennessee. The unyielding figures
show that in 1888 dogs killed
36,667 sheep in Indiana; but
In 1884, for some reason, the
dogs showed less industry. for
they killed only 22,165 sheep in the
year. The sheep interest is depressed
Just now, though the dogs have done a
fair share of work to prevent over
stocking the market, and to keep the
sheep active. Itmay be assumed that
the sheep of Indiana are worth 50. SO
per head. At that figure the dogs got
away with only S55,412 worth of
sheep in 1884; but in 1888 the num-
Der destroyed was 36,667, valued at
$91 ,667 .5O-a tidy sum that the sheep
owners OF that state would doubtless
be glad to divide among themselves.
Ohio, too, has been gathering statistics
on this point. In 1888 that state
boosted the proud possession of 160,-
o'A uogS, uouDtltSS all Vi nlgn breed
ing and vast value. She had at the
same time record of the killing of 30
327 sheep, and the injuring of 81 ,685
more, making total OF 52,O12 sheep
damaged to the amount of SAT, 1878
to provide the curs-the curse of the
earth-with amusement for a single
year. OF course matters might have
been managed so as to cost the sheep
owners less; bat thepets of dog owners
must then have been deprived of much
healthful and entertaining exercise
One should look at all sides OF such
questions. The sheep OF Ohio were
valued at $l7,642, 900, and the dogs
levied a tax of very nearly per cent.
on the entire value OF the flocks of
that state.-Prarie Farmer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

Is there any traceable relation be-
tween that old-fashioned log house and
the vigOr Of seed corn?
Years ago, when log houses We're
plenty and joists numerous overhead
in the kitchen by the chimney, the
seed corn was brought in and traced
up" and hung on pegs by the huge
chimney and was thoroughly dried
out, hanging there for months. Now
the modern houses have no chimney
so to speak, and no joists on which to
hang the cars of seed corn and it is
now a yearly lament that seed corn is
poor-lacking in vigor, etc. Planting
from corn crib explains the matter.
The corn does not get dry as it used
to when hung in the warm rooms by
the big chimney, and frost Injuries the
germ. We don't banker after the log
houses or the smoke-stained ioists
over the dining room, or yet festoons
OF seed corn, but there must be a
studied way to cry seed corn in the
fall and know that it is dry, or else we
will be forced back into log houses to
live, or give up growing corn.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
HIS MOTHERS so NGs

Beneath the hot midsummer sun
The men had marched all day;
And now beside a ripping stream
Upon the grass they lay.
firing OF games and idle iests,
As swept the hours along,
They called to one who unused apart,
Come, friend, give US song
Il fear / cannot please" he said
''The only songs / know
Are those my mother used to sing
For me long years ago.
"siug one of those a rough voice cried,
There's none but true men here;
To every mothers son Of Us
A mothers songs are dear
Then sweetIy rose the singer voice
Amid uuwonted calm,
Inn / a soldier OF the cross,
A follower 9th lamb
"1nd shall fear to own His cause ~
The very stream was stilied,
And hearts that never thrObbed with fear
With tender thoughts were filed.
Ended the song; the singer said,
As 70 his feet he rose,
Thanks to you all, my friends good night.
God grant US sweet repOse.
"Sing Us one more, the captain begged;
The soldier bent his head
Then glancing round, with smiling lips,
You'll join with me, he said.
wen sing the old familiar air,
Sweet as the bugle call,
An hail the power ofJesus' name,
Let angels PROSTATE kaH.
All 4! wondrous was the old tunes spell
AS on the singer sang;
Man after man fell into line.
And loud the voices rang.
The songs are done, the camp IS still,
Naught but the stream is heard;
But an the depths of every soul
By those old hymns are stirred.
And up from many a bearded lip,
In whispers soft and low,
Rises the prayer the mother taught
The boy long years ago.
Chicago Inter ocean.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
He Made Ii Paw.

Here is a man, d. w. Andrews, OF
Essex County, Mass, who made poul
try pay. He says: Il started poultry
keeping in 1868, and it took ME few
years to get the hang of the business;
but now | am master of it, and can
make it always profitable. In 1872 !
had 500 hens, and my total receipts
from them were S2,299. 40, while my
feed cost $1,O96.78, leaving a clear
profit of S1,196.62 over the outlay
for feed. In 1881 l had 1,5OO hens;
my total receipts were S4,425; the
feed consumed cost 1856, leaving a
clear profit OF $2,769. O2 for my labor.
The profit depends on the grain mar
ket, the egg market, and the skill and
buiness ability of the poultry raiser -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
Getting Even With Dead Man,
GFrom the Detroit Free Press. 7


"Some folks regard the negro as
childish and supplemented, :" said the
South Carolina undertaken, as be Dor
rowed another match to re-hght his
cigar, " "but it doesn't always do to
look upon 'em that way. 1t was only
last week one of 'em beat ME out OF
SO as slick as grease"
"How?"
well, | was sitting in my office.
growing about hard times and the
dislike OF people to fall into my SYM
pathetic care, when in walked a negro.
DE was the picture OF health and a
Jolly fellow.
How's timesY' says he
Poor, says |.
chow much for a coffin for me-
says he.
"'When?'
"'To-day.'
II give you that coffin over there
and see you put under ground this
afternoon for $l5, and that's $40 off
the regular price
Dun, says he, and he put down
his * -
"WeI?"
We'll, III be kicked to death byrab-
bits If he didn't hang himself within
two hours, and before night | had to
bury him!"
"No!"
"Sure's your born. He had planned
to suicide before he came in. | got
even, though"
"How p"
"Resurrected the stiff and sold it for
81, and put the coffin back in stock. "
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
Sheen and Dog HushRndry

An item recently revived to go the
rounds, OF the papers once more,
says that a Tennessee man esti-
mated that dogs cost the peo-
pie OF that state over $1,000
600 annually. Estimates are delight
fully elastic things they can be so
easily stretched to cover one point and
another to suit the estimator, but
plain, unvarnished statistics are differ
ent. Such are those presented lately
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

Bears abuse wonderfully, do not assume
that a reck oniug day will never come. Be
sensible in your habits, and use neither
rum nor tobacco. At the first sympto of
dyspepsia, disorders OF the skin, kidneys,
liver or blood, use promptly DIR. WALKER
CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BuTERs, the unrivaled
purifier of the blood and renovator of the
system, which is a certain cure.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

STEPNIAK, the Russian revolution.
list, has live in London for year AID
a hall, and now speaks the English
language quite well. He has a good
command of Italian, and, like all edu
Gated Russians, speaks French with
great ease.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

For dyspepsia, Indigestion, depression OF
spirits and general debility, in their various
forms, also as a preventative against fever
and ague and other intermittent fevers, the
"Ferro-P hOsphorated Elixir of Calisaya, "
made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York,
and sold by all druggists is the best tonic;
and for patients recovering from fever or
other sickness. it has no equal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
1nvalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti-

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Thousands are cured at their homes
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gives all particulars. Address, World S
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
EaYOritisnn

is bad thing, but DR.. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescription deserves its name. 1t is a
certain cure for those painful maladies and
weaknesses which emhitter the lives OF so
many women. or druggists
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

THE death of an aged Ohioan was
caused by the shock at discovering
that he was only 80 years old, instead
of being a centenarian as he had sup
posed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

HAVE had no remedy for rheumatism
which has given such general satisfaction in
eighteen years experience in the drug bust
ness as your medicine for rheumatism and
neuralgia R. S. Armstrong,
NJ D., druggist, Chelsea, Mich.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
Because a Good CONSTITUTION

A THING to boast OF in Maine is
horse upon which ten governors have
ridden.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
How Plug Hats are Made.

To make the silk stOve-pipe hats,
writes a correspondent, a large square
OF muslin is dipped into shellac, wrung
out and then stretched over a wooden
frame to dry. After drying it is cut
up into sizes and shapes suitable for
the various parts OF the hat. Some
pieces are cut on the bias for the crowns
OF hats, others are stifened particu-
larly for the brims, while the muslin
for the central cylinders, which are the
sides, Is cut out into oblong squares.
The material for dozen of these hats
Is then given to a workman, who
draws the frame of the hat together
around the block and fastens it by
means of a hot iron. The shell OF the
hat as It is called, is then vanished
and dried, making it stiff, and then
the silk plush is put on, a man ironing
1t TO the shellac-cOvered shell and
sponglng It with water at every stroke
OF the iron. Girls sew in the crown
and the brim after the sides OF the
shell have been fastened, and then the
seams are gone over with a hot iron
which conceals all traces OF them. The
brlm Is then curled, as in the case of
the felt article, and then the hat goes
away to the luering machine, where
polishing brushes, revolving rapidly.
give 1t a high polish. From the luer-
ing machine it goes to the hands of a
girl, who trims it and puts in the lin
ing.
u. W. GLADDEN. accuses DR.. A. B.
Leonard, prohibition candidate for the
governorship OF Ohio, of drinking old
ale on the sly behind BUSH" which
DR.. Leonard denies, and hemight have
asseverated that old ale like good
wine needs no bush.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

CANON FARRAR says he is coming to
America chiefly to see Niagara Falls
and the Yosemite Valley.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

WISH could find something that would
cure gals and prevent the hair coming In
white" is an expression frequently heard.
Veterinary Carbolisalve will always do it
Sold by Druggists at so cents and Sl.0O.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

TWENTY cents buys pair of Lyons
Patent Heel Stiffeners, which makes a boot
or shoe last twice as long.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

"a SPOTTED adder" is a name grimlv
given by the Boston Record to de
faulting cashier.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

DoN'T work your horses to death with
poor axle grease; the Frazer is the only re-
liable make.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

DIR. PGERcE's Pellets" cure sick and bill.
iious headache, sour stomach, and all bill
ious attacks
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

THE best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
RICE-BIRDs on toast is the most,pop-
ular delicacy in Charleston, S. c.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

A BAPTIST preacher, OF Shady Grove
La, recently baptized ninety-four PEG
pie in forty-fv minutes.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03

"Resurrected the stiff and sold it for
81, and put the coffin back in stock. 4"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
STRUCTURE.
NERVOUS
DISEASES.

eases with a measure
See numerous cases
phlets on nervous dis
cents in postage sta
with a statement of
which one of our TT,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-03
| DISEASES OF
| WOMEN.

have made these deli
Hundreds are brOu
on beds, and they g.
ing our specialists, :
most careful snd C
land we get few wifi