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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
The kcr's Story.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
| You'd be surprised too, if you knew
what queer experiences we have with
young ladies' whose names are in the
| lists Of the Delmonico balls. Some of
| them, though they live in fine houses,
are Kept awtully low III cash, and when
| they want a s. bill to 60 ont of town to
a friend or ask another girl TO lunch
with them at nePf, come to us with
their silver smelling bottles and hair
brushes. One of them had close shave
here last spring, for they do
these things on the strict q. t. A
stylish girl in sealskins came here in
February and pawned a beautiful
French bonbonniere with miniature
painting on the lid, which was sur
rounded with little diamonds. We
knew perfectly well when she gave us
| the name and address that it was not the
real one, but that was her affair." She
| didn't seem able to take it ont again,
but-she paid the interest regular, and
| the last payment she made she came
near getting into scrape, but that she was
| SO quick wltted and that | helped her.
| A lawyer came in while she was
attending 10 it--he'd come to
get some evidence he wanted to
| use in case, and he recognized
her. Why, Miss --n he cried, as
| ionished; what are you doing here?
| Is there anything in which | can be of
service to you" The girl turned dead
white, but she said quick as fash and
| in the sweetest, quietest way, We'll, no
and yes. You see a favorlte maid
| mine got into trouble and carried off my
bonbonniere and pawned it. | think
she only meant to keep it here for
while ana redeem and return it with
her next months wages, but | missed it
and then she confessed and gave me
the pawn ticket, anG | concluded to
come and see about it myself.
haven't the money with me to-day
she said, turning to me in the most mat
ter of fact way, but III send
for it Tomorrow Certainly, man,
said |. I'm sorry for our share in your
annoyance Then she smiled up at the
lawyer and said: Now | want you to
advise me as to whether | should keep
the girl and give hera chance to redeem
her character and so discussing that
point they passed out together and he
put her In The car. She came back early
| the next morning and paid the interest
| saw III one ofthe papers the other day
that her engagement to that same law
yer was announced. The bonbonniere
is here still.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
Jewelry That Doesn't Cost Much.

There is a so-called "staga jeweier"
on Fifth Avenue, near Fourteenth
Street, New Y ork, who recently spoke
to this effect to reporter of the Dra-
matte Times: You would be surprised
TO see how much of this iewelry | sell.
See, here is an order from a well-known
star. She says she will pay for the jew
elry out of her salary by giving me an
order on her hacker, payment TO BE
made after they are out two weeks.
OF course, | pay no attention
to sGch orders, but here is
another. from a lady who is to play in
'Foleet Ne Not She requires two
classes. One 'or black lace costume,
which ! call class one, for which pure
white pastes answer best. In class two
| will give her a variety of a glass
emerald, backed with green tinfoil, aud
a ruby surrounded by sapphires. This
will go well with almost any gown of
light fabric. That's where my success
comes in. ] make the Jewels suit the
costume, and the footlights add splen-
dor to my hopes" How about real
Jew elry?" wss asked "Ob, that is sell
dom worn. Stars like Mary Anderson,
Modieska, Genevieve Ward and Janau
scheck possess considerable jewelry,
but they buy it for an invest
lnent or for personal qualification, but
they never wear 1t Oh the stage. There
is too much risk, and actresses are not
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
i HE FA SHIONS.

MEMS silk underwear is $40 To $40 no,
| set and inch wide stripes of pale cotors
| are newer than sci -tints. If strines
| are worn the stockings NAV be str;ped
| too. Otherwise they must match the hue
| OF larger garments.
| HE newest coats for fall are of gray O,
| tan cloth, very masculine and military
| as 10 cut, with Tapped ans, no end OF
| reverse and pockets, all of which are
faced and finished with white, and the
odder the buttons the better.
IRISH linen gowns, for seaside wear.
have wide collar of heavy blue twill
cotton, known as Dungaree; also deem
band about the plain round skirt. and
edging the overdress, the blue stuff al.
| most covered by close rows of white
| linen braid.
GREEN hats, or white trimmed with
green, have more and more favor as
summer grows apace, while greenisn-
Write flowers, hops, snow balls, locust
flowers, Cherokee roses, and duqwond
flowers are a positive rage upon black
straw, either alone or confined with a
bit of black net.
PARIS DEGREES that brides NAV wear
| only the white satin and the natural or
| ange flowers that have been allotted ia
them pretty well ever since fig leaves
went out OF fashion, and tLey must. oil
All things, eschew even the suspicion Of
the hustle, which is rapidly becoming
rocco with any costume.
LARGE squares of India six, with
liemsutched borders, are worn about
The shoulders when the dress is too
thin. These may be folded three-cor-
nered and worn as fichus, or knotted in
sailor fashion, or they may be folded in
halt-square, to foIm sailor collar.
and then drawn down to meet in front,
HE bathing suit of a fam boyant
plaid is Asbury Park 5 contribution to
the summer novelties. The owner OF
this noticeable costume girths it about
with a plain sash and wears big Tam
o'Shanter, which admits of the hair be-
Ing tucked up under il, and ties ban
dana handkerchief around her throat.
She looks as if she had been struck bv
rainbow.
PIC UREs of silver are this present
summers girls, for they wear silver
necklaces, silver bracelets, silver
violets or silver feathers in their
hair; wear silver girdles, with fan.
vinaigrette and bonboniere attached,
stick silver pins in their hats and hair,
and put up sllver-tipped parasols, when
the sun OF heaven or the rain of earth
would visit them too roughly.
LONDON ordains that fall hats shall be
of felt or velvet in place of straw; have
low crowns and wide brims, with trim
ming of long, soft plumes curved about
them III place of the perky tips 50 long
worn. There are dozen styles, but all
have silk or velvet, or lace-lined brims,
much wider in front than ut the sides
or back, with the trimming of we'll
made brocade bows set quite at the back
of the crown
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
An Odd Name For Those Boots.

Arlo Bates, in the Providence Sunday Jaui nal.
A man who is an enthusiastic fisher
man was recently getting together his
outfit preparatory 10 starting on cruise,
and among articles which he found it
necessary to buy were rubber boots.
He bought the sort that come well up
the thigh and fasten tightly to the leg at
the top with straps, and when the bill
was sent home he found himselfcharged
with cone pair baptismal pants" The
meaning may lie plain at glance IN
Rhode Island, where Baptist traditions
obtain so widely but il took the uncler-
that these long-legged boots formed part
of the wardrobe wluch it was proper for
a clergyman 10 wear during the cere-
mony of baptism by immersion.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
The Butcher Bird"

During the recent long and severe
storms the little sons of Matt Riehm.
residing on the divide, amused them
selves occasionally at catching snow
birds III a cage trap, Just to see how
they looked and acted, and then let
them go. One day, however, they were
much surprised to find a big, stalwart-
looking bird, about the size of q robin,
i'll the cage with three or four dead
snowbirds around him. They soon as
certained that they had captured very
good specimen of the famous butcher
bird" becoming so plentiful here of
late, and which is death to all small
birds, even canaries in cages. Matt
was delighted at the capture of his
feathered pirate, and soon had him in
sailed in fine cage. They fed him on
snowbirds for d ~ or two, but this was
too cruel. so they tried him on mice,
which were plentiful, and easily
trapped. The first one put into the
cage was Immediately grabbed by the
sharp hawk claws of the butcher, who
bit Off his head and swallowed it whole,
and then proceeded to tear up and de-
your the body. The boys considered
this a fine game, and kept him well
supplied and fat. One day they had a
splendid, big, old. long tailed Norway
rat in the trap, and Matt put him in the
cage. The butcher-bird Immediately
dropped from his roof down upon the
rats back, gave one quick nip with his
strong hooked beak in the back of the
rat s neck, breaking his spine, and was
soon regaling himself with liberal sup
ply of rat meat. In observing the
butchers operations Matt noticed that
he kept trying t. hang his meat to the
wires of the cage for convenience, so be
drove some bits of wire into a strip of
wood and showed it into the cage, few
inches above the floor. The bird di-
rectly showed his appreciation by hang
ing what meat he had on hand on these
little wire spikes, or hooks, the same as
is done III Il regular butcher shop.
This, says the Virginia City Enterprise,
is in conformity with the habit of this
peculiar bird, which bangs its vic
tins on the forked pushed branches
or impales them upon thorns.
Many small bird, mo Sc, wood rat or
chipmunk are thus disposed OF by this
remorseless plumaged assassin. They
get rat for him quite frequently, and
he kills it promptly and impales it in
precisely the same way.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
How Sheridan Became a Soldie

St. Joseph. Mo, Special in St Louis Republican.
DIR }. Z. Richie, residing at No. 1D22
Messanie Sire ct, is the son of Hon.
Thomas Richie, of Somerset, O., who,
| as congressman from the Eleventh Ohio
District IN lS4S, appointed Gen. Philip
IL. Sheridan TO a cadetship at West
Point. DR.. RltChIc was called upon at
his home by d reporter, and ln~an In
terview said: "Gen. Sheridan owes his
appointment to a cadetship to the fact
that my father considered him boy
abundantly possessed OF what we call
snap His father was poor and was a
subcontractor on the Maysville and
GAINESVILLE turnpike. Phil clerked in a
dry goods store for a man named Henry
Ditto.
sit was customary in those times for
a congressman to appoint some one to a
would help him politically. | lave
often heard my father tell of the pres
sure brought to bear on him to appoint
the sous of several wealthy and promi-
nent citizens. Phil w1ote him a letter
in his own scrawly handwriting. My
father knew him personally and deter
mined to make the appointment, and in
order not to be influenced by the letters
sent him he carefully pigeon-holed
them. He watched the boy grow to
manhood, and before he died saw him
in the rank of majorgeneral.
'Some weeks ago | saw q statement in
a newspaper to the effect that Sheridan
was appointed because he was an Irish
man, and it would be odd to have an
Irish cadet from community in which
there were SO few of that nationality.
thought of writing contradiction to the
statement at the time, as it was absurd
but finally concluded to let it pass. In
stead of lrishmen being few in that dis
trict they hold the balance of power"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
How Oil Rockets are Made.

The use of oil to calm troubled waters
is well-known, and the Latest invention.
that of scattering it abroad through the
medium of rockets, seems likely to pro-
invaluable. Lieut.. Cottman, o. the Hy-
geographic office, thus explains how the
rockets are made:
above the rocket composition the
shell is prolonged s4 inch and hall to
receive the oil cylinder which contains
within it an exploding chamber filed
with powder. some loose powder is
poured on topsof the fuse composition
and the cylinder then Slipped on the
rocket. The stick Is weighted with lead
to balance exactly, so rs to prevent
trembling. All being ready the rocket
is set off from tube, and~fpllows the
direction given It. The buanng COM
position finally reaches the loose pow
der and the flame is. communicated
through a sma hole in the bottom Of
the cylinder to tie bursting charge of
powder within the exploding chamber,
the cylinder is thrown forward and eX-
ploded, and the oilspread upon the sur
face of he water"
The rockets have been tested and
found succe ssful in their work
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
Skill with Eye and Hand

From the American Machinist.
We hear great deal about the Won
derful precision and accuracy of ma
chinery in these days, and OF course it
is wonderful: but the degree of accuracy
to which the human hand can be trained
is equally wonderful.
Playing cards are required to be cut
with the sides quite parallel to each
other, because if pack be trimmed by
the machine slightly wider at one end
than the other, and they become turned
lend for end" in dealing, the excess
in width of some cards over others at
the end of the pack will be double the
variation in any one card, which would
facilitate cheating, very minute varIa-
ton being perceptIble. The men who
test these cards for this, make calipers
OF their finger and thumb and by pass
ing them along from one to the other,
detect difference in width between
the two ends which it is difficult to
measure by any other means.
There are men employed in factories
where dried Yeast is made whose bus
mess is to put the yeast into packages
weighing certain amount each. 1t is
on table in front of them in a large
plastic mass, and there are the scales
Tor weighing it. But the men do not
from the mass with their hand lump of
it and put it up, and you may choose at
random and put it on the scales, and it
Will weigh exactly the right amount,
the scales beam Just balancing.
Where large numbers of eggs are
handled and shipped to market there is
process known as ''candleing" eggs,
which consists in taking them up in the
hands usually two eggs in each hand at
a time), and holding them up be-
fore lighted candle. The light
shining through them reveals to the
practiced eye the exact condition of the
contents. But some of the men soon
get so that they do not need to use the
candle, the mere contact OF their hands
with tue shells denoting the condition
of the egg just as infallibly and much
more quickly. And they distinguish in
that way not merely eggs which are de-
cidtdlv bad, but those which are just
barely beginning to lose their freshness
Here are three different WAYS in which
extreme skill of the hands is shown by
persistent training: First, in detecting
slight differences in magnitude; seconi,
in weight; and, lastly. in texture or
character OF surface handled.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
Longevity in Cities.
NewYork Cor. Philadelphia Record

NeW~1 ork Cor. Philadelphia Record.
1t is the popular. opinion that the ae-
tlvlty of great cities has tendency to
shorten human Ii e, but | have my
doubts oil that point David Dudley
Field has passed the fourscore limit, but
his mind is as keen and quick as ever.
John A. Dix was governor of this state
when he had passed threescore and
ten, and at 81 he was the vigilant
comptroller of Trinity Church corpora
ton. An old friend of mine, Col. Chas.
b. Tappan, who was 90 years old last
February, has lived rs years in this city
without spending 81 on himself for
drugs or doctors, and is hale, hearty
and handsome. | never knew a clearer
mind than his, for in a more vigorous
frame, and certainly none who grew
enjoyment of life among the nineiies.
with my Bible, SHAKESPEARE, Plutarch,
and cigar, says Col. fappan, Il can
pass as pleasant an evening as any man
in New York"
These are types of city longevity
which Will compare more than favor
ably, think, with any which the farm
house can present-for rheumatism,
deafness, and other ills seem INSOFAR
able from old age in the country. On
the other hand, while women in the
rural regions seem to live longer than
men, the conditions of city lite are such
that women here live to much more
advanced age on an average than their
sisters In the country, whose lives are
surrounded by fewer comforts and are
weariSomelv mOnotonOus.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15

From the Pittsburg Telegraph.


Early one morning last week
Glanced to be in the office OF a whole
sale merchant down town at a time
when the pretty little operator of the
typewriter tumbled into a trap of her
own making.
Such a pretty girl, with very blue
eyes, bright brown hair, and an assort-
ment of dimples, is this def manipulate
or of the typewriter KEYS.
The telephone which hung on the
wall just behind the girl, whose desk
was close to her employers, III his
private office, rang loudly as | took a
seat. seized the opportunity to con-
graduate the merchant on his choice of
SO fair secretary.
Yes" said he in an undertone, "she
is pretty, and she is as weli-be behaved and
quick at her work as she is pretty.
The only thing | can complain of in her
conduct is the hold that telephone
seems to have upon her. She is en-
gaEed, | believe, to nice enough fel,
low, a clerk in brokers' office, but he
will persist in calling her up on the tel
ephone. He called her up so often on
Monday last that | told her she must
tell the young man to wait until ter
business hours. She blushed and said
she would tell him.
''Since then-that was three DAVIS
ago-apparently he has not been near
the telephone, but strange to say.
Mary 's-that's the girls name-sistcr
has taken to holding long conversations
with her at all hours of the day. The
noise disturbs me, but don't like to in
terfere with the girls domestic affairs.
Just listen to her now ~
We did listen, and We heard some
thing like the following:
Charlie didn't come to see me-
An interval OF silence
You know he called to see Kate -
Interval.
whats that ?''
'Oh, nonsense ;ofcourse shall 90 with
You. viii YOU call for me? What did
you say Oh, BoE's going too"
Interval.
You can if You like, but | lust bate
that girl and il she's there ! won't slay.
did you say O'Clock Make il 6.3OI'
Interval
81 wish ! could; it seems an awrnl
long time to wait. Oh. You mustn't talk
like that. Isn't there anyone there %
Interval, during which the girl. with
the receiver In her ear, laughs and
bushes by turns, and finally saws. titter-
lngly: Not one-I won't give Won one
YOU bad boy"
She hung up the receiver without an
other word and sat down blushinp tpri-
ously.
How is your sister this morning -,
SAID the merchant, with an accent on
the sister"
But Mary answered never word.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
Autographs Valued at $4,000.
From the New Haven Palladium.


The late DR.. Edward Fl. Leffingwelrs
$40 600 collec ton of autographs has. for
several years, been kept in a cabinet
with other valuable papers belonging 10
DR.. Letfngwell, in the rooms ofthe His
torlcal Society at the old state house.
By his will it becomes the property of
a niece.
The signatures consist the names of
all the people of historical prominence
for tie last three centuries. Some even
date further back, as that of Christopher
Count bus.
There are the names of the crowned
heads of England, France and Spain,
and OF all the illustrious authors, paint
els, sculptors, generals and politicians
The names of actors and actresses fini a
place in the collection. Although the col
lection is made up largely os the names
| OF foreign celebrities, DR. Leffingwell
ara not forget America, and among
others are the autographs of JOIN
Al ms, John Quincy Adams, Roger
Williams, Martin Van Buren,, John
Irl1mbull, Zachary Taylor, William
Penn, James Madison, George Wash
mgton, Francis 5. Key, Robert Fulton,
Alexander Hamilton, Thomas jefferson.
j. Kenmore Cooper, Archbishop
Hughes, of New York; Henry CLAY.
William Cullen Bryant, James {. Aver,
George Bancroft and Henry Ward
Beecher.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15

the Rocky Mountains in order TO form
vast reservoirs of water, that may be
used as needed to keep the arid lands Of
The plan will if carried out, be equally
valuable in preventing floods IN the
Missouri and Lower Mississippi
Valleys. 1t is believed that
10000 square niles OF land may
thus be reclaimed for cultivation
The extent of this may De seen by the
TACT that the total extent of land now
under cultivation in the United States
Is less than 800, 900 square miles. Dams
can be constructed strong enough abso
lntely to regulate the spring flooding,
retain the supply and feed it out slow
ly, as may be needed. all summer We
shall by such works not greatly surpass
the englneer ring feats of the ancients.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15

A NUMBER of workmen on the Red
River bridge at Arthur, Tex, ran bills
amounting to $50 at the saloon of John
Chic, and then boarded train to % to
81. Louis. Chic heard of their inten-
tons and got on the train, too, with
his shotgun. At a watering tank, two
miles beyond the Texas line, he started
through to collect his bills. The first
man paid without murmer, but the
others jumped from the train and took
TO the woods With Chic in pursuit, fir
ing as he went, No one was hit, and
the saloon-keeper went home i'm
pressed with the idea that the credit
system is q failure
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15

THE retirement of Gen. Won Noltke
is placed on the ground of his inab lty
any longer to mount a horse, and the
venerable marshal is installed as presi-
dent of the German Defense Commits
sion, so as T. be able IL give from the
council chamber the direction of move
ments he can no longer exercise in he
field. Count Won Waldersee, Won
Moltke's succe ssor in active duty, is an
extremist of the Emperor's school of
politics, and many believe that his in
staIlation is part of a plan to place the
forces of the empire IN readiness for
field onerltionS.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15
How Man Described a Gown.
From the Atlanta Constitution

From The Atlanta CONSTITUTION.
The average man usually finds him
self at sea when he undertakes the de
scription of a lady's dress. An Old
farmer, returning from the wedding Of
niece in distant city, was eagerly
questioned by his family as 10 the
brlde's costume. well" said he, she
had on some kind of dress, with a lot
of fiub-dubbery of some sort or neither
down the front of it, and a thingamajig
on the back Of it, with a long tail of
some stuf--I don't know what it was
dragging out behind, and lot o. flip
flap founces over the whole thing.
There wasn't no arms 10 it, and she had
a lot of white truck soft and aoppy-like,
on her head, and that's list all | know
about it," all of which must have been
very unsatisfactory to the ladies of his
household.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-09-15

MIS-. Moses FRALEY, of California, who
is dazzling the fashionable world OF
Long Branch by her extravasence. is
the wife OF former Baltimore news
boy. She Is the possessor of IS trunks,
i've maids, POI pairs of shoes, six dogs
and sl,00o,o00 worth of Jewels. She
changes her toilet five times a dav. and
never appears in the same dress
twice. One o. the dogs is a King
Charles spaniel, for which Mrs. Fraley
Is said 10 have paid 81 800. This elegant
pet wears solid gold collar with her
lame Farorita SET in diamonds. The
exclusive duty of one of the maids is to
look after the dogs.