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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Jumped OFF the Roof.
Efom the NefY York Journal.


Talk about your indignant animals, u
said the man who runs the elevator in
the tower of the public building to a
Philadelphia News reporter yesterday
afternoon, as he gave the wire rope q
pull and sent the elevator rising rapidly
skywari, "why, something happened
this morning that makes me believe
cats know as much as some human be-
lngs.
Edward II. Thompson, of the Survey
Bureau, is very fond of felines, and he
had one for about a week past in a
basket under his desk. 1t had four
plump kittens.
This morning several of his friends
came in to see him, and noticing the
Maltese kittens asked for them. He is
very generous and although he hated
very much to do SO, finally agreed that
they might take them.
''The eat, their mother, fought hard to
protect her young, but was, of course,
conquered. Her heart was broken. She
turned her large eyes up at Mr.. Thomp-
son for a moment as if to say that he
had destroyed all her confidence in
man. Jumping quickly out of the bas-
ket she ran to the elevator at the north
end of the corridor.
The door was open and the elevator
had just reached that floor. She en-
tered and upon reaching the seventh
floor quickly jumped out and began to
run toward the elevator shaft in the
tower. This elevator was at the top
and she was compelled to wait. She
did so with apparent impatience.
I'm less than minute she bad EN-
tered the car unobserved by me, and
when we reached the top sprang out,
ran to the edge of the wall, and before
| could comprehend what she intended
to do she leaped out and down. She
had committed suicide. Her mangled
remains lay upon the smooth pavement
almost 400 feet below
The elevator man wiped tear from
his eye and said: eff you want to come
down pull the bell four times"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Cat and Dog Fight.

A battle between cat and a dog took
place on the revenue cutter Chandler
the other day. The cat was black one,
weighing about nine pounds, the dog
being twice her size. While eating her
dinner in a sort of calm content, the cat
was set upon by the dog, which was in
tent on securing piece of meat in her
possession. After a few preliminary
rounds, the cat retreated to the top of
the Chandeliers bulwarks and perched
herself there with the dainty morse, in
her mouth. The dog made a rush, the
cat endeavored to dodge, lost her foot
ing and tumbled overheard, but she still
hung on to the meat. Efforts to rescue
her were made in vain. Five or six
minutes passed and the crew had given
her up for drowned, when the coiored
steward happened to glance at a pile
near the pier, and on the top sat puss.
She still held the meat in her mouth,
and was not dismayed by either the
ducking or the dog.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Overrun With Mice.

The territory lying between Coome~
barbarian and Coolah, Australia, is lit
orally overrun with mice. The pests
cIme by millions, and have eaten every
thing that came in their way. On one
station rs per 100 were offered for their
destruction, and during a single night
1000 were killed. In one hotel IN three
nights COO mice were killed with
mixture of -four and strychnine. AT
another place the mice ate the whole
carcass of freshly killed sheep in one
night, leaving only the bare bones. At
another station a man was kent whose
sole duty it was to keep the mice away
from the provender during the time the
horses were eating it, and this man
found it difficult task. The week be-
fore the races at Coolah the vermin got
into he horse boxes at the station and
actually ate the bandages from the legs
of the race horses. Sleeping people are
said to have been attacked by them,
and the crops are being destroyed for
miles around
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
A Tip-Giver's Experience.
From the New York Telegram.

eyes, " said Jack Tipp, 81 am doing
pretty well this summer. You see, I've
got a dead sure :hing at Brighton on
every race, and Pm $500 ahead of the
game so far"
Sure thing For heavens sake, what
is it ?" demanded Mr. Broke.
well, you see, | hang around the
grand stand and betting ring, and when
| see pretty fresh looking gi.ly-such
as you were when the season opened
| slide up to him and begin talking
about the different horses. If | see he's
ready TO bite | ask him il he wants Il
pointer on the next race. or course he
does, and | take him one side and whis-
per mysteriously in his ear, Buy Gin
tizz.' Then | hunt up another green
horn and tell him to buy DoOrmats
straight and place, and SO | 90 on till
I've got every horse in the race cover
ed. Then it's really a matter of Indlf-
ference 10 me which one wins.
"All I've got TO do is TO remember the
different pointers | gave and collar the
winner when he cashes in his ticket
I'm pretty sure to get flyer or tenner
out of him for the in oruation. What
do you think of that for a scheme?
Don't | look like a winner" demanded
Mr.. Tipp gaily as he threw back his
new serge coat and cooked his light
derby over his left eye.
you've got great head, Jack, said
the awe-stricken Mr.. Broke, as he
moved sadly away, and Just then he re-
membered that it was Mr.. Tipp who had
given bin that dead sure thing from
the starter" on which lie had dropped
his last hundred the week before.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Some National Proverbs.

A fool is always beginning-Freneh
Proverb.
A mans own business does not defle
his tiugers.-ltalian proverb.
One ass calls another "long ears
German Proverb.
The liar is sooner caught than the
cripple.-Spanish Proverb.
Change yourself, and fortune will
change with you.-Portuguese Prov
etb.
When two quarrel, both are in the
wrong.-Dutch Proverb.
Death foreseen never me.-Italian
Proverb.
When the head is sick the whole body
is sick.-Dutch Proverb.
One hair of a woman draws more than
a cart rope.-German Proverb.
The envious mans face grows sharp
and his eyes big.-Spanish Proverb.
He who throws himself under the
bench will be lett to lie there.-Danish
PrOverb
For people 10 live happy together the
real secret is that they should not live
too much together.-English Proverb.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
HOUSEWIFELY MATTERS.

BUTTERNILK PIE.
One pint of buttermllk, one and one
nall cuos OF sugar, one tablespoonful of
butter, three of flour, four eggs; flavor
with lemon and nutmeg; bake with
lower crust.
SHORT COOKIES.
Rub half a pound of lard or dripping
into a pound of rice -four. Add six
ounces of brown sugar, one egg and a
tablespoonful of lemon Juice Mix with
cup of warm milk, into which tea
spoonful saleratus has been stirred
CORN BREAD.
Three cups corn meal, one cup flour
one cup sweet milk, five eggs, TOUR Ia
teaspoons baking powder.
FOUND CAKE.
One pound sugar, one pound butter,
one pound flour, five eggs, two tea
spoons baking powder, and lemon
tiayorlng to suit the taste.
GINGER CAKES.
Half cup of sugar, one cup of mo-
lasses, one-haIf cup of butter, two tea
spooniuls of ginger, one each of cinna-
mon and cloves, two teaspoonfuls of soda
III a cup of boiling water, two and one
half cups of -four; add two well-beaten
eggs the last thing before baking. Bake
In gem pans or as a common cake.
POTATO SOUP.
Cook as many potatoes as are needed
in salt and water, drain them and
mash fine, thin them with boiling wa
ter, and pass the mixture through a
sieve, boil leek and I'd it to the soup,
as well as some flour Drowned slightly
in butter, and cook for five or ten min-
utes. Just before serving add the yolk
of an egg.
STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE.
Take one cup of sugar, Uns-half cup
OF butter, and beat TO cream, then add
two well-beaten eggs and two cups OF
Hour, with tHo teaSpoonfuls of baking
powder, and milk enough to make a
batter the same consistency of jelly
cake batter Bake in two deep Jelly
cake tins or pie plates. When cool
place the Strawberries on them, sprin-
kle. with powdered sugar and set away
III some cool place until it is time 10
serve it. If Won whip some of the
cream and pile it on top, it adds very
| much both to the appearance and taste
of the dish
WHEAT MUFFIgS.
Fo-' a dozen mullins there will be
required a cupful and half of entire
wheat flour, a cupful of milk, one-third
of a cupful of cream, onethird of cup
full of water, an egg, teaspooniul of
cream of tartar, half teaspoonful of
salt and two tablespoonfuls of sugar
Mix the dry ingredients and sift them
into a bowl. Beat the egg until it
is light and add the milk and water to
it. Pour this mixture upon the dry in
gradients and beat them quickly and
vigorously. Pour the batter into but
tered muffin pans and bake for twenty
five minutes in rather quick oven
The batter will be thin and will give a
moist muffin, but that is as it should
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Three Brave Women.

Boston Fl, raid White Mountains Letter.
There were eight persons IN the
mountain wagon. They were at the
steepest pitch in the descent from Mt.
Washington, and both springs had al
ready been broken on the trip and were
bandaged with wooden splints when
the horses tumbled. The woman on
the seat with the driver turned an eye
OF terror to those behind her. Ina mo-
ment one of the two men In the party
had jumped from the wagon and or
dered the ladies to dismount as quietly
as possible. The other man of the
party, stricken with terror ran into the
woods. The driver sat speechless, hold
ing his reins in hand. One woman
,hastened TO block the, wheels with q
stone. The woman on the front seat
unhitched the two span OF leaders from
their fallen companions and led them
to a position out OF danger and petted
them till they were quiet. Another
woman, and a Boston lady who is we'll
known, stepped up to the kicking and
groaning horses and disengaged the
traces, at the same time lodging the
heels of the disabled animals, and then
the driver, who had held the fort till
bis assistants had made the lifting of
the team from its pressure on the dis
abled horses possible, dismounted and
speedily put his team IN order again
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18

Queen Christmas Rudeness
From the London Truth.

Queen Christina, when she first went
to Spain, thought, in the interest of her
caste and family, that she ought to
ignore the Mexican government as
Lord s. wants TO ignore the coming
French exhibition, At q diplomatic
reception given soon after her
marriage, she was as gracious as she
could be TO all the members of the
Corps Diplomatique, save one-namely,
the Mexican minister-and at him she
stared as if he was stock or stone, and
she herselfa lifeless image.
He at once fell out of rank, and sat
down on a chair behind to show that, if
the Queen meant to snub him, he could
pay her back in her own coin. The re-
cepttUn over, he wrote to the foreign
minister to know what The late King
and his government meant by suffering
the Queen to behave as she did, and al
lowed his letters to go into the PAPERS.
Her excuse was that she remembered
Maxlli1ilian 5 execution.
The Spaniards thereupon flared up,
they being courteous people, and not
understanding why Maximiiian's fate
should in any degree influence the con-
duct of the Queen at public ceremony.
She WAS reminded that in theory she
had ceased to be ain Austrian. aud the
SOONER this fiction became fact the
better for her.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Well Provided With Mothers
From The Pittsburg Dispatch.


1t has been the singular fortune or
misfortune for certain Pittsburger, in
the course of by no means long life,
to marry and then lose by death no
less than four wives. During the
interval between the funeral and
hymeneal feasts this amiable man
has relied upon a daughter by
his first wife to keep house for him
Three times in fifteen years has this
dutiful child taken the keys of office,
and thrice has she laid them down for a
new wi e of her father to take up.
When the fourth wife died Il little
while ago she became housekeeper
again, and she settled down in the no.
sitlon III the hope that her father
would be content to remain widoaer
for the rest of his life. She was
doomed to disappointment.
One day her father came to her and
said:
MARY. how would you like lew
mamma ?"
She answered quickly: Not at all,
papa; | know when have had enough
-Four mothers are more than enough for
me ~
The poor man was so discouraged by
this remark that he has not donned a
wedding garment until this day.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18

IT Is very consoling to light haire d
and red-headed people to read that out
OF l65 patients at the Kirk bride Asylum
only one has red hair; and only foul
have light hair and complexion. We
venture the guess, however, that that
red-headed fellow makes matters as
lively as all the other 164 put together
1t used to be supposed that pale com
pleXion specially marked tendency to
mental excitement and brain disorder
The statistics, however, show this to he
an error. What is true of men is also
true of women; they are, with one ex-
ception in fifty, dark haired and dark
hued. 1t is sometimes the case that the
hair turns white with insanity. Proba-
blv the error arose from this fact. The
reason why dark people are more in
clined to mental disorder has not VET
been explained.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Novel Cricket.

A novel cricket match was played in
England recently between eleven la
dies and eleven gentlemen, the latter
using the lie { hand only. Any player
touching ball or bat with the right hand
gave a point to the ladies', who scored
! but this only occurred once during the
match. There was some excellent play
on he ladies' side, two scoring 20 and
/ | runs respectively, while two of them
also bowled WELL notwithstanding
which the gentlemen won easily, scor-
ing 80 runs in an inning against two in
nings of 46 and 20 by the ladies. A still
more peculiar match is said to have
been played some years ago by the cell
ebrated Southgate crlcketing family
of Walkers, an eleven" comprising
SIX brothers, four sisters and a retriever
dog having beaten pretty strong team
of eleven men. The dogs forte Was
outfielding in which he greatly dis
tinguished himself by returning the
haI1
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
The Use of Words.
From the Springfield Union.

From the Springfield Union
Some time ago the Union called a.ten-
ton to the common misconception of
the word ''lurid" as meaning something
glaring, fiery or bright, whereas Its real
meaning is pale or gloomy. The word
is so generally misused that few per
sons in writing or speech employ it in
It's right sense. 1t is only one instance
OF many where the common uses OF
words are wrong. The word "transplre"
is another that has been the subject of
much discussion, because of the use of
it as meaning "to happen" a usage
that has become almost authorized by
custom in this century, though open to
serious criticism. This word is, more
over, an illustration of another phase
of ignorance in the use of words in
which even very well informed persons
share. A man is reported as remark
ing recently, How freely ] transpire
during this weather" and winning a
large sum of money from friends who
sought to correct him in what they
supposed was his mistaken use OF the
word. 1t win be quite as surprising to
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
What Amuses Some People.
rom the WASHINGTON Critic

81 want to make report that my wife
has run away" said a tired-looking
man to Lieut.. Amiss, at Twelfth Street
station. Very WE'LL" replied the lieu
tenant, politely; when did your
wife run away" "She hasn't
run away" said the man, sitting
down. "What did you say SO
for ?" asked the lieutenant, getting hot
in the collar. 81 didn't say So" re-
piled the man. Eyes, you did" said
the lieutenant. ''No, | didn't. | SAID /
wanted to report that she had run away,
but, confound her, she won't give me a
chance. Can't man express wish in
this office without being insulted ?"
Then the man grinned at his joke in
tune to get tip from the lieutenant,
instead of a bounce into the street.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18

LTNnREssEs near New York City com
plain strongly OF competition from state
prison convicts in Sing Sing, which lat
ternstitution is destroying their bust
ness. Unskilled workmen are set at
laundry work, which they quickly
learn. After their discharge they are
turned over to contractor who
employs chiefly discharged convicts at
low wages, and thus completes against
the .,hor of women engaged in the
business; 5000 were not long ago en-
r.orcd st New York laundry esttb-
l~hmcnt This has been reduced to
~" Probably if women had a vote
Their Just complaint in this matter
would command more attention from
the politicians.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Money in Electricity.
From the Electrical Review.

FROM the Electrical Review.
The romance of electric inve ntion
has not its counterpart in fiction a
little more than decade ago, Tele-
phone Bell, who is now worth $1,000
600, was walking about Washington ION
bis uppers" and trying to sell his tele-
phone stock for 10 cents on the dollar
Shortly before this he was teaching n
deaf and dumb school i'll Boston, and
his pocketbook was in continual state
of leanness. Now he has an income OF
hundreds of dollars day lie is sur
rounded by fine pictures, owns mag
niticent residence, and his soul reioices
in all the fairness which money can give.
The telephone has a great impetus TO
electrical inventions. Tue electric
light soon followed it, and there is a
millionaire in Cleveland, named Brush
who was working at $l5 week before
he struck the light which turned his
poverty into fabulous wealth. | met an
assistant of Edison, i'll New York, and
he tells me that the phonograph, which
is to be run by small electric motor, is
about perfected, and that it Will be in
general use before MANY months. 1t
will cost less than $780, and one can
talk his ideas into it and have them re-
produced in the same language and
tones in which he uttered them.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
When to Cut Hay,
From the American Dairyman.


The farmers seem to think that it is
all very well for men TO write about hay
with the bloom on and an odor like
southern breezes over a bed of violets,
but when it comes to feeding the old
COW he wants to see her chew on some
thing that will keep her busy and will
last awhile. The green-hnie,i hay stack
melts before herd of COWS like a snow
bank in hot sun, while the dry old
yellow article remains Il monument of
the hay field until the green grass
makes its appearance once more. To
be sure, the cows are somewhat thin,
perhaps, and no profit has been made
out of the COWS in milk, but there has
been no worry about buying ground
iced or fodder corn to help carry the
herd through the winter. Some men
can suck consolation out of mighty dry
substances.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Aztec Mummies!

Sig. s. Marghieri, the well-known
archaologist, discovered and explored
dramatically sealed cave, at an eleva-
ton of nearly 1000 feet, on the eastern
side of the Sierra Madre Mountains in
Mexico, about 200 miles south of Dem
ing, beteeh Coralitos and Casa Grande,
about two years ago. The floor was
nearly smooth, the side rough and
rugged, and the vault covered with
stalactites. In the rear end of the
cavern were found four desiccated
human bodies. The bodies were in a
sitting posture, with the hands
crossed on the breast, and the knees APP
preaching the chin. with the head in
clined forward. They were carefully
shrouded in their burial garments, and
placed facing the rising sun The male
and female were seated side by side.
The older child, boy, was at the right
Of the father, and the younger child, a
girl, at the left of the mother In ad-
dition TO the funeral shrouds, the little
girl was enveloped in the skin of an
animal, similar TO the method used in
the island of Fuerte Ventura, the better
to preserve its tender frame.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Diphtheria and Cats.

Domestic animals have often not only
been suspected but found guilty of
spreading infection, says the London
Sanitary Standard. In his report on the
recent sustained prevalence of diph-
liberia In Enfield, DR. Bruce Low of the
medical department of the local govern
ment board Incidentally states that sut-
inc the continuance of the epidemic cats
were observed to suffer in considerable
numbers from illness, and in December,
1887. and January, 1888, there was a
large mortality among those animals,
So much so that the attention of the
dust contractor was directed to
il. He stated that never
In his previous experience
had he seen so many dead cats IN the
dust heaps. Some households, seeing
their eats i'll. destroyed them. Though
there we're no known cases of diphtherla
occurring in the practice of the veterln-
arv surgeons at Enfield, yet they saw
many cases of influenza" at this time
among animals. The following Is an
illustration Of the possible connection
between diphtheria n children ana III
cats. A little boy was taken Ill with
what turned out ultimately to be iataI
diphtheria. On the first day of his Illness
he was sick and the cat, which was n
the room Mt the time. licked the Yomli
on the floor In few days tine chiiu
meanwhile having died) the animal was
noticed to be i'll and her sutlerlngs being
so severe. and similar to those OF the
dead boy, the owner DESTROYED heE.
During the early part OF Its illness 'hlS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18

with clay mixed with salt; for chimney
tops use the very best of brick, wet
| them and lay them in cement NOR
tar. The chimney should not be
built tight to beams and raft
| ers; there is where the cracks in your
chimneys come, and where most of the
| fires originate, as the chimney some
times gets red hot. A chimney built
! from cellar up IS better and less danger
GUS than one hung on the wall. Don't
ceiling-eighteen inches from it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
Too Well Trained.
From the Richmond Times

The white mare Kate, which runs the
the hose carriage of steamer No. 2 to
fires, yesterday morning went through
her usual training, and also went one
better. When the gong sounded one at
6 A. NJ, to give the correct time, she
started for the bell rope, caught it with
her mouth and vigorously pulled it.
The bell ringing the call brought out
nearly all the minute men, most of
whom live in the immediate vicinity
They rushed to the engine house ready
for duty, only to find the handsome
Mrs. Kate inwardly smiling at her con-
sciousness of duty faithfully porfermed.
The station men were in the bed room
and rushed down in wonderment, but
could do nothing beyond stroking Mrs.
kate's face and leading her to an extra
supply of cats.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
A Hard Thing to Do.
From the American Magazine.

From The American Magazine.
Etiquette is the foundation of policy
and illusion its framework; yet the mys-
terry of illusion belongs more to the fe-
male mind, FOR the physiological fasci-
nation of this strange influence only
finds its proper element in the endow-
ments of feminine grace and brillianCy.
To know how to entertain a dinner
party, how to begin a musical, how to
receive ones enemy with uneompro-
missing sang iroid, how to render a COM
pany of antipathic individuals at once
comfortable and smooth of tongue, be-
longs to tact and etiquette; but the fine
sense of perception which is required
to comprehend the intricate ways OF
the lllusive world is an accomplish
ment so rare that but few ever master
he rf