The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-07-18
Some Real ChiIdren's Sayings.

Sidney's aunt found him in the pan
try eating cake and lump sugar. "Oh,
Sidney" she said reprovingly, "you
know you have no right to come here
and help YOURSELF
"Auntie," he answered, gravely, "a
man who gave dress in our school
room the other day said: The Lord
helps those who helps Themselves and
I'm just helpin' myself"
Are you really sick, Sidney" asked
the family doctor, one day
DIR. Mccartney, I'm perfectly sur
prised at your asking such question.
l suppose that yon forgot that it's
Saturday" was the reply.
Sid's father heard a crash in his
study, and, when he went to investi-
| gate found hole in the window and a
ball on the floor. Papa" said Sid,
calmly, you told me to apply your
teachin's practerlv, so I've been 'speri-
mentin' with distraction of gravitation. !"
I've learned whole column of
spellings and meanings exclaimed
Bessie.
"Do you understand what You have
learned?" asked her sister
"Of course | do just hear me. It
! begins with anarchy, a-n-a-r by,
! anarchy confusion, disorder, misrule. .
Before you go any further" said
/ her sister, put that word into SEN
! tence."
Bessie thought for a moment. and
then said triumphantly. Did ever any
body see such an untidy place! Sarah
/ Jane, come in here with your broom
| and sweep up this anarchy"
/ She described man as bounded on
] the north by his poll, on the south by
his sole, and east and west by his
! funny bones"
! On another occasion she gave the
dictionary definition of consistency"
but added Il can explain it much
better in my own way. | understand
I exactly what it means. 1t means either
i having one side to your mind, or else
keeping the same side always on top.
| haven't consistency myself. "-hate
/ Fields Washington
MATTERS like the telegraph, tele-
phone and electric light only come
! when the world is ready for them. In
1908 Sir Humphrey Davv produced
electric light, but two generations have
I had to pass away before it could be
improved and brought into general
use. Faraday's discoveries made the
application of electricity for this
/ purpose not very difficult. Dayy
feared that the electric light would
cost too much to ever come into
general use, and even within twenty
years so high an authority as Tyndall
spoke doubtfullv of distributing
such light from house - house
! Davy's light was produced by a
battery of two thousand yoltaic
cells, and was, of course, very costly
The incandescent light is quite d re-
cent application of electricity. The
improved dynamo has greatly reduced
the cost of generating electricity, which
has now become one of the worlds in
dispensable forces, and half dozen
able thinkers and investigators have
made it possible for hundred ingeni-
Gus men to devise mechanism and make
applications of electricity to lighting
human habitations, and important i'm
provements upon existing processes
are still foreshawowed.
Possibly the rarest fern in the
nlleu states IS SSpieAlulQ eDenOlteS.
1t was first found as a solitary plant
along the Schuvlk-ll, near Philadel-
phia, forty years ago About ten years
ago a number were found by Miss
/ Tutweiler at Huntsville, Ala Re
Gently $. L. Powell of Johns Hopkins
University has found it in considerable
abundance on kulp's Hill. part OF
the famous battlefield of Gettysburg.
1t was growing with Camptosorus
rhizophbyiius and Polypodium vulgare,
the former its usual companion.
4 cABLEGRAM from London says that
the metropolis is much exercised over
"a dress-reform movement" The new
dress. 1t Is said, consists OF brevitv of
skirt, duality of underdress, and short
ness of upper drapery." And this the
London reformers call the rational
dress" This is not new. We have
seen this garb in its Scanty abundance
II Central America, and have heard
that il was sometimes seen upon the
stage in variety theaters.