The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-12-25
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The story Of a girl who expended SO
Of her hardearned money for a plume
wherewith to adorn q 2J-cent hat is re-
called by the bequest of 4 st. Louis man
Of 80 900 to Brown university, in ProyI-
dcnce, Il. L., for the erection of Il stone
entrance to the college campus. Tie
incident also recalls the touching nara
tive of tender parent in Minnesota
who in winter time paid s. for an orna-
mental piece ot jewelry for his bare
footed boy, because the youngster SAID,
g | can get along without boots, but I'm
suffering just awful for a bosom pin. -
Washington Post.
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Mrs. Dice of Kingston, Mo, shook
Dice for another Observation-Disclosures CITY
Journal.
The man who founded Chicago has
just died. His great crime was commit
ted many years ago, but he was never
able to live 1t down.-Bufialo Express.
SSk4S
Dcacon-We have dinner at so. I'll
give you quarter of an hours grace.
Smlth-Then commence at 40 and
III be there at 1:45.-New York journal.
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Mrs. Green-Dear me, Jay, So YOU
went an got your new carpet bag stolen
the very first night you was in the city?
Have you any idea who hoked it?
Jay Green (darkly)-I amt got no
proof. but | have my suspicious all
right enough. An alderman slept in
the next room to mine in the boardil.'
house that night-New YORK Journal.
Two and quarter per cent for re-
funding the city debt looks like a big
sum to pay Mr.. Culver, but as he will.
IN all likelihood, have to "whack up''
he will not have much left for himself
when all the sharks are satisfied.
We are told that a clerk was re-
Gently engaged in the health office to
perform some unnecessary. c,ari,.oI CO..
vice and who wh,le r;,i;r,, - .,ro 60
day for his services. was told to charge
= and was paid at that rate Thus are
the taxpayers robbed every day.
A decision handed down by the SUI
preme court of Illinois on the civil
service hill makes ~ nvtrop,al,, IL,
Srceable Tor the mayor OF that city, as It
H"Il'iies hu'h"ef OF ms appointments.
carter iiaFf!hon II. VIII learn, III the
course OF time, that he is not stronger
than the law.
Tie Winueb1co City lNinn\ p,ass
News came to our table last week all
home print The publishers Nessrs
Sherrin K Foss are progressive ~ i
shown rcnrlusiyeIv hv tho axcaIIart
paper they are rattino ont which u,o.,,,a
be Il credit to some institutions Of far
better facilities.
-Adyices from Edmonton AIbor.,
saw that there are more EnrIisbno,
Yankees Son,h Afr,,c,s etc bai,,n
treated Tor dog bites in that town than
in all the remaining porfions of the
civilized world. The most AMUSING
sight. SAYS the Manitoba Free Press ard
one of very common occurrence in Ed
monitor, is to see an Fnrlishman or two
trying to train team of huskie dogs.
They have bought I'D large Numbers of
dogs, only few of them being trained.
however. By putting a man at each
dog they can be gotten into the harness
and attached TO the sleiph. Whom the
dogs are loosened and an attempt made
to 60 forward the fun begins. The dogs
blame the unsatisfactory state of affairs
on each other and the whole four pro-
coed to bite large do. steaks out OF each
other. Get four large huskies har-
messed together and in scrap for blood
and nothing but a rifle bullet seems to