The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-03-13
Staircase ToboSSaninS.

From Merry England" comes the
that house parties have discovered a
new amusement-tha Of sliding down
stairs on tea trays. 4 few fractured
ribs and t.islocated collar bones are said
to have resulted from this dlvertlng and
intellectual pastime; but it is described
as great fun, besides being genuine
novelty. \ good many years ago we
were amused-or possibly shOcked-to
read how Barbara Dering, the tall, gol-
den haired Virginia girl, slid down hay
stacks with her departed husband 5
COUSIN, but stairs are certainly more
risky places for " coasting" than hav-
stacks, and probably no more decorous
or dignified.
We hear Of races between rival tea
trays, each bearing its load of eager and
excited stairway tobogganists. Victory
in these contests is more matter OF
luck than skill, for a tray is less suscept-
ible of management than horse, or
even a bob sled The result is often a
promiscuous heaping together of the
racers at the foot of the staircase, bruised
but not discouraged.
Some moral censor grayelv issues
warning that the merry maiden who
coasts on tea tray with jolly young
heir is not exactly the kind ola girl the
Young heir will marry. But what OF
this, if the heir enjoys 1t, the maiden
enjoys it, and the spectators enjoy it,
Munsey for March.
There is no accounting for the tastes
of some people, yet sliding down stairs
enu seats OF their pants in sliding down
stairwavs, and cellar doors. But there
is no pastime like sliding down a
haystack for solid, hilarious, harmless
fun, and if young ladies and gentlemen
will slide down inclinations-tha is to
say, if their inclinatons are to slide
down sOmething-we would recommend
them to follow Barbara Behring'S ex-
ample. Find haystack somewhere;
have one placed in the lawn, and have
some real good fun, country style. 1t is
not hard on pants.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beccher died on
Monday last, March Sth inst, AGED 81
years, and just ten years after her hus-
band died. Four children survive her.
A meeting called in New York on
Thursday night in support of the arbi-
tratlon treaty, resulted in a vigorous
Remuneration of England's anti Grecian
policy.
-EX-Goycrnor Merriam, of Mime
sofa, Is mentioned as ambassador to
Germany; Gen. Horace Porter, of New
York, to France, and Hon. Wm. Draper,
OF Massachusetts, to Italy.
King George |. of Greece, saws:
d" Europe Is alarmed, not on account of
the annexation Of Crete to Greece, bat
because events have shown that Greece
Is an element of force in the Mediter-
ranean. Cur rapiditv of mobilizin- Of
our fleet created jealousy"
-lngersoll saws: The churches are
all busy creating mist and cloud and
darkness, and so 1t is necessary for
somebody to SOW the seeds of truth and
TO furnish a few rays Of light" There
may he need of light, hut that which
lnGcrs"li calls light leads TO darkness.
Humanity Will indeed be enyeloped in
mist and cloud VIXEN We have TO seek
light from the dark creyices of Inger-
soils Uranium.
Some coldbloodtd editor. who will
probably telegraph back for his blankets
when lie crosses the great unknown,
SANDERS the salubrlous climate and re-
lieves himself of the following: Back
ward, turn backward, oil, time, in your
flight; give me july again Just for to
night; soften the ground where the
frost king has lain, Oh, let me hear one
again; | am so weary of snow
drifts and lee, weary, SO weary Of frost
bitten pie, give me slice of the Fourth
Of July. Backward, swing backward.
or, season OF snow-merCury fifteen TO
twenty below-turn on the heat of the
tropical zone; roast me until | am
cooked 10 the bone. ! am so tired OF
ireezInS NV nose, weary Of chilblains
AMI corns on my toes; weary Of trying
TO sleep with cold feet-turn on the
heat, mister, turn on the heat. Tx.
We don't think he will require any
blankets in the next world