The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-02-11


Tribune is jubilant over the fact that
the Minnesota delegation III the House
has secured appropriations Tor rivers
and harbors aggregating quarter OF
million, but how much of that amount
does the Duluth end receive?
Bv all means let the new gunbOat for
the lakes be named Duluth. "-Min-
neapOlls Times.
Perish tn thought. 1t W I'D he sure
to go on the rocks. Call it superior"
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The Rock ford Register thanks the
Lord that this swOrd-giving, grub kick
ing and slobberkissIng era will pass
away just as hoop skirts and bangs did ,
The Register man evidently does not
90 TO church, or he is too devout to no.
tice that bangs are still in evidence. AS
for sword giving, grub kicking and Sob
berkisslng, such things will continue
while men and women are human.
General Joe Wheeler riay be unseated
but he isn't endorsed. Chicago Trib
une.
Col. BRYAN is at least losing nothing in
a financial sense by politics. His taxes
in 1896 were Sl35; in 1897, $24l. and in
1898, st. Paul Globe.
lie evidently believes in financial ex
pansion.
We can build ships at as little cost,
quality and speed considered. "a any
nation on earth. What is needed is or
some statesman or ecouUInist to tel us
how we can man them as cheapiy and
still maintain the American superiority
in wagcs.-New York Commercial.
If the Commercial cannot tell how We
fear no statesman or economist can.
The eastern senator who said that the
! only papers whose influence was worth
! anything to a man were npurchasable.
| spoke the truth. Better the opposition
of an honorable opponent than the sup
| port OF subsidized slave.
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Ignatius DonnclIv SAYS one of Coy
! LInd's appointees in the dairy depart
| ment don't know the difference be-
| tween Jersey Cow and y arsev Light
ming ."-Lanesboro Min Journal.
necessary to know the difference be-
tween the two, or between buttermilk
and mullev OK. 1t is enough to be a
good Populist.
The wise grounding will keep his
| shadow indoors tomorrow unless the
temperature is considerably moderated.
Pioneer Press, Feb. |.
But the groundhog's shadow went
outdoors and was frozen stiff, and we
are to have six weeks more of winter
weather.
The statement that John d. Rookie
Teller has made Sl0,Qo000O in stocks
this winter Will be hard to substantiate
when the tax assessor undertakes to
verify it.-Chicago Tribune.
News from. Victoria, B c.. reports
the reelection in that city of its three
old members of the provincial legIsIa
ture on the Thursday, February 2nd,
one Of them being A. + McPhillips,
a leading barrister Of the province, and
brother of II. T. McPhilllrs, of the Su-
perior Times staff. The gentlemen re
Fnrr,,) r., ha-S e no
party in the legislature, which is op-
posed to the anti-aiien labor Law and
the law taxing al companies of what
ever nature doing business in the PROV
ince recently passed by he legislature,
holding that the former is un- British
and that all VIII prevent the influx of
the labor and capital So much needed
to develop the province. Already the
evil effects of the laws referred TO have
aroused the people and it viii not he
long before the Martin government is a
thing OF the past.
at is to tie regretted that Douglas
county representatives in the legi>la-
turc gave no aid or encOur igemcnt to
the election OF Mr. Joseph '. Quar-. es
of Milwaukee, as the successor Of
tnited States Senator John l. MITCHELL
The election of Mr.. Quarles viii give
f general satisfaction All over the state.
however. "-SupcriOr Citlzen.
The paper o known circnIation' is
wrong. Mr.. Catlin voted for Mr.. Quarles
ninety nine times. and would doubtless
have voted for him nine hundred and
, ninety-ninc times. The Citizen owes il
: 10 Mr.. Catlln to ma e the correction.
In the course of discussion Of A
light veto at the last meeting Of the city
council, Aid. Graham said: This light