Year: 1878

down to get the legislature to demon
etize hell, and make the state tax
due from Bayfield, county for the
year 1877 payable in Bayfield,
Hydraulic Compan stock at par.
Whether he Will kep Bill Price in
his prohibition work this deponeth
sayeth not. 1t is quietly rumored
that he may 90 on to Shllman Val
ley, ILL.,, to visit friends and induce
some Illinois capitalists to build an
isothermal line to tins point. The
county here would likely pay for
blazing the line ont, provided the
banana belt now established at Du-
luth was extended to this place.


Ever since a good old lady here,
well meaning enough, carefully
raised what she innocentIy sup
posed vas ga pair" OF geese; and
when they had grown to manhood
and womanhood, to fnd out they
were both ganders, | say ever
since that fatal hour of discovery,
we have received q terrible shock
and set back. There seems to be
less dependence put in human na-
ture and people are not what they
used to be. You, who know moth
ing of grief, can never depict the
sorrow of the disappointed woman
when that gander refused to fool
away his time "settin." 1t was a
blow our orni5hologlcal interest will
not outgrow for some time.


You likely notice the Press here
is now under the very able manage
ment of a former correspondent of
the TIMES, who wrote under the
familiar nons de plume of "Isaac
Fish" l need not longer conceal
Mr. W. Ray Durfee's name. In
girding mp his loins and sticking
the pen under his sash, he ironically
remarks in his Introductory that he
isn't as good on tne-truth as his
predecessor. He says it is hard to
be SO suddenly called as he was,
from the paths Of virtue and honesty
to edit a newspaper. If he can't
whopperize larger than Sam, there
IS no use for people to keep on say
ing. that "trlth crushed to earth
viii rise again." for it won't. In
this respect Durtee is an ADLER man
than Washington; for one couldn't
tell a lie, while the other can.


Sam Flfeld keeps on advertising
in his paper that he has a dwelling
house suitable for q small family,
for rent. Why don't Sam rent it
himself? his family is small.


| understand the La Point peo-
pie want Hon Canthook Anderson
to introduce a bill providing for q
wire bridge from La Point to Bay
field, also for cable between these
places. They will want a telephone
just as soon as some one tells them
there is such a thing, tor don't you
know they get no papers now since
the mail route between Superior
and Ashland gtq. Bayfield, was
abolished. Formerly, when a mail
arrived from Superior, those Bay
fed fellows used to congregate at
Haywafd's store, sit cross legged
on the floor and have a big pow
WOW looking at the pictures in our
illustrated papers, and spelling out
easy words on postal cards.


interviewed Deacon French of
this place the othe~day on the lead
ing subjects of the times. Speak
ing of the silver bill he said he
would much rather see tin more ofa
circulating medium just now than it
is. He said remonetized silver no
doubt made seryiceable ware, but
galvanized tin was the thing for
solid worth. He is firm believer
in hell aud all the apurtenances
thereunto appertaining, aud when l
questioned him upon tie Lord Hicks
marriage he quoted q familiar stanza
from one of the old masters regard
ing the age Of deer and tenacity Of
antlers, with a very roguish know
ing look.


Whittlesey writes me, as news
from Bayfield,, that there has been
a birth and he has had his hair cut.
Now, how foolish he is to undertake
to have his hair cat every time any
thing happens. Why, if he don't
quit it, he viii have less fuzz on his
nate inside of six months .han thare