Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-08-31
Notes and Nows.

The British rifle team has arrived In
N. Y.
Hay is plenty at Sauk Centre at $500
to$3.5o per ton. e..
A heavy hail storm in Nebraska has
ruined many corn fields.
Tom Thumb is said to be worth one
hundred thousand dollars.
Paul Cassagnac never sent challenge
and never refused to fight duel.
Indians never kiss their wives. Kiss
ing is one of the Christian graces.
Circulars for convention to form a new
peoples party are flooding the States.
The New York World speaks of Conk-
ling as the eminent. political coquette.
Dare to do right, dare to be true; kick
at your mother-in-law if she kicks you.
The arrivals by boat at Duluth have
exceeded 100 day during the last week.
Don't make too big noise in the world;
train isn't moved by the. sound of a
whistle.
Seth Green says fish never sleep. Then
what's the use of their lying in the be d
of the river?
Whatever else may be SAID of that hea-
then Chinee, no one ever saw one with
his hair parted in the middle.
An Irish lover remarks: cts very
great pleasure to be alone, especially
when yer sweetheart is wild YEP
A lady missionary among the Chinese
has marr1ed one Of them. Miss Selma
Elliot became Mrs. How Kong Whew.
Under the Pennsylvania Statutes, AL
legheny County is responsible for all
damages incurred by the riot at Pitts
burg.
The permanent Exhibition at Philadel-
phia, which is an extension of the Cen
tennial, is failure at present-they are
not paying expenses.
A writer on Paris fashions says, the
ladies are wearing cat tails in their bon
nets. 1t seems like waste of cat to cut
off their tails and throw the body away.
The Sank Centre Herald says that H.
G. Rising is intending to return to Glen
wood to re-establish his old paper, The
Glenwood Eagle, and adds that when II.
G. returns look out tor music-Yes, tenor
drum.
A correspondent of an Eastern ex-
change saws that the naval school ship at
Annapolis has just been supplied with
new outfit of spankers. We should OBJ
iect to this if we were the buoys.
The Knife Falls railroad, running from
the Northern Pacific Junction to Knife
Falls, is being graded. This has been
talked of long time and although only
five miles long is of great importance to
lumber interests.
The Chicago Tribune estimates that
the Northwest will have sixty million
bushels of wheat to sell more than they
had last year. Consequently their pur-
chasing ability will be improved. More
goods sold, and times generally better.
Literary young man at Party-"Miss
Ioncs, have you seen sCrabbe's Tales?
Young lady (scornfully)--''l was not
aware that crabs had tails" Literary
young man covered with confusion )-"l
beg your pardon, ma am; should have
said read sCrabbe's Tales?' Young la
dy (angrily scornfur r-"And I was not
aware red crabs had tails, either" Exit
young man.
Horat,o Farnham, book-keeper at the
Minneapolis Harvester Works, was seri-
ously and probably fatally wounded by
the accidental discharge of gun in the
hands of DR.. Beecher. The gun was dis
charged by dog backing up against the
hammer in some manner while being led
by the Doctor. The charge of shot en-
tered the lower portion of the back, in
flicting a ghastly and probably fatal
wound.
The young couple slided deity
through the giddy dance. Their coun-
tenances bcanaed with the light Of love
and pleasure. She seemed to move in a
delirious ecstacy, when, crash! they came
into collision with an elderly pair, who
seemed to have taken lessons in dancing
late in life. The young maid fell; tend
erly her partner assisted her to rise. and
poured stream Of coincidence and apol-
ogy into her ear. s:Oh, it doesn't much
NATTER" she said, s'as had my new car
dina!-striped stockings on.''
ssTur'be! strike downtown remarked
South Hill man, in an explanatory
tone Of countenance, as he crawled va
guely into bed at ; a. m. ssAll roleraid
Shops shutup. Drefel excitement.
workinmen all on strike.'' And his low
ing wife shifted the surrounding atrnos-
phere susp1ciousIv before she replied,
ayes? should think by the way it
smells, that ali the barkeePers were on a
strike" And then he gave himself dead
away by explaining that he had to chew
cloves for his asthna.-TlHavk-.Ezye. !