Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-01-09
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engineers, and the amount is $bZI ayear.
4 LADY in Maine boasts of hair eight
feet and one inch in length, and that she
has refused an offer of s 5000 for it.
ONE lady in Maine boasts hair eight
feet and one inch in length, and that she
has refused an offer of $1,000 for it.
SLIPPERS should be felt not heard-in
the sick ROOM. But naughty boys pre-
fer that they should be heard, rather
than felt-in the nursery.
THE King of Sweden Is a poet. He
has been writing the librettO to a musical
work in three parts, composed by a MIR.
Hallstrom, and called "Souvenirs from
Upsala."
A WHILE z a party of lynchers down
south postponed the hanging five min
utes to allow the victim time to finish
smoking q cigar. This shows that the
use of tobacco prolongs life.
A YOUNG Connecticut lady was lately
taken aback when her swain got upon
his knees before her and read a declara-
ton of his love, which he had nicely
written off.
THREE hundred Baltimore mothers
are breathing vengeance against the
heartless wretches whe induced them to
exhibit their precious cherubs and cruelty
walked off with the promised prizes.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent in the
Yosemite solitudes dilates with zest on
the inspiring effects of a glimpse which
he had of a cardinal red skirt far up a
| distant mountain side. He himself
was in the valley, far below.
A NEW YORK servant girl felt SO
much remorse after the theft of a ten
dollar bill that she threw the money in
the fire. Good for the national debt;
that's all that appears commendable in
that conscientious twinge,
A YOUNG Scotchman who drowned
himself for love in San Francisco, left
this note pencilled on the wharf: 'The
water is very cold, Annie-I have just
felt it; but a Mcdonald of Glengarry
was never afraid to dee. God bless you.
-DUNCAN FARLAND MCDONALD"
KATE FIELD corrects Jennie June's
story that she was obliged to live abroad
because she was not appreciated at home.
Kate says also: "The best friends |
have in the world are American men,
and if have not married one it is be-
cause | love too many of them"
A STRANGER was strolling about Cos
tello's tannery, and accosted Pat Daily,
the bark grinder. "Is there a man
about here with one eye by the the name
of Jerry McCartyg" "Fhat's the name
of his other eye? said Pat, who has an
intense horror of being "sold."-Rome
Sentinel.
"WHAT is your chief consolation in
life" asked a pastor of a young lady in
his Bible class. The young lady blushed
and hesitated, bat on the question being
repeated, the ingenious maiden said:
81 don't like to tell you his name, but 1
have no objection to tell you where he
lives"
ABOUT 1900 live geese, chickens and
ducks, the keeping of which is forbidden
by a city ordinance, were captured one
night by the police, in cellars, easements,
bedrooms, stores, and the yards and areas
of houses in the thickly settled part of
New York city, all owned by Irish peo-
pie.
TOMMY came home from school and
handed his father the teachers report on
his progress during the month. "Thisis
very unsatisfactory, Tom; you've a very
small number of good marks. I'm not
at all pleased with it," II told the
teacher you wouldn't be, but he wouldn't
alter it,"
The quickest method, says the Bur
lington HaUkeye, of developing human
life is to plant a photographers camera
in front of a lonesome, deserted country
hotel, and long, long, long before the
artist can get a focus, the porch, balcony,
doors, windows, side-fence and dormer
windows of that h~ostelry will be alive
with smiling, unconscious humanity.
"MA, seriously now, which one of all
the young men of my acquaintance
would you marry if you were me? !"
asked a Miss of nineteen. Ma did not
say, but ten years elapsed when one day
the same miss" inquired of her ma
%ternal: "Mother, earnestly now, do you
believe there is anybody that will have
me" The younger people are, the more
sanguine.
THE BEST SOAP for cleaning paint is
made by taking one ounce of pulverized
borax, n pound best brown soap, cut
in small pieces, and three quarts of wa
ter; put all in a kettle; set it on the
back part of the stove or range, until the
soap is dissolved, stirring frequently. 1t
must not come to boil; use with a piece
Of old, soft, white flannel. 1t c~leanses
, paint without injuring it; it is also bene.
fetal for hands, and much better than any
other a
t A MAN in Venango, Pa, contracted
| with a doctor to remove some of the bod.
. les of the latters relatives to a new Gem.
etery, and claimed a short time subse.
. quently to have performed the task. II
has since been discovered that the bod.
les have not been disturbed, but that the
!, head stones of the old graves have beer
: removed to the cemetery where the bod.
, les were 10 have been taken.
IT is dangerous to be too familiar in
the supreme courtroom of Pennsylvania
The sedate Judge Sharswood has a trich
of strolling about with his hands behind
I him during a trial, and day or two age
a German leaning over the rail put hi
, hand on the judges shoulder, ano
a whispered in his ear: Will you tell Mr.
McClung / want to see him." The
$ Judge did as requested, and the lawyer
4 was more overcome than his client al
:; finding that dignity in the role of a tip
l staff.
+ The general superintendent of the
: Berlin theaters lately ordered that the
ladies should not be allowed to appear
, on the stage with their hair covering
! their forehead, according to the present
! fashion. No attention was paid to the
. order, and twoof the ladies were punished
and the fact published in the daily pa
pers, together with the explanation that
they had appeared on the stage in demi.
; monde style.
. WHAT is home without a wife? She
is the lamp that destroys darkness-the
angel putting loneliness to fight, and
!. is, or may be, the dispenser of every
blessing the mind of man may conceive,
or the soul sigh for. Home without q