Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-08
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SHoER foot-hold-what the blacksmith
takes.
A GREEN countryman makes fat faro
bank.
1 BosroN has 2,227 places licensed to
sell liquor.
i The travellers berth right is to get the
best bunk in the sleeping car.
YOU'VE girl, before you elope, be sure
your mother doesn't know your route.
THOSE who run--locomOtives---may
read, provided they mind their "stops."
THE topper may be termed one who can
"smile and smile again, and be q
willin'."
WHEN does English butter become
Irish butter. When, it is made into
little pats.
| MERCANTILE men do not always pune
tuate correctly, although they are posted
! in commas. "a a.
Is Bob Burdette the arthor Of that lit
tie song commencing, Hd,ckeye, hear an
angel sing?"
They are very particular, they would
not allow mail wagon to stop opposite
the women's hotel in New York.
OSE-FIFTH of the 10000 volumes in
the congressional library are piled on
the floor.
THE Danbury Neus says that "roast
lamb is beginning to pair of with green
peas" .s
THRRE are only four chocolate facto-
ries in America, and some of those have
to rest part of the time.
An ex-member of the Ohio legislature
now serves as guard at the state peniten-
tiary.
Iris q notable fact that deer are fast
disappearing from their old clicks" in
the Allegheny Mountains.
| Two old women were recently fl0gged
in the public plaza of Neuvo Larado,
Mexico, on charge Of being witches.
His parents should have christened
him George Frantic Train.--W City
Derrick.
DoN'r tell the Utica school children
that the age of miracles has passed. The
boys and girls behold numericals every
day. 80 = "-'.- .!..'
EVERYBODY likes q hot steak, but
when it comes up, covered with cinders,
You can justly complain Of it ~ coaled
meat. E
EDIrISa paragraph column is like
riding the trick mule in circus-every-
body thinks it's an easy job until he gets
straddle Of the mules back.
THE Countess of ROseberry had we'd
ding cake three stories high and weigh
ing over q hundred pounds. The new
spring bonnet has been named after her.
Mr.. w. s. CoNAET, . Petersburg, ILL.,,
board owned and used by Abraham Linz
coin At Old Salem, ILL.,, during the time
that he was postmaster Of that town.
The numerous possessors of Thomas
JetIerson's snuff box will be shocked to
learn from his niece, who writes to the
Washington Post, that Thomas never
carried snuff box in his life.
THE Canadian government has re-
laxed the Law prohibiting the killing Of
buffalo by half-breeds, the latter now
being placed on an equality with the In-s
dams.
THERE Is = rage for old books in the
English market Just now. A collection
of seven hundred volumes was sold for
CSC, 900 not long since in London, and
Eve volumes Of tho original edition Of
LAfentaine's "Fables" brought q, 400.
You've girls do not understand the
witchery Of bright eyes and rosy lips,
but set of their beauty BY al the artih-
cial means in their power, never reflect
ing that by doing 90 they destroy their
principal charm-thAt Of Innocence.
In many countries the eggs Of lissrdsl
are eaten. In the West Indies the err
of the iguaDs are thought aluxuYys and
in the Antilles the eggs Of alligatOrs ase
said to taste very much like hsn1 eEgp,
which they almost resemble in shape.
THE "agony columns' Of the Tuskiah
newspapers are filled with adyertiasmsnis
for lost relations, giving painful evidence
of the dispersion of families Of the Nus
sulman population which he's taken
place in the districts ravaged BY war.
II milk Be pure I Knitting needle,
after being plunged peTpendicalaEiy
| into the milk and taken out quickly, will
retain evidence of the Auid, but If Va
ter had been added the needle will b
clear. .s 4
NAPOLEON III. was skilled mechanic.
Working At the lathe was his gTeat
hobby. Ceasing to Be Emperor he
ceased to wax his m0usteche. AZ ,
corpse be looked short. His mothsF's
ring was buried with him.
4 PaoBABLY the only pcrson IN the
country who has observed every anni-
lyefssay of President Lincoln'a denth, Il
IL Mn. Hume, Of Portland, Ne, Who
i drapes her house inside and 0nt with