Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-20
OLEANINos.

A CALIFORNIA firm proposes to can
lack rabbits for the English market.
FLORIDA hotels are serving shad, green
peas and tomatoes.
A PENNsYLvANIAN has just died
from the bite of a man.
THE fifteen state legislatures now in
session cost $50, 600, 600 a day.
GOLD is getting 50 low that decent
women no longer desire to be compared
with it.
THE manufacturer who paints and
stripes his matches will secure all the
fashionable trade.
JOSH BILLINGS says, very truly,
"You'd better not know so much, than
to know so many things that amt So"
TwENTY-oNE Boston men have paid
taxes under protest this year, claiming
that their residences are out of the city,
at summer resorts.
AFTER the selectmen Of New Haven,
Conn, had paid a "poor" woman S54S
in town orders, a while ago, they discev-
cred that she had 81. 900 in bank.
A GIRL II years of age, whose eyes are
blue in pleasant weather and red in wet
and windy weather, has just been dis
covered in Vermont.
PERSONS afflicted with rheumatism
ought to be comparatively happy. They
are not likely to attain the sleep that
knows no aching.
A SAMPLE of Russian army bread re.
Gently analysed in Bulgaria was found
to contain 10 per cent, of sawdust and
IA per cent of sand.
No gas stove should be used for heat
ing without a pipe leading the products
of combustion by the chimney hue
or otherwise out Of the room into the
open air.
A BLACK aud white pigeon made its
way into the Savage mine at Virginia
city, New, and suddenly appeared to the
startled miners at work 1900 feet below
the surface.
Two hundred cats were shipped to
Honolulu from San Francisco recently.
The Sandwich Island cat, though it
lives on animal food, is too lazy to chase
the nimble rat or house
IRRESPONSIBLE gentleman" of CAL
loway county, KY, offers to wager $4,000
in bonds and personal property against
$500 in cash that he can keep awake 80
consecutive days and nights.
A BAMBERRY, $. G, negro girl, ii
wears old, recently pounded her brother,
three or four years younger, to death
with a hammer, on account of some diff
Guilty in their play.
A BALLsTON SPA, n. Y, mother
recently whipped her thirteen-year-old
son for signing the total abstinence
pledge, and tore the blue ribbon from his
button-hole. And, singularly enough,
too, her name was Murphy.
A New HAMPSHIRE family, of hus-
band, wife and seven children, are said
to be living on three dollars per week.
Their food consists of corn-meal Johnny
cake" mixed with water, milk costing
too much.
PERSONS who have read of the terrible
conduct of the devil fish when he gets a
chattel mortgage on a swimmer, no doubt
think him a heartless monster. This is
not 50. 1t is stated that each devil-ish
has three hearts.
WHEN the counsel for Alfred Jones,
on trial for murder at Linville, y the
other day, put in a plea of insanity the
accused objected, said he knew what he
was about, had killed his man, and was
ready for the penalty.
A LITTLE three-year old of this city
objected the other morning to getting up
at daybreak, remarking that "the light
was to dirty" A few minutes later she
observed that the light was" clean" and
consented to be dressed brooklyn Union.
A SICK man in Newport, r. l., in a
sudden burst of gratitude, told his female
nurse that he would marry her if she
would send for the minister. She sent
forthwith, but before the clergyman got
there the sick man changed his mind and
was very obstinate.
AS the autumn leaves fiuttered and
fell to the moist earth, and the dreary
winds sighed m%ournfully through the
shivering branches-that is to say, last
fall-a Rochester, n. ". man went de.
jectedly around that city trying to sell
a quantity of ice for $50. No buyers.
Now, as the balmy air watts itseli
through Rochester, this same individual
shakes his head and pleasantly smiles al
the man who vainly offers him $4,000 fol
the same piece of frozennes.