Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-06
DRIPnNGs.

French appropriations of British stiffness
AN English Miss is only a knife dressed
up"
There is an intense belligerent feeling
throughout Russia against a European con-
gress.
1t is now in order for the su'tln to pro-
coed to Mecca and weep over the tomb Of
Mahomet.
Rossini's widow has just died in France,
leaving all her property TO sn asylum for
poor singers.
TIE celebration of Vol,aire's centennial
in P this summer promises I'd be a very
poor sffair.
The funeral services in memory of Plus
IN. we're specially in the churches Of Venice,
attended by immense throngs of citizens.
A correspondent of the London Times is
81 years old, and moves around as lively IS
if be were GO. He is a foreign count.
Less smuggling is going on across the
frontier between Canada and the United
States than for years, owing to a scarcity Of
buyors.
A torpedo-boat with a velocity of nine
teen knots per hour has been attached to the
monster 10O-ton-gun iron-clad Duilio, at
Spezia.
The new railway station has been com
lpleted at Rome. 1t is near the baths Of
Diocletian, ard the most magnificent in the
peninsula.
On the ID inst, four men engaged work.
ing in the St. Gothard tunnel, were killed
BY q DELAYED explosion during the blasting
operations.
n-Philadelphis parks the seats are little
stump like stools, in speaking, but not in
hugging and kissing distance Of each other.
Quaker morality.
The Swiss Guards of the Vatican petition
ed in the early part of this month for an in
crease of pay. Cutting down the present
number of them is now mooted.
Brigham Young's son John has not turn
ed out to be much of = ruler of Mormons.
Far from possessing an Ann Eliza, as his
father did, he i sealed to only six wives.
"Old ST." ofthe Atlantic Constitution, has
gone Is = commissioner to the Paris worlds
Il, teach the Georgian language to the
Parisians.
The telephone has been added to the list
Of apparatus in the laboratory of the An
dessonian college at Glasgow, - being the
Dee delecate test Of an electric current now
known.
Turkey went into bankruptcy long ago,
tolhas only now secured the full benefit Of
the bankrupt Law. It il calculated that her
bosdholders will not realize one mill on the
dollar
The sculptor Of the bust of the composer,
Dalfe, The - called national memorial for
Irelasd, is Mr.. Thomas Farrell, who execu-
~ tAe marble aeatus Of Smith OBrien, near
tie Carlisle bridge, London.
Singing in the ear consists Of two OF more
alternating tones originating within the ear,
very faint, and sounding like = tea-kettle
just bsginning 70 boil. or . distant orchestra
tuning. Anybody may have experienced it,
A Lonixianan, describing = shadow cast
by Venus, states that the shadow Of . hand,
distant twelve feet from = white wall, was
pssfac4lyi sharp and we'll defined ; and, more
striking sill, the shadow Of ,hs tvigs OF =
pecan tree, distaut ihv-yards, we're also
sharp.
An English consul recently explored the
Eppes Yasg-Oxe Kiaagin China, apd found
lhai the cour-e Of the grea, Sisss. - Aithss.
- ls;d dowa On ell our maps, II entisely in,
-eses~ct ID nshes words, that when orr MAJ /.
makers marx Il ~ going ooe vsy il svslty
~sas 10 Tho ssvss1e Aassao.