Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-24
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blondes il San Francisco.
NEVER before were 10 many orange
trees being planted in California as now.
NOT a savings bank in Michigan has
suspended since the war.
A LIGHT mulatto girl in west Balti-
more turned jet black within eight years.
Mr.. JOHN JACOB AsroR has been serv-
ing his country in New ~York-trying a
$4,000 case.
IT is proposed that an inclined rail
way be built to the summit OF oko
Mountain from Chattanooga.
ACCORDING to a Virginia newspaper.
a Witheville dentist extracts teeth pain
lessly by simply pressing on the temples
of the patient during the operation.
AN Englishman committed suicide be-
cause his wife was too good for him.
The rest of us should be v%accinated at
once.-Danbury News.
A sA%CR1LIGIous St. Louis thief pried
of the corner stone of an unfinished
church and carried away the box with
its contents.
ROCHESTER man hung a sign in front
of his place of business, which reads:
"Twenty-fve loafers wanted to stand
here" They don't stand there.
A CONTRACT was recently made in
Memphis to build for $40,O 900 a structure
exactly similar to one on the same street
which cost 500, 900 a few years ago.
A PIous man has hired space in the
Ellenville IN. W Journals advertising
department., in which he publishes every
week, in large type, verse OF Scripture.
The oldest stove in the United States
if not in the world, is that used in the
hall of the capital of Virginia, in Rich
mond. 1t was made in England and
sent to Virginia in the year l7H.
TEXAS has an oak tree upon which
have been grated sprigs of pine, holly,
lockwood, elm, ash, walnut, apple and
peach. The grated twigs have budded,
and give promise of thriving.
For a rich man to make a will that
will please all his heirs, is about as diff
fcult an undertaking as for an editor to
try to print a paper to please all his
readers.
IT is said that Tom Thumb, while in
Rochester lately, called on his former
friend, Gen. H. Ellis, the gift enterprise
man, and taking pity on the latter's mis-
fortunes, gave him a big roll Of bills.
ONE side of the fraudulent dollar has
! a fat British girl on with a tremendous
bang. and on the other a hen flying OF
Iher nest-probably frightened by the
bang.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
{ In Washington last week a weasel at
!. tackled a sleeping child of two years OF
. age, making a deep cash in its throat,
= and would probably have killed it had
not the child's screams aroused the pa.
i rents.
y AN opium-eater ordered two ounces OF
the narcotic at a Utica drug store.
! When put up he took the package and
left a larger one, saying he would be
! back in a few minutes. He did not re-
:, turn. The package left was filled with
= dirt.
. SAID a Young husband. whose business
4 speculations were unsuccessful "MN
wife's silver tea set, the bridal gift of
rich uncle, doomed me to financial ruin
1t involved a hundred unexpected
n expenses, which, trying to meet, m:d'
II me the bankrupt that ! am."-Erchange
ONE night the master of the hou~
heard an exchange of kisses in the col
ridor: he struck q match and discovers
the c~hambermaid and the valet; sh
blushed, held down her head, and said
" Il thought it was you, sir, l had en-
ID countered."
es GRACE GREENWOOD, according to
IN correspondent, is little and round an
I'd lively, and has crimpy waves of hal
pushed back from her smiling face,
in prediction for bright ornaments, dresse
Il = --L:l. .,,mo, fnooS and laaoc :, a
An shall their forces, and a generally bonn
he appearance provocative of good humol
mt THE two little Goodale children
70 whose poems have really been goo
ne enough to print, are said to be ~uninjure
ne by the precocity that made them poets
re- S and 7 years old. They live IN me
ne the loneliest Berkshire mountain top
Ms at " Sky Farm" a name of their W il
vention, and their lives are simple an
wholesome. Their writing is to them
delight and recreation. For the la
six years these little authors have pr
So pared, for home amusement, a MONTH
mt paper OF twenty-four quarto pages, whic
he they call Sky Farm Lije.-N. Y. 7ribun
'cC THERE is a man in Georgia who HI
killed five men accidently; one with a
-, axe which slipped from his hand, al
eo other by upsetting a boat, another /
Us mistaking him for a barnyard fowl whic
as a. he would kill, another by choppiDg at
ny tree 30 that it fell on him, and still al
ny other while engaged in the athletic spo
of rolling logs. The neighbors stand
mortal dread of the man. They cam,
w. lynch him, lock him up OF Danish hin
w. They can only give him a wide berth an
j. w,.s< Coz his v>otprpol doofh
= AN extraordinary criminal case
Mt being tried at Antwerp. An ld-cloth'
as dealer, named Mestag, is charged wit
rst numbering his wife. The remains of tt
DIV unfortunate victim were found in tt
nd cespool of the house which Mestag occv
It'll pied, cut up into no less than 1853 piece
The pair were both addicted to habits
intemperance. Mestsg's defence is thu
his vile fell out of bed n night whe
IL she was intoxicated, and killed hersel
NV and that in order to avoid the scandal
ut. such an end being publicly known
led e~ndeavored to make away with the r
mains. The evidence is entirely again
the accused.
ate The mayor of a rural district
u.s. France, a man of the world, a charmir
: is fellow, everything except a man of bus
the ness, lie Just sitting down to read Il
ing Paris papers, with a cigar, when a citize
the enters. "Your honor, l come to ask yo
II to record the birth of a son who -
be "Ah, l congratulate you; this vel
$50. moment" and he takes down the nam
ain upon a slip of paper. A week afte
ork wards the same man returns, very sat
,rts "Your honor, l have the misfortune
her ask you to record the death of nv son
ore The mayor pressed his hand in token
ach coincidence, then changing his ton
It "How convenient that is; l have not y
nv recorded the birth, and it will not
necessary to say anything about it."
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