Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-08
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Princess Elizabeth Of Rounania has writ
ten the libretto Of an opera in Roumaniar
to. music by Skilienski.
Just before her departure for Europe, Mis-.
Clara Louise Kellogg intimated her desire
to sing in Pinafore.
1t is said that Mrs. Scott Sidons owes hel
beauty to her descent from a Hindoo prince
one of the kings of Delhi.
Does a woman ever pass a bonnet store
s without having g q counter t2 Never
An Indian girl named Pullberry married
. man named Bennett simply to secure
new name. She refused to live with him q
day.
Christine Nilsson when singing in opera
abstains from taking solids, and every two
hours takes Liebig's extract of beef.
Pauline Lucca's family name was Lucas
and her family were Jews, living in great
poverty. She abandoned her religious
faith.
A wealthy Boston woman has started two
Kitchen gardens in the city, where young
girls are to be taught housework b. means
of miniature furniture and utensils.
A damsel applied for a place behind a
counter. What clerical experience have
you asked the man Of dry goods. VERY
little she said with a blush, "for 1 only
Joined the church last week,
In Hungary and the Danubian couutries
ladies do not confine themselves to cigarettes.
They frequently ait by their 6resides smok-
ing grown-up cigars.
Queen Mercedes will have been de,a ,
year on June &c, and the Spanish politicians
are already looking for a wife for Alphonso.
If any American girl wants the place. she
should apply at once.
Julia A. Moore, the sweet singer of Mi
was nearly paralyzed with astonish-
ment when recently informed that ~"eclat"
didn't rhyme with "he cat" She has not
sufficiently recovered to finish her half CON-
pleted poem " On the Birth of a New
They were walking home from a rehear-
sal. Said he: Lowest thou me 2" Said
"Thou knowest l love thee" Then
they measured noses, while the trees sighed,
lake murmured upon the pebbled beach,
the moon shone in soft splendor.
Anna Dickinson might become a success
full actress, but che doesn't like to be shot
at, robbed Of her iewelry, kicked by a mule,
burned up in q fire, knocked to pieces in a
railroad accident, or anything Of that kind.
The latest old thing which every fashion
able London lady thinks she must have,
if she is to remain anybody at all, is an old
watch. II it Is not for the hands. or face,
or works that these are priced, but for the
case. These are taken off their hinges and
converted into shoppers for the glass bottles
on the dressing table.
He strolled into the conservatory where
she was clipping a rosebud and a few little
sprigs to adarn his button.hole. 20,
Charles! isn't that a lovely rose? Just ad.
nire its beautiful color," said she, "Apd am
not adDiring its beautiful cutler ?" and as
lis arm quietly crept around her waste
here was just the rosiest hue flushed across
Ter cheek, and-well, you would have been
1ext to ecastacy if you had been a locker on.
Riding in a railroad car: Husband--You
IRE quite comfortable, dear Wife-Yes,
owe. Husband-The cushions are easy
and soft, ducky? Wife--Yes, darling.
ausband--You don't feel any jolts, pet?
sweetest. Husband--And is no
on lamb. is there angel! Wife
No, my Ownest own Husband--Then
change seats with me!
mo man shall ever kiss me except nv
future husband" she said, as he was about
her at the gate. Suppose I agree
10 be your future" why, then, III Kiss
she replied eagerly, and she did. Her
mother was informed that he had proposed,
md the old lady called round the next day
o fasten matters. and before be knew it he
vas eternally booked. 1t was o mean ad.
bat a bird in the hand is worth
NO on the front gate.
Miss Virginia French, young lady of
Sew Orleans, wrote such a pretty poem for
be PlcaYune some time ago, that a young
[ennesseean fell in love with it and her.
lie went to New Orleans, plead with the
'icayune queen "a lady) for the name Of
be poetess, got it. bobbed down on his
,nees before Miss French, and before long
made her his wife. clearinghouse" a
,ovel is from her pen.
Miss Thursby has had no end of honors
n Paris. She has had urgent offers
she declined--to join the company
At the Grand opera; a medal commemor.
alive of her success has been struck and
presented 10 her; a magnificent card receiv.
er in bronze, bearing Orpheus and his lutte,
been sent to her with many compli-
ments by the president and members Of the
association NJ, Ambrose Thomas
written her q letter of commendstion,
and NJ. Gounod has given dinner for her.
The bachelors of Paradise valley, Ney,
are awaiting anxiously a promised 'car-
load of healthy corn fed Sucker girls from
Illinois. The local paper says: ut may
reasonably be expected that all these girls,
unless they are too fastidious, will get mar
ried within a year. There are at least 900
manageable men, many of whom ore in
the county, and it is not improbable, there
fore, that the coming summer will be o
lively one for ministers and justices of the