Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-02-12
ODDS AND ENDS.


PHOTOGRAPHY is to be taught here.
after in the schools of Muncie, Ind.
CLOVES in black ink will prevent mold
from collecting on it.
MONTREAL is favorite destination Of
New York bridal parties.
NINEvAH and Jerusalem are lighted
by Pennsylvania oil.
SUITABLE dover for q widow-A
widower.
TIGaTENERs should be applied to the
slack side of belts.
SOUTHERN cities generally have been
reducing the salaries of their mayors.
If you want to find out about the pc
culiarities of geese, consult the best
natural hiss stories.
WHEN man bows assent to what you
are saying, he stoops to concur.-New
Orleans licoyune.
HATcHING eggs by electricity is one
of the novelties at the Boston poultry
show.
TREY have SOW down in Pike county,
Ind, that has eaten up 200 geese within
the last year.
CHIPMUNK's skins are discovered by
the people of Oregon TO be available for
the manufacture OF kid gloves.
CALIFORNIA has profitable and grow.
ing cheese trade with China, Australia,
and South America.
A STEAMER moored on Lake Zurich
Switzerland, recently sank from the
weight of snow accumulated on it.
WHEN dealer tells you the stiff, un-
comfortable.lookiDg boots he wants to
sell you are calf-skiD, remember that
full grown COW, or bull, is calfs kin.
al THINK must have vein of rich
humor," said Jones after bis eighteenth
boil put in an appearsnce.- Baltimore
Ne,cs
On an average CSC bodies are annually
taken to the Paris morgue, and some 80
per cent. of these are recognized by their
families.
The present low price Of cotton has
induced a Russian firm to order at
Charleston, s. c., 3,940 bales for direct
shipment to Sebastopol.
BUNTEDfox at Burke, VT, recently
climbed 30 feet up cedar-tree and con.
cesled itself among the boughs, but his
pursuers found him.
In future the green ribbon with which
bills for the consideration of parliament
used to be tied up il to be abolished.
This will effect saving of some $3.50
year.
THE authorities of Georgia village
bad two prisoners, but no calaboOee, 30
they turned the box of a wagon over
them upon the ground, and anchored it
by putting cotton-bale on top.
A NOTICE in western newspaper of
steamboat explosion ends as follows:
The captain swan ashore. SO did the
chambermaid; she was insured tor $751;
900.
A PEDESTRIAN man with q wooden
leg, residing at Portland, Me-, offers to
walk any other pedestrian man with
wooden leg five or ten miles for the
championship and round sum.
"I WALKED the floor all night with
the toothsche," said he; to which his
unfeeling listener replied: "You didn't
expect to walk the ceiling with it, did
you ?"-Syracuse Sunday Times.
CAPT. JAMES B. EADs, who is build
ing the Mississippi jetties, has prepared
plan for the reclamation of the PotO-
moe river front and the improvement OF
the sewerage of Washington.
The perfume manufacturersin the de-
partment of the Maritime Alps consume
annually 5000 hundred weight of roses,
and the neighborhood Of Grasse and
Cannes is thickly studded with rose
farms.
RED cedar timber cut in 1872 and
used in the construction of Fort Maiden
is now in use in the steamer Dove. In
recently overhauling the steamer. this
timber was found to be as bright and
sound as it was sixty years ago.
WHEN an Austrian cavalryman falls
and breaks his leg during charge he
remains in hospital until his leg is cured,
and he is then sentenced to one years
imprisonment, with hard labor, for his
awkwardness.
M. CAMILLE FLAMMARIoN, Of Paris,
who believes that the moon has inhabi-
tants, is organizing 4 committee to col.
lect the necessary funds to construct
refracting telescope which will be power.
full enough to see them.
AMONG the attractions offered for 3
charity entertainment in . Virginia
City (Nev variety theatre were box
ing match between ballet girls, a pie
eating contest of newsboys, and an at
tempt by dog to kill "A cats.
The white farmers of Whitaker's dis
trict, Harris county, Ga, have given an
old fashioned barbecue to their colored
neighbors in acknowledgment of their
orderly conduct and faithful services
during the past year.
MOTHS spring from eggs which have
been deposited during the previous sum-
mer on different articles by the parent
insect. They at first appear in the
caterpillar form, and in this state they
live for some months in the cloth or fur
where they had their birth.
A TRFAsURER of q church died sud
denly, and investigation failed to show
where the cash of the institution had
gone. Somebody was extolling his vir-
tues to q stock broker, when the latter
said: "Well, he may BE- long tor the
next world, but he was confoundedly
short in this one"
IT never rains in Peru, and man IN
that rainless climate never knows what
it is TO get up Sunday morning ana
spend Ave hours pumping ont hi. cellar
when he il Just wild to 30 70 church.
But to atone for the lon OF this pleasant
pastime, he has to stand up about four
times week and let Z raging earth