Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-15
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Short ball dresses are used ia New York
Sixteen Magnificent looking widows"a 1t
tended 60 Alabama quilting.
It is impossible to wear = muslin cravat
that is too large for the fashion.
Calamity never leaves us where it finds
us. It either softens or hardens.
MuHs of the dress material or it's trim
ings are made to match costumes.
The Princess Louise Ia asunday.school
worker. Who wouldn't be a little Kanuck.
In China one of the d~elicacies at the ia
/ bles of the rich consist of half-hatched
eggs.
The Chicago Tribune bows to senator
cleo. Jack Logan, but it can never, never love
him.
Paria last year consumed II. 3l9 horses for
food, being some seven hundred more than
in 1877.
Silver bars worth a million dollars were
recently found in a ruin near Zacatecas,
Mexico.
A daughter of Judge Harlan, of the su-
preme court, js the most graceful skater in
| Washington.
1t is estimated that fully one-fourth of the
sheep in western Texas have died during the
last cold spell.
An exchange asks, "What is nicer to
hold than q pretty woman's hand?" -Four
aces, of course.
The pinkest-gray satin just out il called
pigeons throat" Some prefer broiled-
squad color, trimmed with toast.
The proprietors of the London Telegraph
print several copies of that journal on
special paper for the royal palaces.
A correspondent of the London Times
saws that celery cooked in milk and thick
encd with -four will cure rheumatism.
DELAYS are dangerous 10 everything, ex-
cept marriage; the longer you delay that
the better you are off-Ehnira Gazette.
Senators Edmunds and Thurman, one q
republican, the other . democrat, are bosom
friends. They even sci their watches alike.
There is not q stream Of trouble so deep
and swift-running that We may not crosa
safely over if We have courage to steer and
strength to pull.
If a man says II haven't cav" he is from
Philadelphia. - Louisville Gourier-Journal.
And if he says II done saw" he is from
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Secret kindnesses done to mankind are az
beauti full as secret injuries are detestible.
To be invisibly good is godlike, as to be in
vistbly evil is diabolical.
"The ancient Egyptians did not use tobac-
CO." says The Boston Courier. "And mark
you" says The Bufalo Express, "the an
Gent Egyptians are dead"
A naturalist says that a cat can see best at
midnight; but they are never able to see q
man at a back window swearing and yelling
"scat" at any hour of the night.
There is in Minnesota a man who can
jump up from the ground and hit his heels
together three time. before lie comes down.
He is only ninety-eight years old.
1t is related of the widow Mary Holbrook,
who died recently in Brockton, Mass, at the
age of SO years, that she made $4,000 after
she was IS years old by the sale OF "tidies''
in Boston.
The one important fact which DR.. Fulton
is apt to forget, which his brethren endeav.
ored in vain to call to his mind, is that even
q clergyman is bound at all times to behave
like a gentleman.
A fashion magazine remarks that s'un-
gloved hands are fashionable among gentle
men this winter" Surely what are trousers
pockets good for if a man has to pay 4l.75
for 3 pair Of gloves?
Ladies may wear opera bonnets at five
o'clock teas" but if you have to work late
and don't get home until midnight YOU NAV
take your beer and cheese in your night cap,
but not with your nightcap.
What a rare gift is that of manners! How
difficult to define how much more difficult
to inpart! Better for a man to possess
them than wealth, beauty or talent they
will more than supply them all.
Some 100 tea and reception parties have
been held in New York during the past
week. a fashionable woman says she can
attend five or six in an afternoon, and re-
tire by 8 O'Clock in the evening.
John E. Skinner, a compositor on the
Journal and Courier, at New Haven. has
fallen heir to $750,O0O. left him by Antoine
Mercer, Of the Island of St. Thompson,
whom in youth he befriended at Port Jet
ferson, Long Island.
Mrs. Mckay, wife Of the Bonanza king,
has over $250,O 600 worth ofjewelry, and when
she gets the toothache she suffers just as
much as the woman whose bracelets and dia.
monds came from the ninety-nine cent store.
-No1ristown Herald.
If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thine
own conscience, and examine thine heart
thou be guilty, it is a fair instruction;
make use of both, so shalt thou distill honey
out of gall, and out of an open enemy a
secret friend.-Quarles.
Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling,
And to do Gods will with q ready heart,
And hands that are ready and willing.
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads
OF our curious lives aSunder.
And then blame heaven for the tangled ends,
And SIT. and grieve. and wonder.
The fashionable amusement, 10 the way
# decuration is to point an old or new
No room is quite furnished
low that has not u horseshoe beside the
loor of entrance. painted and tied with
ibbon, to insure good luck.
Two lovers were having a stolen interview
{ the youn1 ladv's window in Pnohlo Mel