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 desir,
to sing in Pinafore.
1t is said that Mrs. Scott Sidons ives he
beauty to her descent from a Hindoo prince
one Of the kings Of Delhi.
Does a woman ever pass a bonnet stor,
without having a counter. fit? "Never.'
"What, never ?" "Well, hardly ever"
An Indian girl named Pullberry marriec
= man named Bennett simply to secure
new nane. She refused to live with him {
day.
Christine Nilsson when singing in opers
abstains from taking solids, and every two
hours takes Liebig's extract of beef.
Pauline Lucca's family name was Lucae
her family were Jews, living in great
poverty. She abandoned her religion.
faith.
A wealthy. Boston woman has started two
kitchen gardens in the city, where young
girls are to be taught housework By means
OF miniature furniture and utensils.
A damsel applied for q 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 countries
ladies do not confine themselves to ciearettes.
They frequently ait by their 6resides smok-
ing grown-up cigars.
Queen Mercedes will have been dead a
year on June 26, and the Spanish politicians
are already looking for a wife for Alphopso.
If any American girl wants the place. she
should apply at once.
Julia A. Moore, the sweet singer of Mi.
chigan, was nearly paralyzed with astonish.
ment when recently informed that "~eclat"
didn't rhyme with che cat" She has not
sufficiently recovered to finish her half com
pleted poem "On the Birth of a New
Spring"
They were walking home from a rehear-
sal. Said he: Lowest thou me w Said
she: "Thou knowest 1 love thee {" Then
they measured noses, while the trees sighed,
the lake murmured upon the pebbled beach,
and 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 jewelry, 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. If 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 adorn his button.hole. 10,
Charles isn't that a lovely fose? just ad-
mire its beautiful color," said she. "And am
| not adniring its beautiful cutler ?" and as
arm quietly crept around her waste |
there was just the rosiest hue flushed across
cheek, and-well, you would have been
next to ecastacy if you had been a locker on.
Riding in a railroad car: H~usband--You
are quite comfortable, deall Wife-Yes,
love. Husband-The cushions are easy
soft, ducky? Wife--Yes, darling.
Husband--You don't feel any jolts, pet:
Wife--No, sweetest. Husband--An 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 my
future husband" she said, as he was about
leaving her at the gate. Suppose l agree
to be your future" why, then, I'll kiss
she replied eagerly, and she did. Her
mother was informed that he had proposed,
and the old lady called round the next day
10 fasten matters. and before be knew it he
was eternally booked. 1t was a mean ad.
but a bird in the hand is worth
on the front gate.
Miss Virginia French, q young lady of
New Orleans, wrote such a pretty poem for
he PicaYune some time ago., that a young
Tennesseean fell in love with it and her.
went to New Orleans, plead with the
P%icayune queen "a LADY, for the name Of
the poe;ess, got it. bobbed down on his
before Miss French, and before long
her his wife. clearinghouse" q
novel is from her pen.
Miss Thursby has had no end Of honors
IN Paris. She has had urgent offers
which she declined--to join the company
at the Grand opera; a medal commemor.
alive of her success has been struck and
presented 10 her 9 magnificent card receiv-
er in bronze, bearing Orpheus and his lutte,
has been sent to her with many compli-
ments by the president and members of the
Artistic association /; NJ. Ambrose Thomas
has written her a letter of commentator,
and NJ. Gounod has given a 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 q
lively one for ministers and justices of the