Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-09-04

break thir hearts it III the same ns when
Il lobster breaks his claws-anothcr
sprouts immediately and grows in its
place.
The census of Rhode Island is complet-
ed and some of the entcrprising papers
of that state print the names of all the in
habitants in full, devoting nearly col
umn to it.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor drives the
other woman at Newport wild by wear
ing SSOO,OOO worth of diamonds when
she goes out with her knitting to spend
the afternoon.
"Gath," who has recently visited
Brighton, declares that the calves and
ankles of American girls far surpass in
beauty those of their British sisters. This
is important, if true.
Mrs. Senator Don Cameron, who is
described as woman of graceful pres
cnce and bright mind, and the owner of
beautiful large, brown eyes, is among the
few most admired at Saratoga.
On recent moonlight evening at Mar
ragansett Pier there was only an average
of man and half to thirteen females,
and every female dropped her fan and
handkerchief as often as possible.
"Young man, said an irate father, "I
want you to understand that my house is
not a hospital; nor this sofa a dissccting
table, and you amt no army surgeon, nor
my daughter corpse He went.
The absence of very large pebbles on
some parts of the seashore this year is
due to the fact they are all collected for
hotel bedrooms early in the season, and
are still doing duty as cakes of soap.
The census takers found a locality in
New jersey where women seem to forget
to die. Some girls eighty or a hundred
years old have been met returning home
from jolley dinner with their mother.
Baltimore Indies at the seaside eat four
meals per day and peck of fruit and
peanuts every twenty-four hours, in adj
dition. Cape May is the only resort
where a girl can chew gum and not loose
her social standing.
Somebody wants Vennor to be select
ed to ill Old Prob's place. Never! New
er! A man who deliberately gives us
tiercely hot and dry July and a nipping
the first year, can never be entrusted
At leap-year picnics, it is said, the
girls bear all the expenses and do all the
work generally performed by the young
men. To see girl climbing a;high tree
to put up a swing must be as good as a
circus; and the young men probably go
down to the edge Of the woods and look
at the farmers moving potatoes or dig
ging grain while the swings are being
put up.
"Mary Alame" is mysterious factory
girl in a mill at Winthrop, Mass. She
wears thick veil while at work, or go
ing to and from the mill, and goes to
church regularly, but shakes hands with
no one. They say she is the daughter of
rich Boston parents, who stopped giving
her money because she gave it all to the
poor and labored as city missionary.
When the prudent girl takes q notion
to make over an old dress, what is it best
to let her do? Let her rip Boston
Traveller Sew says We all OF u.s. Yaw-
cob Strauss. A hem! yes, but suppose
she takes notion to go on a tear,
shouldn't we shed tears to see her sew
tares ?-I Marlboro Times. We don't
know what the needle be for any more
remarks on this subject.
Strange mistakes will occur at country
church fairs. On Monday evening last,
Il young man at such a fair called for a
teacupful of lemonade. After toying
with it IL while he said to a deaconcss:
"Madam, there are no oysters in this
stew" "What did you order?" said she.
"Lemonade; but l thought you had
made mistake and given me stew"
"Why. man." said she. "that is not a
stew. 1t is vanilla ice cream"
The day of stitliy starched dresses is
gone by. Petticoats Of silk, of foulard
and pongee, are Worn by the people who
can afford them, while ladies who still
cling to cambria petticoats have them
starched only around the bottom, to har-
monize with the soft, limp materials
which are now the acme OF elegance.
Laundresses reduce their starch to the
last degree of thinness, and English
| journals advise bran water as a substi-
tute-the bran to be boiled i'll the water
which is then strained off and used cold