Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-11
Thursday Evening. March IL, 1880.
ODDS AND ENDS.

Pension paymrnts in February amounted
to over t6.OO0,OOO.
|. One small bov, one pair skates, one air
hole. golden gates.
Il 10 worse than useless TO deplore the
,rremedisble.- Simonds
The B"ston ulster has q pocket deeI
enough Tor 40 umbrella.
Over Q million dollars has been raised 10
ibis country for Ireland.
Added 10 all other accomplis hmen,s
Mrs. Ouray chews tobacco,
Faith that asks no questions kills the
soul and st,fl 70 the intellect.
Praise at the right time and in the right
place is . wonderful helper.
He who ish.s and runs away gets his pro.
motion and much back pay.
The imagination Is at so delicate q leg
ture that even words wound 1t.
Immigration to the Uoited States from
Germany IL rapidly increasing.
We have little moral faith 10 those who
have never been imposed upon.
Pleasure comes through toll, and not
BY selfindulgence and Incidence.
Gen Grant distributed $500 among the
servants of the palace at Havana.
Moral power is m assured BY the obsts.
cles met and overcome.-Lessing.
Drinking water neither makes q man sick
or in debt, nor his wife q widow.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance,
the virtue OF adversely is fOrtitude. y
TennysoD has his tobacco sent him from
America, and he smokes clay pipes.
L No eta, ahovlIv V.,.~ -
derotss ennu. b EXCEPT BY suffering.
Silence is a figure oi speech, unsnswer-
abe. short, cold. Vi errirly severe.
A deaf mute in Hartford. Conn.,, is said 10
have invented the notorious game of fifteen.
There are few occasions where ceremony
may not be easily dispensed with, kindness
never.
The Mississippi river has ten bridges
with spans a. long as those of the Tay
bridge.
Brooklyn is to be heated by steam. Here.
tofote it has been kept warm by ministerial
scandals.
An ounce Of heart is worth a ton of cul.
tune; the mightlest force in the world is
heart force.
Florence Nightingale has just lost her
m",ber. who died Ut the venerable age of
n,Det,-two.
The queen Of Be GUM likes to stir the
dirt about the roots OF hot rose bushes with
her own hand.
What is home without children -Yonk-
ers GuzsAe. It's an awful lonesome place
tor "a molasses jug.
What y home without a broomslick p
Y0kkers Gazette. A place that even a timid
'nan might enjoy.
Joaquin Miller carries scars from wounds
received while fighting with the Modocs
against the whites.
G owes are worn very long and bracelets
are placed over them on lie v rists. not on
the swell If the ann.
Seven doctors we're called in great haste
to see a professional beauty. 1t was feared
that she was going to hav.-a pimple.
Nj. T,lden proposes to purchase the
New York Sun, which is to be s,eered by
nephew Pelton. Tue Sun win have sinners
for All.
10 possession: Lady (who wants to ait
down)-"WiIl you ait 10 my lap, darling p
Darling-"Sank you, I've dot y chair !"-
London Punch.
In the conflict between vice and virtue
10 the heart Ot man, rue side or the other
must triumph II is impossible for the result
TO be q drawn battle.
Jack, what relation to you is that old
gentleman l saw you with this morning ?"
I"Oh, not much he's married 10 my grand
parents only daughter"
The man or woman who has Ieyer loved,
Rugged, kissed, played with, listened to, told
stories to, or thoroughly sp .nked a child has
missed the cardinal joys Of life.
When an associated press agent neglects
to telegraph that a base ball club has secur-
ed three new bats, he il an enemy to his
country and should be bounced.
Philadelphia men do not know what fear
ia. They attend hops and %soiriees with their
shirt collars pinned behind and their sus-
penders heightened out with cotton strings.
A gay rooster came tripping light fantss-
tic toes up to the occupan Of q quiet nest
and said: "Will you dance, Biddy y,
Excuse me-" said the hen, I'm engaged
for this sell"
Nj. Beecher thinks that even temperance
men whose powers are waning from old age
may take a little something stronger than
tea or coffee to repair the waste of vitality.
His favorite tipple is sherry and egg.
Victoris Woodruff says she has been 81
lent for two years by the advice Of her ply
%sician, and now that doctors slate is written
full on both sides and his buggy is besieged
by anxious men.
"Wheu shall the angels call me p sang
the leading soprano in q shrill voice tina
sounded like the upper notes Of a steam cal
iiope, while an old bum in the back sea
woke up just in time to remark that it de-
pended a grea, deal on what kind OF a hane
Mr.. Angel held.
A female journalist on the Chicago Inte
Ocean worked nights as well as days, ant
lshe tells a reporter that she was out al
hours of the hight. went straight along ant
was never medd!ed with. She carried
pistol for a time and learned how to use i,
but finally threw asade. thinking the me,
"i Chicago we're 80 tame aad gentle thu
they did not need to have it drawn a
them Presence vt mind, she says, Is NOR
protection than a pis,oi snvwav
VACANT PLACES.