Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-05-19
oLEANiNoS.

0eeAWuN0S.
Orr Of the new shades Of brown is ex-
asG1y the color Of old copper.
MusxnArs damage the Erie Canal $50.
600 every yeaf.
II Ii hardly probable that there viii
be much of 4 negro exodus during the
watermelon seas6..
"FIauRrs won't lie" is 4 mistake.
Hosne Of the Hnestfgures upon the stseet
are nothing hnt --l
SAVE the 2O-ceiit pieces. Only 2OO,-
600 were ever coined, and the govern
ment is remelting all turned in.
II Vanderbilt lives 40 years the gov
eminent will have to take him into part
nership or repudiate its debt Virginia
city Enterprise.
NEWS is something like the small boys
definition of salt: "That kind o. STUN
that makes things taste bad when there
amt any Of it in EN-"
WHEN a man has done me l absolute
good turn he kant kross it off from mi
books, 1 don't care how mean he may be
afterwards. Josh Billings.
THE great quantities Of sweet-meats
sent for sale by England to The South
African colonies are said to hste robbed
the young ladies Of their teeth.
Some of Peter Herdic's assets, repre-
senting . million and q quarter dollars
on paper were sold at public sale in
Williamsport, Pa, last week, for 81, 500,
A BR1DaEPoRT, Conn, man is perse.
cuted by English sparrows. They have
nestled seven times under his caves, and
seven times he has torn away their nest.
The sparrows have commenced ON their
| eighth nest.
PHILADELPHIA has several gangs Of
swindlers who open te~a-stores into which
they invite countrymen to see theil
wares, and one Whit of q strongly.
chloroformed sample Of tea puts them
at the mercy of the swindlers.
THIS pretty word, expressive, and more
than expressive, of heimWch, needs nc
explanation. 81 couldn't stop no Ion.
ger in my place; l vas mothersick.'
Said by a Surrey maid-servant of hel
first service. -Notes and Queries.
YOUNG gent: "Might I ask you, Miss
@tl@s VkISbs NCIy bCxIY pAIs IA
I'm engaged for the next three dances. y
Young Gent: at is not dancing-ah-
it is-it's-beg your pardon, Miss; you
are sitting on my hat.-Aryonaut.
THIS is the year for the Temperance
Of the seventeen year locusts. The last
visitation was in 1868, and if the theory
Of their appearance at regular intervals
of seventeen years is correct, they may
be looked for in the coming month.
A TOOTH of the first Napoleon was sold
at San Donate the other day for $50
The Boston Post says if it had occurred
to his family to break the old man W
into small lots they could have realized
a handsome thing by selling him at those
rates.
"WHY, you'd better knock the dool
down. What do you want ?" "Och
my darling! don't let me wake any o.
your family. I'm just using your knock
er to wake the people next door. I'm
locked out, dye see, and they've niver (
knocker."
JOHN A. LOWELL, Of Boston, Mass,
has invented a new system of steel en-
craving by which wonderful effect il
/, produced by comparatively q few lines
Indeed, some e~ngravings are produced
by the skillful use of acids, discardine
the etching point.
VAssAR COLLEGE is the recipient Of
generous gift from the two nephews O
its founder, Matthew and Guy Vassar
It is a new laboratory for physicians ant
chemistry in which each student ma,
study chemistry practically, and have
complete little laboratory all to herself.
In is claimed that, when completed
the Johns Hopkins hospital in Balti
more will be the finest and best endowed
institution of the kind in the world
The grounds cover an area of la acres
and there will % buildings. For it ant
for a colored orphan asylum, Mr.. Hop
kins left "a. OO0, 600.
A FAMOUS itber told an extraordinar,
story which, strange enough, Glanced t,
be true. cit is so extraordinary" sait
a listener, "that if l did not know i
to be true, I should believe it false.
"Ah," said the narrator, elf it had beef
false, I should have told it in q mucl
more truthful manner than I did"
THERE is q man at Luray, Virginia
who became convinced while young tina
kissing was wicked, because Christ wa
betrayed by a kiss. He resolved neve
to kiss anybody. He has been marriet
twenty years, and is the father of clever
children, but he has never kissed hi
wife or any Of his offspring.
A PRETTY girl shook a towel, owe.
which she had been peeling onions, out
Of Q second story window on Tremon
street, and seven bald-headed men acros,
the w&y waved their handkerchiefs in re
turn, until the man standing beneath
the window looked up, shook his fist ant
swore, when they saw their mistake
Boston Post.
TRUcKEE, Nevada, boasts . novelty in
the shape Of al egg, the shell of which
has been pierced by Q grain of barley
The barley corr filed the aperture ant
stuck fast with about half it's bulk inside
the egg. Termination took place, and
bright green shoot four inches in length
now appears springing directly from
A coNDUCroR ON one Of the Bosto,
horse-cars has been absent from q neigh
boring town for over fifteen years. Re
Gently, having been granted q vacation
on account Of sickness, he thought b,
would revisit the scenes Of his youth
Judge Of his surprise when he was ne
ceived as one risen from the dead, ant
informed that a tablet commemorative
his memory as n of the volunteers wht
had fallen in the late war was about X
to be placed in the town memorial hall
The Ladies W&
And public generally in this vicinity art
invited to send TO James Morgan, 88t
and 886 East Water street, Milwaukee,
| Wis, for one Of his Price lists Of Hprine
and Summer Dry Goods. The extensive
attentions and improvements are nearly
completed. At the present time engi
neers are fitting up the passenger efe.
vator to be used in connection with The
Cloak, Shawl, Millinery and other de-
partments above the main floor.
AMoueoholA Ned.
A Book on the I2ver, IL Diseases and thei1
| treatment a0nt fray. Imc1udinu t~naAtinaa unor