Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-03-31
ODDS AND ENDS.

The early bird catches the rheumatism
., a New York beggnr has M income O,
$l,iuO from his trade.
There are 10000 opium caters in ST
Louis and l5,oOoin Chicago.
u s'pose I've got TO 20 at last but any.
now I've had heap OF fun for an old
ie'iow a-lingsrlns in the springs lap this
time. -O" IFiuicr. ' '''
4 girl in Kookuk, Iowa. was hnocod
10 10 aeaih ny her lover, and all the rest of
,i'c Hlrls are cXclalming that they'd like
TO sec him try it on them.
lhe governors Of New York and Penn.
s.ylvanla each receive $4,000 per annum,
tho governor of Louisiana $4,000, and
the others from $1,000 to $1,000.
The Boston Herald remarks ambiou.
o'lsly enough, thai 81 great misfortune
has happened to Minnesota-the stat.
| capitol has burned and the legislature
escaped"
The public debt of the United States
| = %oS per head; of Spain, $l54: of France
@iah; OF England Sll7; of Holland, Sill:
OF Canada, SIS; of Mexico, S39: of Swift.
zerlan,l. 50.
President Garfields mother and his
children will spend the summer Mt Men.
Tor. lie Will stay in Washington and
lace The hungry crowd. His programme
u'lrlng the agricultural fair season is not
i'yct announced.
A man at Plaintield, Ind. desired to
leave his travelling bag and overcoat while
he walked toa place twenty mile, ,1;s
t"ht. lie put them in a field unpro
tected from thieves except by the sipn
"Snall-pox-heware!" and found them
untouched when he returned.
Gen. Grant has made up his mind to
resign the empty honor of presiding
over Il prospective failure. He will resign
! MS connection with the worlds fair and
go to Mexico on Monday. The fair
promises to be a gigantic failure, and the
general dosent desire to have his name
coupled with the enterprise.
y dispatch from Milwaukee saws: IA
great many contracts are being made by
the st. Paul railway company for the
TRANSPORTATION of immigrants to Minne-
sofa and Dakota. The railway officials
say that the tide of immigration will
commence earlier and continue longer in
the ensuing season than during any sea
son heretofore"
Miss Ellen Nj. Stratton, one OF Omaha's
stal! teachers, has eloped with her Duke,
an eiishtcen-year-old pupil, son of Il lead
ing hardware merchant. She was sup.
posed 10 be the pink OF perfection.
and the people are paralyxed with the
unholy alliance, as the teacher il; thirty-
i've wears OF age. She certainly was old
enough to.iinow better than to teach the
young ldca to shoot i'll that way.
The Fall river, Mass, cotton mills,
which refused to pay their operators
more than 81 per day, declared average
dividends for the past year of nineteen
per cent, and in some cases as high as
forty per cent. Every cent of this divi-
dend above n legitimate interest of say
eight or ten per cent, is blood money
squeezed ont Of the lives Of working men,
women and children.
"Why do women so often wander
aimlessly in the murky solitudes of the
dead past, brooding over the days that
are forever gone:" asked a young lady
OF her practical lover, who is wilower.
'Ihey don't" he replied. sOn the con-
iraiy, they wander around the dry.goods
stores OF the present, pricing things they
hav" no idea of buying. Women are not
dreamy or poetical, but when it comes tc
getting Il 50 hustle for Sl.SO they keeI
right up with the procession.
President Garfield has assured Gov.
Murray. OF Utah, that lie would use every
means III his power TO put an end to po.
lygnnons practices i'll that territory, and
that Coy. hlurray could always rely on
his support in pursuing the anti Mormon
policy hitherto adopted by him. AS the
nrst step III this direction. the president
has announced his intention to renoml.
nate Gen. Banc, an an.i-Mormon, for re-
cc!ver OF public moneys Mt Salt Lake
City.
! Chicago Triblac, 2oth: The present
attitude OF the worlds fair proiec. re-
mluus one Of the epltapll on the infant S
gravestone: ";Sincc l SO soon am done
Tor, [ wonder what | was begun for
rhe projectors o: it are getting dlscour.
aged. Gen. Grant is discouraged and is
on the point of resignation. The sub.
| Script!on committee, who have not vet
collected million of dollars, are discour.
aged. and well may be. since it would
take five or six million dollars and hall q
dozen Gen. Grants to make it n success
| Ihc zeal cause of the GOODNESS OF the
people towards the project is their easy
comprehension that it is too soon after
the centennial to hold another fair, and
the sooner the projectors comprehend il
and abandon their ili-considered project
the sooner will they save themselves
mich time. trouble and money. The
time for holding the next fair is 1900 ant
The place for it is Chicago. That is a.!
appertaining to a worlds fair that need
consideration now.
Cl,cvio; and Check Sllirting, new
lot at Farmers, corner OF Third stree
and Broadway.