Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-02-08
ODDS AND ENDS.

Ihe latest scarf pin is candle-stick
containing white enamel candle with
diamond flame.
If you want 'em badly, you can now
get Strawberries in New York by paying
six dollars per quart.
Eighteen hundred and cighty-one does
not resemble pair of lovers on sofa,
because there is one at each end.
A man never looks so much like a red
handed william as when he is told by the
photographer to "look pleasant"
Some enthugiastic fashion writer pre-
diets revolution in unde rwear. A
change in such things is necessary, once
in while.
Next to the feeling that we have the
love and confidence OF the great creator
Is to have the love and cofdence of q
grand human being.
A Connecticut man recently said: (:
"Lend me dollar, my wife has left me
and want to advertise that Tn not re-
sponsible for her debts"
The Chicago Times has the startling
information, from an expert named Bry-
ant, that the late George Elliot was
neither q man nor woman.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean calmly OBJ
serves that the telegraphed statement
that "Hell Gate is full OF ice" is mot
orthodox but very consoling."
The Philadelphia News says it is bet
ter to have loved and lost than to be
obliged to get up at five o'clock on cold
winter mornings to start fire.
A fashion paper says "gathered
waists are very much worn" If the men
would gather the waists carefully, and
not squeeze so like blazes they would
not be worn SO much.
The most ancient manuscripts are writ
ten without accents, stops or separation
between the words, nor was it until after
the nineteenth century that copyists be-
gan to leave spaces between words.
A colored man went into Galveston
newspaper Office and wanted to subscribe.
SHOW long do yon want itY" asked the
clerk. Jess as long as it is, boss. Ell it
doesn't fit de shelves can tar piece
off myself"
Flatterers are the worst kind of trai-
tors, for they will strengthen yourevils,
correct yon in nothing, but so shadow
and paint your follles and vices as you
shall never, by their will. discover good
from evil, or vice from virtue.
Some fellow has discovered that there
are 33,525 ways of spelling scissors. II
he had been correcting manuscript fol
newspapers he would have discovered
that there are about 999, ,999 ways of spell.
ing every word in the English language
ALovELY WOMAN.
Woman sweetest of the flowers
That bloom amid earth's lovliest bowers
With sweetest buds of every cline
And sweetest plnks of summer time,
With emery incense breathing bud
That, That emblem Il =, all that's pure and go"d,
All blended in one live bouquet.
Speaker Randalls house in Washing
ton is bright and cozy, and close beside
the desk in his study stands his wife's
sewing machine, q fact significant of tn.
gentle, womanly influence which bright
ems his lite. His eldest daughter is tai
and graceful young lady, just entering
society.
A wild-eyed, loose-collared son of tht
west was overheard to say of Mary An
derson that ''if she'd turned her great
limpid eyes ON us. and held out he
lovely arms and cried: 'Ingomal
In-g-o.mar,' we'd-a crawled to her feet
if we'd had to wiggle over an acre of re'
hot Goals to git there.
4uo Will VI JhIucs =. DIOWus VI AACGatu
ming, Pa, who died on December 9Th, be
queaths twenty-five dollars to every wid
ow in the town, twenty-five dollars t
every wife who shall become a widow
and the same amount to oil tile girls no,
living who shall become wives. Larg
sums ure given to charitable institution
out OF the $2,5OO,O0O Of the estate.
Tennyson had his hair cut by Saue
vein, London barber the other day. an
the knight of the SCISSORS made quite
speculation by disposing of the lock
One enterprlsing American offered
handsome sum for the entire crop, an
enthusiastic women admirers are pelsis
ent in their demands for a few hairs
work into rings and brooches {
souvenirs.
A caprice of the season is desse
plates with heavy gilded rims and lant
scape plaques. An elegant set is q co
lection of Scottish scenes; the Scottis
lochs smile in blue beauty with su
roundings of hill and glen, are certain
pretty pictures to gleam up at one fro
q dessert plate. These pretty plates
the imported French or English wa
cost from $3.50 to Sl75 dozen, but a
used upon number Of Chicago table