Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-02-12
ODDS AND ENDS.


The blunt talker doesn't try 10
get his words in edgewise.
All things seem easy to the man who
never tried to do anything.
Sitting Bull wants to treat wi ith a GOV.
ernment that will do all the treating.
"Easy Steps for Little Feet" is the
title OF a recent work. 1t has no sale in
Chicago.
"What is fame?" "Fame is the result
OF being. civil to newspaper"-men and
wo men,"
Gall yourself the equal of no man who
can influence you to his own advantage
without recompense.
Detroit, Michigan, rs CITY, is said to
contain more handsome residences than
any other in the United States.
The Stuttgart royal palace contains
three hundred and sixty-five rooms. On
leap year they go upon the roof.
WoruL-This Fable teaches us the I'm
proprety of Intruding On Young Lovers
without some Intimatiou Of our Ap-
proach.
"One day Sara KEN in fromra trip over
Che Rhine, an when she got to her room
she found that she didn't have the key
10 her door.
Garfield is not obliged to shovel snow
rom his sidewalk at Mentor. The Office
eekers keep ~ beaten path open during
he heaviest snow storms.
A mau has been found WHO would not
nave the boil on the back of his neck
lressed, because lie had been told that
nigh heals were unhealthful.
A Chicago editor wants to know what
character to appear i'll at a masquerade
Dall. The Boston Post advises him to go
Us a gentleman of the nineteenth cen
curry.
There is q report current that Victoria
o. Woodruff is soon to marry scion of
i noble house of England. 1t is some
qualification to learn that the lady is to
marry inside of her own moral sphere.
The latest whim in fashion colors is
"huttered frog" Ladies will be delight
ed to know that this tint is shade or
two lighter than frightened toad" and
"angry mouse"-both very choice colors.
If all the dogs were sent to Lapland
Che lawyers to Lle-beria, the donkeys to
Drayzil, the lovers to Sigh-belia, the edi-
tors to News. zeal-land, and the key-hole
angels to Peer-u, the eternal fitness of
hngs would have equilibrium down to
fine point.
Temperance women in Ohio are send
ing out circulars soliciting subscriptions
TO pay for q portrait OF Mrs. Hayes to be
! 1ung up in the white house in the name
| Of total abstinence, and as stern and
| intexible udmnnition against wine at
state dinners.
Prince Napoleon is said to be about to
purchase u newspaper. That will finish
him. Sidney Smith said there were three
things every man thought he could do
carry on a farm, drive q gig and edit a
newspaper. .'Whom the gods would de.
stroy they first make mad"
Confidential friend Ito elderly and not
nnattractive spinster)-So dear you've
given up advocating women's rights
Elderly spinster-Yes, I now go in Tor
womens letts. Confidential friend
Women's lefts! Whats that? Elderly
spinster-Widowers, my dear!
The young milkn.an and his girl stood
before the Justice of the peace. "You
take this milk-ahem this man for,
butter or for worse?" the mighty man
OF the law inquired, the girl said it
never-l-curd to her before, but she sup.
posed she would if that was the only
whey.
"Yes," remarked musical critic, re-
Gently from Kansas, "thc iiddlin' was
bully, but l. tell you, when the fat chap
witt the big mnstache laid hold of thar
bass fiddle and went for them low notes
in the violin cellar, I just felt as if a
ouzz-saw was a playin Yankee Doodle
on my backbone"
AT this season the most popular letter
the fan L.-Syrucase Times. You're
wrong,slr, its the turk E.-Philadetphia
TronScrirt. Most modest people dote
on the chick N.-Heokuh Constitution
And less modest people on the whis X
-Etecatcd Railray Journal. Wrong
all wrong. The newspape r takes The
lead everywhere.
A Python having glided into twi
light Grove where Pensive Lover wa:
awaiting his Sweetheart suddenly envel
oped the Swain III its coils, chuckling tt
! itself, I'm Beau CONSTRUCTOR and wa
astonished beyond measure when tn,
, Youth, remarked, "Ah, Mary, VIII,
has your Embrace lost its Warmth? Yol
no longer love mew gave it a Squeez
which fractured its Vertebrp in Twenty
seven Places.
Green canaries were exhibited at re
cent bird show in Berlin, Germany
Others were red, light brown and gray
t The variations of color had been cause
by the daily use OF cayenne pepper i
= their food. Thepepper was at first give
in small quantities and the birds appear
: ed to like it, but the feathers soon fel
giving them o mouiting appearance. 1
) short time new feathers of divers color
: sprouted. The variations were ascribe
: to the different qualities OF the peppe
: and the quantity given.
A wise Chinaman, who lives in Bostor
e says that the children OF people VIII
: have most to say against the Chinese ar
6 generally Ignorant rutfians who kno
r nothing Of the bible, and who, when the
L become husbands, are idle and desc
d their wives. He says, also, that viii
v Cinnamon in this country nre abuse
IL from the white house TO the laundry, IL
J. meanest. dirtiest aud wickedest savag
n of the plains, who rob, destroy and murd
all summer, are housed, fed and clothe
l. all winter by the government and the
II given reservation as headQuarte
or from which to commit further depred
tions.
. Don't forget to say "good morning
al Say it to your parents, your brothe
he and sisters, your schoolmates and teac
g ers-and say it cheerfully and with
r. smile; it will do you good and do 70,
OF friends good. There's kind of inspil
tion in every good morning" hearti
"a spoken, that helps to make hope fres
Ia er and work lighter. 1t seems really