Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-08-05
ODDS AND ENDS.


the evening he gets supper.
More than 800 persons have already
been killed this year by tornadoes.
Why is love like q pillow2 Because il
can take on a "sham" and still be nice.
There were 10000 postoffices in the
United States June 80, an increase of
LOO over the past year.
A physician says alcohol has killed
more people than yellow fever. Well,
doctor. more people have taken it.
Times are 30 hard that it is said mar
ried men at summer resorts this season
viii! have to smoke Scent cigars and fllrt
with their own wives.
China is probably the only country in
the world where red hair is held in honor.
A San Francisco Chinaman thus adorned
by nature is regarded by his countrymen
with superstitious respect.
A four year-old girl at Haynesville,
Alabama, played circus with her baby
sister. She tied stout cord around the
little one's neck and dragged her about
the yard until life was extinct. 4.
Minnie Brooks of Chicago, who last
winter experienced religion and turned
her brothel into mission house, being
deeply in earnest in an attempt to reform,
has fallen back into criminal life.
What makes Col. - so popular? 1
am sure he's very stupid. He can hard
friend, who replied: .My dear. sharp.
sightedness is not what makes person
popular. It is what the colonel doesn't
see that gives him such popularity"
A lady who once, in girlhood, sat on
DIR. Johnson's knee, has died in England
aged ninety.seven years. If the mere
fact OF sitting on a gentleman's knee is
conducive to female longevity, and our
young girls wish to prolong their lives,
we know of lots of young men who are
willing to assist in the hygienic work by
devoting their knees to that purpose two
or three nights week.
A dispatch in one Of the Chicago
papers announces that man has been
"wounded by bicycle" If any weapon
of warfare has been invented by which
bicycles can be shot at the enemy, il
will be sweet boon to the country
though the riders should be dismounted
and shot out of different gun. II
would be an interesting sight in the hos
pitfalls during the next month to see the
doctors probing man to remove {
bicycle.
A. London surgeon says that only ont
fashionably dressed woman in five hun
dred can draw full breath with hel
clothes on; but he must admit that il
wouldn't look we'll for fashionable
woman to disrobe in the street, in order
to draw q full breath. At the opera OF
a French ball, however, it is different
and. she should have no difficulty in
drawing full breath.-Norristo,o Her
ald.
| 1t may seem little cruel to betray th,
secrets of the ladies, but it is fact which
is becoming more fragrant evel y day tina
q large proportion OF the female popula
tion are smokers. Not long time ag,
the habit of putting timidly at the cigar
cite prevailed, among the girls of society
the opportunity being the evening visit
of their beaux. Now it is not an uncom
mon thing to see social gathering wher
both sexes freely indulge in the delight
of the fragrant Havana ION the Ay.".
One-haif of the marital infelicity i,
the world is due to the wife's inabilit,
to comprehend her husbands littl
wants or stubborn and malignant TEN
per which leads her deliberately to or
pose the qualification of his wishes. Bu
there are women who understand thi
and act accordingly. A Brooklyn lad
whose husband had been suffering fror
despondency was asked if she WASH
afraid he would commit suicide. "Ther
is bare possibility that he may" sh
answered in tone of true wifely devo
tion. II always lay a razor out on hi
dressing table before he comes home"