The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-09-08
NOTE AND COMMENT.

n sin Western Union there is strength,
is the operators think.
x A s'corner in empty stonlachs'' is tn
n latest defnation of a strike.
: Knowing that nothing but whisky ca
= down him, Sullivan has signed the pledge
Some one calls on Courtney to row
. race against fatboat up stream.
r Cars for transportation of the president
party have been sent to the park.
< The shortage in the apple crop this sea
7 son will create boom in acetic acid. Peo
e pie must have cider.
The president and senator Vest are en-
gagged in a fishing contest. The most ac
complished liar will take the cake.
Tecumseh tramp exclaimed, as he lay
down on the floor Of new barn: "Ah
this is what like. Good country -
In China. corpulence is the symbol alike
of social and spiritual distinction. David
Davis is wasting his time in America.
A St. Paul lady who is in mourning
for her last husband has discharged her
white servants and employed black ones.
The imported dude across the river saws
''The difference: Mandan is delightful
summer resort; Bismarck is hummer
resort
S'Turn a rascal out of the republican
party and he is sure to become democrat.
Therefore | say turn the rascal out.''-
Charles A. Dana.
John L. Sullivan now claims to be a
distinguished member of Boston bar. His
bar is one finest in the city of sestheticism
and baked beans.
| Colorado has young man with plenty
of money, who spends his.whole time trave-
ling for the express purpose of seeing all
the pretty girls in the country.
New Orleans proposes to give Ben But
ler a banquet when he visits the city. The
servants will probably be instructed to
count the spoons after the feed
The Presidential boom for Gov. Cleve-
land of New York, is ''busted.'' That
gentleman is charged with saying that
Walt Whitman is his fayorite poet.
In Hooaic Falls, N. Y, physician was
shot recently by a man whose sick wife
the doctor had refused to attend, and doc
tors in that town now respond to call
with astonishing suddenness.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: ssAfter
Captain Rhodes shall have swammed,''
etc. This will break pioneer Tuttle's heart
and probable cause him to write the En-
quirer personal letter OF protest.
The comet which Prof. Swift discover
ed was not Il comet, but only a beggarly
nebula. Disappointed Minneapolis people
will have to fall back on the top end of the
big electric light mast, as something to
gaze at evenings.
New Hampshire thinks of giving prizes
to married couples who do not apply for
divorce in five years. AS a New Hamp-
shire divorce costs just about So, the mon
ey will come in handy for those few couple
who hang out that long.
Just as has been expected Miss Jessie
Buckner, of Harrodsburg, who figured in
the recent Thompson-Davis murder case,
is, it is said, going to New York to make
her debut Oh the theatrical stage at the |
Casino theatre, in October.
Visitors to Minneapolis fair may not
think that Washington avenue is paved
with cedar blocks; but it is. An indus
tri Gus man with a spade settled the ques-
ton yesterday. After an afternoons hard
work he got down to the cedar stratum
Miner Tribune.
Minnie Palmer burst into tears because
the Edinburg students insisted in joining
IN her songs when she sung them on the
stage No wonder. We should think it |
would make anybody cry to hear party
Of scotch students sing funny song
Burlington HaWkeye.
s'What is the use of this impetuous haste?
a sweet American poetress. She probably
oOoAA
dude was rushing for some secluded bow
er where he could expel an ant that was
up one of his neither limbs with
slow and measured tread.
A young lady who had been at Molly
Mooselucmagu unite, Aybol-
Majagudavic, Cobbossee, Cou-
tee, Togus, Tomhegan, KapepskoWegan,
Brassau, Azlscoos, Ripogenus, Ebeeme,
Millnoket, Monsweag, Mat
,rwamkeag and other fashionable resorts
Down in Main, had an awfully nice time
but she famed her jaw in trying to tell the
Home Circle in her village about her tray-
sls.-NeW Orleans Piccayune.
Louise Rial, who passes, among the in
accent people of Winnipeg, as an actress,
repays their confidence with taffy. Win
nipeg people, she says, sssaw very little
point in the drama, and laughed over
many little things which the audience all
through the states could not see.n Come,
Lousie, that won't do. You know that
the people "all throguh the States" had
finished laughing at those little things so
long ago that you were less than forty at
that time.
Dublin is just now given over to the |
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