Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-01-31
WIT AND HUMOR,
How Is 1t those schools Of philosophy
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Cincinnati brewers won't drink each
others beer on the ground of health.
II dess | know what memory is"
said little four-year-old. ats the
ting fordet wid."'
One of human natures oddities-The
girl with the biggest feet always wants
to play Cinderella.
Boston is a town with ends to 1t in
stead of sides. That's one reason why
she can never square herself.
| A New England paragrapher has dis
covered that dogs lungs is the seat
of It's pants.
Some mem are born slight, some
achieve slightness, but most men have
| sights put upon them.
Mince pie is not only the most healthy
OF any sort, bu7 you may eat six of 'ern
for supper and have no bad dreams.
An engaged girl is happiest when she
is telling about it to another girl who is
not engaged and is not likely to be.
A mule is not generally considered an
@sthete; but give his hind quarters half
show and he is big on art decorating.
when will this car go?" asked a
gentleman, the other evening. '.As
soon rs it has a cargo" was the prompt
reply.
The reason why some of the street
lamps burn all night is because the
light is SO small it is afraid to go out
alone in the dark.
Every cloud has silver lining"
said a despcndent diner, as he saw the
dusky waters pocket the quarters OF
the guests.
The earth is said to have two motions,
but to drunken man coming home at
ii O'Clock at nj Ght it doubtless has
more than 200.
Seventeen thousand names were ad.
dcd to the pension rolls this last year.
Ii is never too late to find out that YOU
were disabled.
Forney's Progress claims that billiard
balls can be made of potatoes. Perhaps
they can, but what's the use of wasting
the potatoes?'
Cairo, ILL.,, is the place where an Eng
lish sparrow carried a lighted cigar stub
to its nest under the caves and burned
up the house. Sparrows haven't the
right sort OF mouth to smoke cigars.
''Well madame, hcw's your husban
to-day?' why, doctor. he's no bet.
ter" "Did you get the leechesp"
''Yes, but he only took three of them
raw-I had to fry the rest"
Young housewife: what miserable
little eggs again! You must really tell
them, Jane, to let the hens sit on them
little longer, or we must change our
grocer"
When you see it stated that a man is
''eminently respectable" you can make
up your miEd that he is a chap worth
over $l,OO0,0O0. Anywhere under that
figure is simply esteemed citizen.'
"How dreary life would be without
hope, observes . Cleveland paper.
Yes. and when you get the list and find
that your ticket didn't hit how mad you
are.
They were discussing an elopement,
and one lady, turning to her friend,
said: ''Don't you believe it would kill
you if your husband were to run away
with another woman?' ut might" was
the cool reply. Great JOY sometimes
kills"
A New England physician says that
If every family would keep box of
mustard in the house three-tifths of the
doctors would starve. No instructions
rs to whether il should be kept in the
pantry or down cellar.
A negro was observed the other day
mailing an unstamped letter at the post
office in country town in Georgia. He
was asked what he meant by mailing
unpaid letters. ''Oh," replied the ne
gro, Il does that reg larH ..You dor"
"Yesser; wen de postmaster amt look
in l draps my letter in; do dat often.
/ saves de postage, yer see. ies write
letter, don't put no stamp onto it. and
slips here and lets her drap. Dat's do
way send my letters and gets de best
of the postoffiee-ha! ha! takes dis Mig
gc- to be sharp, it does
A Peculiar Formation.
Movable Mountain in Ncvada---A Curious
Freak Of Nature.
In the eastern part of Churchill Couu.
ty, on the road from Wadsworth to
Grantsvilie, and about sixty-tive miles
from the former place, the Reno Gazette
tells US. Is sand dune. which is re-
markable alike for its peculiar forma-
ton and moving propensities As far
around as the eye can reach is a vast
wilderness Of greasewood and stunted
sagebrush, with here and there abrupt
mountain ridges, or shara, rocky
peak. The dune, or sand mountain
ridge, which is about four miles in
length, and covers probably a mile of
greasewood IN width. perhaps, formed
by the heavy winds which prevail in
that section. blowing across these des-
erts through a natural opening in
small range Of mountains, and deposit
lag the small particles of sand that
were picked up in a heap where the
winds course is disturbed and an eddy
formed.
In the whole dune. which is from
100 TO 400 feet in height, and contains
millions of tons of sand. it is impossible
to find particle much larger than q
pin head. 1t is 80 fine that if an ordi-
nary barley sack he filed and placed in
a moving wagon. the jolting OF the We.
hicle would empty the sack, and vet it
has no form of dust in It, and is as clean
as any sea beach sand. The mountain
is SO solid as to give a musical sound
when trod upon, and oftentimes bird
lighting on it, or a large lizard running
across the bottom, will start q large
quantity of the sand to sliding, which
makes o noise resembling the vibration
OF telegraph wires with q hard wind
blowing. but SO much louder that it is
often heard At a distance of six or seven
miles, and is deafening to person
standing within a short distance Of the
sliding sand.
A peculiar feature Of the dune is that
1t is not stationary, but rolls slowly
eastward, the wind gathering it up on
the west end, and carrying it along the
ridge until It is again deposited st the
eastern end. Mr.. Monroe, the wen
known surveyor. having heard of the
rambling habits Of this mammoth sand
heap, quite number OF years ago took
careful bearings on 1t while secsionizinr
government lands In that vicinity.
Several years later he visited the place.
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