Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-08-22
GLGANIaGS.

per offers a family monume in ex-
change for gold watch and chain.
A coal dealer in Connecticut town
presents half ton Of coal to every
newly married couple in the place.
There are said to be 100 practicing
Young LAWYERS in New Haven, Conn,
whose income does not average Sl5 per
week.
James Gordon Bennett estimates the
value of the New York Herald at &c.,
coo, 900, and says it is paying 6 per cent
per annnm interest on that amount.
Sea urchins are so tenacious of life
that on Opening one il Is nstnncomnon-
to see the pieces of she'll move off in diff
erent directions.
New Zealand wheat fields grow
twenty-six bushels to the acre-the
only ones in the world that do, except
England's.
The largest vessels in the English
navy cost 81, 100000 to build, and
nearly 81, 900 a day to keep them at sea
afterward.
Mexico City authorities put a police
man on each horse ear to see that ~
does not carry more passengers than it
has seats for.
One of the newspapers in Victor, N.
Y, in referring recently to a new board
of directors in a village bank, said,
.they are thought to be honest men"
There is female barber in Haley,
Idaho, who makes from $50 to S25
day. She is pretty. and charges four
bits for q shave. While the male tom
serial artists get but two.
Rents have reached the limit of their
upward advance in New York City,
and have begun to fall--the sure sign
that the end Of an era OF speculation is
near.
Horse flesh is sold in some parts of
London rs beef 1t has the peculiarly
rosy appearance which people like, and
it must be proved to be "untit for tho
food OF man" before its sale can be le-
gally forbidden.
A plan for the education of women
by the same course of instruction AS
that afforded the male students, but at
different place and time, is being con-
sdered by the trustees OF the Pennsyl-
vania University.
New Zealand is fast rising in impor-
! lance as q source of coal supply. The
! magnitude of her coai-iields, and the
excellent quality of their product,
have been recognized only within few
| years.
The English are to-day the nation
whose dress controls the habits of the
/ civilized world, Just rs the French We're
/ 100 years ago, the Italians 200 years
! ago, the Spaniards 500 years ago and "a
! little earlier Venice.
Delaware has increased the salary of
/ her Governor to the sum OF $4,000 a
wear. At the same price per square
| mile for governing, the executive OF
/ Texas would have an annual salary OF
about S250,0OO.
Mrs. Tabor the wife Of the ex-Sena-
tor of Colorado, contided to a friend
the other day that neither the famed
palaces of the California bonanzas nor
the mansions of the Stewards and Van
derbilts should be so fine Us the house
her husband will build.
About IS per cent. of the land of the
United States, nearly 1,o00,0O0,0O(
acres in all, remains unsurveyed. Vi
THIS amount there are 369, 900. 900 in the
Indian Territory, 10000, 900 in Monta
M, &C. 000,0 in Dakota, and 10000,
900 in Minnesota.
New Orleans he's the best fish marke
in the country, San Francisco the hes
fruit market, meat is cheapest az Chica
go. and the best general market in til,
world is on the Delaware and Chesa
peake Bay, shared by Philadelphia ans
Baltimore.
..tf ~ ..--s-.~- y.
II set three hens this season, but the
all left their nests before the hatchin
, time. Can any use be made OF tn
eggs?' Certainly. Save them unit
next winter. Oscar Wilde is comm
over to play Romeo.
A Judge remarked: Gentlemen {
the jury, in this case the counsel on bot
sides are unintelligible; and the plain
III and defendant are both such ba
characters, that to me it Is inditferei
which way you give your verdict.
In Washington: ..What does the Il:
. IRE on the capitol represent ''Lil
.. erty.'' .Female figure, is it notP
: Yes" Every pretty; but what kin
,, of woman is this symbol OF llber'
and independence supposed to Der! .
= servant-gil'l. believe.
circus cau,e recently 10 Mo,iest'
Cal. and the editor of the Strdi5bae
in writing OF the performance, said Til
!, ..as we had TO go to press early in u
. evening in order to attend, we can So
. nothing regarding its merits until me-
issue"
> .Shall we wear silk hat?'' was u
= subject OF a lecture by Brooklyn div''
= recentlv Yes. sir, if it Is becoming
L You. But we imagine that minist
) who would choose such a subject 10 lie
ture upon might look betterin one OF Z
= pancake style.
;. A human skeleton can now be bong
- for S25. AT this price II hardly pay IS
- man 10 raise his own skeletons; but sol
- poor families will continue to wor
alone without skeleton IN the house
80 long AS they can get three dogs for
= dollar and q half.
~ Washington, Jefferson and Ffanki
10 American patriots, all married willow
NJ They al, srioi to marry Charming you
- Girls first. however, and were rcJecte
ia Verify. greatness doesn't iahaencc |
=. GIRLS as q regular thing. We know Il
a to he q fact Hence these tears.
III III modern Eggpt q young man is I
m permitted To soc his wife's face beit
re marriage, THIS is rough on the you
at man, bit ii prevents the newspapers
be Egypt from making jokes about
I'd Girl eialio.ng him into an ice-cream
loon aud bankrupting him in the d
en- round.
~ A Connecticut man, jealous Of Ma
he lands monopoly Of the delicious canv
he back duck, tried to acclimatize 1t to
" waters Of his own river. He PLAN
in celery along the banks, he brought IN
-st tidudes of live ducks to the spot hsst
or It was OF no use. There s. the river
od he used 10 say. ''thers's tie celery
ci- CROWN wild, tAere's the uacks, y
ul 49, them, they won't e:ts j.. u
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