Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1883-06-22

al the various points mentioned at .26 last eve
ming. Observations at all stations taken at the
same moment of time:
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C.CRAMER
Sergeant Signal Corps. U. S. A.
NEWS COMMENTS.
GENERAL CRooK is fond of Indian meal.
PRESIDENT ARTHUn's colored valet is dude.
JuE festive f.e cracker will be suppressed in
Chicago on the Fourth.
Ex-SHcRETARY WINDOW will soon sail for Ger
many. Bismarck has begun to hedge.
+. NJ. BANNEsTER, Of Providence. whose work
as an artist has received the highest praise, is
negro.
A FARGO Justice called tramp ''pill' The
appellation WAS misapplied. A tramp will not
work.
North PACIFIC stock 52b; preferred 80.
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba l.23A.
Western Union 86a5.
Is David Davis night shirt to be immortal
lied in story? The Giant Robe is the title of
novel which will soon appear.
'VAr you say? Peoples ruined NIT monkeyin'
nit lard made from dot hogs? Aha! I am
avenged; don't it?"-Von Bismarck.
''WHEN newspaper becomes an organ there
is always a crank connected with the establish
ment," says the wise Duluth Tribune.
The Yankton Press and Dakotaian publishes
three columns Of religious matter as counter
irritant to its wickedness of the week.
BEFORE her marriage the Princess Louise was
probably "thc maiden all for Lorne, who
MIXED the COW with the crumpled horn."
In spelling mach at Syracuse the other
evening minister went down on "naughtiness."
He is not the first one to fall on that word,
FOND DU Lac q snake forty feet
long in the water. This beats the reptiles usu-
ally found in whisky-even Glendive whisky.
IL
working his way toward tie Pacific. He had
better breathe silent prayer and jump off when
he gets ther".
WHY all this uproar about putting punched
coins in the church contribution basket? Is it
not meet that holey coins should be given for
holy purposes2
The name of the Jamestown Episcopal church
has been changed from St. James to Grace
Protestant, but the same brand of reliable old
religion is stuck to under the new name.
Two cities were married the other day by
means of a BRIDGE" says an exchange. Let us
hope that they will now quit all their naughti-
ness and settle down as married folks should do
speculator, used to sell watered milk in Mil
waukee, just see how providence will lay for a
man and snatch him to the ground just when he
reaches the pinacle of prosperity.
A SON of Henry Ward Beecher has been ar
rested for firing an insurance agent out of his
Office and scratching the polish from3his petrifed
cheek on the gravel on the Eid:wa-k. Put an
other white mark down on the credit side for
the Beecher tribe.
SOMEBODY says that sending cavalry officer
in charge of polar expedition has queer look,
which is true, but the fact should not be over
looked that our cavalry officers have usually
rendered good account of themselves wher-
ever they have been sent.
sE1p to cross the ocean in three days is a
late invention, hut in these days of defaulters
and wild-eyec ,:-~-5-zzlers nothing will strike
the popular favor that cannot cross a man and
:, L. I,G@ l. ok~n
can reach the other shore.
Boston girls have banished bangs from their
awfully utter and intellectual foreheads, and
now comb their luxuriant $l4 genuine hair
back of their soulful and aesthetic ears and
twist it around and fasten it in high and
patriotic Bunker Hill peak.
A MINNEsoTA man sold stranger a tract of
land on the representation that it contained
grand and romantic series of waterfalls. The
purchaser went up to his possession and found
it a barren strip of dirt filled With pine stumps.
The seller should be prosecuted for obtaining
money under falls pretences.
of an essay at the commencement exercises Of a
Boston female seminary last week. As there
were nine in the graduating class it is the
Opln of the Chicago Tribune that the harvest
will be four divorce suits, one elopemant and
-four woman's suffrage advocates.
MNNEAPoLts J J,UaNAL: We don't wish to do
Ella Wheeler any injustice, and hence We hasten
to correct ridiculous typographical error that
crept into q quotation from one of her poems
yesterday. The line should have read:
-'Of limbs like marble, of thigh and shoulder"
Instead of ''busts'' like marble, etc.
p.
An Irish officer challenged a gunner at the
Tampico garrison to duel. 1t was accepted,
six Founders named as the weapons and thous-
and yards the distance knowing the gunner's
skill, the officer allowed the news Of the affair to
reach the ear Of the governor, who put q stop to
it. The gunner never miss. d dummy at that
distance.
At the Terrace baths, N. Y. last Sunday an impa-
tient young man walked up to the door of one
of the compartments and knocking on the same
testify inquired: when in blazes are you going
to get those pants on?" There was faint gig
gle and silvery voice replied: "When get
married I suppose he had mistaken the
door, that's all.