Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-03-14
GLEANINas.

champion pedestrian, Is now a success
ful temperance lecturer in London.
New York City pays 81. 900. 900 a year
for its religion and $22.00O.0o0 for its
drinks.
President Arthur Is said to have
caught 'the largest salmon ever taken
with fly on this continent"
Russia has thirty-three schools IN
which to educate men to manage and
operate railways.
The music for Sunday night bull
h"ht in Arizona was provided by the
ID OF United States cavalry regi-
meut.
A chap In Harrisburg Is getting ready
to fight 4 duel whenever he is INSULT ed.
He can split bullets on the edge of o
hatchet sixty feet away.
A Missouri quack not only promises
TO cure nasal catarrh at one sitting, hut
makes the astounding statement that he
will remove the catarrh and place it on
a saucer"
''He cometh not" she said, and she
was sound on the goose;" he didn'i
arrive. His intentions were all right,
but they failed 10 successfully combat
the bulldog that was screened in the
moon-kissed shrubbery.
Mushroom towns are not wholly re-
stricted to new states. Four months ago
dense Virginia forest covered the site
OF Pocahontas, which now mas Il poptl.
lation of 1900. A coal mine was the
cause.
There died at Lyons. France, aycouple
of weeks ago, one Nine. LaEene. a
sis'er-in-law of Cumille Jorian. who
had in her youth been personal friend
Of Nine. de Stael and Nine. Recamier.
She was los years old. =
The champion oyster,' glutton on rec
ord is the Baldwinsvi;ie IN. Y.) man
who ate two quarts of raw bivalves.
Cider and cracke,s in corresponding
proportions accompanied the oysters to
their cavernous. ..etreat.
An observer states that the best pro-
duct of Frerth vineyards is only 1874
gallons OF svine per acre. In California
It is 700 Gallons, and in New York it is
reported as still larger. Even Canada
boasts of producing more wine to the
acre+ihan any portion of France.
the froth was blown from $3.50. .OOO,-
l'JO worth Of beer, being 81, 900. 600 gal
Ions. in this country last year. and the
probabilities point strongly toward the
belief that an equal amount was snugly
slowed away beneath the jackets Of
thirsty Americans.
A fruit-grower placed tobacco stems
around the trunks of peach trees, and
there is not the sign of borer in any of
the trees so treated. He set the stems
around the butts of the trees, and tied
them at the tops. 1t keeps of rabbits
as we'll, in winter.
"What are you looking around for so
much?" asked an Austin mother of her
l6-year-Old son, with whom she was
walking. II am looking around on
yonr account" .'On nv accountp'
'Yes. want 10 pick you out u good
looking daughter-in-law. ."--7exas Sitt-
ings.
The apple industry in Pennington.
Maine, is RAPIDLY growing one. The
various firms in that vicinity have nut
up this season 1000 gallon cans. 8. 200
three-quart, and 800 two-quart cans Of
apples, and evaporated II 1-2 tons. All
the fruit used was raised in Franklin
County. and brought good prices.
Some lady Of indianapolis, Ind,
young, it is to be presumed, who signs
herself "A Constant Reader" has writ
ten to Cincinnati paper asking chow
long lady would have to live in the
state Of Ohio to enable her to be legally
married according to tho laws Of that
stste! Long enough to have some fel-
low ask her.
A New Years Day fc,tivity In Phil
ade'phia hotel was chase for creased
pig. The cellar of the building was
used for the sport, and all the partici-
pants, except the pig. were blindfOlded
ard their hands covered with lard. Had
the pig not crawled into a barrel and
given one of the men 4 sure thing on
catching him by up-cnding the barrel.
the game. would not yet be finished.
Experiments in potato culture during
1880 and 1881 on the Munster farm and
dairy school Of the Cork Ureiand) Agri-
cultural society, show that potatoes
manured with large quantities Of ammo
nical manures were among the first af-
fected by the disease, while those
grown with phosphates were wholly
unaffected. though in proximity ut
either side with diseased potatoes.
Hall chairs are now generally covered
IN gilded leather. that known as Span
ish being the most popular Such n
chair may cost forty-five dollars il fin
ished in handsome wood. An ordinary
drawing room chair in embossed
leather and handsome frame will cost
thilry-five dollars, but both will have
the merit OF being practically indestruc-
tihle.
Queen Victoria has her own Par'ia-
nentary reporter. and whether she is at
Windsor. Balmoral, or in the Isle of
Wight, she is acquainted with the pro-
ceedings OF both houses long before any
OF her subjects. On ordinary occasions
Grief abstracts Of the debates are tele-
graphcd to her Majesty; but, should the
discussion be of exceptional importance,
fuller reports are sent and continued
down to the close OF the debate and the
taking Of the division.
When Mrs. M gave a package of
datent French coffee to Bridget, the
cook. she said: Remember. Bridget,
that two boils are necessary to make it
right" Bridget retired to the kitchen,
hut came again within few minutes TO
Mrs. M in al apparently high state
OF excitement Sure. num-" she said,
''an' it's insulted am! l never had 4
boil in me life, and I don't intend 10
have two ivry mornin'. jist bckase yess
wants yer patent French cofIee!'
Dentists arc said tn be adopting new
form OF bills. invented BY one Of their
number. which consists Of 4 lithograph.
ed cut representing the human mouth,
upon which the individual dentist indi-
Gates with red ink precisely the work
done tor the individual patient. who i
thus enabled 10 verify every item at his
leisure. This il obviously happy
thought invented by Willie Winter ia
the New York 7ri6ase.
The average salary of women teach