Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1884-06-20
NEWS COMMENTS.

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NEWS COMMENTS.
SUGAR is two cents q pound in Cuba.
T1LDEN's letter killed Thomas A. Hendricks
Sioux FALLS is reported by the Leader IS
lively. -.
The Billings, Montana, street railway il now
in the hands of . receiver.
HENRY Willard has gone to Germany for q
brief visit. Not "blind pool"
TIE nation receives about $3.50, ,000, 900 a year
from the New York custom house.
"CoNaREss of Kids" is what the ladies of
Atlanta, Ga, call their baby show.
An academy to teach the Aztec language has
been started in the City of Mexico.
The average portrait of John A. Logan makes
him look like pirate of the blackest dye.
T11DEN's barl NAV be headed up. but the
democrats still have An empty Flower barrel.
A CoRREsPoNDENr wants to know the average
weight of human skeleton. Write to Sammy
Tilden.
EEwARD WILSON, colored, died the other day
in Petersburg, Va, aged los years. He was the
father of forty y.nine children.
MILK was sold on the streets of Waco, Tex,
last week At one cent quart. Whiaky was firm
at the regular price, two for quarter.
The Rothsohilds own $40o. .Ooo,o0o of United
States bonds. They will be compelled to look
for another investment of the money soon.
TIE sale of the illustrated police newspapers
in accordance with recent act of the legisla.
ture, il now prohibited in the state of Kentucky.
TIE river Jordan il overaowing Salt Lake
City. Those disciples of polygamy bad better
get across tho river Jordan while yet there il; ,
chance. ... r..
EX-SENATOR DAVID DAVIS has reduced his
weight 100 pounds during the past two years.
He probably wore oft considerable sitting on
the fence.
DAKOTA beats the world. Triplets, all alive
and doing we'll, were born to Mr.. and Mn. F. 9.
Watson, near Carson, last week. The husband
still retains his senses.
An umbrella carried over woman, the man
getting nothing but the drippings of the rain,
signifies courtship. When the man has the
umbrella and tho women the drippings it indi-
Gates marriage.
TIE widow of Joe Fowler, who met with
such . sudden death . few months ago in New
Mexico, is dealing monte at Butte City, Mon
tana. She has squandered the large property
left her by Fowler.
Or THE 1900 immigrants landed in New
York by one steamship on Thursday. half of
them were assisted from Ireland by the British
government. Thus is America receiving po.
licemen from abroad.
TIE word Blaine COZ tains six letters. Blaine
was nominated ON the 9Th day of the 9Th month
Blaine's first name is James, and he is the sixth
presidential nominee of tt a. name. This six
business il reckon I'd in Mr.. Blsine's favor.
AKENTUoKY young man has been fined 92 for
kissing . young lady. He had his choice to
take the girl free for life or pay the % for the
kiss. He preferred the latter. These little
luxuries come cheap in the Blue Grass region.
A TERRIBLE drouth is reported from New
South Wales, Austria. It has not rained there
for over twelve months. Sheep and cattle are
diving by the thousands and the ranchmen are
despondent. Streams and ponds have become
dry and stock has to be driven in some instances
fifty miles to water. ..
GENTLEMAN visited the house of Henry
Ward Beecher and was surprised at the smell of
tobacco smoke in the library. Turning to Mr..
Beecher he asked him If he smoked. The
reply was, "No, but my sons do. cannot pre-
tend to put down these small vices. once
tried to, I believe" "Oh, yes," said one OF his
sons; 'the only thrashing he ever gave me "as
for smoking cigar. Bat whom the war broke
ont and went to the front the first present re-
oeiyed from home was . box of cigars sent to me
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