Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-19
GLEANINGS.

Gath says that mahogany furnitur,
is all ths rage now.
In England florists complain tia,
there Is less sunshine than there form
erly was.
John McGrcady, 4 cousin Of thu
"Avengcr' O'Donnell, lives in Iona.
coming, Md.
Scooba, Miss, boasts Of an OK seer
on her streets with two perfectly form.
cd tails.
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, says he
would have written book long age
had not his papers been seized st the
close OF the war and lost beyond recov.
cry.
A giantess named Ann Dunn died in
London few days ago. aged thirty
nine. She weighed nearly 500 pounds,
was nearly 8 feet high and measured
round the shoulders over s feet.
Dr.. Fletcher Of the insane asylum a
Inhian0nnlis nnlah~o+aA sL-.
and instruments of punishment in that
institution. and instituting season Of
moral suasion.
The Rochester Dcmocra, would bet
ter pocket its theory of sun-spots and
decayed sunsets, and steal silently
away. for the London Times of the 9Th
prints an article. covering three and a
half columns and containing upwards
OF $500 words, every bit of which IA.
vors the theory Of burnt Java.
The Atlenaeun,, of Boston, complains
Of the intellectual and literary deca.
dence Of that city, and prophesies .
day, which will not be far Of. when
Boston will ''look back with wonder,
half regretful, but half contemptuouy,
on the time when she was known a.
the Athens Of America."
Proctor Knott is beginning to under
stand that being Governor is not alto.
gether funny. He has at his disposal
the appointment of State Librarian,
and forty handsome widows arc tum-
bling over each other to get the place
He ought to have made the selection \
month ago, but he heslt:tes.
A remark made some time since by
NJ. Spurgeon, that he considered the
Scotch people owed much Of their
strength of character to the regard paid
to the book Of Proverbs, has led a
French Christian to print and circulate
widely copy Of the Proverbs of Solo
mon, rs an antidote 10 the lax morality
which now obtains in France.
A young woman in Holyoke. Mass.
called on the City Clerk, and, after
examining the marriage license regis
ter, told him TO erase her name, as the
l,~ <~l,
ticate did it without her leave. and she
did not propose to marry him. She
was accommodated.
Henry Stanwood. Of Philadelphia,
facetiously gave 8 cents TO colored
minister who was collecting money to
build church, and two minutes sitter.
ward discovered that he had given one
penny and two IS gold pieces. He
jumped to overhaul tho collector, but
the good old laborer in the vineyard
had disappeared.
Apropos of the recent arrest Of pri-
vate detectives, the New York World
remarks: ''The detective population
needs thinning out. About three pri-
vate detectives TO every married man and
woman in the country would be safe
proportion, and it should not be allow
ed to run over that, for the simp.e rea-
son that when thrce-fourths OF the pop
ulation undertake to detect each other
confusion cnsues."
An Alabama paper claims that many
OF tho persons who left that state for
Texas have quickly repented and are
on their way back, and North Caroli-
ma journal records with delight the re-
turn of many North Carolinians who
had tried pastures new in the South
west without realizing expectations.
Their report is that with similar effort
the old Southern States will yield as
good a living rs those west Of the Mis-
sissippi.