Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-31
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! ODDS AND FE;N|Ds.

sSysAS 49, ANlkS1( 20xy41ASo
. Remenyi. the violiniet pave great
delight TO tho people Of Havana, Cuba.
Mme. Patti il to sing only s,x times iu
London. during the coming seasen there.
Old Winter's body lies moldering in
the grave, but his soul is Marching on.
Msny q thing keeps Lent that has no
business to do so. That Ave dollar bill,
for instance Salem Ssn.
A babe that was burn in the court
house at Lawfenceburg, Iuo.. has been
ehristened Ohio Flood Wallingfo.d.
Don't get married during Lent" saws
an exchange. No, don't; there's plenty
* other things to repent of.-Burlington
At wedding in Hannibal, No, the
brldsi march was played on mouth
organ. Coming events cast. their shad.
Ows before"
Abraham Fisher, Of Knox county, In.
diana, has been married i've times. He
~ now ninety. SIX years Of age, and his
present wife is sixteen.
1t your best elrl strikes you with o
feather fan before you're wed, she will,
after marriage. hit you with broomstick
on the Chicago Sun.
Doctors say that people would be
heaI.hl-r il they ate more onions. On.
Idoubtedly they would. II wonld Keep
them from going ont nights.
Mistress Ito new cook:) sOn Wednes.
days and Saturdays, I shall go to market
With you. New cook: "Very we'll,
mum; but who's agoln' to carry the
basket the other days?" n
a dude. told by his mother to write a
letter OF coincidence to q lady in attic.
tlon. said: "I'm awful sorry your hus.
band is ded andi Hope the f1nwerah VII
bee Brilliant success.
Our court has taken active steps toward
the punishment of CRIME, and We hope
/ that after awhile even killing man will
be regarded as Q misdemeanor and pun.
lshable by fine. Arkansaw Whoop.
Chasing women who never get married
BY their complexion, it is snid that there
are more blonds than brnnettes among
them. This is supposed to be due to the
preference OF marrying men tor brunettes.
But perhaps the women who do not mar.
~ fade out.
Last month was the Anniversary of the
birthdays of several distinguished men.
| Washington was born in February, as
also was Horace Greedy, Sir Robert Peel,
| Dickens, President Harrison, Abraham
Llucoln, Gen. Hancock, Calico and ii.
W. Lopgtellow.
a mob stormed the ticket Office of her
majesty's opera IN San Francisco the
other day. They we're well dressed, and
doubtless considered each other ladies
aud gentlemen. but 10 their eagerness to
secure Patti tickets they quite forgot the
fact and behaved like any other mob.
The Yankee says, How de do?" the
Frenchmau. "how do you carry yonr.
-elf ?" the Italian. "How do Won stand p
the Dutchman, "How do YOU fare?" the
Swede. SLOW can you?" the Pole, cart
thou gay Z" the Turk, "Msy Allah pros.
per thee!" and the Quaker, "How is
thee?"
At Norfolk. iu England. fortnight
ago. there was wedding at which the
omclating clergyman was gentleman of
nlnety.six years Of age. He has held the
living he now holds for seventy. one year,.
1t 10 believed that this tenure of q parish
ls unequaled for length in the history of
the English church.
Don't gossip. It not only Injuries you
by leading you to exaggerate facts, bu,
it often Injuries those OF whom you speak
when no injury was intended. Words
especially bad ones, are like thistle seeds
borne npon the breeze. They lodge
and grow over the land and when once
started cannot be picked up again.
Miss Maria Mason, of Elktou, Md, has
broken of her engagement with her be.
trothed, because the latter wished to
postpone the wedding until the bill re.
ducing the price of marriage licenses
should become law. The present rate
is $4.5O, and the proposed law reduces j,
to sixty cents. It has not yet passed the
Legislature, however.
The sixth May festival of the Oincin
natl Musical Festival ASSOCIATION viii
begin in Music hall, Cincinnati. on
May goth. and will close on May Oath
The soloists will be Nine. Christine
Nilsson, Frau Amelia Friederich. Mater.
na. Miss Emma Juch, Miss Emily Wi.
nant. Herr Hermann Winkelnapn, Herr
ANIL Scaria, Mr.. Theodore Ioedt, Mr.
Franz Remnertz and Mr.. Max Heinrich
The chorus will number 600 voices and
there will be $50 musicians in the or
chestra. The concerts will ba under the
direction of Mr.. Theodore Thomas.
Walt Whitman sadly sings: Mary had
some roller skates that never would %
SLOW. and in the way the skates would
roll Mary wasn'teure to 20; she tool
them to the rink one night, and struck
out from the knee, but when poor Mary
would go haw, the skates they would pa
gee; and when the skates would forward
20, Mary couldn't bold the slack, the
skates went on and Mary fell right flat
upon her back; and when the skate.
would backward 20. she couldn't keep
her toes, the skates went back and MARY
fell kerslash upon her nose; and when
one skate vent to the right, the other to
the left, poor Mary couldn't follow both,
and some thought she was cleft; at last
tho evenings fun was DER, they stopped
the giddy whlrl. and Mary went home
from the rink badly banged up girl.