Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-04-30
GLEANINGS.

0ousH Naio!Aiit VIII IIuPoSU y uc6vy
tax on pistols.
George W. Cablc. tho novelist.
weighs Only lJ0 pounds.
Nine. Modjeska supports a school
tor Polish children in New York.
Senator Miller. from Calitornia, owns
the finest residences in Washington.
The largest cisy in Jaran is Osaka,
which contains 1885 6y5 Inhabitants.
NJ. Tourcencff's brain is 10 bo pre-
served in The museum at S.. Peters
burg.
The Ohio Legislature authorizes C;n-
cinnati TO raise the flooded district BY
filing 10.
DR.. al Watts. of Boston, has caught
and killed 4.0S2 dogs during the past
seven years.
! Acorrcspondent writing from Mani
tobi says The country resembles huge
bankrupt sale.
a factory with facilities for making
10000 woolen dishes per day is 10 be
erected in Chattanooga, Tenn.
In II Chinese city wnen a man goes
out after dark lie carries paper Ian
tern with his name and address upon il.
1t is estimated that the scheme pro-
posed Tor filing in some of the low
| nus at Cincinnati Will cost 800, co.,
Q0l
Tho man who buvs The wood burned
by The Name Cen.ra Ri road SAYS that
wood is growing faster than it is cut in
Maine.
Archibald Forbes SAYS that the great
weakness OF the Australian chai acter
is the hunger alter titles and aecora-
lions.
"A Georgia nurseryman is said to have
realized already this season $4,000
from the sale OF fruit trees grown On
one acre If land.
Bonanza Mickey has given his old
Aloe guic.i ftiend, lko Hsrlenheimer,
now in Texas. $3.50 010. Some years
ego he gave nm 500. 90.
An Ant,-S; arvation Cub is a novelty
of Cedar r p.is. lows. The Object is
10 prov.de ior mem Ders the best boar,.-
inr accommodations at the lowest
terms.
Resolution by the miners of Alene,
Idaho: Not Chinapan shallevur en-
ter tae diggngs unless he cimps q
tree. with ono end of lariat over .
limb"
President Taylor. of the Mormon
church, said the other day: when
they come West 10 wipe ont poivgamy
they will find 1Oo, 600 muskets pointing
eastward"
Russia. which has an area in Europe
two-inirds Us larac MS the whole United
States, with population of mora than
20, 000, COO, lies almost eniire.y north OF
the latitude of ST. Paul.
At meeting Of the Irish National
League in New York, The other day,
one speaker recomm, n led that ball
looms be sent up over English cities
and that dynamite be dropped from
them.
s "A residant of Goxer. Vi. has the dis
tinrtion of possessing the largest sole
in the state. he wears shoe that
measures twenty-five inches in length
and is eight inches wide. His friends
have no difficulty in keeping track Of
him.
An effort is being made In New Or
leans. La, to establish and main ain
there the same facilities as exist Ill Cas-
tie Garden for receiving. accommodate
ing and forwarding foreign immigrants.
Charleston, S. c., also desires the
same.
A timia young man has married
lady whose weight yeiges closely upon
two hundred pounds. NV dear" he
says to her, .'shall help you over the
fence?' NO" says she to him; ''help
the fence!"
The single young women of Blount
vile, Tenn, have organ.zed with
motto: Total abstinence, or no hus-
band" We hope the ladies will quit
drinking now, and get married.-Bes-
ton Courier.
The recent erection of statue to the
novelist, Dumas, in Paris, recalls the
story about h m when q committee was
formed during h.s lifelims TO erect one,
One day he asked member OF the COM
mistee If an inscription had been chosen.
.In front will be tho date OF your
bir Il. ne sa1iTi; on lfh6 Sites tho namss
OF your novels; lut what will be on tho
back has not yet beeE decided.
WELL" said Dumas. suppose you put
there the names OF my crelitors2'
Then after pause, he added, II an,
afraid there Wlii not be room for all.