Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-02-27
GLEANINGS.

Hy0icnjc writers predict that the
/ drink OF the future will be hot water.
Lady Wilde, Oscars mother. says
she will never rest satisfied until ..she
has shot nm American editor
a female orang-ontapg in Philadel-
phia dearly lpvcs y little dog and re-
fuses to ~ separated from it
Df. Gjbboks. u Lancaster. PA. an
old Quaker abolitiOnist, Is dead. Hc
never saw the inside Of a theatre and
never read q novcL aa
Charles Peters. Of New York, never
felt well unless he was drunk" and
when he had no money to buy whisky
with he killed himself.
Philadelphia brewers have $50. 0O0
worth Of signs swinging in that city,
and have raised the price OF beer 81 a
barrel TO meet the expense.
A Baltimore lawsuit de, elopes tho
fact that q young widow in that city
three years ago married her father-in-
law.
The South Carolina Legislature has
passed a hill declaring unlawful all
contracts for the sale OF articles tor flu
ture delivery
Judge ingalls, purchased a lot in the
village OF Greenwich, N. T., adjoining
the house where he was born, not that
he wanted the ground, but because the
wne was about to cut down a noble
old elm which stood upon it.
An expert Tin a London viii CASEY
lately stated that pencil marks rubbed
out revive when thetexturc OF the paper
returns to its normal condition. The
existence Of these marks proved nos
embarrassing in the case in question.
A Japanese official who has spent
two years in Corea reports that he has
seen the face Of a Corean woman
The men never use the name Of a wo-
man or girl in conversation, but speak
Of such q mans wife, daughter Or sister.
Barbara Frietchie's clock is said to be
in existence yet, with its hands fixed at
10 o'clock. the hour at which its pendu-
lum was shot away by a soldiers bullet.
Its final destination will be the Smith
sonian Institute.
Philadelphia's new post-ofiice, which
10 soon to be occupied. cost abou. S.
OOO, 600. Its dimensions are IT'S feet 8
inches on Chestnut street, 175 feet l
inch on Market street, and 4S4 feet on
Ninth street; height of the dome above
the curb, 10 feet.
Coal is produced in forty coun'ic Of
Illinois. The total amount mined dur
ing the last twelve months was 10,-
sos. 79l tons. The capital employed
exceeds $40. 600, 600, and "a, 600 men
are given work. the value Of the coal
at the mines vas SIS, $40. 521.
APar..s le. ter says: Marriages are
cepiions, on pure business principles.
They don't sell young girls in France
like calves and colts rs they do in Ger
many. but they sometimes come pretty
close to it."
The DAYS of fabulous rates of interest
in California seem to be past. Tne
savings banks in San Francisco are
lending money on mortgages ut 6 per
cent and paying the morgtayc tax, and
vet they cannot find a market for more
than athird Of their money.
NJ. Bechamp terminated u recent
lecture in Paris by saying that if the
thousandth part of the sum expended
for warlike purposes were dcvoted 10
rendering towns and cities healthy.
l~esions Of lives would be saved and
riches and strength thus multiplied be-
yond calculation.
There is said to be a full million dol
lars OF unclaimed deposits, in the saw
iags banks OF Massachusetts. There is
no State law requiring the publication
OF such deposits, but these accounts
can never become the legal property OF
the bank, however long they may re-
main unclaimed.