Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
Walter Holdschmidt. eldest son, OF.
Jenny Lind. is shortly to be married.
Moths eau be kept out of garments BY
wrapping them in solid colored calico.
Aunt Milly," of Nashville, 100 years
old, was married the other day TO . man
forty years her JUNIOR.
Tough meat may be mado as tender as
any by the addition Of little vinegar to
the water when it is put on to boil.
A writer in Temple Bar says that the
toward woman is a we'll bred Ameri.
can.
One good thing eau be said for Feb.
ruary. Short as it is, it achieves gain
of an hour aud ten minutes in its allow
ance of sunlight.
"Did you put it in. with tacks or
putty 2" asked q merchant traveller for a
Pittsburg glass house, as he gazed, in an
absent.minded way, at the hotel clerks
diamond.
An exchange says there are always
more women than men in an insane
asylum. 1t didn't seem to have time to
look up the statistics aud explain who
sends them there.
The Chinese pay their doctors stated
tax when they are we'll ami cease the
payments when they become sick. The
health of the people of that empire is
wonderfully good.
The Chicago Tribune with considera
BILE force argues that the payment of
fifty dollars for a night of Italian opera
by crowds OF residents of Chicago,
standing for hours to get seats, does not
seem to indicate hard times, hard pushed
capitalists. shrinking securities and col
lapsing business houses.
"Oh, mamma! I heard papa say his
prayers last night" why, when did you
hear him chlld?" Don't you remem.
ber?" "Certa'nly not: you must be mis-.
taken" ""Oh 10, amt either I heard
him say 'em just after lie found out I
put some red pepper in his pipe. He
prayed awful bard, too"
In playing u game of seven.up with q
young lady from St. Paul, q wicked Bis.
marcksr told her that every time she
held the jack of trumps it was sue sign
thar her lover was thinking Of her. Then
the impertlent fiend watched her face at
each DEAL ana every time she blushed
and looked pleased led out aud caught
her jack.-Bismarck Tribune.
"Why is 1t" asked lady, "that gen
tlemen-no, meG-persist in wearing
their overcouts to their seats in the thea
tres and then taking them off, to the i'm
mense discomfort of at least four persons
those on each side and those before anc
behind them?" Talk of large hats! They
are bubbles of vanity beside the nuisance
OF man with an Overcoat.
Harpel's Weekly: Rev. j. G.. Woot
possessed for four years large lump o
dry Nile mud, hole in one end of it
sides showing that mud6sh was With,
, it The other day he carefully cut til,
lump open, and found the inhabltant il
good condition, doubled up. with the tai
over it's head, just as when it went t,
sleep more than twenty years ago.
sis my face dirty2" remarked youn.
lady to her aunt, while seated at th
dinner table ou steamboat runnin,
from Cairo to New Orleans. DIRTY! Nc
r Why do you ask?" "Because the in
sulting wal er insists upon putting
towel beside my plate. I've throw
three under the table. and yet every tim,
J be comes round he puts another one be
fore me-"
j. 1t is told of George ID. Prentice, one,
editor of the Louisville Courler-Jourual,
that in a poker game, when the stake.
ran high. he Was accused bv his oppe
J nent of betting more than his hand wal
worth. "Sir." he replied, as he turned
the hand down on the table. "if wer
playing with Jupiter at star ante
would darken the everlasting firmamen
on the hand have just turned down."
/ 4, x>e
Blank, who was such favorite in youl
aud all they had was sold by the sheriff.
live in a little rented house down town.
"What change! How she must grieve /!
|"Yes. She is SO changed that even he
best friends would not recognize her.
met her on tie street to day and did no
know her at all, poor thing"
Speaking to roomful of people. at !,
religious me citing in Bridgeport. Conn.
last week, the female exhorter cried out
There you sit, night after night, like
blocks of stone. We have been talking
and praying for you day III and out, We
you hang back and seek not the mercy
seat. We can't go on this way. Wh!
don't you hurry up and get converted
What's the matter, anyhow-has The
devil got You all il?"-Bridgeport News
New Haven Union: The year who's,
numeral is exactly divisible by four is
not called Leap" because four will leaI
into it, but for the very reason that il
ancient times it was found that none but
the Riddy Of the weaker sex, and the
Ijumping-jacks-the ancestors of the
dudes-of the sterner sex, were forming
marriage alliances Hence it was enacted
by public statutes in most of the nations
of Europe that "all maidens of good le
pute shall hereafter, in every fourtt
year, be empowered and authorized Il
PROFOUND the interrogatory nuptial
without fear or favor of any man-bar
ring the king"