Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1884-11-21

NEWS COMMENTS.
BLAINE carried every county in Maine.
A SINGLE ranchman in Texas owns
over 5000 horses.
LOUISIANA has about l8, ,0OO, ,OO0, 600 feet
of pine in her forests.
GIRLS of a manageable age are re-
ported to be worth $16 apiece in Japan.
AN exchange is happy because the
ballot box stuffing season has passed
and the Turkey stuffing season begun.
DEN1zENs on the streets of Montreal
wearing plug hats are stopped by the
police to see if the hats contain internal
machines.
CONVERSATION was held, by telephone,
between st. Petersburg and Bolnoga, q
distance of 2, ,465 miles, recently. The
experiment was conducted at night.
/. A MEADv111E girl bet fifty kisses
against winter wrap that Blaine would
carry New York. It is needless to re-
MARI that the other party to the bet is q
gentleman =.
ACCORDING to the Boston Post cheese
belonging to an uptown grocer wandered
out of the store and got lost in the streets.
It is carelessness on the part of grocers
to leave their cheese uncovered.
PHILADELPHIA CALL: Five newspa-
per men ran for Office in New York last
week and were elected. -Four newspa-
per men ran for office in Chicago on the
same day and were defeated. The pen is
mightler than the shears.
FALL RIVER ADVOCATE: Belva Lock
wood has asked to have all the ballots
cast for her to be sent to her residence.
She wants to paper the inside of her bon
net box with them. ~.
DULUTH HERALD: Among the ex-
plantations of Blaine's defeat the follow
ing able editorial from Y. Dryth hould
not be overlooked: zap ffiordthj ceadhe
mith nojobfski popoff. Blajjjne!'
VERIFY, Cleveland is lucky dog. A
Pittsburg miser died some years ago
leaving will in which $4,000 was be-
queathed to the next democratic presi-
dent. The money will be sent to Mr..
Cleveland. a--
A CENTRIFUGAL steam clothes wringer
burst in the insane asylum near Yankton,
fatally injuring Charles Van Dyke, head
laundryman, and breaking Maurice
Fitzgerald's arm. The building is
slightly damaged.
THE st. Paul Dispatch says: A piece
of sponge cake made by Vassar college
girl was presented to Grover Cleveland
on Saturday. This is believed to have
been rascally republican attempt to kill
him with Indigestion. 10y.
STANTON PILOT: The handsome vote
given Alex. Mckenzie for sheriff of Bur-
leigh county is well mer1ted compi-
ment to public man, and just refuta-
tion of the many slanderous charges
hurled against the boss boo mer Of North
Dakota by disgruntled soreheads.
By the terms OF an election bet made
in Chicago, the loser is to stand on a
business thoroughtare..and grind hand
organ six hours, while the winner holds
his hat for the pennies, the proceeds to
90 to some charity. This is the latest
dodge out, for making money.
"WE11, Pat" was asked of recently
arrived immigrant, "and how do you like
American sIt's foine country, sor."
"Have you succeeded in getting work
yet?'' "No, sor; but I have friend in
Washington who Is afther getting me a
pension"
. A PHILADELPHIA man vowed in 1850
that he would never shave again until
democratic president was elected. The
other day he went into barber shop
and had his beard, that reached below
his knees, shaved off. He said he IN
tended to make chain of it to present
to Mr.. Cleveland.
THE New Haven Conn Palladium
speaks Of the following election bets:
One election bet calls for the loser to
Il onh, h;c nnrornnkscl 1H00ta fwio0 each