The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-07-18
Here and There.

The wealth of the United States is
$50, 1000, ,000, 900, or 5000 to each in-
habitant; that of Great Britain is
$40, O,0OO,O00,OO0, or $1,000 to each
inhabitant.
Dio Lewis says the coming woman
will be as large at the waist as any
other part or the body. Chicago
girls, then, are not coming. They
can never hope to be as large at the
waist as at the ground.
A parrot recently died in Iowa
aged seventy-two years. It would
have lived longer but for the fact of
a meeting of the "Ladies Sewing So
ciety." The parrot tried to keep up
its end of the conversation, but
finally became exhausted and dice
Bismarck Tribune.
"Begorra, I've always been Dim
mycrat, but I'll vote for Logan this
toime." exclaimed an enthusiastic
Irishman on the glorious Fourth.
When asked his reason he replied:
"Shure. an the papers sez he mur-
theirs the English, an be the powers
Ohm down on the English"
Inter Ocean. George William
Curtis and his Independents, who
buzzed away, and like the fly in the
fable, alighted on the horns of the
Democratic OK, will be permitted to
sit there and ride to the slaughter
house. But the OK does not seem
either elated or oppressed by their
presence.
Laura johnson, Milwaukee girl,
became so indignant on reading a
letter from her betrothed in which
he expressed the desire to break off
their engagement, that she tried to
snatch the engagement ring from
her finger, but it was so firmly fixed
that she could not remove it. Seeing
a hatchet near by, she than deliber-
ately chopped the finger off and sent
it, with the ring attached, to the
faithles lover,
Washington Gazette: One of our
exchanges fixes it up in this way:
For president in 1884, James G.
Blaine; for president in 1883, James
G. Blaine; for president in 1892,
John A. Logan; for president in
1896, John A. Logan: for president
in 1900, Robert T. Lincoln. We
rise to remark that, according to
the aforesaid exchange, Bob has to
wait good many years for the office;
but then it is "better late than
never"
A number of PECULIAR insects,
known as seventeen-year locusts,
have made their appearance in i'm
mence numbers in the woods few
miles south of Manasquin, on the
Jersey coast. The trees are literally
covered with them, and the noise
made by their jaws as they eat the
twigs is so great as to prevent one
from hearing person speak at
few yards distant. The woods have
been visited by thousands to see the
strange insects. The injury to the
trees will be considerable, as the
locusts eat the fresh shoots of this
years growth.
San Francisco Call: There is Il
young man in Oakland who has a
young sister by the name of Jessie,
who was sent to a fashionable school
for your ladies. He said when she
left home he wondered if she would
acquire the airs and affectations that
certain youg ladies that he knew
had by attending the fashionable
seminary. After being there a year
he began to flatter himself that his
sister was proof against such non
sense, when he received a letter
signed "Jessica," instead of Jessie,
as heretofore. In answering he
wrote something like this: "Dear
Sister Jcssica: Your welcome letter
received. Mammaica and papaica
are we'll. Aunt Merica and Uncle
Georgia. started for the Santa Cruz
Mountains yesterday. Have bought
new horse; it is a beauty; it is
named Maudica, etc. Your affection
ate brother, Samica.' The next let
ter was signed Jessie.