Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-05-28
GLEANIN0s.

| GLEANIN0s.
Five hundred artists now have studios
In New York.
Cat breeding for fur to line cloaks Il
An eastern pursuit
Travis county. Texas, hAs . post.
o6lce named Jumbo"
Sewing Is now taught In tho public
schools Of Springfield. Mass.
There arc 500 gcysers and 500 hot
springs In tho Yellowstone National
Park.
Mexico consists Of twcnty-sevcn
states, one federal district and ono
territory.
Platinum wire has been drawn 70
6ns - to be absolutely invisible 70 the
naked eye.
The daughter Of Captain Gambia
leund hie body - ne picklo rat 81 .
N<1lnnnfa 6iinn cnll 1If1i
thousand boxes Of sardines were pack
cd in Lubcc, Me-. last ycar.
During tho present century $50, O00,-
600 copies Of the Bible hare been print
cd In 226 different Languages
The new enrolment gives the Ger
man army on . wnr footing 1,487, 100
men besides $40. QUO Of the lnndsturn.
All portly strcet-car conductors in
Philadelphia must 60, to give place to
small men weighing less than 1S0
pounda
During the twelve years from 1871 to
1882 the number Of lives lost BY disas-
ter to British ships was 38. .7c2. OF whom
$3.50 wore crew and S,G62 passengers.
An English trSveler says tha. New
York people look ono way while thov
arc walking another, and that strangers
have great trouble in dodging around
them.
The money expended BY Americans
for the purchase Of pictures in France
within the last twenty years amounts
TO POO. 600, 600 francs, which is equal to
80. 0oO, 900.
A Philadelphia canary bird whistles
yankee Doodle" and waves the Ame-
rican flag. He il valued At $500, and
has been bought by a patriotic gentle
man at Watertown. N. Y.
Henry Ward Beecher says that be.
sides ''Unclc Toms Cabin" the only
one he ever read of the numerous books
written by his sister, Mrs. Stowe, was
''l'he Minister'S Wooing."
Sir John A. Macdonald. tho central
figure In Canadian politics. is good
conversationalist. but knows little Of
oratory. Here is a sentence from
verbatim report of speech made In
Parliament: 1T may be true-er-er
that every month in tho ycar--in the
year-er IA vessel mny get through;
butter that is, that Is. not-er the point.
Domino parties are fashionable en-
tertainments in Boston. the ladies but
not the gentlemen wearing masks. At
one entertainment q young gentleman
was flirting desperately with adominos
when to his astonishmcnt the voice be-
hind the mask said. why, Bobbic,
where did you learn such frightinl
thug 1sic dOnaiaav PAOsvu W Do ms
mother.
The bill presented at Albany 70 per-
nit the fling OF will al any time an-
terror to q mans death is not unique,
In Michigan tho law already pcrmhs 3
person to file = will with an officor
commissioned for that purpose. and to
cause notice to be given to his heirs
that unless they intcrpose sufficient OBJ
jections il will be considered valid
instrument
In 1885 OF the Eve Rawson boys in
Vermont two went to Iowa, two to
Georgia and one stayed at home on the
farm. VIM. E. and r. i. were tho
Georgia immigrants. The former made
$50. 600. but that fortune was swept
away during the war. Then William
made $500. COO more anil died. + z.
Is now worth $3.50. coo. The Iowa
brothers are barely scraping along, and
tie Vermont brother 10 poor.
Station Agent Harding. OF Wintertop.
N. T.. has dog that Inns assumed to
| take charge of the mnil bag on The ar.
rival of tho trains. When it is nearly
time for the train. the dog takes his Po-
sition ON the platform OF the depot, and
NJ soon as the bag is thrown OF takes
| it carefully in his tccth and carries i
! to the postofice. When the train 10 be
hind time he becomes uneasy and shows
much impatience at tho delay.
| The horrors OF life in tho Kentucky
| Insane Asylum arc being revealed b,
| an investigation. Ono witness, . doc
tor in charge OF the medical stores. tes.
| titles that drinks were served ont liner.
ally to the employees on the supcs IN.
tendent's order, and generously nd
| mits that he himself occasionally drani
/ too rnnch. hut anoioriscs by SAVING