Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-01-02

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NEWS COMMENTS.
The poor mans hope-riches.
The rich mans fear-poverty.
THEY still have mosquitoes in New
Orleans.
DEADwooD's voting population has
decreased nearly one-half in four years
EMMA ABBoTT's kiss is reported as
having been frost. bitten in the late cold
snap.
MINNEAPOLIS has erected $7,62l,95C
worth of new buildings the year about
to close.
A NEW YORK paper says George W.
Cable is making $4,000 year out of his
readings.
In India husband can cut his wife's
ears off for certain offenses. And it is
sometimes done, too.
BEFORE the end of the present week
the country will be filed with the debris
of broken resolutions.
The storekeeper who advertised lib
orally is now actively engaged in counting
the profits of his holiday trade.
ENGLISH statistics are said to show
that married men live longer than the
unmarried, in the proportion of ten to
six.
BAsHFu1 bachelors will be more bold
in making calls today than they were
last New Years Day. They will fear no
leap-year proposal.
MISS MAUD ST. PIERRE is worth three
millions of dollars. She is investing it
in coal and mineral lands in Tennessee
Come into our garden, Maud.
A CALIFORNIA man is said to have re-
Gently paid one hundred dollars for $lOO-
900 of confederate money, and would like
to get a million dollars of it at the same
rate.
RAPID CITY girl, while out riding
with a young man, deliberately got out
of the buggy to kill herself because the
vounp man persisted in driving with both
hands.
THERE are at present sixteen locomo'
tive works in the United States, besides
the shops owned by the railroad compa-
MES, Five men can turn out an engine
in year.
Tin and brass do not 60 we'll together,
says a scientific paper. Mr.. Science,
you're away off. It's always the fellow
with brass that gets the girl with tin
Yonkers Statesman.
LAWYERS in Berlin use the telephone
extensively in communicating with their
clients and each other. To facilitate
business they have lately combined to
Obtain q large room in the law courts
whence wires connect with their offices.
TT ia the custom in some countries,
particularly in bonnie Scotland, for the
vounp bucks when the clock strikes
twelve on the last night of the year to
call upon their lady-loves with bottle
in one hand and glass in the other.
This is called "first footing The GUS
tom has not been adopted in this coun-
try. First footing in such cases is gen
erally performed by the old man.
"Grant me favor before go?"
Pleaded Augustus soft and low;
''Lay your dear head upon my breast,
Encircling arms shall guard its rest,
And love in kiss shall be expressed!-
Ah, do not do not say ne no
I die to be by your lips caressed!'
..Dear boy" she murmured. mot tonight;
Don't think me cold and hea1tless quite;
But cannot kiss you before you 60;
Not that love you less. you know;
Nor that I wish caprice to show;
Bot simply brcause-Tll tell you right
I hate the smell of onions soy
The Judge.
THE great millionaires of America, &C.
cordinp to the New York Journal, made
the following generous Christmas gifts:
Mr.. Vanderbilt gave his employees
.:,,o f,r making one dollar do the work
of two dollars, if they cut their expenses
one-half. ~. d.
Mr.. Gould intended to have given Al
orphan asylum Christmas tree, but tn