Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-06-23
ODDS N ENDS.
Queer and interesting Information
From Every Point OF
the Compass.

vessels. On board ship the day is
divided into seven ~"watches."
There are men who mistake the
publicity of a patent medicine tes-
timonial for fame.
John takes pride in the extent OF
his hair. A Philadelphia Chinaman
glories in a pig tail 5 feet IL inches
in length.
The ~insular people are willing to
be amused. Ten million dollars
worth Of German toys are sold in
England yearly.
Emmerson's words Of courage
were: "Neyer strike sail to a fear.
Come into port grandly, or sail with
God the seas"
The old country does not 60
bare footed. 1t is said that 127,-
900, 900 boots and shoes are manu-
featured yearly in the United
Kingdom.
There is going to be hand-organ
music in the "Sucker state" The
Monkey Introduction company, is
the name of a newly chartered Illi-
nois corporation.
There is no use in being an en-
peror unless you can be one in all
the term implies. The emperor of
China has ten men whose sole duty
is to carry his umbrella.
Some people never seem to be in
their natural elements unless some
one is ruling over them a &C.
of negroes living in western Ala
bama are said to be ruled by a queen.
France has had many bright
women, but they have taken more
to the salons than to the profess
slons. There are forty woman ply.
siclans in India, but only two IN
France it is said.
The ruling passion is strong in
old age. Signor Farinna, who
sang with Parepa Rosa, Nilsson
and Lucca, is training a troupe Of
singers of African decent for the
grand opera stage.
The metropolis of the world is
something of a calf. Four rail.
ways, the Great Eastern, the Great
Western, the South Western and
the North Western, bring into Lon
don about &c, 1000, 900 gallons of
mix every day.
Even if a man is wearing the cloth
iokers will have their jokes. Bish-
op whipple has just caught his first
tarpon in Florida waters and the
local papers contain j~ocular r~eferen-
ces to his previous success as a fisher
Of men.
GA drop Of ink may make a mill
ion think" said Byron. Yes and
it is apt to make one woman think
enough for the other 900, 800 when
that same drop ornaments her car
pet.
Jas. Michigan hands the Free
Press a copy of tho Kansas Work
man, which among other excelant
things, has the following utteran-
ces of a lady on the subject of secret
societies:
"What is the use of Lodges, and
why do men join them? Many
women are opposed to Lodges be-
cause they are secret organizations,
and they say no good can come of
secret orders. Would it be an or
der worth any notice il its principles
and laws were made public?
Is not the good we can see de-
rived from it enough to satisfy our
curiosity? Did not the Lord and
his dociples meet and work in secret
for the good of their fellow men?
Is there-can there be-anything
grander or nobler than a meeting Of
united brothers, Bound together by
their sacred vows, founded on the
bible teaching Charity, Hope, and
protection to those around them,
regardless of nationality, creed or
profession whether rich or poor,
so long as they are upright, honest
men? How can it help but make a
man better if he lives up to the
teachings of the order: What can
be greater than charitable heart?
Is not charity the strongest feature
of the Order? Read /. Corinthians
18th chapter. "And though | be-
stow all my goods to feed the poor,
or give my body TO be burned, and
have not charity, it profteth moth
ing" How many times has a poor
soul been saved by a kind word or
a charitable deed at the right time.
Only think of it, For the month
of January alone S36, 900 we're paid
ont to poor widows and orphans by
that grand and noble Order of Uni
ted Workmen, and who can tell of
the want and suffering it has done
much to alleviate. Families who
otherwise must have been scattered
aud broken up, or left Il: the mercy
of the cold and heartless world,
perhaps at last to add another VIC
tim to the pen Tertiary or' asylum.
Is there a church in the whole Uni
ted Kingdom IA say they have
done as much for the poor and
needy?
The unanimity with which the
freo-trade organs denounce Lord