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Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
Arsenic in Candles.

Il very curious case Of arsenic poison
ing has just occurred in Paris. A rich
lady residing in the Faubourg St Ho-
more found herself growing III, and the
doctor pronounced her to be suffering
from some slow poison. Nine. X. re-.
jected the idea as absurd, but, on rising
one morning, found glass of water
which was usually placed by her bed
side, to be discolored by a white filmy
powder. On showing this to the doc
tor, he at once declared it to be ARISEN.
ic. All inquiries failed to detect the
culprit, and the next night madame
filled the glass herself, and kept careful
watch that no one meddled with it.
Nevertheless, in the morning the white
powder again made its appearance, and
the doctor was fairly at his wits ends
to ascertain the cause. Finally he dis
covered that his patient was in the
habit of reading in bed, and for that
reason candles were kept burning all
night in her room. These candles, of
a dazzling wilderness, had been strongly
impregnated with arsenic during their
bleaching process, and the arsenic be-
coming yolatilized by the combustion,
poisoned the air of the bedroom.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
4 Human Pin and Needle Manufact0ry.
y,


A very strange malady is that from
which Lydia Stokes, a young woman of
Lawrence county, Ala, suffers, if We
may credit the correspondent of a
local paper, and he claims to have his
information from physician familiar
with the case, and VOWS it is mo sell or
sensation nor overdrawn." At various
times during the past two years there
have been taken from her body over
one hundred pins and needles, besides
wood spllnters, no great number being
extracted at one time. They had ap:
peared and been taken from all parts
of the body-face, head, neck, back,
breast, arms and legs. The peculiar
tiles of the case are that the pins are
headless, the needles are sometimes
taken out in bundles, or rather, as
many as five twisted together as though
made Of soft iron wire, and, while they
are mostly corroded and more or less
decomposed, as though they had passed
through the stomach, yet SOME are
bright as though but recently inserted
from the surface. Every effort so far
has failed to detect how she becomes
possessed of them. She has been de-
prived of both pins and needles, such
feminine conveniences being carefully
concealed from her for long periods Of
time without materially checking the
trouble. The location from which they
are taken is first indicated by small
pustule or pimple. She is delicate, ap-
'parentfy constructive, and believes that
she is bewitched.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
Terrible Torture.

After very many years there was an
execution at Lucknow October 30. A
Moulvie Of some little repute, paid the
last penalty of the law. He was con-
victed of a most brutal act Of murder,
albeit not committed by his own hands,
but through means the most revolving
to humanity, and was sentenced to
death. He kept a small school, and
one Of the boys who had been absent
for two or three days, on coming to the
school was locked up by him in small
room. In this room snake had been
seen some days previous, but was not
killed. A little while after the boys
incarceration he called out:
A snake, a snake !" ana implored
the Moulvie to open the door.
coal" he cried, "open the door and
see for yourself-for Mohamed Rus
soops sake open the door,"
The Moulvie would do nothing of the
kind. At last the poor boy was bitten
in several places in the ankle, and he
called out:
30! now that I have been bitten,
open the door," The Moulvie was in.
exorable-he would not open the door.
About midday the father of the boy
came to the school and inquired for
his son, and inquired why he had not
come home for his usual meal. The
Moulvie said:
81 have confined him for his sb-
sence."
"Well," said the father, "release him
now" The door was then opened, and
the corpse of lad twelve years old,
the only child of his parents, was the
sad and shocking sight which presented
itself, with the snake coiIed near his
neck.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

A NEW process for saving granite was
shown at the recent convention of
architects at Philadelphia. The at
tempt to use the said process, SO sue
cessful in cvtting marble, has not sue
ceeded, the rate of cutting being
very slow. In the new process fine
particles of chilled iron are used in.
stead of sand, an ordinary toothless
ron saw being used. The iron is pro-
duced by directing jet of steam upon
q tine stream of melted iron, which is
blown into a spray, on the principle of
An ordinary :" stomizer." The particles
OF iron fall into cold water, by which
they are chilled. By the use of this
cutting material granite can be sawn at
the rate Of three or four inces an hour,
instead Of half that distance per day,
BY the old process with sand. Short
blocks are cut far more rapidly than
this. The surface left by the. saw is
much better adapted for polishing
than q hammered surface is, the crys-
tai being uninjured. The expense Of
preparing the iron Eis said to be COM
paratively trifling.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

up, and the bodies we're packed 50 close,
one on the top of the other, that there
remained hardly 9 cubic foot OF space
free" I do not doubt that burial
place so singular owed its existence TO
one of those terrible epidemics which
ravaged the city between the twelfth
and sixteenth centuries. It is, there
fore, no wonder that during the great
heats of summer the excavations have
to be suspended from regard to the
public health: and that when under ex'
ceptional circumstances something mas
to be done, it is often effected
at the coet of the life or
health of the workmen. The construc-
ton has been commenced of collect
inc. drain, to connect the basin Of the
Coliseum with the Tiher, passing
through the Via Triumphalis and the
valley Of the Circus Maximus. In dig.
cling for this purpose, at the great
depth Of thirty three feet, the work.
men came upon reservoir of water OF
the eighth century, B. G. A young
architect was sent to sketch the monu-
ment. Some hours after, he had an
attack of fever, which nearly cost him
his life; and the same happened +, one
who had helped him. At the begin
ming of last July, when the tenders for
the constru ction of the railway from
Rome to Fiumicino were adjudic tted,
this remarkable postscript was added:
call the workmen who shall assist in
the works have right to an unlimited
distribution of quinine. Those who
work in the neighborhood of Fiumicino
will have right to the gratuitous at:
tendance of the municipal doctor OF
the place, as we'll as (if necessary to an
honorable place in the cemetery
Lettertn the London Ataen@uuU.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
Speed Of IrOncladS.

The Pail Hall Gazette, in comparing
the most formidable of the Russian
ironclads, the Peter the Great, with the
British Dreadnaught, says that if the
former can average twelve knots, her
designers may think themselves lucky.
The Devastation steamed from Malta
to Smyrna in 4S hours, at the rate of
a knots an hour; in point of arma-
ment and thickness of armor plate, the
vessels are nearly alike, each carry ing
four 80 guns. The Thunderer is more
powerfully armed with two 80 and to
30 ton guns, and would be still smore
formidable. Tue Dresdnaughtis larger
than the Peter the Great, carries four
80 ton guns, is faster than either Of The
others, and probably the most danger
GUS ironciad atloat at the present time.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
everything in her house was no longer

everything in her house was no longer
hers.
She went to the grocer and paid him
the money for the articles she had re-
ceiyed for the ring, and he gave it back
willingly.
When the next steamer sailed it bore
away Robbie and his mother forever
from the home in which he had suffer
ed so much, and yet where they had
spent the happiest Thanksgiving Of
their life. But in the new home to
which they were going plenty would
always be found, and Robbie would
never have to appeal for chicken for
his Thanksgiving dinner in vain.-
Methodist.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
Rome q Vast Cemetery.

The ground on which the eternal
city stands is such as a geologist would
find it hard to describe; it is mass of
ashes, Of vegetable and animal detritus,
corrupted by contact with the filth of
sewers, constructed at Indifferent periods.
without any regular PLAN or any regard
to the public health. immediately
after the fall of the empire, the law
forbidding bnrials within the walls was
neglected, and the city became q vast
cemetery, where the living dwelt in
perpetual contacs with the dead. First
the burials invaded The ancient ruins,
and, in a long experience of arcb@ log,
ical ! esearch. l have never yet found
a single ancient building which did not
conceal corpses-often only a few
dozen, but sometimes millions. The
fact that each explains the greater part
of these dismal discoveries, but some.
times one is obliged to betake ones
self to other hypothesis more or less
problematical. The subsoil of the
Piazza Colonna, the gayest and most
lively spot in the city, ia strewed with
corpses. 1t was the cemetery of the
church (now destroyed) of ST. Andrea,
first discovered in 1925, in digging in
the piazza for water-conduit. The
same remark applies TO the Piazza del
Pantheon, the former burying-ground
of the Church of S. Maria ad Mar
tyros. In 1871, when I was superin-
tending the excavations in the Forum
and the Basilica Julia, saw carried
away at least $4,000 cubic feet of hui
man bones which had been buried at
the side of the chapel Of St. Marcia
della Giraffe. A passage in Flaminio
Vacca on the same subject is very char.
acterlstic: "ln the Therme of Con.
stantlne," says lie, Opposite the
Church of San Silvcstro, in q garden
belonging to Bernardo Acceagu|i, were
found two enormous subterranean
vaults, 100 palms long, and thirty feet
"ldt, filled with ss.veral thousand
corpses. The entrance to these dread.
Jul vaults had been carefully stopped
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
HToetil Set on Edge. -

All acid foods, drinks, medicines.
tooth-washes aud powders are Injurious
to the teeth. If a tooth is put in cider,
vinegar, lemon-juice or tartaric acid,
in a few hours the enamel will be com.
pletely destroyed, so that it can be re.
moved by the finger-nail, as if it were
chalk. Most have experienced what is
commonly called teeth set on edge.
The explanation Of it is that acid of
the fruit that has been eaten has so
softened the enamel Of the tooth that
the least pressure is felt by the exceed
lngly small nerves which pervade the
thin membrane which connects the
enamel and the bony part of the tooth.
Such all effect cannot be produced
without lnjuring the enamel. True. It
will become hard again when the acid
has been removed BY the fluids of the
month, just as an egg.shell that has
been sottened in thi. way becomes hard
again by being pnt III water. When the
effect Of sour fruit on the teeth subsidies
they feel as well as ever, bat they are
not as we'll, and the oftener it is re-
peated the sooner the disastrous conse-
qnences are manifested.
A BLIND couple in North Carolina are
8 z-V,. L
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
The Car at the Palace of PetorllOff,

st. Petersburg Correspondence of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The palace of Peterhof is situated on
an eminence facing the bay, and the
space between the extensive but rather
plain building has been converted into
a beautiful park. From the central
portico OF, the palace broad, sloping
avenue leads down to the beach, with a
wide stream of water in the middle,
ripping over bed of marble, and q
line of splashing fountains on each side
for distance Of mile and half. At
the head of this avenue there is a large
circular basin with II group of marble
Nereids in the centre, from which sew
eral columns Of water ascend to the
height Of sixty or seventy feet. Around
the basin there are a number of dol
phins, dragons and nondescript mon
sters, who all send out streams of
water, and the whole surrounded by
very pretty fence formed by diagonal
slender jets of the sparkling liquid,
crossing each other. The waters had
only just been turned on, and the bands
of music were tuning their instrum ents,
when I entered one of the many shady
walks which spread outin all directions,
and a few turns brought me to small
marble building in Grecian style, half
hidden by foliage, with small
knot of people lounging about the
entrance. A short distance away
groom was eading white charger up
and down. Upon inquiry I found that
the Emperor was in the building, which
contains q bath, and that the people
were waiting to present to him COM
plants or petitions. Several old wo-
men wanted to have their conscripted
sons returned, while others were suing
for the pardon of some criminal, and
though l bad nothing in particular to
say to his Majesty, I concluded to stay
and have a good look at him. We did
not have to wait long. The folding
doors opened, and with rapid strides a
tall form passed by and had reached
the groom with the horse before any of
the petitioners could approach him.
AS he mounted I had full view of his
fair open countenance, but his steed
was more beautiful object to look up
on-the noblest horse l ever saw; Of
pure Arab blood, milk-white, with rosy
nostrils, and gracefu'ness and strength
in every move. When his imperial
master seated himself the gentle ami
NAL turned its head and afectionately
attempted to nibble the Emperor's
boots, but single word started him off
On canter, much to the dismay of the
petitioners, who endeavored to keep up
with him, holding out their papers.
The Gar shouted back a few words
elling them to come to the palace, and
disappeared from view. For the sake
of the beautiful horse I was glad to
hear that there is park at Tzarskoie
Selo, where all the horses who have
ever carried his Majesty on their back
are kept in idleness and abundance
when their time of active service has
expired, and there is no degradation in
store for them to carriage or even cart
horses when old age comes on.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

The formation Of gigantic company
for working all the railways of the king
dom is contemplated in Italy. It would
have q capital of some 924, 900, and
would be composed of q group Of
French and Italian capitalists, headed
by the Duke of 6alliera.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

ALL the streams in Wyoming terri
tory are quite low for this season of the
year and unless rains set in soon, he
prospects are that a water famine will
be the consequence. Farmers don't
enjoy driving their stock mile or so to
water, every morning and night, as has
been the case several winters back.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

chill has 100000 acres under cult
walton by irrigation, it being estimated
that one-third of the value Of the entire
farming land of the republic is expend-
Cd in the enterprise. Wherever irriga-
ton has been introduced the land has
increased in value three.fold.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

A MANUFACTURING company Of Wa
terbury, Ct, have presented to the
French Centennial commission, through
Gen. Hawley, fac SMILES of set of
gold sleeve buttons which were pre-.
eented by the predecessors of the firm
to the Marquis de Lafayette, when he
visited this country in 1924.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

A FEW days ago, as President Chad.
bourne, Of Williams College, during a
lecture was telling the freshmen class
that the notion of allowing girls to en-
ter the college for the sake Of their
good influence on the boys was not as
sound as it might be, freshman raised
his hand and eagerly inquired, "Don't
you think it would have a good infu-
ence on the young ladies?"
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
SOUTH & MARTIN, Publishers.
CURRENT TOPICS.

NAMES potato crop is very large
this year. 1t will probably reach g.
100000 bushels, worth 100000
Aroostook County Starch Mill will take
from 100000 to 100000 bushels. A
great many thousand bushels will be
exported.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

DR.. JANSEN, a European scientist, is
devising an automatic photograph re-
volver which will take a photograph
every hour from sunrise to sunset all
the year round. 1t is to be used in
taking sun-spots in clear weather, and
for meteorological purposes at other
times.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

ONE Of the closing incidents of the
centennial exercises last Friday was the
unfurling of the original flag of the
American Union, first displayed by
Commodore Paul Jones, on the Bon
Homme Richard, from window over.
looking the space Immediately adioin-
ing the platform. Part of the audience
cheered and others sung, while all eyes
turned to the ancient relic until the
singing of a patriotic hymn was con.
cluded. The unfurling of the flag was
the work of Miss Sarah Smith Stafford
of Trenton, N. j., the daughter of Lieu
tenant James Bayard Stafford, of the
continental navy, who was with Paul
Jones in the famous engagement of the
Bon Homme Richard with the British
frigate Scraps. The flag has remained
in the possession of the lady's family
ever since the revolution, and for
many yesrs has been committed to her
special custody.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
THANKSGIVING TURKEY.

. BY g. P. LATHRoP.
Valleys lay in sunny vapor,
And radiance mild was shed
From each tree that like taper
At a feast stood. Then we said, q,
"Our feast, too, shall soon be spread,
Ofgood Thanksgiving turkey" -
And already still November
Grapes her snowy table here.
Fetch a log, then; coax the ember;
Fill your hearts with Old-time cheer:
Heaven be thanked for one more wear.
And our Thanksgiving turkeyl
Welcome, brothers-a'l our party
Gathered in the the homestead old
Shake the snow off, and with hearty
Hand-shakes drive away the cold:
Else your plate you'll hardly hold
Ofgood Thanksgiving turkey!
When the skies are sad and murky,
IT'S cheerful thing to meet
Round this homely roast Of turkey
Pilgrims, pausing just to greet,
Then, with earnest grace, to eat
Anew Thanksgiving turkey.
And the merry feast is freighted
With its meanings true and deep,
Those we've loved and those we've hated,
All, to-day the rite will keep
All, to-day, their dishes heap
With plump Thanksgiving turkey,
But how many hearts m ust Jingle
Now with mOllrnful memories!
In the festal wine shall mingle
Unseen tears, perhaps, from eyes
That look beyond the board where lies
Our plain Thanksgiving turkey.
See round US drawing nearer
Those faint yearning shape Of air
Friends that when earth holds none dearerl
No-alasl they are not there:
Have they, then, forgot to share
Our good Thanksgiving turkey?
Some have gone away and tarried
Strangely long by some strange wave;
Some have turned to foes; we carried
Some unto the pine-girt grave;
They'll come more so joyous-brave
To take Thanksgiving turkey?
Nay, repine not Let our laughter
Leap like freight up again.
Soon we touch the wide Hereafter,
Snow-feld yet untrod of men:
Shall we meet once more-and when p
To eat Thanksgiving turkey?
And though not, 'twere still ungrateful
Mid such warm companionhood
To forecast the future tateful,
Finding there no balanced good.
IT'S but type of finer food,
This plain Thanksgiving turkey;
Ofhigherg gifts quaint reminder.
Then let the bounty do its best
To make us gladder, stronger, kinder.
Bid no ghost to be our guest,
But eat as those now gone to rest
Once ate Thanksgiving turker.
-Ha'pe1's Magazine.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13
4 Deadly Pond.
From the Pail Mall Gazette,

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Some remarkable statements were
made at an inquest held at Bury, in
Lancashire, recently, respecting mill
stream lodge known as "Old Charley's
Lodge" or 1.-The Hatter's Cemetery"
in which young woman, aged nine
teen, drowned herself. The lodge, it
seems, is in the midst Of a thickly pop.
ulated neighborhood, and it is not pro.
tected by any fence. The water being
warm, it offers unusual temptation to
suicide, and, owing to its unguarded
condition, it is also q scene of many
fatal accidents to young children, who
fall into it while playing on the banks.
The coroner said he considered it q
public scandal that cold Charley's
Lodge" was not fenced off in some way,
He had himself held inquests on the
bodies of from fifteen to twenty persons
who had met with their death in that
lodge, and he understood that altogeth-
er upward of fifty bodies had been
taken out of it. He did not think
there was another place in. the king
dom to equal it. This is a mistake.
The ponds on Hampstead Heath claim
to have destroyed more human lives
than any other piece Of water OF SINH sin
lar size in Great Britain, and the num-
Der of bodies taken out of them is
almost beyond calculation. "Old
Charleys Lodge" is, however, beyond
doubt most deadly pool, and police
constable present at the inquest stated
that it was a common saying in the
borough, cpl go to Old Cnarley's
Lodge" or, "Go to Old Charley's
Lodge;" the first being an expression
Of despair, the second Of brutality.
Inc coroner, with the hearty concur
should himself write to the owner of
the lodge on the subject, with the view
of having it fenced off; and it is to be
hoped that his letter will have the de-
sired effect.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

AN English company has proposed to
Governor Smith, of Georgia, to put on
a frst-class line of steamships between
Savannah or Brunswick and Liverpool,
at once, and keep them running stead
lily, provided the state will give them
a bonus Of $4,000 a year for three
years. They guarantee besides that
they will land 300 immigrants per
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-13

a BLIND couple in North Carolina are
feeling the beauty Of q first born.