Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
Items or Interest.

IT has been showing in the Georgia
mountains.
FIFTY ships loaded with wheat left
San Francisco for Europe last month.
NATURAL born wood-choppers-The
Chippewa Indians.
The New York Compulsory Educa-
ton law il not enforced.
The Mikado of Japan has put off
his heather garments and struts around
in nobby suit Of plaid, like an Amer
lean swell of the day.
Do LDw1s is. said to have become SO
dyspeptic over his Graham bread that
he has returned to hot biscuits and
mince pies.
Advertising is the bulls-eye of trade.
The successful business team is that
which advertises most. Now is the
time to make the shots tell.
The claim of Mary Ann Foster upon
the Singer estate has been compromised
for $4,000. The whole value of the
property is $14,0O0,000.
"THAT was very greedy Of you,
Tommy, to eat your little sisters share
of cake" "You told me, ma, I was
always to take her part" said Tommy.
JOHN RYAN, the man sentenced to
death for wife murder, at Toronto, on
the 18th inst, is merchant Of Peter
boro, forty:five years old, and worth
100000.
Quotations from the toad market be-
tween France and England show a
steady movement in trade for extra
quality goods. AL bring SIS dozen.
French market gardHers buy them to
catch bugs.
BUFFALO BILL, as a rifle shot, don't
appear to be success, he having
made only eighteen out of possible
thirty-fve at Rochester. Won't Sitting
Bull laugh over his face when he hears
this
TwENrY-N1NE thousand dollars have
been received from Virginia City,
New, gambling saloon in one year by
way of license. The money is collected
monthly and gambling is not restricted
at all.
A WELSH widow, as she was turning
away from her dead husbands open
grave, received a whispered offer of
marriage; but she softly replied that
she shad already accepted another
offer as she was going i, to the church.
The design for the window in men,
DRY of Bishop Berkeley, which is to be
put in the new Yale College chapel,
will consist of the coat of arms of the
see of which Bishop Berkely had
charge in England.
A New JERSEY farmer and his FAM
lily and friends have all been having
turkey for breakfast, turkey for din
ner, and turkey for tea for week past.
A train of cars ran into flock of the
birds, and broke the legs Of nearly the
entire number, leaving the owner no
alternative but to "kill and eat"
EXCESSIVE use of powder is very vul-
gar to say the least. None but the very
finest powders should be used, and
many of them are very injurious to the
skin. The best and least Objectionable
Il slLAPls HUE roHese4J" IT t4tSA ssesE4-es-
swans down puff; and remove super
huous traces with another kept for that
purpose.
THERE is new Methodist Church in
Ottawa, Canada, called the Dominion,
viii III is built on the tabernacle plan,
and upon emergency will seat two
thousand persons. It has severa
stained glass memorial windows, and is
finished in good style. Every one in
the audience will be able to see and
hear the minister distinctly.
VISITORS to the Centennial Art GAL
lery will be sorry to learn that the little
statue of "Playing Cats Cradle" was
broken by the point of parasol last
week: and the tiny bars Of marble re-
placed by threads. But the lady who
unwisely meddled with it probably
feels more sorry, as report says <he
had to pay $500.