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

VARIETIES.
/ A ZURICH printer has started q print.
ing office in which the compositors are
all women--a great innovation for
Switzerland.
IT is said that there IRE SO, 900 He.
brews in New York, and that Of the
number one hundred have estates
valued at 81, 100000 or upwards.
A PENSION Of seven hundred and fifty
dollars a year is to be given to the
widow of George Smith, the Assyrian
explorer.
A PRIVATE letter from Mr.. Edwin
Adams, in Australia, states that he has
been shipwrecked and seriously i'll, but
is very much better and playing to
crowded houses. M 5sa9S
The cotton manufacturers of Colum-
bus, Ga, consume about IS bales of COT
ION per day, or nearly 1000 in work
ing year. The mills there are running
some $4,000 spindies and 1900 looms.
THE wife is very anxious to stop
taking her medicine, because it is de-
stroying her voice. The husband SYM
pathizes deeply, but tells her it is not
safe to discontinue it.
GEORGE SAND says of needlework:
II think tnat this exercise has natu-
raj attraction for for US, an invincible
charm, which I have felt at every Pc
Rod in my life, and which has often
tranquilized my strongest agitation"
BALzAo, in his prime, produced 1878
columns Of feuilleton for the French
newspapers in one month. These COL
umns represented five different novels,
and he has correcting the proofs of two
others.
The Turks have battle hymn which
they. sing when they 60 into battle. It
is said that the soldiers of the enemy
put their fingers in their ears and rush
madly upon the bayonets of the foe,
gladly welcoming death as an escape
from the singing.
FATHER DABURY, Methodist preach
er at Rich]and, Mich, IS years old,
carries on farm during the W, elk and
breaches on alternate Sundays at two
churches 6 and - miles respectively
from his home, riding to and from
meetlng, every Ounuay.
A JEALOUS Baltimore husband, P. J.
Tracy, swallowed morphine after writ
ing to his wife: ut is for you that
have done this, and when I am dead
you can do what you like about marry
ing Schlutter." Mrs. Tracy got the let
ter, but before she had time to marry
ochlutter her husband had been pump
ed free Of the poison.
Gov. TiLDEN is Eve feet ten inches in
height and is spare in figure. His head
is large and round, his eyes are blue
and his abundant chestnut hair is
sprinkled with gray. He is 60 years
old, and fourteen Of his ancestors at
tanned the average age of seventy-nine
years.
GEORGE w. DErrz the seventy-nine-
winter athlete, who walked all the way
from New Albany, Indiana, to the Cen (
tcnnial, q distance of eight hundred
miles, during the month of May, ha9
recently made the circuit of the Cen;
tennial Grounds, a distance of Al miles
on the outside in forty-six minutes.
A BRONZE statute of the poet Burns,
to be erected in George square, Glasl
gov, has been cast at the foundry Of
Messrs. Cox & Son, Thames DittonA
The artist is Mr.. George E. Ewing, of
Glasgow, who has succeeded in produce
ing very excellent likeness of the
poet.
He raised his knife and lpaused A ghastly
glare
Cleaned from. his eyes like moonbeams
through shutter
I watched him, moveless, in that fixed, strange
shuddered as saw his lips set there
Repress the shrieks his startled soul would
What saw he? Nothing but woman's hair
Twas in the butter.
A SUNDAY SCHOOL teacher was giving
lesson in Ruth. She wanted to bring
out the kindness of Boaz in command,
ing the reapers to drop large handfuls
of wheat. "Now, children" she said,
"Boaz did another nice thing for Ruth;
can you tell me what it WASP" married
her !" said one of the boys.
CHILDREN must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play and
some good companionship outside
otherwise young life runs the greatest
danger in the world of whitening or
growing stunted, or at best prematurely
old and turned inward on itself.
The Thames tunnel was flooded to
such an extent few days ago, as to
necessitate the sus, ension OF the entire
traffic on the East London line between
Mapping and Deford road station. The
inundation is attributed to some defect
in some docks recently opened, the
foundations of which are said to be
higher than the level of the tunnel.
The permanent pumping apparatus
has proved inadequate.
For scarf-pins and finger-rings the
cats eye has become one of the most
fashionable stones used. 1t is specie
of the sapphire, and the most desirable
color is of yellow-green tint. 1t has
threads of white asbestos within it, and
the light is reflected from these in an
intense and peculiar manner. When
this stone ia prnperly cut cut, white band
Of light is seen floating in its interior
that changes position as the gem is
moved before the eye, which peculiar
i.y probably, suggested the name by
which it is generally known. 80 -
ECCENTRIC Ether Moody used to be
the delight and guide of York, Nc, the
old seaport town which disputes with
st. Augustine the honor OF having been
the first city in America. In it's ancient
meeting house he administered his
celebrated rebuke to his tardy parish
Toner, stately Euglishman, who walk
typ the broad aisle in prayer time.
"And, 0 good Lord" prayed the worthy
parson, among thy other kind dispen-
sations, cure thy servant who has just
entered thy house of that ungodly