Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1877-04-18
PITM, AND POINT,

IT is the easiest thing in ths world to
make yourself believe that the man who
lends you dollar is philosopher and
gentleman. e. Sr@
You go to shecaggo, hey said the
gentleman FROM Germany. "yell, you
pc bretty careful about dat water dere.
Eff you dond want to ket seek, you
thinks none .suf dat water dill you ket
used to him. ---Rochester Democrat.
a BROOKLYN woman, Mrs. Hessler,
discovered q burglar in. her room, and
laid hold Of him. He pounded hex
face terribly, and broke several of her
teeth, but she chung TO- him till the po-
lice arrived. kH E8
"A WIFE in Cairo alleges that she has
caught her husband in nine thousand
eighty.seven deliberate lies during the
last thirteen months. = Detroit FIRES Press.
From this it would appear that che
doesn't see him oftener than twice. q
week. Herald. -
"A KANSAS farmer purchased q reyol-
yer for his wife, and insisted on target
practice, 80 that she could defend her
house in case of his absence. After
the bullet had been dug out of his leg
and the COW buried, he said he guessed
that she'd better shoot With an ak
MRS. PIKE, the wife of the Chicago
murderer, states in her confession that
Jones, the murdered man kissed her
two hundred tsmes in one day. That
is almost as ofteen as a love-smitten
youth kisses his girl on the front step
when he bids her good night early
Monday morning.-Norr. Herald.
The winter of 1857 will long be re-
rendered for its eccentricities. 1t
was like big bag of snow, with tight
belt buckled about the middle, so that
while storm poured out of both ends,
there was diaphragm OF calm weather
between.-Baltimore Gazette. y
"n7To 8" was the heading Of Colonel
Ingersoll's lecture in q Chicago paper,
and when q suburban citizen on the
way to town opened up his pa
per in the cars and saw that head
he most naturally exclaimed: "Base
ball commenced again!" ~:
A LITTLE scarlet fever convalesant
was overheard praying repeatedly,
while about her play: "Oh, good Lord
cure my earachel" Her mother asked:
"What are you saying, my dear?"
Nothing, said the little girl, g l wasn't
talking to you, Pm talking to the
Lord" -
The large bustles which have been SO
long in vogue are going out Of fashion,
and that glorious season when the mid.
dle:aged females could attend the an.
nual donation party and carry off two.
thirds of the pastors salary about her
person in provisions, may be said to be-
long to decayed past.-Nnaeich B,tl!e-
ha,.ae-,- sSs;ssss2.s., e.
The imperishable affection of a
child for its mother ID equalled in no
other phase of animal nature. "A
bright Nevada boy Of sixteen summers
has the extracted teeth of his ma
ternal ancestor manufactured into
cribbage pegs, and now; when he holds
> five and q ten ii doubly reminds him
Of his deceased mothers maternal
smile, and brings tears to his eyes
Boston Globe. d. -aG. -.-.t' $s
A WISCONSIN, man who had been in.
duced by Western papers to go to
Florida and start an orange factory,
passed through Atlanta on his way
home yesterday. His breaches were
harnessed TO him by one suspender,
and he stood up to a free lunch counter
with the air of q man who knew his
rights and dared maintain them. At
lanta Consultation.
A MERCHANT in q provincial town" in
Scotland had a habit Of saying ST
might haze been. waur" to everything
that was told him, however sad the
story might be, A neighbor, thinking
that he would knock the wind out Of
him, one morning said, Man I had an
awful dream last night "Ay, what
did We dream ?""I dreamed that I
Was in hell" cit might hse been
waur." "How could it haze been waurw
-. Ii it mad been q reality sa.