Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1877-01-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
AUSTRALIANS are finding gold nuggets
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foot up to $3S,7S9. e
Dom PEDRO says marry early. He
was married atlE. Sst
MISS ANNA OLIVER is a Methodist
woman.pa at Passalc, N. j.
JOHN BRIGHT, the English statesman,
has reached his sixty-sixth year. ~ :
A SEA lion has taken upsits abode in
the Sacramento river. fE9t: 80
The miss who King Alphonso is to
marry, and make Queen Of Spain isnow
only Is years old. ,-.' e Y <',''
MAGGIE MITCHELL has sayed half
million dollars from the results OF her
theatrical work. a.s ssafls # s4asI
The son of the Russian Gar, who is
to be King some day, is a Hercules in
size and strength.
Paper car wheels are at present in
constant use on some of the palace
sleepers. .m. p. ..4 y .,,s.., u
CARELESS attendants at the Cincinnati
geological gardens allowed fine ostrich
to die from exposure to cold.
The growing demand in Europe,
generally amongst the working classes,
for animal food, is rapidly developing
the industry here of shipping canned
m eats thither. ., .s.s:..-,
The large bell in the Cologne Cathe.
dral, made out of captured French
cannon, is q failure. The tone is un.
pleasant. It will not be used, and is
named "The Silent Bell" -.4.o
MORE and valuable discoveries of
guano deposits have been made in
Peru, and her securities have, in conse-
quence, gone up several per cent.
MONKEYS skull was recently found
in sack of coffee opened in grocery
in Raleigh, N. 9. This was certainly
apparent grounds for not using that
coffee. ~. '-- ~ .s2s5
A YOUTH was recently tried in Eng.
land for breach Of promise, who had
written to his sweetheart 227 love letters
since 1867. Those letters cost him 9100
not including stationary. ..y..a.ys~.
A Moscow paper says that Russia is
state of $4,000, 900 peasants, who can
not lose anything by war, even if their
villages should be destroyed, for they
do not own anything.
CAPT. Cook has statue at last. It is
the work of thu distinguished English
sculptor, Woolney, and it is to be placed
in Sydney, where it will be seen by all
the ships which enter Sydney harbor.
Mr.. CHAFFEE, the new Senator from
Colorado, is enormously wealthy, anda
widower. It is not especially encour.
aging to fair treasury clerks, however,
that he has been widower for twenty
years. - -.@a
SOME time ago pupil in deaf and
dumb asylum in New England read a
portion Of the Book of Job; when asked
to write out his understanding of Jobs
suferings, he wrote as follows: "The
Lord boiled Job seven days." s']'
The "Whistling Sword, or the Whoop.
er-up Terror of Mangler's Gulch, is the
latest dime novel sensation. The hero
climbs thirty Indians at one time, res
cues nine beautiful maidens, and cuts
his throat because he can't marry all of
them.
Overwhelming into the stable and
addressing hostler): II say, Jim!"
eyes, sir" "Take Romeo's harness
off, and put it on Ophelia." eyes,
sir" "Iake Gen. Sherman out to
water" eyes, SIR" "And rub down
the Grand Duchess" - -
A YOUNG Baltimore man told his
/ wife that he had embezzled several
hundred dollars of his employers
money, and she said that by close econ.
omy they could save enough to refund
the amount and thus save his credit.
When they had, by hard pinching, &C.
cumulated the required sum, the hus'
band added that to the stolen money
and eloped with a girl, as he had in
tended to do from the first.
Two Pittsburg shoemakers recently
tried the Experiment. of making boots
from human hide. BY arrangement
with a medical college they secured
skin from the stomach and back of q
man killed suddenly by accident, tan
ned it nicely, and made two pairs of
boots therefrom, the soles being made
Of ordinary leather. They proved to
be warmer than boots made from the
skin of calf, and it is believed will be
as serviceable. 5=- z.-gst -...
| A CH1LDLEss old soldier in Germany,
q grandson of Schiller, is the last bearer
of that industrious name. Another
grandson Of the great poet, but on the
mothers side who wears the imposing
title of Freiherr Won Gleichen- Russ
wurm, has, in order to perpetuate the
poets name in the family, given his
eldest son the pronomen Schiller, and
directed that the same thing shall be
done to one of the male offspring in all
further generations of the house of
Gleichen.R nsswn-m.
TOMMY is just old enough to under
stand literally what he hears in church,
. place he breads to 60 to, for Sunday
is day of misery to him. The other
morning he came home in gloomy
state Of mind, and confdentially in.
formed his mother that he didn't want
to 60 to heaven. Upon being asked
why, he said there was too much Sun
day there, for he heard the minister
reading out of a book that it was q
place where congregations ne'er break
up, and Sabbaths never end" and he
thought one Sunday in week was all
he could stand. =
A FEW days ago, Burlington man,
who has long been a fervent disciple of
Olcott and Palm and sill the other cre-a
mationists, made his will, in which he
stipulated that after death his body
should be burned and the ashes pre-.
served in classic urn. But yesterday
he went out into the kitchen to black
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