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

VAO NA0S0A0 AAV0I, &uu Wig Only Draw.
back is the raising of 81, 0OO, 600 or S..
100000. z '0Ass. 9aNT w
Mr.. PUsEY and others in Wilmington
are urging the State Legislature to en-.
courage the culture Of the sugar beet in
Delaware. ,aftS5i1+.1 r''s3E~4 /
ANOTHER great fall of chalk has
taken place at Shakspere's Cliff, Dover.
the path leading to the summit being
carried away. ~ !, ha, a, 9.t5'sss
AN immense inheritance belonxine
to the Noll family, in Holstein, and
amounting to over 81, 600, 900, is. said to
be awaiting claimants in this country.
DIAMONDS are going out of fashion,
and soon there will be nothing to dis.
tinguish Niagara hackman from the
ordinary capitalist. -g
The family of the Southern General
Albert Sidney Johnston, own lands on
which ansimmense bed of coal has been
discovered. 1t is an effectual turn Of
fortunes wheel.
SOUP houses are growing in favor all
over Germany, owing to the distress
caused by business depression and the
resulting hard times among working
people. ~t
LORD BEAcoNsF1ELD has offered a
gift of G30O to the widow of Walter
Thornbury, and expressed regret that
he is unable to confer pension out Of
the civil list. s&st.''@
The only man in Leavenworth who
used to lie in bed and read novels by
lamp-light had only half finished bis
last book when the tiremen dragged
him out. -.
The Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean
railroad extends over 3,105 miles, and
the whole system, when completed,
will cover 4,423 miles, q greater rail.
cage than any American road can
show. 81, . ~
A FRIEND in Montana sent an Indian
scalp to q New York friend, but it has
landed in the Dead Letter Office in
Washington. Friend will please call,
prove property, and take said scalp
away. '-
Dom PEDRO and his wife visited the
tomb of the Holy Sepulchre in Jeruss.
lem, where they received communion.
The wife of Pedro is the first empress
who has trod the streets of Jerusalem
since Queen Helena.
AT Florence, Arizona, there is a res.
taurant kept by Chinsman with a
Mexican wife, 3 negro COOK, and
white man for waiter. A chrome is
given away with every plate of hash
Soda gorgeous affair, with all the col.
ors faithfully laid on.
BY the new liquor law recently
passed by the Maine Legislature, hotels
are not allowed to publish wine lists on
their bills of fare. In conseq uence Of
this act, the bills of fare of Portland
hotels have gone into mourning, being
heavily bordered with black.
ZAcHARIAg W. HAYES, 8 deaf .nuttee,
who was married in August, 1874, to a
daughter of Chang Bunker, one of the
Siamese twins, is teacher in the In
stitute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,
in Raleigh, N. G. He has two children,
both of whom can hear. 81
JOHN SCOTT BowERBANK, the eminent
naturalist and writer on sponges, bss
just died. He was one of the found.
ers of the Microscopical society OF
London, and also of the Paleontograph.
ical society, and member of most OF
the learned and scientific societies in
England. 3 isf,
EMINENT statisticians have calculated
that the amount of ingenuity and labor
expended by impecunious topers IN
getting free drinks would, If devoted to
any honorable and useful pursuit, pay
off the national debt in a little less than
six years and eight months. "a g4
The latest invention to indicate the
breaking out of q fire is q quicksilver
alarm. When the temperature rises
above q certain point 9 quicksilver
thermometer is caused to break: and
the quicksilver runs into dish, where,
by its weight, q clock-work is set INTO
motion which operates an alarn1-bell'
CAPTAIN BuRNABY, the Asiatic travel
Ter, finds the Garden Of Eden very cold.
On February 9th he wrote from Erzer'
cum, which is close to it: The Their
mometer isabout zero. If the weather
was like this at the creation, Adam and
Eve must have found it uncommon
cold in fig leaves.
IT is said to be no uncommon thing m
China for q man to kill himself at bis
enemy's door, and to leave him thus
saddled with the moral and legal conse'
quences Of his death. This proceeding
is, it is asserted, the most terrible form
Of revenge a man can take, and 1t il
much dreaded even by those who are
conscious Of having done nothing 10
provokeit. 81
They have eating saloons already on
the line of the Chinese railroads. A
passenger when they called out :" i've
minutes for refreshments" can jump
out and indulge in his little bite Of
baked rat, or hasty plate OF birds nes
soup, just % conveniently as the Eng
flish traveller scoops in his bean coffee
and sole leather steak at Musby juno
ion. 80 81 Is I I. i STs.t
MADAME BoNAPARrE, Of Baltimore, il
now in her oath year, and it seems
probable she may yet realize her e1
pressed wish to live to be 100 years old
Though feeble she maintains. full pos
session Of her mental faculties, ane
takes an activeinterest in public affairs
especially abroad.
A SOUTH BRooKvlLLE man tried TIT
effect of blue glass on . link OF bologns
sausage yesterday. In Eve minutes i
commenced to hump IN the middle, IN
ten the word I" Marri-ar WAS dis
tinctly heard, and in fifteen the cat wa
himself again and out on the wood.
house root, calling jogoqsly for his Oh
sweethearts. - rookvias Je0svsoNiaa.