The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-02
ODDS AND ENDS.

And bent my lips to taste.
My husband won't be home till Late"
She said, which made us laugh;
We little dreamt, behind the door,
Was hid monograph
Result-Fnneral from poets late resi-.
Francisco Ne,0s Letter.
RUSSIAN ladies wear from dozen to
20 bracelets.
The empire of Japan is made 10 of
$500 islands.
The hull of the wrecked Grosser Kur.
furst is broken in two.
IT is said that red-haired men can en-.
dure warm climates longest.
ONE of the best spokes of the Hub
Longfelloe.-Dsxter &miths MenthL.
1..!!!!ls as more noise, but less music,
in Noah's Arkestra than in Thomas.
THE Greeks keep no cats, and wear no
boots; hence they have no use for boot.
jacks.
MORE than 600 patents have been
taken out in England for railroad car
wheels.
LEMONS sixteen inches in diameter
grow abundantly in the mild neighbor.
hood of Galveston, Tex.
IT is estimated that North Carolina
has spent $l0,000,000 for fencing in
$4,000, 900 worth of stock.
"FATHER, +" said a smart boy, 81 don't
want to 60 to work. I'd rather have
saloon and keep a baseball record"
THE hair of New Orleans belle will
be bright purple until it RECEIVERS from
her attempt to bleach it from black to
yellow.
OHIO is said to have produced SIX
legged mule. We pity the owner of
that animal when it grows strong enough
to kick.
mo moose is good news" exclaimed
the fellow who was about to be hanged,
when the sheriff informed him of his
pardon.
A BooT-JACKoPHoNE is wanted-an
instrument that can grab up the new
AID The The est q; at TIE TIE sane tine.
Com. Adv.
MALTREAT policeman and he will
arrest you. Put an extra in it, and
malttreat him, and he rather likes it.
Oil City Derrick.
The pay of good horse jockey is
about the same as that of good preacher,
but then he doesn't get so many dona-
ton parties.-Hawkeye.
OWING to dollars having been so scarce
during the past winter, a majority of us
can't change our quarters this summer.
-Kronikle Herald.
Two American girls have scandalized
pious Paris by tanning themselves in
church. They were admonished to stop
tanning or retire, and retired.
"TooTH, the English ritualist, has be-
come the father of twins-double teeth
as it were" No. As yet they are only
small in-sizers.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Now the farmer so sly and so sleek
Doth mathemetize, so to speak,
And for gold, which he prizes,
he now advertises
Good board at ten dollars per week.
If there is one thing 99g per cent.
more notifying than another, it is to
sit square and plump down on your new
spring style hat-instead of another fell
lows.
ROBERT BARRY, two-year-old, of
New York, Rugged his baby brother of
four weeks so tightly about the neck in
his sleep, Tuesday night, that he was
strangled to death.
MARRIAGE Ceremonies Performed
Free" is the sign displayed by an Ohio
justice. He Keeps 4 tavern, and is salts
fed with the profit on what the bridal
parties eat and drink.
PEOPLE snore because they lie with
their heads thrown back, and there is,
consequently, dropping of the lower
jaw. TO break the habit, sleep with the
mouth closed and the chin low.
r. NJ. HAYNES, Of Albany, VT, died
recently of a strange disease of the
stomach, and post-mortem examina-
ton discovered thirteen well-preserved
cherry stones at the lower end of the
stomach.
"DIDN'T your aunt die rather sud-
denly?" as asked of a visitor from
Maine the other day. "Why, yes" was
the drawled out answer, "she did die
neutrality-suspicious. for her." -- Boston
Transcript. .....
A CAT bird was caught in novel trap
at Canton, Mass, The other day. It
alighted on the haif.opened shell of a
fresh-water clam, which suddenly closed
onits claws, holding it prisoner till
woman set it free.
A BOSTON man went off on an eXcur-
sion with two young women the other
day, but his wife caught him on horse
car and gave him such trouncing with
her parasol that he was glad to leave his
companions and flee.
A LONDON paper says that Sir Charles
Nugent, who inherited baronetcy and
$50, 900 a year when eleven, owed $780,
900 by the time he was twenty-one.
Money-lenders try to get mere boys: who
are heirs to property, to borrow Of them.
A MICRosCoPICAL examination of some
old glass which had the appearance of
being eroded on the surface, has shown
that the glass was being eaten by a
species of hchen. The discovery is valu-
able, and may result in the saving of
many beautiful and rare works of art.
A LIVERPOOL courtrecently sentenced
a P ersian dealer in curiosities to two
months imprisonment for assaulting his
wife. He tied her hands behind her
back, and, after also tying her feet,
struck her twelve violent blows on the
soles with piece of horn.
"pLL bet key of lager on It'll" ex-
claimed one OF party Of individuals
who were holding a lively discussion ina
beer saloon. "I'll hold the (hic) stakes"
spoke up red-nosed person, munchirg
a cracker, who looked as if he already
held the full amount of the wager.
WHISKY is your greatest enemy"
said minister to Deacon Jones. "But,"
said Jones, "don't the Bible say, Mr..