The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-28
ODDS AND ENDS,

TOMATOES sell in Key West at 6 cent.
a box, and are so abundant that many
growers are feeding them to their swine
CARRIAGES weighing twenty and
twenty-three and one-third pounds are
on exhibition at Stockton, Cal.
A practical joking idiot of Middle.
boro, Mass, has been fined $26 for send
ing false marriage notice to a news.
paper.
THERE is a man only twenty-five years
Of age who has already married fourteen
women. He is a clergyman, and mar
ried them to their husbands.
TERMINAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, the
fatal American pie, strawberry short
cake and an overdose of the cucumber.
Commercial.
BERLIN has population of SO4, 900
Protestants, for whom there are but 81
churches and 81 ministers, that is one
shepherd to flock of S,463 sheep.
The widow of the famous Genssee
philanthropist, Duke Galliera, is putting
up another hospital for old people una
BILE to work.
A PIUTE chief owns a high silk hat,
and is SO careful of it that, his hut being
leaky, he keeps it covered with skins in
a hole in the ground.
THE Protestant Orphanage at Flor
ence, Italy, has received and educated,
since 1862, about 100 children, who came
from various parts Of Italy. It now has
thirty orphans, and owes $3.50 francs,
S. Angler CHACE and Geo, T. Hatha-
way, the Fall River defaulters, were
born in Freetown, Mass, in the same
house, and both to-day are in the same
Jail.
In the new drinking fountains for
Paris, of which large number are in
course of preparation, special arrange
ment at the foot provides for the wants
of thirsty dogs.
A PAIR of twins with different birth
days recently arrived in Brockport,
Mass One was born five minutes before
and the other five minutes after mid
night.
EDISON says his monographs will cost
about 500 apiece. This will enable poor
families to keep photograph, but they
will have to dispense with a couple of
dogs.-Hizabeh Herald.
P. T. BARNUM says. "No new enter
prises for me. | am now doing the work
Of ten men, and | am sixty-eight am
setting my house in order, and shall he
feady to pass in my checks whenever re-
CURED"
The glass used by Marshal Bazaine at
Sainte Marguerite, and the rope, with
hooks, by which he descended to the boat
in making his escape, have been sold to
the French police authorities for 800
francs.
VIsCoUNTEss KINGsLAND, the widow
of an Irish peer. has Just received grant
Of $500 from the royal bounty fund.
This lady has for a long time been living
in extreme poverty, supporting herself
by making shirts.
MEN, instead of women, will be en-
ployed in the dining-room of Stewards
hotel for women, on the ground that
women do not like to wait on each other,
and will not take orders with as much
philosophy as men.
SEVERAL years ago young man in
New Orleans put a sum OF money in a
savings bank, and forgot all about it un,
til recently, when, after reckoning up the
interest, it was found that-the bank
had failed.
GRASS, or laminee fringe, is made OF
twist passed between hot rollers, which
process produces lustrous appearance
The cataract" fringes are beautiful
the tendrils fall both ways of the head
ing.
Two youths in an Ohio town, aged
respectively 8 and 10 years, quarreled
and popped at one another with pistols.
One lad was killed, and the other
winged" 1t is next door to crime
for parents to permit children to carry
pistols.
SOME constituencies scoundrels per-
suaded lady over 20 years old, who was
travelling alone from Chicago to San
Francisco, to exchange her money, 500
in greenbacks, for counterfeit coin, and
she arrived at Omaha, penniless and
almost heart-broken.
A LADY who in her childhood sat On
the great DR.. Johnson's knee has just
died in England at the age Of ninety
seven. This was Mrs. Ann Bowles Fow-
Ter, a descendant of Oliver Cromwell
through his third daughters marriage
with Sir Thomas Russell of Chippenham
In Merrimac, N. H., "two female
tramps entered house while the family
were out, and, without ceremony, went
into the best room and went to bed. The
first that the family knew of this was in
the morning, when the two women got
up, dressed, entered the dining-room and
demanded breakfast"
TOTAL population of the earth, 1885,
$4,000; under Christian governments,
$50, 1885, ALL under n-Chrstian gov
ernments, III, 1888, $50; total area of the
earth in square miles, 2,OG2, 40; area
of Christian governments, 32,4l9,9l5
area of non Christian lands, 1864, 555
PROT Schem. ...
AN absent-minded Monroe Conn.
man went to church the other morning
with his overcoat, as he supposed, or
his arm, but the laughing of people il
church called his attention to the gar
ment which was pair of trowsers, who's
suspenders were dangling about his legs
PRISONERS in the Connecticut stat.
prison get a reduction in time of TIVE
months from each year of their terms b,
good behavior. This to a man servin.
his life sentence must amount to consid
cradle at the end of his time.--Danbu!
NeaDs.
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billed an amorous youth, "phorever dis
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whose phervent phancy is phixed on you
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