The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
MOSES PARKS, an old citizen of North
! field t..A<"EC ~ =. -! >~>..< ~A~A~~
"THE victim Of her mothers temper"
says a tombstone over the grave of a
! young woman of London.
PEDEsTRIANIsM has become fashiona-
BILE in San Francisco among both men
and women.
Mr.. MACKENZIE WALLACE has won,
by his book on Russia, the Langlois prize
of 5000 francs from the French academy.
Dom PEDRO will ride from his country
house to his executive palace in Rio ia
metro in palace car built in New York.
In New York, the other day, a man
was sentenced to the Fpenitentiary for
one year for swapping an unloaded pistol
at another, "just to scarehim."
BAILEY, the DanburyaNews man, is a
member of the Second Baptist church in
Danhury, and has Bible class Of twenty
or more young men. II
The mining and manufacturing of the
phosphate rock in South Carolina has
become one of the leading and most i'm
portant interests of the state.
Rev. E. P. ROE, the novelist, picked
1884 bushels of strawberries on his Corn
wall, N. Y, place last yeal, and expects
about 400 bushels this. season. He sent
$4,000 plants to Richmond, Va, this
spring.
SHOW mad you the audacity, John, "
said a Scottish laird to his servant, to
90 and tell some people that | was a
mean fellow and no gentleman" "Na,
na SIR was the candid answer, "you'll
no catch me at the like, O that. Iaye
keep my thoughts to myself" d '''
The iron hand. of despotism is even
upon the newsboy in France. He is COM
PEELED by law to restrict his street cry to
the name of the paper he is vending, and
recently speculative little fellow who
dared to add call about the pope's
DEATH" was sentenced to pay fine Of %
francs and be imprisoned for IS days.
The favorite bull.fghter OF Madrid,
Frascuelo, possesses a fortune OF $780,
900, magnificent house, and a wife who
is called the prettiest woman in the city.
He is also a member Of the most aristo-
cratic club in Madrid. He took part in
the late bull fight before the king and
queen, and that occasion his costume
was literally covered with diamonds.
The son of the late Speaker Kerr says
his father died absolutely without
money. His account with the sergeant
alarms was overdrawn, he having used
the advance to pay local bills at New
Albany, Ind. His life was insured, and
the family's first application of the in
surance money was to settle the account
with congress.
CINCINNATI is wild over superbly
beautiful woman, as the Commercial calls
her, who has been visible on the prone
nades of that city for SOME days past.
She is said to be ga young lady, evil
IDENTIFY from the country, visiting friends
in the city," and is so surprisingly beau
tiful that George Eliots description of
Miss Barton is copied as the only ade-
quate picture of her loveliness.
THIS is about the time of year when
the old man knocks off work and tells his
wife he is going fishing, and he leaves
home in the morning with fishing rod
and lunch, and in the dim twilight he
is trundled up to the front door in a
wheel-barrow by a semi-sober coadjutor,
who says the old man has been sunstruck.
Nobody ever finds out what becomes of
+bo Ecb D:ftoL,r,b TooJor
WHEN Trepoff was shot by Vera Sas-
sulitch he made his will, leaving some
81, 100000 to his family. Trepof recov-
cred, but the car, having always thought
that he was poor and honest and served
him through personal devotion, was 50
shocked at this disclosure, which proved
that his favorite shared in the common
corruption of Russian official life that he
at once dismissed his falthless servant.
M. EDMOND ABOUT has conceived the
idea Of Offering a monster fraternal ban
quet to the artisans and workmen who
put up the exhibition building On the
1st of May. The festival is to take place
in some vast hall, such as the Palais de
! p Industrie, or even in the open air in
the Bots de Boulogne, and is to be offered
to the artisans by the admirers of the
exhibition.
A ST. LOUIS woman has the odd fancy
that her daughter would instantly die il
exposed to the sun or the open air, and
therefore keeps her in close room,
heavily swathed in flannel, and most of
the time in bed. The daughter is as in
sane on the subject as her mother. She
has been secluded since her ninth year
/ and is now seventeen. Her health is as
good as could be expected under such
circumstances.
A STRANGE story comes from Oriska-
| ny Falls, Oneida county. A man living
! there died some time since and his effects
were sold atauction. One purchaser got
a lot of books, and bookcase with pa.
pers. On looking these over week or so
after the sale, he found paper detailing
the facts of an alleged murder, which it
was claimed was committed in barn in
the year 1910. The victim is said to
have been man from Steuben county.
The paper bears the date of 1852, an
gives the names of persons alleged to b
implicated in the crime, and also state
where the body was buried.
The new mouth of Mount Vesuvius,
which opened at the bottom of the crater
in 1872, has been active since December,
1875. On May 2, 1878, it gave indica'
tions of increased activity, but what this
partial eruption will result in cannot be
foretold. A long time, however, must
elapse before the lava will roll down the
sides of the cone, as the cavity Of the
crater is far from being full. But should
the cone be opened laterally by some