The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-04-02
NO 49,.
SUN6 EAMS.

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When do two and two make more
than four! When they make %.
Twenty fiye placer claims on Dead
wood gulch have thus far produced ST..
275,O0O. according to the report Of the
Deadwood Pioneer.
"A tooth the size Of q small ham, and
similar in shape, weighing twelve pounds
was extracted from the jaw Of white ele-
phant in Ceylon while the animal was un-
der the influence of chloroform.
"A model of the New York PostofHce
10 to be exhibited at the Paris Exposition
1t consists of 2S4, 900 pieces, and has occu-
pied the time of one man six hours a day
for eight years to construct it.
England seems to have mania for
iron-clads. She has purchased four that
was built for Turkey, one for Brazil, one
for Japan, and one that was built for the
confederacy She is bound to keep the
mistress of the sea.
Among the new garniture for hats
and bonnets are bunches of lemons an
inch and half long ana about the same
in circumference. How long before cab
bages or tarnips will adsrn hats.-Hdwk-
eye.
The Telephone possesses the wonder.
full virtue Of preserving the voice of q
mans first wife, he can bottle it up and
keep it for years. There are such things
as second marriages, and what awkward
revelations the we'll preserved voice nigh
make.
-MSs. President Hayes is said to have
received the following letter from lady:
II oaye read that at one Of your receptions
you wore wine.colored silk, trimmed with
velvet. How can you be guilty of such
wickedness and back-sliding as to trim
your dress with velvet? I fear you are
growing worldly and frivilous."
Senator Howe's speech in the Senate,
wherein he denounces the President re-
ceives the commendation Of such papers
as the New York Sun, and other Demo-
cratic and anti Hays Journals. 1t is evi-
dently bid for reelection to the Senate,
the author believing anti. Hayes!sm is to
be the prevailing sentiment in Wisconsin.
There have been ffty-six Atlantic
steamers lost during the past thirty seven
years. in which 4, 4,430 persons perished.-
Nine vessels were never heard from after
leaving port, four were burned, thirty
wrecked, five lost through collision with
other vessels and two by collision with
icebergs, two foundered, and t~ were lost
in fog. OF nationalities, forty-two were
British, Ave American, four french, four
German, one Belgian.
The conductors of freight trains on
the California railroads are bothered by
tramps, and are very seyere when they
catch them stealing rides A fellow who
was vioeatly kicked out of car in Elko
cody said: "Old man, you can beltaway
at me with that mules head that you car
ry on the end oyer leg till you kick me
50 full o'holes that my hide won't hold
sagebrush, but you can't knock the glory
out o. me, or keep me from shoutin' over
the though, that I'm jist 3l5 miles ahead
O. this blarsted grindin' monopoly"
The Shah of Persia Is again to visit
Europe. When there before he made
many blunders. On his visit to the Tow
er of London he shook hands with lac
quey termed a Becf:Eater, instead Of with
the constable; aud wheR q million ster
ling was placed into his hand by the Gov.
ernor Of the bank Of England, he put the
notes in mis- pocket, imagining they were
: gift.