The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07
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CHICAGO is doing more building at tho
present time than in any previous spri inv
since 1873. r''"s
MANY years ago congress gave tbo
WIDOW OF President Tyler the frankinn
privilege, and she still uses it.
Mr.. Brooks intends to exhibit fu,,
length model 1olanthe, in butter, at tha
Paris exhibition. WV
LEWISTON, Maine, complains of an
abundance of counterfeit dimes, mada
of lead and slvered.
1T IS easier to raise subscriptions to
pay church debts than it is to raise the
money on them. ... N
A LOST TART-The only one left in
the pantry before school boy.-Canden
Post.
IT is calculated that if all the insects
OF the world were piled in one mass, the
heap would be greater than all the beast,
and birds.
For his use of strong language, Gen.
Sherman says in apology: ~ may have
used the word damned, which is good
word when appropriately used"
The domestic man, the man who
loves his home, his wife and his little
ones, may now be seen every morning
and evening working in his garden.
The horse always gets up from the
ground on his fore legs first, and the cow
on her hind legs, and then turns around
thee times before he lies down.
MEXICO has tried the plan of having
three presidents and the trouble is that
two of them have to keep out of the
country.
WHEN Il young lady works a blue
zephyr dog with pink ears and a green
tail, on canvas, should she be arrested
for cruelty to animals?
a NEW song will soon appear, called
"Put your arm around me, pet; the old
man $ eyes are shet." fisherman (Pc.)
Register.
WHETHER it is more blessed to give
than receive, in a good many cases, de-
Ponds on the position of the individual
with respect to the action.
The last tree on the Bowcry has been
cut down to make way for the elevated
railroad. and now its name can be alter
ed with propriety.
ONE of the largest elms in New Ha
ven, Conn.,, set out 1870 years ago, near
where the old custom house and post
office stood, has just been cut down.
The cuckoo is the greatest economist
among the birds; she lays in other birds
nest, and lets the birds hatch them out
at their leisure
BAYARD TAYLOR will devote two
hours a day to the life of Goethe.
Shameful! Goethe devoted twenty-fOur
hours every day to the same work.
Keokuk Constitution.
QUILP says the Stewart Hotel for wo.
men is designed for those who are Just
poor enough to be compelled to work
and not handsome enough to get mar
ried.
WHEN Haverly's MINISTRIES were in
Piqua, Ohio, last week, they visited the
cemetery, and the band played a dirge
over the grave of the comedian, Billy
Manning.
THE Germans are the healthiest class
of New Workers. Vital statistics show
that the rate of mortality among thom
is nearly thirty-eight per cent. less than
that of other citizens, while their in
crease by birth is larger.
A LIVERPOOL bird-dealer has been
fined SIS and costs for going on a spree
and. leaving his birds and animals I'M
fed. Some were dead, others weak and
tottering with starvation, and others had
literally gone mad.
Mr.. AsToR is amusing himself at
jacksonville with building dock and an
excellent block of business houses facing
the river. He has quaint, old-fashion-
ed white house there, also horses and
boats enough to fill up many pleasant
day.
A WORCESTER Press reporter returned
from q fire in a liquor store the other
evening with the information that "the
whisky was seriously damaged by wa
ter" He had evidently been tasting
the {" burning fluid"
| FLOWER bonnets are made of beige
brown grasses and Of vioets or mign-
ionettc for day wear. There is little
propriety in wearing these bonnets, ex-
cept on full dress occasions.
A WHITE chip Marie Stuart bonnet has
black velvet lining, Roman pearls on
the edge of the brim, and creamy satin
loops, neither bow nor roset, held by
real butterfly of brilliant colors, which is
mounted on gilt fligree; cream. colored
plume is down the right side.
| WHAT'S de time O day, ole 'oman?"
said colored countryman to Aunt Mil
| ly, yesterday. trying to poke fun at the
brass chain that held her front door KEY
around that young lady's neck. Look
lat de town clock, chile. OATS built for
| pc folks"
SENATOR Don CAMERON is not will
ing to wait until the autumn, as aspro-
posed, to claim his bride. When he
made his visit to her parents few weeks
ago, he succeeded in gaining their con-
lsent to the marriage taking place be-
tween the 18th and 30th of pril.-PhA-
Eadelphia Press.
How strangely joy and sorrow are in
terwoven in this world. Pain chases
pleasure like a champion pedestrian, and
the sweet tears shed by the maple tree
lin springtlme, crystalized into sugar,
will give an infant the stomach-ache
equal to a doctors bill Of $9.-Treatoa
Gazette.
THERE will be another wedding late in
the spring or in June, in which the
family at the White House are interest
ed. Miss Mcfarland, Mrs. Hayes
cousin, who visited her last summer, and
again with her mother paid visit to Mrs.
Hayes in the winter, will be married at
her home in Lexington, Ky, to young
graduate Of West Point, who is, however