The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-10-03
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nually converted into splrituous liquor,
in the United States.
THERE are 1000 acres OF agricultural
and on Long Island that are uncultivssed
and unoccup,ed.
Mrs NoyEs, wife or United States MIN
lister to France, is much liked in Paris, SnC
her dinners are very popular.
Mas IONA HANSON, of Chicago, aged
forty four, has twenty living children ant
has just married again.
QUEEN Victoria is in Scotland .gair
for the second time this year. She hs!
been ty Ireland twice in her life.
THE population Of Berlin is At leas
| 100000, and it is said there are only IS,
persons who regularly attend church.
THE citizens Of Fargo are preparing tc
organize a northern Dakota agricultural
society and old settlers association.
THE population of Englani aud Wales
on the 30th OF Jue, was "a, ,s54,397; Of SEQ.
land, 3,593929, and of Ireland, 5,433, ,640
THE largest mill for making flour in the
world is being built at Niagara Falls. Its
capacity will be about Il, 90 barrels dsy
Dr. BABcocK, inventor of the fire extin
outcast in Oak land, California. lie was
once moderately wealthy.
THE Federal Government has 60, 0,OOO, coo
acres Of lands open TO pre.emp.ion in Cal.
ifornia, including 20,O0O,OO0 acres Of tilla.
bic soil.
SOME people are always ungrateIul, no
matter how much you do for them. II is
like striking fly off q mules hind leg
you only get kick for your pains,
THE minister who said he could preach
without notes has been taken At his word
by his congregation, which refuses to pay
his salary. He sees his mistake.
edge into small compass, and do this wise.
ly and thoroughly. are the best books in
the world. The same may be said of
newspapers.
THE statistics OF whiskey and beer
drinking, and cigar smuking. show clear.
ly that the times are hard. Only 50.OOO,.
OOO gollons Of whiskcy. 100000 barrels
Of beer, u id 1900 )oo5,OlJ of cigars con-
s"mcd last year.
Two thousand three hundred children
have been turned away from the New
York schools for want OF accomed .tions.
If she cannot educate her children, of
course she could not be expected 10 keep
Theodore Thomas.
Potter, the man who has been wheel
ing barrow across the continent, has
reached California. He has deadheaded
At saloons and hotels on the way, has trav.
eled leisurely, and Is satisfied with the en-
tcrprise; but he says i, is long time be.
tween drinks iii tic IL ii ;s ssss.ia ss .Se
THE subjcct:was in regard horse-racing
Said hack driver who WAS present: "talk
about your fast time! saw y horse trot \
mile in 1907 "Impos,ibe!" astd II c
cigar store proprietor "Tke best time I
ever heard Of was 2;14X" SWELL" said
the hackman, isn't so two minutes aud
thirty seconds"
WE are glad the circus season is about
ed reading exchanges which had the de.
linquent tax list on the first page, the pro-
cecdings Of the board Of supervisors on the
second and third, and n circus advertise
men, on the fourth, Du. its getting to be
monotonous, and we are pleased now to
find on the fourth page notice of a new
liver pill a sale Of blooded stock, an d
thanks for peck OF apples. es.-Burlingtoa
Hawkeye.
A NOTORIOUS thief preached to North
Carolina Baptist congregation six months
Clergyman. lis conduct during that
half year was excellent, his sermons elo-
quent, and he says he intended TO turn
over new leaf.
CERRo GoRDo Republican, Sept. 10: ]
G. Patterson, right Of way agent for the
Milwaukee road is now busy securing the
right OF way west Of Sheldon toward
Yenk.on. In . conversation with Us a
iewdays ago, he gavc !: IS his opinion
that there would be bu: little halt until
the Milwaukee road lands in the Black
Hills. When that is done, where will a
finer line of road be found in the west!
YANKToN Press: Gov. Howard yester
day located the insane asylum On the
school section two and a half miles west
Of town. The work Of moving sha build
ings and constructing the temporary ssy.
lum will be commenced at once. Gov
Howard advances the money from his per
soaal funds.
TIE average by Is not Of work. He
will labor hard elk hours to make peach.
stone ring the value Of which Is not over
ten cents 4 bushel, and will carry trunks
ten hours a day for a minstrel for an ad
| mission ticket worth 25 cents. If the same
bows mother asks him to perform an or.
rand occupying fifteen minutes time, he
growls and growls, and threatens to run
away and become a pirste.-E1.
THE earliest notice OF yellow fever il
! tha. Of Ligon, in his History Of barba
does" He there stsies that 1t broke out
carly In September, 1647, aud that before
The expiration OF month "the living were
scarcely able to bury the dead" There
| after it did not attain any very remark
able severity until 1893, when it destroyed
not less than 8,OOO men Of the garrison oI
Por, Royal in the course of Q few months
In 1904 ii wss brought to the south o
Spain, and visited Cadiz, Malaga, and Car
lxgena But its greatest force fell upon
Gibraltar. where ou, Of the civil populs
ton Of the town, amounting 10 yearly II,
600 persons, only twensy.sight sscapst