The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAN of snirit-Ihe diStiller.

A MAN of spirit-The distiller.
The arrival of hand-organ man is
the last sensation the Black Hills
A LITTLE boys first pair Of trowsers
always fit if the pockets are deep
enough.
CLOUD DUELoNG, commonly called
Old Cloud, who for 40 years was guide
among the Thousand Islands, is dead.
The pope has turned the bedchamber
Of his predecessor into an oratory, and
his library into bedchamber.
A FEMALE physician clairvoyant on
Third avenue, New York, advertises to
"mend ladies' hearts,"
In an ounce of mud there is the ma.
terial for diamond, a sapphire and an
opal.
| Do not recall an instance where I
was tempted to use foreign word, but
that, on searching, l have found better
one in my own language.-Bryant.
THEY have passed an act in British
Guiena by which any one killing or sell.
ing birds with fine plumage will be heav-
lily fined.
JoHN GORDON, Of Cluny, who recent
ly died, was one of the largest and best
landlords in Scotland, holding in all
107, 593 acres Of land.
THERE is difference in milkmaids:
the milk made in the country is not the
SAM as the milk made in the city,
Brooklyn Union Argus.
EVERY boy in the land would be hap
py all day # be knew that he could get
to bed at night without the bother of
undressing
HEAPS of corn, the Nebraska Farmer
says, are nearly as common in the yards
of that state as wood-piles at the east
and for the same purpose, to-wit: for
fuel.
THE memory of Johann Gottfried
Seume, the once celebrated poet, who
died in great poverty, is to be honored
with q monument, to be erected in Top
litz.
A New YORK Herald correspondent
wants Lord Dutierin to invite Sitting
Bull and his 10000 braves to 20 over to
England and fight for the great White
Mother"
THE Prince of Wales pavilion, in the
L iSiCl Ca puolIlOll, ID uCSlSuCu dlUel Ill
Indian temple, and is to contain the
choicest sreciments of Indian art. 1t
will cost $4,000.
SAND is so scarce in some of the inte-
rior counties that the people are obliged
to boil up new maple sugar Z" for build
ing purposes. Ha1Ukeye.
A FIR-FETCHED JOKE.-ln Alabama
they chew the tassels of the fir trees as
substitute for tobacco. Which reminds
us Of the old adage, :" Be tir-chewers and
you'll be happy"
THERE is one advantage Of a summer
buster over winter overcoat- image
men won't take it from mans wife in
exchange for ten cent plaster bust of
George Washington.
The Graphic says the phonograph
feels its responsibility" Then why
does it stutter.-Boston Globe. 1t won't
after it gets used to talking. These are
only its first stutterances, you know.
The photograph won't be such big
thing, after all. Instead Of rebufkng
the man who wants to borrow dollar,
it will encourage him to ask for two
Detroit Free Press.
AN editor headed report of we'd
ding, "Another Happy Pair" and the
printer made il read, " Another sappy
Pail" and the bridegroom was mad about
, it.
A LEADING health journal says
"Never go to bed with cold feet" If
your feet are cold, you'd better leave
them down stairs alongside Of the kitch-
en- fire when you 60 to bed. The advice
given in health journals should be heed
ed.
TEA was first introduced into Europe
!, in 1860, by the Dutch East India Com
pany, and then only as a curiosity, SHOW
ing the nature of the herb SO univer-
sally used by the Chinese people in the
preparation of their so much.loved bev-
erage.
RANDE, under the rigid and exacting
discipline of the Illinois penitentiary,
has become docile, and been laugh what
obedience means. The officials do not
like visitors to notice him, as it gives
him an impression that he is looked upon
as a hero.
The penalty for theft in Japan is grad
uated according to the amount stolen;
) inverting the rule common in England
and America. No punishment is infict-
ed if the thief is able or willing to pay
for the property stolen, or if his friends
will do it for him.
SOME signs of taverns in London arc
curious, viz: g Goat and Compasses,
"Salmon and Compasses, "Anchor and
Bodices," " Bull and Mouth" "Green
Man and STILL" "Pig and WHISTLE"
"Who'd Thought It," The Splendid
Shilling" etc.
WHEN Representative Eugene Hale
married Miss Chandler, her father, ex-
Senator Chandler, gave him 100000 for
a wedding present; and at the coming
of every grandchild check for $4,000
has been forthcoming to be placed to the
credit of the little ones as the nucleus
of its future fortune.
For a humorist, says correspondent,
Senator MCCreery does well, because he
IS comical in appearance. His large
head is completely bald. except black
fringe to border it. He is tall and broad
: shouldered, and wears swallow tail
coat. His face wears solemn express
sion, that renders his jokes all the more
surprising.
+ A WOMAN of Washington, sitting in
j front seat in the senate gallery recently,
dropped from her coign of vantage a
perfumed billet doux upon the desk of
a dignifed senator beneath. He read it,
and sent for the deputy sergeant-at-arms,
and that stern official led the fair and
= trail one out of the gallery by her tiny,
shaif.fit oor