The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-09-05
NO IS.
BREvlTIEs.

PRESIDENT HAYES and suite have start.
ed on their western tour.
THE summer hotel at Putin. Bay Island
valued at $4,000, was destroyed by fire or
the 30th ult ..
GERMANY markets on6.haH of the phos
phorus consumed in the wocld or over
$50 tons annually.
SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, opened the
fall campaign in Iowa in an able speech
at Manchester, Iowa, Thursday last.
THE superintendent of the money-order
department in the st Louis Postoifice has
abscondcd and is a defaulter in the sum
of $4,000.
The bankrupt chaps in New York were
crowding the clerks Office the last day
before the law went out Of effect, 1t is sc
hard for men that have accumulated then
thousands to pay their honest debts
BEN BUTLER has accepted the call from
many voters 10 run fer Governor of Mas
sachusctts. He proposes 70 relieve the
dear people t,om all their burdens
and bring such laws into operation as
they want.
Charles Johan Hanson has been arrest
ed, on jim River, for the murder of his
father. The murdor was committed two
months ago, but not sufficient evidence
could be found against the murderer until
Friday last. &
CONSISTENCY is cxemplifled in Ben But.
ler's forcing himself before the people as
workingman's candidate for Governor
He has received in one year 100000
from his legal business, and is credited by
financial men with being worth q million
dollars.
Tom SCOTT Of Railroad notor;ety SAYS
A repetition Of the railway strike of 1877.
never expect to see. believe there will
be a steady improvement IN nearly all
branches OF industry. The dead point has
been passed and the country is on the way
to prosperity"
The United States fish commission, un-
der the direction OF Prof, Baird, has es-
tablished its summer quarters at Glouces.
ter, Mass, and is devoting itself to repop
ulating the New England coast with cod
Continued and extensive fishing has al
length extcrminated the cod from all re-
gions nearer than the coast of Newfound
land The commission hatch the spawn
and cast upon the waters billions Of in.
choate Goldfish balls, which are expected
to return, probably salted, after many
days
JACK of all trades seldom succeed in
making much money. To do one thing
extra well is about all man can do He
may aim to be prince in one line OF
business. He cannot be very great mer
chant, contractor, manufacturer, farmer,
ccat,edroTv'o5r T'5rnndd ranhnd make specially Of that
one. 1t is the only way that great trade
schemes are pushed ahead and that mil
lioHairea are mafie. This one idea theory
will hold good in every calling Of life;
and no better advice can be given to youth
than that contained in these words: " Do
one thing in life, and do it we'll"
The Geysers Of Yellowstone are the
most remarkable in tie ,~ofla. 9filuro are
more than 10000 vents The Grand Gey
ser throws column of water six feet in
diameter 200 feet high, while the steam as
ccnds 900 feet Its eruptions occur ev
cry twenty-five hours, and continue TWEEN.
ty minutes The Giantess sends stream
twenty feet in diameter, sixty feet high
and through this five or six smaller jets
$50 feet. It plays twenty minutes once ir
eleven hours. The Giant throws five
foot column 14o feet high for three hours
The Bee Hive projects column three feel
in diameter to the enormous height of 21t
feet for about fifteen minutes. Old Faith
ful, very regular for fifteen minutes, once
, an honr sends mp its massive column 81.
feet in diameter 100 to $50 feet high.