The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-16
ODDS AND ENDS.


FRAsoULEo, the chief bullfghter in
Spain, is worth 100000.
HOLLAND is great place for towns
with swear at the end of their names.
EVERY sheet of postage stamps il
counted 26 times while being made.
ONE thousand bricks, closely stacked
occupy ffty.six cubic feet.
FoRNEY thinks the American "Com-
missioners" to the Paris show are a lot
of pestiferous insects.
A MAN caught robbing robins nest
on Boston common spent Bunker Hill
day in police station.
VIM. O'NEIL, a New York newsboy.
who has rescued six persons from the
river, saved another man from watery
Il. 5:s.sAA.sisss.>'<.l& -p,,ssagis,g ints,
the East River at Peck slip.
IT is said that no building or tree was
ever struck by lightning iii Camden, Me-,
and there is not lightning rod in the
place.
COMMON oil varnish is resin four
pounds, beeswax one.half pound, boiled
oil one gallon; mix, with heat; then add
two quarts of spirits of turpentine.
PHoToGRApHING is being perfected
rapidly. They have just succeeded in
photographing Occident while moving
at full speed. Electricity is the agent.
A BELLE of Gold Hill, New, plays the
piano with her toes and fingers stimuli
taneously. A witness of her perform
ance describes the music produced as
excellent.
HALF way between Austin and San
Antonio, Texas, there are some very
fourishing wooden mills that turn out
excellent cloths, woven all Of pure wool,
at the moderate rate of so cents per
yard.
A LONDON man who was growing
about hard times, was promised situa-
ton paying $l5 per day. After making
the bargain he broke it, saying that he
should look for a place where he could get
500.
A CURIOUS antique silver watch, said
to have once heen the nrnnerty of Prasi=
dent Washington, is owned by family
in Ottawa, KS. 1t carries the initials
&C. w." and was once owned by Gen.
Lewis Cass.
HERR FERDINAND NoLL, of Braden-
burg, has invented and presented to the
interna tional postal congress, now sitting
at Paris, q clock which runs on the
decimal system, with 26 hours in day,
100 minutes in an hour, and so seconds
in a minute.
ADVERSELY exasperates fools, defects
towards, draws out the faculties of the
wise, puts the modest woman to the
necessity of trying her skill, awes the
opulent, and makes the idle industrious.
Much may be said in favor of adversely,
but the worst of it is, it has no friends.
A MAMMOTH peanut, grown on the
farm of julie Charleville, near Plaque
mines, Louisiana, was found to contain
the bones of a minnow. The only ex-
PLANTATION is that the minnow may have
caught in the vines during an overflow
of the farm.
AT Edison's laboratory workman is
now kept busy talking nursery rhymes,
singing and whistling into a phono-
graph, the record to be used for toy
photograph. Large quantities Of these
toys are wanted for the trade as soon as
perfected, and will be sold for So or SO
each.
A LITTLE girl was reproved for play
ing out doors with boys, and informed
that, being seven years old, she was " too
big for that now" But with all i'm
aeinable innocence, she replied. "Why,
the bigger we grow the better we like
'em."
AN old tramp said to Pittsburg re-
porter: 81 would rather walk all day
and have plenty to eat than do manual
labor, | have worked occasionally, but
it's very hard on my constitution. Moth
ing agrees with me so so we'll as tramp
ing through the country, that is, if l am
fed WE'LL"
NEAR Paris, KY, in a rural cemetery,
some ants, by diligently working for
several weeks, undermined coffin in
vault, dug a tunnel and carried the
skeleton which the coffin contained
through the tunnel to a place II feet
away from where it was originally. "a
MARY BELLE 10y, Kansas, girl ii
years old, who was watching sheep, dis
covered a very large coyote wolf sneak
ing up towards her flock. She gave
chase, ran him down and disabled him.
Then, armed with a very dull knife, she
and another girl killed him and took his
scalp, for which the county paid them a
royalty.