The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-30

kinds of springs. -.a..s.,.. .......
TRUNKS that are both air and water
:.;ght Or: 81 I 9aEslt .<.~> ~.... q.
Minister Noyes' mileage as witness
amounted to $40.
GERMANY has sent us more migrants
than Ireland.
AN anglers book should have fly
leaves.-&. John Torch. .-..
The duches of Argyle left ESQ, 1000 for
the relief of the poor of London.
Miss KELLOGG is reported to have lost
money in railroad speculations.
SO-CALLED "camel's hair brushes" ara
made from the hair of the tails Of sauir-
rels.
The most substantial and elegant lace
for Undertaking is knitted by men in
the prison of Mexico.
TEXAS has more miles of railroad beinr
constructed than all the rest Of the
Union.
MARY had a little lamb-but it was
very little-in her boarding house nash
The miners of Deadwood are going
north to the new gold fields in the Bear
Paw mountains
HERKIMER county rejoices in fot,9-
eyed pig. Pigs in these parts have but
one i.
MIGRATING birds 90 in a direct line
from north to south, and never take
! their course from east to west or west t. -
east.
DOUBLE-MEssHEDt orchon Is novelty
in laces, and is used principally for trim
ming lingerie and dresses which can
be washed.
A PRETTY idea is to entwne the upper
part of the back comb with small flowers,
such as white violets, mignonctte, myo-
sOtS, etc.
HE Quebec rioters, who stole -four
under the pretense that they were starry
ing, sold it at 81. so per barrel and pur-
chased whisky.
The exact cost Of construction of the
Paris exhibition buildings and grounds
is now estimated at As, 800, 900 francs, or
$9,000,000.
THERE is man living at Varnell
Station, Ga, who churns his butter,
rocks the baby, and keeps the flies from
his dining-table by water power. This
is later than the phonograph.
PERSONS in position to know estimate
the amount of counterfeit coin now in
circulation in this country at fully S.
0OO,O 600, much the greater part of which
is spurious silver.
THE just published report of an Irish
benevolent society says "Notwith-
standing .tbe large amount paid for medl-
cine and .medical attendance, very few
deaths occurred during the year"
SOMEBODY will find red hair woven
into a piece of ingram carpet one of
these days. Libbie Barklcy, while work
ing at loom in Thompsonville, Conn,
let the machinery get hold Of her long,
.curls, and in twinkling they were
absorbed in the carpet.
TIE practice Of crossing the legs,
which Is neither elegant or comfortable,
has it's physical disadvantages. and if
persisted in is likely to impede the cir
cuaton of the blood, cause the foot to
be tortured with prickly sensations, and
become dormant.
SOUTH LoNDONDERRY's (VermonD
candidate for being the meanest man in
the country, sneaked into the village
cemetery tomb recently to cut off his
dead wifc's hair for the purpose of sell
ing it, 81
THERE are many women in the better
walks of life who have imbibed the love
OF strong drink, and it is charged that
the drunkenness among them, to q con-
| cir Il r., ba
of physicians in recommending the use
, of liquors as stimulants.
A YOUNG man walked through Broad
way, New York, not long ago, with q
placard around his neck bearing this in
scription: 81 am reduced nobleman;
my father is dead, and my mother has
one foot in the grave. Will some one
give me situation"
THE richest bachelor in the country is
said to be Peter Goelet Of New YORK,
his property being estimated at $l5,000,-
600. He is now seventy-eight years of
age, and is perhaps still a possible
catch" for some aspiring young hus-
band-seeker.
A BILL has been introduced into the
British parliament entrusting to the
Metropolitan board of works the charge
and care of Cleopatra's Needle, after the
obelisk has been erected or the Thames
embankment, aud authorizing Ifle Doaru-
to erect in connection with it statues and
other works of art
PERHAPS the Oldest and best known,
as we'll as the best lighthouse keeper on
the Atlantic coast, is woman, Kathleen
Andre Moore, of Black Rock lighthouse,
near Bridgeport, Conn. She is sixty
five, and lives alone in her little house
with two dogs and a pet lamb.
The American commissioners at the
Paris exhibition are not having very
nice time. DR.. Wikerson, of the patent
office at Washington, who has just re.
turned disguised, says that the French
government takes very little notice OF
Americans, who "seem to be regarded
as small potatoes and few in hill!"
COMMANDER CAMERON, the African
explorer, is contemplating another east
the northeast corner Of the Mediterra-
mean, and cross northern Syria to Kur-
distan, whence he will make his way
through Mesopotamia, Persia and
Beloocihstan to Kurrachee.
The best remedy for bleeding at the
nose, as given by Or. Gleason in one of
his lectures, is the vigorous motion of
the jaws, as if in act of mastication. In
the case Of child, q wad Of paper
should be placed in its mouth, and the
child instructed tt6 chew it hard. It is
the motion of the jaws that stops the