The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

RESTELLS diamonds are worth sou
600.
INDIA-RUBBER tires for wheels are be-
coming quite common in England.
HARTFORD has Chinese base ball
| nine, who muchee muflee.
BISHOP MCCosKREY is six feet and a
half tall, and weighs over 800 pounds.
A RHODE ISLAND sparrow has whipped
a rat. The fight was about some crumbs,
to which each had laid a claim.
TWENTY-FIVE celestials were surprised
and captured in one of their gambling
hells at Boston on Sunday evening.
In Savannah, Ga, the sender of tele-
graphic dispatch pays to the city ten
cents tax on every message.
DIVERS have recovered $4,000 silver
bullion from the wrecked steamer City
of San Francisco, on the Pacific coast.
ONE woman day arrives in the Black
Hills from the east in search of her hus-
band.
The favorite fruit of the Partisan is
the apple, the sale of which is regulated
by law ...
ACCORDING to the consular reports,
there is splendid opening for our mer-
chants in the south of Africa.
MACKEREL are drug at New York.
Over 200, 900 have arrived within three
days, and they sell at from one cent to
five cents each.
AT the English whipping-post the con-
viCts WriIne and twist at first, and then
howl continuously, making a very pleas
ant entertainment.
NEXT to English sparrows there is
nothing that increases faster than potato
bugs, unless it is the interest on an I'M
paid note.
DR.. J. G. HOLLAND has been ordered
by his physicians to refrain from lectur
ing. He has accumulated many shekels
on the platform. ....
New JERSEY makes three-fourths of
the licorice manufactured in the United
States. The licorice root is imported
from Spain and Asia Minor.
THE widow of Commodore Wander
bilt, it. said, is soon to marry a southern
gentleman, who, it is inferred, is not 76
years old.
MARK TWAIN says he will go to the
most out-of-the-way place in Germany,
fifty miles from railroad station, where
he can sleep more than half the time.
The effort of western gentlemen to
negotiate with the Russian government
for American grain elevators, has failed,
owing to the bungling management of
their agent.
A MACON (Ga.) man has invented a
three .toothcd saw that turns out the
lumber perfectly planed and ready for
the carpenter and painter.
SALMON P. CHASE used to wear a gold
dollar OH his watch chain, which he put
on when he issued the first greenback,
and which he hoped to wear till the
greenback was equal to gold in value.
THE emperor of Germany received, as
a gift upon his birthday, a flute which
once once belonged to Frederick the
Great, and which was lately found in a
citizens family. ..
A YOUNG man, whom the Boston police
found in the street in an exhausted con-
dition, a day or two ago, explained that
he had recently lost his mother, and had
been unable, from grief, to sleep or eat
since.
A MAN in Sacramento, the other day,
bought suit of new clothes, and threw
away his old ones. After awhile he re-
membered that he had left $110 in his
old clothes, and went to find them, but
was too late. ...... .....
The United States treasury has re-
fused to pay the farmers for the national
use of the ground on which the battle Of
Gettysburg was fought. And rightly,
! too. If the one who caused the battle
can be found, let him pay.
THERE is another survivor of the en-
gagement between the Chesapeake and
the Shannon alive. His name is Luke
Pike. He resides at Chatham. N. B. He
is Sc old, and hale and hearty, and he
enjoys a pension,
In order to cover the expense of sup
pressing the late rebellion, which
amounted to $42,000,000, the japanese
government has resolved to issue $27,
0C0,000 in paper money. and to make
large savings in the ordinary civil ex-
penditures.