The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

who furnishes the tobacco.
"CAN man hy% asks the New York
Express. Ask some bank bashier in Can
ada-Poston Post.
THERE are no fewer than IA 600 wash
erwomen at work on the banks of the
Manzanares, in Spain.
CHANG-SU-HsING, the new Chinese
giant, who is to exhibit himself at the
Paris exhibition, is eight feet four inches
high,
THE latest Partisan style'of fan Isl even
larger than that of last season by four
inches, and supplies the place Of a parasol
and handscreen. 1868
In one of the relief camps in India
recently, among the famine stricken
natives brought in was "a full-grown
man. large limbed and big made, who
weighed forty-fve pounds"
A HARTFORD dog that is death on rats
found one in a large wire trap the other
say, and, as nobody was around u let it
dut for him, be buried the trap and
smothered the rat.
| The buoys that mark the channel of
the river near Memphis broke their
chains during the storm last week and
| fioated off down stream and lost them
selves, at an expense Of 5000 to the gov
eminent.
TIM BRowN, colored boy on the
farm of Warren Gentry, St. Louis
county, Mo-, is the possessor of most
extraordinary pair of feet. They meas
ure %! inches The heel is enormously
long, extending back from the foot at
least four inches.
CORNELIUS PARKER, who claims to be
an Indian of the Sioux tribe, and the
scout who advised Custer not to 90 in
the fight which cost him his life, took
lodgings at the station house in New
, Haven, Conn.,, the other evening.
, New chatelaine fans have bird han
dies, small red tanager or an orile
: being mounted on the hollow stem, in
which is concealed a painted red fan. 4
; tassel at one end draws out the fan.
, while to the other a chatelane hook is
: fastened to attach the fan to belt.
AS perfect sewerage and an uncontam-
mated water supply are the only safe
guard OF cities, SO the earth-closet and
deep artesian wells are the best protec-
ton against cess pool fevers and typhoid
dysenteries in country lfe.-Dr. z. 3.
Foofs Health Monthly.
THE Boston Transcript asks: "Where
is the enterprising newspaper that will
give daily list of the firms that have
Z not failedE' And the New York Times
responds thata list of these firms is to be
found in the advertising columns Of the
substantial newspapers.
The queen of England has presented
. Dorchester woman with e3 for being the
mother of three daughters at a birth.
| We once saw eight daughter: at birth,
{ and nothing was said about it. Their
husbands waited on the stoop to conduct
| them home.-New York Dispatch.
Mr.. BLACK became enraged in ball
} in Charlotte, N. c., and used his revolver
recklessly. The first shot shattered an
: Etruscan vase, the second went into
. piano, the third tore bunch of hair
from woman's head, and the fourth
7 accomplished Black; original purpose by
killing his rival.
A FEMALE tramp was arrested recently
$ at Manchester, VI, and in one of her
pockets were found three-quart bottle,
pint dipper, three spoons, a knife,
beer bottle, razor, packageof tea coffee,
salt and sugar, a lot of bread, soap. wire
and articles of wardrobe-nearly half a
: bushel in all.
A FRIEND in New York very kindly
mails us copy Of bank.notc detector,
with which he is concerned We have
no use for the thing at all. We have
tried it and it won't work. Every night
we place it in our pantaloons pocket,
= and il the morning carefully Withdraw
it. 1t is of no use. We fail to detect
! any bank notes in the pocket-JoIet Sun.
\ ~ DO believe the very old scratch is
| into them chickensw angrily exclaimed
$ Mrs. P, as she shooed her neighbours
4 hens out of her garden for the fourth
e time that afternoon. And the way they
S made the dirt fly in her onion and
flower beds, was calculated to give the
y impression that they wanted to get some
e OF the old scratch out OF 'em.
| ONE of the Frankfort house of Roths-
: child called on Emperor William at the
/; beginning of his illness. You see,"
| said the emperor, 81 have passed my
S S0th year, and at that age one must be-
gin to think of the end" "Oh!" re-
piled M. de Rothschild, "your Majesty
: was born to live 100 years, and we bank
D ers shall not let you go at less than
4 par"
The Detroit Free Press phonixed
splendidly. The outward form may
have persisted, but the spirit is as blithe
and gay as on a festel wedding day
! Rochester Chronicle. There's where we
t have you. The outward form and the
. inside one, also, were saved by the exer-
e tions of the pressmen, and as as for spirits
there were none kept in the office.-De-
l btroit Free Press.
PARIS reports that the .new fan is
! much larger than that of last season. 1t
was then eleven inches, now it is fifteen;
but it supplies the place Of parasoi and
also of hand screen. Among the floral
) adornments there are trails of fresh figs,
dangling nuts, small pears, apples, al
monds of fluffy velvet and currants.
They arc not separate, but mixed, and
these clusters are called les restes, or des-
sert-remains.
The Hat Trade Reriew tells us that
cardinals hat is of red cloth, with very
small crown and broad brim. Two ties,
,, each ending in five rows of red silk tas-
sells. three in row, are fastened to the
,, crown, and fall on either side, being long
> enough to meet undear the wearer's chin.
The hat is made of felt. Ordinarily car
dinals wear black hat, with gold
embroidered red 1ibbon. In times past
{ the receipt of II cardinals hat was at