The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-11-27
SPARKS.

Gerster gets $500 night this season.
Some eastern papers prophecy mild
winter.
Now that the Grant boom is over, what
next?
The Utes are becoming more imanagea-
bic than ever before.
There are about 10000 more females
than ma,es Massachusetts.
CLina nd Japan are smacking their
lips over Michigan cranbcrries.
Montana covers coal field from SO.
600 to IS 600 square miles IN area.
Gen. Grant will spend the coming win
ter i'll the south, possibly at Savannah.
Prof. Wisc's son is settling up his faith
ers estate, believing the aeronsut to be
dead
Geo Pyle, a Wilmington Del. machinist
claims TO have invented machine which
will turn out two shoes in a second.
From the votes at recent elections on
the Pacific slope it Is estimated that the
population there is ,266, 900, AS compared
with 53l 900 when the last census was Ia
ken.
The secretary Of war claims that the cx :.
penses of the war department have no W
been brought down to what they were be-
fore the rebellion.
Building in New York is booming, es-
pecially up town. The total plumber of
buildings this year is 1867 and their esti-
mated value is $17,OOO,QO0.
Al once had dog who could always
tell rascais from honest men B--"Wcli
what become of him" Al had TO
give him away--he bit me-"
Some females have Just been arrested in
Kentucky for the mannfactory of illicit
whiskey. This is the first recorded in
stance of . woman keeping still
The Lakeshore Railroad has been ex-
pc rimcn,ing with petroleum for fuel, it
works finely. proving great saving. and
there IS no offensive smoke or cinders.
Adelina Patti received $40 boquets dur
ing her recent Paris engagement, and
$l4, 600 was taken at the door She will
probably not stay away from Paris six
years again.
Senator Chandler predicted, IN letter
written on the Esd Of September lnst tina I
election this fall would score a victory in
Charlston, 8 q, which has been special
lv pinched by the hard times, rejoices in
the advance in naval stores, rice and cot
ton, which will make gain of S6 ,OO0, 900
in the prices of receipts at that market
alone.
Miss Mamie Smith was recently admit
cd to practice 1t the bar of Keokuk. The
presiding Judge descended from the bench
TO shake ands with and congratulate her
and the lawyers subsequently gave her q
banquet.
Last year Kate Claxton paid one dollar
per night for borrowed baby 70 use In
her play of"Double Marriage" During
her summer vacation she has provided
herself with one of her own - measure
| of economy.
In the room of a railroad epot in Iowa
is tho following placard over the clock be.
hind the counter: "Th,s is clock 1t is
| running-it is Chicago time-it is right
it is set every day at 10 o. o'clock-now keep
| your mouth shut.
Nov. 10th vas gala day in Washing
tor, the unve,l ng of the statute of General
thomas, the hero OF Stone river and Chic.
amangna WAS the occasion. The statue
was presented by the Army Of the Cum
5erland.
For two wears diptheria has prevailed as
| an epedemic in some portions of Russia
since last May oyer thrse fourths of the
infant population have been stricken. In
one village oe fifty children died within
two weeks.
Franklin Co., Vt, sends to Quincy and
| Feneuil Hall markets fancy lump butter
| that Cells for g. 225 pound, another brand
! sells for so cts and cIsice lump for &c
+! cts The tub bntter from that county sells
! at 35 to 80 cts pound.
The cholera broke cut in Japan In
April last and between that ana the mid
die Of August 76,59s people we're attacked
with il Al ,945 died, and up to the last OF
September the the cases had numbered
| 100000.
Town Talk, the London journal whose
editor. Adolphe Rosenberg, Was lately
senteuCco W eikhtecu mOutuS lMpTiSOu-
medt, has weekly circulation of 285 900
The editor Of almost any weekly paper
would willingly be 4 martyr If his shee
reached so high figure as that
Oh, these shame faced {eminines on
the streets with them masculine hats on =
exclaimed an old lady from the country
as she came around . prominen. corner
saturday afternoon; ut jes, looks ei
though they all wanted ter be k,ssed by
ther boys for that was the sign when
was ga!!''
The Union Pacific railroad 10 preparing
| &c improve the nsst three hnndsd mile
by tree planting. The ground along th'
road will be sewn with grass and Glove,
seed in the early spring, And then will fol
the planting OF rich evesgteens, Whtcl