The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
In a Nut Shell.

It's poor rule that won't work both
ways Hartford has a COW that is
afraid of women.
The Prince Of Wales life is insured
for 100000. His annual premium on
this sum is $4,000.
The man who digs hundred feet
into the ground for water, gets long
well-Maruthon Independent.
'Ill make it hot for you," as the
cayenne pepper said to the man who
was putting it in his soup.
1t was the man caught by a prairie
fire on his own section of land who ran
through his property rapidly.
At recent dinner the Queen Of
England placed ripe peaches from
potted trees.
"Swear not at ALL" not even when
putting up depraved and ungovern-
able stove-pipe.
Nun Yew Chung, a Chinaman who
weighs just 100 pounds, is coxswain Of
the Yale crew.
The greatest Of American rihemen
have not gone abroad. They still re-
tain their positions as Indian agents.
1t is absurd to suppose that man
can speak above his breath, since his
mouth is below his nose.
What is the difference between a
fixed star and a meteor. One is a sun,
the other darter.
| Summertime will come again,
With its softly-blowing zephyrs,
| Lowing kline are in the fields;
| Some are COWS and some are heiferS.
.. -7ennysoa
They are peddling shoes by the dozen
at Hartford which St. Julien wore when
he made 2:114 there.
Thomas Hughes, the famous English
author, now in Tennessee, will return
to the east via. Chicago.
Diner snifing)-"Waiter, really
think this fish is not freshv' Waiter
"Yessir, can't answer for that, sir! I've
honly been ERE week. sir"
Corsets are said to have originated
from an iron waistband, in which tryan
nical husbands in the early history of
the human family encased their wives.
Dobler and Guyon, Chicago pedes-
TRANS, have sailed from Now York for
Europe, to take part in the Ashley belt
contest. O'Leary accompanies them.
penny pound-foolish, solilo-
pulsed the man in church, and he put
the penny in the box ~,1d the pound in
his pocket. ....
The people of the United States con-
sumo more coffee than those of any
othe cCnntry-some 33333 100000
pounds yearly. Eli.
Col. Bob Ingersoll says that when a
man smokes or cheWs he should con-
fess the fault to his inteded wife, and
if after that she accepts him, he "has
the dead wood on her.
A correspondent at Milford. N. H.,
says Horace Greeley, Zach Chandler
Worcester, the photographer, and the
Hutchinson family were all born in OF
near that place.
The last day On which Minister
Christiancy could answer his wife's
cross-bill fol~divorce has expired, and
Mrs. Christiancy will now move that
decree be granted her,
The health of Count Henry Won Ar
MIN, Bismark's enemy, is considered
most critical. His physicians have de-
clared that further Imprisonment of
his patient will endanger his life.
Maud Branscombe, the actress, has
sued the New York Times for libel,
| placing her damages at $4,000 The
| offending article ridicules her birth,
| and, it is claim ed, ISLANDERS her name.
Ordnance Sergeant James Oliver, who
had served forty-five years in the
United States army, died at Fort Van
couver few days ago. He fought in
the Bla ok Hawk and Seminole wars.
The herring fishing on the east coast
of Scotland is the most successful on
record. 1t has been found impossible
to cure all the fish caught, and tons
have been carried to the manure mer-
chants.
The ancient black glass Of the Vene-
tians is now SO closely initiated as to
| defy detection. The process is to use
a mixture of sand and sulphur with
an addition of fifteen per cent. of
manganese.
Professor F. F. Jewett of Norwich,
Conn.,, has given up position which he
held in the Imperial University of
Toxic, Japan to accept the appoint
ment of Professor Of Chemistry in ODER
lin College, Ohio.
The New York Graphic on Monday
published picture and a sketch of
the life of Wilbur f. Storey, of the
Chicago Times The likeness is a good
one.
The man who loafs his time away
around a one-horse grocery, while his
wife takes in washing to support him,
can always tell you just what the coun-
| try needs to enhance her prosperity.
Several valuable historical relics, in
the shape of autograph letters of Geo.
Washington and other famous revolu-
tionists, have been discovered in Wash
ington, while clerks were hunting up
the records in old law cases that came
before the United States court.
The value of the bare soil in London
is shown by the recent sale of premises
in Tower street at the rate of 81 ,O59, 900
per acre, and of ten freehold houses in
Ely place, Holborn, for $172,S $50, or at
the rate of $780, 1853 per acre.
The trial of Homer Merry on
charge of theft, at Berdanvill, Mo-,
resulted in an acquital, through the
testimony of his wife. After his dis
charge, however, she parted from him,
saying thatshe had sworn falsely to
save him from prison, but that she
would not live with thief. She has
been indicted for perjury.
Mrs. Langtry has arrived at her ma
tive home, Jersey, and is SO charmed
to find herself there, that according to
Vanity Fair, she has written to her
friends in England that she never in
tends to return to London again.
THE excitement consequent on the
discoveries of new diamonds in the
Free State of South Africa, according
to latest intelligence, had not abated in
intensity Three new rllshns have