The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-25
Picked up Particles.
Cardinal McCloky is II.


John Bright loves to fish for salmon.
Quadrilles are regaining popularity
Cato learned Greek when he was sc
years old. ....
Rev. Charles r. Weld, of Baltimore
is is Boston.
Sara Bernhardt's gloves are clumsy
and ill-titting.
Bees are avaricious; they sell all
their honey.
The handsomest baby at the Boston
show was boy.
"Sarah Heart Burn" is what they call
her in the theatre.
IT'S easier to set an example than a
speckled hen.
Flowing locks-those of a canal
when they're opened
The actor who cannot draw is worse
than blister ..
Sarah Bernhardt brought with hel
$50 pairs of stockings
Garfield will be the twentieth presi-
dent of the United States. ..
The ponderous Richelieu hat is
growing in popularity.
"Swans sing before they die" They
have to if they sing at all.
From Paris TO San Francisco heavy
plush is the fashion.
Moody and Sankev are at work on
the sinners of San Francisco.
Mrs. J. NJ. Lander, we'll known in
Washington, D. c., is in Dresden.
Rowell, the Englishman, retains the
champion pedestrian belt.
Wendell Phillips is the executor of the
estate of the late Lydia Marie Child
The Rev. DR.. Hougton, of the Little
Church Around the Corner" is 61.
Every time a child is born in St.
Louis cry goes up for new census.
A seat in the New York Stock Ex-
change has just been sold for $20,O0O
Theodore Tilton has returned from
Europe and soon will commence lect-
uring tour,
A French woman cannot bring suit
for divorce without the consent of her
husband.
Sara Bernhardt is taking lessons in
English, and has already made good
progress.
DR.. Tanner, the faster, is expected to
lecture in London some time during
next month.
A New York house has just sold two
Sevres vases to a California millionaire
for $4,000. ........
Mile Bernhardt sports a purse totally
of keeping with herself. 1t is fat while
she is thin
U. Grant, Jr, is popular and
wellbehaved young man among his
associates in New York.
New York is preparing for an unusu-
ally gay winter, an extra tier of cells
having been placed in the Tombs.
A wise writer says: "Bustle is not
Industry" Perhaps he will declare
that the hoop skirt is not business.
Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian
statesmand an diplomat, is reported as
seriously i'll and not likely to recover.
If Jacobs ladder were reality, and
it offered a free way to heaven, how
many persons there are who would
wildly demand an elevator.
The base-drum player makes more
noise than anybody else, but he doesn't
lead the band. There is moral to
this. ..-. Rs
Sir Robert Peel, not a very great
man, but nevertheless "the son of his
father" and a leader in British politics,
is about to visit the United States.
If intelligent clergymen will dispute
with each other over the way of going
to Heaven, they must expect ordinary
mortals to become little mixed at the
crossroads. ...-...g
The princess of Wales wears on her
swanlike neck, as the new fashion,
ruches of lace and velvet collars Orna-
mented with silver carvings.
When the shopman seizes you
warmly by the hand as you enter his
establishment you readily understand
what's meant by a pressure Of bust
ness # zzss-}G 81 a
Some Indians use scalping-knives OF
tortoise-shell, probably on account Of
the old fable in which the tortoise is al
legged to have got away with the hare
1t is reported that Henry Probasco
of Cincinnati, intends giving $500: :OOC
to the proposed Art Museum in that
city.
Mrs. Lockwood, the lawyer-like lady
Of Washington, says she as been mar.
ried twice, and has. never asked her
husband for dollar of money.
Wayne Mac Veagh, it is reported
has bought "Brook6eld," beautiful
farm near Philadelphia, and will pass
his summers there.
One hundred and thirty young ladies
of Lake Erie Seminary, at Painesvllle,
o., visited Mentor, O., recently, passing
an hour at General Garfield's villa,
There was no speech.
General Thomas Ewing, who has
heen travelling for his health in the
West, was suddenly seized with malari.
al fever at Columbus last week, and
is now lying dangerously i'll there.
A dull old lady, being told that a
certain lawyer was "lying at point Of
DEATH" exclaimed, "My gracious
Won't even death stop that mans
lying?'
Miss Hattie Scuthwick, who has
taught school in Northbridge, Mass.
for the past three years, has resigned
and accepted position as teacher In
the Royal Normal college in London
Eng.
The Marquis of Stafford, eldest son
of the Duke of Sutherland, is to marry
Miss Hartford, one of the London beau.
ties Of last season.
The matrimonial engagement of Mr.
Padelford, of Baltimore, and Miss
Annie Crocker, of New York, is an
noun1ed in the latter city.
Marie Roze says thatshe has known
bright green silk costume of homely
make to initiate against a singers sue
cess, and hence she counsels young
artists to observe and accord with the
tastes of an audience even in these
minor details.
The customs duties on those OF