The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-22
Personal and Imnersonal.

General Mcdowell is at Geneva Lake.
The King of Greece has left London
for Paris.
Secretary Evarts is spending a few
days at his residence at Windsor, VT.
Senator Newman Booth has returned
to California.
For woman to love some men, is
like casting a flower into sepulchre.
Vice President Wheeler has taken his
trout-line to the White Mountains.
Twelve hundred Philadelphia colored
gentleman are employed at Cape May
hotels as servants.
There is a woman in Indiana that
weighs $40 pounds. She is supposed to
be David Davis in disguise.
General Grants personal attendent is
a Japanese youth who became attached
to him when in Japan, and came with
him to this country.
Miss Nellie Pratt, granddaughter of
Rufus Choate, is soon to be married to
Mr.. Charles A. Prince, eldest son of
Mayor Prince, of Boston,
An Illinois girl with a breach of prom
Use suit testified that it was the usual
thing for girls to show their ove-letters
to fifteen or twenty other girls, in order
to make them jealous.
Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, dined
With the ladies of the college at Bing-
hamton, N. Y, recently, and talked to
them an hour on the Mistakes Of NY
College Life
The marriage of young Ulysses Grant
and Miss Jennie Flood, the daughter of
the California silver-mining millionaire,
will it is now stated, take place in San
francisco in November next.
A country exchange unfeelingly re-
marks: "The small boy will soon be
holding himself together at the equator
in acknowledgment of the subtle pow
er of the green apple"
Young men should take warning
from the story of the watchful mother,
who, thinking that her daughters guests
had stayed long enough, wandered out
on the piazza and inquired if the morn
ing paper had come.
Binghamton Republican,: "Some-
body has discovered that cats can't live
at greater elevation than $4,000 feet,
therefore back sheds should he built
$500 feet high.
A dime-novel reader who went west
to exterminate few Indians has not
written home for a new crop of hair for
two reasons; first, he hasn't enough
money to buy postal card second, he
is dead
Miss Sarah Smiley, the evangelist,
tells racy story of a stiff f-backed Scotch
Highland minister, who discovered that
his congregation were falling into
the now common habit in churches of
sitting during prayers and standing dur
ing the singing of psalms. He deterlnin-
ed to cure them if he could, so one day
when preaching about anti-Christ, he
shouted vehemently: "soome people
say thot Antee-C Christ is the Pope; soome
say that he is a Roman imperor; but
I'll tell We whot Antee-C Christ is. It's
when We sit doom while We pray to God
and stond up when We sing. That's
Antee- Christi"
An eminently respectable republican
whose wife is imbued with democratic
tendencies managed to get around at
his home in New Haven about 4 O'Clock
Friday morning in a pleasantly oblivi-
Gus condition.
"Where on earth have you beenY de-
manded the fearful wife.
"Been celebrating, my dear; been eel
ebrating. Hancock Selected, you know.
Been celebrating"
"What have you got to do with it any
way? You are a republican. What are
you celebrating Hancock for?"
"Sall right M dear, Sail right. I'm
republican. Tha's all right. But you're
a democrat, M dear, and don't know
where er bar-rooms are, an been eel
ebrating for you.s' s'Sall right. You do
smuch for me some time"