The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-03-18


| The first daily newspaper appeared in
! 1902. The first newspaper in the United
States was published in Boston, Septem-
Der 25, 1880.
A young man in Nebraska sent an offer
Of marriage to a girl whom he fancied,
and In reply received a telegram, Come
on with your minister.
Philip ST. George, of Crosse Point,
Mich. was calriedInto Detroit last weeL
in tho bottom Of a wagon to draw his pen
! sion as an 1912 veteran. He is lO5.
A danish shilling, 100 years old, was
lately found at Meyers, Chippewa county,
Minn, four feet baiS.Et,es the surface Of the
prairie, and peops .saHssSg guessing how It
4 came there $500 Y s~.s.esssAas ~
D T. Cary, an cid batcheior Of Dattie
Creek Mich, who has been seeking per-
petual motion for many years, died sud
denly IN the l4th, jnst as he thought the
motion was already perfected.
New York jals, as rule, are over
crowded, damp, iil-iigatat. i'll ventilated
and generally unwbolesome; the men IN
charge OF them are often petty t, rants, an
prisoners come out of them worse than
they go in.
The Mail reports Sheldon very pros
porous The Ialey Of Pattersonvtlle
claims that town has the nrettnst girls IL
Northwestern Iowa. The Index is mod
est like and did not include Dakota, Ne
braska and Minnesota.
1t is said that the organ which is now
] being built in London for the Stewart
Memorial Cathedral at Garden City will
be the largest and most wonderful in the
world. 1t will cost about SAC, 900, and
will probably have nearly l20 stops.
Draining, paving and lighting a city
! like New York is no small job, and it
would be bigger If properly done. There
are in the city 81 miles Of sewers, 4SO m
of water-pipcs, over 3co miles Of street
pavement, $50 miles Of gas pipes, eXclus-
i've of house connections, and 23, 1876 pub
lie lams, while the CrotOn aqueduct car
ries over ninety million GALLONS Of water
every day.
W. II. Vanderbilt, of New York, has all
along been investing his hard-earned
savings in United States bonds until he
had $2G 100000 inv estcd in per cents
! Now he comes ever again and has five
millions and a half more bonds registered
!
ment IS in $4,000 bonds, and Mr. Wander
| bilt could carry them all in his coat
pocket without any Inconvenience. Upon
these bonds Vanderbilt will draw oyer
$500,0G0 interest every ninety days
Racine, Wis, issued bonds years ago
for some improvement purpose, and in
1857 stopped paying interest on $4,000
worth of them, They were li.igated and
the u. 5. Supreme court has just decided
| that the Bonds and iHteFess=.s .ssssust be paid.
! oAc. gentelnalf who o0nea $1G,3oe now
| gets under the decree $3G.500. A Mr..
| Cornell also receives 100000 as his
share and all this enormous amount Ra-
cine property owners must pay for the
| original promise to pay only $4,000.
According to a statement in the North.
western Lumbcrman, one thousand laths
will cover seventy yards of surface, and
eleven pounds of pals put them on
Eight bushels OF good lime, fifteen ush
els sand, and one bushel hair, make
enough good mortar TO plaster l00 square
| wards a cord of stone, three bushes OF
lime and cubic yatd OF sand will lay loo
cubic feet Of wall. One thousand shingles
| aid four inches to the weather will cover
one hundred square feet Of surface, and
five pounds of nails fasten them on. One
fifth more siding and flooring is rceded
than the number of square feet of surface
because of the lap in siding
A. w. Underwood, the colored man
whose breath sets com5ustlblcs on fire
was Interviewed by Courier reporter or
Tuesday evening. He says he1s twenty
four years old When about twelve years
old lie held his handkerchief to his mou'l
and blew upon 1t and it took fire Ht
says he is unable to account for 1t; say:
that physicians haye examined him ans
they are as much in the dark as himself
He set piece of paper on fire at The
Dyckman Honse, Tuesday evening las
before {: large crowd. A respectable clti-
zen of Paw Paw says that this fellow wa!
out with him at a hunting party, and nont
OF the party had any matches, and thai
Underwood took up both hands full o
dry leaves, breathed upon them while
, set them on fire, from which they built {
fire in the woods. He seemed much eX
f hausted last evening after his effort; say
he could not endure it more than twice
| day. Parties present that evening say
they had examined his hands, had hin
f rinse his mouth out and drink a glass o
water, and then saw him set paper o
cloth on fire by his breath.
Prof. Nordenkjold before the societ.
, that sent him upon his polar expedition
: gave graphic description Of the effect
of cold in the frozen region. His yesse
Vega accomplished the discovery of tn
J north east passage, passing through Bhel
ings straits, coasting along the e7tir
western shore cf Siberia. In speaking o
the cold he says:
"The midnight sun? All, yesl Whel
7 il grazes the horizon, the floating noun
r tains and the rocks seem immersed in
wave of purple light. That rigid land
} scape seem TO wake out of its drows
s torpor, the streams flow again.
"Thn cold? 1. is by no means insup
portable as is supposed We passed from
a heated cabin at 80 degrees above zero t
Al degrees below zero in the open al
without inconvenience. A much highe
degree of cold becomes, however insuifer
able If there is wind. AT 10 degree
) below zero a steam, as If from bollln
kettle, rises from the water. At one
frozen by the wind, it falls into fin
: powder. This phenomenon Is called Ic
smoke. At 40 degrees the snow and hu
man bodies also smoke, which smok
changes at once into millions of tiny pai
, ticles like needles of ice. which fill the al
| and make light continuous noise, lik
! the rustic of stiff silk. At this tempera
| ture the trunks of trees burst with a lout
, report, the rocks break up, ank the cart
, opens and vomits smoking water
Knives break in cutting butte Cigars gt