The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-01-08

Bengil is published an account of very
remarkable snowfall in Cashmere, which
began in October. 1877 and continued al
most unlnleruptedly up 10 May 1878, the
general depth of the snow being then esti-
mated ut from thirty to forty feet. Houses
nous weight, avalanches were frequent
GA the hillsides, and wild animals perish
ed in gleat numbers.
The quickest railroad building eseI.
done in Nebraska was performed at Lin
coin recently, on the Burlington aud Mis-
souri, extension, when gang of sixty
men, with two trains laid one mile of
new road, putting in two bridges aud
two crossings, and making connections
at both ends with the main line, between
O'Clock in the evening and breakfast
time, and the men who drove the spikes
were Obliged to have lanterns held close
! TO their work. ';'he work was hurried be-
cause it passes across the proposed right
OF way of the Union Pacific branch.
| The Pennsylvania state training school
contains an idiot boy with q memory. So
remarkable are his po wers of memory til a
after listening to a sermon or other dis
courses he is able to repeat it verbatum,
preserving also the lntonatlons of the
speaker. AS a test Of this singular faculty
/ that lad was once taken TO Media to attend
lecture upon some scientific matter, and
the next day was asked to repeat it. 10 the
! astonlshment of all he readily repeated
the entire lecture, rendering Latinsphrascs
! and technicslities as glibly as the vernac-
uiar. - f=s5 5is#.fsj
/ EdisseA promised New-iears eve exhi.
bition OF his electric light came Oft ut
! Menlo Park in the presence of large
concourse Of people and was 50 successful
as TO no longer leave room for doubt as
to the accomplishment of the greatest
! achievement Of the age. Since the light
ning of the clouds was bottled by Dr.
/ franklin, electricity has been .male sub
srrvient to the use OF man in mauy marve.
lous ways, but The last discovery Of Edi-
son's IS the crownlng iriumpth OF science
! II gives to The world sale, che,p and mex
haustible means Of illumination and
includes hint that it Will yet be made to
take the place steam as IL motor. At the
Menlo Park exhibition sewing machine
and pump were shown In operation, NOV
ed by Edisons electricity. IF small and
light machinery can be run by electri ,ity
it is reasonable to suppos" that the intel
lect ofthis wonderful man can Bring 1t
into use for the propulsion of all classes
of heavy machinery. His success opens
up a still wider field of investigation
fraught with still greater results than have
! yet been attained.
Force Of habit is never more striking
than when man, charged to the muzzle
with new year resolution, fills his glass
with water and then dreamiIy endeavors
to blow the froth off the innocent bever-
J age before drinking.
A Miss Rates, a school girl aged Is, liv
ing in Wayne Co. Ind, and the only
daughter of of widowed mother was
murdered by two of her schoo. mates
daughters of wealthy parents. These girl
wsre so annoying to Miss Hates that sh,
} would to avoid them 60 away from til,
: school house to eat her dinner. Sh,
caught one of the girls splitting into he
dinner, which fact together with other re
: peated insults induced her to report t
: the teacher. This enraged the two girl.
so that they laid In wait one knocked
her down with ball club, the othe
i Jumped upon s;e.r breaking her rihs 81,
, lived long enough to tell her mother ant
Gled. The parents went 10 the mother ant
gave her S3.d11 10 Keep the matter sill.
but other scholars who witnessed the as
sault told of 1t, and their punishment i
probable.