The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-11
NO. 80.
In a Nut Shell.

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Carlotta Patti is giving concerts in
INDIA, and is en- route to Egypt.
Anna Dickinson's last new play is
entitled "a Test Of Honor
Ex-Empress Eugene will spend the
holidays in the Isle Of Wight.
Hon. Thomas Hughes will sail on
his return to England November 6.
There's some politics in the country
about these days, and but little else.
Robert Bonner, Of the New York
Ledger, has five sons associated with
him in business.
A genuine German count, who speaks
tive languages, is in jail at Fort Wayne,
for stealing saws.
he decease of two eminent French
painters is announced-Muril Gull
lemin and Frederic Schopin.
The first statute for the national Lin
coin monument, that of Chief Justice
Chase, has been cast at Washington.
Miss Mary Evarts is keeping house
in Washington for her father, the sec
retary of state.
General Patterson, of Philadelphia,
and General 10 Lane, of Oregon. are
the only surviving generals of the
Mexican war.
A London tailor has invented the
united suit" which consists Of a mans
complete attire in one garment.
An escort 0f P,,cc,or
passed throug h Berlin having charge of
9,OOO,OOO rubles, said to belong to the
Cars private fortune, and designed for
investment abroad
The will of the late Lydia Maria
Child gave $4,000 to the Hampton Ag-
rlcultural college in Virginia, and dis
trlbuted $1,000 more among some half
dozen charitable institutions.
California is great state for grapes
and pairs. This fall the Sonoma val
ley has had the largest grape crop ever
known, and twelve pairs of twins
A locomotive, from which a train
may be stopped without the use of
brakes, is among the latest reported
improvements.
Washington bonifaces are already
rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipa-
ton of the profits arising from the pro-
spective large influx of visitors during
the short session of congress the coming
winter. The session opens December
LIST, and closes early in the sp,ing.
Charles O'Conor, the veteran New
York lawyer, who spent last summer at
Nantucket, was SO greatly delighted
with the balmy air Of the island and
the honest simplicity of the people,
that he will return there shortly and
remain during the entire winter.
The Spanish Marshal Serranos eldest
son, who has lately been residing with
a gentleman in London in order to ac-
quire the English language, has just
married Mile. Santonta, a young lady
with dowry of 9250,O0O; and the eld-
est daughter of the marshal is about to
marry the brides brother, who has a
similar fortune.
Vice President Wheeler's house at
Malone, N. Y, is an unpretentions
mansion of red brick, surrounded by
spacious white-painted yeranda, and
set in an ample lawn. 1t is handsome
ly furnished, and has many valuable
objects of art within it. The vice pres
ident is not wealthy, but is a man Of
comfortable fortune. He is heartily
esteemed by his fellow-townsmen.
The New York Graphic has started a
new feature called "Types of Ameri-
can Beauty" and inaugurates it with
the portrait of "The Belle of Rich
mond, Ind" Her name is not given,
for obvious reasons. The belle of Rich
n4ond, apparently, weighs 200 pounds,
has an arm like a blacksnith's, and
when infuriated could mop the floor
with the entire Graphic force with
neatness and dispatch. The editors
and artists of the Graphic should in.
crease the amount of their life-insur-
ance policies for the benefit of their
families.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow of President
!! lincoln, was among the passengers by
the steamer Amerique, from France,
last week. She is reported to be in ex-
cellent health, but looks old and worn,
and little like the woman whose pride
in the White House sixteen years ago
has become history Her hair is al
most white, and her form has become
heavy, and she displays little interest in
what goes on about her. She will leave
New York in Il few days for Chicago.
How the Dog Knows.