The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-19
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COnueIbteN lnIOfmAt1O0s
Pet dogs are fashionable at Cape
May.
Modjeska's son studies engineering
in Paris.
Mrs. P. I. Barnum, wife of the great
Snowman has been seriously i'll at New
port R. l.
'Ill join you presently" as the min
lister said to the young couple as he
went for the church key.
A Saratoga ball is called grand dyess
parade.
The war cry of the army Of tramps-
To aims.
Mary Anderson has just celebrated
her 21st birthday.
Stephen Massett ("Jeems Pipes" is
in London.
A Bartlett Burdett-C -Coutts and
her husband.
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild is
still seriously ILL.,
Southern cities are getting tired of
the English sparrow.
People at Block Island carry great
white sun umbrellas.
General O. E. Babcock will build a
new lighthouse at Cape Henry.
What is lady in the middle of the
river like? Like to be drowned.
THE Queen of Siam and her little son
are reported to have been drowned.
Mile. Blancha, the prima donna of
the Vienna opera, is small and slender.
A wife should be like roast lamb,
tender apd nicely dressed. No sauce
required.
A son of Judge Hilton has written q
waltz which is played by Saratoga or
chestra.
Glove" says the Philadelphia Chron-
icle, makes many a good right arm go
to waist. !"
American residents in London pro-
pose erecting an Episcopal church at a
cost of $75, 900. Il
By this time DIR. Tanner ought to
know as much about true inwardness
as Henry Ward Beecher.
AS late as 1868 wheat was import
ed into the United States from Portugal
and the Baltic.
Associate Justice Field, of the United
States supreme court, and his wife, are
guests of w. B. Lawrence, at Newport,
r. I. +
Robert Raikes the. founder Of Sunday
schools, turns QUITO have been a patent
medicine peddler. What is fame?
The female population of Indepen-
dence, Iowa, is said to exceed that Of
the male by 2l2. "Go west" young
gal, 'sgo west. ."-Peoria Transcript.
Mark Twain works every day. Some
times he writes all day and throws
away the manuscript. Sensible man.
An English journal warns General
Grant against making a second trip to
saying that he may not be
twice lionized.
They went fishing. She looked Ian
guidly at him and said: 81 wish the
fish would bite at your hook; if / was
a fish I would.
The attempted Spanish bullfght"
in New York was not success in any
way. 1t was too much like, "Hamlet''
with Hamlet left out.
"Counterfeiting," remarks the Dam
bury Neps, "has finally got down to
where it really concerns U.S.. Bogus 10
cent pieces are afoat."
The man who leaves two-thirds of
cigar in dark nook on the front door
stoop. when he goes to see his girl, will
make a thrifty husband.
Ex-Empress Eugene intends to. quit
Chiselhurst. She will take with her the
remains of the Prince Imperial Her
destination is not mentioned.
Senior Zamacona, Mexican minister
to Washington, has been elected to the
Mexican congress by two districts. He
will resign his position at Washington.
Young Farmer -"Are you fond Of
beasts, Miss Gusherton ?" Miss Gllsll-
erton-"Oh, really Mr.. Pawker, if you
mean that as declaration, you must
speak to mamma"
The Partisan says that, as the ten
dency now is, the ladies will soon wear
dresses SO tight fitting that they will
have to soak them in warm water in
order to take them of.
In Cincinnati almost every portion Of
the hog is put to some use. A distir-
guished philosopher of that city is now
trying some method to turn the squeal
to account s3
A young physician of Lyons, in
France began on Monday a fifteen days
fast for 1900 francs if he succeeds. He
forfeits 100 francs for each day Of
failure.
s my DEAR" said a fond father to his
3-year old boy, as he entered the nurse
ry, .you have little sister-baby," oh,
let me run and tell mamma, was the
quick demand Of the youngster.
THREE desperadoes attempted to es-
cape the sheriff posse in Nasserich
County, Texas. One of then was kill
ed, another was wounded while attempt
to escape across the Rio Grande, and
the third was arrested.
'I didn't know, said an old lady as she
put down her newspaper, "that thieves
were 80 scarce that they had to adver-
tise for 'em and offer reward for their
discovery"
The new Webster mansion, al Marsh
uclO, NdSs., OH Guc SlGc VI du OH Auu
historic mansion which was burned, is
now almost completed. It will cost
about 10000. 8
First Assistant Postmaster General
Tyner has returned to Washington from
the Jordon Alum and White Sulphur
Springs, of Virginia, where he has been
spending two weeks vacation.
The disease which ended Tom Tay-
lor's earthly career was neither paralysis
nor gout. He died, says the London
World, from coagulation of blood
which formed in q vein, and which,
when in the course of circulation it
reached the heart, was instantly fatal.
Miss Josephine York, the contralto
for Carl Rosa, says that Polish singers
singers of other countries who
wish to appear on the stages Of Italian
towns atsmall salaries as q matter Of
training.
The late NJ. Pereire, the financier,
left fortune amounting to 4lO, 400 900.
Of this sum Madame. Pereia inhe.rifs