The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
Facts and Fancies.

A league is three miles.
There are $3.50 languages.
Two persons die every second.
An acre contains 4, $40 yards.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
Two of kine-A yoke of oxen.
Of absorbing interest-A sponge.
A square mile contains GAO acres.
Light moves 10000 miles per second.
The average human life is 81 years.
A rifle ball moves 1000 miles per
hour
The first lucifer match was made in
1929.
The first horse railroad was built in
1S26-7.
Gold was discovered in California in
1S4S. ~.
4 mile is $3.50 feat Or 1850 yards in
length.
Ought a baker to drive a thorough
bred horse? ~... s..-
When the moon gets full it keeps late
hours.
Electricity moves 23S,OOO miles per
second.
The national dish of Portugal is dry
salt cod.
A moderate wind blows seven miles
an hour.
''Talk is cheap" Is it? Just hire a
lawyer once.
Philadelphia contains $500 pro-
fessional beggars.
The first use of a locomotive in this
country was in 1929.
There is an old landlady of So in Paris,
KY, who still manages hotel
The German army has nova war
strength of 100000 of men.
An artist is not so strong as q horse,
but heran draw a larger object.
Cats have no fixed political belief.
They are usually on the fence.
Unlike the flea, when you put..your
finger on a hornet, he is there.
When thing is. once begun it is al
most half tinished-a kiss, for instance.
Belts are 50 wide nowadays that some
of them are stif1'ened with whale-bone.
A woman in Portland, Me-, has dined
with every president except Lincoln.
A New York party has paid $31 900
for the lease of Canadian salmon
river
Measure 200 feet on each side, and
you will have a square acre within an
inch.
The English consumed last year
1877 100000 pounds Of American cheese,
as against 121 100000 the previous
year.
The evil that men do lives after
them. Cows likewise do not give ole
omargarine until they are dead.
The Federal government has spent
over 3O,OOO,OOO since the war in erect
ting government buildings all over the
country.
Kansas school teacher: "Where does
"What hopp&?t, "Grasshopper," tri-
un,phanly shouted a'scholar.>
The passion for antiquities is on the
increase, but old ladies are not appreci-
ated more highly than ever Neither
are mother-in-laws
The army worm is multiplying rapid
ly in the Eastern States and enlarging
its sphere Of devastation.
Helmholtz has stated that every
twenty-five tons of sea-water holds 81
of gold to-day, and that the ocean con-
tains II 100000 times more gold than
ever was dug from the earth in all time
past
New York city, has a solid founda-
ton; the drill in an uptown we'll has al
ready gone through nearly quarter of
a mile of gneisss, a rock so hard that
granite cannot afford to give it odds.
Frances continued growth in wealth
and prosperity..is unexampled in the
history of nations, save in the case Of
the United States.
The proprietor of a Louisville bone
factory announces that persons leaving
their bones with him can have them
ground at short notice.
The other night, in Missouri town, a
thief, being caught in 81 mans cellar,
explained that he was there to get out
of the way of a cyclone.
AN ingenious woman has hit upon a
way to show off pair of paste shoe
buckles. She put one on her bonnet
and another on her ornamental muff.
A new novel that is bound to be a
success is entitled "a Proposal of Mar
riage." All the girls are bound to have
it.
Colonel Ingelsoll says he believes in
the efficacy of baptism, when it is ac
companied with little soap. Come
right into the fold, colonel; while there's
lyef there's soap.
The wife of General Hancock, the
Democratic nominee for President, is
a St. Louis lady The.St. Louis CORES
pondent IF the Cincinnati Gazette says
She is "a devoted Catholic
While Leadville lawyer was cross
examining 81 woman who was on the
witness stand, last week, she exclaimed:
"I'm a lady, and by thunder don't you
forget it,"
Ir is officially announced that during
the last ten years 247 British soldiers
and sailors were logged, receiving 9,l13
lashes. 1t was properly supposed that
this degrading punishment had been
abolished in the English army and
navy.
"I'd have you to know" exclaimed
Mrs Uppakrust, haughtily tossing her
head, ''that my family always moved in
the upper circles. eyes," whispered
Mrs. Blunt to her friend Mrs. Jones,
five hearn tell that the scum allus rises
to the top.-Boston Transcript.
Canadian law requires the announce
ment in church of every marriage, or a
license from the county clerk, and the
latter procedure costs about 81. The
consequence is that numerous couples
cross into the United States to be united.
Detroit clergymen and justices of the
peace do a great deal of this business.
George Merriam, of Springfield, Mass,