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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
THE SCARLET LILY.
A Rare Exotic upon Which San Fran.
cisco Ladies' Spent Their money.
San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco Chronicle.
The florists of San Francisco have
been chuckling to themselves for some
days over the introduction into the
Conservatives of this city of "the Scar
let Brazilian .Lilly,"-a rare exotic. The
man who brought them thlther intro
duced himself by means of card with
the following inscriptions: IN. Carlo
Corrella, botanist; late of Brazil" NJ.
Corrella went around among the aristo-
cratic families and by his pleasant ad-
dress secured interviews secured inter.
views with the ladies. He told them that
by misfortune he had lost his money
and while waiting a telegraphic order
from home must sell eleven of his dear
ly priced Brazilian lilly bulbs, which he
had intended to present to Mr.. Hayes
"What is the lilly hke?" the lady
would ask.
The description was glowing as the
immediate prospect of investment
could produce. The flower was scar.
let bell, with ecru ruchipg on the petals
q solferino full around the pistil. and
3 whole bottle of perfumery in each
stamen. Its grace would have made
Aphrodite die of envy, and its perfume
was a tasteful combination of all the
odors of Araby. with the Lubin, Pinaud
and Colgate laboratories intermingled.
Would it grow here? It would. Accus-
toned, as it was to the balmy zephyrs
of its native heath, it possessed 50 am
bilious temperament that it would
grow on anything, from Tulare farm
to new spring bonnet. In fact if she
wanted to paralyze every other lady of
her acquaintance in the conservatory
line, she had the one chance OF her life
time.
"Ill take 'em all. How much are
they?'
"Four dollars apiece, ma'am. ex-
pected to get fve," and the Brazilian
botanist produced from consumptive
reticule eleven large bulbs, whose non
commital exterior gave no evidence of
of their patrician peculiarities. The
sale was Effected on the spot, and q
week later, at well. attended tea fight,
the proud purchaser confided the se-
cret to friend from the Mission like.
wise horticulturalIy enthusiastic. The
communication produced blank stare
profound surprise, and inte1jectional re-
marks. The other lady had bought
four of the same bulbs, the only ones
the poor botanist brought up with him
for $3 apiece. A rodent of mammoth
proportions was scented and notes were
compared. The Araby business and
the delicate horticultural idyl were
found to be inentically repeated in FIVE
different places, with rich financial re-
suits, out of gathering OF nine ladies.
The assemblage broke up early, as 8
quintet Of those present had important
engagements, all by queer 'coinci-
dence with her particular florist. The
transit was hurried. The questions
identical. The answers precisely the
same:
Chose bulbs are Chiny lilies. We're
sellin' 'em for two bits hundr ed"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
Chicago Market,

CH1oAeo. May e6.-Flour Dull and nominal.
Wheat-U Unsettled: No. 2 Chicago spring, ia
for seller cash and May; 1.05K0l.O6 for seller
June; 1.01 bid for seller July; sales, l.04,s Q
lC6A fof seller June. Corn Steady and in
fair demand, and frmer; 375f for seller cash and
May: So for seller June; 361s @s6A for seller
July; rejected, 34h. Oats-Steady and firm; Bin
0slx for seller cash; sOH for seller June, 2Sx
for seller July. Rye-Dull and lower at Sc.
Bay,ey-steady and unchanged at 7S. Close:
Wheat-Irregular and easier; LA for seller May;
.O5x for seller June. Corn-fsasicr but not quo.
tably lower. Irregular; 50 for seller cash
sON for seller july; 2sA for seller August. Pork
Stronger; advanced 5. Lard--Firm and un
changed. The Drovers' Journal" reports
Ho9s-Receipts, 19, COO; shipments, $500; more
life and activity; unchanged; common to rough
mixed. 3.75039 IS; packing, loG04.10: light, 40,
good to choice heavy, 4.l504 80: closes steady.
10000 left. Cattle--Receipts, 3,300; shipments
8, eco; fairly active and Arm; common to good
native 4.OO0a 20; western, 8 850A.l5.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
fetal prOce

RICHARD WULFF, a Montreal mer-
chant of wealth and high social stand
ing, has brought lawsuit to get back
$4,000 which he settled upon his wife
before marriage. She subsequently
eloped, but would not give up the prop
erty to her deserted husband.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

SOME of the schools in Dewitt county,
ILL.,, have been closed on account Of the
severity Of the scarlet fever, measles
and mumps. Quite NUMBER Of chill
dren have died within the last few days
from the effects of scarlet fever.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
auese group

WHEN John Thompson, of Middle
bury, VT, returned to his filthy hovel
after prolonged spree, his eight dogs,
almost starved, attacked him. 1t be-
came necessary to kill all the dogs be-
fore he could be rescued, and then he
was torn from head to feet.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

The Empress of Russia keeps alive
by breathing oxygen gas mixed with
acid and turpentine, which is admins
tered to her four times day. The
physicians Fay that her death can not
be much longer postponed by this arti-
ficia1 process
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

WHEAT harvesting will commence In
Beque county, Texas, next week. The
late rains in that section have given
buoyancy to business, and crop pro-
spocfs ire pOOA
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

The railway system is extending rap
idly in Japan, two miles having been
recently completed in the island Of
Niphon, and third in the island of
Yesse, the most northerly of the Jap
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

The task of Transforming Rome into
a modern city has proved very costly
affair, and the undertaking is now at
halt from lack of further funds.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
MWou,en Neyer Think. .

I. the grabbed old bachelor who uttered this
sentiment could but witness the intense thought
deep study and thorough investigation OF women omen
families well, and would note their sagacfty and
wisdom in selecting Hop Bitte1 % the best, and
perpetual health, ct mere nominal expense, he
would be forced to acknowledge that such sentt
ments are baseless and false. PicdyWns.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

TEE Mississippi state board of health
has ordered quarantine to be estab-
lished at the port of Pascagoula against
vessels from infected ports.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

Mr.. w. F. G1ILs "Life Of Edgar Al
Ian Poe" has passed to fifth edition
a well-deserved success.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

Boston has seven coiored lawyers, six
OF whom are in active practice, one OF
them being graduate of the Harvard
TawSchoGl
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

THE number OF different kinds OF
postage stamps which nave been hither-
10 issued all over the world is estimated,
in round numbers. at 5000.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

THE Canadian railways received over
$lO.OOO,000 last year for transporting
American products.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
Milwaukee Market.

MILWAUKEE. May .2G-Flosr-Dull and lower.
| Wheat Opened steady; closed steady; No. ]
hard, 1.1s; No. 1, 1854; No. 2, 1.03: seller May,
1C3: seller June. l. 03h; seller July, l.02k; No.
3, So: No. 4, 76; rejected. IS. COrn-Stronger
at 36h for No. 2. Oats-L higher at 3OA for
No Rye-Dull and lower at s3 for No. /.
Barley Quiet at 20 for No. 2.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
CURRENT EVENTS.

MRS. HAYES frequently visits Mount
Vernon.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

Forty MILLION barrels are required
eyery wear to hold the wine of France.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

! CANADA is shipping large number OF
cattle to England.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

GxsKRAL sIGEL intsnds settling down
IN ST Paul.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03
The Evidence Accumulates.

TnE streets Of Philadelphia are 10 be
swept by convicts.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-03

IF. sIcRrIrA5x I'm . IlIiVI II I II1
900. g y
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
Astonishing Increase.

The history of a single bean acciden-
tally planted in garden in South
BRIDGE Massachusetts, is treated by a
newspaper correspondent, who figured
out it's product for three years. The
bean was planted in a rich, loamy soil,
and when gathered in the autumn its
yield, as counted, twas 1,5l5 perfectly
developed beans from single stalk. :"
Now, if single bean produces l.5i5
more, the sum total of the second years
product would be 1926, ,226, equal to
1,l95 pounds, 597 quarts, or 1880 army
rations, aqual to eighteen bushels.
This would be the product of the
secord year. Now, if we plant this
product and the yield is the same, we
have product of S, ,269, ,O58, 800, ,625. beans,
equal to 1871, 800 tons, or 42,S7l,5 ,572
bushels, or 54s 756, ,Os6 soldiers rations.
This third planting would give the
steamer Great Eastern ninety.twe full
heigh.sl
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
A SWEET WILD ROSE.

"Well, since you mention it yourself,
Hal will confess that 1 was surprised
to Ind you engaged to Miss Brookfeld," !"
said Ned Chester to his lifelong chum
! Hal Elmendorf (the two young men
we're leisurely strolling through Maple
| avenue), ''for when went abroad you
were most emphatically denouncing the
heartlessness and selfishness and ex.
travagance and few other amiable
Observation-Disclosures to your way
of thinking at the time-of society girls,
and apparently sincere in your determi-
nation to remain bachelor rather than
marry one of them. And your letters
have given no hint of change in your
sentiments. Quite the contrary Your
last, by-the-bye, was most perplexing.
No woman's letter could have been
more so. In it you suddenly jumped
from the Clauson Mine to a sweet wild
rose,' of whom you had previously told
me nothing. If remember Alright, the
sentence introducing her read thus:
And the dividends this year are much
larger than this sweet wild rose that I
have found in this lonely place, and an
almost persuaded to court and marry,
after the manner of Tennyson's land
scape painter.''
Elmendorf threw away his cigarette,
looked thoughtfully into space a mo-
ment, dropped into still slower walk,
and asked. "Should you like to hear all
about it, old fellowP"
"Of course 1 should, replied Chester.
Lives there man with soul so dead,
who ever to himself hath said, take
no interest in sweet wild roses?' And
besides that. haven't I been the conf
dant of all your love affairs since you
were twelve, and awfully smitten with
the pretty girl in Wild's confectioneryP
Drive ahead. am all attention"
"As you remarked few moments
ago." began Elmendorf, "just before
you crossed the briny' became dis
gusted with fashionable young ladies in
general. and, as you did not remark, for
fear of hurting my feelings, with Eudora
Brookfeld in particular. 1t was rather
hard on romantic sort of a fellow,
who was awful spoons on girl, to be
told by that girl that his fortune con-
siderably enhanced his attractions in
her eyes, and that for her part she
thought love in cottage on less thar
five thousand a year must be the
dreariest of existences. We quarreled
as you know, and parted. She went,
shortly after, to Newport, and |. filled
" ith scorn of managing mammas and
fortune hunting daughters, donned a
blue flannel suit and coarse broad
brimmed hat, and carrying with me
only small valise, started for anywhere
anywhere out of the world.
eat noon of my second days travel
the train stopped at quiet, tree-em
powered station, and following the i'm
pulse of the moment, jumped off, and
struck into lonely shady road, resolv-
Ing to keep en-. on foot, until fate should
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
Three STRATA of Cities.

1t iisywell-known. by all students of
geology that our earth has beer grow
ing thicker by the gradual deposit of
mineral and other matter in the bottom
of oceans and great inland lakes. Some
of these deposits in past ages, called the
Silurian and red sandstone, are meny
thousand feet in thickness. The highest
mountains are the youngest in the
worlds history, bee ause they lifted up
with them this greater thickness of
earth, which did not exist when the
older mountains were forced upward.
Prof. Schliemann, in his explorations
on the site of old Troy, dug through
three tiers of cities. The upper one was
evidently modern, and its relics belong
to a recent civilization. The second,
Prof. Schliemann believes to be the
Troy of Homer, for it is full of relics of
weapons described by Homer, and of
household vessels mentioned in the
Had.
The third city belongs to pre- historic
times, when barbarism prevailed, and
stone weapons and utensils were in use,
like those found in ancient caverns, and
in the sunken villages of Swiss lakes.
We can understand how strata are
formed at the bottom Of the ocean, or
how Pompeii was buried by the erup-
tion of Vesuvius. But it is not SO easy
to explain how cities are buried over q
hundred feet deep by the slow working
of natural laws.-YOuth's COMPANION.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
July.

Oh, perfect month of rose-crowned year.
Season OF fruits and flowers so rare;
Month of all months, the month most dear
VI all the months the month most fair.
La mornings bright empurpled light
Behold how royal is the sight;
In these, thy soft beguiling days,
The hours are bathed in silvery haze:
Whilst thou, with rosy smiles serene,
Arrayed in scarlet, blue and green,
Dost dance to strains of summer lutes,
Or pattering fall of ripened fruits;
Or, when, amid the azure sheen,
Thou bendest low with regal mien.
And foodst the earth with forms of light,
We miss the faint, fair isles OF night,
AS erst, at noon, dost stately stand,
Filling with beauty all the land.
Now wave fair fields of golden wheat,
And mottled miles of clover sweet,
And yellow plumes of waving corn
The marges of oat-felds adorn-
While meath some fleece of cloud that sw eeps
The arches of the nightly skies,
Nature in blissful slumber lies,
And earth its sacred silence keeps.
And now we pluck thy roses pure
The fiaky white, the carmine red
That tell of love that shall endure,
And gather buds with bright eyes wet,
That tell that tears shall not forget
When we are thronging with the dead;
And ere the iaded leaves shall fall,
Hope from our hearts shall sure recall
The faith we plight amid fresh flowers
The trust that comes in silent hours.
Amid pale ilacs, Tyrian glow,
Magnoiis wave their plumes OF snow;
While DER green seas of waving grass,
With softest sighs sweet breezes pass;
Or here or there the shadows rest,
AS through thick wood, or high wall,
The Struggling sunbeams slanting fall
Beari soft sunshine on their breast.
Oh-sweet to me-these long, long days
These days of fruits and flowers;
Long have waited long delays,
And dreamed OF these sweet hours
-hese hours OF joy, SO surely found,
In thee, ripe month and sweet
Thou hast my heart so firmly bound
lay 1T ut thy teet-
And, while life's wild unrest shall last,
My soul shall reach to bright scenes past.
MERIDEN, Conn. Luther G.. Riggs.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
A Candy.LOving Horse.

DR.. Pratt, of Albany, has horse
with an inordinate appetite for confec-
tionery. Every morning he is driven to
the banking house of Henry r. Pierson,
and. after disposing of his master, he
turns his eye northward to see ifthe
road is clear. If he finds no obstacle in
the way he walks across the street and
pays his addresses to the old lady who
keeps a street stand on the museum
corner. From her he obtains stick of
candy, and after eating it stays there
until the doctor comes for him and pays
the old lady cent for her candy, This
is of daily occurrence.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
The Largest Tree In the WORLD.

In Nelson's Scientific and Techinal
Reader !" there is an account abridged
from Hutching's "Scenes and Wonders
N California" of a grove of trees. This
grove is situated on the watershed be-
tween the San Antonio branch of the
Calaveras river and the north fork OF the
Stanlslaus river, at an elevation of
4,37O feet above the sea level, and at a
distance of ninety-seven miles from
Sacramento city and eighty seven from
Stockton. Within an area of fifty acres
there are l02 large trees, twenty of
which exceed twenty-five feet in diam
eter, and are consequently over seventy
five feet in circumference. The s'father
Of the forest" the largest of the group,
lies prostrate and half buried in the soil:
it measures at the root ITO feet in Cir
cumference, is 200 feet to the first branch
and from the trees which were brokel
by its fall is estimated to have been 4s5
feet in length; 800 feet from the roots it
is eighteen feet in diameter. The "big
tree" was bored off some years since
with pump augers and then wedged
down; the stump, which stands five and
half feet above the soil, is sound to
the core, and has been used as ball
room. This tree was ninety-six feet in
circumference at the ground, and 300
feet high. The mother of the forest"
was stripped of its bark in 1854, for ex-
hibition in the New England States,
and now measures, without the bark,
eighty-four feet in circumference: sew
eral feet up it is thirty-nine and half
feet (also without the BARK its height
is 32l feet. The burnt tree" PROSTATE,
is estimated to have been 300 feet high
when standing, and ninety-seven feet in
circumference; it measures thirty-nine
and half feet across the roots. "Her-
cules" is n1nety-fve feet in circumfer-
ence, and 800 feet high. The pioneers
cabin" broken off $50 feet from the
ground, measures thirty, nine feet in di-
ameter, but, owing to its being hollow,
and its surface uneven, its average is not
quite equal to that. Fourteen other
trees average 29l feet high, and seventy
eight and half feet in circumference.
1t is estimated from the number of con-
centric layers of wood in these trees,
each layer of which is supposed to be
the growth of a single year, that their
age is almost 5000 years, considerably
younger than the one on exhibition.
This grove is also described in an anus
ing manner by I. w. Hinchliff, in his
cover the Sea and Far Away" 1875.
From his account, the trees occupy a
belt 5000 feet long and 700 feet wide,
which contains from ninety to 100
quisoias of the largest size; the highest
is 325 feet, and the diameter of one
(Which think must be the "big "
is twenty-seven feet. At six feet from
the ground, he says, the survey party
counted the rings of this section, and
found the number to be 1855; this tree,
he thinks, is one of the finest in the
grove.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24

How beautiful is night! How silently
she tiptoes across the meadows of
yonder peaceful vale. hear, in fancy,
the soft rustic of her shadowy garments
as they trail above the-blank blank the
blank blankety cats There they 60
again! When fellow does feel little
touch of sentiment, there's always
something to startled him back to the
stern realities of lite-Kokonso TribWn
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24

Sixty-four years ago occurred the
year without summer. May II, 1915,
the snow fell eight inches deep on
level in Hartford. July S, that year,
Indian corn was SO frozen that the
greater part was cut down and dried for
fodder in Connecticut. There was frost
every month in the year In the Northern
States.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
(from the 1rGde Journal, Vew York;
IMPORTANT TO THE CIGAR TRADE.


we have recently had our attention called
" new and important improvement in the
ananuiacture OF cigars, and as it is one that is
sieaiiy destined to revolutionize the cigar busi-
we nave had one of our reporters, who
= specially conversant with the tobacco and
sisar .fade, to interview the inventors and
p"'en.ees. . The invention was patented May
-, 1910, by Messrs. j. & A. Frey. These
s'.tiemen 8 have had many years experience
~ lne cigar business. The cigars are made
ttahLncipallv tah OF the very best seed and Havana
sdr"a, dIaooos, with closed tucks, and amongst the
ma,. ,ai'ages they possess over all other cigars
,ha "s oe mentioned: A positive retention OF
s ulofaa OF the filler-its loss by evaporation
,;raas ;s impossible. better, quicker and en-
eiy sIay round light; and they will not break
,onee eu carried IN the pocket. These are advan.
sel seS winch will be recognized by eyerv
T. n'oAcr as being OF the greatest Importance.
anof'' II m be said that Messrs. j. & A.
nav nave made very decided hit with their
cao tuea' s NO one can properly realize the deli
in -. VI the navor and aroma of q cigar made
and .,S .I way until he makes personal trial.
tba 'niS we advise our readers, whether in
or. as ''aue or not, to do. Even in the apnear.
at.n se oi the cigar there is something novel and
ssasIlaccve, the small, neat twist. which secnres
prova'' pehs tne whole, being decided i'm
Sesn tneht. sa though the new patent cigar has
lbsr. 'oh sucn short time before the public.
tpra =: are already indications that its manufao.
v tho ~ the skilliul and experienced hande OF
saasrs. ."e messrs. Frey will prove a wonderiuiv suo.
commercial enterprise,
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
(From the Grocer, Nep York;

=, Messrs. j. & A. Frey's goods are noted for
'nelr excellence OF manufacture and superior
quality OF stock used. Having had an expe-
renee OF twenty years they can satisfy any
taste, from the most tastidious to the most
ordinary. 1t is always well to know that
manufacturers are competent to judge properly
as TO the quality of stock, and have thorough
insight into the details Of their business, and
we can confidently recommend Messrs. Frey
10 I'LL the bill in these respects.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24

A Russian teacher committed suicide
byj umping Oft precipice into river
on horseback.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24

1t is said that more than three mil
lions of women in England and Wales
are earning living-or trying to earn
onc-in the various trades and indus
tries. But their wages are SO low that
six years ago a society-the Women's
Protection and Provident League-was
organized to raise them.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24
By the ounce or thousand pounds.
bole Manufacturers and Patentees OF
Closed Tuck Cigars and the Min.
iature Glass Ballot Box
Cigar Box.

Opinions of the Press.
(From the Sentinel, Trenton, ". J.)
The tobacco and cigar house of Messrs. j. &
A. Frey is among the most respectable and
responsible in Trenton. Their goods will al
ways be found to be exactly as represented.
The Sentinel., 1880-07-24

The emigration received at the port
of New York during the first six months
of 1880 shows larger total, by $4,000,
than the same period in 1872, which,
until now, had stood as the highest
figure OF the past twenty five years.
The total for the past six months is
I77,0O0, or more than three times the
number of those who came during the
same period of last year.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-10-06
<O>-

Was THAT ALL He Gould Do?
"A negro named Elijah, who
died some time ago at Oxford, n.
c., was famous throughout that
whole region for his amazing
strength. He was six feet four
inches high and weighed Two
hundred and thirty pounds. lie
could take up a barrel containing
thirty or forty gallons, stand
erect and hold the bung to his
mouth and drink out Of it; ne
could throw an ordinary-sized an
vii twenty-five yards; he could
"pull down" four men with a hand
spike at one time be could shout
der and carry a log that would
make seventy-fve Or hundred
rails, and could LIT Is three-year-
old colt over an eight-rail fence.
He once killed q deer on May
fields Mountain with a rock, over
took and dispatched black bear
with an axe, and ce,2ght and ham
strung q ferocioQs bull.