The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-16
IN A NUTSHELL.
Sweet home--A beehive.

Sweet home--A beehive.
Soar feat "A balloon ascension.
The almanac winter has come.
A woman's belt is always waist full.
A grave error-Burying man alive.
"The first of the season "-Decem-
Der l.
Genuine India shawls are always in
fashion.
Driving-gloves made of Il leopard's
claw are novelty.
General N. P Banks is lecturing in
New York.
Wendell Phillips was just 60 years
old on Dec. l.
Motto of the Montenegrins: "h d"N
cigoo rinces.
Stocking the fire departm ent-Pur-
chasing hose.
The sickest state in the union-1ll.-
Bloomington Eye.
Hunted down-The incipient NOUS
tache-Cin. Sat. Night.
No matter how old crowbar maybe,
it remains as pry as ever
The starting point-A tack on
chair seat-BaAimore Ecery Saturday.
Litta's name is pronounced "Leetaw."
Her right name is Marie Won Elsner.
The finest carriage in the land may
be but one-horse af1alr.--uodern
A1y0.
The undertaken is eager to let a man
down lust as soon as the doctor gives
him up.
When the leader of choir gets the
right pitch, he sticks to it.-Bloomington
Eye.
Put your head in the cold and you
shall be rewarded by having a cold IN
your head.
All reports to the contrary, the ice
crop for 1881 has not yet been damaged
by frost.
Mrs. General Landers is in Dresden,
where her son is preparing for the
stage.
1t is reported that General Miles has
a ''sure thing on the signal service va
cancy.
General Grant has purchased addl-
tional real estate at Long Branch at a
cost Of $4,000.
The pedestrian ploddcrs, headed by
Dan O'Leary, Of Chicago, have arrived
from Europe,
Ohio is said to be an Indian word
meaning 80, how beautiful" An Ohio
man tells this.
: Dressmakers who know their business
never make bulls; they do all the gor
ing themselves.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour is re
ported to have entirely recovered hi
usual health again.
Nine per cent. Of the Yale college
graduates during the past ten year
have become ministers.
| The new sashes and drapery gathered
: at the bottom into tassels are callet
; the ''bell-pull festoon."
1t may seem strange, but those WIZ
); do not kneed bread are those who d.
l. need it.-PhiMdelphia Item.
/, The ancient proverb says ''silenc
. gives assent" The modern balloons
;; says ascent gives silence"
When an Arizona man needs a neN
pair of boots he looks around to Sc
who he shall kill to secure them.
;; Theodore Thomas will conduct tn
Christmas performance Of the "Mes
siah" in Cincinnati on December 25.
' General Grant has accepted the ho1
I orary membership recently tendere
J. him by the Middlesex Club of Boston
The skirts Of skating goods are mad
) of stripped goods. Jerseys are NOR
! worn with them.
Senator Cameron is regaining tn
use of his arm, which was disabled b
an accident not long ago.
: Secretary Schurz, it is said spend
IS more hours in department work tina
any other member of the cabinet.
y A Boston man has nose that ca
smell music when he can't hear it;
< musical scenter, as it were.-Csn. S0
l. Night.
5 Too much drink makes a man sc
y two moons when there is only one, bl
L who can account for the suns of ten
T. perance?-Cin. Sat. Night.
Chicago jewellers and booksellers al
ticipate larger sales this holiday seaso
: than during any since the panic.
" You can't make pancakes out of tn
= baseball batter, although the pitcht
often catches the batter-Blo0minMo
is Eye.
Mr.. Love was married the other da
in Ithaca at the age of So. 1t was a
# old Love affair.--Neu York Commerce.
Advertiser.
d The estate of Governor Williams,
Indiana is estimated to be worth 500
st 600, SIS 900 of which is invested
farming lands.
Miss Cora Mccartney, daughter (
Hon. James Mccartney, attorney-gel
eral-elect of Illinois. will be chief cler
e in her fathers office.
g A burglar som etimes breaks into
l. mans chest with false keys, but a W.
$. man attempts to break into his b
IL means Of false locks.
>; The Prince of Wales has been nom
~ mated for Grand Master of the Ere
=, Masons Of England for the sevent
- tine
t. Gas L never pay my own debts
d isn't likely 1 shall pay hers" This
IS the frank way in which a Tacoma ma
y advertises his Grant wife.
o Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell. {
I, Connecticut, is said to be a candidat
n for minister to France. He does nc
G want a place in the cabinet
~ At New York the fashionable seaso
:, has opened somewhat earlier tina
e usual, and the gaiety now is as great q
= it ordinarily is about the holidays.
RI Mr.. L. U. Reavis, of St. Louis, lecture
. at Jacksonville, ILL.,, last week on 9th
Life and Political Principles Of Richar
Yates" the war governor of Illinois
Rev. George F. Penecost, the evan
$, geEst, has accepted the call Of tn
20 Tompkins Avenue Congregation;
1t church, in Brooklyn.
s. Washington ladies are preparing 81
70, fOp hotI to Nv,