The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-09
Picked I'D Particles.
Boycotting" is Irish bulldozing.

Cornelius j. Vanderbilt's new house
at Hartford, Conn.,, will be finished in a
few weeks. 1t will cost 100000.
Judge Cutter, Of the District of Col
umbla court; is giant physically. He
is over six feet tall, and of heavy frame.
The principal business they are do
ing in New Jersey since the election is
arresting and trying thievish bank cash
iers
The London Times declares that the
untavorable reports concerning the
health Of the Emperor of Russia are
unfounded.
Lord Beaconsfeld has received 91O,-
GOO for his new novel of "Endymion," )"
to be published the latter part oft this
month.
The Hon. Will Cumback, ex-member
Of congress, was last week elected
Deputy Grand Master of the Indiana
Odd Fellows.
Petit bought last month $4,000
Of art obj ects in Paris. She has of late
developed a taste for painting and
sculpture.
The late Governor Williams was, and
Governor-elect Porter is, member of
Roberts Park Methodist church in Indi-
annapolis.
The Graphic heads its humor column
"Jokes by Frank Lumbard" 1t is
evidently a mistake; Frank is a singer,
not a joker.
U. S. Grant, Jr., and bride, are in
Boston this week. The cold man" re-
mains in New York, talking railroad
to the city of Mexico.
Among the passengers from New
York for Europe, last week, were
Thomas Hughes and family and James
Gorden Bennett.
A "Song Of the Season" in the
Waverly Adrocate:
A we'll fed hog reused up in his sty
And dropped rcgretful tear
The beautiful snow has come he said
and staying will soon be here
Madame Theirs is seriously i'll, and
suffering from such extreme weakness
that she is allowed to receive no letters
nor visits from her friends.
The Earl of Rosebcrry (LiberaD has
been elected Lord Rec or Of Edinburg
University, defeating Sir Robert Chris
tison Bart (Conservative.)
Imitation glow-worms are worn for
earrings in Paris, and the shrimp in
gold, diamonds and pearls, is substitut-
ed for brooch.
Mrs. Mercy Studley died in Bremen,
Me-, last week at the age of 106 years
Her hus band, Nathaniel Studley, has
been dead sixty years.
]. Lester Wallack will build an ele-
CANT theater this winter on the corner
of Broadway and Thirtieth street, New
York.
Governor-elect Bell, of New Hamp-
shire, entertained more than one thous-
and friends at a grand supper last Sat-
urday night.
Mcclellan, Seymour, Tilden and
Hancock, in chorous: Better to have
been a candidate and lost the election
that not to have been Il candidate at
all.
Governor Pillsbury, of Minnesota,
has offered to advance out of his pri-
vate funds the money required to re-
build the insane asylum burned at St.
Peter.
Rev. Theodore Cuyler, Rev. Justin
d. Fulton and others have petitioned
the president to restore Cadet Whit
taker to the Military Academy at
West Point.
NJ. Gambetta has purchased a site
for his tomb at Pere Ia Chaise, opposite
the monument of M. Thiers, and he
has paid for his last abode the sum of
100000 francs.
The Baroness Burdett- has
granted g, $50 to the unfortunate Cape
Clear Ureland) fishermen, to enable
them to start operations the coming
season.
The man who who would doctor lard
into an imitation of butter and delib-
erate]y sell it for butter, is mean
enough to swindle a blind beggar Or
rob his grandmother.
A young lady in North Carolina COM
mitted suicide the other day from
chagrin and her modification over the
defeat of her father for the state legis-
lature.
Clara Morris matinees at the Park
Theater, New York, Tuesdays and
Thursdays, are largely attended The
lady's health will not permit her to
play evenings.
In London, as his American admir-
ers will be pleased to learn. Edwin
Booth draws houses steadily increasing
in numbers, character and judicious
enthusiasm.
DR.. j. G. Holland is having a steam
yacht sixty feet long and nine feet
beam made for him by Hereshoff. the
blind steamboat builder of Bristol,
r. I.
Gen. Garfield, who is 40 years old, is
the youngest man ever elected to the
presidency with the exception of Frank
lin Pierce and Gen. Grant. The aver
age presidential age at the time of in
auguration has been 81.
A prominent citizen, when asked if
he was going to decorate, replied: eyes;
when the procession passes I'll raise
the window, stick out my red head
show the whites of my eyes and look
blue"
eff you will consent to my marriage
with your daughter, she will be treated
as if she were an angel" 'That is" was
the matter-offact reply, sin short
time she would not have anything to
wear
eff I have ever used any unkind
words, Hannah" said Mr.. Smiley to
Mrs Smiley, reAectively, II take them
all back" eyes, suppose you want
to use them all over again." was the
not very soothing reply.
They were talking Of man who was
afflicted with the dropsy, and somebody
said that he had been tapped the day
before. "Then his case is hopeless.
Nothing ever lasts more than q few
days that is tapped in that house."
The queen of Hollands sister, Prin-
cess Pauline of Waldeck, has been be-
trothed to Prince Alexis of Bentheim-
Steinfurt, and the Duchess Helena of
Mecklenburg- -Strelitz to the hereditary