The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-03-18
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Ole Bull plays upon violin 316 years
old.
Queen -Victoria's income is $1,000 a
year.
One small boy, onepair skates, one air
hole, golden gates.
James keenpes string Of race horses is
valued at $4,000.
j. G, Easton has 1850 sheep on mis- farm
near Chaltield Mimi.
| England paid twelve million dollars for
Itorelgn essgssla 1875.
Over million dollars have been raised
in this country for Ireland.
There were nearly 1900 cats on exhibi-
tion at the Boston cat show last week.
! A deaf mute in Hartford Conn. is said to
have invented the notorious game Of 10.
1t costs the Governm cnt, on an average
five thousand dollars to bury a Congress
| man.
A Baltimore family is reported to con-
! tain 10 children. the oldest OF whom is but
Is years of age.
Two hundred. families Of Philadelphia
Quakers will form a colony IN Minnesota
on the North Pacific road next spring.
The first lucifer match was made in 1880
! the first hoIse railroad was built III 1926
the first balloon ascent was made Ia 1888.
An old soldier, who has been for some
years drawing pension, asks for Increase
because his wife has the rheumatism in
her left hip.
| A sale by auction Of a tract OF land fifty
one by thirtyeight miles in area in Kansas
is to he made to satisfy a mortgage of five
million dollars.
1t is reported that the Indians in the
| neighborhood of Flathead Lake, Montana,
thave had the small poN among them d1r-
the past winter.
The railroads ccntering at St Paul have
| subscribed to $4,000 stock in the new
union depot, and will issue $250,0O0 bonds
| to carry out the programme.
A man or woman who has never loved,
| iluggcti, kissed played with, Iistened to,
told stories to, or thoroughly spanked a
| child has missed the cardinal joys Of life
A destructive famine prevails in Arm
| enla, a portion of Asiatic Turkey. Fifty
two persons have already died Of starya
| ton in one ofthe provinces ofthat country.
Elmwood (Ill.,) Gazette: w. j. Houck,
proprietor of the Leota House, this place,
has succeed in working out the Ia lib
puzzle II fifteen moves. Who can beat
| it,
Tie greatest number of letters ever re
| I ;,,t q, nfft in n n
! dav was 100000, besides forty thousand
circulars and two hundred bags of news
papers.
The man who is curious to sec how the
world can get along without hilH, can fad
out by sticking cam briG needle INTO a
mill pond, and then Withdrawing and
looking at the hole.
China is purchasing arms for war
with Russia, considering that the Russian
settlements in Siberia are dangerous to the
peace OF the Empire The Gar on the
other hand is melting Japan TO make war
upon China.
Christ will come and the millennium be-
gin in September, 1881, according to tht
calculations of the Rev Mr.. Rounds, AT
Adventist of Portsmouth, n. II. who ha:
devoted seven years to figuring out the
matter on a chart 260 feet long.
Minneapolis is to have new Touring
mill called the "Pillsburg A." which vii
be the largest aad finest in the world, with
ont any exception. 1t will be erected a:
soon as possible, on the east side OF tho
river at an expense of S25o,ooo.
In New York the police superintend
emf. who has thousand things to do, Il
paid $1,000, and police court judge wh'
Sits a few hours q day, receives SS,00O.-
The salary of the comptroller, who ha:
the handling OF s30,000,000 a year, i
$4,000, and that Of corporate counsel il
| $4,000.
The latest trick of the sharpers to dup
farmers is to 60 through the country ant
take written contracts for the delivery o
so much butter, at certain place on Ger
tain day These contracts are so printed
as to be easily changed into promlssor,
notes for as many dollars, by tearing OF
one end.
4 California averages higher rates for farm
labor than any state IN the Union, VIZ
4 S41 a month without board, and 1927
day without board and $227 dav 10
transient help during harvest time. Souti
Carolina is said to pay the least, or an av.
! erace of 1898 Der month without board
Transient help is paid for at the rate OF 8
cents day without board.
/ PHILADELPHIA is carrying on a war OF
bogus butter. Grease, under the euphoni
us name of oleomargarine, is said to smel
as sweet as genuine butter, and thiri
wholesale dealers were arrested the othe
i dav, charged dealing in the counterfeit
article. Philadelphia doesn't intend t
consume oleomargarine, at least not a
genuine butter.
! Nearly three hundred million posta
cards were used in the United States las
year They are made at Holyoke, Mass
by private concern under the genera
supervision Of a Government officer. Th
work is nearly all done by machinery
even 20 counting them and putting then
UP in packages of twenty five Tie us
of postal carls is said TO have driven man,
. makers of writing paper and envelope
ont OF business.
I One province of Brazil has had con
tinuous drought since 1877. Crop
failed and cattle died for wan, of food ant
water. not a green leaf or blade of gras
could be seen A panic followed ant
500. 600 people lett one province alon
10000 dying on the road. Camps wer
formed along the sea coast where teve
and small pox broke out, causing ceati
as high as SOS day The govern men
7 finally appropriated $s0,000,006 for thei
relief The government improvised wori
for about 250,000 but out of population