The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-05
Curious Points.

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1t is said that Barry Sullivan intends
to rev the United States next fall.
Spray of yucca blossoms are pretty
for blond to wear xismxhite gowns.
Spotted silk gloves have appeared
and they are not handsome.
Boudoir sacques with CANCEL" sleeves
have been brought into vogue.
A man at Brighton, Mass, lives on
sandwiches and soup, by his physicians
orders.
A couple were recently married al
Newport, r., Latter courtship of thir-
ty-tive years.
There are 432 dressmakers in Chin.
natl. No wonder Ohio men want good
offices.
Marshal Bazaine, of Metz capitula-
ton notoriety,is reported to be dying at
Madrid
When lie is exploded there is always
enough people to go around and pick
up the pieces.
Dr. Tanner will ruin his health. He
persists in waking about on an empty
stomach.
The desire to go somewhere in hot
weather is only equalled by the desire
to get back again.
Cardinal satin belts with a gold edge
are pretty when worn with either black
OF white gowns.
A new hairpin has a ball head Of
Moorish enamel, which opens, disclos-
ing large Roman pearl.
Llama cloth with bordering of many
lines of bright color, is made up into
pretty tennis dresses,
Fine lawns make, better lining for
grenadines than cheap silks, and their
effect is quite as good.
The red parasol is now declared un-
fashionable, for which the world has
reason to be thankful.
Plush coats are worn with muslin
dresses in Paris. The muslin and ones
pride are supposed to keep one cool.
The washerwoman's overskirt is in
vogue at the French Watering places.
It is tied at the back by a large bow
An Idaho woman who was caught by
an Indian broke away from him and
put two holes in him with a pitchfork.
A father and son are now in the Ian
caster county (Pa. jail on seventeen
distinct charges for stealing chickens.
The trouble with the early peach is
that nature seems to have neglected to
put any flesh between the pit and the
down.
If you own an old house, a mill-pond
and side-hill with IL cherry tree on it,
now is the time to advertise as a sum-
mer resort.
Roman aprons of unbleached cotton
are bordered by a row of slashings at
narrow intervals, and tape-like bit of
cloth between the slashes tied in 9, hard
knot.
In summer dresses the three deep
flounces, to waist, with or without over
skirt seems to be the favorite, as they
retain their freshness longer than the
plain skirts.
The temperature of the Madison
Square theater in New York is kept
cool by an adroit use Of ice in the ven
tilating process.
The following notice may OCCASION
ally be found posted upon the door of
to fight duel, be back in half an
hour"
The "beauty men" of London are
going to form a club. Nobody will be
admitted without certificates from three
well-known ladies that they are alto
gether lovely.
Rev. Joseph Cook will sail for Ger
many in October. He, with his wife,
is now in western New York with his
father, who is out of health.
A tramp in West Virginia stole a ride
on train, entering refrigerator car,
where he was shortly after locked up
and nearly frozen to death.
Japanese and Turkish designs, show
ing the moon, fans, fishes, and dragons
peculiar to these styles, are seen this
season in lawns and percales, as well as
in foulard silks.
St. Louis had cremation society,
and at a recent meeting of its members
a committee was appointed for the pur-
pose of learning the cost of erecting a
crematory furnace and building, and
also of seeing upon what terms ground
can be obtained of the Bellefontaine
cemetery association.
Tie empress of Russia bequeathed
the Castle of Livadia, which was her
private property, to her eldest surviy-
ing son, the Czarowitz. Inasmuch,
however, as it costs $6O, 600 year, over
and above the revenues of the estate,
to keep the castle open, the future en-
peror resolved to leave it closed for .
couple of years at least.
G. Brown Goode, of the international
fish commission, who has just returned
from Berlin in the steamer Neckar, is
expected at Newport r. l., in few
days, to cooperate with Prof. S. r.
Baird, in the work of the United States
fish commission at that place. Mr..
Goode will have charge of the census
of the fisheries.
In t e heart of a large pine tree
recently cut down by Jonathan Oatley,
of Unadilla Forks, n. Y, was found an
Indian pipe of stone, with the date
roug ly carved on it, 1888. A flint and
few arrow heads of steel were near
it. I is is supposed to be the spot
where t famous treaty of 1888 was
made.
The bullet with which Hiram G.
Briggs shot Erskine Wood at Coeymans,
N. Y, tse other day, passed directly
through the heart, yet Wood was able
to run halfmile and to live fifty eight
hours after the tragedy.
Henry Britain, of Richmond, Ind,
while asleep at noon, fell from his sec
ond-story window, struck on a lumber
pile with sufficient force to bounce
him into cistern eight feet away,
and when some workmen who saw
him fall ran to him he was still asleep.
Thomas Normington, Of Erie, Pa,