The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-11-10
IN A NUTSHELL.

Vennor predicts severe winter for
Great Britain, and mild one for this
country, with few cold snaps. 1t will
be prudent, however, to lay in u good
supply of coal as neither the goosebone
nor muskrat have been heard from.
Said an auctioner: Come now, Ia
dies and gentlemen, these goods are
for sale. Will somebody give me a
bid? Anything ladies and gentlemen.
All | want is an offer" "Alas!' muir
INJURED an elderly woman in the crowd
chats what l have been signing for all
my life" .......
Miss Winslow, living ten miles from
Boston, now in her ninety-second year,
possesses the original certificateof mem
bership, belonging to her father, Gen.
John Winslow, as one of the formers of
the society of the Cincinnati, dated
May 5, 1888, and signed by George
Washington, president, and H. Knox,
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
In party Smith. the funny man,
picked from the floor some false hair,
and, holding it aloft, wickedly asked
who lad lost any. Impulsively the
hand of every lady within earshot went
to her back hair. twas cruel to throw
them of their guard and expose them
so, but Smith says it was not his fault.
There is a beautiful tradition that the
first foot which pressed the snow. clad
rock of Plymouth, Mass, was that of
Mary Chiffon, fair young maiden;
and the last survivor of these heroic
pioneers was May Allerton, who lived
to see the planting of twelve out of the
thirteen colonies which formed the
United States.
The English papers accord to Ameri-
ca the praise of turning grave subjects
into a grim humor. One of these SAYS:
"a cute Yankee advertiser has been
utilizing the walls of cemeteries by
adjoining them with the following legend
in gigantic letters: Use Jones' bottled
ale if you would keep out ofhere.'"
Miss Anna Parnell describes the pre-
mier as "a hoary-headed political old
humbug." Mr.. Dillon thinks he is a
greatly over-rated man, but incapable
of STOPPING to misrepresentation to
serve a party purpose; but it has been
left to Sir Stafford Nortbcote to dis
cover that he is distinguished by q
vein of levity" which sadly warps his
judgment.
| Ocean me mott the lover cried
am your surf-to you I'd tied
Don't breaker heart. fair one, but wave
Objections thine this sand | crave.
80 billow Bill" she blnshed see
| You would beacil-osen shore by me:
| But I'm mermaid not yet in seine,
| And shall for years that way remain"
| -Norristorn Herald.
| Here are some of the hat ornaments
Of the season-shrimp of coored met
al, tiny silver and gold mice, cocks
heads, or the entire bird in colored me-
tai, enamel, and feathers of the Turke-
yam bird, metal and bony wolves heads
with the mouth wide open, showing the
red tongue and sharp white teeth,
daggers and pistols of gold, silver and
other metals, sometimes adorned with
jewels, gilt and silver snails, bears
tusks capped with gold at the base,
turtles, octopuses, Holsters and crabs in
enamel and gilt, and spiders of jet, of
malachite, and of imitation opal, with.
gilt claws.-EhricHs Fashion Quarterly.
A New York judge has decided that
colossal liar and literary thief" ap-
piled to dramatist, is not liLel. IN
fortunately, when Pennsylvania
wants to call man one of those things,
it takes too long to 60 to New York and
back, to say nothing about the fare. 1t
may not be. libel in New York to
apply such epithets to q mar, but we
should say it was mighty unhealthy
and liable to cause discooration of
the optics-No,yistc,ca Herald.