The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-05-26

lectures, which were delivered in al
> parts of the United States, and were o.
such character that the proprietors
: of respectable halls in many instances
refused to rent them to her.
The Directors Of the Union Pacific
/. Railway complain that their Company
= has not been properly nor fully com
pensated for services rendered the Unit
ed States for carrying the mails from
e the construction of the road until 1875,
|, and have filed petition in the Conrt OF
i Claims asking for 81, 14l.720, being the
amount which the Company says
is rightfully due. The Court heard the
argument on the matter and will prob
ably render decision in q few weeks.
"When we are old, Claud, we shall be
, lovers she said, gazing into his eyes
with rapture Of gifted woman who
writes poetry for the boston papers. The
warm hues of our youthful affection
shall never fade, but only grow brighter
as we draw nearer to the sunset. We
shall still sit out in the hush of the
summer eve and feed our souls on the
poetry of the stars, shall we not ?"
"Well, hardly" answered Caud,
daybreak basting your old back with
arnica." Then she bit ofa fresh chunk
of chewing.gum, and the only sound
that broke the silence was the crunch
ing of her gold-plugged molars.
FREAKS oE THE Observation-Disclosures
are always great stumbling block to
the clerks, aud addresses are composed
of names. Most of us have tricks of
writing names in any but a distinct
fashion; and although the Post Office
persistently reminds us, on the forms
given to us to write our kilograms on,
that the writing should be plain, this
advice, like most advice, is but too often
neglected. Hence many kilograms get
altogether rs ray, sometimes to the not
slight discontinue of those into whose
hands they fall, and who, unwilling that
my error has been made, forthwith 6
act upon them. 1t is related that wo-
man residing in some small street in :
Manchester once received what appear !
ed to be a summons from her husband :
o come up to London. Very r'uch a. \
armed, she at once started. On her !,
way she got into conversation with an y
'ther woman who was in'the same car =
lage, and who she found was going up ~
0 see her husband, who was in London " ~
Il. This woman had been expecting 9,
D receive a telegram from her huaband, y
nd, not hearing, had grown anxious, a.
nd mad finally SET of without the tele- q,
ram. Further parley revealed the -
act that their names We're the same; .,
hat their husbands names were the ~
anne; that they both lived in the same .;
Luarter in Manchester: and it finally >,
ranspired that the telegram which had r.
'een delivered to the first woman was ~
he very one which the second had y
'een waiting for-the error in delivery +
having been caused by some such mis- "
AXE as "Hamilton-street" for Henri y
stta-street"-a mistake very likely at i,
.ributable to want of distinctness in - -
he writing. Another curious case of !,
coincidence Of which we have heard o. :.
was that of n telegram addressed to =
John Stillingwise, Brookdean, near !,
kirkby Lonsdale", from Robert Still :,
ingwise, his brother, begging of him to
come at once to him to hotel which
he indicated in, Leeds. The address ,
'Brookdean" was in some way altered,
and the telegram was delivered to an
other John Stillingwise living some
where in the neighborhood of Kirkby {
Lonsdale. This unfortunate man, who
had not heard anything of his brother
Robert for some 20 years, at once start
ed Oft in stormy, wintry weather, reach
ed Leeds in the evening, and was told
by the landlord that he could not see
his brother that night, as he was very
far from we'll, and had gone to bed.
The very next morning he was ushered
into Robert Stillingwise's room expect
ing to see his long-lost brother. when, to
his extreme astonishment and disgust,
he found himself confronted by an ut
ter stranger!-Black,oood Magazine.
& d.