The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
animals and Time.

It seems evident that some animals at
least know when Sunday comes. A friend
of mine has dog who always runs with
the wagon. On week days the wagon turns
to the right from the gate and goes down
t, the factory On Sunday it turns to the
eft, and goes to church. The dog runs
ahead on Sunday he turns to the left, and
no intimation is given. Six days the 81
gacious animal runs on in advance to the
factory. Even the horse understands the
day as we'll as the way to church. No one
that has passed week day in Venice will
have failed to see the pigeons fed at tho
hour Of noon More than one hundred of
these little birds have come at noon for
their food. They never mistake the hour.
When the bell of st. Marks begins to clang
out the hour of noon, not bird can be
seen; before the bell ceases the air will he
black and doves by the hundred fly to the
windows. On Sunday no grain is given.
The old bell jars out twelve O'Clock, but
no birds appear. They can count-they
know when Sunday comes.
A BLESSED DAY-What blessed day
IS Sunday to a man who necessarily catches
but brief glimpses of home during the
toiling week, who is far off in the morning
while little eyes are closed in slumber, nor
back at night till they are again sealed in
sleep. What would he know of the chill
dren for whom he tolls, were it not for the
blessed breathing respite ofSunday? What
honest workingman's child will ever forget
this day, when clean and neat, it is his
privilege to climb on fathers knee, and
tell him of all the news which goes to make
up his narrow little world. Marrow" did
we say We recall the word, for it widens
out into the bondless ocean of eternity
Sunday is for the working mans children
So would we have it-a day hallowed by
sweet, pure, home influences when the
little band, quite complete, shall rest from
labor, and love shall write it down the
blessed day Of all the seven.
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The sea fisheries or Europe are SAID to
employ quarter of q million Of people.
Boston has seven colored lawyers, six of
whom are in active practice, one Of them
being a graduate oi the Harvard law school.
Any business which is not injurious to
the public welfare Is honorable So 10
man should be ashamed of an honorable
calling
There are $4,000 miles of submarine
cable, which would stretch almost four
times around the earth at the equator.
A century hence the United States will
contain a population of one thousand mill
ions, more 0, less, if the ratio of increase
of inhabitants should be as great as during
the last century.
In the middle ages CATS once the object
ofveneration in Egypt, were IN France
looked upon as satanic agents, and were
buried alive. In Paris every ST. Johns
lay q number of the abhorred animals
were heaped up in baskets and bags in the
Place de Greve, to afford an anto-da-fe, the
sovereign himself setting fire to the pile.
"Mr. Jones, how do they make writing
paper?" with stationary engines, my dear"
Immediately the whole family were enrel-
oped in gloom, and Mrs. Us brow wore the
stamp of indignation. Gum! Gum! we had
an inkling of this long since. 1t all hap
pened in Penn city, Pencil-vania.