The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-30
United States at Large.

1t is said that 500, 0O0, 900 OF the coun
try are invested in finger rings.
One thousand German stocking weavers
are preparing to cmigrate to this country.
The Rowell- Weston match seems to be
petering out owing to the sickness of Yves
ton.
A nugget of gold has been fonnd in
California, in Butts tounty, weighing p
| onces.
Ole Bjorklend, Swede brick mason,
living near Vernillon, committed suicide
by hanging.
A girl committed suicide at Delphi, Ind.
because her parents would not let her
bang her hair.
Fred Gmat is president of the Texas &
Western railway, which will be one thous-
and miles long.
A Buffalo rag picker, who was living in
sqllald condition, was found to have 81, :
900 in his possession.
Yellow fever and small -pox are prevail
ing at Havana, the deaths already running
to over thirty per week,
One of the bellies of Mitchell, not being
able to secure poodle, fondles a lap-pig
with blue ribbons in its ears.
A cloud of butterflies, all going north,
filed the sky like snow flakes for six days
in southern Florida recently.
It was Artemus Ward who said that
there are two things in this world for
which no one is ever prepared--twins.
Brains will tell. So will woman; but
there the comparison ends, we might say,
but we wouldn't for the whole world
A single robber stopped a stage near
San Antonio, Texas, and riAcd the mail
bag, while four well armed passengers sat
idly looking on.
At last We have a comet with brilliant
and blazing tail. IF this
does not give Mother Shipton boom her
business is failure.
That handsome bride made of horse
hair by q convict in the Colorado peniten-
tiary is very numerous 1t was ratified for
in Yankton the other day.
This time the comet slipped up on the
and its discovery was an
bounced by a lot of jovial fellows who had
been making night of it
A Baltimore boy who was in the habit
# stealing money from his father to give
O1 his mother as his own earnings, has
been sent to a reform school.
Thirty-fve persons attending picnic at
Decatur, Ga, were poisoned from eating
chicken salad. The chicken had been
ooiled in brass pot. No deaths
The New York papers have discovered
that the latest plan for the adulteration of
food is to mix glue with ice cream. It is
cheap, and doesn't hurt the glue.
In the four months during which the
trial of Whitaker the colored West
cadet, has been on trial. Evidence covering
I 900 pages ofmanuscript has been taken
The widow Of the late Frank Leslie has
at last come into full possession of the
property of her late husband, and will
hereafter conduct in her own name all the
periodicals which he established.
Blowing up school houses and churches
with dynamite or gunpowder appears to
be diversion peculiar to Ohio. The lat
est freak of this naure was the elevation
ofthe Baptist church at Garrctsville, O. 7.
An Illinois clergyman met heartbrok-
en- girl on the train, told her there is a
better land and supported her fainting
form. He helped her off at a small sta
ton and found his watch and 5000 gone,
If John Griscom is fasting for fame he
will get very little for hispains. Even Dr.
Tanner, the pioneer in the starvation line,
was but n nine days wonder, and his name
already has far away sound.
Factious multiply at Albany. The Re
pnblicans are divided into Stalwarts, Half
Breeds and Featherheads, and now the
Democrats are splitting upon the rock Of
adjournment into Kelleyites and Iilden-
ties.
According to the census returns Rhode
Island contains only a few more people
than Cincinnati. And the balance Of the
country has the pleasure Of paying the sal
aries Of two Senators for that pompous lit
lie state.
An astronomer has already caught that
comet long enough to measure its tail,
which is four million miles in length. a.
it is putting away from us, however, al
the 3OO,O miles a day, all drnger Of a
collision is over.
A number OF the old soldiers in THIS i
e chit. III, participated in the late rebel
lion have held several meetings in Del
Rapids, and organized temporary veter
an club for the 4th Of July, after which j
is proposed to make the organization per
manent.
Vennor writes friend: Il regret t,
have to warn you Of . hot and storm.
July. with frequent disastrous storms 0
! wind, hail and rain throughout those sec
tons in which the june storms have bee
20 severely felt, The month Will resem