The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-09-08
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A grape vine near San Diego, Cal, j!
said to bear five tons of fruit in one sea
. son.
: Chicago bank clearings Friday were the
' largest on record, amounting to $50,
t 600.
Three men in single day, up on ledge
near Dowuieville, COL, pounded out g
pounds of gold.
A train run off the track near Shenan.
doah this week. Nineteen persons were
injured, one fatally
A Connecticut woman has given her
SOD large comforter made of hair cut
from her own head during ten years.
A new street-car company for Chicago
has been incorporated, with large CAPT
tai, to carry passengers for three cents.
Captain Stone says the injury to the leg
of Maud 5, is not permanent. She will
be turned out and next year will doubtless
be In fine -, '.'".'-'.~ -
The fare is only 81 from New York to
Chicago, and one should avail themselves
if possible Of the low rates, which may
not occur every year.
| A negro in Bullock county, Ala, while
raising crop last year, slept in one end
of a hollow log and kept his cooking uten-
sis in the other end.
The smallest engine in the world has
just been finished in Baltimore. It can
be covered with thimble, and three drops
of water fill the boiler
A deaf mute at Raleigh N. c., has
infented hat fan, which turns on the in
side Of the hat and is said to keep the
head as cool as a cucumber.
The amount of Howgate's defalcation is
$40, 900, and his bond is $4,000. He
ought to be able to fix things with his
bondsmen, and remain comfortably in ex-
lie.
An old settler Of Kansas City, blew into
both barrels of shot gun loaded with
buckshot. Being of no earthly account
without head, the neighbors kindly bur-
ried him.
Austin, Tex, has female deputy
sheriff, and when she tells man she has
an attachment for him he don't know
whether to blush and try to look sweet or
to Light out for the woods.
The second assistant postmaster gene
raj reports net reduction in the star
route and steamboat mail service during
August Of sos, 337 Total reductions and
discontinuances since the 4th of March,
$l,4777, 77S.
The De Lesseps Panama canalsscheme
gives promise of a disastrous failure.
Many of the engineers have returned to
France, others have died, and any but
encouraging reports are given Of the en-
terprise.
An emotional maniac named John Neal
turned himself loose with revolver in
Chicago lodging house Thursday night
and shot three men before policeman
dubbed him into harmlessness.
Ireland, in spite of all her troubles will
have, if the reports are true, an excellent
harvest this year. An unusually large
area of the island is under cultivation, and
the outlook has not been so favorable for
good crops since 1872.
Bradstreets says the growing cotton
crop will not equal that of last year on ac-
count of the drouth The rain fall at twen-
ty-fye stations in the cotton belt for some
weeks has been less than half of that of |
last year.
1t is stated that while France has one
physician for every $4,000 inhabitants and |
Great Britain one for every l.206, the
United ste'es !.,ss aae.or for every, zee 99.
In this connection it may be remarked
that the mortality rate in the United
States is greater than in either France or
Great Britain.
Two young ladies were killed by astroke
of lightning in farm house near Ply
mouth, Wisconsin, in Fridays storm
They got out of bed and lay on the floor
near chimney to be safer. Bed is the
safest place for timid young ladies in
storm. 1t is well to remember this
A norwegian living eight miles north
west Of Rock Valley, put 1910 into straw
tick for safe keeping. His wife cleaned
house, forgot the money and burned up
straw; now they are trying to get the ash
es redeemed by Uncle Sam.
The unprecedented drouth in northern
Virginia has been disastrous to corn. In
some parts there has been no rain for
three months. There is no food for cattle,
and in some cases the people go. thirty
miles for water The upper Rappahan-
mock is so reduced that large mills can do
| only custom work. Other manufactures
are compelled to stop.