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

Gustav Mason calls the nineteenth
century the age of cyclopedias.
DR.. Henry H. Smith, of Philadelphia,
denounces the use of baby-carriages.
Mrs. Christiancy can sit up during
few hours of each day, but she is still
very feeble.
Mrs. Martha ]. Lambs history of
New York is finished after fourteen
years Of labor.
The library of ex-Mayor A. Oakley
Hall, of New York, was sold last week
at auction.
Mrs. Garfield says that the General
is obstinate when anybody undertakes
to drive him.
Columbia College. New York, has six
secret societies, not to mention the boat
club.
The sleighing tariff in Washington
is $12 an hour for double team and
SO for a single team.
The obelisk, now in position in Cen
trail Park, is the ''reigning sensation" at
present in New York.
General Sherman doesn't 20 to bed
till midnight. The "army retiring
board" ought to get after him.
Ex-Governor Gilbert G. Walker, of
Virginia, formerly of Chicago, will
shortly open law office in New York.
A Fulton street IN. ~ restaurant
keeper one day last week bought two
cats, the seller representing them to
be rabbits.
The match factories, having no fear
of Lucifer, have formed q pool to con-
troll prices There are only tWenty-four
factories in the country.
"Mrs. Grundy" says that the three
daughters of Hon. William NJ. Evarts,
the secretary Of state, are all to be
married during the present year.
Miss Bird, author of "Unbeaten
Tracks in Japan" is ranked by the
English as pre-eminent among lady
travellers as George Eliot is among nov
elists.
Mr.. John B. Cough was taken i'll
suddenly at Dayton, Ohio, on Thursday
last, and has been obliged to postpone
or cancel many of his lecturing engage.
ments.
Hon. David Davis is about to build a
q big hotel at Bloomington. He ought
to call it the House Of David" and
what q jolly old Boniface the corpu-
lent Judge would make.
In Germany the proportion Of those
who cannot read and write is scarcely
per cent. and it is jocularly remarked
that there are many who read book
to write second concerning it.
1t is remarked that the scepter OF
philosophy in France seems to have
passed forever into the hands of posi-
twists and materialists.
John Mccullough, the tragedian. has
just closed a successful engagemen in
Washington. His receipts for the two
weeks aggregated $1,000.
Professor Henry A.. Ward, of Roch.
ester, N. Y, who makes a business Of
collecting and arranging natural his
tory specimens, started last week fol
Australia via Hong Kong.
Premier Gladstone, replying to q
correspondent who inquired as to the
truth of the rumor that he is about tc
enter the house of lords because of i'll
health, says it is perfectly groundless
! DR.. Talmage, in his sermon Sunday
morning, defended the stage, and
said that the drama having been
dragged through the sewers Of iniquity
is a reason why we should endeavor to
elevate it.
Camden, the new United States Sen.
ator recently elected in West Virginia
is described as a large man with small
head We are getting too many Of
that style Of senators of late years.
The emperor Of Japan has broker
through traditional etiquette to such q
degree as greatly to astonish his
people. He has actually dined or
board vessel belonging to a foreign
power.
A reason given for the long, loose and
buttonless gloves in vogue at present i:
the enormous size of the jeweled rings
with which ladies deck their fingers
and which can with difficulty be cover.
ed by tight glove.
The Genoa Utaly) tomb Of John
Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington, having be-
come somewhat decayed, the regents
of the institution have authorized tina,
the necessary repairs be made.
Hon. Philetus Sawyer, the Senator.
elecv from Wisconsin, on reaching his
home at Oshkosh, was escorted by a
band and two companies Of military
to Turner Hall, where hearty recep-
ton took place.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, the actor, will
leave in June for LOn1On, ACCOMPANIED