The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-09
IN A NUT SHELL.

| IN NUl SnELI.
The man who has been long talked
of as having one foot in the grave is
now known to have had the other in a
medical college.
In the King James version of the
New Testament the word Calvary" is
found only in St. Luke XIII. 49, The
revised version wipes it out, substtut,
ing "the skull"
Bob Ingersoll has made $4,000 during
the past three months, lecturing against
the Bible. Hundreds of clergymc en-
have not made 5000 during the same
period preaching for the Bible.
Naples has lost its most noted beg,
gar He had been married thirteen
times, and the number OF his children
is said to have been 1913, now all living
except two.
Mile. Grevy is to marry Mr.. Bounat,
an artist, with whom she is said to have
fallen in love while he was taking pa s
portrait. She is not very young, but Il
nice, sensible person.
Boston takes hold of the project of a
worlds fair with an enthusiasm which
is in striking contrast with New York s
apathy. The date tactly agreed upon
is 1885, and there seems to be little rea-
son to doubt that the fair will be held.
beautiful maid in Carlisle,
On the back of her neck had bisle,
When her lover forgot,
And Rugged the sore spot
Her screams could be heard for n misle,
-BrooIlyn argus.
Paul Boytons bride, if she takes an
ocean in her head, beside wanting a
watered silk dress, should have high
tide shoes and water waves in her hair,
and be thankful she hasn't creek in
her back.
A contemporary is responsible for the
statement that Miss Blood, Lord Colin
Campbell's bride, is daughter of Vic
toria Woodruff who thus becomes a
connection of "the Lornes" and Queen
Victoria.
"Mr. Conkling was once described by
ex-senator Gordon, who is a personal
enemy, as 4 man who always remind
ed him of the beginning of negro
preachers prayer down in Georgia:
"Oh, all-sutiicient, selfsufficient, IN
efficient Being"
At one of Forepaugh's menagerie ex-
hibitions in Chicago last week one of
the spectators burst into tears on be-
holding the zebra. He turned out to
be an Australian ex-convict, and ex-
planned that the striped suit made him
feel homesick.
From Nice comes rumOr that Miss
Clara Louise Kellogg is really and truly
engaged to be married. The happy
gentleman is a Mr.. Andrews. He is
about twenty-five years of age. And
Clara is-well, she's rich, anyway.
At Cincinnati wedding lately the
organist entertained the audience
waiting the bridal pair by a series of
voluntaries, the last OF which unluckily
was, "Trust her not she is fooling
thee" at which he was hard at work as
the bridal procession walked up the
aisle.
Mr.. William NJ. Peters, who has 2O,-
600 peach trees in Worcester county,
Md, contradicts the stories of other
growers that the peach crop on the
Peninsula has been blighted. His
peaches, he says, include ten varieties,
and all alike are in excellent condition.
Henry Thornton, who was arrested
in Sandy Hill, N. Y, for horse stealing,
was discharged from five years term,
and says he has no home but the state
prison. He says he has served forty
one years of sentences in the three pen
itentiaries of the state, proving one of
the most tractable of convicts.
Rev. DR.. James Freeman Clarke. of
Boston, says: "I discredit the extrav-
agant statements which give intemper-
ance as the root of all crime in this
country, and maintain that there is a
steady growth of temperate habits
among the people as compared with
the customs of a few generations ago."
the young man VINO pleads poverty
and meagre salary as an excuse for
refraining from marriage, will do we'll
to remember the pluck Of Thomas A.
Scott and Charles A. Dana. The for
mer embarked upon the matrimonial
sea with a salary Of fifty dollars per
month, and the latter with salary Of
five dollars per week.
Home Teachings-I must tell you of
a conversation | overheard on the beach
at Treport between two children who
were playing in the sand togeth her The
small boy said to the little girl: ado
you wish to be my wife?" The little
girl, after reflection: eyes" The small
boy: "Then take off my bootsw
Within the last decade seven of the
great public men whose fame filled
Europe for couple of generations
have died-Napoieon Ill, Mazini,
Theirs, Victor Emanuel, Plus TX, Al
exander H., and Beaconsfield. Gort-
schakof, Bismarck, and Gladstone are
still in harness, but their age will
scarcely carry them to 1890.
A London writer says: 81 tasted
quite lately some of the first oranges
that reached London from the south
ern states of America. They are dis
tinctly superior to those from Spain
and Portugal" 1t seems probable that
a 1emunerative branch of commerce
will be established between England
and Florida.
Chairmcn of railroad companies in
England do not indulge in sumptuous
private cars at the shareholders ex
pense. Special cars are provided for
the queen Whose journeys are esti-
mated at $4,000 year,, and Lord
Londonderry and the Duke of Suther-
land have private cars, but they pay
for them.
Judge Black denies with Indignation
that he has took sides one way or the
other in regard to Stanley Matthews
confirmation. He says he has relations
with that gentleman and his wife are