The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
IN A NUTSHELL.

IN A NUTSHELL.
Judge Charles E. Forbes, who died at
Northampton, Mass, has left by will
1920, 600 to establish public library in
that city.
United States Senator Grover, Of
Oregon, is SO i'll that it is thought he
will not be able to attend the executive
session Of the senate in March.
There are only three ladies (widoSs 81
living, whose husbands were presidents
of the United States, Mrs. Polk, Mrs.
Tyler, and Mrs. Lincoln.
A brainless fellow Robert Sharock,
OF Patterson, N. j., inherited $4,000
five years ago, but he has spent $17 900
of it in drink, of which about SIC, 900
went to one saloon.
The high-toned elevated railroad en-
ployees in New York speak of the horse
cars as cattle cars
Miss Blanche Roosevelt (Tucker) will
appear in concert at Chickering Hall,
New York, on March II.
The most startling gown for dancing
described in the English papers was of
orange plush trimmed with Spanish
lace and oranges.
David Dudley Field was 76 years old
on the 18th inst, and is the Oldest of
the New York lawyers in active prac-
tice. He is said to be as vigorous as
he was twenty years ago, and walks up
Broadway as erect as a grenadier.
DR.. Arthur Sullivan has nephew,
an S-year-old Richard Sullivan, who
bids fair to be another musical genius.
The child has just beaten thirty BOYS
who competed with him for the posi-
ton of choir boy at St. Paurs, London.
A Paris letter says that Henry M.
Stanley. the African explorer, has been
heard from. Last November he was
well, and that courageous French trav-
eler, NJ. Savorgman de Brazza, had
come up with him, and proposed to re-
main for some time at his headquarters
at Vivi. Stanley's present programme
is such an extensive one that it may
keep him away from civilization for
two years more.
Mrs. Charles A. Hartman, formerly
Mrs. Stockhouse, of St. James Hotel,
New York, wife of professional
equestrian, horsewhipped Mr.. Marcel
lus Ladd, at Hayerill, Mass, Thursday,
for offensive words spoken against her
husband.
Professor Richard A. Proctor, the
great English astronomer, says he be-
lieves that with a good telescope one
may see hundred million suns, each
the center of universe. By the way,
Professor Proctor, who is now ia San
Francisco, says he proposes to make
this country his home in the future.
He is delighted with our country and
its free institutions.
A New York letter says Diamonds
are not worn as much as they were
some years ago. Some of our wealth
lest ladies wear plain jewelry now in
preference to diamonds. On state &C.
casions Mrs. John Jacob Astor wears
diamonds worth several fortunes. Mrs.
A. 7. Stewart seldom wears them. 1t
is chiefly the middle class of society
that display them g any extent"
Ex-Queen Isabella still copt;f,,,, ;i,,nss 10 ro
show licr 1u foT fine clothes. Her
latest appearance was in a gown of
white satin, with a whole rose-b,,sh
painted on the front breadth, and roses
scattered here and there on the train.
In this array she sat upon chair dec
GRATED with her arms and watched four
ladies and gentlemen dance minuet.
Victer Hugo has lost that historic an
imal, his dog Senat, on whose collar h91
caused to be inscribed the words,
wish that somebody would take
home. What am I? A dog. WIG
my master? Hugo. What's my nam \
Senat." The beast was an italian grsf
hound. He died in his 10th year, naa
some head trouble, and was buried tssA :,
the poets garden. =
Queen Victoria has given to Victoria
of Schleswig- Holstein, the bride Of her
Prussian grandson, the beautiful Hon
iton lace with which the young lady's
wedding dress is decorated. The gown
itself is of brocaded satin, embroidered
with silver. and besides the lace, is
trimmed with orange blossoms and
myrtle. It was not made by any Pa
tristan notability, but by country dress
maker at Windsor. (
Nearly twenty-five years ago the peo-
pie of Brattleboro, VT, were surprised
one day at finding the figure of an an
| gel moulded in snow standing on one of
their streets. 1t was discovered that a
Brattleboro youth, Larkin G. Mead, had
done the work, and he was helped to
pursue his artistic studies. To-day, at
his studio in Rome, this great Alneri-
can sculptor is making for Brattleboro
marble copy of the snow angel which
first brought him into notice.
Father Holger, a Catholic priest Of
Clyde, n. Y, after going through the
form Of saying mass over James
Garahty, for which he was paid by
Garahty's Protestant friends, com
menced q trade against them and
against the dead man, WHO had married
| q Protestant wife. The priests own
friends left the church, disgusted at his
brutality, and the widow is half crazed
with grief.
Bva recent decision of the New y ork.
state court of appeals all legal contro-'
versy growing out of the estate Of An
neke Jantz Bogardus, who died in Al
bany, March 19, 1868, is probably for
ever ended. The case is one Of the
most celebrated in America, and has
been before the courts of this state for
over q century.
Prince Napoleon (Plon Plon) il clted-
tied with most modest and contcnded
mind. How can want" he is report
ed to have said recently, ITO be any-
thing more ia France and Europe than
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