The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-01-13

most superb and expensive gilt cups
IN the world. It cost $15O,OOO.
Some ladies in various parts of this
country are organizing Irish land
leagues. The Utica Herald thinks ga
rolling-pin league to take care of hus
bands out late nights might be more
effective"
A new way to arrange the fullness of
skirt is to make series of fiat Dlaits
half an inch wide, three inches below
the waist, and then gather th e material
seven or nine times.
Elbow sleeves and few puffs at the
shoulders for very slender figures are
the variations for other than ordinary
wear. These are finished and enriched
with black or white laces.
Red, white and yellow are the colors
which have so far been most seen at
day and evening receptions this win.
ter, and the same colors api ear in
dresses preparing for the holidays.
English wool underwear is liked be.
cause it is of such pure wool, bit the
best brands of either foreign or do.
mestic underwear will shrink, unless
all the soap is taken out by the laun-
dress.
A new use for fne-wool Jersey
cloth is to make opera mantles. A
yard and half is needed, and it
should be lined with quilted satin and
furnished with hood. The ends are
drawn together, and one is finished
with a bow and one with tassel.
Rev: DR.. Collyer and Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher both preached last Sun
day on the Persecution of the Jews in
Germany" expressing great sympathy
for the prosecuted.
Miss Ada Cavendish became sudden
ly i'll while impersonating the character
of Pauline, in the play Of the "Lady of
Lyons" at Nashville, Tenn, recently.
She is threatened with pneumonia.
The condition of DR.. J. Marion Sims,
who lies dangerously III of pleuro-pneu:
monia, at his home in New York city,
was unimproved on the 3Oth ult., still
some hope of his recovery is expressed.
His age is against him.
Governor Mcclellan, of New JERSEY,
has declined to accept the presidency
of the New York Underground railroad
company, to which he was recently
elected. He will go abroad with his
family in April next.
The Rev. DIR. Sullivan, late of Chi:
cago, now Of Montreal, preac he'd re.
Gently in his church in the latter city
on "The Theater." He declared that
the theater was not by any means as
bad as it was represented by some of
the Montreal clergymen.
Anthony Delters, native of West.
phalia, who participated on the French
side in the battles Of Leipsic, Borodino,
Austerlitz and Waterloo, died recent.
ly at Wheeling, w. Va, in his 99d
year.
Mondays New York Graphic said
''Mr. P. 7. Barnum, Congressman S. S.
Cox and District Attorney Phelps, who
have all been more or less dangerously
i'll of late, were all able to sit up,
dressed portion Of the day yester-
day."
The ex-Confederate General Loring,
who refused to live in the United States
after the close of the late war, and who
then entered the service of the Khe.
dive of Egypt, is now candidate to re-
place Jones as United States senator
from Florida.
Gustaye Dore is working every night,
and sometimes almost all night, on his
illustrations Of Shakespeare's plays
Some of the drawings are said to be
extraordinarily powerful. He thinks
that "Coriolanus' is the poets master
piece.
General jeff. G. Davis widow has or.
dered monument for his grave like
the Wool monument at Troy, N. Y.
The shaft is to be draped in the nation
al flag, and an acorn-the badge of the
generals corps-inclosed in wreath,
will be engraved above the base.
The mother of Colonel Jonathan
Merriam, Collector of Internal Reven-
ue fol- the Springfield, Tazewe!l dis
trict, died near Arlington, Tazewell
county, ILL.,, Sunday, in the Seth year
of her age. She came to this state as a
Baptist ministers wife in 1886.
The sculptor Simmons is at work in
Rome modelling the statue of the late
Oliver P. Morton, the Indiana states
man, for the Indianapolis memorial,
and it will represent him as in the act
of speaking with his right hand raised
in one Of his favorite gestures.
A bronze statue of General Phil Kear-
ney was unveiled in the military park
at Newark, N. j., last Sunday. Gov
ernor Mcclellan, General Sherman,
General Grant, General Hawley and
several other distinguished military
men and civilians attended.
The celebrated New York lawyer,
Charles O'Conor, has recently become
citizen of Nantucket, Mass, and re-
linquished his citizenship in New York
State. 1t is understood he is writing a
law treatise, which is to be his first
professional effort, and his payment of
the debt which Lord Chancellor Bacon
declared every lawyer owed his profess
sion. Mr.. O'Conor is now entering his
10Th year and is SO vigorous that Nan
tucket nonagenarians regard him as a
young man.