The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-08-10
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made
The product of bullion from thu
quartz mines of Idaho will this year ex
ceed by one-half the product of any
former year.
1t is reported that a mountain O.
ochre, of a rich dark-yellow color ane
very soft, has been discovered a shor
distance from Prince Arthur's landing
Lake Superior. 1t can be easily mined
A Scotch woman residing in Salem
Mass, not vet quite 40 years of age, hai
borne sixteen children in sixteen years
in no case twins. Thirteen are still liv
ing.
Virginia drinks up her entire wheat
crop annually, and it is stated that the
liquor drank in Louisiana costs S47,.
O00,O ,OOO-S2, 100000 more than its com
bined cotton, sugar and rice crop.
The Pail Mall Gazette sums up the
evidence, and concludes that electricity
is dearer than gas, and will always be,
SO long as gas can be furnished for three
shillings thousand feet. ....
Charles Bradlaugh, the English inf
del, who has been unsuccessfully trying
to get into parliament, says that he has
lust declined an offer of $4,000 in adj
vance for series of lectures in this
country.
1t is neither safe, respectable, nor
wise to bring any youth to manhood
without regular calling. Industry,
like idleness, is matter of habit. No
idle boy will make an active and indus
trious and useful man.
The lumber business of the Pacific
coast has increased from single
small saw-mil in 1916, situated near
Bodega, Sonoma county, to over $50
mills at the present time, with cutting
capacity of nearly 1000, ,OOO,O 900 feet an
nually.
A bald eagle, with wings six feet from
tip to tip, was captured in an open field
by Luther Stewart of Union Springs, N.
Y, one day last week. The eagle was
watching for prey when Stewart saw it,
and, approaching from behind, captur-
ed the bird.
1t has been humorously suggested
that some of the icebergs might be
caught and towed to the nearest harbor
and practically utilized in various ways.
The idea does not seem SO eXtravagant
when we learn that one was seen only
thirteen miles from Boston.
The whole town of Mineral Ridge,
Mahoning county, o., is caying in from
three to five feet in consequence of the
removal of the coal. The New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio track settled two
or three feet near the depot few days
ago, and the hole had to be filled with
cinders.
1t is believed that there are five thous-
and elk ranging Oh the headwaters of
the streams and tributaries heading up
in the Olympic range, Washington ter
ritory, and putting into Gray's harbor.
Fish, both salt and fresh water, are
abundant. 1t is simply paradise for
sportsmen.
Vaccination properly conducted is
now unquestionably the best preven-
tive of smallpox epidemics. But it
must be remembered that impure lymph
may charge the body with diseases
which make life a prolonged misery, to
which death itself is preferable If ply
sicians could he held to a stricter ac-
countability, there would be little trcub-
le in making the practice of vaccina-
ton more general.
The Possible Power of Railroads in Poll
tics
Just how heavy the weight the rail
roads of this country might throw into
political balance may be approxima-
ted by Considering -$hat there are in the
employ of railway corporations 100000
men, who with few exceptions, are citi-
zens in the prime of life They consti-
tute nearly one-sXth of the voting pop
ulation OF the Republic. The power to
WELD any considerable portion of so
mighty a force would render its posses
sor well-nigh Independent of laws and
OF the men who are supposed to make
them. PhiIadeI71hia Record.