The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-07-12
100000 passengers. Spain and
America have the worst record.


America have the worst record.
An original idea is that Of the Mis-
souri, apiarist, who took a carload OF
hived bees to Florida. He expects
them to make honey all winter, and
hopes to return to his Missouri home in
the spring at least $1,000 richer than
he was.
Lord Melbourne, on being pressed to
do something for journalist, on the
ground that he always supported his
lordship when in the right. retorted:
''Thats just when 1 don't 'twant his help.
Give me a fellow who will stick by me
when am in the wrong"
An Ohio editor who is down among
the orange groves of Florida, describing
his visit to one of them, says that sap
petite seemed to feed upon inexhausti-
Bile supplies, and the sweet succulence
of the golden bulbs spurted in shining
sprays from pressing lips pouting with
pulpy fragrance
Ten years ago, George A. Gordon,
nineteen years of age, went from j.
tie town in Maine to learn a trade in
Boston. Somehow or other he was in
duced to take to the ministry, studied
and ~ 1875 graduated and begun to
preach. He has just accepted an $8,-
Observation-Disclosures call from the
famous Old South Church, of Boston.
A western cattle-breeder reports that
the greatest profit. is made in the first
year of an animals growth. This is in
creased, but in less proportion the Sec
ond year. If kept a year longer not
only is there no profit, but all the clear
gain of the second year is wasted. This
is a striking commentary on the advan-
tage of early maturity.
A four-valve speculum has just been
found in Pompeii, where two-valve and
three valve specula had been before dis
covered. The last of these ingenious
instruments for looking into oritices of
the body in surgery is said to be of a
construction SO uniform and well pro-
.portioned, admitting the expansion Of
valves, as to be superior to modern con-
struction.
The Rev. R. w. Hill, who has been in
Alaska, draws gloomy picture of the
intemperance of the natives. "The In
dians will give away wife and children"
he says, "to obtain liquor, and their
carousals are so fierce and reckless that
murder and suicides are frequent results.
He believes that if the progress of ruin
is not stayed the end of the Alaska In
dian is not far off.
A woman who has been in the
Georgia penitentiary for eighteen years
on life sentence, is to be released by
Governor Aleck Stephens. He would
pardon her if he knew what to pardon,
but the fact is that nobody knows what
she is in there for. There is no record
of her misdeeds on the prison register,
andvhe woman, herself does not know
why she is imprisoned.
Several broad columns of large type
with conspicuous head lines were re-
Gently devoted by the Pail Mall Gazette
to an account of the Mollie Maguires of
Pennsylvania, being for the most part q
narrative based upon Mr.. Devices book.
Old and getting to be forgotten as this
story is here, it was never before made
fully known in England, and the OBJ
ject for making it fully known now is
declared to be ''its bearing on the
gangs who are now again at work in
Dublin" which is ''very evident and ex-
tremely interesting"
The importation of Sumatran tobacco
into the United States has increased
from SO pounds in 1880 to 783,763
pounds in 1882. The Oriental kind is
used exclusively for wrappers, and for
that purpose brings very much higher
price than any native sort. The tobac-
co-growers in this country, especially
those of the Connecticut valley, who
feel the competition most keenly, are
greatly disturbed by the rapid increase
in the employment of the stranger.
During the last years of his life
Thurlow Weed took great interest in
the controversies over the supposed con-
fict between science and religion.
Shortly before his final illness he left
this final record of the result of his
meditations upon the subject of future
life: Il cannot believe, and cannot be
brought to believe. that the purpose of
our creation is fulfilled by our short
existence here. To me the existence Of
another world is necessary supple
ment of this, to adjust its inequalities
and Undue it with moral significance"
The Japanese language has no good
equivalent for hell, and the translators
of the New Testament are perplexed.
One of them discusses the difficulty in
an article: as Jigoku hellP' Jigoku
consist of "Q) eight immense hot hells
ranging one beneath the other in tiers.
Each Of these hells has sixteen addition
al hells outside its gates, like so many
antechambers, so that there are in all
1856 hot hells. (2) There are eight large
cold hells, and (3) there are the same
number of hells of utter darkness"
The translator concludes that Jigoku
will stand for hell.
Mr.. Samuel Sinclair, Lake Winne-
peg trader, stated that one day lately he
diverged from the trail to visit Diem
Lake, shall sheet of water north of
Lake Winnepeg. When coasting along
the shore he came to ledge Of rock
which jutted out into the water. a
strange looking projection. The end Of
the ledge attracted his attention, and
he ventured out to see what it was. To
his surprise he found it to be the skele-
ton of large animal, somewhat resem-
bling buffalo. petrified. The form Of
the animal is almost as perfect, Mr..
Sinclair says, as if it were alive. Mr..
Sinclair has marked the spot, and in
tends to return next spring and remove
the relic for the purpose of presenting
it to the government for the Geological