The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-09-27
GLEANINGS.
Joseph Jefferson's child, less

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"knocks OUT most pugilists at last.
Eight sledge dogs will buy wife in
| Siberia.
Baroness Burdett Coutts wore no
ornament but single diamond at q
recent ball, but it was worth $40, 900.
James and Howclls, the American
novelists. call each other the Dickens
and Thackeray of the Western world.
A daughter Of General Winfield Scott
is the wife of Virginia gentleman
named Winfie Id Scott.
Paris worklngmcn are organizing
against cheap labor from Prussia and
Italy,
Colored girls in Louisiana make
Mother Hubbard dresses out of corn
husks.
An owl was served "unbeknownst"
at recent dinner in Paris and was
greatly relished.
The Red Sea is to be dredged, in the
hope of recovering Pharaoh's chariots
and the costly trappings of the Egyp-
tian army.
The Agassiz Museum, ut Cambridge,
Mass, contains specimens of nearly
every beast, bird, fish, reptile, and i'll
sect that can be fonnd in the world.
The Monroe {Tenn.) Democrat says
the farmers in that vicinity plow by
| moonlight and sleep in the shade all
day.
A Kentucky farmer claims to have
raised the biggest potato yet He says
it served as dinner for eleven hearty
eaters, and that there was enough left
for the poultry.
A horse was killed at Mssoula, M.
T., recently in very peculiar manner
The animal stepped on q stick Of
wood, which flew up and penetrated its
side, causing death in q few minutes
1t is said that Jennie Cramer' S
mother, who still lives in New Haven,
is not convinced that the body identified
as Jennies was really that of her un-
fortunate daughter, and believes the
latter may be still alive.
The hideous Hyde Park bronze of
Wellington is to be melted down and
recast in ii very much smaller statue of
the hero of Waterloo, which, wag
says, will be the first appearance of the
Duke Sin reduced circumstances.
Marseilles and Paris are now connect
ed, at cost of S9,OO0,OO0, with an un-
derground cable, which is laid in a cast
iron pipe six feet below the surface, and
so arranged that it can be from time to
time inspected.
A black eagle, having his nest on the
summit of Mount Socotto, in New
Mexico, is attracting a good deal of at
tention from hunters. The bird is large
and powerful, but has thus far managed
to dodge the bullets aimed at him. He
carries off lambs, fawns and pigs with
out trouble.
Switzerland is disturbed about the
large increase in its foreign population.
Between 1870 and 1880 nearly 10000
natives of other countries settled with
in Swiss territory, and about the same
number Of natives of Switzerland emil
grated to other countries.
Mrs. w. W. Russell, of Lebanon,
KY, has Il hen which laid eighteen eggs
in the fork Of 4 tree, about ten feet
from the ground. Tne COWS then troop
ed down on the nest, and, in the course
of the disturbance which the hen made.
the eggs were thrown to the ground
aud broken.
An inscnjons mechanic Of James
locomotive, said to be the smallest in
ho1f I iDchos 1nng = 10 ,,n11n throws =
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roorS
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.rp 0.'a J' ,i.o tar .Dn :,.,,;cn7, Gl;r
uorsons r,o O,T' Who ~ ,haf,hr LriIor Ir,,seeS
pen9olS f " hon n,ir .''I W inirraIcI IN
Il"o Iano+ol ,a;I,r,", ,'I,'' 'nm', yont liam tn
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nT,rd y r,a''d,- oi,n,i,., ~, ,y,, J'rs
al aIan'. oon od1,','l,,,.,,o,i 0,'''' nS,,nI,.
th,. r,,n7i 80. ~ ..in,.,toI roiIro,l tr,in.
ovor w the h,.iJ1,n ~ '' '
San Eronn;s., L,, or,ior, ,.,,.,,;y-
otion of rnorr;sd Women Thr sorictv
holds mcctincs weekly, and is raising q
fund to ..protcct the husbands Of mean
bcrs from being clubbc,l to DEATH" 1t
is not explained who does the clubbing.
but it is presumed that the society is
Jealous of the nrOwcs5 of the police
force.
r.oo,,.o Nac,o, :. -, o,,,o,.a of tho
Lchioh VaIIev Railroad in UazIelon.
D., Ia hos s;,, Gnrors ond q tLrn,h on
zach hand and say1n toos on one fo,t
onJ s;y ar +,o otbor O,e f;nrar on
onoh LonI o,,.o,,,s f,.on, tho v.rist obovn
thn t'ot tb,,n,l, On tha ri~ht hand thoro
arc two little fingers. Every finger and
toe is perfectly formed.
Tho ,yo+or in tho cbocn, of tbo Ni,gora
Fails occordino TO the United States
tonooranhical survey, in the deenest
narts is onIv 18O feet deem, and not
Zoo feet deen. as has been erroneously
renorted IN the whirlnoo] rapids the
denth is hardly fiftv feet. while the
whirlnoo1 itself Is little more than 1875
fant Tho 1ornost vo,,tov or ..srck
ho1e ~ ia not in tho ccntpr Of the nool
hnt noo1. lie nn,cr ond and nearest to
the Canada shore.
VIZ
estcrh l'an "a mas d ploJeo. irl
ProV1ulnS ne" lorh WIN Il h'slly
uesiraole summer ic'clt' a"Aio 1''a'
W. tno aaahoJ ne w. lio;I,, ...;n, anI that
thonsands M ] Of bnsinnSs @ r' men cannot he
] ahsont excent ot nioht hn nronoses to
h,,;lJ m ort;t;c;ol o7',;rnnco IN a c;ta
~ vat to ho nbnson bnt rrohah,v On tho
son zn' sboro w of 7 ono Tsl.pd ho viii b,,;1d
o0s ~ n,ornto;n e, 700 feet IN hn;aht With on
alauotnr rnnninc, ~, to , bior botol All
fiat he lacks is money of which he
onesses that hc will rc6,,jre 81, OOO. 900.
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Among .ne eanio''s a. oun.ty sa,aaI am