The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-11-29
GLEANINGs,

London contains 100000 Jews and
the finest Hebrew library in the world.
A Washington hotel-keeper says that
the hostility to the negro there comes
chiefly from northern guests.
A Boston man says it is the legs that
drown a man. Without legs the human
body would float.
Hostile Indians in Sonora are dressed
inUnited States army uniforms and car
ry needle guns.
George Saunders, vouched for as
trustworthy, reports the discovery of a
sea serpent 60 feet long in Lake Michi-
gan, on the Wisconsin shore.
Near Harrington, Delaware, a loco
motive and three cars passed over a
child as it lay sleeping between the
rails. The child was but slightly hurt.
When Canada is annexed to the
United States a great many ex-cashiers
will again pick up their traps and light
out.
OF 81, 997 insane people in the United
States, A, 40S are males and 1859 are
females; while of 1896 idiots, 45, 500
are males and only 31,5S6 are females.
The Buffalo newspaper man who
married the widow Of millionaire Fargo,
the express company magnate, has start
ed morning paper
! Pred Archer, the English jockey, with
an income of 5000 year, and large
invested property, in order to keep his
riding weight down, has to live princi-
pally on tea and toast.
Down in Clay county, Kentucky,
a boy was tried for carrying conceal
cd weapon, and acquitted on the
! ground that he was too small to con-
ceal it.
Casamicciola is to be rebuilt of
wood. Most of the casualties during
recent earthquakes were from the falling
stone walls. Wooden houses are less
dangerous.
The largest COW in America, it is be-
lieved, belongs to John Pratt, of Chase
county, Kansas. She is three years old,
twenty-five hands high, and weighs s.
200 pounds.
The boys who ''frantically" unhitch-
ed the horses from PATHS carriage in
Brooklyn last winter, on the occasion
of her first appearance there, have only
just been paid otf-S5 apiece.
The popular game in Indiana is bet
ting on the weight of stranger. The
said stranger has a lead Jacket under his
coat, and his pal rakes in heap of half
dollars.
Several persons tried to enter New
Jersey house to put out a fire, but
sagacious Newfoundland dog kept
them at bay until the house was de-
stroyed.
The failure to recover the bodies of
persons drowned in Lake Wennepl-
seogee, New Hampshire. is explained
by the fact that quicksands exist in
proximity to the cold springs at the bot
tom Of the lake.
At a recent meeting of the teachers
institute, of Carroll county, Kentucky,
Colonel j. Stoddard Johnston, one of
the most prominent educators in the
State, said that he had found number
of cases in which school trustees could
not sign their names, and had to make
their mark.
In Fairfield, Maine, is manufactorv
of ready made buildings, which is said
to be the largest in the world. 1t turns
out dwellings in many sizes and shapes,
other parts of New England. The
capabilities Of the factory range from
shanty to a $4,000 hotel, with every
room fronting toward tie sea.
NJ Renan had narrow escape from
being killed at Ischia. 1t was at Ischia
that he wrote his lectures on Marcus
Aurelius'' and "Caliban.' This year
be was to 60 there, when Jules Ferry
persuaded him to preside at distribu-
ton of prizes at Paris. The house in
which he would have been but for this
invitation was demolished by the earth
quake and its inmates were killed.
Ostriches, when plucked, are blinded
with stocking drawn over the head
their laps, and study in whispers their
mountains of Europe on the condition
that they should keep well to tLeir re-
spective ends of the seat in order to
avoid temptation. Lizzie. forgetful of
chains and peaks, was whispering some
precious secret to Mary, when Mr.
Pratt's curly head bent between their
guilty pates, as he whispered, 'Will
you tell me too, that interesting story?"
That was the only reproof, and it was
all that was necessary.
Well, A-B-C children, young men and
women, arc graded now. The box
stove with its carpet of steaming nit
tens are things of the past. Warm and
pleasant buildings, ventilators, art or
bo ho,,I
maids to learning; but, after all, there's
no such = thing as an old-fashioned
teacher. While "Mr. Barker" may not
growl and put himself in passion so
openly as my Mr.. Ben. franklin, am
sure l have seen him, even in these
graded days. And have known very
manly "Mr. Pratts," with their true
hearts and manly ways, blessing every
scholar under their CARE Journal Of
Education.