The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-08
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DR.. Hayes as gift to her ,000th celebra-
ton.
MANY a mans vices have at first been
nothing worse than good qualities run
Wild
REV. DIR. TALMADGE receives 10000 let.
ters in year. He finds time to answer
1000.
IHE comet is supposed to be "dog-
star" run mad-a sort of rabid "Skye''
terrier.
THIS is said to be ministers leap year.
August, their vacation month, has five
Sundays.
In single day, recently, 1853 China
men were landed in California from two
steamers.
THE city of Chattanooga has voted to
give 100000 to the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad.
THE poet Longfellow is to write life
of Charles Sumner, Of whom he was
warm friend.
ONE hundred rifles day is about the
present working capacity of the Spring
field Armory.
A BoRE-A man who persists in talk
ing about himself when you wish to talk
about yourself.
JOY and hope in the morning, gloom
and disappointment ut night, describe
the average picnic.
MORE people have been killed in cele.
brating Independence Day than there
were in establishing it.
The Connecticut Historical Society has
come into possession of Andres pocket
book and ArnOld'S watch,
THE wheat crop in many portions OF
Iowa is already cut and the yield is bet
ter than for years previous.
A STURGEON weighing 1856 pounds was
caught few days since in one of the
small lakes at Madison, Wis.
THE Watertown IN. " Times says the
pear crop of Jefferson County will
amount to almost nothing this year.
MISS HAGG1E PRICE, Of Norfolk, Va,
has duck which laid ninety eggs in
ninety days, and then went to setting.
CHARLES LAMB, in speaking of one OF
his rides on horseback, said that all at
once the horse stopped, but kept right
on"
ONE farmer in Monmouth County, N
j., who has six acres in blackberries,
sold last season fruit to the value of
$4,000.
Iowa raises most of the eggs "whole,
sailed in New York city. Fifteen thou
sand barrels have been forwarded since
January.
AT Hancock, on Lake Superior, the
potato-bugs form in procession and
march up the street following load of
potatoes.
Ill 1,os1 a. IN
summer. beating down and destroying
what they would nourish If they were
melted into drops.
THE New York Herald has been COM
PEELED to remind the scene-painter at
Niblos that steamships do not sail stern
foremost, as rule.
ROBERT WATSON was arrested few
days since in New York on the charge of
attempting to pass a forged 81 900 bond
at the Sub-Treasury.
DANIEL LAMBERT was the heaviest man
that ever lived. He exhibited himself in
London in 1906, and died in 1909, weigh
ing upward of 720 pounds.
THE largest room in the world under a
single roof, unbroken by pillars or other
distractions, is at st. Petersburg; 65O
feet long and $50 feet wide.
DURING hurricane in Kansas County
Treasurer owned up that he had stolen
81 500 of county money, but after the
wind susbided he denied it.
WHY is lawyer the worst sleeper in
the world? Because he first lies on one
side, and then he lies on the other, and
he is wide-awake all the time.
AN extensive open-air demonstration
against the money grant to Prince Leo
pold was made by the republicans in
Clerkenwell, England, recently.
"WHAT kind of sassages is them?''
queried an old lady of the young man of
literature and peanuts as he passed
through the train selling bananas.
A DEPUTY UNITED STATES CoMM1s-
s1oNER OF FISHERIES is soon to place
60, 600 shad in the head waters of the Bra
zos and Colorado Rivers, in Texas.
THERE is no fruit in California that
thrives so we'll as the fig. The orange is
uncertain, and has ruined many cult
vators; but the fig is never-failing.
YOUNG LADY-"That piece just played
was by Wagner-wasn't it too lovely for
anything?" Young gentleman" Yes;
and amt his palace cars just gay?"
A HoMELY woman in Auburn, N. Y,
being impolitely accused of the fact,
said she didn't see why woman hasn't
as much right to be homely as man."
A DEAD eagle was found near Detroit
by boys few days since-a very large
one, which had been wounded by some
hunters bullet and had dropped there to
die"
COLORADO is a fine place for specula
tions A pauper recently escaped from
the Poor-House there and made 81 800 in
land speculations before he could be re-
captured.
The tin-boMng of sardines has begun
in California. These. delicate fish
abound from San Diego to Puget's Sound
and the boxers pay fifty cents bushe
for them
THE editor of the Paducah Kentuckian
having accepted a nomination for<the
Office of Coroner, says that many years
experience within the precincts of Cairo
renders him an excellent judge of a deat
man.
MOSQUITOES are described in certain
part of Minnesota as "thicker than th'
surrounding foliage, with wings lik'
Apollyon's, beak like an Artesian auge
and voice like the sound of man,
waters"
"DEsERTED by all except his aged bob
tailed dog, his life went slowly out a
the shadows of the setting sun crept owe
the front stOOn of Darling'S grocery"