The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-09-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

WHAT sublime courage was that dis
played by the Nevada woman, who, whe1
the stealthy savage approached her, JUS
pulled off her hair and gave it to him!
A KENTUCKY exchange says: "Witl
the beginning of the year we will reduc,
and potatoes taken for subscriptions"
THE first piece of artillery was invented
by German soon after the invention
of gunpowder, and was first used by thu
Moors at Algeziras, in Spain, in the siege
1341.
WHEN horse reaches ten or twelve
years of age don't kill him because he i!
getting too old. Goldsmith Maid is ove]
seventeen, and is showing considerable
activity yet.
A SEALED bottle has been picked up or
the Florida coast which contained It'd
ings of the fate of the long-lost steam
ship City of Boston. She sailed from
New York Jan. 25, 1870, and foundered
in a storm.
A SALEM (Mass) man has canary
which during the past six months has laid
thirty-four eggs, hatched fifteen offspring
thirteen Of which arc living and seven OF
them singers, with six eggs remaining tc
be heard from.
TIE Detroit Free Press anxiously re-
marks: "Of course, one can more or less
contemplate common rolling pin, but
when they send cargo into this State
with lead run into the ends what is to be-
come of personal liberty?"
TIE Milwaukee Sentinel has the follow
ing statement: "The grasshoppcrs on
their way south stopped railroad train
and got copies of the St. Paul papers.
When they read that only a small por-
tion Of the crops had been destroyed
they started back to finish up the job"
A MOVEMENT is being made to intro.
ducc the prairie chicken into various
waste tracts in Europe and America, and
with every prospect of success. It is
stated that, a few years ago, several pairs
were transferred to district of Mary
land, and that, in consequence of proper
protection, the progeny already amounts
to several thousands
A DISTINGUISHED gentleman, whose
nose and chin were both very long, and
who had lost his teeth, whereby the nose
and chin were brought very near togeth-
CT, was told: I" I am afraid your nose and
chin will fight ere long; they approach
one another very menacingly." 81 AM
afraid Of it myself" replied the gentle
man, "for great many words have
passed between them already"
A REQUEST Of $150,000, intended by
DR.. E.. r. Johnson, who died in New Bed
ford two years ago, to establish chari-
table institution for colorcd people in
that city, has failed in it's purpose from
a singular fact. The will, written by the
Doctor himself, provided that the above
bequest should be available on condition
that his daughter should leave no
'hcirs." He probably meant, on condi-
ton that she left no issue. Although the
daughter died without children, her
mother was her legal "hcir," and the
bulk of the property now goes to the lat
tcr's relations.
Tie finest specimen of silver ore ever
produced in Colorado is now being care
fully detached from its position in one
of the Caribou mines. It is eight feet
long, four feet wide, and fifteen inches
in thickness; it's weight is estimated at
four tons at least, and it is covered with
nuggets and scales of pure native silver,
some OF which, as an eyewitness OBJ
serves, are large enough for door-platcs.
The proprietors intend to exhibit their
specimen at the coming Territorial fairs,
after which they will ship it to New
York, where it will remain until 1876,
wien it Will be taken to Philadelphia, to
h on exhibition at the celebration of the
.tennial.-Deayer Tribune.
WHILE w. Reeder and other gentlemen
' re fishing in Green River, Ky, recent
they were thrown into the utmost con.
,rnation by the appearance of dread,
monster, in the shape of a fish, NOV
g slowly up the river, it's back fins pro.
uding some six feet out of the water
~ ustering up courage, Mr.. r. and his
friends got in skiff and pulled out neal
the monster, and when within q hundred
feet of it the creature sank. They
moved forward to see if it could be OBJ
served beneath the surface, as the water
was very clear. In few moments il
arose within forty feet of them and they
could see it's full gigantic form, which
was about fifteen feet long and three
feet in diameter at the middle, with large
fins on it's back and side, six or seven feet
long; it's head was fully onc-third of its
entire length; one prong of it's tail was
about four feet wide and six feet long
LouSsville Commercial.
Two years ago, Joel H. Mansfield, o1
San Francisco, CAL, having become
enamored of Miss Mary Helm, and having
failed to impress that young lady az
favorably as he desired, met her on the
street one afternoon and blazed away a.
her with pistol. She was with another
young man at the time. Mansfield free
three times at her. Two of the shot:
took effect, and for some time Mis-:
Helms life was in danger. Mansfield
was tried two or three times for the
assault, but each time the jury disagreed
and finally, the patience of the prosecut
ing officers being exhausted, a noM
prosequt was entered. The sequel to thi:
romantic affair is that f''W days ago thu
County Clerk issued marriage license
to Mr. Mansfield and Miss Helm, an(
during the week they were made on'
flesh. No place in the world can bea
California for romance.
A wELIKNowN manufacturer Of thi!
city visited his family few days since
at one of the popular summer resorts no
thousand miles from Falmouth
Happening to have an unusually we'll
filled pocketbook, upon retiring for thu
| night he placed it in one of his boots fol
safe keeping, emitting, however, to say
| anything about it to his Wite Fatiguc(
with the long ride, he soon fell asleep
and, upon awakening early in the morn
ing, sought in vain for his boots and hi
money. Rousing his wife with anxious
inquiries about "those boots, he Learned
that she had found them lying arount
and had set them outside the door TO
the hotel bootblack. A few second
later a well-developed manly form wa
noticed making rapid strides for tn
porter's lodge It remains for us to add