The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-15
CURRENT ITEMS.
The autumn silks will be striped.
A NEW postal card will soon be issu


is stick of caustic to cauterize dog
bites.
FRENCH milliners are already at work
upon t4e autumn bonnet. They have
promised to produce a "perfect love-"
A BROOKLYN girl claims to have
changed her dress and completed her
toilet in three minutes, the other after
noon.
IT is shrewdly observed that sawdust
pills would cure great many diseases if
the patient would only make his own
sawdust.
A GUN sta nding in the corner of a
room in house at MOnrOvia, Ind, was
fired off by electricity during recent
thunderstorm.
WHEN a man saves his cigar money to
buy his wife new bonnet and the chill
dren new shoes, it indicates a spell of
sunsh'ne.-Danbatay Nesos.
A BRUSSELS telegram says the Wash
ington Government has given notice to
terminate the treaty of commerce and
navigation with Belgium the 1st of July,
1875.
THERE are no bouquets about a news
paper office, but sometimes the contents
of the paste-cup acquire maturity
which by any other name would smell as
sweet.
A HsCIENT1sT announces that human
being has 100000 of pores through
which perspiration and exhausted partf-
cles OF the system escape. We are all
pore creatures.
KATE FIELD writes from Spain that if
nature would economize on feas, and
disburse the extra energy on the men of
that country, she would be doing a thrifty
piece of business.
IT is said that the Transatlantic
Steamship Company will appeal against
the award of the British Admiralty
Court, in the case of the abandoned
steamship Amerique.
A TRAVELLING circus company has sued
the village of Great Falls, N. H., for
damages incurred through the unre-
paired condition of it's roads, whereby
several of the troupe got great falls.
AN old maid is not without power. A
writer observes that he has known one
such to turn steamboat excursion into
an occasion of gloom and dependency.
"THICKER than the surrounding foil
age, with wings like Apollyon's, beak
like an artesian auger, and voice like
the sound of many waters" is a poetic
description of the New Jersey mosqui-
toes
Miss MCHENRY, of St. Stephens Church
Philadelphia, sets a noble example to
women who wish to be of real use in the
world. She has raised 100000 for
three church homes, which care for 600
children.
AN awful animal, ten feet long, with
yellow eyes, switchy tail, cream colorcd
fur and shrieky voice, is what some rail
road laborers say they saw in the night
on Dresden Mountain, Vt. Probably Il
combination of cat and imagination.
A STREET BEGGAR in New York says
that the panic has ruined him. His col
have fallen 80 per cent, and he has two
houses and three stores empty even at
this reduction.
ACCORDING to the census, there arc
only two men in America who make
specially of the manufacture of hand
organs: just think how easy it would
be to kill those two men, and yet they
still ivc!-N. Y. World.
THIS is the way in which an observer
classitcs them: The Comanches have
/; concealed look; the Kiowas more fear
less and open; the Apachcs are a steady
set. The Sioux have all three of these
looks and more to suit occasions.
THlsTLEs are growing thritily in the
streets of Victoria, and the papers arc
clanoring for the enforcement of the
ordinance against noxious weeds. They
say in effect: "Thistlc never do."-Snn
F,wncisco C2roeiclc.
THERE is nothing like ncighborly SYM
pathy, A Boston baby fell out of bed
the other morning, and during the next
three hours eight women in the neigh
borhood made twenty-threc inquiries
concerning it's health, and it's mother had
to drop it twenty three times to go to the
front window to answer.-Boston Globe.
TINE seems to be dull with the doctors
also. Recently little girl with can of
kerosene was followed six squares by five
physicians. They were sitting on the
fence in front of the house late at night
awaiting the Observation-Disclosures Sen
tS,ael.
SOME sharRers in New York have been
persuading Western farmers into send
ing them money for Alsatian cabbage
seed, the seed being guaranteed to pro-
sixty pounds. They have done lucra-
after them and their harvest is over.
A MARRIAGE took place in this city yes
terday, which, on account of certain cir
cumstances Gin the case," should not go
unnoticed. The bridegroom, we under
stand, is twenty-six, the bride about fifty.
The present happy man is her fifth hus-
band; No. was buried between one and
two months ago.-Cunberland (Md.)
Neps.
A YOUNG lady stopping in Brattleboro,
VT, for few days sent friend of hers
to the store to get a pair of shoes. She
told her friend to get number fives, but
her friend, being anxious to secure agood
fit for her, ordered the storckeeper to
change the mark on pair Of sevcns
He did SO, and the lady said they fitted
better than any she had had in long
time.
ANOTHER brutal father has turned up
in the person of William A. Bates, Of
South Framingham, Mass, who, after
having forced his wife to leave him, three
years ago, at the instigation of his
mother, began systematic abuse of his
three children, keeping them upon short
rations all the while, and binding them
to post in the barn when he was par
ticularly mad with them. He was i'm
prisoned by the State authorities.
A CURIOSITY of the polecat persuasion
was killed recently by farmer living
near Franksville, Wis This monster
had three full-sized bodies, three heads
and three tails, but only eight legs The
wQrp hyy f1oohxy 1iUqf11ra
about four inches long, three inches wide
anl tU0 innhoo th;ok Tho middle cat