The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-29
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which has so often failed. He kept them
a year and got them so tame that they
would eat from the hand of stranger.
A MAN named O'Brien fell asleep at
Bath, Me-, the other day, with his head
on his hands and his elbows on table,
and, his wife happening to wake him, he
started up so suddenly as to dislocate his
collar bone.
ST. LOUIS is so fatal a place for babies
the mortality under five years running up
to so or 60 per cent of the whole number
during the summer months-that it is
proposed to establish, twenty miles out
OF the city, a sanitarium for babes.
In Paris natural flowers are much
worn at one side of the waist, and are
arranged in this wise: A small bouquet is
placed in tiny glass holder containing
few drops of water, which is then con
cealed in the folds of the sash.
HENRY DEAN, New York fruit-deal-
er, rendered gloomy by the robbery from
his firm Of 1926, 1000 by confidential
clerk awhile since, committed suicide at
Jersey City recently by throwing himself
under the wheels of a passing express
train
They have six-year-old boy at Harri-
man, n. H., who weighs 146 pounds. The
following are his dimensions: Around
the chest, forty five inches; thigh, twenty
eight inches; ankle, fifteen inches; wrist,
ten inches; arm at shoulder, seventeen
inches; length Of leg, seventeen inches;
height, forty-seven and a half inches.
The old, abandoned Fort Hale, near
New Haven, must be an unpleasant sort
of thing to have around. Those unex-
ploded shells are still lying about the
ground. Somebody has recently dumped
load of hay up against the magazine
door to keep people away, but if this hay
should happen to get on fire there would
be lively times.
IL 1FEAR," said minister to his flock,
"when explained to you in my last char
ity-sermon that philanthropy was the
love Of our species, you must have under
stood me to say specie, which may &C.
count for the smallness of the collcc-
tion. You will now prove, I hope, by
your present contribution, that you are
no longer laboring under the same mis-
take"
A RHODE ISLAND convict recently adj
N Wtted to his spiritual guide that on one
occasion he had suffered the keenest re-
morse for crime. 1t was when he stole
four cucumbers from a poor but deserv-
ing man, and ate them. That night, be-
fore the doctor got there, he made a SOL
emn VOW that, if his life were spared he
would never repeat the act, and he never
has.
THE grasshoppers have done immense
damage in Boscawen, Canterbury,
Franklin and other towns in New Hamp
shire. One farmer estimates that they
houo ini11ra6 hic hoy 4o ho
of fifty tons, and another puts his loss at
forty tons. They also made a raid among
the fruit trees and corn-tassels, devour-
ing the latter as fast as they appeared.
A MR.. ROGERS, of New London, Conn.,,
died recently from the effects of some
foreign substance swallowed with piece
of bread some days before. He realized
Immediately a severe cutting, as if some
sharp substance similar to rough piece
of glass had passed into his stomach. He
was attended by physician, an emetic
administered and other medicines given
him. but nothing gave permanent relief.
He expired in great agony
A MAN who had been cruel to horse
was convicted in Little Shasta, Cal. The
jury fixed the fine at one dollar, and the
Justice followed with speech. "This
mans been tried four times, gentlemen of
the jury" he said, land you're the first
twelve that's had sense enough to find
him guilty. But what under heavens did
you make jackasses of yourselves for by
putting the fine at one dollar, after you'd
done an average decen tthing? Taint
any Of your business anyway what he's
fined. I'll look after that myself. It'll
be sixty dollars"
In WASHINGTON, the other day. a little
boy, while playing at hide and seek, hid
in large sole.leathcr trunk with a
spring lock, and unconsciously locked
himself in. His playmates, upon hear
ing him cry, after an unsuccessful at
tempt to release him, gave the alarm. A
lady neighbor was the first on the spot,
and after great exertion succeeded in
raising one side of the lid, thus affording
s,ir to the little victim. Additional aid
soon arrived, the lid was forced open,
and the child, who was excessively weak,
was rescued. Restoratives were at once
applied, and the little fellow when last
heard from, though still weak, was be-
yond danger.
Mr.. OWEN A. HUNT and Miss Sarah
E. Hall, all the way from Muhlenburg
County, KY, were married here lately in
the store of W. F. Holder, by the Rev.
Mr.. Butler. The loving couple had fed
the wrath Of parents and step-mothers,
and come to our land on horseback to
unite themselves by the bonds of welded
love: Miss Sarah looked to he fourteen
or fifteen years of age. When the
preacher asked Hunt i" if he would take
this woman to be his lawful welded
wife, and would protect, comfort and
support her as long as he should livc,"
he promptly answered, eyes, sir, if I
can," which, by the way, was most
considerate answer, in view of the
drought and hard times. es.-GallatSm Teu-
nesSee0n.
THE bitter freight-tariff war which the
New York railroads are waging upon the
canals is most cffectually killing the
business of the tow companies, and the
present prospect is that transportation
will soon be entirely suspended by the
Erie Canal. Special rates were recently
made at Buffalo for the carrying of wheat
to New York by rail for seven and
quarter cents per bushel, which, accord
ing to best authority, is but little over
half the actual cost of transportation. 1t
is impossible for the owners of boats to
carry at a profit, as the State tolls are
over three cents per bushel alone. The
new steamboat line recently put on the
canal is, perhaps, an exception, as they
can run at about the same expense as the
ordinary boat, and make two trips to the
horse boats one.
WHEN piece of territory settles away
below it's accustomed level, the matter is
very easily explained, and the same is
the case when there is sudden upheaval.
But in the vicinity of Schenectady, N: Y,
a nhenomenon has occurred which gives