The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-06-06
WORTHINGTON, MOBILES CO., MINI, SATURDAY, JUNE g. 1884,
CURRENT ITEMS,

CURRENT ITEMS.
The largest room in the world is the
room for improvement.
SULPHUR comes from Vesuvius; there.
fore it is good for eruptions.
their food. They are used to boarding
| houses
EIGHT HUNDRED marriageable young
ladies, for whom there is no visible pros
pective husbands, is what's the matter
with Eas+oa.Pa.
| THE production of brick in the United
Statec in 1870, if laid in a wall one foot
thick and ten feet high, would reach
distance Of over 2,908 miles.
A woMAN's club has been formed in
st. Louis, for the discussion of social.
moral and philosophical questions,
and especially questions vital to women.
A BROTHER of Nathan X. Hull, OF
killingWorth, Conn.,, who was recently
| Killed by train of cars, has committed
suicide from grief by jumping into
WE'LL
DOMESTIC prints are so pretty this sum-
me- that housewives of taste are using
shilling calico for home wrappers and
luxuriating in half dozen of the various
patterns.
A DEs MONIES genius who loves his
ease has l vented an automaton fire.
lighter. He lies in bed, pulls string
| which sets the kindling on fire, and when
he hears the kettle singing he gets up
A BosToN1AN keeps large standard
dictionary on slightly-inclined shelf in
his parlor, which the children and adults
of the family can instantly and easily
! consult for definition or q lesson in
spelling.
A TOWN in Kentucky has developed
queer specimen of genus homo in the form
| OF facetious dentist, who advertises that
he will pull teeth without pain to the
operator, and with very little to the BY
ISLANDERS.
The Columbus GAY Enquirer says:
I'VE are going to quit the newspaper
business; it doesn't pay to run paper in
| town where business men read almanacs
and pick their teeth with the tail of
| herring"
| On the average of the last six years the
loss of life in English coal mines, by ex-
plOsiOn and other accidents, amounts to
one death for every 100000 tons of coal,
not to mention injuries of more or less
serious character.
| The Boston Common Council has voted
that the 4th of July shall be celebrated at
an expense to the city not exceeding
June II, the anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill.
THIRTEEN years ago John Kendall, of
Alabama, called Arthur Spooner liar.
Spooncr reflected, got mad, and the other
day decided to shoot Kendall for the in
suit, and did shoot him; and now his
honor shines like new tin pan on gate.
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WHILE Prof. Watson has been fooling
away fifteen years of his life in the study
OF astronomy, very common fellow in
Delaware has discovered that y turnip
tied to string and hung to hook will
prevent rheumatism from entering the
house.
THERE must be demand for sawdust
in Gardner, Me. A local paper SAYS
that the. sawmills in that city make from
| fifty to seventy-tive cords of sawdust per
day, which sells readily for about as high
q price as though it were in solid long
lumber.
| A BALTIMORE paper tried to say some-
thing about "Churches and Skeptics,"
and the writer of the article pleaded pite-
ously tor some one to put him out Of his
misery when he saw his pious editorial
appear under the head "Crutches and
Sheeptics."
AT Qucchee, VT, the farmers were plow-
ing in January, and on May day had the
pleasure of seeing a foot of snow on their
fields. Some of The hill roads were rem
dered impossible by snow-drifts. The
birds were starving, and many robins
were found dead
LUCY G. DoNEaAN, Of Dubuque, Iowa,
has sued Frank S. May for $1,000 dam
ages. May had the small pox, and hung
some of the clotht he had worn upon
fence near plaintiffs house, whereby the
woman and two Of her children were in
tected with the disease.
MANY Cuban sugar'planters are emf.
grating to Southern Texas, glad to ex-
change the mpAratively quiet condition
Of affairs iE that State for the existing
troubles at home. The country between
the Sabine and the Rio Grande is we'll
adapted to the sugar cane.
IA MAN in Pennsylvania lunatic asy
lum,'' says an exchange, "imagines him
self a woman, and tor that reason parts
his hair in the middle" Several young
men outside of the lunatic asylum part
their hair in the middle because, it is
supposed, they have no reason.
NORTH HADLEy, Mass, is disturbed by
foul water in its wells, and an old astrol-
oyer, we'll known in that vicinity, has
traced, with his mysterious rod, a subter-
ranean stream from the cemetery, a few
rods distant, to the we'll at the parsonage
and to others along the street which con.
tain foul water.
TaE editor of the San Bernardino
Guardian feels impelled to describe the
rival editor of that town as an editorial
cmpiric-a newspaper quack; man
without education, without courage, with.
out honor-a drifting, mental imbecile, a
slandering falsifier, a rambling adventurer
"a creature-a thing-content to live on
family charity"
THE preparations of the United States
for observing the coming transit of
Venus are very nearly completed. Eight
parties are to be sent out from this coun-
try. One will 60 to Siberia; another to
Central Asia; a third to Nagasaki, in
Japan; fourth to Pekin, China; and the
rest will go to the Southern seas by the
} sloop-of-war Swatara, which is n~w being
fitted up with all necessary appliances for
that purpose.
THE Syracuse IN. " police authorities
are dealing severely with those little boys
who, in their anxiety tor fun. play such
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