The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-07-11
NUMBER A.
CURRENT ITEMS.

lHE EAnthrOpOmetrical is the name of
a new association. This is the scholastic
way of saying journeymen tailors.
Two girls have gone into the green hide
business in San Francisco, and are max
ing money. Neither of them is over
seventeen.
| A GIRL arrested in Boston the other
day for stealing an apple was so weak for
want of food that she tainted away in the
courtroom.
| JACKSON GERARD, of Benton, Me-, went
to sleep soon after leaving the breakfast
table few days ago, and at last accounts
all attempts to awaken him had proved
unavailing.
| DOROTHY WILLIAMS, of ofWyoming, start
ed to walk three miles to church the
other day, and they found her torn into
about fifty pieces, the result of meeting
grizzly bear of low moral character.
GEN THOMAS EWING, of Ohio, proposes
to donate tract of land for a miners
school or school Of miners, and measures
are under way for the establishment of a
National institute for practical miners.
A CONVENTION of worklngmen, dele
gates from trades unions, factory opera
tives and labor reformers generally, will
| be held in Worcester, Mass, about the
middle of August, to nominate State
ticket.
IT is understood that number of lady
students are to enter the Boston N1eth-
odisD School of Theology next fall,
the Trustees having assured candidates
that the doors Of the seminary are open
to all, without respect to sex.
A BosToN boss scrub-Woman," who
| has in her employ hundred other
women, has regular work for all, and has
become rich, recently bought $25,000
house on fashionable street, and rides
in her carriage in imitation of the FASH
ionable and wealthy ladies.
A New ENGLAND philosopher has dis
| covered that the dull times are a bless
ing in disguise, because there is prob
ably no other way of checking the
feverish intensity of American business
! take it easy"
A LITTLE girl in Rowlcy, Mass, has
earned dollar and quarter by catch
ing woodchucks at twenty-five cents
apiece. She snaps them up as they put
steel-trap will not be particularly safe to
meet one of these days.
THE Dallas Tcx.) Herald records the
riding, saw pocket book lying in the
street, and they both jumped from the
buggy to get it. The hurry broke Il
finger of one of them and dislocatcd the
| ankle of the other, and the pockcl-book
| contained nothing.
BECAUSE he had been sued for SO, a
Barton (Vt) man committed suicide de-
| claring that if he had got so low that his
name was not good for $29 he did not
| want to live any longer. Such sensitive
| ness is extremely rare in America, and
our friends in England must not be mis-
! led by an isolated case like this.
THE "Excclsior Magazine" one of the
choicest and most artistic of monthlics,
is published at So. so year. New sub
scribers are offered a $3.50 field croquet
set and the magazine for $4.4G only so
cents additional A handsomely illus
trated Fashion and Etiquette Supplement
goes with it. Rare inducements to get
ters-up of clubs in money or premiums.
Sample copies 25 cents. Office, Room SO,
No. 157 La Sale street, Chicago, III.
THE Japanese have taken. sudden
fancy to the German language. They
learn rapidly, but they are fond of
change and have no perseverance, so
that the teachers are obliged frequently
to alter the subject of study. Moreover,
the best pupils leave them just as they
are beginning to get on; directly
Japanese understands few words OF
German he goes to Yeddo to seek EN-.
ploymcnt. Fortunately the number of
pupils is very great. Since the Emperor
himself has taken to study, and Govern
mcnt appointments at Yeddo are only
given to educated people instead of
being sold to the highest bidder it has
become fashionable to go to school.
THERE was very sad occurrence late
ly, near the residence of Jonathan Her
rington, few miles northwest of Hills
boro, Mo- Elijah Burgess with his fami-
ly were visiting Hcrrington's, and the
boys were out on steep hill side or bluff.
They had been amusing themselves roll
| ing stones down the hill, when two Of
| them concluded to 20 to the foot of tic
| bluff to see the rocks jump off. large
stone was started from above and warn
ing given to the boys below, when little
| son of Burgess, nine years of age, stepped
| out from behind a tree and the rock
struck him on the head, smashing his
skull and killing him instantly.
A PROMINENT oculist says that the con-
tagious Egyptian or granular inflamma-
tion of the eyes is spreading rapidly
throughout the country, and that he has
been able in many, and, indeed, in a ma
jority of cases, to trace the disease to
what are commonly called rolling towels:
Towels of this kind are generally found
in country hotels and in the dwellings OF
| the working classes, and, being thus used
| by nearly every one, are made the car
riers of one of the most dangerous and,
as regards its symptoms, most trouble
some diseases of the eye. This being the
case, it is urgently recommended that the
use of these rolling towels be discarded
apd thus one of the special vehicles for
the spread of most dangerous disorder
of the eycs-one by which thousands Of
w0rkingmcn arc annually deprived of
their means of support-will no longer
exist.
Or all places in the world to select as
retreat from the scorching heat of a June
day, an ice-chest is perhaps the last, and
yet George Straubel did it. George had
formerly been bar-keeper at Apollo
Theater, but on Monday was living at
615 South Fourth street. He had been
suffering to some slight extent from colo,
and was also perspiring protusely DO
what he would, he could not keep cool.
The more he tried to keep cool, the more
he perspired, and at last the brilliant
idea struck him that brief retirement
in the ice-chest would set him up all
right. 1t did the lager good, and why
shouldn't it do George Straubel good,
too? So he got into the ice-chest, and
ration was checked, and when Straubel
got out of the ice-chcst the perspiration
didn't return. On the contrary, he
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