The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-05
NEWS NOTES.

man never thinks of borrowing his own
umbrella.
The potato blight has appeared in many parts
OF Nova Scotia.
Cyprus, which should be called BeaconsSeld
Is the home of the cauliaower.
One can live on 90 a month a China. We
would prefer to live on a farm.
The Keokuk Constitution thinks there is
corn doctor OF divinity that shapes our ends.
Hogardus, when not glass-ball shooting, can
make way with forty-nine fish balls out of
possible fifty.
A Franco-Jewish company has obtained
monopoly for the extraction Of bitumen from
the Dead Sea.
Boston Post: Di Murska is fond of pies. She
always takes couple of magpies with her
when travelling.
Women are urging mems rights in Colorado.
Ihey have organized themselves into gangs and
are stealing horses.
1t Is said that at Saratoga this summer the
most expensively dressed women are the wives
and daughters Of coal and ice men,
A Louisville young woman advertised in the
papers Tor an escort to a concert Tuesday eyen-
ing, and forty young men replied.
Every day since her birth each of the parents
OF Flemingsburg, KY, girl have deposited 10
cents for her benefit. She is now 90
Hiss Ransom is at work on portrait of
MIS- Senator Dorsey, who is said to be the most
beautiful lady in Washington society.
South Holyoke, Mass, woman picked
forty-two quarts of blackberries from her cul-
tlvated patch in two days last week.
decree has been issued by the car ordering
mat the recently purchased cruisers shall not
be included in the list of the Russian navy.
Fanny Davenport has analysed London. and
says 1t IS nine parts log and one part conceit,
she brought some of the latter away with her.
a New York Chinaman is named Hang Flu.
but tins will not satisfy the profane Kearney
Hang Fu, indeedn Il would hang 'em allr'
The federal government has sixty million
acres of land open to pre-emption in Califor-
mia; MA including twenty million acres of tillable
German and Austrian law forbids the sale of
dead fish. The fish are brought from the sea
and rivers in tanks and are killed after being
sold.
A silk manufacturing firm in Lyons, France,
presents on its silks Il variety Of photographed
Impressions, comprising pictures by the old
| masters.
me scratch of e pin, which grew into an
lnhamed ulcer and threw her into spasms,
caused the death Of DR.. John Stones wife at
Linton Ga.
Ihe further north you travel in Pennsylvania
the poorer the whisky becomes. So saws the
"Iwinkler' of the New York .Siar, and he
ouSIt 70 kNo".
More suicides are committed in proportion
to the population, in San Francisco, than in
any other civilized city. We hope Kearney
will hurry home.
The Russian provinces have 81 $40 600 horses
the United States 9,500,0O0, Turkey 1000 OUO
! Austria $500, 0,000 Germany 3,352, 600 and
France 5000, 900.
Lord Beaconsfeld is renewing his youth and
! becoming quite gay again. He is regular at
GcnO1nG fna2farc md
| tainments in London.
An English critic says that Frenchman in
one respect is like Scotchman-he likes ser
| mon, only the sermon must be delivered by a
| comedian on the stage
We have pack of cards that have
been cut several hundred times, and vet they
are whole now.-Boston Post. That Joke will
| pass, though it's deuced low.
company has been formed in Algeria for
the introduction of Chinese laborers. on &C.
count of the scarcity of hands for timber
cutting and mining operations.
Victor Hugo's "Miserables' will be feature
of the season at the Boston Theatre, The only
stars engaged there are Frank Chanfrau, John
Mccullough and Mary Anderson.
At Boorgade, near Milan, dog was found
| gnawlng bone which proved to be woman's
arm. Other fragments Of the b"dy were found
and horrible murder is suspected.
lady in the northern part of Herkimer
county. Ohio, was so frightened at the appear
| ance Of a snake III her path that her hair, pre-
vlously glossy black, turned white.
! 1t requires great moral strength and tenacitv
| OF purpose to enable man to sleep till in
| the morning, when an industrious fly has de-
clded that he had better get up at 4:S0.
| The marriage of the Duke of Cannaught with
| the Princess Louise AIargareta of Prussia has
been postponed, for some reason or other, till
! February next. 1t is to take place at Wind
| sor.
Miss Annie Ward Tiffany. who played at the
| Chestnut, Philadelphia, during the summer
season, has been robbed in New York of $500
soltarie diamond ring. It was taken from her
| room.
In the Commune de L'Herault, France,
priest has cloped with a young girl who was on
the point of being married to another man.
She took with her in cash $1,000 of dowry
given by her father.
The salmon catch in British Columbia this
| season exceeds that of any other. They are
sold along the banks of the Fraser river at one
! cent each. Indians catch them and Cinnamon
clean and can them.
| graduate of one of our leading American
colleges is acting as cook at one of the summer
| resort hotels, and the hash is served up in
| seven languages-just six more than the average
guest can Wrestle with.
| New York dressmaker employs three men
cutters, goes to Paris for styles every season.
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| keeps her carriage and horses. She has made
her way entirely herself.
! sensation has been caused at East Boston
| by the elopement of beautiful and wealthy
young widow with penniless but dashing and
handsome milkman, the woman leaving her lG-
! months-old baby to take care of itself.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza king. has
| a sapphire which was once the property Of a
Russian prince, and it cost her $15O,OO0. 1t is
an inch in diameter Her pearl necklace cost
S1OO,0 and her coral set cost $4,000.
The New Orleans school directors resolved
that all female teachers who marry during vaca-
tion shall lose their places; their theory is that
married women have supporter, and should
give way to their sisters who have none.
Lightning struck the Russia leather pocket
book Of Mrs. Chenery of Salem, Mass, which
! she was carrying in her hand, and $50 in green
backs was burned to crisp silver coin black
| ened on one side and a railroad ticket scorched.
Miss Fanny Washington Finch, the great
grand-niece of Washington, and supposed 10 be
his nearest living relative. is keeping board
ing house at Washington, and has recently had
her furniture attached by landlord for rent
The Nation thinks that part of the drill of
every girls school ought to be the reception by
wife in an old gown. to dinner Of corned
beef and cabbage, of an unlooked-for guest,
thoughtlcssiy brought home by reckless hus-
band.
During a recent thunderstorm which passed
over Essex county, Massachusetts. five persons
named Goodwin. residing in different parts of
the county, we're knocked down by the electric
fluid or had their property struck bv light
ming.
While grubbing up stump, a Hunt Co. (Tex.)
farmer struck an old iron pot, holding 1926 in
silver and fifteen 500 gold pieces. On top of
. the money was a silver goblet marked Mylack,
: the name of family which disappeared during
the war.
The ammonia of the commercial fertilizers
manufactured in the suburbs of Augusta, Ga,
has completely driven out the chills and fever
and other malaria that used to infest the local
ity. 1t ought to be tried remedy for yel-
low fever.
The success of Victor Hugo's "Historie dun
Crime has been enormous. The sale of the
peoples edition at two francs has reached 15C.
600; and new and still cheaper edition is to
appear with illustrations published at two sous
the number.
1t is reported that the New York Time. ia