The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-01-23
TENS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

lie silent When a TOOL talks.
Every good deed is grain of seed for
eternal life.
1t IS apt to be with your religion as it
is with your friendship-the more you
profess the less you have.
TO know thing is right, and not to
do it is weakness. When you know
thing, maintain that you know it, admit
the fact; that is wisdom. Fear not
poverty, but fear missing Of the truth.
The mere outward reformation of mo.
rality, differs as much from regeneration
by the Holy Spirit, as whitewashing an
old rotten house differs from taking it
down, and building new one in its room.
-Iopladv.
The Scientific american announces that
half the vinegar now sold is rank poison,
and a Massachusetts chemist states that
out of twelve jars Of pickles, put up by
different wholesale dealers, he found COP
per in ten Of them.
AS the Dead Sea drinks in the river
Jordan and is never the sweeter, and the
ocean all other rivers and is never the
tresher so we are apt to receive daily
mercies from God and still remain insen.
sible to them, unthankful for them.
A Frerch physician asserts that be has
discovered soporoic whose effects can
6e exactly limited to the time required.
This will, he says, enable travellers to
to sleep comfortably and confidently dur
ing journey. lie measures his doses bv
miles. Thus you can take a fifty m lie
dose before starting on railroad journey
and open your eyes, pleasantly refreshed.
at your proper station.
"In all directions our Investigations
bring us face to face with an insoluable
enigma, and we even more clearly per-
ccive it to be an inso4uable enigma. We
learn at once the greatness and littleness
OF the hnman 'ntellcct--its power in deal
ing with all that comes within tho range
OF experience, its importance in dealing
with all that 1rdnscends experience. We
realiz, with q special vividness the utter
inconprehensiblcness of the simplest fact
considered IN itself. Tho scientific man,
more truly than any other, k,aous that
IN its essense nothing can be Known
Herbert Spencer.
Your enemy is at yonr feet, and it is
in your power to crush him! Don't do it!
Better is an ounce of forgiveness than a
thousand tons of vengeEcel If hardness
and bitterness still finger in your heart
it actual and deep wrongs have been in
1llcted upon you-go and look in the
carest open grave-you will not have to
tar-and see what is the end for your
enemy and for you. Go and think for a
moment beside the nearest erayestone
how little worthy it is for an immortal soul
to be cherrishing the passions of wolf CT
tiger, and then forgive your enemy
even as you need to be torgivcnl
do not think Tor moment that YOU
cen sin III some corner. and no one will
know anything about it. There is No
conceaiment for wrong-doing anywhere
Even as the monograph gathers up the
very intonation of your voice, and laws il
away for a thousand years to come. So
are our lightest words-our Thoughts
even-rcgistered in the great book Of
life above and beyond us! Even az in
every spot in the visible creation there is
life actual or life possible, just so is there
possibly in every space under the broad
canopy OF heaven witness of any evil
you may accomplish. Be pure and good
therefore, and walk henceforth as in the
light of eternity.
The Yellowstone Geyser is the most re.
markablc III the world. There are more
than 10000 vents. The Grand Geyscl
throws column of water six feet in d.
ameter 200 feet high, while the stream
ascends 1000 feet. Its eruptions occur
every twentv-fcur hours, and continue
twenty minutes. The Grantees throws a
stream twenty feet in diameter sixty feet
high, and through this five or six SIN alle1
jets $50 feet high. 1t plays twenty min
utes once in eleven hours. The Giant
sends up tivc-foot column 140 feet high
for three hours. The Beehive projects a
column three feet in diameter to the enor-
nous height of 219 feet for about fifteen
minutes. Old Faithful very regular for
fifteen minutes, once an hour, sends up its
massive column feet in diameter 100 to
15O feet high.
DR.. J. H. Gladstone has examined some
candles which are stated to have been re.
covered from the wreck of Dutca vessel
sunk in Vigo Bay during the war in the
year 1709, The wick has rotted away, leev.