The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-06-19

Miscellaneous News Notes.

Miscellaneous News Notes.
The Duke of Bedford has remitted an entiz,
half-year's rent to his agricultural tenants.
1t il proposed to initiate tho New York ole
vased railway aystem along the Liverpoo
docks.
There il An old lady. l07, in Boston who neve
uses "pectscles. aud whose sight il ~ good =
ever it waa. She WAS born blind.
Coffee growing has proved successful with
few planters in southern Florida, and it, cult
vation there promises to be extended.
Eighty thousand pounds Of eggs were sen
from Omaha to San Francisco last month
This indicates lively lecture season in pros
pect.
Philadelphia has the champion marvel. Il
l" coroner who tried to save = mans life
when the deceass Of tho individual would Civ
him = case.
MaEshalltown coloved girl took dose o
laudanum. Saturday, because her lover hat
gone back on her. A stomach pump brought
her through.
Troy. which ha. $4,000 inhabitants, make.
$3.50. 900 dozens of cuffs and 1s1,000 dozens o
shirts in year; but you wouldn't think it. to
see Troy man.
The Roman Curia has secretly granted di.
vorce between the Prince and Princess of Mon.
AGO. The decree il said TO have been pro.
nounced Wednesday, May 20.
Erasmus Hobart, Of Titusville, aged Il, i,
quite musical genius, and plays the piano,
organ. violin, cornet, futc, and other instru-
ments. learning without = te~cher.
Mr.. Frank Marshall, who wrote "False
Shame is at work on = play to be called
~Robert Emmett" in which Irving and Mis-.
Ellen Terry will play the principle parts.
A Dubuque man beat his wife terribly with
= club, and then poured boiling water over the
wounds, all because she refused to sign deed
OF some property he wished to dispose of.
The Sioux City Journal says We could stand
the trampa, and the grasshoppers, and never
complain, but four box agents in town all II
once causeth our cup of suffering to bubble
over the brim.
Two of the companions of Oonnt Antinori,
in the Italian African expedition, have been
taken prisoners by tribe hostile to the king
of shoa- Though in great d. uger, they still
6hoa bold front.
Artificial ice, said 10 be superior to nature'a 4
product. 10 manufactured in the South at .
coat of onlv 70cents per ton, It i. turned on,
in blocks two and = half feet lorg by ter
inches in thickene.
Ar. Whistler's arrangement in black and
gold" which was tho cause Of his action
against MIR. Ruskin, has found home at STRAIT
tord-on-Avon, having been purchased by Mayo1
Flower of that town.
After Tom Sanders, Ut Decatur, Ala, had
dreamed three nights in succession that h<
could subsist 40 days and nights without food
he concluded to keep the fast, but failed at th.
end OF So days, when he died.
Truth intimates that eighty -four black ball.
were dropped into the box at the Athenmum
club to show that the members preferred th<
soom Of Mr.. Charley, NJ. p, common sergeant
of tho city of London, to his company.
MIR. st. Leger Hubert, who was on Lord Duf.
FERNS staff in Canada, and has been until now
secretary to the high commissioner and clerk
OF the legislative council in Cyprus, will b<
Sir Garne. Wolseley's secretary in South At
rica.
The Queen Of England presented to the King
of Siam last year the Order of St. Michael and
the Cross of st. George. An embassy il nov
on the way to England to invest the queen will
the Order Of the White Elephant in return fol
her compliment.
He vas q cold misanthropical man alone in
the world. loved by none. loving none fierct
hater of humanity. And when he died he left
his large fortune to be devoted to the purchase
too poor to obtain them.
A Prof. Paschal Plant, of Baltimore, is re.
ported to have invented a aachine tor separat
ing gold from earth or gravel without the us,
Of water. Thi, has been desideratum to gold
miners for many years. Several of his ma.
chimes have been shipped to California.
The Baptists in Great Rritain have S,45]
chapels. with 1,028. 900 sittings, The numbe,
OF church members is ZIG, ,348--an increase fo,
1878 q: 1872. There are 1879 pastors and
1852 lay preachers. The increase of church &C
commodations in the year was 20,UOO. Fol
home mission work the sum raised was El6, 1885,
A young man from Keokuk visited sigourne,
few days ago, wearing low quarter shoes on ,
small foot, and red stockings. He was sus
pioi"ned, and retiring early, o'clock P. H., tn.
Inhabitants were sure he WAS woman, because
good Hooking young man could not be pre-
vailed on to 60 to bed that early. He was ar
rested for being a woman, but was soon dis
charged.
Steubsnville Herald When you see . cir
tying around = dry goods counter, and bother
ing the ladylike young man clerk almost t.
death, to show her this piece of lace and tha
piece of ruching, and this and that piece o
white dress goods, you needn't think She
going t. get married-her mind il on create,
things intent she will graduate next week, O,
the week after.
At meeting of the Paris municipality n few
days ago attention was called to Catholic edi
tion of Uncle Toms Cabin" copies of wh,ci
had been distributed as prizes even in . asecula
school. containing notes, according to whici
slavery 10 not contrary to natural order, ane
some laborers would be happier if slaves. Al
assurance was given that such works would b,
expunRed from the prize catalogue.
Pope Leo XIII. il tall and spare, with pa
tricisn ak. He has line head, crowned will
white hair. strongly marked features, the IN
pect Ut IN ascetic, with something marble. lik
in the general appearance of the figure. Hi
face is lighted by piercing look, and hi
smile il very winning. His voice is sonorous
not no mellow ~ Pope Pius's. but more power
full. Though he il moderate in his opinions
he does not lack 6rmneas.
IT man in San Francisco or in Oregon drop
in the postofice letter misdirected or withou
stamp. ~ sometimes happens even with care
ful correspondents, two weeks must elapse be
fore be hears anything of it. for it cannot b.