The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-03-20
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Miscellaneous Items.

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Judge Bradley, including his ulster, weigh
l25 pounds. " /
Atlantic City fishermen ray the .wints,
killed half the eels. I.
Cleveland claims to contain "the only Greco
Roman wrestler in the land.'' -
Queen Victoria il said to have become Sun
day school teacher in London. I
Indiana contains politician who ''can tall
tho tongue out of = jewaharp."
An American named Livingstone drives "a
fourteen horse team in Florence.
Joseph White, tho American violinist in con.
Quoting musical festivals in Chill. I
Rochester is in high feather over the pros.
pective marriage of two midgets. . +
Counterfeit quarter dollars in imitation Of
the coinage Of 1854 are circulating. :*s@i szi'.
Frank D. Moulton, once known to faness lii Iii
the butter and cheese business in Liverpool.
Twenty-three thousand dollars has been sub
scribed toward Fort Wayne's Masonic temple.
". L. Alden, the humorist of the New York
Times, will be back home from Europe in
April.
Eben Leathers, of Darlington, N. H., re-
Gently had his name changed to Rutherford B.
Hayes.
Madame ROLAND, of Montreal, gave birth to
four children-two girls and two boys-a few
days ago.
ANebraska City woman not only listened At
keyhole, but fred through it at man whose
talk offended her.
John Connor is = Brooklyn person who chal.
lenges the world to drink a thousand gallons of
beer in thousand hours.
Murderers are 80 common in Texas that the
man dying natural death in that State is
looked upon as An imposter.
Clara Reinmann, = young American prima
donna of German descent, has become insane
from disappointed ambition.
Mrs. Anthony worked so earnestly at raising
the debt of Providence church, that she be-
came insane and tried to kill herself.
Wade Hampton now goes out hunting every
clear day. He rides almost as well as before
his unfortunate experience, but never tackles
\ mule.
Charles Thatford, one of the best known
yachtsmen in New York, died on Tuesday of
consumption, which he contracted by a capsize
in the bay.
The most extravagant boarder in the Parker
house, Boston, is an expelled Harvard student,
whose parents believe he is still studying in
Cambridge.
Since Paris opened her first horse butchery
132, 1873 horses, 1870 asses and 203 mules have
been eaten there. In the country they eat less
of such viands.
An Iowa horse has nondescript gait. He
simultaneously runs with his fore legs and
trots with his hind legs, in a way that aston
ishes the turfmen.
Buffalo is lighted by 5000 street lamps, to
light and extinRuish which contractor is paid
- cents per month for each lamp. He sublets
the work to boys at 10 cents.
The Under,oriter says that the first ten of the
last fifteen years formed the halcyon period of
life insurance. The last five have been the
lean years, but things are looking up.
Now that Princess Louise has been the means
of making Canadian customs popular in Eng
land the annexation of Canada to the United
Staten seems to have been postponed.
Rev. F. F. Emerson, one of the ablest minis
ters of Hartford, has left the Baptist church on
the communion question. He will enter the
ministry of the Congregational church.
Baton Rouge boys started pedestrian exhi-
bition (admission two cents) and a 9-year-old
walker stuck to the track till he fell from ex-
haustion. He has since been dangerously i'll.
Frank J. Bowman, brilliant but unscru-
pulous lawyer of st. Louis, has Just had his
sentence of disbarment for unprofessional con-
duct confirmed by the highest court Of the
State
The principal centres for the manufacture of
coral ornaments are Naples, Leghorn and Mar
seilles. In the former more than 1000 women
are employed in making coral beads for neck
laces, etc.
A young clergyman and a pretty teacher in
his Sunday school played tho balcony scene
from ''Romeo and Juliet" in an Omaha enter
tainmenA, and he ia to be tried before his church
in consequence.
The Prussian authorities have suppressed
popular Polish almanac because 1t Contains a
memoir of Cardinal Ledochowski (the deposed
archbishop of Posen), which is disrespectful
to the government.
Ex-millionaire Robert H. Martin, whose term
of five days. imprisonment in New York iail
expired on Tuesday, WAS arrested immediately
upon bis release, and is now in Ludlow street
Jail for fourteen days.
Chief Moses is under arrest at the Simcoe
reservation, charged with the murder of 4
white man. The murderers of large part of
his tribe delight to stand outside the bars and
sympathze with Moses.
The English village of Rockford was recently
the scene of one of those familiar disturbances
of spirits, in which stones and other missiles
are thrown about by invisible hands, doors
slammed, windows shaken, etc.
A widespread conviction, which has gathered
courts prevails in England that the precau-
tions against sane persons being immured in
aaylums are not, careful a. they seem, ade-
quate.
An Oxford. Mich, girl of IA, desiring to
marry, and fearing that her youthfulness
would be regarded by the clergyman Is an OBJ
lection, altered the date of her birth in the
family bible, and took the sacred volume along
when she eloped with her lover.
AL. Smith. of Elko, New, is a tough man.
In fight his antagonist chopped three chips
out of his skull with an Ak, and the chips were
afterward picked up on the field of battle. The
AZ penetrated to the brain, partly paralyzine
him, but none of his wounds have inflamed
and it is thought that Smith will get we'll.
It WAS m ingenious woman who saw a hoe
fall into we'll in Livermore, Colorado, She
got strong rope, made noose fixed it around
the helpless beast, pulled him up 20 that hi,
nose was out of water, and made the line fas,
to post. Then she hsrnessed q horse and
drew the 400 pounds of pork to the surface.
The heaviest verdict for personal d.mage.
ever secured against railroad is probably thai
for >S9, sol, which DR., Charles W. Hackett. o.
Maplewood, Mass, = rising young physician