The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-07-29
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BAsHFu1 lover to bis BELIEF: " Would
that had three Kilograms Of dynamite!'
Belle: "Why, monsieur ?" Bashful
lover: "To break the ice between us. y
In. his younger days Prince Bismarck
was credited with saying that all largo
cities should be swept from the face Of
the earth, they being but liot-beds OF
revolution. 49,
A MASSACHUSETTS, lady is reported to
lave scolded her little boy for taking a
drink Of water ut hotel. For" said
she, eve pay dollar for our dinner.
and water is filing"
70 CLEAN FrRNITURE.-Onep pint lin.
seed oil, one pint vinegar, half pint
spirits Of wine or alcohol. Shake be-
fore using; gives good polisl, and effect
ually cleans the furniture.
A REPORTER on the Rochester Demo
c1'ut counted twenty -seven young men in
one evening who were driving livery
rigs with one hand. The other hand was
either off or belonged to an arm around
girl.
IF some one would successfully start
the report that ice-cream spoiled the
complexion and made women bow
legged, it would be thousands Ct dollars
in the pockets Of our poor but love-
stricken young men.
A PRIZE was offered at an Odd Eel
lows picnic in San Francisco of O chair
for the latest baby, and when the award
was made it was discovered that the win
ner could not sit in it. The proud but
exasperated mother declared that the
blunder was "just like these men,
The New Haven journal makes the
curious statement that a post-mortem in
the case of B. d. Purdy, Jr., of New
Canaan, Ct, revealed the fact that
his death was caused by broken neck,
and that he had been living in that con-
dition for some three years as is sup
posed"
No, SON, no; you needn't be afraid OF
it. just drink a tubful of it, if yol,
wish. No man ever got drunk OF learned
to be drunkard drinking Sunday
school picnic lemonade. You might
get the dropsy, or You might drown
yourself with it, but it will never make
you drunk.
A FAITHFUL. man Is Dennis Colgan, q
bridge-tender at Bridgeport, Ct, for
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company. He has held the
place for thirty years, has never lost a
day, and has watched the bridge at all
times, never sleeping more than an hour
and half at time.
:. A BOY was stamping some packages
at the postoffice in Macon, Ca, when q
lady came in who bought Scent stamp,
and then, turning to the boy, cool1y
asked him to run out his tongue. The
boy did so, when the lady moistened
her Scent stamp, applied it to the let
ter, mailed it, and walked of.
10 MARK tools: Warm them slightly
and rub the steel with wax or hard tai
low till film gathers. Then write
your name OH the wax with n sharp
point, cutting through the steel. A lit
tie nitric acid poured on the marking
will bite the letters. Then wipe the
acid and wax off with a hot, soft rag.
AT the head of Fall creek, Nevada
county, CAL, pines and frs over 100 feet
in height are SO buried in snow that only
a few feet Of their tops are to be seen.
Where dark forest lies in summer
there is now onl to be seen white ex.
panse of snow, with here and there what
appears to be clumps of bushes, but are
really the tops Of the tallest pines.
An agricultural paper has an article
on "Washed and Unwashed Butter, F."
Itsays that the markets now demand
that butter shall not only be fresh and
rosy, but be properly worked and
washed. A pound Of butter that comes
into market without having its face
washed and its hair combed is not very
inviting, that's fact.-Norristospa
Herald.
WHEN, in the reign Of James l., Mrs.
Turner, chief starcher to the Queen and
the fashionable world, was hanged, she
came to the gallows in the peaked style
Of hat introduced by Queen Elizabeth,
which sent that kind of head gear ont OF
fashion as effectually as did Mrs. Man.
ning's black satin dress at her execution
that glossy material now again in vogue.
The bonnet worn by Queen Victoria on
the day of her accession was genuine
coal scuttle.
In some parts Of Germany, instead of
smoking meat to preserve it, it is hung
up in q dry, well-ventilated room, and
painted over with wood vinegar (pyro-
igneous acid), an acid distilled over
when wood is burned in air-tight stoves,
or any other place where there is not
free access of atmospheric air. The
painting three or four times with this
vinegar answers every purpose of smok-
ing. It protects the meat from insects,
fungi, and putrefaction.
TR fretted taste of an invalid is some
times very distressing; one dislikes to
offer anything, lest it should cause an
noyance, and it becomes necessary to
prepare all food in new and tempting
forms. Children sometimes are too i'll
nourish them if it is given in liquid form,
but if it is frozen and offered in small
pieces they enjoy it. Whole tomatoes,
too, which may always he procured in
sealed glass jars, will often relieve fever
and stimulate appetite if they are dressed
with sugar, then baked, and pressed TO-
gether like figs.
If TAKEN internally with their food,
sulphur will almost invariably keep ali
kinds of animals free from lice. We
have made O practice for years past Of
giving heaping tablespoonful once Q
week in the feed of each of our cows,
and the same quantity to about every
ten hens in our flock, and they have
never been troubled with lice in them.
It.may be given in the same proportion
rs to size when required in the food oil
poultry, pigs and sheep. Sulphur is 6
mild cathartic when desired for this pur.
pose, and in small doses seems to have g
general beneficial effect on the animal
system, something like salt, though, oi
course, not of that nature.
DURING the time of Charles III. it l,ap.
pened that on q public day celebrated
beauty was in the Cross Bath, at Bath.
and one of the crowd of her admirers
took glass of the water in which the
fair one stood and drank her health 70
the company. There was in the place q
gay fellow who offered to Jump In. and
swore, though he liked not the LIQUOR.
he would have the toast, making an al
fusion to the usage Of the times Of drink.
ing with q toast at the bottom Of the
glass. He was opposed in his resolu.
ton, Jet this whim gave foundation to
the present honor, which is done to the