The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-06-24

EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY.
xes S,d Doctor r. IL BABY gu
I will not call her Poll or Sal.
No, nothing else but Kate.
Ny sainted aunt was called the same:
Ny love for It is great;
Yes, doctor, that must be her name
She shall he christened Kate.
What Twins? Good gracious, how they squaLl
Doctor, bemoan my fate
Both girls ?-wel], well, I still can call
Them Kate and Dnph-Kato.
A LITTLE 5-year-old friend, who was
always allowed to choose the prettiest
kitten for his pet and his playmate, be.
fore the other nurslings were drowned.
was taken to his mothers sick-room the
other morning to see two tiny, new twin
babies. He looked refectively from one
to the other for a minute or two. then.
poking his chubby finger into the cheek
Of the plumpest baby, he said, decidedly,
"Save this one"
BUNKER Hill monument is 221 feet
high, and is built of hewn Quincy gran
ite. The corner stone was originally
laid by Lafayette, on the fiftieth anni-
versary of the battle, June II, 1926, but,
like the corner stone of the Washington
monument he laid in Washington
square, Philadelphia, afterward, moth
ing sprang from it. In March, 1927,
another corner stone was laid on Breeds
hill, and for several years the work
fingered along until the ladies took it
up. They raised subscriptions, and got
Fanny Ellsler to give a benefit in aid Of
the fund. Thus supplied with money,
the managers erected the monument
and completed it July 2, 1870.
He had been sitting still so long
that the mother expected to find
him asleep when she looked around and
asked, "Well, Harry, what are you
thinking OFF" "Ma, are we very rich?"
he solemnly inquired, by way Of reply.
In one way we are," she said; " your
father says he values me at 100000,
you ut 81, 600, 900, and the baby at ST.
600, 1000" That closed the conversation
on that subject, but next morning, as
Harry was getting on his overcoat, he
examined the new patch that had been
added, and coolly observed, "Well, I
think father had better sell off about
half of you or the whole of the baby.
and buy the rest Of us some decent buds
to put on"
INsECTs.-The potato beetle has be-
come such an abundant and troublesome
pest that it should be given no quarter
not even from the start. BY combined
effort in the early portion of the season
the " bugs" may be kept in check and
thus do very little damage. Paris green
has been SO long and successfully en-
ployed that it is scarcely necessary to
explain its mode of application. Suffice
it to say that the liquid method is the
one now generally practiced- that is, mix
the paris green with water and sprinkle
it upon the vines. A coffee-pot may be
converted into a sprinkler by providing
the spout with an extension and rose at
the end. The only source of danger is
the careless handling, and the poison
should be kept and used with full
knowledge of its nature.
The word month is derived from
moon, and accurately means the time
taken by the moon in passing through
its regular phenomena-from one full
moon to another, or from one new moon
to another. It was naturally the easiest
division of time to make, and was used
the world over by all barbarians. The
next great division of time was the year
or return OF the seasons. But twelve
lunations are not enough and thirteen
are too many to make o year, so various
expedients were used by Assyrians.
Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, Romans and
Chinese to patch the calendar. Julius
Caesar reformed it altogether, and our
July is named for him as August ia for
Augustus Caesar. It cannot be said TINT
anybody ever discovered that time was
reckoned wrong, or that anyone ever
rectifed it as he might barrel Of high
wines. Chronology was always loosely
kept. Events we're recorded as "in the
blank year Of the reign Of King Tumble-
bug" Official documents still keen Il
up, statutes in England being known.
tor r. example. e. !: IA VI. Xieteris meaning
Of her reign, and even in this country.
proclamations are dated in the vaex
=: !. q ths independe noe o6 the
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