The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-11-11

property in Wales because she IS tloubled
by assessors and preachers.
TfE Pope is reported to have appro.
, priated 100000 for new and critical
edition of St. Thomas Aquinas.
FANNY DAVENPORT pays 81 400 to
Anna Dickinson for her new play, and
$50 night for every performance after
it has run three weeks.
In 1868 Japan exported 1854 tons Of
coal. and 915 tons fer ships use, but in
1878 the export Of coal was 95,0G4 tons,
with 11,7S5 tons for the use of vcs-
sels
THE locomotives used on the railroads
of the United States, it is said, arc doing
the W ork OF over 90, 900, 900 horses, while
the census of 1880 aggregates horses Of
all ages at 9,0O0,000.
THERE arc now IN use in New Zealand
over 5000 reaping machines, from forty
to fifty steam plows, thirty steam har-
rows, together with over I 900 thrcshing
machines, of which 314 are worked by
steam power.
The Protestant Episcopal church has
only ,C94 communicates in the State Of
Mississippi, in which there has been a
diocese tiity-threc years. The baptisms
during the year past were 327, of which
sixty-two were adults.
ONE of the native congregations con-
nected with the Scottish United Pres
byterian mission at Old Calabar has a
regular attendance of SEQ persons. King
Ego recently occupied the pulpit in the
absence of the missionary.
KING STANLEy,t the ruler OF all the gyp-
sizes in this country, lives IN the midst of
settlement OF his people near Dayton,
Ohio. His daughter, who was to become
queen at his death, has lost her heritage
by eloping with man not gypsy.
TIE Duke of Norfolk, who is the
ruling Duke Of all England, excepting
only the royal Duke, is 33 years of age,
and is reported to have an income of
$2,0O0,000 from his ancestral property.
He is q person of no marked character or
talent.
SPAIN, it is said, consumes 2e5,0OO
tons Of iron per annum. of which only
$4,000 tons are made in the country.
There are forty-fve blast furnaces,
ofwhich sixteen only are at work, half
OF them using coke fuel and half char
coal.
MADAM BALZAC, widow OF the famous
author, and now woman 81 years of
age, has had built tor her use superb
hotel IN Paris, and will live in 1t this
winter. It is rumorcd that she
may furnish the world memoirs of her
husband
A CIRCULAR has been sent to all pas
tors of Methodist Episcopal churches,
asking them to raise twenty-five per cent
additional to what they have been rails
ing, as there arc four new bishops 10 be
provided for, and the whole support of
the episcopacy is now thrown upon the
churches.
The Protestant Episcopal Church rails
ed the past year $169,O9S for domestic
and $15s,651 for foreign missions. Of
the amount contributed for domestic
missions $28,C62 was designated for
work among the Indian sand $3.50 for
work among the colored people.
TnE American colony in Paris is
smaller than at any previous time in 20
years. 1t costs twice as much now to
live in Paris as in America in the same
style. Formerly it cost double Paris
prices in America. There IS nothing now
cheaper in France except apparel, and
only parts Of that.
LADY CRoPPER. one Of the beautiful
ladies of London, was Miss Minnie
Thornburg, of San Francisco. She is
about twenty three years of age, IS tall,
stately, slender and a blonde. One
journal put her height at six feet
three. Her features are perfect. Her
mother was called the handsomest lady
in Ohio.
PRoFssoR SPENCER F. BAIRD, of the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington, has
labored there fo1 30 years. He Is now
81 years old; employs two or three steno-
graphers for his correspondence; never
goes to theatre, or concert, or even a
lecture, because he wishes to retire early.
Hls leisure time is spent in reading story
papers.
THD highest mountain on earth, so far
rs known, is no longer Mount Everest in
the Himalayas,measuring 10000 feet,but
Mount Hercules, in the center of New
Guinea, which measures 32,7Gs feet. It
was discovered by Captain J. A. Lawso n
who mounted it to height OF 1854
feet. when he bad to return, the air being
too rare.
THE American board of commission
crs for foreign missions maintains, in va
rious parts Of the world, $50 missions
and stations, 394 American missionaries
and ITO native helpers. They have
14,675 communicates in their churches,
725 students in their theological and
training schools, and 24,04 in common
schools.
The Vatican has decided to augment
and reorganize the colleges for Asia