The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-09

CURRENT TOPICS.
THERE are $50 Christian churches in
Burmah, mostly Baptists.
OF the 10000 inhabitants of Quebec,
$4,000 are Roman Catholic.
THERE are number of vacant puipits
in the Baptist churches of California.
GREEN SMITH, the son Of Gerritt Smith,
left 100000 worth OF property, almost
all to his wife.
THE Lutherans of Nebraska expect to
gain $4,000 members by Scandinavian
emigration to that State.
The city OF Paris has accepted the
models Of the 139 statues If celebrated
Parisians by different sculptors which
were ordered for the new HotelGe Vile
IT is likely that Mr.. Lawrence Barrett
will appear on the London stage next
summer. His three daughters and their
mother sailed for Europe a few days ago,
and the young ladies will enter school
At Stuttgart.
INDIA, Ceylon and Africa arc direct
ly interested in the recent expedition to
northern Asia, resulting IN great i'm
petus given the fossil ivory trade. The
superior quality Of Indian and African
ivory, however, will always gain it a
preference for certain classes of goods.
There arc several tlourishing schools
in China conducted by American teach
ers, and through the translation depart
ment of the empire more than $4,000
volumes of translated works in science,
art, etc, have been sold. In the schools
of this country 100 Chinese youths are
receiving instruction.
AFTER "Pinatore' had been played in
Boston $50 times the 'Idcal' Company
was formed and crowded the great Bos-
ton theatre for a period OF seven weeks
to the enormous receipts Of $4,000
The smallest weeks receipts were $685.
700! The expenses of the company are
positively over 81, 200 per night.
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EDWIN BooTH has presented to DR..
Ghislani Durant Of New York, very
elegant cup of solid silver, manufactured
to order by Tiffany & Co. It is inlaid
with gold and lavishly ornamented with
repouse work. The cup cost $1,000, and
is testimonial OF gratitude to the ply
stefan for curing the actor of the danger
GUS disease known as the "black tongue"
with which he was some time ago at
acked.
OWEN BROWN, son of old John Brown,
who was participant in that famous
affair at Harper's Ferry, which cost his
father his life, lives alo2e upon an island
in Lake Erie, where Jay Cooke had a
famous summer residence, near the scene
of "Perry's Victory HIS brother John
lives near him, on Put-in-Bay island,
where he farms and fishes, and is the
head Of family. One brother was
killed in Kansas, and two at Harper's
Ferry.
PROSPERITY and profit arc rcwaldins
the farmers in eastern North Carolina for
the adoption Of the double crop system
Farms arc reported as having doubled
in value, and atfording employment for
all available labor. The double crop
consists, first, of peas and potatoes,
planted in February, and marketed in
April and May; second, OF cotton, plant
ed in the same soil, and maturing in
November. Last springs pea crop aver.
aged SIS per acre, net: hepotatoe crop,
IN many instances, realized 500 per
acre.
The population Of Chilli but little ex-
ceeds 100000, yet she possesses capital
of $666,00O,000, nearly one-quarter of
that amount being invested in banking.
The CHILEAN mines at one time consti.
tuted the chief source of revenue, but in
later years that honor has been divided
with the agricultural industries. Dur
ing the years 1s44'7s Chill exported
$G72, 100000 worth of agricultural and
mineral produce. There has been a
gradual decline in Chilian prosperity
since 1S74-'75, but change for the bet
ter WAS visible when the war broke out
with consequences naturally fatal.
An amusing anccdote concerning cx-
Gvernor Bishop, Of Ohio, is told in Cleve-
land. 1t is related that arrangements
were made one evening during the recen:
fair to serenadc the president of the
State Board Of Agriculture, and that func-
tlonary had collected his thoughts for
presentation and was about to appear on
the balcony and address the band and the
crowd, when Mr.. Bishop drove up to the
hotel with several friends. The ex-
Governor, with the calmness of a great
man, took the sercnade to himself, anu
rising i'll the carriage bowed gracefully
and responded in a characteristic speech.
The band dispersed, the Ex-Governor
retired, and the poor agricultural
presidents speech was never made.
MIR. THOMAS HUGHES was exceedingly
interested in observing the fashion of CO.
education as he saw it at Swarthmorc
College the other day. He closed his
address with few sentences on the SUBJ
ject which may perhaps seem unreason.
able to the thoughtless boys in those COL
leges which clamor loudest against CO.
education. II cannot help, feeling j" said