The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-05-26

A LEADER in Germany says that
1.-THE German people have now only
one want. and that is money enough
to get to America
The Silrer State says that two meu
have discovered 4 whole mountain OF
iron ore in the Jackson creek noun
tains, some fifty miles northwest of
Winnemucca, New. They say the ore
when broken looks like the grain of
fractured steel, and they think it car.
ries from IS to 90 per cent. Of metal.
GEORGE H. WILLIAMS, the only re.
preventative Of the negro race in the
Ohio legislature has fallen heir to $50,
600, by which he will be able to retire
from business and politics and devote
himself to the history he is writing
covering a period from 1920 to 1890,
and entitled, Negroes as Slaves, rs
Soldiers, and as Citizens.''
PATENT medicines in England now
yield government revenue of over
$l,OOO,OOO. They were first taxed in
1873, under an act requiring venders
fseeret remedies to take out license
and pay a stamp duty. This act did
not apply, however, to any one who
had served apprenticeship to sur.
geon, apothecary. or druggist.
VINO says corporations have no
souls The Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is about to contract for So.
600 plants of various kinds to be de.
livered at the stations between Jersey
City and Philadelphia. The purpose
is to have flower beds at every station
along the route. This is delightful
contribution tn the pleasures Of tray
el.
TIE movement in Boston in favor
Of 4 worlds fair i'll that city in 1885,
is growing and strengthening. It is
proposed so use as 4 nucleus the
grounds and buildings now being pre-
pared for minor cxpositions this fall,
thus saving IN important item Of ex-
pense. A rough estimate has been
made showing that the total cost of
the enterprise would not exceed 49,
100000, and business men are conf
dent that such an investment would
be repaid, dollar for dollar.
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THE first telephone was finished
January 18th, 1915. During the sue
ceeding five years the wonderful little
instrument has come into daily use in
civilized countries, as we'll as in
Egypt, China, and other places not
usually included in the term civilized.
Only one city in the United States is
now without a telephone exchange.
There are 408 of such exchanges and
l32, ,692 instruments in the country.
Speech was recently transmitted from
Tours to Brest, 4 distance of eight
hundred miles.
THE enormous increase of general
business, as shown by the receipts of
the railways. is by no means confined
to the United Ststes. The increase
in France for the year 1880, as COM
pared with the year 1879, was $22, 800,
600, and the difference in favor of the
former years, rs compared with 1877,
was over $33,00O,OOO. A London
newspaper, referring to this subject.
says: ':Thc increasing wealth of
France is astounding, and indicates
an amount of prosperity which has
never been even approached under any
other form Of government"
a WASHINGTON dispatch says:
An amusing feature of the day was
the prompt notification of Mr.. Frye to
Captain Bassett, door-keeper Of the
Senate, that he Frye) desired the
seat now vacated by Mr.. Conkling.
Mr.. Frye is located in the outer row,
in very lonesome and undesirable
spot. Before the astonishment which
accompanied the resignation had
fairly died away on the faces of the
Senators about him, NJ: Frye bad
bargained for Mr.. Conkling's seat.
The latter is in q very commanding
position, by the main aisle, and directly
fronts the vice presidential eye.''
MR.. HALsTAD inquiries flippantly
"Why does not some able bodied
well-wisher of Lord Roscoe bend him
over chair and spank him with a
slipper!' Perhaps Mr.. II. is not il
well.wisher of his lordship. and BEING
SO, escapes an ordeal to which he
would, per force, condemn another.
Whoever undertakes this delicate
piece of work. will do we'll to bear in
mind the fact that the blonde Senator
stands full six feet in his dainty silk
stockings, and has always been con-
sidered a acknowledgement fellow
he who tackles mis- lordship must be
bold man and strong, as the story
was once current that Roscoe succeed
ed in "laying ont the redoubtable
boxer, Joe Coburn. and is as handy
with his "dukes" as with his tongue.
The May crop and stock report Of
the Ohio state board Of agriculture,
with the information based on esti-
mates made by about 1000 correspond
ents, shows that only 10 per cent. of
last years crop, or 10,378,2 289 bu. of
wheat, is still in the hands of the pro-
ducers, and that the probable yield of
the state this year, if there should be
fair average season from now till
harvest. will be about ~, ,895, ,e54 hu. OF
IS per cent of last years fine crop.
The wheat map shows that the best
wheat this year lies in the level black
soil counties Of the northwestern part