The Worthington advance., 1881-09-08
Miscellaneous.


Miscellaneous. I"
Of the greatest cities of Europe. book
producing Leipsic furnishes by fur the
largest proportion of self -murderers. Be.
tween the years 1876 md 1878 London
registered an annual average of only eighty.
five suicides for every million of inhabit-
ants; Berlin, 2S9; Vienna. 2S5; Paris, 900;
and Leipsic the enormous 1ignre of $50, at
the same rate. It will be further interest
ing to note what effect the more rigorous
application Of the socialists law will have
on this startling habit.
1t seems odd to read this, in the Ciucin-
natl Gazette, from Northern man in the
south: with the negro, the time by dsy
is employed in lolling in the shade, and by
stealing melons. and attending distracted
meetin. and tho air of these soft, still
| nights is filed with the triumphant tones
| of 'Brer Washington and 'Brer Battles as
they 'rastle in prah;' while ever and anon,
without q sound of warming, without halt
in the 'rastlc,' the weird negro melodies
float out
"Do big Bethel Church, hits bound 10 win:
Oh Lawd! grab de mo'nes'"
There is bill pending before the Geor-
gia Legislature to punish Mormon mission
aries for preaching their belief in that state.
1t seems that these missionaries have made
number of converts in the northern part
of Georgia, where there are regularly or.
ganized Mormon churches, with polygamv
omitted. In as much that the Georeia
Mormons neither teach nor practice that
offensive doctrine, the bill meets with op
position on the ground that it would inter-
fere with religious freedom.
The superintendent oiiiiails at CHICAGO
has adopted with good effect practice
which should become general throughout
the department. In all cases where COM
plaint is made by regular subscribers of de-
lay or failure to receive newspapers, that
officer pastes upon the next paper mailed
t. that address the following notice: Com
plaint is made that newspapers to this ad-
dress do not reach destination promptly.
All employees handling this package will
please see that the same is properly for
warded." In this way the evil is traced 10
its source and remedied
Concerning very disagreeable old per-
son who may have done his best to be a
Christian, but who does not seem to have
made a crowning success of it, the Con-
OreUatiCnafist remarks: HE was cross
and fretful ut home. He Was terror to
his wifean children; still he was deacon
and pillar in the church. Yet he was by
no means wholly bad. On the other hand,
he was very good everywhere except at
Monochrome, of all the places in the world
the very place which should be a little
heaven below. And, worst of all. he was
typical to certain extent, of great many
men who, though not as bad as he, never
theless stand in great need of reform in
this particular.
Sea captains arc loud in their complaints
of the adventurous fools who distinguish
themselves by crossing the Atlantic In small
boats. and are ca}ling upon ship owners to
take some action to prevent these enter
prises. from which nothing new or good is
to be obtained, since the experiment has
already been tried successfully. Every
ship master who sights small boat in mid
ocean or off coast is MORALLY obliged to
keep of for it, to see if he can aid case
Of distress, and good many captains have
lost much valuable time of late in their mis-
placed attention to the dory Little Western.
| which is now on tho sea.
In q speech to his constituents at Leeds.
Mr.. Herbert Gladstone, fourth son of the
premier. said: "One of the most satistac.
tory points in the foreign outlook is the
| increasing friendship between England and
America. If anything is any more salts
factory than the outburst of British SYM
pathy with President Garfield, it was the
manner in which he outburst was receiv-
ed in America"
Rarely, it is to be hoped, has political
prejudice, in the case Of q man whom ia.
| tions love, survived rs it appears to have
! done in the town of Dumfrie2, Scotland,
where Robert Burns lived aud where he
died. It has been proposed to erect there
suitable monument in memory of him
and III testimony of the fame which,
through him, the town has acquired; but
Burns was anything but a Tory in politics,
and hence the local Conservatives have re.
fused to give the enterprise any Of the;I
support. Stiff Scotch Churchmen, who, a.
has been appropriately said, have infinitel,
more ground, on the score of theology, fol
objection to Burns and the example he lef
to the world, have taken a widely differen
course, and are said to be among the strong.
est admirers and apologists of Burns il
Dumfries.
A person Of an inquiring mind and fail
literary style might produce an entertain
ing brochure, if his taste so inclined him
! upon the birth, development and decay OF
the masculine bow. In former days th&
pig tailed and silver hoe-buckled gallan,
swept the earth with his hat in his obeis.
ance to woman, and by the cmpressment o1
his dorsal curves expressed the profound.
est Difference and alteration. Since thai
time, however, this pleasing fashion ha.
| degenented, though a succession of mods
jerks and other galvanic actions, u:til to.
day, when bravery meets beauty, ht
snatches off his hat and looks into it, ani
goes his way in the belief that he has pait
the whole tribute of polite salution which
modern society demands Of its slaves.