The Worthington advance., 1881-08-11
AbOut Various PeOnle.

It is affirmed by his friends in Boston
that the report that Archibald Forbes is in
feeble health and has given up lecturing
for = twe)vemoath is entirely incorrect; that
MIR. Forbes is rapidly imp owing in health,
and t1at he will come 10 America in the
autumn to fulfil the engagements already
made for him.
Ex-Vice President Wilson's personal
effects brought small prices a: their public
sale a few days since. An autograph al
bum with 200 names of famous men was
bought by ex-Gov. Claim ter Sl.5O; Will
sons autograph lecture on slavery, So; Hor-
ace Marn's pocket knife, $3.50; and pic
tare of Gen. Grar :: Is cents.
Enr';sh critics deny Mr.. Richard Grant
Whi,e's assertion that the. practice Of cary
ing concealed firearms under the coat skirts
is quito as common in their country as in
America. and say English tailors will be
surprised to learn that they are in the habit
of asking their customers Whether they
will have pistol pockets" in their trousers.
An amusing ircident in tue life Of the
late JrdSe Hiram Warner, Of Georgia, is
related BY Marietta, Georgia. paper. It
was in the early settlement Of Marietta,
when log cabin in the middle of the
square answered 70: q court house and no
Of court noisy, rude fellow kert disturb
ing the court, when Judge Warner ordered
the sheriff 10 arrest him and put him in
JAIL" The judge. replied:-"Take hi N
two rails for three hours" The sheriff
did as ordered, put the prisoners neck
between two fence rails. and then got up
on1 cot m hn fonno Afkor Sov,no t;n,o lo
JUDGE inquired for the sheriff. He was
told that he was guarding the prisoner.
The judge smiled, brit never interfered,
aud the prisoner for three long hours
remained yoked by fence rails.
An Ohio girl takes the cake" on big feet.
A shoe factory in Albany has received q
diagram of the foot of Miss Mary Wells of
Sandusky, who placed her bare foot on a
sheet of P per fo- the purpose. This foot,
as shown 3y The H. gram, is exactly II inch.
es long, Z SO inches vice q; the widest
part, and could take No. &c boot, though
No. so would be jus; She tb;ng The ball
of the foot is juss 19 inches around, instep
18 IL inche,: and The heel measures %
inches. The ankle measures l6 IL inches.
Miss Wells weighs 100 pounds, and she is
but II years old.
A socie:y IS now forming in England, to
introduce tfe participation system of
manufacturing, in which share Of the net
profits of an undertaking is allotted to the
workmen in addition to their wages paid at
the full market rate. No less than one
andred firm, on Continental Europe are
now worked on t',is plan, With universally
good results. This society will seek to at
tain objects by collecting and publishing
detailed information on TIE subject With
which 3 operations are concerned. The
leader of thi ' movement is M. Sedley 1'ay-
lor, Trinity College, Cambridge. England.
to whom a. applications must be ad-
dressed.
Oltie physical cond::;i :;iol o; Mr. Glad
stone, NJ. Laborchere says in tire London
Truth; Il doubt whether ihe bard work ia
really telling on bim. He has 30 wondroua
an amount of intellectual energy that what
would PROSTATE most nen is to him but
healthful exercise. When. the other day,
he vas laid up aud ordered bv his medical
advisers to remain in perfec; quiet, his idea
of rest was TO take tie rev version of the
New Testament and to collate it with the
Greek. While sitting in the house of COM
mons during the land-b;ll discussions he
seems to take positive pleasure in pulver-
izing his opponents, anu this Re foes al
easily a. though trey wele f;es. Heis only
annoyed when no progress IL being made
and when the time is being frivoloqsly
wasted"