The Worthington advance., 1881-08-11
Miscellaneous Matters.

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ana clerk in the st. Louis post office, With
! but eighteen months Sc vice, is said to have
named them all with out prompting in thirty
| minutes with the county Of each.
The new Episcopal church Of St. Peter
Galilee, just erected by subscriptions of the
| cottage owners OF Monmouth Beach and
Seabright, near the fishing grounds known
rs Galilee, was dedicated Sunday by the
Right Rev. John Scarborough, d. D., bish-
op of the Episcopal diocese of New Jer-
sey.
An English writer complains that his
countrymen are ill., prepared for the hot
weather which has been making London
uncomfortable. He believes that the
warmth might be enjoyable if people lived
in houses constructed to keep them warm
! in winter and cool in summer, and if they
could he induced to pot on clething adapt
ed to summer heat. Moreover, it is a sad
f"ct that, even while the mercury stands
amid the nineties, Englishmen stick to
their beef. mutton, and heavy puddings,
and to their pondercus porter and stout.
A5chitect Clark. of the Washington cap
itol, will put men at work in few days to
fit up rooms in tt attic of the senate wing
OF the capitol for tae senate library. The
@a:ic" is the floor above The senate galleries.
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floor for books Of the library and to use
the two front looms Of the p:esen; library
for committee rooms. The main room Of
the librry will remain upon the third floor
and the rooms above will be reached by q
spiral iron staircase.
Says the st. Louis Republican,: In his
detail Of Indian horrors that came under
his notice MIR. Msrkly, TIE New Mexico In
| dian killer, stated that in 1867 he gave an
Indian half dollar for a ha;. rope ten feet
| in leng:h and about tte size of his little
6nge". He uEtwis,ed sc end and found
that J: was made of red, auburn and black
hair, which, from tie length Of each hair,
| was evidently that of women. He aues-
| tioned 4 the Indian: wto told bim the rope
was made from the hair OF TIE women aud
girls slain in the noun I'm Meadow mus
| sacre, for conpl;c;:y with which murt!er
John D. Lee, The Mormon, was nied and
shot a few ye1rs ago. The place where he
purchased the rope was at Paleronagote,
sixty miles from Mountain Meadow, where
| the most narrowing and brutal massacre Of
modern times occurred.
In Africa, If the damsel don't like her
husband she has no redress. Ste must
| submit Internationally to his will. When
ste arrives =; his home. she is placed un.
| der Ire care o; one of the head wives, who
tells her all she must 90, aud unfvlds to
her all the good and bad quail lies Of her
husband. If she still manifestsa dislike
for him, it becomes duty for the older
wives to comfort her all they can. If she
will not be leconciled: md continues stub
born. she 3 whipped by ole Of the other
wives. and thus made to submit to the
| authority of her 10, d and master. It is un-
necessary to observe. perhaps, that this
course of discipline results in making her
good and obedient wife.
Among the weather phenomena of the
season not the lea st striking are the recent
thunde, storms along tte Hudson river.
| They are described as terrific" and "ap-
palling, terms which are especially cgni-
fcant when used in ree;on familiar with
such sights and sounds. TIE accompany
ing hailstones as usual varied in size fro y
that OF q bean to that o; hens egg, accord
ing to the Imagination or impressibility OF
the observer. More or less damage taa
been done by the storms. The effect on
the river itself was remarkable. The vivid
and continuous play Of the lightning so fa1
blinded the pots in some cases that thu
steamboats, had to be stopped. These and
other phenomena will be variously ascribed
to the comets and to Veunor.