The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-05-12

Her first duty will be to atfix her sig
nature to five thousand certificates OF
membership.
\ HERD Of forty came]s belong to a
Frenchman living in Nevada. Thirty.
seven OF them were born in that state.
They are to be used this summer in
carrying goods from the terminus of
the Carson and Colorado railroad to
camps far out in the wildern ess.
Or Nathan Spinney, Il veteran of
the war Of 1912, who died in York
county, Me-, few days ago, aged
ninety years, it is related that he
never had a physicinn until his last
illness, and every day for sixty.five
consecutive years was able to do a
full days work.
PROFESSOR CHANDLER reports to
the New York board of health that
oleomargerine is superior in all re-
spects to the poorer grades of dairy
butter, that there is nothing objection.
able in its material or manufacture,
and there is no need of legislation to
protect public health.
THE most gushing diplomatic adj
dress to which President Garfield has
listened was that Of the new Spanish
minister, who alluded to this country
as "the splendid and fortunate land
of America, which was dreamed of for
the service of God, and human pro.
gress by the greatest of all Spanish
women.
THE highest prices for yearling
theroughbreds ever realized at sale
in the United States were those at
Belle Meade farm, near Nashville,
where General Harding offered thirty
fine animals at auction. A brother
to Luke Blackburn brought $500,
and q brother to Glideiia $4,000.
In glass case in the Winder mu-
scum there is 4 section of an oak
which stood inside the rebel entrench.
ments near Spottsylvania Court
House, Va, which was cut down by
musket balls. To know just how
many shots were required to accom-.
plish this might be an interesting
problem to figure upon. Another
curious relic of the late war are two
minnie balls fired from the opposing
forces, and which met in mid-air.
They were tiattened, and are as firmly
united us if they had been welded
together. They were found near St.
Petersburg, Va.
DIR. J. L. LArG1ILIN. Instructor in
political economy at Harvard is engag'
ed in the preparation of of 'sHistory
of Bimetallism in the United States,'
which will cover the monetary hist.
Ory from 1902 to the present day; sc
far as it affects the double standard
The aim will be to present in accessi.
BILE shape, in the text or by notes and
references to other works, all the
facts and statistics bearing on the
subject. For the periods after 1884
there is 40 lack of mat erial; but for
the period between 1892 and 1884
there are difficulties rising from i'm.
perfect quotations of silver.
Mrs. MOTTAsuED, of Hamilton
Ont, had long been sufferer from
various diseases which had kept her
in bed for eight months. She read a
little book by Il Buffalo lady, entitled
The Prayer Faith.' Having done
this she wrote to the author, and en-.
gagged with her to join in prayer at I,
certain time. At nine o'clock on /,
certain evening Mrs. Mottashed felt
suddenly invigorated. She leaped
from her bed, arranged her pillows,
and walked across the room. It is
gravely stated that this not romance,
but that Il number of prominent
Hamilton people stand ready to attest
the genuine character of Mrs. Motta.
sheds restoration to health and vigor.
THE government is wrestling with
the question of its right to inspect ex-
ports. It has been unsettled since the
government began. Inasmuch as we
impose duties on imports they are
inspected; since we do not impose
duties on exports they are not. The
treasury department., however, pub
fishes from time to time statistics of
our exports as we'll as of our imports.
The former, like census statistics. are
complied on declaration. A party
supposed to know says that certain
boxes and bales contain certain goods,
and they are set down in the export
statistics. Statistics Of imports, are,
of course, accurate, because they are
derived from facts obtained by actual
inspection. The attempt to straighten
out this perplexing question grows
out of the growth of the trade in oleo.
margarine and butter. Had this trade
not sprung up it might have gone I'm.
decided indefinitely.
Mr.. TuKE, writing to the London
Times on the Irish troubles, shows
that the emigration from Ireland,
which embraced 95,857 persons in
l8SO-a number only twice exceeded
since l05l-is not of the kind most
likely to benefit the island. OF the
total number of emigrants OF the last
year, 52,l7S were between twenty-five
and thirty-fve, or, i'll other words,
q seventy-five per cent. were in the
flower Of life. Nor is this all. While
Connaught, where poverty is most
rife, contributed 2O,549, prosperous
Ulster contributed 28,5l0; and, com.
ing to the counties, although during
last winter 10000 persons in Donegal
were in receipt Of daily ratiOnS. Only