The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-11-09
MiscellaneOl, 8 Matters.

While a workman ut Pueblo, COL,
was dressing block Of stone his chisel
laid bare, near the surface of the block,
round stone, which presently dropped
out of the cavity in which it rested, dis
closing on its under surface, which the
chisel had not touched. the perfect mod
Ell OF human face. The local press sup
posed it to be the head Of an image which
was once worshped by some prehistoric
race. The stone had been taken from
the quarry at point eight feet below
the surface.
Near Asch .ffenburg, in Bavaria, is
small community which enjoys an envi-
Gus prosperity. 1t is the owner of rich
clay pit which yields so large an income
as to obvlate the necessity of imposing
commercial taxes, and also enables the
selectmen to pay 100 marks every year
to each adult inhabitant. Some vears
ago, when the town built bridge across
the Main that cost 200, 600 marks, there
was given to each adult 10 marks, and to
each school child SO pfennigs on the day
the bridge was formally opened.
y "A Connecticut thread manufacturing
company had planned to exhibit at the
Boston fair the old fashioned way of
spinning and weaving cotton in the south,
but have struck an unlocked for snag.
Their Georgia agent writes them: II
had arranged to have one negro man and
four negro women 60 to the Boston
fair to spin and weave, and should
have been there now, but some fool cir
culated Story that they would be sold
when l got them to Boston, and all thun-
lnr 1,.:t t1,nr To <l,o
;tary." .... ..
The dimensions of the Union arch of
the Washington aqueduct, it would ap-
pear, exceed those of any of the cele-
DRAFTED engineering structures which are
commonly pointed to as wonderful
achievements in masonry. The entire
span is 220 feet or 20 feet in excess of
the span of the famous Chester arch
across the Dee in England; 6S feet longer
than the central arch Of London bridge,
80 feet longer than the noted bridge
over the Seine at Neuilly, and 100 feet
longer than the arches of the Waterloo
bridge oyer the Thames. The height Of
the Washington arch is 1Ol feet.
The lumber business of Puget Sound
W. T., is immense, and the distribution
is very wide. In one day, recently, YES.
sells were seen loading for Boston, San
Francisco, Valparaiso, the Sandwich Isl.
ands, Vallejo, Mexico, Japan, China.
France, England and Australia. The ex-
port in 1881 was about 172, 600 900 feet,
valued at Sl,7O0,OO0. Some of the logs
are immense. Many measure FIVE feet
in diameter. From one tree lately cut
there were sawn two logs of 50 and 2
and two Of 80 feet, in all l18 feet in
length. The top of the tree measured
81 inches across. "'''
An English diamond-merchant is ne
gotiating for the purchase oflhe famous
gem known as ''The Regent" the bright
est jewel in the world, and one of the
French crown jewels. Some century
and 9 half ago it was bought from an
Englishlnan for G125, 900. The price
now asked for it is nearly four times
that amount. and the party now bidding
for it has offered, it is said, G4OO, 600.
For whom he is bidding no one knows.
In Patrick county, Va, where the
dearth Of provisions recently excited
public attention, there was sold on the
18th inst, at public auction, /, 1872 acres Of
land having on it several settlements
and apple orchards, at about s. per acre.
On the same day there were sold at auc-
ton eleven tracts of land in the same
county, containing respectively from 60
to 3OO acres, on several of which there:
are settlements and orchards and indi.
cation of iron ore, the whole Being about
i'SU acres, at an average of about one
dollar per acre, ii; .--. -!