The Worthington advance., 1882-09-07
Things I'm General.

Anybody who doubts the superiority
Of women over men should witt . SUN.
mer resort and be convinced. While
woman will appear in new glory Of
adornment three, four, five and nix
ioll around {rom s morning sS '" iii nis6t in ~ =
pair OF old trousers, baseball shoes.
woolen shirt, slouch hat and q nasty old
pipe, without having the life to make
tho least change Of toilet. All, yes, wo-
man II superior to man, my friend, and
don't you disremember it.
The state Of New Hampshire has had
thirty.eight governors in the past 100
years, and their average age when elect
ed was fifty.three years. The youngest,
Lew Woodbury., was thirty-four years
OLD when chosen, in 1873. The two old
est were each seventy.
The Salt Lake Tribune claims to be in
daily receipt of letters from country
towns in Utah and Idaho announcing
p0lygamOus marriages.. The hw-break-
ers sneak into Salt Lake with their wo-
men, 60 through the endowment house,
and sneak home again with their new
concubines. The commissioners appoint
ed under the Edmund's bill arrived in
Salt Lake last Friday and were welcomed
by large crowd of citizens. A public
reception was given them in Waller's
open house.
A Chicago newspaper reporter who
was walking along the road in the neigh
borhood Of Concord. over which the f.
nous Jumbo had just passed, observed
the footprints of the huge animal in the
mud, and taking out his notebook en-
tered i'm it the following memorandum
ofa society item for the journal with
which he was Connected: ut IL under
stood that Miss b., of St. Louis, who
eloped fortnight ago, IL making . pc.
destrian tour of New Hampshire"
An extraordinary variety of fruits is
for sale in the markets of San Francisco.
The Bulletin enumerates the following
as to be seen in the fruit stores: apples,
peaches, apricots, pears. plums, prunes,
Ro%;es.na;tess n;e nna s:;.S e'96 70. apples, lemons
pineapples, nectarines, bananas, canta-
blackberries, grapes, strawberries, wa
termelors. and nutmeg and muskmel-
On6.
An incessant downpour Of rain for ten
successive days has done incalculable
damage to the crops in many parts Of
Germany. In some districts the harvest
is completely ruined. The grain crops
of all descriptions, which by this time
should have been nearly all harvested,
lie rotting in the fields. The disaster is
all the greater and more disappointing,
since for seventy years past Germany
harvest as that of the present year.
The Warsaw papers chronicle decid-
edly curious case-t!lat ofa prisoner con-
victed of perjury and sentenced to exile
to Siberia, who, being let out on bail to
wind up his affairs, straightway disap-
peared. Nothing was heard OF him till
q letter arrived from Tobolsk, announc-
ing that he had travelled thither at his
own expense in order to avoid the ia
tigae and disgrace of a Journey with 9TH
er convicts, and had given himself up to
the authorities.
The range of small arms has increased
to such an extent in late years that the
English war Office has found it necessary
to change the practice grounds in sever
al instances. Not long ago all the rifle
butts on Hounslow Heath q soldier acci-
dentally discharged his piece 1T con-
siderable elevation. The squad was FIR
ing at the 1000 yards range and the
bullet. flying over the targets, passed
completely through the two-and-a- half
inch oak door Of a gentleman's house
$500 yards from where it started.
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