The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-06-08
Facts and FalcieS.

o'o~esA W A4uS % AAS A'AoAhAo NAO
the most unintellectual people have
met in America.
Mr.. Labouchere advises his readers to
look after their spoons. The following
well known advertisement has appeared
again in London: Mrs. T. very unhap-
py in not hearing from Mrs. NJ. Jones,
was in hopes to have seen her at the
beginning of the new year. Been very ill.,"
1t is said that its appearance has never
failed to herald a successful robbery.
Somebody got possession of the chime
of bells in New England church not
long ago, and summoned the congrega-
ton to worship by playing one Of the
jolliest of opera bouffe airs. As the good
people of that church never 60 to the
theater, they naturally mistooE the piece
for new Sunday.school tune.
Some of the heirs of the Springer es-
tate, which comprises large portion OF
the city Of Wilmington, DEL, held Sc
cret meeting at Fort Wayne, Ind, We'd
nesday night. 1t is stated that they re-
ceived an offer of $SO,OO0,OOO to COM
promise, which they will accept. There
are 600 persons among whom the sum
will be divided il accepted.
There was man in this town this
week with patent lock for sale, and to
demonstrate its superiority over all 9TH
ers he would pick any kind of lock ina
few seconds. Sheriff Gordon put him in
irons to test his ability, and he unlocked
the handouts and shackles with small
piece of iron. as soon as the sheriff could
have done it with the keys. He was SO
nrt that tho ovl ,eo1o1 60
babe his giving public exhibitions of lock-
picking.
The difference between snobs, accord
ing to the New York Post, is that in
America the snob looks down on others,
while in England he looks up to others,
and tries whimperingly to climb up
where they are. Away out west snob
is a fellow who wears "clean billed
Shirt" and uses a pocket handkerchief
and a tooth brush. Evidently snob is
a very variable factor, but he is equally
disagreeable everywhere. Perhaps the
best definition in this latitude is given by
the Springfield Union: A fellow who
SYSTEMATICALLY parades himself as little
better than his neighbor, while his NOR
al and intellectual backing is obviously
deficient.
\ writer in the London Lancet gives
the following statistics of travel: OIL
;1;4, GA persons who left Europe for
New York between 1870 and 1880, 2,5l9
died in transit, the average duration of
passage being IL days - hours. OF H.
S74 persons who embarked on Is ships
in 1850, 81 died. One ship, CARRYING l.
::;;3l emigrants, lost IL in the course of Il
IL days voyage. All were submitted to
medical examination, and passed as
healthy at the start. The figures Seem
to show that in crossing the ocean man
is about hundred times more likely TO
lose his life by disease than by ship
wreck.
Another noise is to be added to the
many which make the streets of Paris
hileous by highland day. Hitherto the
approach of steam fire engine has been
announced by the sound of Il small
trumpet much resembling those used on
the tramway cars. The authorities, in
order to avoid the confusion arising
out of the similarity between the two
sounds, have adopted a new kind of
trumpet Of doubled-distilled screeching
power, which, fit does nothing else,
will eftectua1ly brighten the horses it en-
counters into fits.
In Lock, a part of Alaska where the
natives still keep the ir old laws in force,
I'LL the members of a family supposed to
he in the service of Satan were recently
condemned to death by a native tribun-
al. In execution of the sentence thew
were tied to trees, by etiquette the grand
mother was first cruelty tortured by the
mob; when she asked for drink she
was g vcn salt water; finally she was cut
to pieces with knives; the rest of the
family escaped and reached Fort Wran-
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