The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-12-28
Personal Mention.

Bill Nye is not q Mormon. He gives
out as his platform, Zone country, one
flag, and one wife" Bill says he ''has
never pined to make the maj riage regis
ter ofhis family Bible look like . hotel
register"
Philadelphia News: Mn. Pierre Lor-
lizards ball this week Wilt Be attended
by I've hundred people, # they c9,ews to
come. The gentlemen will wear plug
hats, most of the ladies' will have fine cut
feathers. and the hostess will have sev-
eral female friends to hacker.
Gainbetta has received from English
men an offer of s., 500 for the pistol-bul-
let. which he, the other day had the ill.,
luck 70 shoot into his own arm, but he is
counseled by his friends to keep the lead
en- pellet in q glass case ON his mantelpiece
as = warning to be more careful with fire.
arms in the future.
A woman Of St. Louis who had in tho
course of thirty years contrived TO save
81, 100 from her scaRty earnings - .
seamstress, lost the whole Of it ON tho
street Saturday evening. The roll was
found by q telegraph messenger, who
saw the woman's advertisement OF her
loss in Sunday papers, and took it to her,
She gave him $50 aud her soul-fe't
thanks.
Il remarkable escape was that OF Cot1dy
Royle, 4 deserter from the United States
army, who feaped from third story
window of the recruiting station at Phil
adelphia, where he had been locked UP
and chained to an iron bedtead. He
took with him his chain of thick, heavy
links. apd q portion Of the beadste2d,
weighing at least fourteen pounds. NO
trace of him has been found.
A young woman named Nettio Reed
la, dying in Butte. Montana. few days;
ago. Her life had not been pure. She:
had accumulated considerable property
in her Maynard course and desired that;
it should not fall into the hands of her
relatives in the east, who had spurned
her since che went astTay. She called
q justice of the peace and saf1 she
wished to be married to Andrew Hem
merly, her only friend. that he might
inherit her property after her death
Andrew, burly fellow, stood by the
bedside Of the dying gill and they were
married.
Queen Victoria does not think it too
great a condescension for royalty to
compete for prizes at fairs. She has re-
Gently won at the 81 mingham Cattle and
Agricultural SOciety's exhibition, pre-
MUM of $50 for short horn Hereford
from her Windsor farm. She will take
the prize in the form of . cup of that
valle, and has asked to be allowed to
select personally one from number Of
designs of cups.
Serpa Pinto, the famous explorer, re-
1ates the following ludicrous incident of
his travels in Sou.h Africa, At point,
on the Zalnbesf River he met DR.. Brad
shaw, and English naturalist, who was
reduced to the greatest misery, and had
nothing but rags, and very few OF those,
to cover his nakedness. So IneazTe was.
his wardrobe that he presented himself
in his drawers 10 Serpa Pinto, to whom,
however, with true British formality. l,ez
handed his card, engraved in London
before saluting him.
Another good fellow has gone wrong.
Robert s. Champion, for the past five
years caahie- and paymaster ofthe Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, 10 short
in his accounts. His sood-fellowship
proved to be to costly to be kept up on
= mere salary. It mad to be paid for
somehow, tEozgh, and the cssl.-box Of
the company by which. he was employed
being the handiest sour . Of supply, he
appropriat d that. He has gone among
total strangers to begin life anew and
ply Ills trade Of the good fellow. He
did not leave his new address with his
former employers. They are very anx
ious to obtain it.