The Worthington advance., 1882-02-23
Qualification OF his conduct on tho occasion for
which he has been 20 many years under =
Things In General.


The coinage of tue United States mint
during March was $13, SIG.
There are thirty-four men in Buffalo
whose property respectively amounts t
from $25O;U00 to So, sou, 900.
When you go to Wisconsin, be sure ant
do not invite friend to take smile.
The total recognized debt Of Mexico i!
$l42, l6l 1869. The sister republic is oc
casionally given to the practice Of "readjust
ing ler outstanding obligations.
John Ruskin is not in favor of universe
suffrage. On being asked to deliver IN ad'
dress Oh woman suffrage, he replied tha
he was not only opposed to extending thu
franchise to women, but was in favor ol
taking the right from most men.
There are now on file at the navy depart.
men l2G applications for the position uf US.
sistant paynlaster in the navy. and not {
single vacancy.
The San Francisco Journal Of Commerce
analyzing our trade with foreign countries
during last year, emphasizes the fact tha
I'VE export to the Sandwich Islands more
merchandise and produce than to any otAe1
foreign country outside of Great Britain
and China, while the Society islands, un.
important as they are on the worlds map
take from us more tlan does The great Ger
man Empire, with its forty millions Of peo.
pie"
The c,,stodianship of the gold pantry al
Windsor Castle, just rendered vacant b,
the death of MIR. Goring, is an Office OF
great trust, us may be inferred from the fact
that when the queen entertained the EN-.
peror of Russia, shortly after the marriage
Of the Duke of Edinbnrg, gold plato to, tlle
value of some $40: G''0 ,OOU wis llset. At a
rough guess, the royal gold and silver ser.
vices at Windsor palace are probably worth
about 10000
The largest excess Of males over females
in our population is in Montana, where il
is l58 per cent. and the smallest excess is
in Mississippi, the per centage being four.
tenths. Kentucky's male population is onl,
two per cent. larger than her female popu.
lation. In Arizona it is 1870 per cent. E,rgef
In Nevada 1913 per cent. larger. Girls arc
needed badly in all the Western territories
Fully seven thousand f,-;~,ns are report
ed to have visited the steam ship Partisan al
Boston, to inspect her accommodations for
the transportation of gnin and fresh meat.
The huge refrigerator in which the meat
cargo is carried required in its construction
$4,000 1eet Of lumber, IL kegs of nails,
and G,O0O feet of three quarter inch hair
felt: 1t has q capacity for l 200 quarters Of
beef. and will require twcnty-f tons Of
ice for the trip. The beef was slaughtered
in Chicago, and carried to Boston ON 4
train of twelve cold blast refrigerator cars.
Travellers lin Egypt are surprised at the
large amount OF ophthalmia and blindness
prevalent among the Inhabitants. Want Of
cleanliness is the cause. An Egyptian
mother, under the influence of widely
prevalent superstition, does not wash her
childs eyes until eight days after birth. BY
that time the organ is frequently ruined
The teachers in the American and British
mission schools Of Cairo say that Egyptian
mothers become invariably angry when
urged to wash the eyes of their newly born
Infants, and can rarely be persuaded to
comply with request OF the kind
Cardinal Manning recently issued instruc-
tons in England that all tho congregation S
be requested to observe the customary three
days truce of st. Patrick" This is 4
foreign idea not yet imported fntclthe United
ell States. It means that Irish Catholics
will voluntarily blind themselves to abstain
from all intoxicating drinks on the eve Of
the national festival OF llelands patron saint,
Gu the feast day itself and the succeeding
day, and thai during this Interval they will
not enter houses where such dl;utls are
sold
A history almost as sad and romantic as
that Of Romeo and Juliet is attached to
Green Mount. the we'll known cemetery at
Baltimore, Md. The property was once
owned by John Oliver. II wealthy English
merchant. His only child Il beautiful girl
OF twenty, waa loved by young man whose
only unttncss to become her husband lay
IN the fact that q personal feud existed be-
tween him and the girls stern father. They
met clandestincly and planned an elope-
ment The father found it out, and gave
orders to his servants 10 patrol the grounds
by night and shoot all trcspassers. Dis
gnised in mans clothing the girl attempted
to escape, and was shot dead at the gnte.
Grief stricken, her father erected mauso-
leum upon the spot, and decided the entire
property to the city for cemetery.