The Worthington advance., 1882-01-19
Facts and i'aIlt.ies,

The sapacity Of lawyers has received a
fresh illustration in the contest over the
will of F.. r. Christy, the negro minstrel
lie left property valued at $500 900, but It
has all gone excerta few thousand dollars,
INTO the capacious pockets Of the a.tor-
noys.
1t seeMs a trltle anomalous that the lnenl-
teiship of the GRAND Army Posts should
be Increased instead ct !essened by lapse
ct time. III Massachusetts :.,Ul0 acces-
n1ons have been noted during the past year.
ia Ohio the nuuberg have increased from
1900 to 5000 members. Even in Kansas ali
ing been organized since July.
Portland to day contains 1900 people.
and has 4 Wholesale trade extending into
every portion of Tie Northwest, and only
limited by lack Ut railroad communication
from doubling its scope. The jobhers here
carry stocks Of groceries. TRY goods, and
hardware Of but little less magnitude than
those carried by San Francisco houses.
! Mr.. Charlee dudley Warner is now in the
south Of France, and has been eating straw
berries in Avignon. TO be sure, "ho Whites,
"they-aro The small, peedy, Swiss variety
tf which it taEee a great many to make a
| mOuthfui. But Il StnWberrV is u straw
berry in lltefntnre az we'll as on the table,
and come in of winter morning from q
walk in the aboun.ling sun with hand full
Of rosee and See on the breakfast table even
the hunblest strawberry. is more pleasing
than stalled o1 aud snow Ia New Enp-
and"
! The German official report Of the Franco
German war has at last been completed iu
twenty volumes. The last volume declares
that the chief object OF the campaign was
h1 x,2 (f,1 n
achieve that obi oct the Germans mad, in
nlense sacrifice IT, The money l,sses can
not be computed, but some idea OF the
number of lives sacra:iced may be obtained
from the figures published. though probab-
] ~ below the truth. They SHOW inc total
loss 70 be C,247 officers. doctors, and army
officials, and l24, ,453 private soldiers. It
was dear price to pay for empire.
The Christmas mail, delivered by the
carriers in New York city, WAS enormous,
| and over taxed tho: we'll disciplined force.
! Over l5O, 900 Christmas cards were delivered
and the intervention Of Sunday and half
holiday collected tons of business letters,
Sc the carriers ha1 At least 100000 letters
to begin will, yesterday morning. Several
Of the carriers took as many az 200 letters
cries day Travelled about twenty live miles
each.
Sir Garnet Wolseley, liz letter to Mr..
| Masset. says: Il am one Of those v ho
have always felt that anything great done
! by our cousins on the other side Of the At
'antic is. u family achievement. I only
| wish more Americans would come here.
and more Englishmen travel in the United
States; for l am certain that We have only
to know one another we'll, to Join hands on
all occasions. as members of the same clan,
the same family. II all the English speak
ing provinces in the world were Joined to-
gether in one confederation, no Bismarck
or king dare tire a shot in any part Of the
world"
Ordinarily there are Gfty-two Sundays in
year, just as many as there are weeks.
The coming year, however, will contain
| afty- three Sundays Already dur
ing the nineteenth century we have had
fourteen years that have had fifty three
! Sundays apiece, and there ale to be four
more, including 1882, making q total Of
eighteen. They are as follows: 1904.
! 1909, 1916, 1920, 1926, 1882, 1887, 1743.
1848, 1854, 1860, 1865, 1876, 1876, 1882.
1888. 1893. and 1899. Ten of them an.
pear at intervals of six years, aud seven Of
them appear at periods Of 6ve years, They
are every year that begins on Sunday and
! each leap year which. begins on Saturday.