The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-04-13

has crept 375 feet further up the beach. and
opposite Whale Pond the encroach.nent
reaches 525 feet ut one point. Near Cape
May the encroaohments have been much
more marked. For q mile and half north
Of New England Greek the sea has moved
inland 1910 feet in the last 1877 years. Al
Cape Island the shore has wcfn away full
mile since the revolution. and many valua-
!. bio islands have been submerged. Prof.
Cook thinks that this is not owing wholly
to the breaking. Of the waves on the land,
but says there is evidence that the sea lev
81 is higher than formerly.
About Noted People.
Ex-Gov Walter Hartman of Now Hamp.
shire will fail from, Boston in the Marathon
April ], on a long tour to the Holy Land
He will be accompanied py VIM. D. Chand-
Ter, second son Of Hon. ". E. Chandler
The yonug man will travel with Gen. Halri-
man and subsequently 90 to Heidelberg as
a student.
At Salem, Massachusetts, John Bertram,
III old sea captain, died. after surviving
the war Of 1912 and all the other troubles,
trials and fluctuations of this country for
eighty.six years. He leaves wife, three
daughters and five million dollars. In this
CO11utIy I'LL OCCH61Oudl 1lbU (ll6S aOu leaves
nothing but family.
A Broadway publisher recently wrote to
Guiteau asking his signature. with permis-
sion to sell autographed copies, allowing
Guiteau royalty Of twenty tive per cent.
on the gro.s sales. In reply he received
this letter, Endorsed ON the back: send me
500, certified check or money order, andI
will allow you to do it. G. G." The assas.
~ t~>
to be given.
The statement of General Robert E. Leo's
friends that Mr.. Lincoln once offered him
the command Of the armies of the United
States has been questioned repeatedly, but
the fact is reasserted in the Philadelphia
Weekly Times by Rev. Dr.. William Jones,
secretary Of the Southern Historical Socie-
ty. DR.. Jones produces copy If letter
written by General Lee, wherein the latte:
explains how the comm nd was offered to
hin.
The death is announced of Miss Eliza
beth Hamilton, the daughter of the Scot
fish metaphysician, Sil William Hamilton,
Of whose life and philosophy she furnished
an account in the new edition Of the "Ency-
clopB'lia Britannica. Miss Hamilton is
one of the foremost promoters Of themove-
ment in Scotland for tho university educa-
ton of women. She went to Germany
about gear ago with view to preparing
work on the philosophy Of Hermann
Lo'ze
Judge Jeremiah Black is quoted by a
correspondent OF the Providence Press as
saving. in regard to the rumors OF Mr.
.Arthur's marriage: X do not doubt that
the president is the constant subject of
matrimonial overtures from all quarters
some of them most automatically present.
ed. When 1 Was associated with President
Buchanan as g cabinet officer from his own
state, was continually solicited to be ths
medium Of these delicate approaches and
propositions"
Although it is a little more than two
! months since Mr.. Low Of Brooklyn left his
business in Burlin9 Slip for the mayors
chair, he is already looking careworn, and
bis friends think his intense application to
his duties is injuring his health. Mayor
Low is only thirty-two years of age. He
married about two yeara ago the daughter of
Judge Curtis of Boston.
James Freeman Clarke is seventJ-two
years old, but he is the mosl industrious
corpse by will, as there can be no property
in the dead body Of a human being The
case was one in which man directed that
his body should be cremated, and the di.
| rection was fulfilled by his daughter at an
expense Of 81, 600. This the executors re-
fused to pay, and the daughter brought an
action to recover. The court decided that
her father had no power to
executors were only bound to bury
it in a manner BETTING the estate of the de.
ceased.
One of the duties Of the policeman on
guard on the I4onsfellovs grounds on Fri
day vas to turn away the players of hand
organs. For years it has been the custom
OF the family to give six cents to each hand
organ man, the result being that few OF the
peripatetic musicians WHO came into tue
vicinity failed to take the house into their
circuit. Three appeared Oh Friday after
noon.
The fashion of mutlat;ng statues, which
seems to be growing in Gotham, has result
ed in some one breaking bronze ornaments
from the statue erected in Central Park to
the nemory Of the members OF the Seventh
regiment who fell in the civil war. There
Is no evidence leading to the detection of
the vanda1, :and the outrage must be as.
crlced TO some misguided iconcclst who
remembers that the Seventh did not 10
much real fighting, but forgets that the
regiment furnished about six hundred Of
ticers and several thousand soldiers to othe,
commands.
An article in m exchange is devoted to a
discussion Of The Decadence Of Modern
Manners. p" No person Of sensitive feelings
| will be likely to read beyond the headlines,
for while bitterly approaching the fact that
! ancient manners have been deteriorized
sadly IN reaching US moderns, one canno:
| contemplate without shudder the thought
| that the manners VIC see about Us at pres.
ent can be still further impaired. If they
are reported on good authority as really
about to undergo this process, we might as
| we'll begin to habituate ourselves at once to
breech- clouts and diet Of raw meat, and
get ready .or the next stage in decadence
In the cure Of severe coughs, weak lungs,
spit ng Of blood, and the early stages Of
Consnmptson, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medic
! al Discovery" has astonished the medical
faculty. While it cures the severest coughs.
1t strengthens the system and purides the
blood. By druggists.
| Esthetic swells in Now York and Boston
| have adopted the single eyeglass after the
fashion of the London snobs.
Truth is Mighty:
When Dr.. Pierce, of Buffalo, New York,
| announced that his "Favorite Prescription"
would positively cure the many diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to women. some
doubted, and continued to employ the harsh
| and ceustic local treatment. Bat the
| mighty truth gradually became ackpo 81
edged. Thousands ct ladies' employed the
"Favorite Prescription" and were speedily
cured, By druggists.
Cardinal Manning refused to drink
vine, though ordered to DO so by his dec.
tor.
toEcbody's Child.
somebody's child is dying-dsing with the
Hush OF hope on his young face, and some.
body's mother thinking Of the time when
that Gear face will be hidden where no raw