The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

But few people appreciate the force Of the
wind when it blows At the rate Of "A miles an
tho Philippine Islands, during the late terrific
hurricane, twas impossible to say what ve'oc-
ly the Wind attained, for the thermometers
at the observatory were rendered useless
before tbs severest gusts came, and the
highest rate they showed WIS 144 4 miles an
damage. During the storm it WAS utterly I'M
possible TO walk in the streets. owing to the
force Of the wind, which rolled heavy obstacles
along like piaything-, and kept sheets Of iron
roofing floating in the air like pieces Of paper.
The ""nual report Of the board Of directors
of cit! trusts and the superintendent of the
Girard estate, in Philadelphia. shows that the
estate is in prosperous condition The estate
comprises the ground- and buildings occupied
BY the Girard college, va ued at So SSS, y74. 80;
banking houses, dwellings, stores wharves and
estate in Schuylkill and Columbia counties, as
sessea at 81. 81 .9l7; and other property, the
whole valued at SO. G29, 2O4 go These com
pose the residuary fund In addition to this;
there is a legacy fund from the estate of Law
amounting to $45,O64 g. Tho financial re-
port Of the estate shows that the receipts
amounted to- 81 ,O22. SO7. SO; txpendi ures of
estst., $500, 295 ls, and Of college $467,-
7o9. 40, leaving balance in the treasury Dec.
81, 1882, Of 1928, 1888. The college now
admission.
Tue following list Of tho aboriyines of North
America is ~ complete as any that ia at present
available: Apaches. Arrapahoes, A,ricarees,
Blackfeet, Bio. d., Brules, Camanches, Cayu-
gas, Senecas, Cherokees, Cheyennes. Chicka-
Choc'aws. Munses. Greeks, Crows, Della.
Kaskaskes, Weas Peories, Weas Mi.
amies, Plan Keshaws, Kickapoos,
Kiaways, Mandans. Menomonees, Mlamias,
Missouris, O,toes, Minnecopgoux, Muhuache,
Utahs, Navajoes, Moquis, Omahas, Onondagas,
Oneidas, Stockbridge Oregon tribes, Osages,
Pawnees, Prlmos, Mescaleros, Poncas, Pueblos,
Quaraws, Sacs, Foxes, Sans Arcs Seminol.s,
shawnees, Sioux. Tuscaroras, Two Kettles,
Uncopapas, Winnebagoes, Wyandots, and
joaquin Miller writes from New York to the
Cincinnati Commercial: "Truly it is the car
nival Of Rome without the confete, the badin-
age, aud the vulsarity. Every mat,, woman and
child is not only richly, but elegantly aud taste
fully cad. II is conceded that there are no
SUCH we]l-dressed people in the world a, those
who promenade Fifth avenue. The
less pretentious or poorly clad keep to the
other streets. Elegance alone aud wealth and
beauty take their aiing here, and here only.
You meet hundred men, the most noble aud
than Oscar Wilde, and my gentle friend Oscar
drsssts we'll, and is youth of fine presence,
indeed"
The Austria iasian public debt is 81, 300
GOO, 900. the whi,e population about 2, $780,
600, and these colonies are continuing to Dor
row on the sccre of making reproductive
works aud developing the country:
London fogs are vastly greater evil than
the perennial jokes Of those who have to en-
CURE them indicate. Official statistics show
that during the week ending Dec. Ii no fewer
than G37 persons died IN London from diseases
of the respiratory organs, ''upder the influence
of the almost continuous foe. :" And on Dec
20 the Pail Mall Gazette said: ut is quite pos
sible, judging from past experience, that to-
days fog may cost us as many lives az Tel-el-
Kebir, and that the fogs Of December may be
| fatal to as many subjects Of the queen as the
| Whole of the Egyptian campaign"
1t acpears from the German Imperial Budget
that Prince Bismarck, as chancellor of the en-
pire, receives an annual salary Of $4,000.
will, the free use of his official residence and
So, 600 VI AZ for maintaining II. The ambasea-
doris in London and St Petersburg receive
| $S37, 600 year each; those in Parla, Vienna
and Constantinople, $50, 600 each, and the
ambassador in Rome, $25, 900; and every
Ambassador, has a FREQ house. The largest
| salary paid to any state funciionary is $45,-
600, which the governor of Alsace. Lorraine