The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-25
General Parasraphs.

The prop .rty of the Princeton Ta~
logical Seminary is estimated at 81 $780,
There were recently Slipped to Eng.
land S2O,0U0 worth of cattle from Hsrt.
lord County. Md.
Massachusetts heads the list of states I'm
wealth per capita. averaging $3.50. The
individual wealth of Great Britain is the
highest in the world, France coming
next and the United States third.
Nashville has passed city ordinance
against fortune telling. An astrologist
told an alderman that he was to marry
widow worth $l5U,OOO. He married
one who is in deDt to tie tune of $6OUO,
and he dosen't want to see any one else
DaseIy deceived.
Our national paper currency is COW
cred with poison. Half a dozen women
in the Treasury department are suffer-
ing from poisoning by arsenic, az result
of handling the new greenbacks. They
moisten their fingers to lac. litate the
counting, and the moisture brings out
the arsenic in the green co!ori 2.
Fully one. halt OF the visitors to Strait
ford oD-Avon are said to be from the,
United States.
At one of the colored churches in
Charlotte, N. c.. ID q recent Sunday
evening, a woman shouted 50 enerxeti-
calIy that she dislocated her jaw, max
ing her mouth stand open to its fullest
capacity. She lett Che church and went
4, fha. ~.,etk
wide open. followed ny the greater part
Of the congregation, in search of doc
tor, and one being found the unhinged
member was forced into its place.
The New ort correspondent Of the
Boston Transcript tells and says she be-
lieves this story: "a circular has been
sent to very many c!e!gymen, bv New
York wine firm, setting forth the merits
OF us liquors and wines, with prices by
the cast, etc. At tue end OF the circu-
lar it reads: n. BIO avoid suspicion,
every case sent you will be plainly
marked Canned Peaches"
The Russian minister of instruction is
being petitloned for the restoration O I
corporal punishment in the schools Of
that country. The reason 70: that is
that, corporal punishment being forbid
den, boys are confined Ior "a hours on q
bread and water diet, and subjected to
other like severe and degrading pun
ishments.
Chicago is much inclined to observe
the advice: "Look up-not down" Ac-
cor,ling to a correspondent, in the
course of The next three years Chicago
will possess the tdllest "a we'll as the most
imposing business structures Of the
world. In the past Year ten six-story,
SIX seven-story, two eight story one nine
story and one len-stOry structures have
been erected. At present the highest
building Is sugar refinery OF twelve
stories, while five or six more OF that
hight are projected.
1t seems as if the hight of Jenkinsism
was reached in a newspaper account OF
chiIlren's party at Saratoga. The Sum
mer Season, pink sheet, gave an &C.
count of the costumes in the folio wing
style: "Rosiin Belts of Puiladel phia,
one year and half old wore blue satin
and Eva >outhyate was han dsonely cIac
in pink satin and white Spanish Rce>
plack slippers and pink stockings"
ALL mere arc SOILle Interesting otoCS5-
TICS" said Mr.. Job Shuttle, as he wiped
his eye glasses. lit seems that twins
occur only once in every eighty-nine
births, AMI trip!ets occur only once in
1871" births, while bankruptcies only once
Ill 37l.l26 births. Great J!nks, what q
family q man must have before he can
be the happy father of Quadruplets!-
Hartford Post.
The River Witham in England has just
been the scene of novel contest More
than SUI any ers catered the lists to
compete for valuable prizes, the fisher
man who caught the largest fish withir q
certain time to obtain the first prize. At
given signal all tie anglers cast their
lines into the water, and the keenest
rivalry wa, shown by the contlngents of
fishermen from different town. Several
Of the contestants presented abnormal
~ large fish. on which they based a
| claim tor the prize, but it was easily
| shown that they had resorted to the old
trick Of buying them, and they were ig.
ANONYMOUSLY debarred from the contest.