The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-11-22
Things In General.

President Barnard d Columbia Col.
eye, who has made q careful exam
nation Of the Egyptian obelisk that has
stood In Central Park for two years,
sn .tons ;fns .m. ba
change would not be noticeable ct the
end of six thousand years.
It is said by paper published In
Portland, Me-, that one of the lottery
companies sells more than 5000 tickets
every month to patrons in that city. The
outgo il, therefore large, but the return
is, of course, insignificant.
Ice men stick to prophecies as do SAIL
ors. The sun having crossed the line
when the wind was in the south, they
hold that the wind will continue In that
direction for the next six months there
after, giving Us q mild winter.-[King-
ston Freeman.
The Electrical Power and Storage
Company Of London recently sent q
secondary battery, charged and ready
for r,se, into the country. The railroad
company charged 22s. 81. for tho out.
ward journey and only lis. Cd. for The
return, and in reply to remonstrance
at this difference of rates explained that
the cells went fully charged, but returned
empty. The joke is on the railroad CON-
pany, which has since learned that
electricity is an imponderable agent.
"What is needed" says the New York
Mail and Express. "are laws increasing
the legitimate supply of material for the
dissecting table, and more severely pun
ishing the purchasers of stolen corpses,
as well as those who steal them. The
bodies of all executed murderers, and of
all convicts who die in prison, and of all
persons who commit suicide in public
places, ought to be delivered to medical
colleges for scientific purposes, and then
it ought to be made q state prison Of
Tense to purchase corrse, as we'll as to
rob grave, The depredations of ghouls
make one of the terrors which turn the
thoughts of many toward cremation as
substitute for burial"
Texas is prolific in marvellous stories,
and here is one of them. Thirty years
ago family named Taylor, IN Milan
county, were attacked by Indians, but,
with the aid of a stranger, three uf the
savages were killed and the rest put to
flight. One of the daughters became at
tached to the stranger and they were
soon to be married; but one day the
lover told his betrothed that he could
not marry her until he had killed one
Of the Indians; they had met and recog-
nized each other, and it was to be war to
the death. Years passed. and the girl
hearing nothing of her lover, finally
married a prosperous farmer. Recent
the body of the lover and that of the In
dian he had to kill were found together,
both completely petri6ed. The white
man had been cut to death and the In
dian fatally shot.
A Burlington correspondent says that
tine Vermont law giving women the
right to vote for school offices, which
has been in force three years, is prac-
tically failure. The law is obsc ire in
its terms, and too little interest has been
taken by the women in its provisions to
obtain a judicial Interpretation of it. OF
the PAL towns in the state 20 have this year
chosen woman for superintendent of
schools, but in no case, SO far as this
correspondent knows, has such a choice
been b, ought about by the votes of wo.
men. o. the 20 the majority are clergy
mems wives. Female superintendent
were not a novelty in the state even at
the time of the passage of this law, but
the legality of their election had not
previously been formally recognized.
According to the tradition of the
Greek geographers, Atlantis was large
island in the Atlantic ocean to the west
of the northwest coast of Africa. It was
tabled to possess numerous population
begotten by Neptune of mortal women.
The inhabitants finally became desper-
ately wicked, and the island was swept
away ny deluge. Plato mentions the
island in his "Timmus." On the old
Venetian rsaps Atlantis is put to the
west of the Azores and Cana:ies.