The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-05
Items Of Interest.

Professor Huxley said in . recent
lecture that he had no sympathy with q
kind ofsect or horde of scientific Goths
or Vandals who think that it would be,
proper and desirable to sweep away all
other forms of culture and instruction
except those in physical science.
A Greenwood, Florida. man had
$4,000 in gold when the war broke out,
and chung to it through all the changes
which has marched across the country
ever since until last week he concluded
to risk it on deposit in the Phoenix bank
at Columbus, Ga.
OF the 106 members of the Texas
house only twelve are natives of the
state. s,zsssF. ~.
A New Hampshire man says that he
drove forty miles the other day in his
state without meeting team.
At general meeting of the British Ma
tional Rifle Association on February q
the Duke of Cambridge, who presided
said that nothing could exceed the kind
ness and hospitality shown to the British
team during its recent visit to the United
States, an added that the council of the
association looked forward with pleasure
to giving an American team the hearth
est welcome at Wimbledon.
A most remarkable electrical pheno-
menon, says the Chicago Times, mani
tested itself on the line of the Union Pa
cific Railway recently, between North
Platte and Sidney, Neb. The influence.
however, was felt preceptibly beyond
Il .ose points. The rails we're surcharged
with current of electricity, moving
from West to East, to so high degree
that hand-caIs standing on the track were
mpelled at a fair rate of speed by it.
One ha dear at Brule got from the
section men -A-,E
The delinquent tax list of the city and
county of San Francisco for 1882 is q large
luarto volume of one hundred and thir-
ty-eight pages, each page containing
three columns of closely printed ayate
type, and rough calculation gives the
number of pieces of property in default
Tor taxes at about 4lOOO. The list was
published on the 5th of March and de-
llnouents are given until the 9th to
tle." Failing the sale of property COM
emences.
The French have opened railway in
Senegambia, where hitherto there was
no idea Of any carrying force except
live animal, The line is intended to
connect the fertile region lying between
the rivers Senegal and Gambia with the
Niger, stream which is navigable
for long distance from its mouth.
The line was not construct
ed by native labor, but chiefly by Moors
and Chinese. The native rulers have
been treated in q very arbitrary man
ner. Instead Of obtaining official sane
ton for the work where it crossed par
ticular frontier, they suppressed all Op-
position by force of arms, burning the
residence of hostile chief and driving
him out of his territory.
A tall man, with a full black beard,
and decidedly Celtic features, entered a
,'wded New York street-car. He
c ught hold of a strap and stood in pic
turesque posture, with his back to the
passengers on one side of the car. Hear
ing general laughter behind him, he
turned and presented his back to the
passengers on the other side. They al
so laughed unrestrainedly. The black
bearded man began to look fierce. He
seemed about to express his feelings,
when a large piece ofpasteboard bear
ing the inscription, Number One"
dropped at his feet. It had been at
tached to the back of his 'oat. He
laughed grimly, stuck the pasteboard
into his pocket. and saying, " If the GIN
t'emen as did that thrick don't have
raisin to regrit it, me name is not Nc
Fadden," hurriedly quilted the car.