The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-04
Items of General Interest.

Items OF Gener6l In Rf0SC.
A Texas cowboy recently arrived at
New London, Conn.,, for visit, having
Travelled the entire distance from the
Staked Plains on horseback.
Seventy-nine geographical societies,
distributed throughout the world, were
year, with total membership of $4,000.
The prisoners in the jail at Gonzales.
Tex, charged Sam Lee, a colored in
mate, with some ATTRACTION of the rules
OF the institution, tried him, found him
guilty, and tnen half killed him with
knotted rope.
1t is said that the ore of the Alabama
tin mines yields from 2 l2 to per cent.
of pure tin. The ore of the Cornwall
mines in England yields from / 3 to
2 IA per cent.
A North Carolina woman, while dig.
ying ginseng to obtain money for the
purchase of tobacco for her husband,
has just discovered mi a mine in the
mountains. whi:h is supposed to be
10 work it, and It will be sold.
There IS man living in Walton county.
Georgia who is 50 years old, and has
never ridden In a carriage or a railway
c:r, and has never ridden across bridge
in any vehicle. He lives in house six
teen feet wide and seventy feet long,
and so low between floors tina: fall
grown man cannot stand upright in it.
The furniture of the sitting room cr1lsi is
chiefly of bed aud barrel of home.
made syrup.
When Arthur Roberts and Laura
Longton stood up to be married at Du-
luth, Man., young lady startled the
spectators by objecting to the ceremony
on tn. ground that she WIS previously
engaged to the groom and the ell age
ment was not broken off. She failed to
make good her claim, and the ceremony
proceeded without further interruption.
A curious trade has sprung up of late
veg rs between New Zeaa and China.
A brown semi-transparent fungus, re-
sembling the human ear, grows abun-
lected, dried. and packed in tags for
export in China, where it is highly
priced for its flavor and geletinOus quail
tiles as an ingredient in soup. The val
lie Of the export in 1877 was over $50 200.
An inventor of hying-machine, who
claims success, has at last appeared.
The apparatus is described us steam
sailing machine constructed of light
wood and shaped like the frame of
'our-whee!ed carriage, with two large
wheels in front and two behind. The
inventors idea is to propel the machine
by steam on land until it attains a veIoc-
ity which will BE- sufficient. to lift the
he navigated by sails. At first the trial
machine WAS lifted from the ground.
Perhaps the next trial will be successful
in the sailing.
The sensational story about the dis
covery of the diamonds stolen from
Lady Trevor, in England, on the neck OF
one of London's most fashionable host
esses, turns on: to be a fiction, but it
has inspi ed great terror. BRIDES and
other ladies who receive costly presents
of jewelry live in awe lest it shall sud-
denl7 be discovered that they are lnIo-
cent receivers of stolen goods. In many
cases Lady Trevor has received collec-
lions Of briIliants from her friends with
4 reQues that she would Set the minds
whether she could identity any of t e
gems as her missing property.
Sir Edward Reed, NJ. F., owns no less
tan 1900 600 acres in America; the
Duke otSoutherland, 400, 900; Lord Dun
| more, 10000 }, and Lord Dunraven, Co.,
O01 acres. Mcssrs. Phillips, Marshall &
| Co., own a farm of 1900. 900 acres; the
heirs Of Col. Murphy, 100. 900 acres: II.
Diston, IL, 200, 900 acre., and the Stand
arb Oil Company. 1000. 600 acres. 1t
| appears that nine men own a territory
achusetts, and Rhode Island combined.
Then there are the great railroad cor
poratlons, whose free gifts of land from
lavish lay congresses amount to upward Of
200 900, 900 acres. Eleven of these cor
porations have received l 20. 900 900 acres.
The Northern Pacific road has grants
amounting to Al wv, 900 acres, and other
grants made ranged from l, 900 ,O0e cres
upward.
The municipal libraries of Paris are
apparently success. Daring the last
three months their readers used 127 1858
books, as compared with S9,37G volumes
during the first quarter of this year.
Seventy-nine geographical societies,
distributed throughout the world, were
in existence at tine beginning of the
year, with total membership of IS ,UOO.
Leading citizens of Keokuk, a., in
tend to re move the remains of Keokuk,
the Indian chief, to a point Eear that
city, and ere t suitable monument to
his memory.