The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-07-26
Things In General.

Things In General.
The proposed Florida ship canal is to
be thirty feet deep, 60 that the largest
sea:going vesselsc can pass thro Oh it.
A butter dish factory at Vincennes.
Ind, turns out $1,000 to $4,000 dishes
per day.
President Seelye said at Amherst that
MI. Gladstone is King of England in a
truer sense than is any one who only
wears crown, because he stands out
the best inter prefer of the English peo-
Plies will. $50 with Bismarck" he said.
''For the last fifty years the instinct of q
German unity under Protestant lead
ership, coupled with vague desire of
| some strong power in central Europe,
has been disturbing the different Ger
man states. More than thirty years ago
Bismarck saw, what no one else then
saw, the uniformed impulse, and to this
lie submitted"
Even the lively city of New York has
begun to lose it's brilliancy under the
summer dust. Already it has the Au.
gust sleepiness and langu0r, and large
part Of its population who are not set.
tied at summer resort are either
croWding excursion boats in the harbol
and river or are lounging under the
trees of Central Park and the Battery.
Trade in Japan is represented as de-
pressed and discouraging. The high
hopes formerly entertained that the
country would rapidly develop as a COM
mercial nation are fast dying away. The
exports of ten years ago remain the ex-
ports of to-day. and there can be no
progress until the governments restric-
tive policy is Abandoned:
The cell in La Roquette, Paris. in
which Archbishop Darboy was confined
previous to his murder by the Commun-
lists in 1871 has never since been en-
tered by any prisoner, and remains
just as it was when the august prelate
was led forth to die. The Iron cross
over the spy,hole still bears in pencil
the words ''Vlte robur, medtis salus,"
traced by Mgr. Darboy, who occupied
his weary time by sketching the instru.
| ments Of the Passion upon the walls of
the eel, together with various notices
| and texts.
Sir Alexander Gait announces that the
right of Canada to make her own COM
mercial treaties haslbeen practically con-
ceded by England. The modus operan-
Iii is that representatives ofCanada..shall
be associated with the British minister
and the proposed terms shall be submit
ted for approval to the British govern
ment. To these conclusions England re-
serves the right of judgment, espec-
tally in cases where treaties are consid-
cred Objectionable, or likely to produce
national complications. The independ-
| ence question, says Gait, is not only a
dead issue, but never has been live one
Four New Workers wishing to amuse
themselves few nights ago and finding
the theatres closed happened to 20 to the
same summer garden. Each seated him.
| self at a small table, and after an interval
became acquainted with the others. In
the course OF the evening it was discov-
| cred that one was from a city in Oregon,
another from Montreal, another from
New Orleans, and fourth from Boston.
The cosmopolitan of Few York was
thought to be we'll illustrated.
The spirit of dudism, which is the es-
sence of snobbery, has permeated, it
seems, into all orders of society. In the
! serving order it was observed recently,
in one instance, fully developed. Sam
is "colored gem'len," whose WE'LL
known proficiency as q waiter brings
him into constant demand at
! weddings, parties and other festaI gath
| erings. He has formed a Scale Of prices
quite peculiar. For attendance at wealthy
| and aristocratic houses he charges
| one dollar an evening; but of less well.
TODD families he asks two dollars, the
extra dollar presumably being a COM
! pensation for his sacrifice Of dignity.
Mr.. s. V. White, the Wall Street bro
! ker, has twelve-inch telescope which
is in all respects the most perfect one in
| the possession of an amateur ON this
continent. The tower it stands in has
| its walls of heavy masonry carried far
down into the earth, 50 thst passing
wagons cannot disturb the instru .nent
Up in this tower, above the voots of
Brooklyn, "this busy man of affairs goes
al njghtfall, and, turning the great glass
| upon some brilliant star of a'restful color
or upon some strange object like Saturn
! or on one of the curious twin stars whose
contrasted colors, as seen through his
| glass, seem to dye the earth with their
| hues, he gazes on the far distant noun
| tains, seas, and valleys, the inex picable
rings, the tiny moons, and all the Won
! ders that are denied to the gaze Of a
man unaided by SO powerful glass, and
as he looks Wall Street fades from his
BRAIN"