The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-05-24
Things in General.

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A prominent journal of the south says
there are few southern cities in which
the ordinary newspaper hnsiness Is SUI.
ficient to support more than one good
daily paper.
There are Indian girls in the Terri
torial University who are studying Ger
man, French, Latin, and Greek, geoi.
0gy, moral PHILOSOPHY, poetical econ
omy, and other branches of the college
course.
Cincinnati Germans have started q
temperance society, the object Of which,
is to discourage treating. Every man
his own bill payer is its motto.
Newsteal Abbey has thrice chan
ged hands since it became the
property of Lord Byron. II
was sold, with the estate by the
poet to Mr.. CLAYTON for 500, 600, and re-
sold by the latter in 1918 to Colonel
Wildman for $475, 900. The colonel left
no issue. and the estate was sold after
his death to Capt. Webb, the present
owner, who it is understood would en-.
terrain q reasonable offer to to purchase.
The place has been vastly improved
since Byron's time, when it was in 9
miserable plight.
The Dayton Journal knows thing OF
two about funerals, and sharply criti-
cises the dramatic festival dupes at Gin
cinnati for carrying off the dead Caesar
to the market place head foremost. The
writer says: Murdoch, presuming
that the bearers understood their bust.
ness, lifted the pail from the body at
the end where the head ought to have
been, and found pair Of stockinged:feet.
In an instant they were covered and
the face exhibited. Nevertheless the
for time the solemnity of the funeral
Grafton.
Farming the sea is very much like
cnltivating the land. 1t doesn't answer
to take all and give nothing. The oyster
growers on the English and French
coasts have discovered that they must
change their system or exhaust their
fisheries. 1t is found that shells thrown
back into the sea produce thirty or for
ty.fold in oysters in two years. Next
July and August many ship loads of oys-
ter shells will be scattered over suitable
places for oyster beds, and over the
empty shells will be dropped few live
oysters. Within two years each she'll is
expected to have from thirty to forty
young oysters attached to it.
The first elephant on exhibition in
New England, and said to have been
the first in the United States was killed
At Alfred, Me-, in the year. 1917 about
one mile west from the village, in q
piece of woods near the Round Pond,
80 called on the old post road leading to
Dover, N. II. A man by the name of
Davis had an alteration with the pro-
priotor Of the menagerie the dav previ-
GUS. while on Exhibition at Alfred, and
sought revenge by shooting the elephant.
The affair caused great sensation at
the time throughout New England. The
locality is known anu pointed out to
this. as the spot where the elephant
was killed.
A foreign journal says that the Wis.,
countess de CourQal's toilet at a recent
reception in Paris, had the train and
bodice ofpale grayish- blue lampas, COW
cred with large gold flowers; the tabl;er
was ivorv satin, trimmed with gold gui-
pure; the high bodice, crossed with
folds en- ticllu disclosed tlots of ivory and
gold lace, and it was fastened slantwise
with large diamond buttons; gold lace
ruftles to the elbow sleeves; long tan
Suede gloves, bouquet of diamonds in
the.hair fastening an aigret Of blue feath-
ers powdered with gold" 1t is believed
that the Viscount's schedule in bank
,uptcy will hardly be as elaborate as
this.
At "a meeting of those interested in
promoting the educational and industri-
al training of Indian children, held late
ly in New York, twenty-five pupils of
the Carlisle school gave evidences OF
their capabilities Ofreceiving instruction.
The principal OF the school, Captain Hi
ram Pratt, said that during one year the
pupils had made wonderful progress.
The boys had been taught blacksmith
ing, shoemaking, carpentry and other
trades; the girls, cooking, dressmaking,
and housekeeping. All had learned to
speak and write English.
There is one popularity Of the capitol
NTH which few persons are familiar.
The speaker of the house and the presi-
dent of the senate sit facing each other
at either end of the building, and when
all the doors are opened they can see
each other face to face, ut distance OF
over GOO feet.