The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-08-23
Passing Events,

The last OF the lOO-tOn guns ordered
to be mounted for the defence of the
Mediterranean fortresses is being con-
veyed by the steamer WOolwich to
Malta. Two Of these guns are being
placed in position at Gibraltar, and the
third is at Malta. The four guns were
purchased from Sir William Armstrong.
The amount psid, including the charge
for seven lO'inch guns, was 100000,
The village of Midlothian, Tex, was
struck by cyclone recently. Eight
carpenters were caught in the ruins OF
the new hotel, almost completed, and
seven OF them were seriously injured,
two Of them, Edward Lowe and James
Macelroy, fatally. Damage $4,000
The work of draining the everglades
of Florida is still carried on with great
energy and already 535, 5S5 acres Of land
have been reclaimed, which is the best
and richest land for cultivating oranges.
lemons, pineapples. lines, cocoannts,
bananas, etc. Upon this rcclaime. |
land has been built the town Kissim.
mel, which in one year has grown 10
GUO inhabitants. A canal is built to the
Gulf of Mexico and steamers are to ply
up and down this to market the pro-
ducts Of this new colorado. One hum
dred families from Iowa will settle upon
this land in the fall.
Admission into what is called good
society" in London is privilege so
much coveted even by advanced
Liberal, that invitations to balls and
social gatherings at the houses of the
great are frequently as incentive to
party fidelity. Complaints have been
mace that Lord Chamberlain, with u
culpable neglect Of the interests of the
party, has not sufficiently recognized
the claims of Radicals to dance in the
presence of royalty.
Experiments made with view to as
certain the relative merits and value of
some fifty varieties of wood as fuel pre-
sent some facts of special value. The
results arrived at being based on calcu-
iations made in the most careful manner
from dried specimens dressed to uni
the list, and it is noteworthy, as stated
United States the specific gravity OF
which is greater than that Of water.
Second i'll fuel value as the Southern
pine, very light wood, having only a
little more than half the weight of
mountain mahogany. Hickory is third
OH the list in respect to this kind of
value; cedar ranks before white oak
and white elm outranks sugar maple.
The remarkably high rank OF the South
ern pine is due to the Sarge amount Of
hydrogen it contains.
lie was an irreverent observer of the
English bishops who wrote Of them, as
they appeared recently to the House OF
Lords: "'rhere sat some seventeen Ell.
DERBY persons in Episcopal robes, their
pufttd lawn sleeves suggestive in a rath-
er curious way that feminine element,
not youthful either, had somehow found
its way into the House. Look at their
faces. The st mp of their profession is
| on them. Nobody would say that these
are men Of the world, or men of bust
ness, or men OF affairs. The
pinchei lips. the eyes mostly too near
together, the skin drawn firmly ever
cheek and chin, the sloping corners Of
bitter mouths, the air OF sanctinony,
of always posing before the world-al
| this and much more the most casual Oh
phalanx of spiritual Legislators"
! Thurlow Weed made his first trip to
Washington in 1886, and he thus de.
scribes the extraordinary sight of the
president going in swimming: ''Hav.
ing heard the president was in the habit
OF bathing early every morning in the
Potomac, [ rose before the sun and
walked down to the bank of the riv.
er, observing, as I approached it, a gen
tleman in blue pea-jacket walking rap.
idly from the white house toward the
water. This was John Quincy Adams.
moved off to respectable distance.
TIC president began to disrohe before
he reached the tree on the bank of the
river, where he deposited his clothes,
and then plunged in head first and
struck out fifteen or twenty rods, swim
ming rapidly. and turning OCCASIONAL,
upon his back, seeming rs much in his
ease in that element as on terra firma
| Coming out, he rubbed marlborough
ly with napkins, which he had brought
for that purpose in his hands. The sur
had not yet arisen when he had dressed
himself, and was returning to the presi
| dontio1 mansion