The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-11
Noted Persons.

Mr.. Forster, the late Chief Secretary
for Ireland, has arrived in Athens.
Mrs. Esther J. Bates, although eighty
three years of age, rendered efficient aid
in bringing water to save house from
destruction by swamp fire in Cohasset,
Mass, last week,
The st Adams Messenger says that
"Aunt" Sally Stockwell, of West Brattle-
boro. VT, who died recently, was lO4
years and 5 months old.
London has society woman 20 years
old and still wears bangs and endeavors
to bush when complime nted.
Robert Browning is good sto ry.teller
at dinner parties.
Mr.. E. H. Sears has severed his con-
nection with the University of California
because of disagreement between Pro-
fessor Bunnell and himself concerning
the relative merits of two methods OF
teaching the dead languages.
Senator Matt Carpenters estate, as
now settled up amounts to 100000.
Green Pitts, colored man of Mont
gomery, is a celebrated turkey hunter.
few mornings ago he was yelping for
turkeys in the Cotonia swamp, when a
large owl, installing him for a turkey,
swooped down and buried his talons in
his face. An owl is not always Jas wise
as he looks.
Mr.. Mabes, of Moline, Ill.,. celebrated
his eighty-eighth birthday by attending
a wedding and funeral. He officiated
at the former as justice of the peace.
Lolita has consented to play an en-.
gagement in London. Her health has
been much improved at the German
Spas.
A current paragraph represents Clara
Morris as being in robust health, feeling
and looking as hearty as buxom coun-
try girl. This is presumably for adver-
Using purposes. Under a recent con-
tract, Miss Morris plays only every al
ternate week this season, her health be-
ing unable to stand the strain Of constant
performances.
Mrs. Ralston, widow of the famous
California banker, is living with her two
sons at their new mining camp in CAL
ifornia, where they are working hard
and where they have erected house
for their mother.
Miss Annie Carey Raymond and her
husband assembled Mt. Washington the
other day. A heavy fog hung over the
mountain, and Mrs. Raymond turning
| to her husband, remarked, eff this fog
would only lift would give $50 to the
Maine General Hospital" 1t was but 3
| short time before the fog lifted, and
they had delightful view. Descending
to the Glen House Mrs. Raymond was
reminded of her remark, and immedi-
ately drew her check and sent it to a
physician in Portland for the benefit of
the hospital.
Albert c. Raym ond, of East Hartford,
Conn.,, left certain public requests to
take effect on the death Of his wife,
which occurred Monday. East Hartford
| will get 1900 for library, $500 of il
for a fire-proof building, and Montville
| 81 1000 for library.
Mr.. Tennyson has completed the poem
about John Brown, but it is not as pa
thetic as some other poems the emf
nent rhymster has written. And how
could it he? Brown used to bully
rag Tennyson dreadfully on payday
making him fall in line with the other
hands as they filed around in front Of
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The king of Siam beats New York
brokers in trade dollar speculation. He
is buying them at ninety in Singapore
and making each dollar into two
Siamese ticals. which pass at sixty cent
each.
Mr.. Miles Rock, assistant astronomer
at the Naval Observatory, has been ap
pointed astronomer and engineer com
missioner of the Guatemalan govern
ment to loca,e the boundary between
that country and Mexico. The bound
ary line is about two hundred mile!
long, and one or two years will be- re
quired to finish the work. Mr.. Rocl
has also been commissioned by thu
Smithsonian Institution to collect notes
on anthropology in the country ovel
which his survey is to extend. He is tc
enter upon his new duties at once, anc
will sail from New York, October I, or
the steamer Acapulco.
|
To make the question of food at aims
houses satisfactory, the guardians of the
city of London Union have decided tba
the officers should be "required to ea
: the same meat as they supplied to thu
} paupers."