The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-08-16
Things In General.

Things In General.
Hay grown West Of the Mississippi 10
fed in Charleston; after having been
carried 1000 miles. It IL not many yesrs
since the idea of probably carrying 80
lance would have been laughed at.
Since that time freights for long dis.
tances have been much reduced. and
farmers have learned how to put their
straw and hay into much better sh pc
for shipment.
Somebody reckons that the anthracite
coal will last three hundred years. The
fields cover $40, 600 square miles, and at
the beginning are estimated to have con-
tined 1900, O00, 600 tons of coal. About
bO6, O0O, 900 tons have been taken out.
and present consumption is at the rate
OF 50, 600. 600 tons : year; hence tho con-
clusion.
A man sojourning at Goldfield, Ia.,
rasi'ly expressed the opinion that there
were not over half = dozen decent
women in town. A deleRation of citizens
waited on him ct his boarding place and
requested the pleasure of his absence in
thirty minutes. He was over the bound.
ary in four minutes and half.
The president Of an insurance COM
pany has addressed the following note
to one of It's policy-holders: 1T has
come to our knowledge that YOU have
several spring poems with the intention
OF onerlng them for sale to the public
press. l write this to say that If YOU
persist In your purpose it will work q
forfeiture of your policy. You oniv nav
the ordinary rates, and we always clas.
Sly spriug poets as extra hazardous"
A curious case of sensitive skin has
been observed in a female patient at
one of the Berlin hospitals. It was
found that ii name was written upon
1t with the nail or with blunt piece of
wood, the flesh rose at once over the
marked track to the height of several
millimetres, showing the writing very
plainly. After while it vanished. So
many persons have thus written their
names on her body that she is called
the autograph woman.
Swimming soirees are all the rage at
Washington, where the rink has been
converted into nat4torium. A fine
band ie in attendance, and the interior
Is brilliantly lighted with electric lets.
Broad balconies surrounded the basin,
where opera chairs are provided for
spectators and friends of the swimmers
who do not care to participate. Along
either side are closet like rooms, one
room being. assigned to the gentlemen
and the other to their fair partners, a
check being given for each. Upon en-
te5lng they retire to their respective
sides Of the hall, and in ten minutes
appear in gay bathing suits. The couple
meet at the spring. board at the head of
the bath. and away they go with a
plunge in concert.
Bishop A. Cleveland Coke has written
again about dreams, citing his own and
others curious experiences with half
waking visions, and concluding his ar
ticle as follows: my conclusion il that
there Is much OF the .prenatural in the
realms of mind and of matter too. mich
that implies variation from law md a
law of variations. These variations ara
such as Intimate, if they do not demon
citrate that the mechanism of the M
VERSE does not run itself. There is en-
Elneerlng somewhere, and an engineer
who makes his hand felt, though inyisi
ble."
The word Boycott originated in the
recent troubles in Ireland, and thus:
Capt. Boycott was q farmer who made
himself obnoxious to the land leacuers.
All his werkmen left him and when his
crops were ready for harvest not sonl
could be induced to touch them: no
shop-keeper wonld sell him anythir y:
no one would buy from him, and he was
eftectually isolated. This method was
ate used with others, aud it came
to be called "Boycot,ing them"
Charles Dudley Warner, who has
lately visited the Natural Bridge in V,r-
ginia, says the Hartford Courant: Ex-
actly overhead, on the highest spring Of
the arch, Is the figure of gigantic
spread eagle. 1t is the eagle of our coat
of arms. The head. the spread wings,
the claws with the arrows, are all per.
feet. 1t seems to be formed by discolo-
ration of the rock rather than by lichen,
However it is made-and it could not be
more striking if it were painted-it is
ancient. The French engineers who
made a survey and measurement of the
bridge during the revolutionary war no.
ticed 1t with wonder, and in their prin-
ted report they drew from it happy
augury of the success of the Americans
IN the struggle. What makes the figure
itself more rema. kable is that tliscol-
ored patch under it is very fair repre-
eentation of crouching lion.