The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-08-02
Personal Paragraphs.

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Mr.. Enoch Pratt's check for $3.50. $685.
IS, presented to the city of Baltimore,
has been photographed. It is drawn
subject to the order of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore. 1t has on it's
face the Endorsement of William Pinck-
ney Whyte as Mayor and John A.
Robb as Register. Mr.. Pratt's name is
written in bold, legible characters.
It is reported that Joaquin Miller
pronounced Wawkeen) has become a
socialist, and demands that the fences
be removed from around Stuyvesant
park. The World says: HE carries .
daily paper in his hip pocket, and two
Boston papers stuck in his wampum belt,
and goes about looking for gore like the
untamed correspondent of the plains"
1t is gravely stated by the Telegraph
of Harrisburg, Penn, that those who see
Governor PA!tison taking his daily
equestrian exercise are in doubt wheth-
er his manner of occupying the saddle
is the result of an attempt to initiate the
posture of sack of meal to effect q
junction between his chin and his knees,
or to copy the English huntsman's atti-
tude.
Simon Cameron says that Daniel Web
ster stands alone. "His intellect was
gigantic Greater than his cotemporar-
les, he has been uneQualled in the di-
rections in which he was particularly
strong, and nature is not likely to re-
peat her work again. He was a stately
column lnarred by little defects
Aroo~,.. %bo ;%nooe -, %l,o
expenses tor the Duke of Edinburg's
special mission to Moscow was one OF
5000 "for gratuities." The civilization
over there appears to have some points
of similarity to our own.
One related comical saying of Hunt
ley, the writer of the "Spoopendyke"
articles. Huntley was formerly Chica-
20 man and was at one time sent to in
terview Sitting Bull. After the inter-
view Huntley telegraphed the Tribune
81, 500 worth, although he has no COM
petion and co lid just as well have writ
ten. After he returned. fellow scribe
INQUIRED whether he had eaten dog.
EYES," said Huntley, twice, once when
it went down and once when it came
up"
Mr.. D. o. Mills, the ex-Cali fornia ten
millionaire, is the grandfather of trip
lets. The happy father is Darious Ogden
Mills, Jr., and the happy mother was .
Miss Livingston, the daughter of one of
the oldest families in New York. The
family live at Newport at present. Two
of the little cherubs are girls, and the
third is boy. but none of them have
been named yet.
A young man in Houston county, Ga,
was recently converted under circum-
stances outwardly similar to those which
resulted in the transformation of Saul of
Tarsus. During a revival service he
scornfully rejected the offer of q Bible
and went home to work on his farm.
While in the field great light shone
about him and he fell to the ground.
He had been struck by lightning, and
when he had recovered consciousness
he left no time in buying a Bible, and a
few days a'terward lie vas one OF the
most Jealous convicts in the co immunity.
James Parton says when General But
Ter sent his son to Harvard he gave him
check book and said to him: Take
that, and whenever you want any money
draw as freely as You like. If you are
OSOA ia OOuOL COHcuAV yOus HpInCI. Al
the end of his college course the young
man had spent only 81 500 year, which
is considerably below the average sum
spent by the sons of wealthy parents at
Cambridge.
Mrs. Frimont, of Ithaca, N. Y, gave
birth to female child on the 4th instant
whose weight, exclusive of clothing, was
only one pound. The child is still alive.
and 50 far seems to he az vigorous aud
active as could be expected ofone OF her
size. She measures between three and
four inches around the body. and is
about eight inches IN length. Tho hands
and feet are about the size of birds
claws, and each finger and toe is provid-
ed with tiny but perfect nail. An or
binary finger ring will easily slip over
the hand, and fits the little creatures
wrist like q bracelet several sizes too
large.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, 1.-THE hand
soonest man in the United StAtes," and
son-in'law of the late Horace Greeley,
has perfectly snow-white hair.
The little Swiss Republic, with popu-
lation Of about three millions, n,sintains
an army Of 205, l76 men, at a cost Of S.
642,7lO. The United States, with popu-
lation of SO, 600 900. has an army of 20
Reports indicate that the tobscco crop
is growing finely. The weather has
been very favorable. There il little
complaint as vet of the raVaQes of pests.