The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-27
Paragraphs OF Interest.

Paragraphs OF interest,".
:. Aman named Commend atore Domi.
nico Rice. IN Italy, claims to have swan
the Niagara Rapids. This thre ateIs to
become an international question.
New: Tacoma, thriving young town
in Washington Territory, already has
forty lawyers. the total population being
but $500: The local paper SAYS each
he was to be the principal man in the
territory, and in due time United
States senator.
The special trains employed by her
majesty Victoria during the past nine.
teen years have cost $46, 300. The Brit
ish public imagined that she paid FOR
these herself, but is shocked to learn
that the government has footed the bills.
There has been lately . marked d.
minution in the population OF Germany.
The number of the population fell, be-
tween December 1; 1880, and June 6,
1882, from As, 245! Q6l to 45,2l3,9o7. The
decrease has spread over the country in
an unequal manner. In some parts
there is even an increase. Alsace- Lor-
raine has suffered a heavy loss in pro.
portion 10 its numbers.
The English sparrows, which are eat
en- in Philadelphia for reed-birds, are
considered as being q great delicacy.
The flesh of the sparrow is darker than
that of the reed bird, but the Philadel-
phia cooks say that only those who have
never eaten anything but reed-birds can
tell the difference.
Mormon "Saiuts" are not we'll re-
ceived in the south, where they are car
rying on vigorous campaign for con-
rerts. In some places they were pel,ed
with eggs and in others hounds were
sent after them, causing them to hasten
for the west. The Mormon church has
received its usual European contingent
this year, most of the new arrivals lot
being informed of the polygamous part
of the system, it is said.
On January 8, l774, Benjamin Frank
lin, the venerable father and giant of
American diplomacy, appeared before
the privy council in London with a petit
ton asking for the recall of Hutchinson.
infamous Wedderburn, at that time SO.
icitor general, ard the petition vas dis
missed as "ground!ess, scandalous and
vexatious." On the fame day Franklin
laid aside The suit OF clothes which he
wore before the privy council, and
vowed that he would not put them on
again until he had signed the degrade
ton Of England in treaty dismember-
ing the British Empire by recognizing
the independence Of America. Frank
lin redeemed his VOW Sept. 3, 1855
Boston Advertiser.
In the description of fire in the Car
quinez Woods, Bret Har1e gives vivid
word-pictures of a common event in
these dry days. The CarQuinez Woods
is wonderful forest, where there are
no inferior trees. Yet this magnificent
forest met The fate of so many of our
woods at the present time. There wasa
droutb, "a week Of peculiar aud dessi-
eating heat even tor those dry Sierra
table-lands. The long days we're filed
with i,npapable dust ard acrid haze sus.
pended in the motioniess ayr; the nights
were breathless and devices; the cold
wind which usually swept down the
snowline was laid to sleep over dark
level, whose horizon was
pricked with the eating fires of burning
forest crests." A wood fire is a grand
sight. Bret Harte speaks Of the woods
as the "b.az:ng dome" The fall ing fire
dropped like rain or blew like gorgeous
blossoms of CONFEDERATION across the path.
"The space was lit up brilliantly. The
vast shafts of dull copper cast no shadow
below" At the end there were only
''shrunken and silent co!umna of roof
less vaults, shorn of base and capital.
There was police outrage in Pari
recently, which will put the New York
police c'ubbers on their mettle. A little
boy Sat on step of a statute. A police
man pulled him of SO roughly that he
fell to the ground. The mother, who
was at hand, naturally demonstrated,
where upon the policeman took her into
custody. She was kept in the lock up
and not allowed to send her husband
word of what had befallen her. TIE
poor man inquired at the morgue and
other places, and could not discover till
the next day what had become of her.
Even then he was not allowed to see
her, and she was kept in solitary contine-
ment for five days before she was taken
before magistrate on the charge OF in
sulting the policeman. The magistrate,
of course, at once discharged her.
Nominally, a carload is2o 900 pound,
1t is also 20 barrels of salt, 20 OF lime, 80
of -four, go OF whisky, 200 sacks of flour,
6 cords Of soft wood, Is to 20 head OF
cattle, SO to 60 lead Of hogs. 80 to 100
head of sheep, 1900 feet solid boards,
1000 feet OF siding, 1900 feet of floor
ing, 10000 shingles, one half less of lum-
Der. one-tenth less of joist, scantling and
other large timbers, $40 bushels OF wheat,
40 of barley, 400 OF corn. $50 of oats, so
of f1axseed. 3G6 of apples, $40 OF Irish
potatoes, 800 OF sweet potatoes, and
1000 of bran.