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

49,. General Items.
A Springfield, Mass, boy received
this dispatch from his generous Holyoke
g,rl the other day: "Joe come up;
am full q + money and will pay all the
A band Of gypsies made $500 out of the
young ladies' of Muscatine, Iowa, ,by for
tune-telling:
John Goekel, of Baltimore, sneezed
so hard as 10 dislocate his arm at the
shoulder.
1T was a hard thing to build church,
a harder thing to pay for it, and q hard.
er thing still to fill it, is the dishearten-
ing remark ,S g. 3 wornout preacher at
Senator Chaffee says he is d temper.
ance man, because years ago; when he
was poor. barkeeper charged him $40
for "drinks for the crowd"
The royal baby of Spain has a cradle
in the form of shell, lined with pink
satin and having a canopy Of the rarest
lace.
Two ostriches in California have kicked
their mates to death. The mules in
that country have discouraged look.
Evidently the Empress of Japan does
not hold very high opinion of the vir-
tues of the ladies in the empire. She
has just ordered her chamberlain to pre-
pare list of all the faithful wives in the
island in order that she may present
them with medal or badge of chastity.
J. L. Gross, taxidermist, of Camden,
N. j., has captured q kangaroo mouse,
which he found in grove near Camden.
The mouse is of tawny color, with q
body little larger than that of an or
binary mouse. Its fore-legs are only
half an inch long, and its tail, which Is
white, measures six inches.
Richard Whiteside, thirteen, and
Frank Haywood, eleven, belonging to
good families in Boston, started out to
kill the few remaining Indians in the
west. Whiteside stole $50 from his
mother to defray expenses. Haywood
stole the money which Whiteside car
ried, and the latter had the young thief
arrested at Lynn, the police sent the
boys home to their parents.
Secretary Chandler has received a
communication from a New York man
protesting against further arctic expedi-
tons, and suggesting that if members of
the navy want something useful to d.
they be sent to the metropolis to sweep
the sunshine of the pavements.
Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. Deckard, of
PNico 11oh0 oko ~
side on ramble, taking with them a
rock that might attract their attention.
In doing this they broke off piece from
ledge, which they were surprised to
find was rich galena ore. Mrs. Deckard
has been offered 81 800 for her half in
terest.
The work of cutting q perpendicular
shaft from the 1900 level of the Next
can mine in Nevada to 1900 level is very
difficult and dangerous. The rock is
bitterly hard and it does not blast we'll.
With all this a perfect torrent of hot
water is constantly pouring down upon
the men. It is difficult to conceive how
the men can work at all in such a place.
They must 60 principally by the sense
OF touch-must feel their way like blind
men. Not only is it impossible for the
miners to look up, but such is the force
CT the pouring cascades of water that
they cannot climb the ladders without
danger of being beaten off, and it has
been found necessary to rig hosting
apparatus by which to hoist the men up
to their work.
One little girl who had lived in Lon
don all her life and had never seen
tree was recently taken into the coun-
try, together with many others at the
expense of q "fresh air fund.-" She
chung to one of the teachers in dreadful
alarm on seeing tree, and could not
understand what such an immense green
thing could be-. "Why don't it keep
as the wind swayed it's branches, and it
was only after some time that she could
he induced to 60 near enough to touch it.
There is saying in California that if a
man buys water he can get his land
thrown in. The literal fact is that the
value of much of the land depends SOLE
ly upon the water VIII ch it holds OF con-
trolls. Foar systems of irrigation are
practiced: First, flooding the land.
All1S ~ pOSSAOle only III uaC ulStTlctS
where there are large heads of water.
The second is by burrows, by which a
large head of water is brought upon the
land and distributed in streams as sn1a II
as will run across the ground. The
third is by basins dug around tree roots,
to which water is brought by pipes or
bitches. The fourth is by sub-irrigation
the water is carried in pipes laid from
two or three feet below the surface and
let out to permeate the soil.
Some Montana people say thew do
not care for the railroad now that it is
finished. Helena is rich town, and in.
sists that it is the richest in the country
in proportion to its population. There
are many young men from the east
there, and the society is good. These
young men are growing rich by mining
and stock raising, and they say tina,
| they do not like to see the railroad
bringing in capitalists to compete with
them. The Bozeman farmers also look
| with apprehension on the road because
they:haye been prosperous withoutit anC
| apparently anticipate an increased sup
ply of agriculturists without a CORES
ponding increase of consumers.
Electric Lighting of Steamers.