The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-27
Notes of General interest.

Notes II General interest.
The Navajo Indians of New Mexico
are likely to be well supplied with funds
this year. They expect to take 100000
pounds of wool and 60O, 900 skins and
turs to market.
The Chinese soldiers who may soon
face the French troops, have one fight.
ing advantage over the latter. They wear
light. airy uniform, which consists sole:
~ ot cap, thin linen jacket and i
gauzy pair Of pants, while the French
men are alfred in thick blue uniform.
solid red trousers, a thick shirt ana hard
leather boots. It is not strange that the
unacclimated French feel the heat.
Ostrich farming has its perils. At Ana.
helm, CAL, the other day, the stocking
that is dawn over the head of the bird
while they are being plucked slippe d
otf from the neck OF one of the biggest
male birds. Mr.. Sketchl6y, the plucker,
saw the acct de mt just in time to make
q leap ter the fence. As he went over
the birds foot struck aboard with such
force as to splinter it.
A New York lumber dealer recently
imported from the fyrenees Mountains
a walnut log which is twelve feet long
and nine feet IN diameter, aud weighs
$4,000 pounds. 1t is estimated tn be
worth - GOO as it lies, and when 1t Is
sawed into veneering it will yield G6, O0O
feet which will be worth IS 600.
A New York lady writes to the Sun:
II am Latin American, born in tho
West Indies. l trust, for the sake OF
many pure and cultivated ladies' of my
acquaintance in this city, you will make
q distinction, and not class us all as fast
because we smoke cigarettes"
A steam buggy, making at Augusta,
Ga, will have two wheels behind and
tanks. The boilers are heated by two
gasoline burners. The front wheel is
extra large and will bear the entire
weight of the machinery. AS it is the
traction wheel, this will serve 10 good
purpose, by weighing it firmly to the
earth. The rear Of the machine will be
the same as an ordinary buggy. with
ample room for several persons. The
ono in the buggy, and can be guided in
Il
Its average speed is estimated at mile
il three minutes.
A Winnebayo maiden, known in Nc
Gregor, Mimi. as Agnes, went over to
that town from the Wisconsin side, with
other members Of her tribe, recently in
skiif, and being detained in her shop
ping tour, she was mortified on going to
the river bank to find that her friends
had taken the skif and gone home.
Nothing Haunted, however, she was not
to be stopped by tritle, and, taking of
her raiment. she pinned it on bundle
to her head and then swan the Mis-
sissippi river to her camp.
The unhappy Chinese in California
viii! no longer be allowed to set off fire.
crackers at the graves of their dead
friends, though they think that one OF
the most sacred funeral rites. The su.
preme court Of the state has decided
that though the constitution guarantees
to all men the free observance Of their
religion. the liberty cannot be used in
anw way detrimental to the peace and
safety of the state.
One OF the largest pearls in the world
was recently discovered in the pearl
fisheries of Lower California. 1t is the
size ola lime, measuring one in CHI in
length by three.fourths of All inch in
thickness.
Decrease of the pu bile debt during
August &.67l 1851, cash in the treasury,
1851 ,GO3 1856; golt certificates, $s2,Y62, :
40; silver certificates, S92, 65l 1881; certi-
fca:es Of deposit outstanding, $l2,l45,>
GOO, refun5ing certificates, 1854 $50;
leg IL tenders outstanding, $346.GSl ,Ol6;
fractional currency outstanding. B ,997,-
796; decrease since June 81, 1888, $l4,
572 ,442. The payments made from the
treasury Nv warrants during August
were: On account of civil and miscel-
laneous, S., 1854, 472; war, IS POI 600; navy
81. las, O99; interior Indians, 1926, 9l8;
interior pensions, Sill ,540, 1921; total, $$22S,
OO8, $50. The above does not include
ay,nents made on account Of the inter-
est orprincipal of the public debt Of the
United States.
Shakspeare's bones will not be dis
turbed, after all. The town council Of
Straitford-on-Avon have said it, and il
their orders he may have to yield 10 the
0AA~
useless examination.
Federal Judge Bond decided at Rich
mond, Va, in the coupon suit of the
foreign bondholders that tender of
coupons for taxes is legal tender, and
that officers of the state will be enjoined
from levying on a tax-payer's property
after a tender of coupons had been
made. If this dec sion is not reversed,
Ie state can collect no more revenue
until she provides for the coupons.
The difficulty with many living rooms
is the lack of corners; but where there
is an odd one that requires filling, moth
ing can be prettier than an improvised
bookcase. A carpenter puts up three
| shelves of black walnut, before which
the amatuer upholsterer may hang soft
! silk curtains or dainty Madras stuff, run.
ming on small brass rods. The upper
shelf serves to hold brio -brac, and the
space between the lower space and the
floor looks we'll filed by duplex mir
ror or tall vase.
The Recent Volcanic lSr,lDtions
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