The Worthington advance., 1883-05-03
Facts and Fanclee.

An accommodating Goldfish, the largest
ever heard Of, is reported to have a.
lowed himself to be taken of the coast
of Ne xfonndland, expressly for the Lon
don exhibition. The said fish, accord
ing to the report given, weighs 400
pounds and measures over seven feet In
length. In 1878 Goldfish weighing ITO
pounds was actually caught, but this ia
the first time that even runor has reach
ed 400 pounds as the weight of one.
A piece of Plymouth Rock he's been
forwarded by the Pilgrim society of Ply
mouth, Mass, to the Rev. Henry Allon.
Of the Mission Chapel, Islington, Lon
don, to be built into the chapel pulpit.
handsome granite canopy, the floor of
which if so built around the rock that
only two square feet are visible. This
was found necessary to preserve it from
the depredations Of visitors, vino chisel-
ed and hammered pieces from it to car
ry off as meMentoes.
| Forty years ago, when what was then
considered colossal iron steamer, the
Great Britain, arrived at her dock foot
OF Rutgers street, almost the whole city
turned out to see her, and salutes were
fired. For many years she has not been
heard of, and it is interesting to know
that she is with us again. Her owners,
after employing her to great advantage
in the Australian trade, took out her en-
glnes and machinery and converted her
into an A No. l. At last accounts she
had on board 1900 tons of coal. as bal
last, for San FRANCISCO.
In the Birmingham police court, the
other day, a manufacturer ofpotted meat
was charged with having five pieces of
donkey flesh upon his premises for the
purpose of sale, altogether about tseventy
pounds. He pleaded "guilty," and was
sentenced to Il months Imprisonment.
Another manufacturer, who was convict
ed at the same time of having ON his
premises thirty pieces Of horse-tlesh.
cut from an animal which had died of
to prison for month. They treat such
offenses lightly IN England.
An obstinate juryman in Springfield,
Mass, who had held out all day against
eleven companions, weakened at o.
clock in the evening as he saw his chance
of using two Langtry tickets in his pOck-
ct oozing away. Agreeing to verdict,
he started Oh run for the opera house,
where she only was playing single
night engagement.
To Belgium we must look for one of
the most stupendous engineering works
of modern times--the new Antwerp
docks, which will be completed in 1884.
There is to be quay two miles long and
800 feet wide. The uniform waterway
will be 1850 feet wide and twenty-six
feet deep. II is calculated that fifty
Atlantic lines will be able to lie broad
side On the quay at once.
Gunnison, Col, is to lie the site of bly,
steel works built by New York and St.
Louis capitalists, who have bought 1900
acres Of land at Crystal Butte, twenty
miles from Gunnison, the tract contain
ing large and valuable deposits of iron
to he equal to the best in Missouri,
and the coal superior to the best in Penn
sylvania. The mill when finished, is to
employ several thousand hands.
The Bermuda Islands are furnished
with the most beautiful roads in the
world, though they are hard on the
horses feet. When this was penal col
ony of Great Britain, the convicts were
kept at work road-making. They cut
the soft rock Of the islands carriage
ways which seem like tunnels uDroofed,
and practically leveled the hills. From
end to end Of the islands and from side
to side these roads cross and intersect,
leading now through groves Of palmetto
and CEDAR lemons and oranges, bananas
and tropical vines, and then
along the shore Of the sea
or the sound where the marvellous tints
Of the water, sometimes bright emer-
aid near the shore, deepening into
blue which is framed bya horizon just
tinged with a beautiful rose color. form
q picture that the art critics would call
A Benton, ky.. farmer, discovered in
digging a Welt his neighbor's prem
ises several glistening fragments of rock
which he believed to be either gold or
silver. He kept his discovery secretun
til he had married the widow who owned
the 'arm. He then took the fragments
of rock to a professional gentleman in
Paducah, who has local reputation as
mining expert, and laying handful
of them before him, asked with ill-s,ip-
pressed excitement: doctor, what is
that worth?" The doctor made brief
examination and replied: "Pyrites OF
iron; it isn't worth a nickel tom The
visitor staggered to the door and into
the street and when an hour later cou.
pie of acqraintances lifted h-m into his
wagon it was painfully evident that he
had succeeded in drowning everything
except his sorrow, which still looked out
from the mos. melancholy countenance
that was ever seen i'll Patlucah.
Beauty Richly Adorned.
At the receptions given to the Mexi-