The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-01-17
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BOT long since the phenomenal tide of
the Bay OF Funday carried up the Avon
river to Windsor shoal of black fish, a
large nunberof which were stranded
IN the mud a.; ana ten prize to the m
habltan:s. They were estimated at $lO,.
'E i'll value.
Cato's remark is worth remembering
in these days, when the first evidence
of respect to departed greatness is al
most invariably a statue: II would pre-
fer" said he, "that people should in.
1uire why had not statue erected to
my memory than why had"
There is, it seems, saws the kleptoma.
MAC Of the New York Sun, an umbrella
that cannot be stolen. A genius has in
vented detachable handle, upon with
drawing which the ribs are automaticat-
" locked. Replacing it unlocks them.
No two handles tit the same umbrella.
Fish culturists will be interested in an
enormous pond-the largest in America
ON farm in the town of Riverhead,
Mass. It covers i've acres. About two
thousand cells were put into the pond
five wears, and their number has now
increased to millions. They are fed
regularly every third day on "horse-
teet," a peculiar shell-fish, ana at neal
time crack from their owners whip
will bring thousands of them to the sur
face.
The London Spectator, referring to
Arctic explorations, cogently asks.
what of the mothers. the sisters and
the wives who are left left behind, and
who have to wait with patient anxiety
for years without a word from those
whom they love? It seems that the
only way bv which minimum of sor-
row could be insured would be to pass
law that none but orphan widovers
without children should be allowe.i to
Start tor the arctic or aI.tartlc pole"
That ''the bonanza kings want to
shake the wives Of their youths and
marry others is thus explained by The
Boston Post: "You see it takes one
kind of a wife to help make fortune;
another to help spend it."
The young men of Council Blu ifs have
not been taking the girls there to the
theatre lately, and go twenty.seven OF
them went to a recent entertainment
unescorted, and glared in unison at the
unlrcky youths, who withdrew in
shamefaced silence one by one.
A farmer at Sedalia, Mo-, who fire.
quently missed small sums of money,
dreamed that one of his servants, a
young woman, took the money and hid
it in the mattress of her bed. The next
day the mattress was opened and the
money found. The girl has been trans.
ferred to Jail.
The public schools of South Carolina
the past year contained 74,157 white
md S,93s co ored pupils, making a TO.
al OF l73.O95. This is an increase OF
27,l27 over the previous year.
The opening of large cotton mill and
the introduction Of the cotton manuflc-
ture IN Venice was the occasion of a
ceremony of inauguration few days
ago. in which the religious, civic and
and deputies, and large number OF
other persons invited took part. After
the guests had been shown over the es.
adjustment and their attention special
y directed to the 800 horse power en-
zine for moving the machinery. Cardinal
Agostina, Patriarch OF Venice, delivered
a brief discourse and prOnOunced Oles-
sing on The building and the uadertak.
ing.
Sir Charles Murray, who has lately
been in Washington, was there fifty
years ago as secretary of legation,
when Washington was struggling and
one horse town. and when he was able
to hunt over the adjacent territory of
Maryland and Virginia. He travelled a
good deal, visited every state, spent .
year with the Pawnee Indians and
picked up their lansuag went to Egg
land and held the Prince of Wales when
that fnnctionary was christened, after
ward was diplomatic in Egypt and Per.
Sit, and then, after fifty years, at the
age of eighty. has again been in Wash.
ington which he finds good deal
changed. He had many good stories to
tell abont the card parties of Jackson,
Calhoun, Webster and Clay, and, posi-.
bly,, might have told some not entirely
good.
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