The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-04-03
Brief ana Rithy.

A peculiarly Of Washington II the
excellent manner in which the streets
are kept. No city on this continent
approaches it in this respect; perhaps
no city in Europe, not even excepting
Paris, excels it. It has 175 miles Of
paved streets, more than one:third Of
which is of concrete-asphalt and coal
tar; thirty miles Of gravel, and the re-
naming seventy miles of stone block,
rough stone, macadam and wood.
The Boston Advertiser says of the
cynic, whom all the world affects to hate
so terribly: "Most people Except
when their own interests suffer- are
very little troubled by the dishonesty,
cruelty and meanness of human nature
and human transactions; but now and
then man arises who is actually panied
or moved to scorn or to contempt by
the spectacle of human life, and such q
man, though he be the most tender
hearted of his race, will be stigmatized
as cynic if he speak his mind and hold
his mirror up to nature, There was q
time when it was the fashion to call
Thackeray cynic."
Minister Thomas reports to the State
Department that second line of steam
ships between Sweden and the United
States will be started this year, with
three new iron steamers. The first ship
will depart from Stockholm about the
middle Of April for New York. The
second ship will sail for Boston, the
third for New York, and so on, the
steamers making alternate trips to New
York and Boston. This line is owned
in England, but it will be managed on
the European side by Olson & Wright,
Of Stockholm.
The great fast mail between New
York and Chicago, of which we have
heard SO much, has record of about IS
miles an hour. The Flying Dutch
man" broad gauge train of England,
regularly makes l9f miles at the rate of
1876 miles an hour, and the "Flying
Scotchman," narrow gauge train, 1879
| miles at the rate of 1872 miles an hour.
The great fast mail is two hours and
i've minutes slower than the limited ex-
press on the Pennsylvania road. Let
the +. III. wear its cow catcher behind.
A story Of a fishy nature comes from
Oregon. It is about man and dog
There is nothing remarkable about the
man, except his powers of narration,
but the dog possesses varied&accom-
phshments. Among other things, he
dives into the river and catches salmon
in his mouth. Recently he was by the
side of his master, who was fishing
through hole in the ice, when he dis
covered choice salmon, and Owed
down after it. The current carried him
beyond the hole and under the ice, but
he swan fifty feet until he came to an
| other hole, whence he scrambled out
with the fish in his mouth.
You may talk until you are blind and
you can not convince military veteran
that the best skill, with the latest i'm
proved connecting pot, can make as
good drink of coffee as could the SOL
| der with his old tin-can on the camp
fire. He thinks, too, that the fat pork
and hard bread of those days were
better than the porterhouse steak and
Vienna roll of these degenerate times.
The old champaigner, in his enthusiasm,
| will not allow for any change in his own
taste, but goes on to impress with the
fact that broiled mules ear, of a. frosty
morning, after fellow has slept out in
the fresh air over night, is vastly more
delicious than the incest spring chicken
or squirrel that ever tempted the appe-
| tite.