The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
Ain Sorts or Paraxrahs.

AL SOrCS Oh k0T0&f86S.
Kate Field says: "Matthew Arnold
my talk about the superiority Of
American women over men, and 1 know
'etter. Don't quote foreigner-man-
o me. All man wants from a woman
Usually is receptivity. American women
re moro sympathetic to him than men.
renee In bis estimation superior. Don't
a!k to mo OF the superiority of my sex.
Wmen women are superior to men they
sill demand the suffrage, and several
'ther things"
American women owe bow to the Pail
Nall Gazette, which saya american
iris have deserved reputation for gen.
ghere."
A German doctor says: "Melt some
inspected butter, soak worsted or a
wick in It. when cold light it like a can.
lie: blow it out; if it ls oleymarearine, it
will smell like q blown-out candle; if it
butter, it will smell like BUTTER
The total number of children of
school age" which varies in each state
rom four to sixteen, is estimated at 49,
62 ,283; the school rolls for 1882 show q
membership Of 9, 7sl .53l, however, and
daily average attendance Of j, zoo, 342.
The furniture interest in this country
enormous. Three years ago it
amounted in New York to 800 families
md product ofnearly Sit, 900, 900. Gin
:lnnati had 1l9 factories, with profit OF
A,5Oo,M0 Chicago turned out above
5000, 900; Philadelphia, 81, 0OO, 900, and
Boston, 100000.
According to the last statistics there
are in Paris, l9l 800 dwellings inhabited
~ RIGA or weil-to-do people, amounting
% 5O0.O 900 individuals, and 472>OOO houses
or l,oO,OO workmen or poor people.
ABOUT 2O0, 900 human beings are living
nj, 753 ''garnis" or second-clas tene.
nent houses.
The Baltimore Sun says: "Woman is
sluxury-loving AMI generous buyer,
md it is to her demand for beautiful
abrics that the manufacturer, under the
aew social conditions OF the last two cen.
;uries, has looked with most confidence
or bis reward. This demand did not
.xist to anything like the same extent a
lnndred years ago. when woman, being
'egarded in the ordinary walks of life as
tsomewhat inferior creature, was re-
'tricted in her liberty, her expenditure
Ind her discretion as to a number of
hlngs, dress in GUIDED, affecting her
1apE'1ess."
QUE: old China is the only civilized
:ountr! .otha world which has not re-.
'orted to gas as means o: lighting, and
sven among the rich the methods of il.
Eliminating are primitive in the extreme
;houR h kerosene oil is now rapidly com.
ns into use withina considerable radius
II the treaty ports.
A foolish man in San Francisco ad-
'ertised for 1920 red-headed girls; must
% good looking" and not one response
vas received. At the suggestion of his
wife. who is red-headed, he advertised
or 32o golden'haired beauties," and be-
ore the paper was out two hours the
street in front of bis Office was crowded
With lust the style Of beauty he desired
The Mobile Register says if intelligent
aorthern people would visit the south
during political campaign and election
;hey would mo longer express surprise
mat race so ignorant and unframed a!
ne negro can not withstand the arts and
.evices Of a superior race"
The New Orleans Picaynne says that
IN Sunday mornings the French marke,
in that city is visited by an unusually
large crowd Of strangers who do the
market. taking coffee, etc, attend the
line services at the Cathedral, and wind
up with q breakfast ut some quaint, out.
0tthc.way little French restaurant.
The last census gave Texas total pop
nlation of 1881, 749, Of which s37 ,S4(
we're males and 753 900 females. Native
born, 1,477, 1888; foreign born, ia GIG
whites, 1897 1887; colored 1914 ,5l2. The
area of the state includes 15S,423, ign
acres Of which only G,S4l ,7G5 acres are
under cultivation, and $500, 800 are
covered ,ith timber. In 1880 there
were under cultivation, in corn, 3, 900;
200 aCres; in cotton, 2,SlO,l13 acres; il
in whe't. 400, 900; in sug,r cane, lsl So
acres. OF the religious sacts the Roman
Catholics are the strongest, having
membership of IL 600 in the state; mex
are the Methodists, $3.50; then tn,
Baptists, 1850.