The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-09-17
PASSING EVENTS.
A convict, however poor. can al
WaYS have a watch and chain.

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A convict, however poor. can al
ways have watch and chain.
The Chinese make, az we'll as wash
most of the white shirts worn in Sar
francisco.
Four thousand persons are annually
buried in ''P0tter's field'' of New
York city.
A brass band pulled about town al
day on an open horse-car helped t.
celebrate the Fourth of July in Fall
River, Mass.
The exports of manufactured tobac
60 from Petersburgh, Va, from the
18th to the 3Oth OF June, inclusive
amounted to upward of 265, 900 pounds.
During one week over three thous
and pounds OF arsenic were sent into
San Joaquin valley, in Calitornia, t.
be used IN discriminating grasshop'
pers.
The four American cities of above
twenty thousand inhabitants having
the highest natural sites above the
level OF the sea are Leadville, Denver
Omaha, and Atlanta. in the order
named.
Manitoba is not a creditors para
disc: BY recent act not only are 9
settlers household effects AMI furni
ture. ETC.. free from execution, but &
portion of his stock, land to the extern,
OF 16O acres, and buildings to the value
OF $25, 600 are also exempt.
There are in the human voice about
9 perfect tones. Thus, IA direct mus
Giles, alone or together, produce It,.
1888; 80 indirect muscles produce 49,
74l. 1928, and all in corporation
produce the large total of 1852, 1885,,
44,415 different but clearly defined
sounds.
A Charleston, S. c., inventor has
devised knob, which may be made
highly ornamental, to be affixed to s
lady's belt, so that her partner in
dancing can ''swing partners'' with.
out that offensive familiarity which
has thrown gloom over the festive
dance. With another knob on the
shoulder, dancing might be as prope,
as swinging scythe-snath.
Signs are taxed 5 cents per lette,
every year in Cuba, and the ingenious
Cuban does not put up 81 gn if he
can help it, or else paints on it an
emblem, as a boot, 4 trunk, or cigar.
If words must be employed, it is not
an uncommon practice to dash daub
OF paint across the lettering producing
legal obliteration, yet leaving an in
scrlptlon that can still DO deciphered.
Aham, western cured, has been sub
mitted to New York doctor to deter.
mine tho nature of certain parasites
that infested it. He decided that thew
were specimens of the acarus saccharif,
or sugar mite, closely allied to the
ordinary plant louise. and closely re.
sembllng it in all but color. The doc
tor gives it as his opinion that they
probably would do no harm if eaten
alive.
Cclluloid may be a useful material
for many purposes, but it is not likely
to become popular among cigar smok.
ers who wear false teeth. A Pitts
burgh lover OF the weed absent mind
eddy smoked the stump of a cigar too
close to his celluloid teeth, and an ex-
plosion occurred which used up his
mouth so badly that he will want to
take nourishment through tube fol
some time to come.
1t can not be said that the University
OF Oxford is financed very we'll, says
London Truth: An appeal for sub.
scrlptions is now being issued on its
behalf to meet its share of the cost OF
the drainage works which are being
undertaken in order to make the ali
less malarious and the water less i'm.
pure. The amount required, it seems,
is f18,0OO. which one would have
thought should have been q prior
charge on the university exchequer to
the tl2O, 600 spent on the examination
palace.
The use of German has been made
obligatory in the assembly Of the i'm
perlal provinces. A great cutlery was
raised, aud one member of the reichstag
even asserted that out of iifty-seve1
members in the Alsace-Lorraine as.
sembly no more than eight, or at most
ten, would take part in public debates.
From the list of speeches made at the
recent session, it is now seen that
thirty -four members, including four
from Lorraine, took a prominent part
in the proceedings, and that with an
elOquence and readiness of repartee
which proved that the use of the Ger
man language was anything but an
''odlous hindrance" to them.
From a report made to the British
government by its consul general at
Frankfort, it appears that all over
Germany the consumption of ardent
spirits is rapidly increasing, especially
among the working classes. In Prus-
sia. for instance, between 1869 and
1880 the number OF public houses in
creased at tho rate of 80 per cent,
while the population only increased at
the rate of IL per cent. The consump.
ton of spirits rose from sc liters per
head between 1870 and 1874 to 80
liters per head in 1875-8l. This is the
more remarkable from the fact that
the use of spirits amongst the
upper classes in Germany has gone
out of fashion. The workmen do not
follow suit.
The article at present most in de-
mand in tho medical world of Ger
many is-old cheese. A young physi-
clan, DIR. Deneke, assistant at the
HYGIENE Institute of Gottingen, has
recently discovered in old cheese an
enthusiastically small and hitherto UNI
known fungus which in form. charac-
ter, and growth, closely resembles the
genuine comma shaped bacillus dis.
covered by Prof. Koch, and which has
been used in vaccinating animals
without any injurious effect. DR.. Den
exc has been able to cultivate the
fungi, and the imperial hygienic Of
flee has taken the matter in hand so
far as to address a circular to $50
medical men, urging them to investi-
gate the subject and report their OBJ
servatlOns to them.
Tho Prussian railway system is to be
considerably extended, and that coun-
try promises to resemble a grldiron.
with its numerous railways. Bills
have been submitted to the landtag,
authorizing the expenditure of $15,:
10000 for the construction of now
lines of state railways and the com.