The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-08-27
PASSING EVENTS

bottles of beer.
The last blow to the roller-skating
rink has been given by a Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the b.
cycle. and it has become popular there,
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
of comprehending it.
1t is now claimed that birds as near
~ as possible initiate the nests in which
they wore reared, and bring to the
work sort of rudimentary education.
Prot. l.. E. Richards. the Yale pedes-
TRAN, has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure.
Last year he made twenty ono hum
bred.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is soon to open at Allegheny, for the
use Of its employees, a library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
Fifteen thousand people at the open
ing of the Chautauqua school, which
indicates that as popular summer re-
sort the school is fast taking the place
of tho camp meeting.
In a recent issue of we'll known
French journal appeared the follow
ing advertisement: WANTED, a dis
tinguished and healthy look ing man to
be cured patient in a doctors wait
ing-rOOm. Address, etc."
As two men were fishing in mill
pond at Valatie, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, they saw y
RpnOO1i1n OhnV,f civ fnnf 1ns>~ v1y1
into the water: 1t was put into the
pond six years ago, when small.
The Jews of Austria complain that
1t is great hardship that they should
be forbidden to work on Sundays, since
their religion obliges them to rest on
Saturday. The Jewish population in
Vienna alone amounts to 100000.
Lunches at tho Ascot races, eaten
on the grass or under cover, consist of
''bread, butter. and a ard boiled egg"
for a ''threepence" or, more elaborate,
tho "periwinkle, 'ot 'ouse grapes,
peerless pines,' and as sweet pack
age of acid drops.
Tho tribal government of tho Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an up
per and lower house of representa-
tives. The judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after tho
manner of the whites.
The dry weather in Texas affects
The LulinQ Wasp in this manner:
''Tho foam-covered coursers of tho
air are constantly in sight, but the
sound of their tramping comes not,
nor do we feel tho welcome spray from
the raingod's fountain.
| A horse was thrown down in New
York few days ago by the iron shoe
1T one foot coming in contact with
the cover of manhole for the cleo
trio wires, which was affected by leak
age, while the other foot touched the
iron rail of the Blocker street horse
railroad.
AS an illustration of the depreciation
of land valued in England, London
Truth states that a large free hold es-
tate in North Wiltshire was offered for
sale at Devices recently for 800, 900.
There was not single bid, and yet
ten years ago this property was valued
at S240, 900.
In communication to the Acaden,-
se DIES Sciences. Nj. Duclaux states the
presence of heterogeneous in the
earth is essential to the termination
of seed. HIS experiments were made
with plants whose seeds grow on the
surface as we'll as those which deYel-
op in the ground.
In Tenejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, tho
Indian residents are more sanguinary
than the Chinese in the administra-
ton of justice. They surrounded tho
houses Of seven well-known robbers,
and burned them alive in their houses.
When tho militia arrived they only
found heap of ashes.
The largest diamond in tho world is
shortly to be cut at Amsterdam, where
q special workshop is being construct
ed. This gem is south African, and
weighs AS carats. thus being 1873
carats heavier than the Grand Mogul,
belonging to the shah of Persia and
hitherto the biggest diamond known.
Tracing.paper may be made by i'm:
mersing best tissue paper in bath
composed of turpcntine and bleached
beeswax. A piece of beeswax an inch
in diameter dissolved in half pint of
turpentine is said to e i've good results.
The paper should be allowed to dry
for two or three days before using it.
A very aggravated case of vitriol-
throwing occurred recently in the
Bois dc Boulogne. A woman named
Josephine Pei, having in vain solicited
by with his little daughter, flung a
bottle full of vitriol at his head. He
escaped injury but the child was badly
burned about the neck and back.
Within few days 1870 omnibuses
have been sold at auction IN New York.
The hundred sold at the Madison
square stables went as low as an aver
ago of $50, and one brought only $15.
At later sale eighty Fifth avenue
stages brought an average of 500
each. At these prices they were
cheap for the use OF camping out par
ties or travelling photographers.
Take slip of paper and place
thereon, in figures, your ago in years,
dropping months, weeks, and days.
Multiply the sum by two; then add to
the result obtained the figures 3,768;
add two, and then devide by two.
Subtract from the result obtained the
the number of your years on earth,
and sec If you do not obtain figures
you will not be likely to forget.
For its private work the Bank of
DEVILS Lake, Dakota, has adopted u
rather peculiar but very suggestive
vignette. The base is sheaf of wheat,
on which rests a silver dollar, over
the back of which Satan is climbing,
holding in one hand the scales of jug
tice and in the other a lance. At his
left is map of the lako, which forms
the place for writing tho amount of
draft or check, on which are the
words, ''Give the devil his DUE"
A few days ago Watcrvliet, N. Y,
farmer was induced by a stranger to
act as agent for wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents cor
titicate. Soon after two men visited
him and showed him paper, the ono
he had signed. It was a contract to
purchase $1,000 worth of wire. He in
Vitod the men into his barn. whera he