The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-07-09
Personal GOSSIP.


register in a city store, attracted some
attention to himself by observing to his
wife: "Mariar, guess I'm goln to have
fever; feel such hot airs a-runnin'
up my legs. Exchange.
Judge Phelps of Vermont, father of
the new minister to England, was
descendant of the first of that name who
landed at Nantasket in 1880, some of
whom afterward settled in Vermont,
and Of John Phelps, assistant clerk of
the court which condemned Charles I.
to death.
There is a five-year-old girl near
Weedsport, N. Y, who is addicted to
the use of tobacco. When between two
and three years of age tobacco smoke
was blown into milk and given her as
remedy for collie. It proved effective,
but created an uncomfortable desire for
tobacco, and by various subterfuges the
child has ever since found means to
crafty her craving for the weed.
"There are ladies in this city," says a
New York floor walker, "who move in
the best society and possess all the
money necessary to meet their demands,
but they can hardly enter dry goods
store without appropriating some arti-
Gle, and, strange as it may seem, they
very seldom take anything of material
value; they don't seem to choose any
thing because of its worth, but me-
chanically pick up the first article they
can appropriate when they think no one
is looking. We have to watch them
from the moment they enter the store
until they leave"
Miss Clara Spain was orderd out of
school room in Troy, New York
recently because she wore a green bow
in honor of st. Patrick's Day. The
school authorities have called Mrs.
Davis, the teacher, to account for it.
Miss Fanny Lawrence, daughter of
Francis Lawrence, of New York, who
will be one of the greatest heiresses of
this country, is engaged to Lord Will
lam Venables- Vernon, an English Lord
with large rent roll. Her mother,
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and is the owner of several millions in
her own right. It is said that Miss
Lawrence will have q marriage portion
of $500, 900 given to her by her parents
on her wedding day.
A Mexican had become Jealous of his
mistress, young Mexican girl about
eighteen. Going to her room in day
light, he locked the door, Invested her
of all her clothing, securely tied her to
the wall with heavy ropes, then DELHI
erately proceeded to cut strips of flesh
from various parts of her body and I'M
der the threat of cutting out her heart
he compelled his victom to eat her own
flesh. Her frantic screams finally
brought assistance just as the inhuman
fiend had finished cutting off the end
of her tongue. The brute was arrested
and jailed. His victim is dying:
Samuel D: DELPHI, q prominent bust
ness man of Norristown, Pa, recently
deceased, is reported to have been an
embezzler to the extent of 1913, 900 from
the funds of the William Penn Saving
L uAA onu AOdu xASOCCldt4Ous VI WHICH
he was secretary. Most of the members
Of the association are women:
A party of Yale students is said to
nave captured police officer who was
endeavoring to e1tinguish fire that
had been lighted on the campus in hon
or of Professor Phelps appointment as
Minister to Great Britain, took his hat,
coat, belt, badge and revolver from him,
and handled him very severely into the
bargain.
In the twelve years that the late DR..
Wiley was q Bishop Of the Methodist
Church he travelled 100. 900 miles over
the Old and New World, ordained near.
~ 800 deacons and 600 elders, wrote
Is, 900 official letters and spoke nearly
every Sunday.
Three members of the Sanborn fam
lily, brother and two sisters. all Of
whom are over four score years of age
and now residing at Hayerhil1, n. H.,
we're never married, never rode in
railroad car, and have never had stove
in their house. The old fashioned tin
baker, fire crane and hooks have always
been in use BY them.