The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-07-16
Current Matters.

Current Matters.
While England, with population O,
26, 600, 900, has only S, 500 students at
Oxford and Cambridge, Germany, with
a population of 45, $50, 900, has 25,-
900 students attending her UNIVERSE
ties.
It is predicted that the ivory supply
OF Central Africa will not last more
than ten or fifteen years longer. Its
exhaustion will be good thing for
Africa, because the natives will not dc.
vote themselves to the development of
the natural resources OF the country
so long as they can find tusks. The
sooner the ivory is gone, therefore, the
better for Africa and the Africans.
Mason and Dixon's line, which has
cut such figure in our political his
tory, was originally 800 miles long,
and was marked by stone posts at in.
tervals of one mile. TWAS the bound
AIRY line between the state of Pennsyl-
vania and the states OF Maryland and
Virginia, and the name is derived from
it's surveyors, Charles Mason and Jere
miah Dixon. In 1920 the line was ex.
tended to the western boundary O.
Missouri. This is known as the Henry
Clay compromise
Concerning the perfumery manufac.
tories at Nice and Cannes it is reliably
stated that these establishments an.
nually crush and squeeze no less than
154, 900 pounds of orange blossoms
1920 pounds of acacia blossoms
154 900 pounds of rose leaves, 81, 2OC
pounds OF jasmine blossoms, 22,OOC
pounds of violets, $500 pounds O.
tuberoses and q relatively large
amount of Spanish lilacs, rosemary
mint, lime and lemon blossoms, thyme
and numbers OF other plants and leaves
and flowers.
In anticipation of clean sweep, the
postmaster Of Golden, COL, has post.
ed up the following notice OH the door
OF his Office: II have to get out of this
shebang about LIST of August coming
and [ want to close out all of this store
truck before that time, and if any OF
you have the welfare OF a fellow-being
at heart, and are fond of good smoke:
walk right up to the counter and droC
your shekels-you will neverget anoth.
er such chance"
For the seventeen states of Europe
the total OF the armies on peace foot.
ing is 2,529,532 men. Calculating
their wages at SO cents per day, and
emitting the holidays, we have a sum
of $1S7 so per annum for each man.
Multiplying this sum by 9, 500, 500, the
total comes to $474, 1O2,875 per an
mum. Adding to this the total of the
seventeen war budgets, which is $685.
1863, $40, the total loss suffered by
Europe annually on account Of her
armies is 82,574,26O.
The transfer of West Virginia's cap.
ital from Wheeling to Charleston, on
the Kanawha, ends a somewhat bitter
contest of factions. When West Vir-
ginia became q state, Wheeling was
made the capital; but after the war
Charleston became the seat of govern
mcnt. In 1875 the legislature made
Wheeling again the capital, and the
citizens donated the state building
for the capitol. In 1870 the legisla-
ture ordered a general vote on the cap
ital question, the decision to be a CON
elusive one. Clarksburg, Martinsburg
and Charleston were to be voted on,
and Charleston received the largest
number OF votes. 1t is understood
that there will never be a change.
The New York Sun says ofthe bench
show OF dogs at the Madison Square
Garden: Ladies' pets were numer.
Gus, and were almost without excep.
ton the uglicst dogs in the show, Mrs.
Frederic Nelson's bull terrier, which
took a first prize, being phenomenally
so. The mild faced collies, the mag
niticent St. Bernards, who may Justly
be called the kings OF the kennel, and
the soft-eyed, intelligent red settlers OF
Ireland are all passed unnoticed by the
fair sex, while fox hounds, poodles:
bull terriers and Chinese monstrosities
are taken to their hearts and laps.
But fashion must necessarily govern
the tastes and direct the affections OF
society women in the choice OF a lap
dog as we'll as in the capture of an eli
gible husband or the selection OF
hunter"