The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-04-30
FACT AND FANCY,
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fourth class, 9 Of tho third class, and
I Of tho second class.
q South Carolina planter raises Sea
island cotton for . French SPINNER
and receives d per pound.
Tho Oneida community Now York
papers published In tho vicinity cay hes
virtually fallen u pieces. :.
4 Ydnksrs bride received, among
her wedding gifts, reoeipted bill Of
% for gate hinges from her father.
As high as $50 head IL offered to
officers Of Victoria and Puget sound
steamers to smuggle Chinese across
the line.
The Philadelphia Times celebrated ito
tenth anniversary as = newspaper on
the 14th inst. by publishing twenty
eight pages.
In death valley. 1nyo county; Cali.
fornia. week before last the thermom.
eter for several days marked 120 de-
grees in the shade.
Marriages speciality, acceptable
ut all hours, strangers particularly
invited" is the unique advertisement
of q clergyman at York, Me.
Mr.. w. H. Harp, of Americas, Ga,
uses q coffee mill which has been in
constant use in his family fof nearly
sixty years and is efficient Is ever.
A flying snake is on exhibition at
Virginia City, New. The reptile is
four feet long and has two wings at
tached to its body about four inches
back of the head.
The juice of the curious ink-plant
OF New Granada requires no prepara.
ten before being used for writing.
The color is reddish when first applied
to the paper, but soon becomes q deep
black which is very durable.
The story is going the rounds that
Tennessee woman, convicted Of steal
ing diamond ring, Is boarding ut .
hotel under guard instead of occupy
ing small apartment in q peniten-
tiary.
It is said there is hardly telegraph
operator of any experience who has
not had touch of operators paraly-
SIS, and that many of the mistakes
made by operators can be traced to
this ailment. a
A gentleman at Lake Jesup, Fla.
while experimenting with an orange
tree, placed some fertilizer on one side
and none on the other. The side that
was fertilized bore large, bright or
anges, and the other small, rusty ones:
Yale has, in the way of trophies,
sixty-nine base .balls, won from her
various adversaries. Each ball is
painted the color of the stockings of
the vanquished nine, and is lettered to
indicate the time and place of VIM
hing.
There are twenty thousand tons of
wheat in the various warehouses along
Snake river, Washington territory,
waiting for the prices to rise. Farm
ers in that section claim to have about
half as much more in their home gran
aries.
According to a Florida paper, the
pumpkin is perennial in that
state. 1t is said that there is q pump
kin vine growing near Rock Ledge
which has been bearing three years,
and shows every indication of holding
out for another.
A bill has been introduced iii the
city council of New York to regulate
roller skating. The proposed ordi-
nance prohibits minors, unless accom-
panied by parents or guardians, from
attending roller-skating Kinks, and
also forbids roller skating in parks
and streets.
A new machine for bicycle practice.
designed by DR.. Sargent, has becn put
in the Harvard college gymnasium:
1t consists of stationery wheel, over
which is seat which can be raised Or
lowered at pleasure to accommodate
any one. The pressure on the wheel
can be SO regulated as to make the
work as hard or easy as is desired.
What strange creatures we are, to
be sure! A sailor soon forgets the ter
rors of the sea. and ships again ere he
has been ashore month; the convict
is almost certain to return to tho
prison from which he was released but
a short time back, and the widow will
marry the second time if she gets the
chance, and she usually gets the
chance.
One of the funny things of the inau-
guration ball, it is said, was the at
tempts of commonplace people to
force their names on newspaper cor
respondents. Many ladies brought
elaborate accounts of their toilets in
their pockets, written out in the most
angular style, and sent their escorts
to the press headquarters with this
sort of Information.
A romantic scribe thus describes
the first kiss of a newly-wedded
couple: up the perfumeswept av-
enue of love and under the roseat
archway of hymen they had passed
into the joy-lit realms of that HE her
and boiler existence where soul meets
soul on limpid waves of ecstatic feel
ing, and hearts touch hearts through
the blended channel of lips in rapture
linked.''
The late Gen. Gordon's sisters have
declined the annuity which Mr.. Glad
stone offered to them. The general
left three sisters. one of whom Is un.
married, and they are all residing at
SOUTHAMPTON. Ha had two hrotSora