The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-15
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.

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Ex-Congressman Frank Hurd will
resume tho practice Of law.
Nathaniel p. Willis daughter, Miss
Lillian, is to be married to B. A. Bolt,
of Boston.
Denver has a servant-girl famine,
and 500 girls could find places at once.
MIR. George Hearst, the new Gail
fcrnia Senator, is said to have an in
come of $4,000 day.
Oscar Wilde's mother has completed
what is regarded as an important COL
lection of Irish legends.
One of the most extensive chicken
farmers in Pennsylvania is named
Hatch. His first name is Hennery.
North Carolina, formerly called South
Virginia, was once sold to the Kings
agent for house and f2OO.
A Philadelphia horseman estimates
the trade value of the bride bits in the
country at more than $6,500,OO0.
1t is rumcred that Congressman
Scott, of the Erie (Pa.) district, is ne
gotiating for the purchase of the Wash
ington Post.
President Cleveland was invited to
name female triplets born at Cam
bridge City, Ind. He declined, but
sent a check for 500.
The dairymen ask congress to i'm
pose an internal revenue tax of 10
cents a pound on all bogus butter of
whatever name. They contend it costs
20 cents pound to make good butter,
while butterine costs half as much.
A writer in the Boston Transcript
his white wife ''has tender Difference
that is beautiful sentiment of unspo-
ken DEVOTION"
Babyhood, in It's April number, offers
1925 for the best short article U,5O0
words or more) on ''crying SPELLS re-
ceived by June /.
A stirring story of life on Prince Ed
ward Island, by Helen Hunt Jackson,
is one of the good things in the April
mum Der of Hdrper's Magazine.
John Kerlin, trustee of Princeton
Township and postmaster at Seatiel,
Ind, has taken trip to Canada. A
shortage of about $4,000 exists in the
township treasury.
1t is said that but for Secretary
Manning's sudden illness Secretary
Lamar would, before this have rendered
his resignation to President Cleveland.
The Washington calico ball in aid of
the Garfield Hospital is set for Easter
Monday, to be held at the Chinese
Legation.
Miss Louise De Koven is the
wcalthiest heiress in Chicago, her
fortune being estimated at nearly $780,
100000. She is engaged to a young
New Yorker.
Lord Cairns engagement token to
his fiancie, Miss Adele Grant, consists
of three rings-a hoop of diamonds, q
ruby set in diamonds and sapphire.
James H. Lindsay, said to be a. scion
| of the well-known house of that name
in Berkshire, England, is driving a
| street car in Buffalo.
F. S. Murphy, lawyer of Gales
burg, H., has been disbarred ''Decause
| of conduct unbecoming an attorney"
His unprofessional conduct appears to
| consist of bringing an action against a
Judge of the State Supreme Court for
alternating the affections of wife from
her husband.
Mrs. Hendricks, widow of the Vice
President, has gone to California for
six weeks visit.
Ex-senator Barnum Of Connecticut
is convalescing in Florida.
The domestic househould of Queen
Victoria numbers about one thousand
| persons.
Sunset Cox has sent cable message
from Turkey to say that he does not
want any more salary.
The goth anniversary of the first
settlement of Woodstock. Conn, will
be celebrated on Aug. %.
Five thousand persons witnessed the
execution, Friday, at Lexington, Mo-,
of jeff Wilson, whose feet touched the
| ground when the drop fell, necess.ta.
ting hurried shorteni ing of the rope.
He assembled the gallows with a smile
or his countenance. and spoke for sew
| enteen minutes.
The receipts of Edwin Booths two
| weeks engagement in Philadelrhi:,
amounted to S26,91O. His most popular
impersonation was Hamlet which drew
$1,000. Next came Richard with
$4,000
Phillip u. Armour, the Chicago mil.
liOnaire, is at work in his office from
6.45 a. m. to 6p. III. six days in thc
week, and goes to bed at p. m.
Asked how he succeeded in business
he said recently, II always made it :,
principle when the Almighty wasn't on
my side to get on his
Mrs. Hancock, widow of Gen. Han.
cock, was once St. Louis belle, and
is still very prcpossessing woman in
manner and appearance. OF late
years she has dressed always in black,
and has been seen little in society,
although she has entertained great
deal in quiet way at her island home.
She has been her husbands constan,
companion, and her desolation, now
that she is left childless and widow,
is almost beyond endurance.
H. NJ. Hoxie, the manager of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, whose nam
has become so familiar of late in con
nection with the railway strike in the
Southwest, was himself poor boy il
Iowa. and, in early life, was host!cr IL
a hotel near Des Moines.
Mrs. Nathan Griffith, of Wcstm;n.
ster, Ont, whose reason was shaft, RED
by religious excitement, cut her hus-
bands throat Friday morning as he
lay sleeping.
! AnocdOte of Mayor CASTOR.
A characteristic story is told of ex
Gov. CASTOR when he occupied til,
mayoralty chair of Boston. A gentle
man, whose sense of the dignity Of {