The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-29
SPIRIT OFTHE TIMES.

':Mikado'' sateen il in Tnrko,Jana,.
esque designs.
A new English dictionary is coming
out with 100000 words.
At a drum tap 9,Ooo,0 900 soldier.
sould take arms in Europe.
The Connecticut Senate has reiected
the woman-Sufrage bill by vote of Is
to 5.
The American Congress of Churches
will be held at Cleveland, May 25, Is,
and n.
About 99, OOO, 900 worth of American
made locomotives are sent abroad ev-
cry year.
Queen Victoria has taken quite a
fancy to Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleve-
lands book,
1t costs $4,000 to clean up and put in
readiness for the summer season the
great Saratoga hotel.
The fire indemnity paid by insurance
on Boston property last wear
amounted to over 81 ,OOO,O
Nine Helen Hopekirk, the pianist
will remain in Boston until Nav 5,
when she will sail for home.
A new flag staff on the Grand Union
Saratoga, is eighty feet high and weighs
nearly threc-quartcrs of a ton.
There are $4,000 telephones in use
in Great Britain, while the United
States helloes through 326, 900.
Jacob Twaddle, Ohio, blind from his
birth, claims to be able to tell the COL
or of horse by the sense of touch.
Thousands of peach and other trees
in the Sacramento Valley, California,
are dying from defective drainage.
w. S. Jackson. husband of Helen
Hunt will probably become President of
the Denver and Rio Grande Railway.
BY a Japanese process; seaweed is
made into paper so transparent that it
may be substituted for window-glass.
Fairy stories are told of the rapiditv
with which cottages are being rented
at Bar Harbor, Lenox, and Newport.
Atlantic City has q new ocean pier
which is to be ''boomed' among the
attractions of the coming season at that
place.
The printers in the calico-making
mills of Connecticut refuse to impart
the secrets of their trade to any but
their own sons.
The congregation of the Church of
st. Alphege in the City of London mum;
bers thirty-one; St. Benet, twenty-four-
and st. John five.
The value of the hardware produced
in the United States each year is now
about $60, 900 and nearly half of it
is made in Connecticut.
T. B. Aldrich, editor of the Atlantic,
lives near graveyard. He SAYS he
has excellent neighbors; they never
send in any manuscript.
The church of England in the last
twenty-five years has raised and spent
for religious and educational purposes
the sum of S4O7, 866,l85.
The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Louisville is to have new
building to cost $500 The amount
has already been pledged.
The next general conference of the
M. E. Church will have to make at
least four new bishops, as that number
have died since last season.
The Indian School IT Lawrence,
kas., has experienced a remarkable
revival. resulting in the conversion of
nearly one-half of the pupils.
Movements have been started by
women in New York and Philadelphia,
looking to the organization of societies
for the protection of American birds.
Wyoming cattle kings have pur-
chased 1920 acres in Hillsboro and
Manatce Counties, Florida, for cattle
range. The price paid was S84, 500
cash.
Eight thousand dollars have been
subscribed to defray the expenses of
the General Convention of the Episco-
pal Church to be held in Chicago in
October.
The Indians cost Canada last year
$50, 100000 The Toronto Globe
wants the Indians after this boarded at
some tirs!-class hotel TO keep down
expenses.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
City. rents for Sls5.OOO a year. The
'essecs get back a~out 100000 of this
from storekeepers who have leases on
the premises.
The Twenty-fourth Ward of Brook
ivn, is two miles long and one mile
wide. and yet, it j. said, there is not a
single white Protestant Church in the
whole ward.
Tie annual meeting of the Ameri-
can lone Missionary Society will be
held at Saratoga, beginning June l.
The Rev. DR.. James Brand will preach
the annual sermon.
At 4 Methodist conference in Phila-
delphia the fact was brought out that
many preachers Of that church receive
only $500 per year salary, and that the
average is not over $500.
Nine. Bernhard will wear in her
performance in London the trousseau
prepared for her projected American
tour. The dresses which are exceed
ingly handsome, cost IS, l25.
Queen Margere. OF Italy is woman
who never follows fashion al the ex-
pense OF beauty. She utterly refuses
to wear the extravagantly high and
towering headgear now in vogue.
A }argely-attcnled public meeting
was held in Montreal, Canada, at which
resolutions were passed indorsing Mr..
Gladstone aud his Homc-Rule bill,
The Mayor and city officials took part
in the dt :ncnstra,ion.
A fleet of French vessels is at Pa
pcc,c. the capita! Of the Tahiti Islands,
and it is thought that France intends
either to annex one of the islands or
Establish prUectorate. and that
: islands of other groups may be includ-
cd
Since the organization of the Ameri-
can Pathological Society, nearly thirty
eight years ago. more than 600 named
Varieties Of fruits have. by common
consent. been discarded and their
places in the catalogue filled by better
sorts.
Thomas 5 Taylor, wealthy resi-
dent Of Meervitk. Long Island, acct
dentAliy shot and killed his coachman,
Thaddeus Gritman. Taylor shot at a
tOmatO-can D!ac.;1 on Eritmon.e bood