The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

banker, is dead, at Christina, Norway.
Edwin Arnold is ill. He recently
underwent an operation Tor internal
abscess.
There is shortage in the onion crop
of the country, and higher prices are in
dicated.
By order of the Georgia courts OBJ
stinate prisoners are hereafter to DO
whipped on the bare back.
Minister S. S. Cox and wife and Hen
~ Watterson and wife sailed from
Paris for the United States.
The forfeited Atlantic & Pacific land,
grant in New Mexico will be thrown
open to settlers in few days.
.Bonnets made of small natural white
flowers, and therefore ''good tor one
occasion only" arc in high fashion for
bridesmaids.
The health authorities of New York
and Boston are keeping q close watch
over the shipments of Chicago dressed
beef at present.
Buffalo Bill will visit Europe next
year. He thinks the American tours
OF Salvini and Henry Irving call for a
fitting return.
Atlanta's City Fathers have weaken
ed on prohibition. The City Council
has pass ed q resolution permitting
brewerics to deliver beer at private
residences.
Capt. Hem, the yachtsman, is out
of pocket some $4,000 by his expert
ments with Galatea, whereas he ex-
Pec:ed to carry home a comfortable
little nest-egg.
San Francisco Alta: We have never
believed in the too rapid payment of
the National debt, but the generation
which spilled the blood has nearly paid
for tho War.
The privilege of marrying second
time is nowadays almost as frequently
denied a parent by his children as the
privilege of the children to marry the
first time is denied by the parents.
Parneil and his mother and sister in
tend to spend the winter in the south
of France. They will probably visit
Rome. and not return to England be-
fore the reopening of Parliament.
Miss Ethel-Have you and George
had quarrel, Clara? Miss Clara-No,
indeed. 1t is getting too near Christ
mas for me to quarrel with George.
dear fellow New York Sun.
John Weltrier of Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, thinks that he has dis
covered the secret ofperpetual motion.
and has made application for patent
on the machine that is to 90 forever.
A well-known military man of
Nashua. N. H., is heaping Goals of fire
on neighbours head. Looking out
early one morning at his cornfield he de-
tected this nei ghbor skulking off with
his arms full of embezzled corn. He
The Rev. E. G. Hay of Potts
vile, Pa, goes to his appointments
among the hills of Schuylkill County
on a bicycle-the first instance in
which that vehicle has been used for
the transportation Of hay.
Nicolas Smith, Horace Greely's son
in-law, is soon to marry again. The
object of the handsome Colonel's affec-
tions is said to be lovely and wealthy
heiress of the Blue-Grass region of
Kentucky and relative of Gen. Cerro
Gordo Williams.
''Send me another copy of the Bee''
is the soul-stirring order of an old sub
scriber, who incloses the collateral in
payment for the same. Then he goes
on to say: Il take one copy now, but
there's so little in it l need another"
-RichmonG Bee.
At Canton, China, woman charged
with poisoning her husband and three
relatives was cut up into exactly 1000
pieces. 1t has been shown that she
was innocent of the offense, but the
people clamored for her death, which
the Viceroy finally ordered.
Frances Margaret Walpole died in
London, Sept. 26, aged 49, She was,
on the maternal side, the granddaugh-
ter of the great Lord Give, and pat
ernally of Sir Thomas Walpole, brother
of Horace. She died spinster, though
a belle in her youth.
said nothing about the matter, but or
dered his hired man every morning to
leave on the front doorstep of this
neighbor six ears of corn, and this has
been done regularly. The vegetable
is good, but as every body sees the corn
It's not enjoyed as much as it might
be.
| Every time Mark Twain has a
new baby born in his home he
celebrates the event by erecting
a stone watering trough for
horses some where on the road leading
to his summer home at Elmira, and
troughs are now scattered all along
the road, with more to come
Between Aug. % and Sept. 5, inclu-
sive, 1888 new cases of cholera were
reported in Japan, the deaths number
ing SAP. Over 60 per cent of those
attacked died. The wells of Toxic
were examined and 74O out of LIZ
were condemned as unfit for drinking
purposes.
The gross earnings Of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company exclusive
of the Iowa lines) for September
amounted to S926,O2S against 1884,
229 for the corresponding month last
year, a decrease of SS,2O1. The gross
earnings of the Iowa lines for Septem-
Der were $182,59l, against Sl67, 2S6,
an increase of SIS, sos.
As Mrs. Cleveland, attended by her
mother and her cousin Miss Emma Fol-
som. of Philadelphia, on her way from
Buffalo to Washington, paused at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, the party was met
by over thousand persons, the major
ity being women, who were anxious to
see the Presidents wife, and many of
whom shook hands with her.
Salvation Oil cures toothache, sprains.
strains, bruises, chilblains, and ali 6esh