The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-26
SPIRIT OF THE DAY.

SPIRIT OF THE DAY.
Justin McCarthy will sail for America
on Sept. 16.
Parnell's brother in Alabama has, it
is said. 400 acres OF peaches.
The transfer of the Able LISTS re-
mains to Hungary is mooted.
Gen. Rosencrans attended q Grand
Army reunion in Indiana last week.
Secretary Manning, at Watch Hill,
day.
Secretary Bayard was the only men,
Dor Of the Cabinet in Washington, last
week
Congressman Frank Hiscock of New
York is a candidate for the United
States Senate.
DR.. Sir Andrew Clark declares that
there is not an unsound spot in all Mr..
Gladstone's physical being.
An avalanche of peat swept down ON
Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands,
and almost completely wiped out the
town.
Instead of going as usual to Bedford
Springs, ex-S ecretary Cameron is this
summer visiting among the various
watering-placos.
The most modest girl in the world
resides ut Syracuse. 1t is said of her
that when pupil at Vassar she refused
to work on improper fractions.
Sir Lyon and Lady Playfair are ex-
pected to visit Nahant soon, where
they will be the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. H. Russell, Lady Playfair's parents.
Successful experiments were made
at Fort Point by Lieut.. Graydon, on .he
navy, to demonstrate that dynamite
shells may be discharged from cannon
like ordinary powder filled shells.
Mrs Laura G. ,Holloway's motion for
an injunction against Bradley & Co.,
publishers. to prevent them from issu-
ing The Ladies of the White House., ~
was denied by Jud sc Butler in Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Clifford, of Portland, the vener.
able widow of the late Justice
Clifford, of the United States, is still il,
excellent health and is passing a few
| weeks among relatives and friends in
the town of Newield.
A lot of Eastern editors are engaged
in disputes over the meaning of the
following decision of the Concord
School of Philosophy: The self can
know itself only by discriminating itself
through self-regulated distinctions in
itself.n
Count Ysugi, son of the Premier OF
Japan. is at Chicago to arrange with
publishers for school text hooks in the
English language for use in the Japan
csc schools, the Mikado having ordered
that the English language be laug ht in
the public schools.
The late Sir John Anderson invented
for the British Government machinery
which reduced the cost of making bui.
lets from 1926 to II cents per 1000,
and of bayonets from $1.87 to g. cents
each, but never made anything out OF
it beyond his salary of Sc. 600 year.
Japan has accepted the amendments
of the United States Senate to the extra
dition treaty between tho two coun-
tries, and both countries are now ready
for the last step in the matter-the
formal exchange of copies, after which
the PRONUNCIATION by the two Govern
ments will Immediately take place.
Luther home as child at Mansfield.
Saxony, has just been restored to its
original condition when the Reformer's
parents dwelt there four centuries ago.
The old house will be inhabited by a
body of deaconesses, who will nurse
and care for the sick and the poor of
the town.
Capt. Landgren, of the French bri-
gantine Tombola, has been awarded a
gold medal b y the British Board of
Trade for his kindness to the girl Jour-
neaux, who in April was picked up
alone in an open boat in the Atlantic
Ocean, having drifted away f:om
Guernsey.
Thomas Walter Robinson, the Oldest
Free-mason in Pennsylvania, died at
Wilkesbarre Thursday. He was 81
years of age. and obtained his thirty
second degree many years ago. He
settled in Illinois in 1882, where the CITY
of Peoria now stands, being the first
white resident.
The Democrats of the Chillicothe,
Ohio, district have nominated Gen.
James w. Denver, for Congress. The
capital city of the Centennial state is
named for the General who was once
delegate in Congress from the terri
tory of Colorado.
Gen. o. o. Howard, in his recent
tour of inspection of the Indian rcser-
walton on the falmouth, attuned his
rich baritone voice to NINETY and
Nine, Pull for the Shore, and other
hymns of the enthusiastic kind. His
teamstcrs petitioned for change.
They wanted to JOIN in the chorus.
Miss Jennie McCabe a young lady
guest at Lake George, New York, was
recently sitting on a rock near the wa
ter when she was Mortified to find a
rattlesnake nestled in her lap. She
sprang forward into the lake, from
which she was rescued unhurl by her
brother.
c ssius NJ. Clay is a very old man
and was supposed to be ''flickering in
the sochet.' But somebody having
questioned the truth of a passage in
his Memoirs" has called to life again
tho old fiery and impetuous spirit
which made him famous in the political
strifcs of long years ago.
MIR. A. S. Abel, proprietor of the
Baltimore Sun. celebrated the eightietb
anniversary of his birth on Tuesday
last a. Guilford, his Baltimore County
residence. and the venerable gentle.
man was fairly overwhelmed with
loving remembrances from his sons,
daughters and grandchildren. For
tune has been kind to him in every
direction.
Ida Lewis, famous for her efforts in
rcscuing the drowning at Newport. is