The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-13
SPIRIT OF THE DAY.

Nobody has heard Of bar-keepsr
striking for eight hours.
There are thirteen American women
studying at the University of Zurich.
Nine. Ristori will appear at Her Mai
esty's Theater in London this spring.
Henry NJ. Stanley is at Naples to
take the fine air till the middle of May.
A pot full Of rouge still fit for use
was lately excavated at Naucratis
Greece.
Bridemades' slippers are to be en-
broidered with the flower used for their
boquets.
| Hugging sociables at so much hug,
ministers free, are very popular in
Butte, NJ. T.
A tunnel under the Irish Channel is
now talked of. The distance is twen-
ty-two miles.
The mother of DIR. Mary Walker, re-
Gently deceased, was cousin of Rob-
ert G. Ingersoll.
Albert Query, the South Carolina
artist, is painting a picture of Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson has gone to
live again at HIS homestead, Ajule-
stad, in Giuasdal.
An Iowa scientist calls attention to
the fact that this is the year for a re-
turn of The seven-year locust.
The red-dotted wells were banished
for time, only to reappear in more
pronounced shades than ever.
John Kelly's condition does not i'm
prove, and there are grave fears ex-
pressed by his friends regarding him.
MIR. and Mrs. Grossman (the latter
nee Edwina Booth) will occupy Mr..
Booths cottage at Newport this sum-
mer.
Colonel Cockerill, managing editor
of the World, is going to spend several
months in Europe in rest and recrca-
ton.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes was a
cabin passenger on the Cephalonia.
which sailed from Boston for Liver
pool.
The Concord (Mass.) School of Phil
osophy will at its two weeks session
Comedy
A Lutheran missionary society at
Baltimore has sent ZOO dolls to India.
TO be distributed to mission-school chill
dren there.
An English syndicate has Just pur-
chased 1000 acres of land in Califor-
MIA, which they will subdivide for an
English colony.
The rooms that John Brown occupied
at Windsor Castle have been kent
strictly closed since the death of that
faithful servant
The long, arm-concealing glove is
still as fashionable as ever, ALWAYS of
unglazed kid-lght for the evening,
dark for the morning.
Gen. Crook says that he is not sor-
ry to get away from the frontier,
where he was forced to ..hunt mosqui-
toes with six-mule teams
The walls of Senator Logan's study
at Washington are adorned with only
two pictures-of General Grant and of
the Battle of Chapultepec.
Mrs. Agnes Ethel Tracy. widow of
the Buffalo millionaire, will, it is said,
return to the stage as soon as her
period of mourning is over.
A New York correspondent says that
Miss Jennie Chamberlain, the Cleve-
land beauty, will 90 upon the stage
next fall and play ':Parthenia.
Gen. Sherman talks of spending the
summer with his daughter. the wife of
Lieut.. Thackera. who has just removed
from Philadelphia to Marietta. Pa.
Fred Faul, California sheep-ranch-
man. found a nest of seven Young
coyotes, which his shepherd dog Flora
has adopted and is rearing successfully.
A Sioux Indian. graduate of the
Hampton School, is preparing for holy
orders at tae Theological Seminary of
the protestant Episcopal Church near
Alexandria. Va.
There are at he present time $4,000
school libraries in the United States,
containing As. ZOO, 900 books, or 12,OOO,-
600 more than al the public libraries
of Europe combined
The students Of the Grant Memorial
University at Athens, Tenn, asked
holiday on Grant $ birthday, and when
the faculty refused to grant the request
all except eleven Went out on strike.
= Miss Mary Anderson is said to be
negotiating for the purchase of stock
ranch near North Platte, Neb, doubt
less with view OF trying to raise
creditable stock company for her sup
port.
Among the works of the late Henry
Hobson Richardson should be included
the home of John Hay. of Little
Brooches fame. which Miss Kate Field
says is the most artistic house in Wash
ington.
Adam A. Goslow, OF Spirit Lake,
Iowa. has written to the superintendent
Of Cas''' Garden, New York. for
wife. Tie is 20 years old, farmer,
and well to do. aud prefers widow or
spin>ter.
The latest REPORT concerning Presi-
dent Cleveland proposed matrimon-
ial venture is that he has sent to Europe
through his old friend Bissell, of Buffa-
10, for diamond necklace as a we'd
ding present
Col. John &. New. editor of the In
annapolis journal, is now journeying
in Mexico. here the newspapers por-
sOnal him as Senior Don Juan Nuevo,
which must be as new to New as it is
to News friends.
Lord Randolph Churchill is taken to
task by purists FIR pronouncing synod
synod, and Sir William Harcourt for
making millennium mile-ennium; but
both speakers are sufficiently pro-
nounced in politics.
Boston now booMs Albert n Mum
sell as a native art teacher who has
passed his examination for admission
to ne Paris Eco'c DIES Beaux Arts and
stood at the head of 81 successful CON-
pctitors out of 400.
Gen. Spinner is still spinning around
in Florida. and claims to be the hap
piest old man in the United States.
He has canlped out on the seacoast for
seven months, aud says he may continue
to Go 50 for seventeen.