The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-09-09
SPIRIT OFTHE TIMES.

SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
Twelve counties in West Virginia
have adopted prohibition.
Rear Admiral John H. Russell has
been placed on the retired list.
w. D. Howells says that George W.
Cable is one Of the best novelists he
ever read. .-a
Gerald Massey, the English poet,
has entered enthusiastically into the
home-rule fight.
A new volume of poems and sonnets
by George H. Boxer is announced for
publication in the fall.
A Pennsylvania citizen named CUT
ing has applied to the legislature for q
change of name.
A call has been issued for a meeting
of tho millers of the country in Minne-
apolis, Sept. IS and IA.
There were nearly 5000 deaths in
Japan in June from cholera, and 1898
for the first half of July.
The receipts of the United States for
the month Of August were $32, 1876, 1926;
expenditures, 328, 908. 1897.
Henry NJ. Stanley is to deliver q
series of fifty lectures in this country
during the coming season.
Ex-President Arthur, with cheek
bronzed by tho ATLANTIC winds, now
tips the beam at IT'S pounds.
Alexander Storrs. father of the late
Emory A. Storrs, died at Hinsdale, N.
T., yesterday, aged seventy-six years.
The next volume in the Eminent
Women series will be Mary Robinson's
life of Marguerite of Angouleme,
Queen of Navarro.
The will of tho late Jesse Hoyt, the
New York millionaire, concerning
which there has been a bitter legal
fight, has been sustained.
The mayor of Princeton, Ind, has
sent to New Orleans tor bloodhounds
to be used in Kidding his city of burg
lars.
It is reported that the highest peak
on the Island of Galita, off Tunis, in
the Mediterranean, is in a state OF
eruption.
August Belmont and others, who
were summoned in Newport for hav-
ing unlicensed dogs, were each fined
$40.
Fifty cents. with costs reaching to
nearly five dollars, was decided to be
the penalty for mild swearing in Key.
port, N. J..
A Canadian meteorological says that
Pittsburg, Pa, will be destroyed by a
meteoric shower in the latter part OF
September.
Cyrus Fillmore. the only living
brother of ex-President Fillmore, and
whose home is in Indiana, has been
visitingin Buffalo.
An uprising is reported in Cochin.
China, where the natives are massacrine
whole villages of Christians and des.
troying their property.
A Catholic college will be opened in
Salt Lake City next month under the
direction IF Father Kelley. Another
blow at polygamy.
France has 1850 newspapers and
periodicals. OF these 1,540 are issued
in Paris and 2,819 in the rest of France
sos are designated as ''nouveaux
journeaux."
The Rev. Dom Boniface Krug, prior
of the famous Benedictine Abbey of
Monte Casino, Italy, is Baltimorean
by birth and is at present on a visit to
that city.
An eagle near Chambersburg, Pa,
recently tried to carry off a boy, but
the youngster was too heavy. The
lads face and clothing suffered severe.
ly in the battle.
Near Niles, Ohio, the dead body OF
Mrs. r. A. Williamson was found by
the roadside. She had considerable
money in her possession. Two tramps
have been arrested on suspicion OF
having murdered her.
| Cotton batting is coming into use in
the California canneries. The batting
is used for the covering of the jar,
which should be filled to the neck be-
fore the batting is used.
| 1t is rumored in Berlin that En-
percr William has intimatcd to Prince
Alexander that circumstances compel
the striking of his name from the
Prussian army roll.
The fleet in the Arctic ocean is dis
couraging, the catch at latest reports
being very small. This has had the
effect to advance the price of whale
bone 25 cents a pound, to So.
One of Gen. Phil. Sheridan's old
| scouts has just sent him from Utah a
gift of lively wildcat as pet for his
children. Very appropriate for the
children of a fighting man.
The green glass bottle factories of
the West have resumed, the bottlers
having won their tight to have the
brewing companies use homemade
bottles instead of importing them.
Prince Plon-Plon has taken up his
permanent residence in the Chateau
of Prangins, on the banks of Lake Le-
man. two miles distant from Nyon.
He will not come to America, as ru-
mored.
M. Jules Simon publishes letter in
which he predicts that France will
eventually become a Conservative re-
public, which he declares 10 be the
only stable government for French
men.
Sunset Cox writes to an Ohio friend:
Il may come home, and may again 20
into tho old arena. The odor of the
sawdust comes over me, and feel like
vaulting through the hoop, etc., to fill
out the scene.''
1t is stated that it is the purpose of
M. de Freycinet to remove from his
Cabinet three Radical members, n.
Guiding Gen. Boulanger, Minister OF
War, and M. Granet, Minister of Posts
and Telegraphs.
Prof. Eli T. Tappan, nominated by
the Republicans for School Com
missioner of Ohio, is son of tho ia
nous Benjamin Tappan who was con-
temporaneous in the United States
Senate with William Allen.
Mr.. J. w. Clayton, well-known
businessman of Atlanta, Ga, esti-