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

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W0RTHiNGT0N, MINI:
NOTES OF THE TIMES.
NEARLY $4,000. 900 in gold has been
shipped into this country since Aug.
ID.
ALBERT WAMpLER of Anderson, Ind.
claims to have been cured of rhcuma-
tism by faith.
IT is estimated that European crops
generally will produce Is per cent of
tie average yield.
GEN. SHERIDAN famous horse that
carried him to Winchester is now in
tho Government Museum at Gov
ernor's Island. New York Harbor.
MISS CLARA BARTON, head of the
Order of the Red Cross, is broken down
in health from overwork. When her
earthly work is over she can truly CON-
fort herself with the reflection that she |
will leave the world better than she |
found it.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to petition
the Ohio Legislature to appropriate
money, for an equestrian statue in
bronze Of William Henry Harrison, to |
be unveiled on the 22nd of September,
1888, at the centennial celebration in
CINCINNATI.
In Russia, coffin fair is held once a |
yoAr Every peasant who has an aged |
parent buys coffin. The present is
always acceptable, for the receiver feels
assured that he will have a Christian
burial, and is proud of the SOD who
thus cares for his last resting-place.
CHARLES S. WOLFE, the Prohibition
candidate for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, claims that he will poll from
$4,000 to 100000 votes. He says: 1.-The
most votes will, think, be cast by for
mer Republicans, but the proportion of
Democrats who will vote tho ticket will
be larger than it ever was before. We
will make great inroads in their ranks
this year.
MGR. CAPEL, who is living near San
Francisco attending to the publication
of two bookstore relating to the
power, state, and influence of the
Roman Catholic Church in the United
Satisfactorily received news of the
death of his venerable mother. Of
her ten children but three survive-one
nun, another the priest, and the
third merchant.
ANDREW BURKE, sailor, went
swimming from his vessel, which lay
off the Havre..de Grace coal wnarves.
While he was in the water shark
grabbed his foot and yanked him under
but he freed himself, and his splashings
and yells scared the fish away, and he
was rescued. His ankle bone was
found to be crushed, and several pieces
have been extracted at the hospital
where he now lies.
GEoRG1E is four years old. One day
the youngster had been taken with a
slight attack of prevarication, and
wishing to impress upon his infantile |
understanding the sinfullness of telling
tbs, the father related the story about
George Washington and his little hatch
ct, closing with the remark that George
Washington was good boy, and never
told a lie. The child sat in deep
thought minute, and then said: ''Pa-
pa, toodent he talk?''
A SAN FRANCISCO man told a mem
Der of the Grand Army of the Republic
that Gen. Grant was the greatest ora
tor he had ever seen. why" said
he, "whcn he made his reply to the
address of welcome that was fired at
him in this city six or eight years ago
nc removed his ci gar, made his speech
and went on smoking again. His cigar
hadn't gone out. It's pity we have
only one public speaker of that kind
in about ten million.'
A WOMAN in Los Angeles, CAL, is
selling fruit and vegetables to educate
herself in music. She has been. she
says, starved for music all her life: but
now, at 40 years of age, in spite of pow
erty and encouragement, she is cult
waiting her voice, which is fine one.
She was seen, with her broad-rim hat
and linen buster, at the piano, the
other day, playing and singing for a
wealthy invalid, while her vegetable
wagon stood at the door.
MAKE yourselves nests of pleasant
thoughts. Mono of US yet know, for
none of us have been taught in early
youth, what fair palaces we may build
of beautiful thoughts. proof against all
adversely. Bright fancies, satisfied
memories. noble histories, faithful saw
ings, treasure houses of precious and
restful thoughts, which care cannot dis
turb, nor pain make gloomy, nor pow
erty take away from us houses built
without hands, for our souls to live in.
u. Ruskin