The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-19

Mnttn1u9ten &dpauff.
A. p. MILLER, Publisher.
WORTHINGTON, MINI.
NOTES OF THE TIMES.
MRS. GEN. CHARLES G.. HALPINE
widow of "Miles O'Reilly') and
family have moved into their new res
dence on New Hampshire avenue,
Washington.
The editor of the Omaha Beo must
DO an Ohio man, as he breaks out with
this: ''Mr. Tilden's death leaves
Judge Thurman the one great living
Democrat
IT was sure to come. A despatch
from Delaware gives q detailed account
of tho utter failure of the peach crop.
Every year the public is treated to the
same old peach-skin.
PROF. HELMnOLTZ, OF Germany, has
been awarded $50 year for being the
greatest benefactor of science. AS far
as money goes, he might better have
been q New York Alderman!
THE fact that Wilson Barrett, the
London actor, who is shortly to play
in this country, announces that he
comes over purely for the love of art
stimulates Philadelphia contemporary
to say that during Mr.. Barrett's en-
gagement art will DO dispensed at
slight advance over regular prices"
Mrs. MARGARET CUSTER CALHOUN
the widow of Capt. Calhoun, of the
Seventh Cavalry, who was killed at
the Custer massacre in 1876, and sister
of Gen. George A. Custer and Capt.
Custer, who also lost their lives on the
Little Big Horn River. is giving read
ings at the summer resorts in Wiscon-
sin and Michigan.
OF her magazine enterprise at Chi
cago, Miss Cleveland says, II think
we are prepared, publisher and editor,
to pay that price in the coin which it
neutrality-suspicious. and hard work.
The magazine will open its pages to
the best literature, and manuscripts
will be accepted solely upon their lit
erary merits. Our motto is, Pure
Gold for Pure Gold. -
THE latest high life innovation
in fashionable marriages in Par
is is the display OF the
BRIDES wedding outfit on dummy
figures ranged on platform, as was
done at the late reception for the sign
ing of the marriage contract of the
daughter of Countess do p. Assis-
tants from the dressmakers, who had
produced the toilets, attended to point
out the beauties of their creation.
Mrs. LILA MAY PAvY, widow of the
late DR.. Octave Pavy, Naturalist and
Surgeon of the Greeley Arctic expedi-
ton, has donated to the National
Museum the relics collected by her
husband on his trip to the Arctic re-
gions. Mrs. Pavy last week received
the last instalment of pay due her hus-
band for his services in the Greeley ex-
peditiOn. thus showing that the Gov
eminent recognizes her as his lawful
widow.
The point has been raised that Gen.
Porter, being retired army Officer,
would be compelled to give up his
position of Police Commissioner of the
City of New York. Inquiry at tho War
Department, however, shows that,
while it the position had been under
the General Government he would
have had to resign, it being munich
pal appointment his position in refer
aDce to tho army would make no differ
ence to the Police Commissionership,
The Qucen-Kegent of Spain is spend
ing the season at Ia Granja. Every
morning Her Majesty goes out with
the children, very simply attired, and
unattended by any suite. She may be
frequently seen sitting on a bench in
the palace grounds with tho infant
King in her lap and the two little prin
cessos playing or tho grass around her.
After dinner Her Majesty gives an
audience TO Seffor Martinez on affairs
of State, and at 6 in the evening she
takes an hours drive along the Balsain
road.
Hon. LEWIS BEACH who died at
Cornwall, Orange Co., N. Y, on the
18th was born in New York City, March
sc, 1885, graduated from the Yale Law
School in 1856, was member and Treas
Juror of the Democratic State Central
Committee in 1877-'79, and was elected
to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth,
and Forty ninth Congresses. He con-
tributed to several newspapers and
periodicals, and was the author of the
"History of Cornwall Mr.. Beach
had been i'll for several weeks with
typhoid-fever and Bright's disease.
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ENGLAND has no standing army. 1t
is declared each''year by Parliament,
in the Mutiny act, that the keeping of
standing army is contrary to law and
to the constitution of the Empire. For
this reason Parliament makes yearly
provision for an army (supposed to be
militia), not only for its support and
maintenance, but also for its allegi-
AnCe. At the end Of the war with