The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-05
SPIRIT OF THE DAY.

Mrs. H. B. Chain of New York is in
California.
Harvard College has abolished com
pulsory attendance at chapel.
Gov. Hill, of New York, has recently
appointed four ladies as notaries pub
lie.
One-seventh of the county superin-
tendents of schools in Kansas are wo-
| men.
Rev. DR.. Wayland Hoyt, of Phila-
delphia, has gone for bicycle tour of
England.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, will
remain in Europe, where she now is
for four years.
Murat Ha]stead, editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial. Gazette has his life
insured for $4,000.
The Life of Schuyler Colfax, by o.
J. HOLSTER, has just been published. 1t
is book of over 500 pages.
The first anniversary of Gen. Grant s
death has passed, but no monument
has arisen to perpetuate his fame.
Public Printer Rounds has purchased
a newspaper at Omaha, and will soon
he in 1.-The rowdy west.'' growing up
with the country.
Prot. Phelps, of Andover Theological
Seminary, may be daily seen sprink.
ling the lawn before his pleasant cot
tage at Bar Harbor.
Mrs. Fem, one of the early abolition
agitators, for some years the wife of
Andrew jackson Davis, died on Sun
day at Orange, N. J.
Mr.. Childs. of the Philadelphia Led
ger. spends Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday in town. and the remainder
of the week at Elberon.
There are no newsboys in the City of
Mexico. The papers are all sold by
women, who hold them out to passers-
by, but never say word.
Miss Hattie Dennison, who was last
year Postmaster of Vancouver, w. T.,
was the first woman to receive Presi-
dental office in the Territory.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
had new roof put on her house at
Holland Patent, and the old shingles
are much soug hit after by silly relic
hunters.
The highest salary received by wo-
man UnVprnmanf o1H,rly ~,
is 81 800, less than a score get $1,000,
and the larger number receive salary
of $1,000.
Senator Conger declines sit with
the Committee of Commerce while it
| celebrates upon the matter of con-
tirming his brother-in-law as a Collect
or of customs.
President Grevy, of France, has
gone to his country home at Mont-sur-
Vaudrey, in the Jura, where he will
remain, looking after his farm and
attending to bis mills, until September.
The late William E. Forster, the IL
lustrious British statesman, left a con-
siderable landed estate, and personal
property valued at 100000. He be-
qucathed it all and Internationally to
his wife.
The Ohio Republican Central State
Committee has selected ex-Gov. Ed,
ward F. Noyes, of Cincinnati, tempo
rary Chairman of the State Convention
which meets on Aug. rs, and Clarence
Brown, of Toledo, temporary Secre-
tary.
The man who claims the distinction
of being the northernmost editor in the
world is L. Moller, who edits the illus
trated Esquimaux paper, Atuagaglintit,
published at GOdthaab on the west
coast of Greenland, 81 degrees north
latitude.
Miss Geary, a Troy girl, who some
years since married a young Chinese
student OF that city, with whom she
has since been living in Brooklyn. has
applied for divorce, saying he has
become addicted to the opium habit
and other evils.
A ten-year-old girl who saved two
children from certain death at Lisbon.
Portugal. has been awarded a silver
medal by the King, put in the college
w w VuuN0AOus dSAu q Ouu i luOucV
has already been collected which will
be for her marriage portion.
The ugliest man in the United States
Senate is said to be Senator Walthall,
of Mississippi. He is tall, ungainly,
wears a short bob-tailed coat which
must have at one time belonged to his
14-year old son, and generally has a
three days. growth of beard on his
face.
Mrs. Belle Ball has been appointed
assistant secretary in the Kansas State
Historical rooms at Topeka, and has
taken up her residence in that CITY.
She was clerk of committee on en-
rolled bills in the Kansas legislature
last winter, and that body passed law
creating tho place she now ocoupiaa.