The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-13
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! A WATCH has been presented to Mrs.
Cleveland on behalf Of $50 girls EMPLOYED n
Philadelphia watch case factory as spec;
men Of their handicraft.
4 CHICAGO woman whose husbands death
was hastened BY the use Of alcoholic drinks,
sued firm which sold him the liquor and
obtained Judgment for 5000.
A CURIOSITY of patchwork recently te-
ceived in Richmond, Va, from Norfolk, il q
mantel lanbrequin made OF sixty-six badges
collected at the Gettysburg reunion last
July. :
A MAN in Newark, N. J., is playing game
of chess with his cousin in Australia by
mail. They have been at it for five years.
The Newark man now sees defeat staring
him in the face.
THE following telegram was sent to j. F..
Dunn, of Ocala, Fla, who is now in New
York, on the report that he had been killed
by runaway horse: "Reports here say
that you are dead. Is it true7"
! TwENT1-oNE little girls, aged nine to thir-
teen, were recently brought to New York
BY Mormon elders from Europe en- route to
Salt Lake City. They were ordered by the
customs collector to be sent back to Europe.
NEWS comes to Greenwich, Conn.,, that
Rev. F. L. 81. Pott, young man Of that
place who went out to China about year
ago as missionary, has married Miss 8. N.
Wong; whose father was his first Chinese
convert to Christianity.
A MILLER who operates mill near the
dam Of the New Market lake, New Jersey,
emptied the Lake ostensibly to make repairs
to the dam. The lake is Q stocked stream,
fostered by the Government, and tons of
bass and other fish escaped down the
stream.
A RESIDENT of Cuthbert, Ga, found real
horned snake the other day. The horn was
about two inches long. was on the end of
the tail, and was hard enough to penetrate
soft substances. The snake seemed harm
less and made no effort to use it's peculiar
attachment.
TIE correspondent of the Collserv Guar.
atdn reports case which, if true, must be
interesting to biologists. In the Coleford
district of the Forest Of Dean a small col
iery has recently been opened, and while q
collier was engaged in breaking up fall
Of block coal, he found a toad IN the center.
1t seemed firmly embedded in the coal, and
It was alive. It's form was imprinted upon
the face of the mineral, and the animal is
much interest in the neighborhood.
THERE YVES circus at Chestertown, Nd,
one day lately and with it were seven ele-
plants. Their car was run alongside q
locomotive. Ono of the elephants put his
trunk out through crevice in the car,
reached over to the tender of the locomotive,
lifted the lid of the water tank and helped
himself. The other six elephants did the
same and in a short time the tank was dry.
The train hands did not see the performance,
and only when the engineer tried to start
his engine did he find that the water was
gone.
NEAR Laredo, Mex, there was lately dis.
covered the remains of concrete daE:
across the Rio Grande, evidently built in
that time wherein the record runneth not
and the other day, less than ono hundred
yards from it, there was picked up clasp
knife, with blade about the length Of the
modern bowie knife and handle thickly over
laid with the purest gold, deeply chased in 9
sort Of cipher pattern lntermixed with ami
mails whose like has not existed since the
flood. How or whence it came no man car
say, but it is thought to be relic of Z
prehistoric age, and hence is held at much
beyond its weight in gold by its present
proud possessor.