The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-12-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

by utilizing the gases which once
escaped from furnaces, Great Britain is
said to save 1000, 600 tons Of coal yearly.
BY mistake Norristown livery.
man sent hearse and carriage to .
house of mourning aday ahead Of the
funeral.
"A plucky Franklin County, Pennsyl-
vania, widow took an axe and attacked
and killed bear that was trying to steal
one Of her pigs. ~
"A mountaineer pre- ,cher down in
Maryland astonished art of his audi
once by exclaiming II .he midst Of =
bursto rhetoric in one Of his sermons:
"My friends, all the world shouted for
joy when the good news of Christ's birth
flashed over the wires!''
We are not apt to- think of the
French as an agricultural nation, and
yet with only about half the population
Of the United States, the number of
farms is about the same: More than
half of the population are cultivators of
the soil. And they are thrifty culiiva-
tors, too. ~.
In New Zealand, where rabbits are
great pest, they are poisoned with
malt, sown in burrows, as turnip seed
would be sown; they feed at dusk and
In the early morning. In fortnight
10000 rabbits were destroyed with only
eight bushels of poisoned malt, on the
Glen Erin estate, near Kyneton.
In Philadelphia, which has a colored
population of about 81, 900, the color line
has almost entirely disappeared. There
are six influential colored clubs in the
city, three colored lawyers and five col
ored physicians. One of the colored
lawyers has crossed swords with some of
the most brilliant lights of the bar, and
one of the physicians has q practice of
$50, 900 year. Three colored dentists
have furnishing practice, and one land
scape and one portrait artist are doing
good work.
The beautiful Earl crematory and
chapel in Troy, N. Y, cemetery interests
all travellers who visit it. The structure
is of Westerly granite, and at the south
end is square tower ninety feet high.
A low loggia connects this with the
chapel, and in room west of the chapel
is the crematory proper, in which stands
retort constructed on the Venini sys-
tom. The building was presented to the
city by w. S. Earl, as memento of his
son.
Doctor Macadam used to tell of a
tipsy Scotchman making his way home
on a bright Sabbath morning when the
good folks were vending their way to the
kirk. A little dog pulled the ribbon from
the hand of woman who was leading
it, and, as it ran from her, she appealed
to the first passer-by, who happened to
be the inebriate asking him to whistle
to her poodle. ''Woman," he retorted,
with that solemnity of visage which
only Scotchman can assume woman,
this is no day for whustlin'!"
Three of the new States-Montana
and the two Dakotas-have given
women the right to vote at school cleo
tions. They have also provided that
only one-third of the school lands can
be sold at time, and there must bo an
interval of five years between the Offer
ing of each portion, and none must be
sold, unless after fifteen years, for less
than ten dollars an acre. If these pro-
visions are honorably carried out, the
school systems of these States will have
splendid endowment.
One shrewd Maine dressmaker has
hit upon lucky idea, and is thriving on
it. When ladies come to her with the
goods to make up an ordinary worsted
dress, she asks: 'Will you have it made
to feel like silk or wool?" The owner
of the dress naturally inquiries into the
meaning of the question. ut is all in
lining. can give you a lining that will
rustic like silk and that will make you
think whenever you touch it that it is
silk, and it will only cost you thirty
cents yard" The fancy of the patron
is caught by the alluring prospect Of
having her woollen dress rustic like silk,
and she leaves an order for this cloud
with silver lining.