The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-16
N9CEIIAN

MISCELLANEOUS.
Strange, but true: wsak-minded
people no oftsn headstrong. -Balti-
moro American.
Tho essentials Of watering place
may be alltteratively summed up thus:
Sea. salt sun, sand, shells, shrimps,
steamers, ships. sailors and shingle.
They are drawing the color line so
ine in . Jamaica, i. II, school that
the principal expelled two boys, 1t is
said, for being too dark complexioned,
while two lighter ones Of the same
family we're SLOWED to- remain.5
-l.ittle Pierre, = French boy, went
out to walk with his father on the
road. and was badly frightened by q
drove of cattle. ''Why should you be
afraid. Pierre?" his father asked
You eat such creatures as that at din
ner. you know" Yes, papa" said
Pierre. "but these aren't we'll enough
done.' Youth's Companion. -.
@-Girls in Biddeford and Saco, Me-,
seem to have some queer tastes. One
lady makes an excursion to the brick
yard each summer and lays in supply
of nice. blue clay to eat through the
winter. Another favorite dainty is q
soft brick, and +slong experience has
taught her how to select the choicest
specimens at a glance. Each of these
ladies has lived to u good old age to
enjoy herfavorite dish.
i: According to q report made by DR..
George Holman. Medical Examiner OF
the ST. Louis Police Department.. the
police of that city are peculiarly liable
to pulmonary diseases. He says past
experience justities the expectation
that about halt Of all who join the St.
Louis police force and serve ten years
will die Of consumption soon after
reaching forty years of age.
"A story is TOLD 81 two parrots that
lived near each ether, in Philadelphia.
One was accustomed to sing hymns,
while the other was addicted to swear
ing. The owner of the latter obtained
permission for it to associate with the
former, hoping that its bad habit would
be corrected; but the opposite result
followed, for both learned to swear
alike.
-''Where's the scissors?'' asked
Eddie. Il want to make some women. :"
20, wouldn't!' said roguish Uncle
Joe, who loves to tease his small niece.
There are women enough in this
house already" "Well, l amt going
to make really truly ones," answered
Eddie earnestly. II couldn't anyway,
| haven't got the meat!' 49, Youths
Companion.
"A new remedy for skin disease,
says the Hospital, is a continual bath,
the patient eating, drinking and Sleep
ing there until cured. One patient has
been kept in such a bath for 385 days.
He is tied up always at night to pre-
vent him from slipping so as to be
drowned. The palms and soles become
much shriveled, but the.rest of the skin
is unchanged. The water is kept at
ninety-eight degrees.
The Russian method for stopping
running horse is said to be very ef-
fective. and is not particularly cruel.
They place a cord with a running knot
around the horses neck near the neck
strap. To this slip-noose attach pair
Of reins, which may be thrown over
the dashboard ready to be seized at
once. When the horse starts take up
the extra reins and tighten the cord
around the horses throat. Tie most
furious horse thus choked stops in
stantly; and will not kick or fail.
III lady is wise in small matters
she serves tea nowadays by sewing up
in advance enough for cups fer all of
her company in tiny bags of null or
muslin OF the color of the table decora-
tions. Gilded baskets tied with ribbons
arc heaped with the pretty toys and
form the chief ornaments of the dining
room. Under the bright-hued bags she
must have white ones lying. and when
tea is wanted she deity extracts these
latter and throws them into the boiling
water. taking them out when the flavor
has been extracted and placing them
in a silver slop basin.
ia, yes,' said Mrs. Oregonian
complacently on her return from a
trip East, II tell you l let them New
Workers know that we know about as
much about style out here as the next
fellow. We just put up at the Fifth
Avynoo in New York and at the Vaun-
dome in Boston, and at both places 1
wore my red satin decoletty dress down
to breakfast every morning, and my
solitary diamond year-bobs and my
diamond pin, and that big diamond
star stuck in my hair and my pearl
and diamond bracelets; and / wore 'em
all down town ev'ry time went, and
got me a pale-blue satin to wear down
to dinner and to set around the parlor
in, and l ordered the servants round
big as anybody, and set my shoes out
in the hall and had 'em BACKED ev'ry
night. l let 'em see that we knowed
what style was. Why, you'd thought
I'd been born and raised right there in
Boston. "--'Time.
GRAINS IN BUSINESS.