The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-27
or GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
"A recent arrival at Castle Garden
expected to find his uncle, who lives.
In Alaska, awaiting him.
The wealthiest colored man in the
South Is New Orleans sugar planter
named Marie. He has an income Of
$40. 900, and is cultivated gentleman.
The once fighting Modoc Indians
have become Industrious farmers in the
past twelve years and half of them
have protested Christianity.
"A Wisconsin lover wrote to his
sweetheart: There is not q globule
of blood in my heart that does not bear
your photograph.
"A cOlored man, on trial for rob
berry in Washington, instructed his at
torney to challenge every negro on
the jury. He said he preferred to en-
trust his case to white men.
"A farmer in Huntingdon County,
Pa, caught an owl and put it in
his barn to fight his rooster. The
owl fought, and the rooster did the
best he could, but when the battle was
over the rooster was dead.
"A Kingston IN. ~ minister mar
ried a couple one night recently, and
when signatures were asked to the
certificate it was found that neither
the bride, groom, best man nor brides
maid could write their names. They
all signed by making marks.
"A Georgia colored man is very
fond OF alligators as food product.
He captures the saurians, and. after
duly preparing them, cures them as he
does his hams. In his smokehouse at
present five or six of these reptiles are
hung up undergoing the smoking pro-
cess. -. u
AT one of the cross roads in Brazil,
an idol carved from the wood of an
orange tree was placed for the Indians
to worship. On one occasion it was
noticed that an old red man omitted to
perform his act of obeisance. On be-
ing commanded to kneel he stubbornly
replied: mo; I knew him when he
was an orange tree"
"A Washington woman, prosecutor
in q late assault and battery case, who
called the courts attention to the
marks on her face, the result, she said,
of the beating she had received, almost
tainted when the judge ordered an Off
Ger to closely examine the injuries.
He rubbed a handkerchief over her
face, when the marks instantly disap-
peared, having been made with paint.
The case was then dismissed.
"A trader at Americas, Ga, boasts
of having a remarkably smart wife.
Although he has been married ten
years. she has never asked him for a
dollar and he has never given her any
money. He generally borrows from
her. and she makes more than no does.
She sells all home products, such as
meat, lard. chickens, wood, hay, etc..
and beats his store. He does not buy
any thing but sugar, coffee and a lit
tie rice, as he has every thing else to
sell of his place.
At a recent fashionable wedding
in New York the father of the bride
wore Il broad grin as he walked up
the church aisle with his daughter.
During the ceremony he chuckled sew
eral times, and at its close he broke
into an unmistakable laugh. AS he is
a prominent citizen of unimpea:hable
sobriety, and is known to have the
tenderest regard for his family and
for this daughter in particular, many
were somewhat scandalized by such
an apparent breach of decorum. At
the wedding reception the good gen.
tlclnan solved the mystery. He had
suddenly remembered that the last
time he had been inside of any church
was when he was himself married in
that very edifice.
Gum chewing. according to recent
reports, is the prevailing mania in
Albion, Neb. The disgusting habit
has become so general that parents
and preachers inveigh against it, but
20 no effect. During services in
church last Sunday the dominic deli
cately insinuated that the congrega-
lion looked like a corral of munching
cattle. SO industriously did the jaws
wag. While the preacher was round
ing an eloquent peroration on the
beauties of the echoless shore, a
mighty yell rent the rafters. 1t came
from the paralyzed jaw of Mr.. Cato,
who had been suddenly smitten with
lead collie, caused by chewing adul
terated gum. Cato was taken home
and the congregation dismissed. Next
day ton of secondhand gum was
plucked from the pews and dumped
into the raging Beaver.