The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-08-08

|hE W0RTHIMGT0u ADVANCE.
RoBERr McCuNE, Editor and Publisher.
vORTH.NGTON. Mobiles Co... MINI.
IT is said that the elephant is being
killed of so fast that twelve more
years will see the last one wiped out
CAPTAIN FRANK NJ. DUFFY, the COM
poser Of the ''Mocking Bird, is living
at Guthrie, Ky. where he is a we'll
known newspaper man.
TwENTY-FoUR lives are said to have
been lost by the recent food in West
Virginia. which swept away the most
of the village of Norristown and sew
eral adjacent farm-houses. Such ca
lamities are 50 sadly current this year
that they fail to occasion surprise any
more.
The manufacture of postage stamps,
which for twenty-eight years has been
carried on at New York, is to be trans
ferred to Philadelphia, Charles F.
Steel, of that city, having put in the
lowest bid. The business is large
one. Two hundred hands will be en-
ployed and the annual output will be
about 140, 600, 900 sheets.
Mrs. CYRUS w. FIELD is said to
guard as the chief among her treas
ures a small silver box presented to
her husband by the municipality of
New York, and containing the free
dom of the city. This was given to
Mr.. Field after the successful laying
of the Atlantic cable, and was tho last
time that the honor was bestowed.
AT a meeting in Chicago recently of
the executive committee of the knights
of Labor charter was issued to the
first assembly of the order ever Or
gained in Australia. The new dis
trict is composed of FIVE local as
semblies, with total membership of
over five hundred, all of whom have
Joined the order within the past year.
j. H. PUTNAM. of Tioga. Pa, has
been at work ever since the flood in
the Conemaugh valley drying out
about one thousand two hundred legal
papers. He hung them up to dry on
lines, just as a washerwoman would.
The writing is as good as ever on
most OF them. and in some very old
and almost faded manuscripts the ink
has been brought out again by the
water.
The most valuable book in the
world is said to be the Hebrew Bible =
at the vatican in Rome In 1912 Pope
Julius. then in great financial straits,
refused to sell it to syndicate of rich
Venetian Jews for its weight in gold.
The Bible weighs more than 1926
pounds and is never carried by less
than three men. The price refused by
Pope Julian was therefore about $685.
600, and that, too, when gold was
worth at least thrice what it Is now
worth.
NINE. ErELKA GERsrER still cherish
es the hope. in which she is encour-
aged by experts, that she will recover
the full use of her voice, and she
works and practices as methodically
as in the starring days when she used
to star in the United States. Her
famous baby has grown into chubby
little girl, who has already shown
signs OF possessing voice worth
training. The whole family are liv-
ing quiet, happy life in villa near
Bologna.
OWING to declining health Queen
Victoria is making arrangements by
which the Prince of Wales will relieve
her of much labor on state documents.
The Prince, in case he assumes these
new responsibilities, wishes, it is said,
to take the title of Prince Regent and
to have the use of Buckingham Palace
and Windsor Castle, the Queen retir-
ing to the palaces at Osborne and Bal
moral. In the event of this arrange
ment being carried out Prince Albert
Victor will obtain the Marlborough
house.
W f arc not yet through with GEN.
tennlals in this country. One hundred
years ago, in August, the first petro-
leum we'll was sunk in PENNSYLVANIA.
and it is proposed to celebrate the oc-
currencc by rousing demonstration
in the oil regions of the State, New
York and Ohio. There is poetic and
ethical symmetry in the fact that about
the same time when America started
out to illustrate liberty enljghtening
the world it also furnished the globe
with the greatest illumination it ever
possessed.
In the cancer hospital In New York
there were treated between December
2, 1887, and December 81, 1888, which
comprises the first year of its history,
278 patients, of which 14S were treat
cd free' while 1870 paid in full or in
part. The average number of pa
tients daily in the hospital was %,
and the average duration of treat
ment was Sc days. Of the 28O pa
tients admitted 81 were still under
treatment at the time of the report
49 died. 36 were unimproved, 68 i'm