The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-01-10
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a COOKING school in Pittsburgh makes :
speciality Of educating men cooks.
81 An excayalryman has sued the Govern.
ment for t29a for aiding In the capture Of
JET. Davis.
lation Of Alabama who are ten years old and
over cko not read. }5
THz Inferior physique Of large portion
OF :he British army Is attracting attention
Ia Great Britain.
their country last year, and the emigration
this year Il reported to be considerably
greater.
most as many real Indians in New York
State as in Minnesota. In all there are just
about :, GOO red men in the Empire State.
The largest electric plant in the world
will soon be put In operation. London is to
be Illuminated by electricity, and contract
for the immense undertaking has already
been made. @@a 49,
TEE liquor law is being so vigorously en-
forced in Manchester, N. H.. that dealers
are compelled to carry their stock in their
pockets, where it is safe, as the law does
not admit the searching of a person.
THE Senate Of South Carolina has passed
. bill making it misdemeanor punishable
by dismissal for any member of the
Legislature to accept free pass from any
railroad. This is to prevent undue railroad
influence.
A LADY Of Topeka, Kan, deserves immor-
tally for her simple fidelity To facts In the
face Of an DER sentimental world. On the
simple granite shaft she has erected above
her husbands grave is chiseled the truth
full legend: 'Died Of Delirium Tremens."
OxE ostrich egg contains sufficient
nourishment for two or three hearty men,
1t is equal in weight and nutrition to about
. dozen hens eggs, and very often ones are
found weighing four pounds. The favor
differs very little from that Of a hens egg.
T UNDER the new law which provides that
executions for murder in New York shall
be by electricity, it is made misdemeanor
to report or publish the executions. The
statute is held to be unconstitutional be-
cause it abridges the liberty of the press,
which is guaranteed under the organic law.
A Sr. LOUIS suicide wrote: II am sixty
two years old. In eight years would have
been seventy, an old, dilapidated, tottering
fossil. have played the world out and it
don't owe me q cent I've had more fun
eAeAA u AAuIC III d anu we got
enough. Therefore I will cheat the course
Of nature and jump the time to Gomez
The process Of whitening sugar was dis
covered in curious way. A hen that had
gone through a clay puddle went with her
muddy feet into sugar house. She left
tracks on pile Of sugar. It was noticed
that wherever her tracks were the sugar
was whitened. Experiments were insti.
tuted, and the result was that wet clay
came to be used in refining sugar.
A sADD1E-coLoRED negro claiming to be a
lawyer from New York arrived at Powder
Springs, Ca, short time ago, and, on the
strength Of Harrison's election, told the
negroes that he was sent out to buy up al
he lands he could and sell them to negroes
On twenty years time at six per cent. His
charge for inspectinga farm was from ter
to twelve dollars, which every one thai
wanted to buy had to pay in advance, ani
be was to meet them in Marietta and make
them deeds to the farms. He picked up
'ew hundred dollars and left.