The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

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"A Benton Harbor man has mnsket
which used to kill Flenchmen 200 years.
ago, and powder flask older by : cen
fury. :z
1t Is estimated that the amount Of
gold in the world Is about 6lS cubic
yards, and it would fit in room twenty
four feet each way, il N 8 solid cube.
In London. recently. . large collie
dog saved girls life by selling her
dress and swinging her aside just as she
was about being run down by horse.
The craze for passing floral tributes
over the footlsgh.5 TO stage favorites
seems to have reached its height at Bos-
ton recently. Asminstrel performer re-
ceived life-size floral image OF himself
'eated in chair and playing the banjo.
"A remarkable proceeding is reported
from Chicago. where father, Jacob
Lanfiold, was arrested for not taking
out theatrical license for little thea
ter which his children ran in the cellar,
charging Eve pins admission. He was
arrested on warrant sworn out by q
policeman. ...-....-. x
The old lighthouse which stands at
the entrance of New Haven harbor has
been abandoned by the Government and
orders have already been received for
its destruction. 1t has been familiar
landmark for many years and was
favorite visiting place for New Haven
people.
-Flounders replenish the ocean at a
very rapid rate. In season ono founder
produces many millions of eggs, scatter
ing them broadcast through the water.
The sole prod LOCO. 900 eggs, a place
not less than 100000, while tnrbot
has been credited with the deposition
of 1000, 000 or 10000 eggs.
Mr. Smallfry-"My dear, don't you
think this would bea good time for your
mother to go on nice long visit to her
friends in tho East? The rates are so
low now, you know" Mrs. Smallfry-
eyes, but you know the low rates are
only offered for round trip" Mr..
Smallfry--''Ah --hum---that's differ
ent. "-America.
The sea serpent has boon rather
late in appearing this year, but he has
been seen, with back covered with a
hard she'll of dark brown, with stripes
q few shades lighter. giving it much
the look of the lights and shades on a
corrugated iron surface. AS usual, as
much as the observers desired to see
the monster, they got away as fast as
possible.
"A beech tree cut on the farm of
| William Wilkinson, at Shelton, near
| Middlotown, Mass, disclosed near the
| hard white wood core the big letters -.
| L." on densely black background.
They were cut forty years ago by John
| Leland, sailor, and, curiously enough,
had stamped themselves all the way
from tho heart of the tree to the bark.
Though they had been overgrown by
thirty-seven rings of wood fibre, it is
easy to read 81. L." on the outside bark.
"A new ''cure" has been invented in
Germany, which may be adopted as
greater novelty than the mind cure or
| the faith cure. Its basis is the harden
ing of the human organism, which has
been disastrously enfeebled by Iviliza-
ton. The patients initiate the noble
savage or the gypsy, and the system in
cludes going barefoot as one part of the
cure. One German parish contains 400
patients.
| The longest parts, male and female,
in tho Shakespearan drama are Hamlet,
with 1860 lines, and Rosalind, with 749
lines. Of course, in acting, they are cut
great deal, but even then they are, in
the odious but expressive phrase of the
boards, 'fat." This accounts, to a GER
tain extent, for the professional fond
ness for appearing as ''Hamlet' and
"Rosalind. Othello must be rather a..
thorn in the side of the "stars,'' for he
has only SSS lines, while Iago has ILL.,
"A French military surgeon has been
making researches on wind instruments
which has been used by phthisical
bandsmen, and warns musicians of the
| Importance of disinfection. He recon-
mends that instruments should be filled
! with five per cent. solution of carbolic
acid, or, in the case of metallic instru-
ments. that they should be dipped into
boiling water These precautions are
of the utmost Importance when pilthisic-
al persons have used the instruments;
for it was found in such cases that
liquids used to wash them out presented
a virulence similar to that of a pure
culture of tuberculosis.
Miss Amanda Anderson, of Georgia,
is sixty years of age and has never
Travelled moro than mile and halls
from the spot where she was born.
! Though there is a railroad within three
miles of her house she has never seen
it. She has never seen brick house,
and has seen painted house only once.
Though her nearest neighbor lives
within three hundred yards Of her she
has never seen his house except once in
her lifetime. She has never been in
side of church or listened to sermon
or prayer, and her ideas of religion are
an intelligent woman, with no eccen.
tricity except that indicated in the
above description of her.
DR.. Francis Bowling. in paper
which he read at recent meeting of
the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine,
stated that 'between the ages of ten
and forty that at least one person in
three is subject to partial Deafness The
great majority of cases of impaired hear
ing are hereditary, and are largely ow-
ing to a too close consanguinity of the
parents. Deafness is more prevalent
among males than females, owing to the
fact that the male is more exposed to
the vicissitudes of the climate. There
is much more deafness in America than
in Europe, and this is due toa more gen.
eral use of scientific instruments, such
as telephones, whore one ear is used to
the exclusion of the other.
FUTURE OF WOMEN.
Mr.. Gladstone Makes Some Eminently
| Sensible Remarks.
In the course of brief address at
school for girls, where Mrs. Gladstone
distributed the prizes, Mr.. Gladstone
said:
THAT future of society is of enormous
Importance to the world. think it is
not uninteresting to recall, if may be
allowed to do it, a little anecdote, when
some words were used to me more than