The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-06

the WORThIkGTOn ADVANCE,
so.sasar Moc5jss. Editor md r,o,,.n.,
WORTHiNGTON. Mobiles Co, MINI
A JEWISH boy in Russia who stole a
pear was brutality punished. The word
thief" was branded on his forehead in
three places. ,,s5sss .:as s,s.:s..
HOSEA Brown. Of Linn County, Ore,
aged one hundreds and two years, and q
veteran of 1912, has just been awarded
. pension of:forty dollars month.
'.o1D sAcfa xENro." the. cannon
tsk1n across the plains by General Free
mont in his first expedition, is an OBJ
ject of interest at the. Kansas State
capitol. - q.
~ Myss Es1MAs IS. :TnAppEK made amin
veSU CATION and found that out Of fifty
New York hotels visited in eighteen of
ethem female servants were required to
sleep in rooms under the ground In
one hotel the ceiling of the sleeping
room was four feet below the sidewalk.
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AeESrENCE in Massachusetts, in 1868,
discovered in search of old records:
Robert Coles fined s1O for ':abusing
himself shamefully with drink" and en-
joined to stand with "A Drunkard" in
great letters on white sheet on his
back, 800 longe as the court thinks
meeto."
LIEUT.. ALrHEUs ROBERT FRENCH, the
sole survivor of the Black Hawk war,
died in Baltimore recently, aged eighty
one years After the Black Hawk Mr..
French re-anlisted and was ordered to
FLORIDA. during the Seminole war. He
was badly injured in different battles and
E1TeA up for dead on several occasions.
ACCEPT it or not, as you please, the
statement is made by purist in En-
glfsh that tho most common misc uota-
ton in the tongue is: when Greek
meets Greek, then comes the tug of
war" Properly it reads: "When Greeks
joined Greeks, then was tho tug of
war;" and was written by an English
man named Nathaniel Lee about the
year I7oa
THE American Analyst says that there
are 1000, 500, 600 invested in the dairy
business in this country. That amount
Is almost double the money invested in
ha ;ol nck,;o,
is estimated that it requires IS, OOO, 900
COWS to supply tho demand for milk and
its products in the United States. TO
feed these cows 60,0cOoOo acres of land
are %.nder cultivation.
THE Edison photographic doll has
now got up to one hundred and thirty
tive words in speech. For long time
only seventy words could be packed into
the compact little frame, and it was
therefore deferred from saying a great
many interesting things. In course of
timosthe wizard of Menlo Park may
make his dolls talk as freely as human
beings. 1t is all a matter of com bination.
YEA1s ago in Japan there was coin
called the monseng, which was worth
only about one-two hundred and twen-
ty-fourths of a penny. It was an iron
plccc.' In England we have had piece
worth no more than quarter of a farth-
tng.sand a very pretty piece it is. "A
piece of one-third of farthing was also
mfnted in the reign of George ". and
William ". If in good condition it is
now worth shilling as a curiosity.
CENTRAL FURLONG, a noted Amer
lean traveller, tells a reporter for the
New York Press that the longest word
on record is Observation-Disclosures
ogerych Observation-Disclosures"
which Is the name of parish church he
visited once while in that country. II
aieneral Furlong was merely in search
OF ~ longer name than his own he could
have found it without going outside Of
his own land. Why didn't hunt up Gen.
eral Miles?
a VERY acrimonious discussion has
developed in Alabama in regard to the
mutilation of Rube Burrows BODY be-
fore or after death, many marks of vio-
lence being visible. Whatever mutila.
ton there was of the late Mr.. Burrows
must have been done after death, as he
took particular pains that nothing of
that kind occurred during his lifetime.
Indeed, his great ability to prevent any
thing OF tho sort had much to do with
his long and busy career.
HENRY FRANCIS MOORE, black.
smith, still living at Medford, Mass. .
Is said to be tho original of Longfellow's
"Village Blacksmith" who stood under
the spre aiding chestnut tree and the
muscles Of whose brawny arms were
strong as iron bands The poet was
often in Medford previous to writing
tho poem and was fond of chatting
with Moore. The blacksmith is now
sixty.one years of age and is himself of
tho opinion that Longfellow h ad him in
mind whep he wrote his poem
THE inevitable upheaval that is des-
tined to occur in Russia does not seem
to be very far off according to the St.
petersburg correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph. He says: 1.-The Minis
ter OF the Interior has received very
alarming reports concerning the state
OF the country. The prisons are crowded
with suspects, chiefly young men Of the
educated classes. Disa1fection is
spreading in every locality, incen-
diArism Is rife, and there have been
conflicts in a great many places
between the peasantry and soldiers"
No wonder the Gar is afflicted with
insomnia.
AT the State fair in Birmingham, Ala,
Thomas j. Minis and Miss Gertrude
Pltman, Of Brewton, Ala, were m arried
in front of the grand stand in the pres
ence OF ten thousand people, Rev. S. NJ.
Adams performing the ceremony. The
young couple then stepped into the car