The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
There arc some drugs which are
said to be worth $1,000 Q bottle, and the
druggists say they don't make much on
them either.
The Italian Admiral Albini thinks
that the future man-of-war will have
double screws and . helm at each end,
| 80 that in battle it need waste no time
in turning around. Its sides will be un-
armored.
"A queer circumstance was lately
brought to light in the Marvinville 70.
post-oface. Alarge rat was discovered
by the postmaster which was in the
habit of making one meal . day out Of
the adhesive portion of postage stamps
and another out of postal cards. After
being deprived of this diet the animal
soon died. - "a.
The Lewiston journal says the
woman who bought paper of needles
when she was married and set up house,
keeping, and forty years after had used
only half OF them, may have been
relative of an Aroostook man who
moved to Massachusetts while ago.
he sent back the other day for his cap,
which is forty-four years old, and which
he had left behind. He said he felt
lonesome without it.
An American electrician who hap
pened to visit the Paris patent office
claims to have unearthed the fact from
some old records that barbed wire is not
| an American invention. He says the
invention was first conceived and pat
ented by . Frenchman, Louis Francis
Janin, about five years before the first
patent was granted by this Government.
Peter jennings, an old sailor, re-
Gently turned up in San Francisco and
claimed to have been passenger many
years ago with an old pirate, who, on
his deathbed, divulged the secret hiding
place Of $250,000 treasure in Spanish
doubloons. The place is Wall Island,
in the Pacific Ocean, three degrees south
| of the equator. He has succeeded in
interesting eastern capitalists to look
for the treasure and the moneyed men
| went to San Francisco lately for the.
purpose of organizing an expedition to
hunt for the doubloons.
1t is said that one $500 share in the
New River Company, which was founded
In 1912 to supply the Clerkenwell dis
trict of London with water, sold recently
at auction for 1914, 900. The last annual
| dividend on the share was $4,000. The
purchaser was an insurance company,
which took the stock as permanent in
vestment. The great disparity between
the price paid and the earning power of
the stock may throw some light on TIE
eagerness of English capital to seek in
vestment in American enterprises.
"A good story is told about a young
Rockland, Me-, couple recently married.
They were plentifully beshowered with
rice as they left for the noon train after
the wedding, but on the cars they as
sumed the airs of an old married couple,
hoping to escape detection. They got
out at the Union Station, Portland, and
as 1t was raining the groom spread the
protecting folds of his new umbrella
over his bride. AS the umbrella went
up, two quarts of rice which had been
carefully slowed within came down.
The hurrying throng saw the rice, the
0AoSAAAAS SooPAOs 0AN S1uR AV ON
The term "Johnnie," which was
originally coined in London, is now very
generally used in New York to describe
the peculiar class of pallid youngsters
who hang around stage doors and fire.
quent burlesque theaters. The dis
tinction between Johnnie and a dude
seems to be that the former has money,
while nothing is needed to equip the
latter but silver-headed stick, a cigar
cite, considerable ill-health and vapid
smile. The Johnnie is also an improve
ment on the dude to the extent that he
has all object in life beyond cigarette
smoking, even if that object is only the
worship of stage divinity.
"A San Francisco paper illustrates
the contempt Of Californians for pennies
by the following: "Give me silver for
this, please" said an Eastern tourist
yesterday, as he dumped double hand
full of one cent pieces on the counter of
prominent money broker. 81 don't
want them. They're not worth count
ing. wouldn't give fifty cents on the
dollar for them," was the reply. II
| never took them but once, and then
had to. A fellow owed me five dollars,
and, after repeated duns, offered pay.
ment in coppers. l Indignantly refused.
The next day he came in, and showing
copper cent in my hand, asked me to
give him credit for that amount upon
the debt. He kept that up, making a
payment of one cent every morning,
noon and night-three cents every day
until l accumulated cigar box full Of
coppers. They're here yet, and they'll
stay here until some one comes along
who has more time than money.
won't count them"