The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
"A oitisen Of 81 Johns, N. b. los,
. number Of chickens recently, amona
them rooster whose crow he know
with bis eyes shut. He made dotodl
Of the ETY.. heard tho rooster, insisted
upon On examination and found every
chicken.
"A numismatist suggests that cor
tain cotn-say tho hfty-cent pieces
issued during any administration b
stamped with the head Of the President
Of that date. They will thus sorvo q
an aid to history, . do the coins Of On.
cient days.
"A man in : village Of Holland va.
seen enc day painting heavy black.
line on the gable-end Of his house, and
attaching to 1t date, say November
IL, 1882. Asked what he was about, ho
said: Il am moving my high-water
mark up to where the boys can't scratch
tout again. ! am sick of their pranks."
An old molssses candy woman used
to ask her juvenile customers whether
they wanted ''sticks or gobs." One day
her niece took her place, and put the
question In this way: "Will you have
elongated pieces or condensed masses?"
And the youngsters agreed that she was
stuck up.-Youth's Companion. 49,.
Social economy-Mrs. Scroogge-
I'm writing to ask the Browns to meet
the Joneses here At dinner, and to the
Joneses to meet the Browns. We owe
them both you know" Mr.. Scroogge-
''But I've heard they've just quarreled
and don't speak!' Mrs. Scroogge-"I
know. They'll refuse, and we needn't
give dinner party at all."-Punch.
Norman Mcleod going into q room
in which was cage containing large
owl. surveyed it for = long time. The
owl sat unmoved, placid, and erect. His
mien was dignifled, his horns impress
sive, his eyes cold and observant, his
countenance sagacious and critical. At
length, DR.. Mcleod broke the silence:
''Man, ye wad max splendid Moder-
awtor! '-Christian Inquirer.
"A Jackson County, Mich, woman
lost her husband, and in the first blush
of her uncomfortable grief she ordered
= handsome monument to mark the de-
parted's resting place. Before the
stone was completed the widow had
taken new hitch on life and married
again. She refused to accept or pay for
the monument, and there was lots OF
trouble in the household.
"A vast sum was sunk in the tenn.
porary plant used in building the Forth
bridge. The engineers estimate that
100000 was spent in this direction
alone. In scaffolding, flooring, shedding
etc., 1000, 900 cubic feet of timber were
used. From first to last !, 200 tons of mere
service bolts were needed to hold thu
mass of material together. Scores o.
hydraulic jacks, sixty miles of wire
rope and rams innumerable were AIS
among tho temporary appliances en-
ployed.
An old lady living at Lewisburg
Ore, picked up an Indian arrow heat
recently, that is quite a relic. 1t i
black flint interspersed with quartz
pearl and emerald. and under the micro
scope exhibits roseate hue Of exquisite
beauty. The Mollalla Indians fort
years ago told the whites of rock soutl
of Mount Hood in the mountains, tina
shone with such intense brightness
as to excite superstition in the savag
breast to such an extent that they feare
10 approach the sparkling luminary
There is not much credulity to be al
tached to Indian tradition, but If tn
stone from which this arrow head wa
extracted could be located gems of grea
value might be found.
The fruit of the coco-de-mer, whic
General Gordon believed to be the TO,
hidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, ha
been exported to Europe. The nu
weighs twenty pounds and measure
twenty-five inches across. The palm O
which it grows (lodoicea sechellarum
Is 100 feet in height, and is only to b
found on the Seychelle Islands. Hur
dreds of years before the Seychelle
were discovered these nuts were washe
up on the Maldive Islands, and the wise
acres Of those days told the people tina
this sea-borne fruit had grown on sui
marine tree, and that it had mysteriou
power of counteraoting poisons. Henc
the name-coco-de-mer. 1t is probabl
that Gordon met with illusions to thi
wonderful nut in Arabic MSS, and after
ward visiting Seychelles was struck b
the beautiful and isolated group g
islands and their double cocoanut