The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-09-04

MISCELLANEOUS.
"A Boston cat has just died st the
venerable age Of twenty-four years and
i've months.
Silk from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, with shout two-thirds tho
strength Of ordinary silk and about the
same elasticity.
Ono of the Berlin hotels was lately
robbed by two persons in the garb Of
nuns. They were subsequently, appre-
hended and one of the women was
discovered to be man.
"A bread-buttering machine for use
in pcnal institutions, operating brush
fed with soft butter, is . patent lately
issued. It ID said to save butter and
crumbs.
Mr.. Wick, Of Chelsea, England, is
the father of . peculiar infant prodigy.
His daughter Nelly, four years of age,
recently shaved five men inside Of thirty
minutes for silver medal.
What sort of restaurant is this,
waiter3' he asked the first of that ex-
elusive set that deigned to app,oach.
swell, sir, know one man that's been
coming here steady for month and he's
living yet. Times.
.-"Tell your master that he has made
= mistake of twenty marks in the &C.
count he sent me-" "Imp,ssible!'
''Why impossible? 1t is human to make
mistakes" Eyes, know that, but nv
master is not human. Fliegende Blat-
ter.
South Attica, Mich, farmer. planted
mustard seed. They did not expect pine
apples or oranges, but they were wild
when the plant came up and proved to
be western mustard, which is about ten
times as hard to eradicate As tho Canada
thistle.
"A valuable find has been made bv .
farmer at East Cape Girardeau, Mo. A
hill on his premises is declared BY an
expert from St. Louis to be composed
chiefly of the finest porcelain clay. It
Is estimated that there are at least IL 600
Car loads, worth 1925 per load.
-Distanced.-"Yes, SIR" began the
distinguished looking stranger, II have
delivered that same lecture 200 consecu-
tive nights, sir!" THAT'S nothinpv' de-
clared Peckson. my wife often de-
Hvers 200 same lectures in one consecu-
tive night"-American Grocer.
"A five-year-old child in West Camel
is of the following dimensions: HEIGHT
4 feet; weight, III pounds; circumfer-
ence OF abdomen, 4211 inches; waist,
37L inches; chest, 81 inches; neck, IA
inches; head, 2214 inches; thigh, %
inches; calf, 1871 inches; arm, Tx
inches; forearm, 1917 inches. He is
very healthy, eats all he can get and is
fairly intelligent The parents are by
no means corpulent, and their other
children are of ordinary size
Samuel Elliott, of Newbury, claims
to have devised an apparatus by the
adoption of which the smoke nuisance
will cease to exist. The process re-
moves from the products of combustion
all the black carbonaceous matter of
coal smoke, and . remarkable and i'm
portant thing is the entire absence of
sulphur in any form after the dense
volumes OF smoke generally seen issuing
from chimney shafts have been forced
into the ''annihilator."
AT the palace of Bangkok per-
forming leopard was brought in for the
amusement of one of the Siamese
princes In one of the princes retinue
was young girl of about fourteen years
OF age. The leopard jumped on her
breast 1t was merely in play, said the
animals caretakers. who begged her not
to be frightened, but in another moment
the leopard had seized the girl by the
throat, and she died in sight of the hor-
ritled spectators
-Boarding-house inmates soon learn
to appreciate tender meat, and will
eagerly seek the place where it is fire.
quently served. A Chicago man hit
upon an ingenious plan to secure a
boarding-hous where eating would be-
come pleasure instead of tiresome.
teeth-grinding exercise. He asked a
butcher to direct him to the house whore
he sold the best meat The butcher
cheerfully did so, and the man was soon
thereafter installed in q boarding
house where the delicacies of the table
are good and plentiful.
1t is claimed that the rain which
falls in the interior of Queensland does
not all run to waste but is stored be-
meath the surface and that the supply,
II it can be utilized, is enough to last
through periodical drought. The local
government proposes to devote a large
sum to prospecting for water by artesian
wells. The artesian we'll at Barcaldine.
700 feet deep, cost &c, 600 and yields 49,
600 gallons of water daily. Another at
Blackall, 1868 feet deep with a six-inch
casing, cost $4,000 and yields 800, 600
gallons daily.
For year draughtsman named
Hazen. aged forty-two, with his wife
and six children, had lived in Paris in
great difficulty. Finally they resolved
to commit suicide and take the children
with them. They sent the latter out to
buy charcoal, and with the windows
closed Hazen lighted the stove and the
whole family lay down on the floor to
die, the mother clasping the youngest
child in her arms. They were found
two days afterward all dead but the
mother. Upon her recovery she said
that when asphyxiation began the cid
est daughter began to cry, but lest she
should excite the neighbors her father
threw himself over her face, and they
were found in that position.
AN AWFUL MISTAKE.
1t Made tho BaEgage-Man's Life Unhappv
for Ono Day At Least.
1 ALWAYS have an eye out for my trunk
when l travel. After have received a
check and seen it dumped into the bag