The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


MISCELLANEOUS.
IA torpedo net constructed u intsr-.
looking steel rings Il soon TO 10 put to .
practical test
. whist makes the world 70 around7"
no murmured tenderly. II believe"
she replied. that 1t IS the law Of gravi-
tation. Why7"- Society.
-Plsster casts are made In small seq.
monts, and are removed from tho face
or statue separately. II takes twelve
pieces to got osst Of IN ear.
Brazil 10 larger than the United
States, but in the whole twenty States
which make up tho republic there are
not - many people Is we have In New
York aud Pennsylvania
Tho greatest height upward In the
atmosphere 1T which tho sound Of can
non has been heard was 10000 feet
whom Mr.. Glaisher 1t that height over
Birmingham heard the firing Of the
guns being proved there.
--"Say, I've got inc scheme, where
you can double your money in month";
''You ought to take 1t to the watch
makers" "What for?'' why, they
handle oil kinds Of snide movements"
West Shore. =
Major Blowitz-''The fellow tried to
steal my reputation" Colonel Bluntly
You have lost the opportunity Of your
life." ..Wh.t should have done?"
"Let him have it."
-Devotion-'.John,t the doctor says
must give up wine, but think I must
have one more bottle, even though it
kill me-" "All right your honor, will
cheerfully die with you."-Fliegende
Batter.
-Judge-''Then your husband has ILL
treated you?" Witness-''No. your
worship" Judge-"What? Did he not
bite of one Of your ears?" Witness
mo. your worship; did it myself
La Vedetta-
Can Not Pay.-Chapson-'' tailor
told me that II couldn't pay for my
next suit of clothes 1 needn't expect to
be trusted for them" DUDLEY - Jaw!
And who are you going to transfer your
Yankee Blade.
"A Suggestive Blotter. - r. L. A.
Wright-'.A silver blotter back repre-
senting = shoe sole is on the market"
Mrs Wright-''Who'l buy such thing
as that?" p. L. A. Wright-'The friends
CT thousands of downtrodden writer's in
this country. "-Jewelers' Weekly.
First hen-''1 thought you made
contract with the boss to lay seven eggs
week until the first of January"
Second hen-''I did; but he only gave
me one peck OF feed month, and took
that out of my bill: so I quit don't
cackleate to be imposed upon in that
way"
"A curious art imposition has been
discovered in Paris. An ingenious per-
son stole bronze and marble busts from
the cemetery of Montparnesse, Paris
touched them up and sold them as
ehigies of famous heroes, statesmen and
orators. He did not find it difficult to
pass of the busts of departed grocers as
Demosthenes or some celebrated gen.
eral.
"A new educational game comprises
set of cards. each having q series of
multiplicand numerals and multiplier
numeral on its face, and = second set
each containing q number which is
multiple involving as factors the multi
plier and one of the multiplicands on
one of the cards Of the first set, the sec.
ond set of cards comprising duplicate
multipliers
English society has come to this: A
lady we'll known in London, who, with
her daughter, had been invited to join
a country house party, wrote back in
nn{pinp vuh0 tho nfhoW 20 20 IN
to meet her. On learning that the
party was to comprise three or four
prominent members of a certain 'set,"
she wrote back an indignant refusal, de.
claring it an insult to invite her daugh-
ter to stay in the house with the same
ladies named.
"A bee-keeper living near q large
hotel being built at Kingston, in ia
maica, recently found his hives in the
utmost confusion, with many bees lying
about exhausted and dead. The e2ec-
trio light was used at the hotel to carry
on the building operations by night 50
the bees mistook the light for daylight,
and went out to collect pollen around
the neighborhood thus illuminated.
When they came home the day was
dawning, and they few of again with
out any rest till they worked them
selves to death.
-Of the woods that are chiefly used
in fancy cabinet work, ebony comes
mostly from Ceylon and Madagascar.
and is sold by importers at 8 cents per
pound. Satinwood is grown on the ISL
and Of San Domingo and in Porto Rico.
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described as canary yellow" In tho
log 1t sells at Is cents p foot Tulip
wood ia but little used. 1t is imported
more for turning and inlaying than any
thing else It is found in Cent trail Amer
lea, and when brought to New York
sells for cents per pound.
"A California civil engineer visited
Toledo in 1884 and fell victim to re-
markable conspiracy, in which his pres
emit wife, her mother, and q physician
combined to entrap him into matrimony.
He was informed the young lady, who
was very i'll, loved him passionately,
and would not recover health unless he
married her. After the wedding he dis
covered she was hopeless paralytic.
He continued to be faithful to her until
this year, when he discovered she did
not love him, but married really to
show the man she really adored that
she could get husband. Tho victim
now sues for divorce.
-"Weeping" trees are becoming quite
common. Logan County, Kentucky,
claims to have three of them. They are
maple trees, which stand in the front
yard. of John Lyme. At time when
there had been no rain for fortnight,
water in streams began to run from the
tip of each limb. The water has soaked
the ground thoroughly and enough falls
to wet a man who will stand under tho