The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-09-25

of them - to denote the act or state of
electric killing. They are as follows:
Electromort, thanelectrize, thanatelec-
trize, characteristics, electrophon. cleo
tricise, electrotony, electrophony, cleo
troctony, electroctasy, electricide, cleo
troponize, electrothenese, electroed,
electrocution, fulmen, voltacuss and
Standardization
Don't clean your nails in public"
said critic to Detroit Free Press re-
porter. 1T is unspeakably valgar. The
toilet should be made in the privacy of
cne's chamber, or, at any rate, out of
the public gaze. If there is anything
in the world that disgusts person it is
to see fellow pull out a jackknife in a
street car and begin pairing away at his
hands. Don't do it, for it is vulgar to
the highest.
"A gentleman who wrote concerning
the price of board in a country town is
said to have received this telegram in
reply: Board, $40 week, including
washing up the carriage and piano
! agent. Robinson. He wrote in an
swer that though both piano agent and
carriage needed cleaning. he was not
| accustomed to such charges in board
bill, and soon after learned that the
original copy had run thus: BOARD,
$50 week, including washing, use of
carriage and piano. Agnes Robinson"
The annual product of roofing slate
is given by Superintendent of the Gen.
sus Porter as 1928, $50 squares, of value
of So, 75,271, of which Pennsylvania's
share is 474,6o2 squares and 81, 636, 945.
OF slate for other purposes the value is
given at 1868, 1852, Pennsylvania part
being 1914, S31; total value of all slate
produced, So, 444,s 1858; Pennsylvania, ST.
O11,776 - Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele-
graph.
The man who was hurrying into the
hatter's was on business He wanted
his old hat. when did you leave it
here?" II dunno" was the reply. They
hunted over great pyramid of hats and
found it, labeled July 2. When he went
out the halter said: '"That man bought
a new hat here and when he went out
said that he would call for it in half an
hour. 1t has now been four weeks. We
throw away seven or eight hundred old
hats every year for which the owners
are going to call in half an hour -
Lewiston Journal.
The London Hospital tells of a
seamstress, who, like Hoods pathetic
heroine in the ''Song of the Shirt"
worked till the stars shone on the roof.
Her eyesight failed, and the story goes
on: "She saw at the same time four
hands, four needles and four seams.
&ho Of f3raf <a1
but at the end of some days, in con.
sequence of weakness and prolonged
mental anxiety, she imagined that she
was really sewing four seams at once,
and that God, touched by her mister
tune, had worked . miracle in her
favor"
According to a calculation made BY
the Economists Beige, the cost of firing
11O-pound gun is, in round numbers,
1882. divided as follows: 900 pounds of
powder. $3.50; 1850 pounds proiectile,
$4s5; silk for cartridge, SIT; total 1882.
But this is not all. The 11O-pound gun,
it appears, can be fired but 95 times.
and after that becomes incapable of be-
Ing used, and requires repairs. Now,
the cost of the piece being ss2, 400, it is
necessary to estimate the cost of wear
at about 1868 for each shot, thus raising
the cost of each charge to $1,70O.
They struck town Tuesday, pictures
OF rural health and unsophisticated hap
piness. says Sidney IN. W Record.
Down our main street they wandered,
side by side. hand in hand. They saw
not the light of heaven; naught but the
light of the gentle flame of love illum-
mated their path and enabled them to
see their way to Justice Pierce's, where
their aching, throbbing hearts were
soldered into one, blissful and indi-
visible forever and evermore. Venus
and Adonis in this case was represented
by Lester D. Newton, of Norwich. and
Miss May Hubert, of Walton. After
the nuptial knot was knotted the happy
pair went to Hotaling's grocery and in.
vested in two slices of watermelon.