The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-10-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

| MISCELLANEOUS. I
Experiments with brake shoes for
the purpose Of doing away WITH the dis.
agreeable noise made when / train u
being checked show that Rnh-meSal
shoes are the most satisfactory. !.
The small ! was originally written
without the dot but this wss aided ia
Tho fourteenth century, Is I ih6aii,ss OF
distinguishing from in hasty and In
distinct writing. 49,
| The most valuable metal In tho
world is seid to be galliuta, which is
worth Is, $50 AZ ounce: Calcium brinas
$t,soo a pound, and cerium 81 $40 per
pound. Gold is worth $24o pound. ~.
-Tomson-"I generally carry q u1i-:
brrella when it looks like rain. ''ssSam.
son-"You likewise carry one whSa It
ldoesn't look like rain. You carried dr1iSi
away from my house the other day when
I'there wasn't cloud in the sky."-Yan.
kee Blade. syt.t4fgz.a4.s, e,<
| "A watch for blind people has been
invented in Switzerland In the middle
OF every figure is small peg, which
drops when the hour hand reaches the
figure. The ownets feels that the BEG
To- down, and counts back to .twel1e to
Idetermihe The hour; :
!, II. N. Blankinship; Of Marion, Mass, !,
has ;: clock. which was made. in 1881.
The works are of brass, and the clock
keeps, as good time IS it did when it
was made, 1853 years ago. but the ac-
counts vary as to the kind of time it
kept in 1882.
r Fully thtss=fourths OF ;tthhesbabieasb of
the world 60 naked Until they get to be
i've or six years old. The Canadian In
dams keep their babies naked up to q
certain point, and az for the little
Coreans, they. wear nothing but . short
| skirt until they are as old Sas our school.
Iboys. .,~.~..~. -.-.- -.-.-.. :, .-..-.
/ '-AEretired English army Officer Of
means is on atour through the Western
States OF America. When III sat down
to dinner day OF: Two ago he met with
quite = SURPRISE The waiter who took
I His order was his son, who had run nwav
from home-to scalp Indians some ssven
years ago. gs
"a we'll known lawyer 81 Toronto
who is about to be married ordered his
| wedding SUIT, whereupon itwAs attached
BY ladyEto whom he owed$4l, the pay
nent of whichsshe had Systematically
eFaded. His wedding garments are now
in the hands of a court official, and will
be put up at auction if hesmatter is not
settled. - = n =. e.
ANXIOUS Mothere NY dear, It's per-
fectly abominable the way the m On hug
you at these hotel hops. Now; look at
that couple coming This way. See how
respectfully that. gentlemaha treats the
iady hs is dancing WITH, He.holds her
almost at arms lsngth.'' Pretty Daugh.
ter-'But, ma. they are married, IN.
Can you do any thing withmy .o:
CONT to-day, sir?" asked a collector.
I'D like to pay 1t, replied Gazzam,
NbYt the fact is I haven't any gold coin,
and the doctors declare that the notes
carry the microbes about. Ono can't be
too careful, you akno1ws, and under the
circumstances wouldn't pay you with
notes for allthe world 8 y :
.7The Sewerage velocity of the Gulf
Stream Is about three miles, yetsthere
are places where it attains speed of
fffty-folr miles, per shourS Through the
Yucatan Channel the current is only
about one-fourth of mile per hour. In
the Straits 81 Bemini, however, It has as;
breadth5of fifty miles, a depth Of about
1000 feet, and velocity Of between
four and five miles -
p. Thompson, of Pine: Canyon, CAL,
cut bee tree, and in taking out the
honey he-found several hawks eggs inz
corporatedz in different layers Of comb.
The tomb hadsbeen built around the
eggs in such 4 manner rs to leave them,
In the eenter. Evidently there had
been q contest as to the right of posses
sion between bird and insect, and the
latter had Settled the case Without re-
course to the courts.
An elsctro-mechanical rail-testine
apparatus, call the ''schiscophone, ;, has
been tried lately at Ermont, France. it
consists of nicrophone and telephone
combined with mechanical striker
and an Induction audiometer: The in
:strument is claimed to be q reliable
indicator of faults in the metal, and
In the experiments made q defect was
invariab bly, found ON breaking rails at
places indicated As detective. - ~, -. ~,
Years ago Ruskin vented his spleen
against all kinds Of cycles thuswise: II
not only object but am quite prepared
to spend all my best bad language
in . reprobation If biz, tri- and
:, s., g. or 7-cycles, and, overy inven-
tion for ,superseding human feet on
Gods ground. To walk, to run, to leap,
and to dance are the Virtues Of the human
body; and neither to stride on stills,
wriggle on wheels. or dangIe on ropes,
and nothing in the training Of the hu-
man, mind with the-body will ever SUI
perseae, the appointed, Gods, ways Of
slow4walking and hard working. =, -.
- game hen. died .ons r, w. CANDLES,
place; at Cuthbert Ca: This hen had
reached the age Of fourteen years, lack
Ing only few weeks. She continued
to lay eggs until a; year before she died.
For several months she had been totally
blind. but was fed and watered regu-
larly by Miss Mary Gamble, In 1886,
when Mr.. Gamble moved to Macon; this
hen was carried there, and brought
back when be returned to Cuthbert. r., In
the spring Of 1882, when the cyclone
struck Mr. CANDLES place and tore
things up, this old hen was setting in a
box on the kitchen hearth. The kitch-
en- twas blown away, the chimney was
missing. but the hearth remained, and
there sat the old, hen in her box, %
composed asif nothing had happened = ,
SPAIN'S QUEEN.REGENT.
She Extremely Popular sinply Beeaus.
@. .. She Tells No Falsehoods. !
A prominent Spanish statesma1isRas