The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-14
MlScEllANEous,

MlscELLANEoUs.
There are three things that heat q
drum for noise lone is d small boy and
the other two are Observation-Disclosures
!iazette. !,
Mr.. Van Stump, suspect that you
want to marry my daughter only on &C
count Of her fortune 20, l beg you
just ask my father! He. will tell you
that the last thing ever think of is
money. -Fliegende Batter.
Mrs Bellows Ito daughter Coral;
'sWhy did you throw kisses at Mr. limp.
son across the aisle at church to-day"
Cora (complacently)-'.I wasn't near
enough 70 reach him. IN. Y. Herald :
Little Girl (timidly) please, Mr..
Storekeeper, want to get some shoe
strings" Storkeeper-"How long do
you want them?' Little Girl-'I want
them to keep, Sir, if you please. Jour
nal of Education. 1859
Stranger - ''How is it that you
charge ne s. day instead of 81, the
usual price," Landlord-''My dear sir,
when you came here you took the only
vacant room in the house, so l had to
turn away two men who subsequently
applied for board and lodgings. You
don't expact me to lose what they might
have paid If you hadn't come, do you?''
"A new form of watershed is designed
to utilize the flow of streams where a
dam cannot be constructed and where
the current alone is available. The ap-
paratus consists of a series of wheels
shaped like propeller blades, each
wheel operating Independently, but all
connected with a common shaft.
Farmer Little, of Ohio, began
sneezing the other day and couldn't
stop, nor could the doctors do anything
for him. Tho hired man hauled off and.
hit him on the proboscis and thu sneez-
ing disappeared as the blood came. The
sneezer was grateful, of course, but he's
going to lick the hired man some day
this spring.
John Turner Ingraham, of Provi-
dence, r. l., was SO Indifferent to cold
weather that he never wore an overcoat
or necktie. He always slept, even in
the coolest weather, with his bedroom
window open, and for sixty years
boarded with one family and occupied
the same room. His death occurred the
other day, from a severe cold, at the age
of ninety.
I'm Georgia there is tree on the
mountain above the large cliff of mar
BILE on the line of the Marietta & North
Georgia railroad that has been burning
for five months The whole mass is red
hot, and the material when taken out is
very much like chop cinder, but after
being exposed for few hours it Stacks
like lime. 1t is very strong with alkali
and smells like sulphur.
"A farmer living near Goylon post
office, in Emmons county, N. D.. lost
$50 lambs by a singular accident. When
he entered the sheep sheds the other
morning he found number of dead
lambs piled in heap. The only reason
he can assign for this is that his shep-
herd dog was accidentally locked up
among the sheep over night by his
herder, and the dog stampeded the
lambs into one compact mass and they
smothered to death in that shape.
The Other Side. AT the perform
ance of ''Lohengrin" last Wednesday,
there sat in the gallery a young woman
who had evidently come for the music,
and whose enjoyment was spoiled by
the persistent conversation of a man
directly behind her. AS looking at him
produced no impression, she finally
asked him if he would not please to
cease his conversation, but no result
followed. Upon this she turned to her
companion, saying, Then will put on
my hat and she at once produced from
its concealment one of the largest-sizcd
fashionable hats, which she quietly put
On and fastened securely. That man
lid not see the stage again that evening"
Attached to freight train passing
through York, Pa, the other day was a
ear containing number of horses, one
of which leaped from the car when
about two miles from the city. He de-
scribed several somersaults on the
ground, arose, and, finding the way to
the track. trotted after the fast receding
train until he came to a culvert, through
which his forelegs went. The brute
tried in vain to extricate himself He
was held fast until word could be sent
to Brill Harris station, short distance
away. where gang of railroad men
were working. They Immediately went
to the spot and removed the animal,
which was badly, though not seriously
injured, thus averting a horrible rail-
road disaster.
The Society of Califo MIA Pioneers
are the owners of a wonderful curiosity.
1t is section of timber taken from the
side of the ship Powhatan. 1t includes
a portion of the ''skin," which is
four inches thick. and a piece of abut-
ting knee, which is nine inches thick;
trapsversely through the whole of this
a swordfsh has dashed his sword, and
the portion broken off is still imbedded
in the timber. The sword pierced
through thirteen inches of this solid
oak, and the fish was going in the same
direction as the vessel at that, the ship
being under good head of steam at the
time. An idea of the strength which
must have been exerted can be obtained
from the fact that rifed six-pounder
could not have done more than pierce
that thickness of solid oak.
in the proceedings of the Royal
Geogra::. hical society for January, 1891,
it is estimated that the population of
the world in 1890 was Las, SOC, ZOO, rep
rcsenting an average of 81 to the square
mile, and an increase of per cent. dur
ing the decade. OF the continents Asia
has the largest population. $50, O00, 900,
and the lowest percentage of increase,
+ per cent Australasia has the small
est population, 4,73o,o0o, and the small.
est average per square mile. IA, but the
highest rate of increase during the de-
cade, 30 per cent. Europe is the most
thiclzly settled continent, with popu-
lation of $50, 200, 900, which is 1O1 to the
square mile. The population of North
America is estimated at 80, $50, 600, which
is on average of II to the square mile,
and represents an increase of 20 per
sent. during the past decade.