The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Only Ave crocodiles have ever been
captured in Florida, although alligators
are numerous. One difference between
the two Is that. the crocodile works with
his upper jaw, while the alligator snaps
man in two with his lower jaw.
His Latest Opus.-Musical Editor
Injecting Hello, Tewnes'
l haven't seen you since you got mar
ried. Doing anything in our line?"
Composer othing much. Only lit
tle-er-c cradle song in A fat. Chicago
Tribune.
#-"Mamma," said Mrs. De Porgue's
daughter, ':you ought to go over to the
National museum. There are things
there that arc thousands of years old. $"
%. dear me!'' calculated the worthy
Indy, how frightfully out of style they
must be. "-Washington Post.
The first water mill ever built was
erected on the River Tiber, at Rome, A.
d. so. Nindmills were in original use
i'll the twelfth century. Tide mills were
operated in Venice about 17OS Saw
mills arc said to have been in use at
Augsburg, Germany, about 1882.
20 Charlie!" said the sweet young
thing, us she nestled a trifle closer to
him, II am SO so glad you are not one
of those Indians ''Well, l should hope
50. But why, particularly" because,
they are disarlning them" And then
he was glad it hadn't happened to him.
St Joseph News.
DIR. o. F. Voigt, of Columbus, O.,
reports having relieved woman by
means of an emetic of a stomach boartler,
a living toad about an inch and half
long. perfectly developed, except the
hind legs. We have always been in
clined to doubt these stories, but this
one appears in the Sanitary Era and
should not be an error.
1T was shown in suit in Cincin-
natl the other day that one shyster law
yer had visited thirty-six different peo-
pie in the course of a year and encour-
aged them to begin libel suits against
different newspapers, offering to take
retainer of * and half of what might
be got before jury. A good share of
the libel suits come about in this way.
-liousewife-''Willy you clean off this
snow for a quarter?" Boy-"Yes'm."
Housewife - Well, after you have
cleaned off the front walk and steps, 1
shall want you to make a nice path
down to the we'll and through the or
chard, clean off the cellar doors, and
then bring up the water from the well
and q few buckets of coal from down
stairs" Boy-''And then, ma am, sup
pose you'll want to have your grass
cut?"
Dodge City has only three grades of
society, according to recent arrival
from the west. The first, or ''aristoc-
racy," is composed of those who put
ont their washing. The middle Glass;
does its own washing, and the 'lowest
class is that which takes in washing.
This is the most simple and complete
distinction yet known, only it leaves
one large class unaccounted for-those
who think washing IN unnecessary lux
ury.-Boston Post.
This discreet resolution was adopted
recently by the trustees of school
house in Monticello, Ca: "Where;,s,
the big hickory near the left hand of
Ben Hill academy being dead, and that
If it should fall on any of the children
between their seventh and seventeenth
year, and near the small of the back,
they should surely die; therefore re-
solved that we hire au unbleached
American to raze the aforesaid hickory
tree to the ground"
"A man who is the father of eight
boys finds that they cost him a suit of
clothes, from hat to shoes, once a week.
Children cost money, and most parents
find it is only question of how much
they can or will spend on them. But
we have here in town mother who has
upset this rule. She has little bow
with an angelic face and she keeps him
before the camera half the time posing
him as cupid or Fauntleroy or as a
choir boy. The sale of his photographs
nets her $500 a year, and the worst of
it is she does not need the monev.-N,
Y. Sun.
the copper two-cent issue of 1864, and
is the first use of the word God in any
government act. This sentence was
introduced hy James Pollock, an ex-
governor of Pennsylvania, director of
the mint, with the approval of S. P.
Chase, then secretary of the treasury.
1t appeared on the 1866 issue of the
douhle-caglc, eagle, half-eagle. silver
dollar. half-dol!ar, and nickel five-cent
piece, i'll lieu of the ong-existing motto
of E. Nuri6us Cnum. In the trade
l>1lcr :..,,o l,oAL
retained, I'm God we trust appearing
on the diverse.
The New York County Medical So
ciety frequently brings into court per-
sons practicing medicine who have no
legal right to do SO, not having diplo-
mas; and the convictions are quite nu-
merous. In a recent case the offender
had been before the court once before,
but claimed that his lawyer had given
him paper which purported to be q
decision reversing the former convic-
ton. The lawyer was shyster. who
is now serving a term in the state prison
for forging a divorce decree. The judge
said it was simply a case of a medical
shark falling into the hands of two
legal sharks, ana sentenced the bogus
doctor to imprisonment for LOG days in
the penitentiary, together with fine of
500.
Judge Richards, of Chicago, once
had very exciting experience when he
was a justice in Bosque county, Tex
One day, when prisoners were few, a
little man was brought in by consta-
bic and two assistants for the offense of
carrying two revolvers II told him.
said the justice The must pay s25 and
lose the weapons. At that the little
fellow broke down and actually cried.
FINALLY, with tears streaming down his
cheeks, he. said: %, judge, jes' let me
bid EN- good-by. Ma gave 'em to me,
an can't go without handlin' them jest
once / consented and thu r,n1,.no,,k In