The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-23

80 Ivy "AtA wings anu u C811 some.
thing like a fantail pigeon. 1t weighs
exactly nine ounces The. wings are
composed Of elastic.like skin, and when
stretched out measured nine inches
from tip to tip. When the frog bird is
In the water tho wings and tail at
closely to the body and IRE hardly no.
ticeable.
"A little oblong steel box opening
with combination lock passed through
the Chicago custom-house recently, con-
signed to an Illinois watch company.
This insignificant looking affair con-
tanned diamonds and rubies by the hun
dreds that were intended for settings
for watches. The value of the stones
was placed at $3.50, 600, and the duty on
them was small fortune. The goods
weFe delivered by a special messenger.
4Mme. Tilma Perlergin painted the
last portrait that was ever taken of
Moltke. After she had put the finish.
Ing touches to the counts portrait she
received the compliment from him that
he considered the portrait the best that
had ever been painted of him. When
the lady said that she was proud to
have been allowed to put piece of his
tory of the world on her canvas,
Moltke replied, with his old-world
courtesy, And I, madam, sec in the
portrait piece of the history of art"
Probably the maddest race for life
that ever happened in San Francisco
was that, of a sleepy old nag whose
h'tching strap in some way was caught
In the cable slot of street railway.
The animal was obliged to run as fast
as the rapid transit cable pulled him,
until the strap was cut in twain by
coming in contact with a cross cable.
The horse was holding back go hard
that the reaction threw him on his
lunches, and before he could recover
his equilibrium half q hundred citizens
were holding him down.
"A baltimore freak is frog of good
size and trifle light in color, but ap-
parently not different from any other
frog. The freakishness developed when
his frogship was worried, when, in
stead of hopping off or giving utterance
to the deep, sonorous note usually
heard from frogs, he simply opened his
mouth and cried. The frog is nothing
IT not human, and suggests both in tone
and volume a bad, peevish child. The
cry is not single note, but several, and
is continued even after the ANNOYANCE
ceases
The four cables of the BROOKLYN
bridge are sixteen inches in diameter
each and consist of about 20, 600 single
wires. One difficulty with which the
engineers of the Brooklyn bridge had
to contend with was the fact that the
outside or exposed wires were expanded
by the heat of the sun, while the inner
and protected ones were not so af-
fected. The pressure of the wind, too,
being of varying velocity, required such
adjustment OF the wires as to prevent
displacement, even in a hurricane. 1t
took fifteen months continual work to
string the wires Of the bridge.
children are born mimics, as everv-
body knows, but there happily is some
thing unique in the pranks of two Port
land, Me-, babies, each under five years
Old, who recently got hammer, broke
in a square of glass, and crawled
through the hole thus made into a Port
land residence, and there amused them
selves by lighting matches and rum
maging over drawers and boxes, finally
emerging with gold bracelet in each
OF the juvenile pockets When their
mothers called for an account of their
movements they calmly announced that
they had been playing burglars
-Wellsvllle, O., has a wonderful
monstrocity. 1t is female pig, about
eight inches in length, entirely devoid
of hair, has double set of eyes, feet
like the hands of human, distinct fin
ger nails, large ears and the lower part
OF the face like human. The most
peculiar part of the freak is the upper
part of the face, which looks like an
elephant. 1t has long trunk project
ing from the middle of the head, which
turns backward and lays between the
two ears, and in the end of which are
two large holes, through which the air
or breathing takes place. The nose
proper has no holes on either side. and
resembles q human nose: The chin is
as perfect as child at birth possesses.
THE LAuREATEs OF ENGLAND.
Comforting tho Degree In tho Middle
Ages.
1t is not hard to understand how. in
course of time tho courf ,,<ok should ~