The Worthington advance., 1892-03-31
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First student-'.Why do You beat
your dog SOP" because he always
stares at me with the same questioning
look the professor had at the recent ex-
animation" n."-FlicgendeB Blattcr:
:. -"Do you find it hard work to pass
the weary hours?" ''There amt none
OF 'em weary enough for me- to- pass
en-" rejoined Mr.: Hungry Higgins
Indianapolis Journal.
-Dolly-"O, yes, l quite believe there
Is fool in every family. Don't you?"
The Captain-''Well-er- opinion is
rather biased. You see, I'm the only
member of our family. y."-Comic.
knew Exactly, but-Mrs Black
DO you know where you left the AK?
Mr.. Black-''Yes, know exactly, but
somehow can't find it am sure left
it either in the cellar or out of it,
Yankee Blade.
-Preacher-"Every man. must some
day settle his account with fiis Maker"
Tailor-''1 wish you could impress
young Sapmind with that idea lie
hasn't settled with me in about year
and a f"-Boston Courier.
-1ntuition.-Fangle-"What sort of
a dress was that Mrs Snoo2er wore to-
night?" Mrs Fangle - ''Demi-traju."
what's precisely what Cumso said
when he trod on it, but how did he
know its name?"-N. Y Sun.
The RedHaired Girl-Mrs. Treetoo
DO you believe there is anything in
the red-headed girl and white horse
aea?" Uncle Treetop-'I dunno: our
old gray mare is that fond of carrots
she would follow anything that looked
like ne."-N. Y. Herald.
Turkish and Persian pipes. it is
said, are difficult to manage. They re-
quire the fragrant yellow tam bake, that
must lie soaked in water, wrung out
and put in the bowl with live coal on
top. The pipe is now relegated to the
elders, for the young generation in
western Asia smoke cigarettes.
Watches were appreciably reduced
in size after the invention of the fusee
to obviate the inconvenience of varia-
tions OF power of the handspring. The
watches made early in the sixteenth
century generally strongly contrasted
in size and porta biIity with those worn
in fobs by men in the eighteenth CEN
tury, and which were round, thick and
heavy.
"A Montana man has invented a
ranch snow plow, to be used in scraping
the snow off the ranges SO that the cat
tie can get at the grass 1t is reported
that the machine works very satisfac-
torily Thousands of cattle perish
every year, and the number this year
has been more than usually large from
starvation on account of the deep snow
cutting off the food supply.
Fish are drowned when taken from
the water into the air. and animals
when put even for short time nnder
water, but the axolot can not be
drowned nywhere. Yet he is nowhere
safe, for the inhabitants of the place
where he is sfound-Mexico, New Mexico
and Texas-thinl1 that his flesh is very
good to eat, and catch great mum bers Of
the axolotl for food, which they cook
in various ways
Coast Indians of the Pacific shores
OF British America devour raw sea ur-
chins with great gusto, crushing them
in their fists, sucking out the orange
colored cluster of eggs which consti-
tute the only edible part, amounting to
one or two teaspoonfuis and then
throwing the thorny case aside. The
minute eggs taste much like oysters
anu have been favorite food of the
natives of the bleak coast of Alaska for
ages
-"How many people coming to Flor
ida." asks the Times-Union, know
anything about the great fresh water
spring in the Atlantic ocean? This
great natural wonder covers an area of
about two acres, is located in the Allan
tic ocean about two miles (east) from
the shore, and about ten miles from St
Augustine (south). The spring is de-
fined by the silver cleaning white caps
trying to force themselves over the
powerful boiling spring."
Alfred Kingsley Glover. in the Mag
azine of American History. asks the
question: WAS America discovered by
the Chinese?' He remarks that ..since
the year 1881, when the great French
sinologue, De Guines, gave to the
world for the first time the an
cient account of the Chinese Hoei-
Shin. describing a distant land of
which the name of Fusang was given,
the world has been flooded with books,
tractates and pamphlets bearing on the
same interesting topic in which Fusang
is identified as America"
A highly exciting wildcat chase
took place at Wills Cove, about three
miles southwest OF Livingstone, w. Va
The cat, which was of gigantic proper
tions, was seen about 9 o'clock in the
morning by Mrs Gabriel johnson and
her two daughters, and they immedi-
ately set three large greyhounds or it.
The animal ran for some distance, but
was finally treed by the dogs, and one
of the ladies summoned up the courage
10 get double -barreled gun and fire
at the monster Her bravery was re-
paid by the sight Of the animal falling
ing dead from the tree at the first re-
cort of the gun The ladies are proud
of their success
A SCENE ~ CHURCH.