The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANY Gus.
-. Al, Blank, Is It you? / hear you,re-
luuning 3 house Of your own noyv?''
No responded Blank. sadly, ..only
married. Kate Fields Washington.
sitter ito photographed II don't
TN the photograph does me Justice"
grapher My dear sir, If photo
eraphy did justice to everyone who has
ma picture taken the art would soon
grow unpopular. Demorest's Maya.
zine. 4 8.
coronach, or mourning for the
desd, y still heard in many parts OF
Scotland. Us well az in Ireland. II IS a
weird chant, cries Of lamentation tcing
mingled with renonstrances addressed
to the departed for leaving his friends
and relatives
t5-Why did you tell the Judge your
name was Murder?' $50 that he.
wouldn't commit me-" "Hur.ph! Why,
didn't You tell him your name was
Gun3 What good would that have
done? He might have discharged
You. '-Harper's Bazaar. II.
"a novelty in counterfeiting ap-
peared In Sioux City, where young
man took new silver quarters, cut out
the quar-" and changed the last L to
y, making it read ''ten dollars" and
plated the coins neatly with gold. He
bought five or ten-cent articles to get
the change till he was caught. >sz-3:~
LIN the report of her maiesty's in
spector OF explosives for the past year,
two samples Of guncotton were referred
to. one of which had been under water
for sixteen years while the other had
been buried under ground for twenty
years Both these samples were in fine
condition, and as ready for their work
as on The day OF their manufacture. : :.
AZ cat which patronizes the soda
water fountain is an attraction of
drug store 10 Sixth avenue, New York.
Long ago it discovered that the cream
ofthe fountain suited its taste, and it has
habit of going up to the counter and
waiting until it is served with light re-
freshments in it's own particular saucer.
They tell me you have learned to
count, Robbie said a pious old lady to
her little grandson, who was paying
her q visit out in the country. Course
| can" answered Robbie. Listen
one. two, three, four, five, six"
That's right" said the old lady, en-
couragingly. Go on" ''Seven, eight,
pine, ten, Jack. queen, king"
In the government pawnbroling
establishment at Paris, known as the
Mount of Piety, there are stored tens OF
thousands of watches and hundreds of
thousands of jewels On watches alone
total of no less than 81, 00o, 900 has
been pledged. There are more than
1900 opera glasses and about 1900 UNI.
brellas- The annual interest has been
fixed at six per cent
The Tombstone Epitah recently
spoke of a garden near Yuma, Ariz., in
which are growing twenty-five date
trees, the largest of which is thirty feet
in height and fifteen years old. This and
five of the other trees are now in bearing.
and some of the punches of their fruit
weigh fifty pounds and are estimated to
contain $4,000 dates each.
"A great quantity of unknown but
interesting music will be released from
years of confinement by the sale of the
Borghese Library in Rome, more than
two hundred and fifty compositions be.
longing to composers of the first half of
the seventeenth century. Operas, mad.
rigals, motets, villanelles, and airs by
composers of the years 1860 and there.
abouts are also found in the collection.
"A stat!stician of the German gov.
eminent has come to the rescue OF
those persons who do not share the
widespread superstition that Friday is
the most unlucky day of the week. A
short time ago he determined to make
scientific investigation of this CUES
ton. Che most fatal or unfortunate
week day, according to the invcstiga-
tor, is not Friday, but Monday.
Prof. Garner, who has gone to
Africa to study the language of the
gorilla and the chimpanzee, saws he
will not return to this country until hi
has secured sufficient photographic rec
ords of the speech of these two great
types Of monkey life to be able to settle
definitely the subject of monkey Ian
guage. He has SO far, in twelve years
study. been able to reproduce three
sounds in the monkey language which
are ineligible to monkeys. They were
sounds expressive of desire for food.
fer drink, and Of terror.
Madame .Bernhardt gives these
rules for dress: "Whatever you do
dress becomingly. That is my rule.
See that what you wear suits you-your
person, your individuality. Make your
costume suit you, not yourself suit the
costume. It is not wise to rely
upon the uniform judgment of one per-
son or to advocate eternally the skill of
certain few. If you cling to
the same costumer monotonously, you
will always wear the same stamp, like
your goddess on the American dollar"
Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the He
brew millionaire, philanthropist, sports
man and financier, is reported as soon
to make a tour of this country. The
baron's charities amounted to fifteen
millions in the year 1891, and his gener.
GUS fund for the aid of immigrant Jews
has given him wide fame all over the
world. He has the touch of Midas, and
everything turns to gold in his hand.
Not long since, he purchased the de.
preciated assets Of bankrupt Belgian
bank at small price and realized four
million dollars from them.
"A very elegant private car, with
complete fittings, can be bought for
$a5. 600. All that is necessary is to &c
to one Of the palace-oar companies and
give the order. When the car is COM
Melted IL will he .deliuered as fro;nh4 A..