The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS

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:, --Editor's W6e-.'Before You 10 to
the office I h4ve d long story to tell
ou: Editor We are going to have a
crush to-night; boil It down to about
two kundred words. IN. Y. Herald.
a. !. SODA water Is an American drinx. 1t
u as essentially American as porter.
Rhine wine and claret are distinctively
English, German and French. The most
interesting fact in the manufacture of
soda water is that it contains no soda.
!. Young Gentleman drops on his
knees at the feet of lady)-'sMy dear
Miss u, our respectives fathers hav-
Ing come to terms on the money ques,
ton, now venture to inform you that
love you to distraction. ''-saphirs
Witzblatt.
-Doctor - 1.-THE fact is, you're over.
worked. You must take rest for a
few weeks. What you want is absolute
quiet" Merchant-'Wen, 1 can't &c
away just now. Let me see. BY hockey!
I've got it. I'll stop advertising BIOS
ton Transcript.
Burglars in the town of Sulphur
Rock, Ark, found it very difficult to
open safe in an Office they had en-
tered; SO they suspended operations I'M
til they visited livery stable, from
which they stole horse and wagon.
They then returned to. the safe, placed
it on the wagon and drove off.
-Snails' eggs absorb moisture. The
most singular thing about them, how
ever, is their marvellous vitality. They
may be burnt in furnace and thus re-
duced to powder, yet on the application
OF moisture they swell and regain their
vitality, Matching out as freely and sue
cessfully as if they had been let alone
Farming in Colorado is done on a
huge scale. as will be inferred from the
following information furnished by
Glenwood paper: ''E. Nipple, of Spring
Valley, has his ten-mile water ditch
nearly completed. The water is brought
from Devils Den, few miles from Gyp-
sum Creek. The ditch has been two
years in building"
1t was, at Newport, r. l., that the
eminent Bishop Berkeley, and also Sing
bert, the earliest professional portrait
painter in America, resided for awhile.
During the American revolution the
town was occupied alternately by the
British, American and French troops.
the latter under Rochambeau, having
landed there in $780,
A Mississippi man who has counted
the number of seeds in bushel of
various grains found that corn went
-. 100; wheat, $4,000; peas, $4,000;
cotton seed. 1884, G6. This item would
have more value if it stated the kind of
corn. wheat and peas selected for the
experiment.
"A writer in German paper gives
the following as the proper temperatures
for different sorts of beverages: Water.
81 degrees: setter water and beer, 81
degrees to GO degrees: red wine, 81 de-
grees to 66 degrees: white wine, 80 de-
grees: champagne, As degrees to 50 de-
grees; coffee, % degrees to 70 degrees;
beef tea. 100 degrees to 125 degrees;
milk, go degrees to 81 degrees; hot milk,
80 degrees to IS degrees.
The modern counterpart of the man
who recovered his lost eyes by second
jump into bramble bush is found in
the person of A. A. Hubbard. of Stetson.
The other day Hubbard dislocated his
shoulder by falling from an OK cart, and
while on the way to neighboring law
yer's the horse twitched the sleigh in
some way SO that the shoulder was
forced back into its original position.
The first printing press in the United
States began its civilized work at Cam
bridge, Mass, in Harvard University. in
1859. The first American-madei llustra-
ton, it is believed, is in Tully's Almanac
OF Boston, in 1868. The first American
copper-plate portrait published in this
country was in Increase Mather's ':Icha-
bod" published in 1903. The first three
engravers were Paul Revere BENJAMIN
Franklin, and Isaiah Thomas. who dis.
tinguished himself at the battle of Lex
ington.
The inhabitants of Rat Portage.
Ont, are very anxious to have the name
OF their town changed. Its growing
Importance, they think, demands for it
more dignified and delicate name, and
their pride and cultured ears are hurt
by the appellation of Rat Portagers, ly
which they are known. Petitions for
change have been sent to the authori-
ties, and the names suggested by the
petitioners include Van Horn, Sylvana,
Minnesobie, and Sultana. The latter is
much favored, but the Rat Portagers
evidently do not see the danger of their
staid citizens being known as Sultanas.