The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-09


Detroit Free Press.
The Variable Mother-in-Law.-Ma
-"Extravagant saphead! Two hun
dred dollars for diamond stud! Think
Of it," Daughter-''But he's going to
have the stone matched for earrings for
me-" Ma-t'What a thoughtful dear he
is!'
"A Casualty. - Wigs 1.-THE iron
jawed woman wants you to send the
stage-carpenter down to her dressing
room right away" Futlites-"What is
the trouble?'' Wiggs-''She switched
off from hot coffee to ice cream, and
cracked her jaw"
The first female knights are said to
gave been women who sto1tly defended
Tortosa against the Moors in 1149, and
were rewarded with large immunities
for themselves and their descendants.
When Edward III. founded the Garter
he bestowed the robes and badges on
his queen and on the wives and daugh-
ters of the other knights.
The field of Wounded Knee is still
strewn with the bones of the horses that
fell in the battle there. The Indians
who cry over the graves of their dead at
Wounded Knee are said to have new
song of mourning, which runs some
what like this
He is down so Deep he is down so deep, he is
down so deep.
he can't get up, he can't get up, he can't get up
"A musical instrument of ten pipes,
called the magripha, is said to have
existed in the second century, and an
organ was said to be in the possession
Of King Pepin, of Franco, in 757. An
organ containing 400 pipes was erected
in the tenth century in England. Semi
tones were introduced in this instru-
ment about the end of the eleventh
century, and pedals were constructed in
1890 by Bernhardt, which gave a com
pass of b fat to A.
"A six-year-old son of George Har-
ger, who lives just south of Kiowa,
KAN, is an infant Jupiter in his way.
He is so full of little thunderbolts that
whenever he approaches any conducting
substance, animate or inanimate, one of
them springs to it from his finger tips.
He always has a larger load just before
storm. and all the animals about the
place run from him in terror.
An amateur bird fancier in the
French quarter of New York city ex-
hibits with pride a canary sitting on
four eggs in nest with bird less than
month old from her latest Matching.
Six others of her brood persisted in the
cold Of two weeks ago. Such rapidity
Of breeding is rare among canaries, for
the young at ten days old are little
Jumps of life, almost bare, and utterly
helpless. From that point on, however,
they grow with astonishing rapidity,
and in about three weeks acquire full
suit of feathers.
Dealers in human hair recall the
instructive fact that the panic of 1854
suddenly stimulated the trade among
the French Canadians. The hardships
of that period drove the women to sell
ing their hair, and considerable quanti-
ties were sent to the United States. At
no time have the women of this country
been pressed to the necessity of selling
their locks, although the great variety
Of color and texture, resulting from the
mixture of various nationalities, would
give hair from the heads of American
women peculiar value.
Secretary Blaine has decided to send
an interesting exhibit to the worlds
fair at Chicago. 1t will consist of the
original Declaration of Independence,
the constitution of the United States,
the articles of Federation, the famous
protest of the Philadelphia Carpenters
Company to King George ILL.,, and other
documents which are the heirlooms of
the country itself, of our national his
tory. These will not be shown by fac
smile, but by the originals They will
be shipped in steel caslxets and guarded
by soldiers while en- route and at the
fair.
Here is faithful copy Of a double
barrelled letter forwarded to us by
board schoolmaster," says the Journal
of Education. '"The first half is writ
ten on the outside of the envelope, the
last on the inside. We wish we could
present our. readers with a, fac-simile:
Please do not keep Charley Hall in and
cane him as he has had such bad eye
ind could not see out of it for days
and l had to take him to the doctor and
he told him to keep indoors from his
Mother please sir Charley is quite
well nofe to come to school and he
won't come and you cane do as you like
with-from his father.'"
According to the Boston Advertiser,
Harvard college is undertaking the task
of getting complete collection of flow
op~c re1oc - l..
ing these models is known only to two
brothers named Blaschka, in Dresden,
and they are under contract to work
only for Harvard during the next nine
years. The younger brother is now in
Jamaica studying the plants of the ISL
and, and in a few weeks he will come
to Cambridge as the guest of Prof.
Goodale. Afterward he will travel
west, making a collection of the typical
American flowers, and will then return
to Germany to begin the work of repro
ducing them in glass. The specimens
already received at the Agassiz museum
are marvels of ingenuity.
Partisan Fads.
Lavender salts are said to prevent in
duenza, or at all events to modify it,
effects, SO they have been, of late, or
many and many table, sometimes il
gold-topped bottles, larger than full
sized tumblers On some of these stop
pers diamond fly, an ivy leaf, or ba,
of music, with the clef and notes iI
small rubies, emeralds, or turquoises
are fixed. These designs are also much
in favor as pins. Peau d'Espagne ano
white lilac are among the Fashionable.
perfumes of the day. There are SOM
little innocent-lo looking silken bags
which, on being turned inside ont ant
tied up, form powder puffs of the usua
size.-Chicago Tribune.
Some Time Ago.
Studtous Boy-Father, did you even
study arithmetic?"
Father Indignantly of course
studied arithmetic.
Studious Boy-Well, I cant find the
cube root Of
Father Qhastily)-It's long Will.