The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Love is blind, AMI it is lucky thSt II
is. Otherwise, this world would not
last more than 300 or 400 years at the
outside
Burglar Ito promising young pick
pocket)-'Say, pal, how are yer doin'?'
Plckpocket-'O, I'm gittin' me hand
IN. Y. Journal.
-Jenks-''Is weakness weak?'' Blenks
-"Of course" jerks - Then what
makes it take SO much strength to over.
come it?''
-"What l can't understand" eroaned
Tommy, lis that little stumlnick like
mine can have such a tremendous bic
ache"
-Foley-"Have you nice ncighbors?'
Elegant. Why they spend
the fall and winter in Florida and the
spring and summer in Newport"
"A Scotchman who wanted to sell
some bees inserted the following adver.
ment in the local paper: ''Extcnsive
sale OF live stock comprising no less
than 100000 head, with an unlimited
right of pasturage.-Tribunc
An apartment is so convenient
said Mrs. Trotter; 'when you see any.
one coming to call that you don't want
to see, all you have to do is to walk
down stairs while they are coming uI
in an elevator. IN. Y. Sun.
-"What do you think Of your little
sister, Osgoodson?' inquired his father.
"She may improve upon more ex.
tended acquaintance" replied the little
Boston boy, regarding the new infant
critically, but at present she seems alb
surdly crude and immature"
Prince Bismarck has one hundred
and three decorations. Fourteen are
set in diamonds of great value. lie be-
longs to no English order The late
car of Russia gave him the order of ST.
Andrew. the most important in Russia.
Bislnarck's diamond star belonging IT,
the order is worth $4,000.
The department of Agriculture i:
about to introduce to the people of tn:
United States a new vegetable food re-
sembling the Irish potato, but longer.
1t is the root of the Gala lily which
grows readily and without much cult
walton in swampy land, yielding enor.
nous crops. 1t is commonly used in
ASJ ~ nAO pun. dIlA I iCIlttd ldIuASIS
have begun to raise it for market
To mark steel tools. Just warm them
slightly and rub the steel with wax on
hard tallow until film gathers. Then
with a needle scratch your name on the
wax, cutting through to the steel. \
little nitric acid poured on the marking
will quickly eat out the letters. N'ips
acid and wax off with warm soft rar
and the letters will be clearly etched.
"A glass of water and a napkin are
no longer the only Accomplishments OF
a drink of liquor in the small bar-roo,ns
The fashion is now to hand to each
customer a small ha2dful Of waite,
crosses in a saucer The ba-tenlcrs
have suddenly discovered that there IS
wonde>tul medicinal viStuc in wata1
crosses. and they boast that it cures
half the ills to which man is heir.
Briggs was narrow cscc DC
Rildergate had, wasn't it: You know
how he was just about t. marry I. girl
when he found that she spent fifteen
hundred dollars a year Oh her dr'ss,>.'
Griggs-'YcS: but he's married all tbs
same" Briggs-"Truc: bat h, didn't
marry that girl" Gci:yrS-''He Iii In t:
Who did he marry. tFrn?" Briggs
''Her dressnaller. -!loa1l Review.
Russian tea Is gradually making its
way in New York. The Samnvar is
scarcely ever seen in any restaurant.
though it is maintained in few Rus.
sian households. The tea has been sole
for some years in the Hebrew quarter
of the tenement house region. and ar
importer VIII, shares the shop of a IA,
East Side matchmaker reports the de
mand growing. \ few uptown grocers
keep the tea done up in black paper anc
labeled in Russian characters.
Adhesive postage stamps were in
troduced in England tifty-two years ago
and in this country one year later
They were the invention of James Chal
lners, a printer of Dundee. Scotland
The advance made in the business {,
carrying letters is indicated from the
fact that SO late as 1916 it cost cigh'
cents to carry letter of prr>>.ribet
size and containing a single sheet of pa
per distance of forty miles
One of the vegetable curio*ities o,
Central Park. New York City. is maple
tree standing just west Of the west side
tennis lawn. The tree is fully i've feet
in diameter at the base. bat instead o,
rising as one trunk it splits into seven
teen distinct trees, of which sixteen are
alive, and several are at least ten inches
in diameter The seventeenth. a trunk
four inches III diameter. is dead. having
persisted apparently from some defec;
of nourislil'nt. Near this tree i
another map.e split into eight trunks.
-Bootbla liking in New York costs all
the way froii ten cents at the hotels t.
two cents. Or even less. in regions
where tiny lads compete for trade.
Washington square is the favorite r..
sort Of small Italian boys who tempt.
ingly hold UP three fingers to Indicate
the price of a shine and lower one in
the presence of an unwilling customer.
The same thing is encountered on the
far east side. but 20 boy on any fire.
quented street darcs to enter upon this
cutthroat career lest his competitors
visit him with summary punishment
In May, 1881, Gen. Greene com.
menced the siege of Fort Ninety six in
less than thousand regulars and. u. few
raw militia. The garrison was command.
ed by Lieut. Col. Crugcr, of New York
hyalst. The siege continued from Nav
22 until June Is, when an unsuccessful
attempt was made to take the works by
storm. The siege was raised on the fol-
lowing evening, and the Americans re-
treated beyond the Saluda river Green.
lost $50 men during the siege.
A movement is on foot in New YORK
to induce the legislature to donate that
states building at the worlds fair tc
the Chicago organization known as the
Sons of New York. which is composed
of Chicagoans born in the Umpire state.
A wealthy citizen of the worlds fair
city, it is reported, has offered, if that
should be done, to donate site on
Michigan avenue, to which the building
may be removed after the fair and
where it would be used as club house
-F'ifty-five of the counties in Illinois
have been organized for exposition
work bV the women members of the