The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Bobby-"Pa, what does it mean
when it says mans estate was divided
according to law?'' Pa-''It means.
Bobby, that the heirs of the dead man
get what is left after the lawyers get
through
1t is not generally known that kid
gloves are of great antiquity. TAey
are mentioned in the sixteenth verse OF
the twenty-seventh chapter of Genesis,
where Rebekah, after arraying her son
Jacob in neat attire, thus completed his
toilet, "And she put the skins of the
kids OF the goats upon his hands and
upon the smooth of his neck"
The origin of the saying, every
mans BRICK is said to have been the
remark ola famous general of old, who
at one time was entertaining guests,
and led them out to view the surround.
lngs of the city. The guests asked
where are your walls and fortifica,
tions?'' Here" said the general, wav.
ing his hand toward his army. ''The
city has an impregnable wall, every
mans a brick"
"A big hole in the ground has been
discovered by well-digger in the town
OF Slaughter, near Seattle, Washington
He had dug we'll thirty feet in depth
and then rock for time obst:ucte!
further progress. When this was re.
moved it uncovered hole of unknown
depth. A sixty-foot rope failed to touch
bottom. Then he dropped stone in
the opening, and nearly three minutes
elapsed before dull splash was heard
The hole is thought to be the opening
to an extinct volcano.
Sir Walter Raleigh was the first ad.
venturer who planted colony in Penn
sylvania. This was in the reign t,1
Elizabeth. Pennsylvania was granted
by Charles II. to the Duke of York, 1864
and it was sold to the Penn family, 1851
pennsylvania was afterwards purchased
from the Indians by the celebrated
William Penn, (son of Admiral PENN
who went out from England with a
nuWber of colonists, from which period
the settlement gradually increased.
The worlds fair committee of the
North American Turner Bund has made
personal application to Director Gen.
eral Davis for space for display OF
gymnastic apparatus, literature OH the
subject OF physical exercise and develop
ment, and representations of gymnastic
organizations, as well as for outdoor
gymnastic exhibitions, which the turn
crs desire to give eight days in each
month during the exposition
The fashion of saying God bless
you!" after sneezing originated with the
ancients. These people believed that
some danger attended sneezing. so they
generally made a short prayer, such as
Jupiter, help me!' 1t has been found
to be the custom among savages to dc
the same, and the Jewish rahbis also
make mention of the fact. An old
Roman writer says that the custom
originated during plague, when peo-
pie who were seemingly in good health
sneezed and fell dead
There is, as our readers know toe
well. widespread superstition re.
garding Friday as an ''unlucky'' day.
History seows that it is just the con.
trary. Some of the greatest blessings
have fallen upon the world on Friday.
Listen: The Mayflower landed on Fri.
day. The Bastile was burned on FRI
day. Washington was born on Friday.
Shakespeare was born on Friday. Co.
lunhus sailed frt.n Palos on Friday.
America was discovered on a Friday.
The Declaration of Independence was
signed on Friday. And Old Hickory
fought and won the battle of New Or
leans on a Friday.
The handbook by the Federation
of Labor shows the strength of the sew
enty-four national trade unions of the
United States to be 675,117 The Car
penters' Brotherhood leads with Is. 1000
mSmbers: Amalgamated Iron and Steel
Workers, 10000; Iron holders Union OF
North America, $1,000: international
Bricklayers' and Stonemasons' Union,
$4,000; Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, 10000; International Typo
graphical Union, $4,000: Cigarmalers'
international Union, $1,000: Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, %. 900:
United Mine Workers, 10000; Granite
Cutters National Union, 10000: Jour
neymen Bakers National Union, 1880;
Journeymen Tailors' Union. II 900; and
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and Brotherhood of Painters and Dec
orators, each with II, 900.