The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-02-01
I MISSING LINKS.
Gold alleged with 20 per cent Of
aluminium takes on a brilliant ruby

aluminium takes on brilliant ruby
Il tint. s s u. vi. $.a
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est "
Rose leaf jam is q common dish in
ROumania, where roses are grown BY
the million. 5s
l In the United States there are said
to be 10000 Freemasons and $50, 600
Odd Fellows.
Ducats were originally dukes
money; first made in the Duchy OF
Apulla in. 1l40.
The golden candlesticks used il the
temple at Jerusalem were supplied
/ with pure olive oil. Z.
The average speed OF the transmits
sion Of earthquake shocks is nearly
16, 600 feet per second.
The United States holds the first
place among the countries of the worhl
in wheat production. ,s s4sas
England makes 100. 1000. 600 needles
q year, while the United States turns
out over 80,0OO,O 900.
A Russian scientist has succeeded in.
tracing all mans diseases to the fact
that he wears clothes.
The surface area of the moon is said
to be fully as great as that of Afric:.
and Australia combined.
Black walnut sawdust, caramel and
roasted and Drowned horse liver are
used to adulterate coffee.
There are forty-eight distinct dis
eases of the eye. No other organ Of
the human body has 80 many.
The gnat is provided with regular
set OF lancets and q cupping glass from
which the air can be withdrawn.
Plants placed under blue glass will
starve, because they cannot absorb
carbonic acid from the atmosphere.
Some of the Comstock mines are so
deep that no means have yet been de-
vised to overcome the excessive heat.
A.single steam shovel in the Lake
Superior region mines loads on the
cars in single day 3,400 tons of iron
ore.
One hundred and twenty pounds Of
tobacco was the stipend paid for a wife
by some of the early settlers of Vir-
ginia.
Asiatic cholera was first supposed, to-
have originated from the consumption
of unsound rice. and was called "tho
rice disease"
The long bow, the national weapon
of England, did not give place to the
arquebuse and musket until the time
ofthe Stuarts.
Twenty-Five thousand persons in the
United States, it has been estimated,
own among them $31, SOC, 600, 900 worth
If property.
In New England Guy Fawkes day
(Nov. s. is still celebrated with hon
fires by boys who haven't the remotest
idea who Guy Fawkes was. a
The town of Grayesend is said to be
the richest town or township in the
World. IL has no debts and 1t has
close to 81, 600, 600 on deposit.
Leather scraps are now converted
into pulp and manufactured into
doorknobs, canes, combs, cups but
tons and other useful articles.
In China when bank fails all the
clerks and managers have their heads
chopped off ard thrown in heap
along with the books of the firm.
Eleven million six hundred and
twenty thousand families, with an av-
erage income of 1868, pay 80 per cent
of the taxes in the United States.
The Eskimo Bulletin is the only
journal published within the arctic
circle. 1t is printed at Cape Prince of
Wales, Alaska, and is issued only once
a year. J.
The latest statistics prove that more
than two-thirds of the grown male
population of the globe use tobacco in
some one of the many forms in which
t is taken. r.
! During the past eight years organ
zed labor of Boston has reduced the {
working hours in that city about &c. .
go, 900, and the wages were increased {
about 100000 annually.
/, Prof. Dolley, of the University of j
pennsylvania, has discovered that the ]
hyrsus carried by Bacchus was the 6
lower cluster of the date palm, not a 8
If or pine cone as usually translated. q
There is mill in Lawrence, Mass,
where the bell rings at 9 p. NJ, which :
8 signal for the girls employed at }
he mill to retire. Any of them seen
n the street after 9 O'Clock are liable q
% discharge. q
An authority on weather declares q
hat tornadoes are most frequent be- =
ween noon and 6 o'clock. and that the =
ainiest hour OF the day is 4 o'clock in h
he afternoon. This is the report of a s
expert, not weather !,
prophet.
Interesting relies of mound builders n
r Indians have been found at She boy p
AN, Wis. Search has revealed guam +
tiles of human bones and all sorts of b
urious copper utensils and ornaments, Il
including spears. hatchets, battle axes IL
nd neck ornaments. g
Iron visiting cards are among the "
atest novelties in Germany. Forty u
laced one on the other are said to be
nlv One-tenth of an inch in thickness. II