The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-11-28
EXCHANGE NOTES. l

EXCHANGE NOTES.
That's the sort of champion on
Fred Gilbert is, When he won tAr
worlds trophy at Baltimore it vas
commonly set down as scratch"
THE young man will soon get .$ihr
conceit knocked out of him." it was
remarked. Well, he slipped over il
to Illinois last week and did some
more scratching" Col. A. II. Be
garttus. th., veteran crack shot, Offer
ed gold medal to the best all-aronnd
wing shot. The regulations We're Pc
culiar, Three pairs were to be shot
according to American rules, three
by English rules and three by b.
gardus rules, which made it neces-
sary to kill the bird with single
shot outside OF ten-yard circle
about the trap and inside the usual
bounds. The f"mous Colonel shot Is
out of possible Is, and them our
Fred ambled up to the score and
dropped the entire Is and hungered
for more. So he now wears the
handsome Bogardus medal on his
manly breast, and the sporting
world is getting around 70 the idea
that Gilbert is great man with
gun.-Spirit Lake Beacon. AT. .a
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Exchange: When you ask a man
to subscribe for your paper and he
says: Lob, never read much, and,
besides, times are too plagued tight"
apologize to him for making the mis-
take and leave him. Life is too
short to waste time in trying to! teach
a jackass to sing soprano. All: gen
tlemen nowadays read newspapers and
lots of them. Show ~ 4 man who
lives for years in Town or county
and never subscribes for the papers
published there, and we will show
you a man whose head is shaped like
a piece of pie, with the point up, and
whose ignorance is only exceeded by
his gall. A newspaper is an insti'
tuition that works day and night, for
every decent man of the community.
Therefore every decent man OF the
community is in honor bound to as
sist in it's support. The great trou-
BILE is, that some swellhead galoots
fancy they are making the editor. a
present when they take his paper.
Xxx
Little Rock Free Lance: The Free
Lance did not come out last week.
Three weeks ago today the editors
face was badly burned by beer bot
tie. containing lye, exploding and the
contents flying in his face. The pap
er was left in charge of Chas. Sween-
ey, of Ellsworth. He did very we'll
the first week and the pager appeared
as usual. But early in the second an
accident happened to him somewhat
similar to the one that laid the writer
up-in fact, we have every reason to
believe that several beer bottles ex-7
ploded, the contents hitting him
square in the face each time. These
repeated explosions" made him sick
awful "sick" in fact go sick that he
was unable to take his shoes off be-
fore retiring for the night. He re-
NAMED 'ssick" and of course not much
could be expected of a man in his
condition, hence the paper failed to
appear t
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The editor of an esteemed contem- |
porary said to his foreman: BILLY"
put George Washington on the gal
ley and finish up that murder you
commenced yesterday. Set up the
ruins of Hercules and distribute
smallpox. Lock up Jeff Davis and
slide Ben Butler into hell, and leave
the pi alone until after dinner. Put
the ladies form to press, and 60 to
the devil and put him to work on
Deacon Fogg's article on eternal pun
i shment.
~
A mind reader. having demonstrat
ed to pasty of ladies and gentle
men his ability to read newspaper
through two thicknesses OF a horse
blanket: one of the girls left the room
with the remark: II amt going to
stay here any longer with this calico