The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-12-26

finally and, as lie opened his eyes,
they fell the FIRST thing onssome gold
quartz. To makeja long story abort,
the discovery Of = gold mine from
which the man is digging $4,000 Of
gold daily, clear Of expenses. He
has placed the mule in padded
stall, provided him pasture that re,
sembles q paradise, and proposes to
embalm him when he dies.
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Mr.. James Num-. of Evanston,
ILL.,, an old. soldier, by the way, re-
Gently had an operation performed
Dy a Chicago physician BY which he
was relieved of three ounces of iron
he had been carrying in his head
since the battle of Fort Donelson
during the civil war. The gentlemen
was wounded in the nose by flying
piece of shell. AT the time he was
attended by army surgeons, who,I as
he supposed, extracted all the iron.
Three years ago !. small piece of iron
came through the roof of his mouth.
A few weeks ago he again consulted
a physician who informed him that
there was portion Of iron yet buried
there and that by an operation he
could be relieved. The surgeon cut
the side of his nose open and found
piece of shell he had been carrying
32-years.
There were very few respectable
people present. A gentlemen who
represented the wealth and culture OF
Philadelphia looked at a little crowd
of persons assembled in an open space
listening to something that somebody
was reading to them. He was pass
ing by, and curiosity prompted him
to glance at the people. They were
shabby looking. gu the whole, a
crowd Of partly laborers pausing
briefly in their work, partly idlers
listening with no particular purpose.
Not many of them had polished
boots, and their nails had not been
manicured that morning. Oh, dear,
no! The fine, high-bred Philadel-
phian, who represented the safe. con-
sentative sentiment of the moneyed
classes of the solid old town, took 10
the motley crew and remarked as he
passed on and left them, "There
were very few respectable people
present"
The day was July, 4, 1776. The
document read aloud to the motley
crowd was the DECLARATION of @Inde-
pendence. The man who made the
remark concerning the crowd, was
one of the finest of >Philadelphia's
supper ten" When the Christian
religion itself was founded, it lis re-
corded, there were very few <respec-
table people present. Il,
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Chief of the Turkish harem liz the
mother of the sultan, who is known
as the Valide Sultana, and who has
something to do as to picking out
and training5the sultan'sswives. This
woman rules the harem. She has
her 4enuchs and her servants, and
one of the principal days of the year
for her is that which comes at the
end of the Mohammedan Lent, or
Ramazan. She has a lot of Georgian
slaves brought to hera month before
this. She picks out Is eof the best
looking. They are put upon diet,
1taught music, and as carefully
groomed as 50 many race horses. Just
about the close of Lent the Valide
ISultana looks over the lot and picks
Tout the one who is. to be called the
Bairam bride iof the sultan. This
girl, 60 the story goes, is not seen by
the sultan till the night after Bairam,
(which is the Mohammedan Easter.
His majesty finds her in his chamber
when he retires to rest, and the story
told me 1t Constantinople was that
the new bride had to crawl ID under
the clothes from the foot Of: the bed
in token Of her subjeetpa. ! made
some inquiries 40 to thecost Of such
girls and was told that the price Of :
slave depended quite as much upon
her accomplishments as her beauty.
An ordinary slate girl, Of desirable
age, ranging fr6m u to IS, brings
$500. If she is beautiful she may be-
| worth g, 900 and this sultan has had
many wives for whom he has paid as
high as S. oO. Blonde beauties, with