The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-23

AS iron expands with the heat, the
Eiffel tower is said to be five inches
taller when the temperature is high
than it is in the cool of the day.
In some parts of Australia when
man marries each of the brides re1a-
tives strikes him with a stout stick, by
way of welcome into the family.
AREsoLuT1oN protesting against ''the
habit of male teachers parting their hair
in the middle has been adopted by a
teachers's institute in West Virginia.
ACCORDING to a celebrated French
Dentist river, sea, rain and. snow wa
ter all contain more or less alcohol.
Only pure spring water is free from it.
The present population of Palestine
is estimated at 100000, the Arab ele.
ment being probably the prevailing
one, and the Arabic language generally
in use.
The Belgian government offers q
prize of sig, 1000 to any one who will dis.
cover a chemical that will take the
place of white phosphorus in match.
making.
A FRENCH experiment has succeeded
in grating tomatoes on potatoes.
The hybrid plant is said to produce
tubers underground and tomatoes on
the stalk.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND and Lyman
j. Gage, secretary of the treasury, will
make addresses at the opening of the
Winona Presbyterian assembly, at
Warsaw, Ind, next June.
IT is an undoubted fact, says an emf.
nent fire insurance authority, that the
electric current, when properly in.
stalled, affords the safest means known
at present for illumination:
The soil of Siberia, at the close OF
summer, is found still frozen Sc inches
beneath the surface. and the dead who
have laid in their coffins for over a
century have been taken up unchanged
in the least.
The cotton seed industry of the
south amounts to 100000 tons annu.
ally, valued at $113, 100000 In 1861
there were only four mills in operation:
in 1897 there are over 800, with more
than $50, 900 900 invested.
THE cod fisheries of Newfoundland
have been followed for nearly 40c
years. They greatly exceed those OF
any other country in the world. The
average export of cod is about I, $50, OOC
hundred weight per annum.
A WOMAN physician died in Washing.
ton the other day who was always ad.
dressed as Mrs. DR.. Susan E. Edison.
though she was a spinster. She based
h0~ al IN, thu fi<1o ~ NTrc ~
fact that she was welded to her pro-
fession.
IT Is something of a surprise to learn
that from Rome, the home of the arts,
the value of the cheese exported from
that city is only 81, 600 less than the
value of the paintings-cheese being
the second article on the list of exports
from Rome. .
STATISTICS of life insurance show
that in the last IS years the average
woman's life has increased from about
AZ years to nearly 46, or more than 8
per cent. In the same period the aver
age mans life has increased from near
~ - years to about a., or per cent.
A DEER1KG (Me.) man, Thos. Brophy,
lost diamond out of a ring recently,
and was worrying about the loss, when
one night he dreamed he saw the jewel
in the folds Of a rug in his house. The
next morning he went to the rug, and,
sure enough, there was the diamond.
The speakers new. gavel was made
of the wood of an apple tree that shad-
ed the house in which Adm. Farragut
was born, at Lows Ferry, six miles be-
low Knoxville, on the Tennessee river
CoD are running in such large num-
bers and so near the land on the Long
Island: side of the sound, near East
Marion and Orient, that many of them
are thrown out by the surf, and resi-.
dents pick "them&up on the shore. "
THOUGH Rome is called the External
city," the. name by. right belongs to
the city of Damascus; in Syria, which
is the oldest city in the world. As
long as man has written records the
city of Damascus has been known.
The gov1rnment's receipts for No.
vember were 5000, 4ss less than it's ex.
penditures:: The treasury deficit for
the five months of the current fiscal
year is ~, 101, 4s4.
Rev. DR.: EDWARD EVERETT: HALE
said in lecture in Boston that he
found that nine out of ten in a class of
girls in one of the city's public
schools had never heard Of Noah's ark.