The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
AMERICA employs 1921, 900 freight
cars.
KANSAS C1TY's fire engine-houses are
numbered from to 10, but there is no
No. Is.
Forty years ago there were 1000
1epers in Norway. To-day there are
about 500.
The effort to consolidate the various
silver smelters and refneries has been
abandoned.
THERE is to be noprofanity INDUCED
In by baseball players on the field next
year, so say the rules.
RUSSIA has let a contract for three
new torpedo-boats, which will be the
fastest in the world when completed.
ALUMINIUM gray, red plum and alb
bess violet, which is mixture of blue
and violet, are the fashionable colors.
THE eyeball is white because the
blood vessels that feed its substance
are so small that they do not admit the
red corpuscles.
THE New England Gas and Coke Co.
has contracted to buy from 100000 to
10000 tons yearly of Nova Scotia
coal for 20 years.
New JERSEY has her Bachelor Maids
club. New York, possibly in spirit
of retaliation, proposes to have her
Tilted Lovers club.
In the year 1900 there was only one
newspaper in the United States. Now
there are more than in England, France
and Germany put together.
THE growth of the human head con.
tinues until the age of 20 is reached,
though it is practically completed at
the end of the seventh year.
The summer coat of the Polar fox
is dark, almost black. In winter it is
SO white that the animal can hardly be
seen as it runs over the snow.
U. S. MINISTER ANGEL has renewed
his demand for indemnity from the
Turkish government for the pillage OF
American missions in Armenia.
SEPT1MUs WINNER, the composer OF
the popular song, "Iisten to the Mock.
ing Bird" written in 1865, celebrated
his golden wedding the 25th of Novem.
Der.
A TEXAN aged SO years is cutting
teeth, after having been toothless for
30 years. Octogenarian dentition is
becoming quite a fad in Grand Old
Texas.
A COMMISSIONERS of the Spanish gov.
eminent reports that there are 40, O00
concentrates in the province of Pinar
del Rio, $4,000 of whom are orphans.
All are in want.
Gov. FERRAL1., in. his message to the
Virginia general assembly, recon.
mended legislation imposing penalties
upon counties and officials for permit.
ting mob violence.
MISS MINNIE POWER, of 1ochport, N.
T., is eight feet in height lacking one
inch. She is the tallest woman in the
United States. She is handsome in spite
OF her abnormal proportions.
AS THE supply of ivory is becoming
short, billiard balls of cast steel are
being used in Sweden. BY making
them hollow the weight is made to
correspond with that of ivory balls.
The Athens Archaeological society is
about to undertake the restoration and
strengthening of the Parthenon. Mar.
bic from Pentelicos will be furnished
free for this by the company working
the quarries.
In the state of Nuevo Leon, Mex.
the government has ordered that the
pupils in all the official schools shall
be taught to write and perform all
manual tasks as well with the left
hand as with the right.
SEARCHLIGHTs are now used to illu-
inmate the grounds of the Jersey State
prison to prevent the escape of prison.
ers. It is reported 10 have been effect
i've in preventing the escape of prison.
ers in several instances.
ALTHOUGH the brain is perpetually
active, the whole of it is never active
at one time. The two hemispheres or
halves do not operate simultaneously,
but alternate in action-now it is the
one half, then the other.
A MARRIAGE with several unusual
features recently occurred at Paducah,
KY. The groom was a Presbyterian,
the bride an Episcopalian and the mar.
rage occurred in a Methodist church,
, Baptist minister officiating.
CHIEF ARTHUR and other representa-
tives of unions of railroad employees
are in Washington. They want con-
gress to appoint national labor COM
mission. and will insist that compul.
sorry arbitration law be passed,
GIRLS and women employed in Japan
cotton factories earn on an average
Eve cents per day. The mills are op.
Grated day and night and on Sundays,
except on two Sundays per month,
when the machinery must be cleaned.
YOU CAN'T STOP 'EM.
News comes from Attica, Ind, of the de
struction, by fire, of the big laboratory an,
| office building of the Sterling Remedy Com
pany, makers of Cascarets Candy Catharti
and No To-Bac, the original guaranteed to
bacco habit cure. The fire broke out in on
| Of the packing rooms on the third floor dur
| ing the noon hour, and had made consider
! able Roadway before it was discovered.
As soon as it became apparent that tn
| fire department would have difficulty i,
combating the flames, the work of savin
| the thousands of valuable documents, con
| tracts, files, millions of booklets and ton