The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-10-21
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CURRENT TOPICS.
s q SINGULAR freak Of nature In Nor.
Ger county, Kentucky, Is ) cherry tree
In full bloom. zs.s.saas@z s.l%,5
FIVE persons have been burned to
death in forest fires along the Canada
Atlantic railroad. sas
Two wealthy Hsbrews of Bagdad
now own all thAt of the an
Gent town Of Babylon. T.
TIE course pursued by the French
in Egypt and swestH Africa is causing
England much concern.~ Aid. -
FARMERS near 4Centralia, ILL.,, claim
the asscrew wormstare causing deaths
among their Cattle, sheep and hogs.
EnDLEssFlentl,era lbelt s, acting as NOV
Ing staircases, convey the patrons Of
a large Partisan store from one floor to
another.
a RICHMOND IVA. woman has been
put under $500 bond in police court for
being a common Scold, under an old
time law.
~ NEARLY every man, woman and child
In Egypt is a smoker of cigarettes and
pipe is hardly ever seen in the mouth
of a native. ,,.,. :
WALKER FRANKLIN, of Hopkins coun-
ty. Kentucky, owns coat which his
greatcgrandfather wore at his mar
iagein$ls0o.
The United Typothetn of America at
Nashville adopted a resolution favor
ing arbitration for the settlement Of
labor troub les.
I. 1T is q mistake to suppose that stone
houses are the most durable. A we'll
constructed brick house will outlast
one built of granite.
- The government has issued invita-
lions to foreign countries to partici-
pate in the fishery congress to be held
at Tampa, Fla, in January, 1898.
Miss ELLA K. NORRIS has entered the
law class of the South Carolina college
at Columbia. She is the first woman
in the state to inaugurate the innova-
ton.
FIFrY-oNE metals arc now known to
exist, 30 of which have been discover
ed within the present century. Four
hundred years ago only seven were
known.
+ A GERMAN authority states that from
the mouth to the source of the Rhine
725 castles, formerly the homes of war
like chiefs, are to be found overlooking
its waters.
PRESIDENT HARPER, of the Univer.
sity of Chicago, says that any member
of the football team caught in the act
of forgetting that he is gentleman
will be expelled.
IT is claimed by an electrical expert
that every locomotive in Scotland could
be run by electricity, generated by the
water power now going to waste in
Scotland streams.
= 'HoNoKs'of war" is the privilege al
lowed to the enemy on. capitulation of
being permitted to retain their arms.
This is the highest honor victor can
pay vanquished foe.
PRINCE BISMARCK, it appears, is now
an enthusiastic admircr of the bicycle.
He approves of women riding and re-
grets that he is too old and stiff to take
part in the sport himself.
The bicycle, as we'll as the Bible,
now forms a part of the missionary's
outfit. 1t is said that four-fifths of the
departing missionaries take the wheel
with them when they go abroad.
THERE are between $4,000 and 80, 900
students in the different colleges of
the University of Paris, several times
as many as are found in any other edu-
cational institution in the world.
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Record is: ''Fraulein Elfrida Latikie-
WITT apparatus for keeping the checks
full. This apparatus is worn in the
mouth and is fastend to the jaw"
MISS SHlDzU NARUsE is a Japanese
| woman studying medicine in a New
York hospital. She has been trained
in Japanese hospitals, but came to this
| country to study American methods.
Mrs. SARAH TERRY, aged los years,
| but bright and active, entertained her
friends at a birthday party at her home
in Philadelphia the other day, and was
rs merry as the youngest of her guests.
REPORTS from the Memphis cotton
| district show a damage of 1871 per
cent to the crop by drought. The sect
ion affected includes north Mississippi,
north Louisiana, Arkansas and west
Tennessee
TIE contract has been let for the
| construction of q monument to the late
Senator Vance, to be erected in Court
square, ataAshevi1le, N. C. The shaft
will be Is feet high, will be built of
granite and will cost 81, 75s..
THE Massachusetts, bureau of statis-
tics has lately published a report show
ing that there are O,780 more women
than men in Massachusetts,, $1,000 of
this excess being women between the
| ages of 20 and 20, the most marriage
able period.
A SPECIAL session of the evangelical
consistory of the province of East
Prussia has passed an almost unani-
nous vote of censure against the en-
peror because he has broken the Sun
day rest law by hunting in the forest
of Rominten.-
GERMANY import 81, 000, 900 worth of
books yearly. OF this Austria Hungary
furnishes 81, $780, 900 worth. Switzer-
land $500, ZOO. France $500, 900. Hol-
land and Grand Britain $500, 900 each,
Russia, $3.50. 900, the United States $780,.
600 and other countries $780, ZOO.
A MASSAGE machine that can be ap-
piled by the patient himself is in use
in London. 1t consists of IL pairs of
polished hardwood balls, arranged on
a jointed chain. with handle at each
end, and is 80 inches long. Its effect is
said to be equal to that of massage by
hand, as it kneads the muscles evenly.
AN Alaska traveller recent1v desrrihed