The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

Saltwater, Mlnn., 1897. 1.A ~'
CURRENT TOPICS.
The correct pronunciation is "Hs.
vice" tho "a" sounded as in father -
the Il" ~ in ''time," and the Sc" a. in
I've, the accent being on the second
syllable.
DR. SHELDON JACKSON, the Alaskan
missionary who presided over the Pres
byterian Assem- bly,, is now on his way
to the north to resume his labors on
the Yukon.
The Daughters of tho Confederacy
in Georgia intend to memorialize the
legislature of that state in the interest
| of the ablishment Of co-educa ton
in the State university.
TIE bishop of Meath, Ireland, who
has been chosen arch bishop of Dublin,
is 4 broad churchman with evangelical
tendencies He is total abstainer
from liquor and tobacco.
ISAAC FRAcH1ER, of Vinegar Hill
district, in Walton county, has steer
| e4.years of age that is able to do good
blowing, says the Savannah News
The animal was calved in 1912.
JOHN MCFARLAND, living near
Crooksville, o., died of sunstroke. A
wagon containing an undertaken and
three others going to the house was
struck by lightning and two killed.
DIPARAOss1ACEToPHE
PERAZ1NE is the name conferred by an
Italian chemist upon a new compound
hA h0o FIn Sc
to mean something to chemical experts.
In q Montreal park on Sunday q
father was compelled to order his
four-year-old boy to cease throwing q
toy ball to him, and was obliged to
put the ball in his pocket under pain
of arrest l~s rssxs - sssE.Esz.E
GEoReE S; DEAKINs, of Rowlesburg,
W. Va, a surveyor, has the compass
and the instruments which belonged
to his grandfather. when, with WASH
ington, he surveyed the road from
Washington to the Ohio.
MISS ALICE O'BR1EN was awarded
$40, 900 damages against the Trinity
and Sabine railroad in the district
court of Woodville, Tex, for injur-
les sustained from being bitten by .
dog chained in the depot door.
A NEWLY designed mouthpiece for
telephones has a shell with an absorb
ent lining, which lining is saturated
with antiseptic liquids, whose evapora-
ton is to prevent the accumulation of
disease germs in the mouthpiece.
SLAMS army is to be reorganized by
Russian army officers, over a hundred
officers having volunteered as instruct
ors in an answer to circular from
! the war department. The king OF
Siam will select so from among them.
MRS CLARA FISHER MAEDER, the
once famous actress, has published her
memories. She is SO years of age and
first went on the stage when 6 year,
old, For 70 years she acted continu'
ously, and at the age of 70 years re-
| tired.
| PROSECUTIONS are expected to begin
soon under q new Massachusetts Law
which forbids the wearing of the body
or feathers Of any undomesticated bird.
| Every offender will be fined $40 and
the prosecuting witness will be paid 4
reward of S. --~>r. -s.:
| "A 1AA0AAo OuSb Va hACASEu u. ORA0Ss
by, -x-United States senator. three
times governor of the state of Illinois
and veteran soldier, has just been FIN
ished in Decatur, Ill, and will be
placed in the rooms of the public Ii.
brary of that place = p --..
| THE followers of the son of Garibaldi
who have gone from Italy into Greece
have assumed the name of "Garibal-
dini, and old followers of the famous
Italian patriot are indignant at the
use of their name by the band of So
cialists and revolutionistx
THERE are no fish in Crater lake,
| Ore, the deepest fcesh-water lake in
the world, and the govern ment has de-
cided to stock it with trout. The ma
tives used to say that the lake was
bottomless, but soun9ings have shown
its greatest depth to be 1000 feet
To increase the power of railroad
locomotives the tender is placed on a
set of driving wheels similar to those
on which the engine rests, the steam
being taken from the boiler by sepa.
rate pipe and controlled by an indie
pendent throttle and the exhaust dis.
charging into the water tank.
To assist in making person com
Portable on hot summer evenings q
newly patented chair is fitted with
hooks on the front edge of the seat SO
5 it can be attached to q window sill and
hang outside q ter the legs have been
removed, . brace extending down to
support it against the wall Ct the
i hopae. $500
IT is high, solemn, almost awful though
for every individual man that his earthly
influence, which has had commencement
will never, through all ages. were he thu
i ALL HB CouLD Do The Wife We
weeks ago you said my husband couldn't
live, and now he's nearly well. !" The Doc
tor Madam, i can only express my re
i grets. Puck. ~. .s
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