The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-12-02
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~OnnCNI JOrISos 49, -:
RED hats were first worn by cardin-
als in the year 1245.
The new stars already discovered
this year number 427.
Two HUNDRED THOUSAND pension
claims are awaiting adjudication.
IT IS estimated that of the whole
population of the globe about $4,000
die every day.
The present year is said to be the
thousandth anniversary of the founda-
ton OF the British navy.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has signed the
postal treaty adopted by the recent
universal postal congress.
CAREFUL measurements prove that
the average curvature of the earth is
600 inches to the statute mile
WOMEN sailors are employed in Nor
way, Denmark and Finland, and are
found to be excellent marines.
PLANS for the consolidation of four
big gas companies in New York are
said to be near consummation
NJ. BLANC, the new project of police,
Paris, has issued an order forbidding
women to wear high hats in the the
aters.
FRANCE is the greatest wine-produc-
ing country in the world, with Italy
and Spain second and third respect
lively.
The railroads are preparing to make
a stubborn fight against the increase
of $31 ,000,0 900 in their assessment in
Tennessee.
The Cincinnati College of Music has
received at various times from Mr..
Springer sums amounting altogether
to 100000.
The secretary of the treasury has is
sued an order that clerks receiving
stated salary must pay their debts or
lose their places.
ALFRED JACKSON, who was Gen. An
drew Jackson's valet, still lives at the
Hermitage, near Nashville. He is a
colored man, "a years of age.
The wife of a laborer named Peter
man, living at Morebath, near liver
ton, has just presented her husband
with their twenty-fft child.
ERNST KRAUs, of the Berlin opera,
has closed ten year contract by which
he shall receive $4,000 a year, and
yearly leave of absence for four
months.
AN ordinance has lately been pro-
mulgated in Japan exhorting the peo-
pie to eat more freely of meat, with a
view to increasing the average height
of the race.
CARBONATE OF AMMONIA, strychnia,
digitalis, and nitroglycerin are now, in
many cases, being used in hospitals in
stead of alcohol, in its various forms,
with good results.
PUBLIC libraries spend vast sums of
money to make their collections COM
plete. In the Boston public library is
a collection of works relating to Shaks-
peare which cost $4,000.
FRANK MARK, of St. Louis, is the
only pensioner in Missouri who is
awarded 500 month, yet he was in
the army only 16 days and did not fight
a battle. He lost both arms in cannon
practice.
MISS MARY RACHEL DoBsoN, daugh-
ter of Austin Dobson, is one of the
most active workers in the university
settlement for women in Bomba
India. Their work is principally
among the Parsees.
PROF. RoENTGEN tells us that if X
rays could be rendered visible the APP
pearance would be that of room filed
with smoke and lighted by candle.
They emanate in all directions from
the air irradiated by them.
REPORTS to the agricultural depart
ment indicate a material shortage in
the wheat crop, though the shortage in
Russia is much less than was at first
supposed. In the southern hemisphere
the crop conditions are favorable.
WOMEN are ''allowed" to practice law
in New Zealand, but no woman who
has been admitted to the bar in that
country has ever had a client One
gentle lawyer committed suicide re-
Gently after having waited vainly for a
brief for five years.
In spite of Emperor Williams dis
like of America, he has taken a great
liking to the naval attache of the
United States mbassy at Berlin, Lieut..
Niblack. He frequently invites him
to the palace, and they discuss naval
matters with great informally.
mile. MARK TWAIN" is what Figaro
of Paris calls the daughter of S. L.
Clemens, who is studying music in vi
emma, announcing that the very beau
tiful voice of this fascinating young
girl of 10 will one day make her as ia
nous on the stage as her father is in
letters"
A LOWELL, Mass, man of consider
able prominence tells a good story on
himself, illustrative of well-known
masculine weakness He was rummag-
ing around in a garnet the other day
and found the remnants of an old suit
in the pocket of it was a letter which
lady had given him to mail 81 years
ago.
The world seems narrow place when we
wish to avoid our enemies, but wide and