The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-06
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English.
THERE are 16s, 900 insane persons in
the United States.
PASSENGER fare on the new Congo
railroad is 3311 cents per mile
The ancients had Suez canal known
to have existed as early as 600 B. c..
NICKEL is practically supplied by
two countri only, Canada and New
Caledonia
RUSSIA is said to own 8. 900. COO horses
nearly one-ha1f of the whole number
in existence.
THE crown prince of Siam writes
children's stories in English for Brit
ish magazines.
IT took seven years to make hand
kerchief for which the empress of
Russia paid 81, 900.
The monkey wrench gets its name
from its inventor, Thomas Monkey, of
Borden town, N. J.
In three years the expense of rum
ming an Atlantic steamer exceeds the
cost of construction.
NAZARETH has three hospitals, seven
converts and twelve schools under
European supervision.
w. S. W1THAM, of Atlanta, is presi-
dent of % banks, each one entirely in
dependent of the others
ALUMINIUM tubing used in the
sciences is made so fine that 1000 feet
of it weighs only pound.
SWEDISH doctors have no fixed
charges. Patients are expected to pay
in proportion to their ability
IT Is customary in China to con-
graduate fat man because it is taken
for granted that he must be rich.
A L1FEBoAT made of pumice-stone
has been tested It continued afoat
with a load even when full of water
DEWEY only used ammunition to the
value of $47. 900, and it can be said that
mot a dollars worth of it was wasted
The bullion vaults in the Bank Of
England are flooded with water each
night as safeguard against rob
berry.
The post Office department has from
800 to 500 applications daily for posi-
tions in the postal service in Porto
Rico.
A JAPANESE bride gives her we'd
ding presents to her parents as some
slight recompense for their trou ole in
rearing her.
The oyster is one of the strongest of
creatures, and the force required to
open it is more than 1900 times its
own weight
A PUMPING engine in the Birming.
ham canal station was recently re-
moved, after having been in steady use
for 100 years.
The historic Palais RoyaIe is to be
rebuilt for the Paris exposition and
peopled with characters in the cos
tunes of 1900. 4 81
DURING the last 10 mon tbs the retir-
ing lord mayor of London. Sir George
Faudel Philips, has raised S. 500, 900 in
charitable funds
IHE cartman who hauled sand to
Rome for builders work 10 hours day
for So cents and slept in the stables
with their mules
DR.. DUBOIS, the French savant, has
discovered in Java the bones OF an ape
; which walked upright Scien fists adj
NIT the proof of evolution.
! A NEW YORK woman has been grant
he would not permit her to have pie as
part of the domestic fare.
The Oregon and the Iowa will not
reach Manila much before Christmas,
Is they must make slow progress on
account of the coal conveys
RED TAPE" became immortalized as
, descriptive phrase during the in
vestigation of the conduct of British
generals in the Crimean war.
| A 400-PoUND bear, in quest of it's
breakfast, coolly strolled into barn
yard in Probstel, WASH, and marched
off with calf in its EN- brace
ARTIFICIAL legs and arms were in
| use in Egypt as early as B. c. 700.
They were made by the priests, who
were the physicians Of that early time
TEN princes of royal blood are suit
ors for the hand of Queen WiIheI-
nina, of Holland. She threatens to
| marry commoner and make him a
noble.
Porto Rico must be a very clean
place. The principal article of inn
portation is soap In 1896 the soap inn
portation reached the gross value of
ES4O, 900.
IT is said that Princess Ena of Bat
tenberg, who was born in 1887. is the
only royal child born in Scotland for
nearly 300 years-that is, since the
birth of Charles L, 1900.
MRS. MARY WARNER SPRAGUE, who
has just died in Salt Lake City, 95 years
old, was the wife of Brigham Young's
physician. She and her husband en-
braced the tenets of Mormonism in
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