The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

SALrED whale meat il a Janan...
delicacy.
The number of Buddhists is comput,
ed to be AS, 0oo,0 900.
CUBAN farmers want protection.
against American corn. =
LAND in England is 80 times as VAL
liable now as it was 200 years ago.
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS is to make
her permanent homo in New Orleans,
THERE are $50, 600 men in the world
who make = livlihood chiefly by fish,
ing.
WILLIAM M. EvARTs lives in almost
complete seclusion at his home in New
York.
ERAsrUs LArHRoP, of Westfield.
Mass, in his will left S15, 900 to D. L.
Moody.
In France the bread is baked in rolls
about the size of a mans arm and four
feet long.
A NEW public school in st. Louis il
to be named in honor of the late Eu-
gene Field.
IHERE are scores of places in this
country where only one mail comes ev-
cry IA days
AMONG professional women hospital
nurses, it is said, head the list of mar.
rying women.
MORE than half of tho phosphate in
the world il now supplied by the
United States.
AT meetings of the British cabinet
no official record of any kind is kept of
the proceedings.
AT Olympia, Wash. oysters sell at
$l. 80 gallon and $3.75 sack for the
oysters in shells.
GERMAN pianoforte manufacturers
have virtually secured q monopoly of
the Australasian trade.
MEXICAN dollars are current all over
China, and when they can not be had
uncoined silver is used.
OVER half million dollars worth of
cocoanuts were imported into the
United States last year.
CorroN manufacturing in Mexico
continues to incease. Each year finds
more looms in oper alton.
The Philippine islands now produce
considerable indigo. The exports for
1897 were 446, 500 pounds.
SIR REDvERs BULLER bought SIS
worth of the latest books just before
starting for South Africa.
TRAINED nurses in German HOSPITALS
get from $75 to 5000 year, with board,
lodging and all their clothes.
NAVAL experts are endorsing strong
ly the project of q national naval re-
serve, with four-year terms of service.
AT Woonsocket R. l., the River
Spinning Co. is to run its mill night
and day, as soon as necessary help can
be hired.
THE social democrats in Germany
now boast 7S newspaper organs. Tho
largest. Vorwarts, has a circulation of
So. 900 copies
A GROWING Vermont industry is the
canning of corn, this seasons output
in the southeastern part Of the state
being 5000, 600 cans.
IT is estimated that Missouri farm.
ers received over $s 600, 600 for their
mules last year. The number shipped
from st. Louis was 117,6oS
The next portrait to be hung in the
treasury department will be that Of
the present secretary, Mr.. Gage. The
portrait is now being painted.
For 800 years Mexico has produced
one-third of all the silver that was
mined: The production at present il
more than $50, OOO, 900 annually.
In New York trade is so brisk among
the brass workers that employers are
finding difficulty in securing enough
men to keep up with their new or.
ders.
RUSSIANS never eat rabbits as they
say they nest with rats nor will they
| touch snails or turtles, which are
found in great numbers all over tho
country.
PRESIDENT STEIN OF the Orange Free
State is proud of his humble origin.
my father" he once said, ''was Z wap.
onmaker, and, am glad to be able to
say. good one" ....
MRS. GULLY, wife of the speaker. of
the house of commons, has the iuvid-
! ious task of dispensing tickets for seats
in the select portion of the ladies' gal
! lery in tho house. -
The Western part of Persia is inhab.
tied by species Of camel which is the
pigmy of its kind. It is snow white,
and is on that account almost wor-
SHIPPED by the people.
The main reason why consumptives
are sent 10 New Mexico is that it is al-
ways warm enough there Etolstay out-
doors. Staying out Of doors IL the
specific for almost every i'll.
! Some people demand that the world not
vnly be patient with their foolishnesa. but