The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE skeleton alone Of an average
whale weighs 25 tons
There are 1.50O persons upGn the Ger.
man emperor's list Of employees
The greatest customers the Peoria
dlstlllers have are the japanese.
AN exhibition of Canada's mineral
resources is to be held at Toronto.
The rearing of silk worms gives en-
ployment to 6oo,o people in Italy.
HE finest shops in Chinese city are
those devoted to the sale of collins
A PERMANENT exhibition of Spanish
products is being established at Hayti.
In the year ended June 90. 4.746 inn
migrants were received at San Fran
cisco.
The Dominion of Canada imposes 4
tax of $50 on every Chinaman that en-
tiers that country.
ONE hundred thousand Americans
have visited Europe this summer.
breaking all records.
Or every 100 school children in Lon
don, IS leave school between their
tenth and eleventh years.
TIE president has authorized the or
ganization of a company of Indians
for service in the Philippines.
BEN CLEScH. the highest mountain
in Scotland, will have an electric road
to its summit and a sanitarium.
AFRICA has nearly 20 different Ian
guages,- and this fact presents great
difficulties to missionary efforts.
BELLA M. HUGHES, of Atchison, Kan,
recently celebrated the fftieth ami
versary Of her second marriage.
VANCOUVER city council has voted
$500 to the trades and Ia Dor council to-
ward the Labor day celebration.
PARIS has burial vault fitted with
electrical appliances for the detection
of recovery IN cataleptic subjects.
EVERY boy in Germany, from the
crown prince to the meanest subject, il
obliged to learn some useful trade.
OWING to the large increase in bust
ness tho Great Siberian railway is to
be rebuilt before the line is completed.
REPORTS of the cotton crop of Texas,
Indian Territory and Oklahoma show
decrease in the yield of 37.5 per cent.
SPAIN has more sunshine than any
country in Europe. The yearly aver
age is 5000 hours. In America it is
3, 100.
The Kansas bureau of immigration
has shipped east samples of corn II
feet high; also tomato stalks feet
high, with fruit at the top.
JoHANNEsBuRa is ia miles from Port
Elizabeth, LOLA from Cape Town. 666
from East London, 4ss from Durham
and 500 from Delagoa bay.
The health authorities of Bavaria
examined last year S. 437 samples OF
food and drinks and made complaints
in 1853 per cent. of all cases.
FARMERS in Androscoggin county,
Maine, complain bitterly of the injury
done to their crop by the protected
and rapidly-increasing deer.
AT recent meeting of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Prof. Dills advo-
Gated the use of English as universal
language for men of science.
A sHELLF1sH known as the pianna in
the Mediterranean has the curious
power of spinning viscid silk, which
is made in Italy, into regular fabric.
WOMEN do the mining in Colon bia.
No man with any self-respect can be
induced 20 engage in that occupation,
because in Spanish times it was the
work of slaves.
In the centsr of the plaza in Lima i.
pretty bronze fountain that was
erected in 1878. a gift from some noble
Spaniard, and is probably the oldes,
fountain in America.
BERLIN booksellers are strictly for.
hidden to sell school children books
stitched with wire. as several cases OF
blood poisoning have been traced to
scratches from rusty wire.
ONE of thu queerest villages known
is in New Guinea, and is called Tupu-
selei. The houses are all supported on
piles and stand out in the ocean con.
siderable distance from shore.
IT would be difficult to imagine more
extraordinary digestive powers than
those of the hyena. One of these
beasts has been known to swallow sir
large bones without crushing them.
THERE is much French and Belgian
capital invested in the principal rail.
way lines of Spain, while England
owns many of the shorter lines and is
also at the head of the mining inter.
ests.
The Ortiz mine grant of "a. 600 acres
located 80 miles south of Santa Fe, n.
NJ, and covering the richest gold bear
ing district of New Mexico. has been
sold to Thomas A.. Edison and New
York and London syndicate for S., 0o0,-
900.
Col. w. L. ALBRIGHT, of Ohio. or.
ganizing a company with $4,000, OO0
capital, to build the missing Link
railway" from Chattanooga to Walhal-
la, S. c., distance of $50 miles. is in
Georgia to secure a charter in that
state.
A COMBINATION of glove manufactur.
ers has been effected, with a capital
stock of $40, 600, 600, of which So. 900, OOO
is preferred stock, representing the
cash value of the properties merged,
and $12, 600. 900 common stock, which is
to he distributed as a bonus.
THE giraffe was thought &c he neal
extinction, but Maj. Maxse, a British
explorer. has found great herds o.
them along the Sobat river, tribu
tary of the White Nile.
The use of coat-of-arms as badge,
for different families did not come into
practice till the 18th century. TIL
Germans are said to have originated
it, while the French developed thu
science. s...
In Switzerland milkmaid gets bet
ter wages if gifted with good voice
because it has been discovered that 1
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