The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

SONNGNA WIND
THE appropriation this year for In
dian schools will be 81, 100000
CANADA, supplies about one-four-
teenth Of the imported food of Great
Britain.
THE Kentucky distillers are perfect
ing their scheme for 'sarrying their
own insurance.
SILK FACTORY, in which only wom-
en- arc employed, has been opened in
suburb of London.
CHICAGO business men arc urging
system of municipal pawnshops to lend
money at per cent.
BRIG. gems. GORDON AND OATES have
been discharged from the volunteer
army at their own request.
Two Mormon elders are reported to
have been tarred and feathered by a
mob in Clay county, Tennessee.
ABOUT 20 of the commissioned officers
of the LIST Kentucky are applicants for
commissions in the regular army.
THE work of constructing huge
raft, which is to contain 4, 600, 900 feet
of lumber, has been begun in Portland,
Ore. '>~"'~, ~
GERMAN teachers were once so poorly
paid that they used to sing in front of
houses in order to add to their incomes
by odd pence.
TIE annual report of Natural Gas
and Oil Inspector Leach, of Indiana,
shows that there is a marked decline
in the gas supply.
DRIED bananas are now being ex-
ported from Queensland. They are in
tended as Il substitute for raisins in
British buildings.
VENETIAN coins of 1870 and 1877
bearing the name of one of the dogcs,
have been found in Mashonaland, in
the interior of South Africa.
BRUSSELS has tower clock which
has never been wound up by human
hands. BY an ingenious arrangement
the wind keeps it wound up.
THE American colony in Porto Rico
have petitioned congress for free trade
with the United States and for the re-
tirement of Porto Rican currency.
In Germany only 1s per cent of deaf
mutes grow up without education. In
France the percentage is 40, in Eng
land "a, in Austria 70 and in Russia 80.
THE pope recently refused to allow
his apartments, remarking: There is
something superfuous about that
light"
The salaries of burgomasters in
Prussia are: 81, 500 in Berlin, $4,000 in
Breslau and Cologne, IS, 600 in Eber-
field and Kassel,' and so on down to
Erfurt, $4,000
N. L.. FRANCIS, whose engagement to
Miss Jane Fuller, daughter of the
chief Justice, has been announced, fell
heir shortly before leaving college to
nearly 81, 600, 600.
The Chicago Woman's club has been
discussing parks and takes strong
ground. for small parks scattered
through the city with more playground
room for children.
CuEsApEAKE and Ohio has been max
ingia good record of earnings and in
crossing its profits over the large fig
ures Of a. year ago.
PRUss1C acid is found in almonds,
and. indeed, the almond owes its flavor
to the presence of the acid. 1t is in SC
small q quantity, however, as not to be
at all injurious to life. .
Mile. Thilikeza, a young Polish WON
an, has passed a brilliant examination
before the Paris Faculty of Medicine
The subject of all her thisis was the
condemnation of the corset.
Two pulleys, with wooden handle!
attached, are fastened to a window
By pulling one handle the window as
cends; by pulling the other the window
descends. This is q recent English in
vention. '-.'>
THE l. granite ware manufactured
have combined and they make no Sc
cret that they intend to advance prices
The recent advance of 20 per cent! il
= tin plate gives them additional oppor
+nnitiess. .''*.A5" *f@@ -.
QUEEN Verona has sent an auto
praph letter Of the Prince Consort's t.
the British museum. The letter wa
written TO the late Earl OF Shaitesbur!
to thank him for a Chinese edition OF
the Bible. ,&al #otsts p ,se~7' ~ rF''''
Co11.FcroR OF CUSTOMS BLISS report
that the operations of the custom
house at Havana are proceeolns
smoothly. Cox Bliss favors native EN-
ployes under general supervision =. b.
Americans.
In Northerni China many OF the ma
tives are dressed in dogskin. Their
are many establishments where dog
of peculiar breed are raised in larg
numbers for the shaggy pelts. The.
are killed when they are eight month
old. Is tl5,ss g5g .#,tS u
THE Railway Age statistics OF n le
railroad building in the United State \.
in 1895 show 3,o1s miles, as agaans
1850 miles int1s97, 1,s4s in 1895, LOS
miles ii 1895, ,949 miles in 1891
1885 miles in 1899 and =, 100 miles 9 j
1892 Ii.