The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-01-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

AT spelling bee at Alliance, O..
everybody went down on ''quadriphyl
lous."
The Turks have no war songs except
those they have translated from other
tongues
The most recent estimate of tho
wealth of Great Britain and Ireland in
Ell, so6, 900, 1000.
LORD STRATCoNA will endow the new
Victoria College for Women, Canada,
with $1,000, 600.
MANY members of the Astor battery
in Manila have decided to settle there
and make their fortunes
So penetrating is water at high
pressure that only special qualities Of
cast iron will withstand it.
The two little islands of Zanzibar
and Pemba furnish four-ffths of the
gloves consumed by the world.
THE board of park commissioners at
Albany, N. Y, has conceded the eight
hour day to its park employees.
SWEDEN is the most Protestant coun-
try, for out of a population of 4,774,-
400, only $40 are Roman Catholics.
The Indiana BARRIERS State Protect
i've association has been organized.
with headquarters at Indianapolis.
A sTATIsTICIAN states that there arc
fewer Free Masons to be found among
lawyers than in any other profession.
HE village of Glen Eyre was in-
cluded in $40 acres offered for sale by
the sheriff of Pike county. No bidders.
NORTH ToNowANDA, N. Y, reports &
new international alliance. Mr. Sham
rock and Miss Kraut were married
there.
Two little girls of Marlborough, N.
Y, have collected 275 pounds of rice
to be forwarded to Cuba for hungry
people.
AT the annual dog show in the Crys-
tai palace, London, the fox tarrier class
was so large that it took all of one day
to judge them.
CHEMISTS have extracted from coal
tar 16 shades of blue, 16 of yellow, 10
of orange, of violet, besides shades of
| other colors too numerous to mention.
BARON WILLIAM RoTHsCH1LD has all
his food cooked according to the strict
est Hebrew laws and takes his own
cooking utensils with him wherever he
goes
ONE of the latest fads is to wear a
lorgnette suspended from the wrist by
means of a long chain. It's nncomfort-
able, but-never mind, it's the thing
to do.
In newly designed trousers
stretcher two metal bars are connected
by jointed rods, forming VS. at either
end, pointed in opposite directions,
with pair of rods in the center to pull
the VS. open and spread the stretcher.
B1cYcLERs will appreciate an inn
proved grip, which has curved spring
strips arranged around the bar, with a
screw cap at the end which adjusts the
curvature and strength of the springs
to suit the rider.
A FRENCH statistician has calculated
that the human eye travels over 1900
yards in reading an ordinary sized
novel, The average human being is
supposed to get through $500 miles of
reading in a lifetime. .e
THE consumption Of coal per head Of
population is lowest in Austria, where
it is only one-sixth of ton per an
mum, and highest in Great Britain,
where each person averages three and
three-tenths tons per year.
AN Ohio woman has patented an in
Interchangeable hoe and rake; the teeth
OF the latter being slipped into eyelets
in the blade of the hoe, with clamp
at the top of the blade by which it il
attached to the handle of the rake.
TO keep hunting dogs in training
and provide amusement for spectators
New York man has designed race
track with a mechanical arrangement
mounted on q pair of rails outside the
track to drag q stuffed or live bait
around the ring for the dogs to catch.