The Worthington advance., 1899-07-14
CURRENT TOPICS

NEW YonK has a 4oo-foot~afga c3aU
building.
EseLAsDfs stock Of coal will Iassswo
centuries.
sHRyvEpoEr, Ala, is to have $780,
COO cotton mill
FRANCE has 100000 places ia which
wines are sold
ASofHER spinning mill for Andersou,
& C., is now assured
LoypoS is to have school Of Inseruc-
tion for wireless scIegraphy-
GES. WooD says the death rate in
Santiago is now less than IN PniIa~
deIphia-
THE Swedish mile is the longest mile
in the world It is exactly H. 100 yards
in length
SOLDIERS in the Italian army are al
lowed two hours in the middle Of the
day for nap
IN Jetmore. Kan, every house IS oc-
cupied by its owner. The population
of the place is $50.
WHEN Capt CoghIan was IN COM
mand OF the Raleigh. he was the small
est man on that ship.
In several European countries. in
Guiding France and Belgium, elections
are always held on Sundays
PEoF- HADIEY- the new president Of
Yale, recently declared himself IS '.tne
most nervous man on earth"
SIDNEY COOPER, now 9S years old
has had four pictures on exhibitions at
the London academy this year
baltimore man is trying to com-
biDe $50 of the largest clothing essab-
lIshments in the United States
SOME industrious individual has AZ
certained that most of the great men
OF the world have had blue eyes.
CoUNTERFETT presentmcnS of Rud-
yard kipling can now be seen at Mime.
Tussaud's wax works IN London
THE city of Pekin has only one
street lamp. and that is In the street
where foreign ambassadors reside.
IN Cuba women are now able TO dine
alone in restaurants thing that was
never possible under the old regime.
KIND of paper is made from sea-
weed which is so transparent that It
may be used instead of glass for win
dows-
The income tax in India is levied on
all incomes of S16J and upward, and
then only one man in 30 comes within
its scope.
THE production of soap IN Great Bri-
tain IS about 81, 0C0 tons per week, Of
in London.
THE Mexican government intends to
make experiments to see If the quality
OF canned goods can be determined by
the use of X-rayS
JUDGE JONAS BRooEs of McPherson.
Kan-- djourned his court at noon the
other day and then walked seven miles
to attend a circus
NEW word applied to Americans IS
''quinophagists," indicating that they
consume more quinine than any other
people in the world
The mainsail of the new boat 20 rep
resent the United States in the coming
cup contest will contain over 1000
square feet of canvas
IN memory of the Poet Cowper a new
museum, library and town hall is TO be
erected at Olney, in BucEinghamshIre,
at cost of about $4,000.
Mrs. GEORGE GoU.D's children have
a head nurse, two assistants. two gov
ernesses. two grooms and two footboys
TO minister to their wants.
SCIENTISTS say that the whole human
body is full of microbes, aud that a
person is healthy as long as the mi
crobes arc in good condition
A CLOCK is being constructed for
Liverpool street station in London
The interior of its case could allow
five persons to dine comfortably.
JOHN MILTON, of Gardiner, Me-, has a
COW that can be miIked three times
day. She recently gave in three mIlk-
ings in one day 344 quarts of milk
THE japanese are taking to Gig
srettes very kindly More than ses5.-
600 worth were sent to Japan from
the United States alone last year.
1t may not be generally known that
the original idea of the Chinaman,s
pigtaiI was that it formed convenient
handle by which one day he would be
lifted up to paradise.
You needn't stretch It to pus quartz in
DiTt cuD.-(T0Idcu Days