The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-07-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
A large cotton mill IN to be erected
Ut Marion. S. C. =
OF the 3,7oo Chinese in New Zealand
only 2e are females.
The Egg Inspectors union is the
latest one in Chicago.
Cherokee Indians decorated the
graves at Fl. Gibson, I. T.
A college of photography has been
founded at bingham, Ill.
1t is estimated that there are 49,
100000 Germans in America.
In 1900 there were 200 horses in Aus
tralia; in 1900 there are 100000.
New Zealand has now sent nearly
1000 men to the front in South Africa.
A train was stopped in Coffee coun-
ty, Tenn, to allow a bear to get of
the track.
Parliament building, Wellington, N.
T., is the largest wooden structure in
the world.
No receptacle made has sufficient
strength to resist bursting power of
frozen water.
Bank of England notes are number
ed backward, that is, from to 1000,
hence the figures O0,0001.
1t is estimated that the number of
Germans and their descendants in the
United States is 100000
London has 1864 policemen, or 10
to the square mile. Sixty per cent.
of them are on night duty.
Under British rule the cotton crop
of Egypt has doubled, and now
amounts to over 100000, 900 pounds a
year.
The Newfoundland sealing season
has been the largest for the past Is
years, $4,000 seals having been cap
tured.
An official return from the British
war Office shows that the distinctly
Scottish regiments in the war contain
10000 men.
Residents of Atlanta hope that cir
cuses will come there, now that the
license has been reduced from 81 900 a
day to $500.
/ According to a report of the labor
commissioner of New Hampshire the
shoe output of that state last year
was $22,900,000.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has
been asked to deliver IN address at
the opening exercises of the Univer-
Sitv Of Miohiran rovt foil
Miss Gail Laughlin, of New York,
has been appointed by the industrial
commission at Washington to investi-
gate the servant girl question.
In three British regiments
Black Watch, the Argyll and Suther-
land Highlanders-over 40 per cent.
of the men are total abstainers.
Long before school boards were e.
tablished in England Canadian chill
dren were instructed free of cost be-
tween the ages of seven and twelve.
This education is compulsory.
Henry Chang, son of Chang Yin
Tang, Chinese minister to Madrid, is
to be educated in Philadelphia. Henry
is thirteen years old and during the
last year he attended school at pre-
paratory institution in Virginia.
There were 500,000,00O fowls in the
United States last year, and the num-
Der of eggs laid as estimated at about
1904 ,000,O 900 dozen, or 17,40O, O00, 900
eggs. The value of these fowls and
their product is set down at $420, 000,-
900.
In England there are only about 176
centenarians; in Ireland, 57s, and in
Scotland, 46. Sweden has 10, and Nor:
way 3; Belgium, s; Denmark, Q;
Switzerland, none. Spain, with pop
ulation of $4,000, 900, has 401 persons
over 100 years of age. Of the 2,250, 900
inhabitants of Servia SIS have passed
the century mark. France with a pop
ulation of 4O,000,000, has 213 CEN
tenarians.
The largest nugget yet found in the
Klondike was picked up on Gold Hill
recently. 1t weighed seventy-seven
ounces and was valued at $4,000.
In the fourteenth century armor
became so heavy that many soldiers
only 80 years old were deformed or
permanently disabled by it's weight.
The North German Lloyd is about
to start steamship line on the
Yang-tse-Kiang river, in China, to con-
meet Shanghai with the ocean ships.
The stairway leading to the tower
of the Philadelphia city hall contains
500 steps, and is said to be the long
est continuous stairway in the world.
! A proposal to erect memorial OF
Lord Roberts military achievements
has met with considerable favor in
London. The present plan is to place
a monument in Guildhall.
In the experiments which have been
carried on in South Africa with wire
less telegraphy it was found that the
vibration caused by the firing of heavy
guns had no effect on the system.
There are nine branches in New
York state of the Woman's Inferno
tional Labor league, whose object is
to persuade workingmen and: women
! to buy only goods bearing the union
label.
The government of Greece is now
more liberal with mining concessions,
and as a result mines are being work
ed in the provinces of Attica, Thes.
sally, Milo and Bocotia.
| A Briton from London has gone to
South Africa with 1901 pocket hand.
kerchiefs. He hoped to be able to sell
them to the British soldiers at profit
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