The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
An American woman's club has been
organized in Porto Rico.
Greece expects to come out with q
treasury surplus next year.
Physicians in South birmingham
agreed on a schedule of rates.
New Zealand's export of gold was
100000 greater in 1899 than in 1898.
New York city owes $3.50, 100000 and
has taxables amounting to $1,000 ,000,-
900.
Hamburg added forty new steamers
to it's fleet last year; it now numbers
436.
The total paid for college education
i'll this country is about 100000 900
annually.
Winter suspends the activity of Ger
tain microbes, but does not destroy
their lives.
President Kruger's ultimatum is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
In the Chino-Japanese war all the
Japanese soldiers were supplied with
binocular glasses.
For many years the income of John
Ruskin from his literary work was
100000 annually.
Out of 1,54s,654 votes polled in the
recent election in Mexico, only 92172
were against Diaz.
The war in South Africa is said to
have ruined the diamond trade for q
long time to come.
France makes nearly 26,OoOOOO pairs
of gloves yearly, and of these $4,000,
600 pairs are exported.
The Lancet says the climate of
Egypt may, without exaggeration, be
described as magnificent.
The president of Switzerland only
gets $2,7oo per year, and the law for
bids him to succeed himself.
Thirty years ago there were only
| about rs explosive compounds known.
Now there are more than LOO.
Like nearly all Natal rivers, the Tu-
gela is not navigable, and bar OF
Gen. Theodore Schwan, who is dis.
tinguishing himself in the Philippines,
enlisted as a private soldier in 1857.
The yearly loss in value of gold coins
| by wear and tear while in circulation
amounts to about $4,000 in every 49,
100000.
Max O'Rell, the French author, says
that he has never seen an American
woman who could be considered real.
ly ugly.
Since the war of 1894 the popula-
ton of Shanghai has grown from AGO.
900 to 100000. The attraction lies in
the many new Industrial establish
ments.
Gen. Joubert, by way of being a
huomrist, complains that the English
countermanded an order to attack his
troops without notifying him, and
thereby deprived him of whole
nights sleep.
The Boer is no mean fisherman. Civ
en- pipe and goodly supply of his
favorite weed he will sit for hours
angling. Very fine sport, indeed, may
be had in any of the streams north
of the Orange river.
Of every 103 shots which strike some
soldier 43 will lodge in the legs, SO
shots will lodge in the arms, % strike
between the neck and the waist, one
in the neck and II shots some part
of the soldiers heads.
In killing game the Beers use bull
let of which the lead point is exposed
On entering the bullet expands and
tears an ugly hole. If it strikes side
wise the effect is horrible.
The Cathedral of St. John, in course
of erection on Morningside heights
in New York, will be the largest eccles
iastical edifice in the United States. Il
will be $40 feet long and 295 feet
across at the widest point.
A new method of preserving tele
graph poles is to surround the por
ton in the ground with an earthen
ware pipe like the drain pipe. Into
the space between the pole and tho
pipe is poured mixture of sand ane
resin.
Frederick Stearns, of Detroit, whe
presented the University of Michigan
a year ago with one of the finest col
lections of musical instruments in ex
istence, has added a collection of mu
steal scores and compositions of tn
old and modern masters.
Ann Ruth Seneca, an Indian prin
cess, is studying medicine at the Med
ical Chirurgical hospital, in Philadel
phia. She took a classic course in tn,
Carlisle Indian school, where she de
ve]oped her love for nursing the sick
Two of her brothers were on the Car
isle football team.
Some people enjoy any weather but the