The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-09
CURRENT Topics.

AAc TnlAoe1pnla street railways are
to have smoking cars. - :
Kiddville, Right Angle and Log Lick
are Kentucky post Offices. ~..
Twelve million one hundred thou
sand tons of timber are cut every
year.
Danish lighthouses are supplied
with oil to pump on the waves in
case of = storm.
The first treaty with China, which
opened its ports to foreign trade,
was signed in 1912. :.
Nearly one eighth of the popula-
ton OF Canada gain their living from
the timber industry. .:t -
If the Searth's surface were level the
water OF the oceans would cover 1t
to a depth of 600 feet. .&7,''
The furnace of an Atlantic liner
will consume no less than $500, 600 Gu
bic feet of air an hour. 1851
Cairo is the largest town in Africa.
Its Inhabitants ppmber 5O0,r00, Of
which $4,000 are Europeans. ~..
Coal is worked SO easily in China
that in Shanghai it sells at less than
shilling per ton at the Mines
1t has been calculated that the tele-
graph wires in this country would
reach 40 times round the globe.
Satinwood, used chiefly for veneer
ing, comes from both India and Bra
xil. 1t is of q lovely yellow. color.
About ten persons are every year
robbed and murdered in Russian rail
ways, and the murderers are seldom
caught.
There are close upon 100000 pas
sengers carried on every week day
in London by public conveyances of
all kinds.
The quantity of fresh beef carried
on one trip by an Atlantic liner of
5000 tons would keep family of five
IS years.
Japanese workmen battle the whole
body once q day, and some of them
twice. Public baths are provided in
every street.
All big vessels are provided with
copper lightning rods, which run
from their mastheads down to the
copper sheathing.
The warrior ant makes raids
against nests of the small, yellow turf
ant. These, it knows by experience,
make the best slaves.
There are more than II, O0O, 900 pu.
pills in the schools of this country.
About 100000 babies are born in.
to the world every year.
The nearest approach of a comet
to the earth observed was IN ITO,
when one approached to within l..
100000 miles of our planet.
A model of the human heart, work
ing as in life and pumping blood
through artificial arteries, is the
work of a continental physician.
Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty is in
. deplorable condition and an expen.
diture of from $4,000 to $10O,0O will
be required to put in proper repair
The inhabitants of Media, Italy, arr
convinced that their fields were
saved by the 800 shots which were
fred during the prevalence of .
fierce hailstorm which devastated al
the surrounding country. ~. -
r. c. Kirk, newspaper man ami
miner, who has just returned from
Dawson, tells of the finding of coin
!. in the Klondike which would seen
20 establish the existence there of an
unknown race centuries ago. w.,
The Philadelphia directory show,
nine men who bear the name Of
Thomas Thomas and eleven known a.
!. Robert Roberts. But William Will
liams ,outnumbers them both, as ther,
are eighty-six citizens thus named.
The newest labor union in Spring
field, Mass, il an organization Of th,
fruit peddlers Of the city: They hav,
banded together in order to fight til,
discrimination at auction sale
charged against the wholesale deal
ers. u VA 5 "a E.s5 ~
Perfumes are put up IN tablet form
4. nowadays. A ledy simply orders !,
X dozen or more at = time, and pro
oeeds to distribute them about IN he
pockets, her purse, or within tn
palms of her gloves. They come i
NJ two sizes. ss8s III
NV new Maine statute prohibits III
placing q inscriptions upon the star
VI 4nd stripes, and several politic
81 Aaas bearing the names OF candidate
Tor pfsslde Vice president ma GOV
sznor have had 80 b taken down s