The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-06-08
CURRENT Il n TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
New York cloth examiners demand
ri u week. ~"*
New York pipe calkers get s. for
eight hours: .ss15 d. 49, ( sEs
Georgia and Alabama have fine
wheat crops. F.. :
The population of Oklahoma IL
something over 100000.
Steamers are, for travellers, 50 per
cent. cater than sailing vessels. "
O: eighty bulls fired in battle, only,
one, on the average. hits its mark.
Acontroct is to be let soon for q TO-.
600 spindle cotton mill at Columbus,
Go.
The mines of South Africa give
work to between 10000 and 10000
men.
Mrs. VIM. Neill, of Augusta, Ga, has
4 mockingbird which she has taught
to talk.
A -four war is on in Chattanooga,
and prices have been cut fifty cents
Q barrel. $780, ...e
Grasshoppers are playing havoc
with the cotton crop in the Missis-
sippi delta.
On the ITO square miles of London's
area, it is said 1000 tons of SCOT SET
ties yearly.
The Chattanooga opera house is to
be remodeled aud made ground
floor theater.
There are 10000 more exhibitors
1T the present Paris fair than there
were in 1889.
Portland is the largest prison in
England. Nearly 1900 convicts are
located there.
The annual production of jute fab
RIGS in Germany now amounts to SILL
9O0, 1000 in value.
New Orleans has an ice war, and ice
is sold at eight cents q hundred
pounds at the factory.
Joseph Quong, a Chinese laundry
man, is a candidate for a seat in the
city council of Toledo, o.
For some years the Nova Scotia
government had expended about $25,
600 yearly upon agriculture.
Queen Victoria never removes from
her hand the. three rings connected
with her courtship and marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph schofeld, o.
New Canaan, Ct, have been married
sixty years-the record for the state
Russia's war debt has been wipee
=: out. In eight years the remaining
total, 742,000,0O0 rubles, has been pait
off.
Nine important British steamship
companies earned in 1899 net profit
of $4,s6C,o00, against $4.743,ooo il
1898.
Henry James, the novelist, ha.
turned mountain climber and will try
his prowess this summer in the Swiss
Alps.
Tarantulas are being raised in Aus
tralia for their webs, which are being
used in making threads for war bal
looms.
A new substitute for celluloid re
eembling horn in appearance is nov
manufactured under the name o:
mariod.
Since pigs were introduced into tn
New Hebrides the natives, it is said
have come to regard human food al
second best.
A Russian count and a French
:. prince are among the prisoners cap
tured by the British and now enjoy
ing the sea air of st. Helena.
> Charles A. Towne, nominated TO,
the vice presidency by the populist.
at Sioux City, is AZ years old-twt
, years older than Mr.. Bryan. He wa.
born in Michigan, and all his fore
fathers on both sides were repub
licans.
!, During the cars recent visit tt
Moscow his sanction was obtained
:. to the project for the erection of ,
church in commemoration of the lib
Grafton of the serfs nearly forty
years ago. Only half the money ha'
as yet been collected.
t From Manila to Australia is elk
e going down river, for one is out o
: sight of land only two days" fTh
S voyage lasts twenty-one days, but tn
,. course is through the South Sci
E islands, which accounts for it's resem
e blance to river nagigation.
5 The French authorities controlling
S the athletic events to be held in con
! nection with Paris exposition hav
S announced that, as a concession t.
y Americas desire to eliminate Sunda,
+ games, the sports which were SEIZED
e uled to begin Sunday, July IS, will
: instead commence Saturday, July II
j. the great French national holiday
d and will continue on the following
e Tuesday and Thursday. The finals
j. in which Americans are entered, will
r be put ahead, and the games will con
S clude on Saturday, if possible.
d Two persons named william McKin
K ley are on Uncle Sans payroll. On
e draws a salary of $4,166 month a
q president, and the other 500 a montl
y as engineer in the Louisville custom
e house. There are forty-eight Bryan
and three of them were christene'
William. There used to be two Grove
Clevelands in the public service, bu
. there il only one now. He is assistan
: farmer at the Fl. Peck Indian agency
and receives salary of $3.50 month
=, 800 Reward 800.
+ The readers Of this paper will be please
diSease that science has been able to cure j
I all it's stages. and that is Catarrh. Hall