The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-02-09
CURRENT TOPICS

Java furnishes two-tn,rds Of the
quinine used.
1t costs Tor food about $50 Q week
~ keep an elephant.
Prussia has begun appointing f.
male factory inspectors.
Grmany has twenty-three boats Of
over $1,000 tons capacity.
There are 6,003 pieces In the mod
ern high-grade locomotive.
The height Of the atmosphere IL
supposed to be about so miles.
The average amount of sickness In
human life is ten days per aunum.
In China, the members of q mans
family are held responsible for his
debts.
There are as many shades of face
powder as there are shades of color,
almost.
The agricultural implement trade
In Russia is practically controlled by
America.
Our lead pencils, the most common
OF all writing implements. is over 200
years old.
The percentage of recoveries in the
Milwaukee hospital for the insane last
year was 80.
Miniatures of their pet dogs is the
very latest affectation among New
York women.
Illinois monument dealers want
law enabling them to seize tombstones
for bad debts.
In consequence of Russian usurpa-
tons there is great exodus of the
people of Finland.
Vienna policemen are required to
understand telegraphy and to be able
to swim and row a boat.
There are 10 Harvard graduates in
the diplomatic and consular service,
not counting secretaries Of legation.
Ii our southern states alone were as
densely settled as Germany they would
have population of over O,OOO,O 900.
The brass candlesticks used by
Burns in his little parlor at Ellesland
were sold at auction recently for $57.
Texas is the greatest pecan-growing
state in the union. It produces two
thirds of the pecan nuts that are mar
keted.
During the last IL months, at least q
dozen elephant trainers have been
killed-more than have been killed in
10 years previous.
But three states in the union pay
their governors an annual salary Of
$4,000. They are New York, New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania.
1t has been discovered that the
bark of the acacia tree which will
grow in almost any soil, is an excel
lent tanning material.
Omaha, Neb., has labor temple in
which IS local unions hold their regu-
lar meetings. 1t has six halls which
are under constant rental.
China's new railroad from Canton
to Hankow, which, with it's branches,
will be 1000 miles long, is to be built
entirely by American capital.
America sells nearly three times al
much as she buys; Germany buys over
G5o,ooo,ooo worth more every year
than she sells; while Great Britain
last year bought twice as much as she
sold.
AS the government of France could
not be persuaded to vote 100000
for the purpose, syndicate is being
formed to lay net of wires that will
connect telephonically all of the &c.
900 communities of France.
A woman hanged for child murder
in Vienna few days ago was the first
woman executed in that city since 1903
and the first in the Austrian mon.
archy since 1867.
There is movement on foot among
foreign powers to do away with the
limitation of age of ambassadors
making the tenure CT Office depend
solely on a mans capabilities.
Congressman j. C. Needham, of Cal.
ifornia, began to collect postage
stamps when he was a small boy and
has never given up his collection
which is now one Of the best in the
United States.