The Worthington advance., 1901-07-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

An ordinary piano contains q mile
of piano wire.
VI Express trains in Russia do not run
over 20 miles an hour.
Since 1850 the population of France
has increased but 100000.
+. A copy of the Cuban constitution
has been received in Washington.
Il The diamond it laid in the sun and
then carried into dark room shows
distinct phosphorescence.
The bottled beer of England re-
quires nearly 10000 tons of cork year.
ly.
: Canadian exports have increased by
e4,000,000 during the past eleven
months.
The concession of the Turkish
match monopoly has been secured by
a German syndicate.
A chestnut tree, planted by King
Edward, grows besides the tomb OF
Washington at Mt. Vernon.
Kansas City has a city forester
whose duty it is to plant and protect
trees on the public streets.
Ice melts at 80 degree, water boils
at 212, lead melts at 594, and the heat
of q common coal fire is 1,14O.
Abyssinia was converted to Chris
tianity in the fourth century. The
country has now over $4,000 monks.
Great Britain purchased $4os,ooo,-
600 worth of American farm products
in 1900. Germany took $134,O0O,OOO
worth.
People in the West End of London
are spending much money this year
on external floral decorations for
their houses.
Paris population, according to the
census just taken, is 2,714,O66, an in
crease of 14O, ,1O4 over the last census.
Paris is now over 100000 behind New
York.
Although there are many cold win
ter days in Northern Italy, third
class railway cars are never heated,
and second-class cars only on express
trains.
Jury trials are going out of favor in
Kings bench at the present Trinity
session, 162 are to be tried without
jury.
Census statistics show that the Ne
gro population of the United States
has not increased in proportion to
the gain in the total population of
the country.
In the Himalayas people protect
their cattle from tigers by placing
bells about their necks. When the wild
beasts hear the bells they leave the
neighborhood.
There are 100000 Smiths in the
world, according to statistician.
About half of them are of the femin-
inc persuasion, and most of the other
half are named John.
Kansas farmers will lose $1O0,000,-
900 because of the drouth, which has
practically ruined the corn, oat and
other crops. In two-thirds of the
state corn is total failure.
The Forth Bridge is constantly be-
ing repainted. So vast is the struc-
ture that it takes fifty tons of paint
to give it one coat, and the area dealt
with is something like 120 acres.
Bolivar, the pride of the Philadel-
phia Geological Garden, and proba-
bly, the largest elephant in captivity,
has been chained, standing in one
place, for nearly thirteen years.
It is stated that representatives of
Cc~,,,or~ cconr.
ing Arizona for horses for the Ger
man army, and that several hundred
of rough and hardy variety have al
ready been selected.
In Whitfield county, North Georgia,
Mr.. w. J. Summerour has an orchard
of 25O,ooo peach trees. Only one-third
of his orchard came into bearing last
year, and from these he realized a
net profit of $4,000.
The Berlin municipal authorities
have granted e1,oo0 for the prepara-
ton of a plan for an underground
railway, which is to run from north
to south of Berlin, following the line
of the Friedrichstrasse.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is q plain,
practical woman, who buys carefully,
and, while her gowns are modish, she
wastes no part of her husbands mill
lions on the extravagant confectlons
in dress, for which Paris is noted.
In Japan they have a very simple
way of collecting butterflies alive.
They streak trees with phosphorus
and saccharine matter, and then the
butterflies in the night time are at
tracted, stick fast and are taken Off.
: Miss Alice 81. Day, of Batavia, N. Y,
was the only woman graduated in the
law department of the University Of
Buffalo. Because she had not taken
her whole course in that institution
she was disqualified from taking the
second scholarship prize, which she
had won. It was awarded to the man
next below her in rank, but who had
the good fortune to be in the univer-
sity long enough to entitle him to
honors.
An old copy Of the New York Spec
tator shows that the population OF
y 800