The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-05-03
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Coal brings the highest price in
South Africa and the lowest in China.
Frau Hedwig Heyl has started
cooking school for doctors in Berlin.
An African who had visited England
described snow as 'rain gone 20
sleep"
The worlds stock of paper money
is now sooo,0oo,ooo, equal to the exist
ing stock of gold coin.
. There is more false hair worn In
the United States than in all the rest
of the world put together.
Dr. Nagusha, japanese scientist,
says that rats cause all the worlds
plaques, and favors their eXtirpa ton.
The longest continuous run on
railway train in Europe is that from
Paris to Constantinople, 1921 miles,
in 64A hours.
During the last century 400 human
lives, $1O0,oO0,OoO and 200 ships have
been lost in fruitless efforts to find
the North pole.
The largest body of water in the
world having no outlet in the ocean
is the Caspian Sea, it being 100000
square miles in extent.
The will of Hannah S. Toland of
Germantown, Pa, bequeaths $4,000
out of Il 100000 estate to charities
and other public objects.
At the examination of seventy
eight recruits of the German army
twenty-one did not know who was
the Emperor of Germany.
Miss Ruth Mason, daughter of Sem
ator Mason will receive the degree
of LII. y. in June from the National
University Law college, at Washing
ton.
1t is peculiar fact that the en-
peror of China and the viceroy OF
India, taken together, govern more
than half the population of the
world.
King Edward VII, contrary to wide
1y circulated reports, has not resign
ed from any of the London clubs of
which. rs prince of Wales, he was a
member.
The total number of copies of news
papers printed throughout the world
in one year is estimated at 12,000,O00,-
600. To print these requires 7s1,26o
tons Of paper.
Nine. Mel, the widow of the famous
French marshal, died the other day
Mt the age of seventy-nine. Her son,
Gen. Mel, commands the third bril-
gadc of dragons at Rheims.
During the fiscal year ended June
80, 1900, Canada exported 1874 head
of cattle, valued at $S,6S9,970; the
United States, during the same per-
iod, exported 396,977 head, valued at
$50, 623,70s.
An Arkansas bill prohibiting fer
ries from being operated within one
mile of each other was unanimously
killed by the senate, on the ground
that 1T would legislate widow out
of business"
The remains of Gen. Ohio F. Stratl,
who was killed in battle 81 years
ago, was moved from Coluln bin,
Tenn, to Dyersburg, in the same
state, for re-interment by his confed-
crate comrades.
A photographer of Zurich has in
vented an apparatus for taking long
distance photos. He took good pho
tograph of saentis, 120 miles from
Yverdon, where he had fixed an ap-
paratus 10 feet long.
Whistling in Iceland is considered
as much of sin as profanity. There
nre some parts of the world where
the same offense is considered worthy
of fine and imprisonment, but there
are no laws to prevent it.
An enormous quantity of fruit is
going to waste in southern California
for lack of cars to convey it east.
The crop was the greatest on record,
being estimat ted at from twenty-five
to twenty-five thousand car loads.
In Sweden they have a land ar
rnngement of this kind: The farmer
will give tenant so many acres OF
ground, provided the tenant will give
him so many days labor for so many
years, the labor to be paid as wanted.
The Norwegian harvest of 1900 is
reported by the new agricultural de-
partment of Norway to have resulted
In the following yield: Wheat and rye.
1,15o,ooO bushels; barley, 3,S01,o0
= bushels; oats, 9,222,00O bushels; and
potatoes, 22,216,O00 bushels.
Z The empress of Japan Is the patron
ess Of the peeresses' school, at To-
kyo, where the daughters Of the fam
! flies of rank receive instruction in
cooking, painting, embroidery, poet
! zeal composition and floral decora-
lions, in addition to an ordinary liter
ary course.
G. It is said that the sultan of Mo-
rocco has become deeply fascinated
with highland music. Ten years ago a
piper became one of the institutions
at his court, and very recently he
commissioned a well-known Glasgow
.pipemalzer to furnish him with set
of bagpipes for his own use.
y Arizona physicians have just COM