The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-06-28
CURRENT TOPICS.


British museum.
III China liquids are sold by weight
and grain by measure.
Outside the cities there is very lit
" slc organized labor in the south.
l s j. NJ. Martin, of Laurens county,
u s. c., has whiskers' six feet long.
New Orleans has taken second rank
& rs an exporting port having displaced
v Boston.
s The 1900 corn crop of Russia has
been officially estimated at 34,256,Ooo
i bushels.
sS The New Jersey supreme court has
decided that street railway franchises
n arc taxable.
s# Aforementioned Knox has bought
NJ q; handsome and expensive house in
Washington.
The oldest Protestant church in
the United States is St. Lukes, at
sSmithfeld, Va.
The number Of sheep in Australia
" sia decreased from 124,00O,0Oo in 1891
d to 100000 in 1900.
1t is reported in Washington that
III Senator Depew will be married this
N summer to widow who is now
N abroad.
IS According to the Galveston News
L the area sown to rice in Texas this
y season exceeds that of last year ny
Y 800 per cent.
NJ Exports of cotton seed from Egypt
N for 1se9-1900 are given officially at 49,
II 73c, 900 bushels, y slight increase over
\ the preceding year.
NJ The tail Of cat which its feline
4 owner waves with such serpentine
\ grace is said to contain more muscles
4 than the human hand.
The United States is surpassed only
by Great Britain in the matter OF
u Japanese imports of machinery, loco
4 motives and other engines.
\ Pennsylvania grand jury has
\ recommended solitary confinement
VI with bread and water diet as REM
\ edy for the tramp nuisance.
In ruling paper the worker, using
Quill and ruler, seventy years ago
\ took $500 hours to do the work now
done by machine liz :::4 hours.
The ocean, it is estimated, contains
!. 100000 cubic miles of salt, and If it
#could be taken out at once the level
#of the water would drop an inch.
h Ss It is said that 25 per cent of the
4 young men who. have applied for adj
mission to West Point have been I'M
able. to meet the physical qualitica-
n tons.
Jean Coquelin, son of the great
motor, is giving promise of high work
ss$as q dramatist and his version OF
a'.Qmo Vadis'' has just been most sue
sscessful in Paris.
s.sE The Pope has from time to time in
vested his surplus income in United
States government bonds and the ex-
4 tent of his holding of this sort is now
estimated at 100000 lire.
3E DR.. N. Seward Webb's country place
In Vermont, Shelburne farms, covers
"a 600 acres of ground, and is the larg-
8est estate owned by single indi'id-
Sual east of the Mississippi.
Cinnamon always show great re-
9spect for the dead. In all parts of the
empire funeral professions have the
right of way in the streets and all
traffic must give way to them.
I Fosters "Old Folks at Home" is the
most popular song in existence. 1t
has been translated into all the Ian
guages of Europe and also into some
Sof Asia and the isles Of the sea.
M James Outterson Pratt, who is said
TO have bought for 6 $50 the site on
which the town of johannesburg now
stands, died several weeks ago in the
@Guilford workhouse, near London.
The Count and Countess de Castel-
slane were barred from entrance to
the cathedral at Rouen a few days
&a9o on account of their costumes.
They were in bicycle raiment SO loud
that the sexton in charge could not
hear their protests.
S Snow has visited unusual places
this season. It has fallen in Mexico
City, the first time in fifty years, and
I'm Madrid, where it had lot been seen
lN1OY ClkAO years.. Ill oCl tSIACAA SAO"
fell to the depth of IL inches.
The horses ridden by Lord Kitch-
Eener's flying cavalry to chase the e1u-
sive Gen. De Wet across the South
4African vcldt are shod with shoes
ssnade in Pennsylvania, the contract
for their construction having been
N1nade through the instrumentality of
THE commercial museums in Philadel-
Sphia.
sss The Atlantic pigeon post, which
u was suspended for the winter, will be
q asumed this month. Passengers on
hoard Atlantic steamers can avail
ESssf hemselves of the birds to let their
n Attends hear of the progress of the
asyg,yage or Of their impending arri'
sxal. OF the hundreds of pigeons sent
ssEsibH to sea last year only two went
n astray.s4 Some flew over 300 miles.
ssssssA 5veritable "quick luncheon" it is
I1i1 VA, q Is to be had at restaurant i'll
a IRIS, where dinner of several
Ill ourses,s composed of concentrated
Nod III the form of tablets, can be
9sSDnsumed in "a few minutes. The en-