The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-07-12
CURRENT TOPICS.


Gen. Cables, a Filipino insurgent, is
said to have surrendered by proxy.
France has the most expensive
parliament. 1t costs 100000 year.
Sir Edwin Arnold is said to be to-
tally blind now, though he keeps uE
his literary work.
Spain has more sunshine than any
country in Europe. The yearly av-
erage is 5000 hours.
The earliest mention of shoes is in
an Egyptian paryrus, about 1900
years before Christ.
A man, walking day and night with
out rest, would take 4:s days to jour-
ney round the world
\ Morgan syndicate is making ef-
forts to purchase the New river coal
properties of West Virginia.
\ fleet of thirty-six steamers is to
run hereafter on the Thames between
Battersea and London Bridge.
In some of the cantons of Switzer-
land all the dead, rich as we'll as poor,
are buried at the public expense.
The Salvation Army is at work in
A. different countries, and has IS Pc
riodicals, printed in 21 languages.
The Bible is to be translated into
ten languages of the Philippine
Islands during the next ten years.
The Apaches have three different
kinds of violins, each having but one
string and played with a small bow.
The Great Salt Lake is said to be in
imminent danger of drying up, the
drain upon it being due to irrigation
requirements.
The human voice is produced by the
assistance of eight pairs of muscles
and fifteen other pairs contribute in
various ways.
The largest sponge ever sent to
market was from the Mediterranean.
It was ten feet in circumference and
three in diameter.
Some of the scales for weighing
diamonds are SO accurately adjusted
that speck of dust or an eyelash will
affect the balance.
The illiterate nations are, chiefly,
Russia, Spain, Turkey and the I'M
progressive nations of the Orient and
of South America.
The nearest approach of a comet to
the earth observed was in 1910, when
one approached to within 100000
miles of our planet.
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dog has right to bite anyone once
without that person having a claim on
the animals owner.
About 200 men in Paris find live.
lihood of some sort by hunting in the
streets for stray coins. They are
known as "filonneurs."
Vanillin, one of the most delicate
products of coal, is used by the gallon
in making the extract of vanilla, for
favoring custards or buildings.
The oldest man on earth is said to
be lzai Rodafsty, 1875, of Moscow, Rus
STA, and the oldest woman Mrs. Nancy
Hollifield, 1T, of Battle Creek, Mich.
We have decided that lace gloves are
not intolerable, and we are now to
have lace stockings, not lace fronts.
but hose that are entirely made OF
lace.
One of the greatest, if not the
greatest, incubators in the world is To-
Gated near Sydney, in Australia. 1t
accommodates 11,44O duck eggs or H.
hens eggs.
g. So p,,s% se1, %nr -
the ribbon fish. Only sixteen speci.
mems have been recorded in the last
century. It swims in the deepest parts
of the sea.
The Washington Manor association
is preparing to buy Hardwood, the
famous mansion built under the di.
rection of Gen. Washington at Har.
per's Ferry.
The heretofore despised and feared
mouse is rapidly becoming fashion.
able pet. Society people are taking
up this dainty and long-tailed ami
NAL as fad.
The cash balance at the close of the
year would approximate $190,000,0o0,
but Secretary Gage is keeping it I'M
der control by the purchase of unma-
tured bonds at a premium.
Five and one-half tons of diamonds,
valued at from 50,O00,O 900 to $200,000,-
600, have been taken from the famous
Kimberley (South Africa) diamond
mines since their discovery in 1871.
Miss Mary Aughinbaugh, of Wash
ington, recently made trip across
the Andes Mountains from Caracas to
La Guayra. Miss Aughinbaugh is the
first white woman to make the jour-
ney over that trail.
Scores of mail carriers in the sparse
~ settled parts of Mexico walk and
run more than 40 miles every week.
A few cover on foot 10 miles day
six days in the week and go up and
down rough mountain roads at that.
They don't seem to know what fatigue
means.
The largest seal cargo ever OBJ
tanned has been landed at st. Johns,
Newfoundland from the steamer Ter
ra Nova. 1t consisted of 10000 seals,
weighing 800 tons.