The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-10-04
CURRENT TOPICS.


Just died in Madrid.
About 100000 bushels of beans are
annually consumed in Boston.
Australia has spent nearly c55,ooo,'
600 in promoting immigration.
Eleven presidents of republics were
essassinated during the last century.
Duluth -four mills are preparing to
make 10000 barrels of flour every "a
hours.
From 1909 to 1912 many attempts
were made to fasten metal points to
quill pens.
The 10000 Indians in Ontario, Can
ada, own $9,S40,000 worth OF proper
ty, or s615 head.
The japanese earthquake of 1903
was the most destructive on record.
It killed 100000 people.
Some naturalists say that no in
sect except the silk worm feed upon
the leaves of the mulberry.
This years crop of oysters will
eclipse in number and flavor the har-
vest of several years past.
The 1000 or more Boer prisoners at
St. Helena have started the publica-
ton of weekly newspaper.
A thousand railway cars are need
ed to handle the peach crop in one
country in southern Missouri.
Last year there were 1o2,705 miles
of telegraphic lines and 933,153 miles
of wire in the United States.
Within a few weeks the Germans
Of Mexico City collected $4,000 for a
German schoolhouse to be built there.
According to statistics prepared for
the home secretary 100 children are
burned to death yearly in the United
Kingdom.
An EngHshman 80 years old may
expect 50 years 2 months more of life;
woman of that age 81 years
month more.
After the confscatfon of monastery
property in Spain by the state, much
of the proceeds were devoted to the
making Of roads.
John w. Bowler, general superin-
tendent and director of physical train
ing in the public gymnasium of Bos-
ton, has accepted a five-year contract
az director of physical training ct
Dartmouth college.
The oldest known weapon was the
club. The clubs of the lake dwellers
of Switzerland, studded with stones
in default of nails, and thus making
formidable weapons, have been recov-
cred from their hdbitations.
In New Jersey there are two match
factories with capacity together of
100000 matches day. The largest
factory in the country, at Barber
ton, o., can turn out 100, 100000 match
es day, probably one-seventh of the
entire consumption.
4 strange sight was witnessed at
Bologna recently. A bellringer at
church was struck by great bell and
thrown violently through the window
Of the tower on to the roof, some
60 feet below. He escaped with moth
ing more than q shock.
The total product Of wool is 1,o0o,-
600, 900 kilos annually. Australia is
credited with 304,0o0,000 kilos. Ar
gcntina 172,00o, 900, the United States
132, DOC, 900, Russia 100000, England
G., 600, 900, France 46,00o,o00, etc. Dur
Ing the past ten years the product
A recent invention by an italian is
notice from those who go
to sea. It is a net made of hemp and
intended to break the force of waves.
One recently tried with success at
Havre was 800 feet long by 80 feet
wide with meshes II inches apart. !
The nets will break the waves at sea
and will also be bulwarl< for n.y.
drau1ic works against heavy surf.
It took sixteen years to build the
first Brooklyn bridge. but immensely |
larger suspension bridges can now be
in from four to five
years.
Twenty additional fruft-carrying
were chartered recently
to reinforce the fleet now trading
between the West Indies and Plila-
lelphia.
Sven Hedlin, the explorer, reached
Charkhik, in the heart of China, last
April, without hearing of the trou'
bles in the eastern part of the en-
pire. He found the Chinese polite
Ind obliging.
The United States has the highest
of children at school; H.
per cent of her population are at
school, II per cent of Germany's and
Is per cent of England's.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has added to
his collection Of arms, which is one
If the finest in the country, a sword
worn by Simon Bolivar during one
IF his South American campaigns.
OF 1914 gasworks in the United
Kingdom, 1883 are in England, 253 in
!cotland and 10a in Ireland