The Worthington advance., 1901-01-11
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Silk dresses were worn in China
$500 years ago..
Connecticut twins celebrated their
sSth birthday recently.
The worlds coal mines yield 4oo,-
100000 tons Of coal a year.
A fort built by mound builders was
discovered near Wayne. o.
VIM. Marconi, the inventor of wire
less telegraphy, is only Is years old.
The duke Of Aanchester's family
name Is William Angus Drogo Mon
tagu.
1t is said that France is trying to
buy 100000 square miles of land from
Brazil.
In Berlin sign painting is added
to the list of trades practiced by
women.
Pecksburg, Ind, has q haunted
house in which balls of fire roll
around the rooms.
There have been 257 popes, who
have reigned on an average for seven
and half years each.
There are 100000 llamas in Peru.
The skin weighs six pounds and 10
worth twenty shillings.
In proportion to its size, England
has eight times as many miles of rail-
road as the United States.
In the Arctic regions there are be-
tween 700 and 800 varieties of flowers.
They are all either white or yellow.
Among the British troops in South
Africa there were $4,000 cases of ty-
phoid fever, of which 3,642 proved
fatal.
The letter X only occurs once in q
thousand letters in the English Ian
guagc. In French it occurs five times
as often.
Mans ordinary temperature is 9S.6
degrees when in good health; that of
. snail 76 degrees and of chicken
Ill degrees.
A $4,000 library erected by H. C.
Frick, of Pittsburgh, in honor of his
father and mother. and presented to
the Wooster co., university, was ded-
icated recently.
The restoration of the bloody tower
In the Tower of London IN now COM
pleted all but few repairs to tur-
ret, and the repairs to the lieuten-
ants lodgings ore finished.
A Russian engineer has invented
an electrical apparatus manipulated
from the stage of q theater, by which,
at one touch, all doors and exits are
opened toward the outside.
There is talk in Kansas Of appoint
ing a rabbit commissioner for the
state, the reason being that 10000, 900
pounds of jack rabbit meat goes
to waste annually in the state.
The biggest match factory in the
world is the Vulcan match factory
at Tidahalm, Sweden. It employs
over 1900 men, and manufactures
daily 100000 boxes of matches.
One-fourth of the inhabitants Of the
world die before they reach the sew
enth year, one-half before their sew
enteenth year. OF every 1000 persons,
only one reaches the age of 100 years.
From potato buttons to wooden
silk is only a step. Remarkable to
relate, wood can be utilized for soft,
flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has
long been a staple industry in the St.
Etienne district of France.
Prisoners in Morocco are compelled
to pay the officers for their trouble
In arresting and escorting them to
Jail. This plan makes the police
watchful and always alert for busi-
ness.
There is a great demand for hands
by the planters in Hawaii. No less
than 10000 men are needed there
In the cultivation of sugar and efforts
being made to secure them in this
country.
Among the fossil animals that have
recently figured in geological liter
ature is fossil camel from Rou-
mania which enjoys the distinction
of being the only one so far known
in Europe.
The present population of Athens
In Greece is only $4,000. There is no
accurate census of the city when in
Its ancient glory, but it is supposed
at one time to have contained 5OO,-
900 inhabitants.
A lot of society women in New
York city are organizing a boycott on
firms dealing in sweat-shop goods on
which are placed Paris labels. They
have had careful investigation made,
and they intend to publish the re-
suits thereof.
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