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

ES%sSeA IN London.
The Beers are said to have $4,000
Naaljjjnen s. the field.
's There are 80 miles Of books in the
M British museum.
II China liquids are sold by weight
and grain by measure.
8sS Outside the cities there is very lit
NJ slc organized labor in the south.
N. Martin, of Laurens county,
c., has whiskers' six feet long.
New Orleans has taken second rank
Ssas an exporting port having displaced
j Boston.
The 1900 corn crop of Russia has
been Officially estimated at 1885, 900
h bushels.
The New Jersey supreme court has
VI are taxable.
Attorney-General Knox has bought
III handsome and expensive house In
washington.
The oldest Protestant church in
the United States is St. Luke's, at
n Smithfield, Va.
The number of sheep in Australia
sSssia decreased from 124,OOO,O0O in 1891
III to %, 000, 900 in 1900.
1t is reported in Washington that
ID Senator Dcpew will be married this
4 summer to O widow who is now
abroad.
According to the Galveston News
the area sown to rice in Texas this
u season exceeds that of last year ny
4 500 per cent.
Exports of cotton seed from Egypt
d for 1se9-19OO are given officially at 49,
u 10000 bushels, \ slight increase over
n the preceding year.
The tail Of cat which its feline
a owner waves with such serpentine
4 grace is said to contain more muscles
I than the human hand.
S#: The United States is surpassed only
by Great Britain in the matter of
d Japanese imports of machinery, loco
and other engines.
\ Pennsylvania grand jury has
u recommended solitary confinement
q with bread and water diet as a REM
u edy for the tramp nuisance.
In ruling paper the worker, using
quill and ruler, seventy years ago
B took 1880 hours to do the work now
done by machine in ~ hours.
sS The ocean, it is estimated, contains
17 ,OOO, 900 cubic miles of salt, and if it
& could be taken out at once the level
lot the water would drop an inch.
ssI It il said that 25 per cent of the
young men who. have applied for ad-
mission to West Point have been UNI
abe to meet the physical qualifica-
tions.5 ~ g. !
lean Coquelin, son of the great
ssnctor, is giving promise of high work
ssssas dramatist and his version of
vadis'' has just been most sue
scessful in Paris.
The Pope has from time to time In
his surplus income in United
Estates government bonds and the ex-
tent of his holding of this sort is now
sesfimated at 100000 lire.
sas DR.. N. Seward Webb's country place
San Vermont, Shelburne farms, covers
~ 600 acres of ground, and is the larg-
ut estate owned by a single individ'
r,ial east of the Mississippi.
$ssS Cinnamon always show great re-
spsct for the dead. In all parts of the
u empire funeral professions have the
right of way in the streets and oil
sstrafic must give way to them.
Fosters "Old Folks at Home" is the
Mmost popular song in existence. 1t
has been translated into all the Ian
!. gunges of Europe and also into some
HOE Asia and the isles Of the sea.
James Outterson Pratt, who is said
Ito have bought for $3.50 the site on
which the town of johannesburg now
IS stands, died several weeks ago in the
s.;uilford workhouse, near London.
The Count and Countess de Castel-
Slane were barred from entrance to
tho cathedral at Rouen few days
ago on account of their costumes.
They were in bicycle raiment SO loud
that the sexton in charge could not
hear their protests.
Snow has visited unusual places
u this season. It has fallen in Mexico
ssCity, the first time in fifty years, and
Nln Madrid, where it had lot been seen
Hsfor eight years. lii Jerusalem snow
fell to the depth of IL inches.
SssSThe horses ridden by Lord Kitcll-
h ener's flying cavalry to chase the elu-
\; SiYeg Gen. De Wet across the South
sssA frican vcldt are shod with shoes
gsinade in Pennsylvania, the contract
81 aor their construction having been
through the fundamentally of
|8the commercial museums in Philadel-
sphia.
sss.4 The Atlantic pigeon post, which
suspended for the winter, will be
assumed this month. Passengers on
u 5s,ard Atlantic steamers can avail
themselves of the birds to let their
NJ fien1ls hear of the progress of the
Voyage or Of their impending arri'
Of the hundreds of pigeons sent
ssSfR HUI sea last year only two went
n |lS SSsytray.E Some flew over 300 miles,
yeritable "quick luncheon" it is