The Worthington advance., 1901-06-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

#{ lkcre are 81 miles OF DOCKS 4u tAc
n, British museum.
In China liquids are sold by weight
+ and grain by measure.
$$ Outside the cities there is very lit
Il tlc organized labor in the south.
W. j. NJ. Martin, of Laurens county,
= S. c., has whiskers six feet long.
4 New Orleans has taken second rank
as an exporting port having displaced
Boston.
The 1900 corn crop of Russia has
been officially estimated at 34,?'G,OoC
bushels.
The New Jersey supreme court has
decided that street railway franchises
are taxable.
Attorney-General Knox has bought
a handsome and expensive house IN
Washington.
The Oldest Protestant church in
the United States is St. Lukes at
: Smithficld, Va.
The number Of sheep in Australia
sia decreased from 124, 900 in 1891
to 9O,OOO,OOO in 1000.
1t is reported in Washington that
Senator Dcpew will be married this
. summer to a widow who is now
abroad.
According to the Galveston News
the area sown to rice in Texas tl!s
season exceeds that of last year by
300 per cent.
Exports Of cotton seed from Egypt
for 1S9o-1900 are given officially at 49,
10000 bushels, 4 slight increase over
the preceding year.
The tail Of cat which its feline
owner waves with such serpentine
grace is said to contain more muscles
than the human hand.
The United States is surpassed only
by Great Britain in the matter OF
japanese imports of machinery, loco"
motives and other engines.
\ Pennsylvania grand jury has
recommended solitary confinement
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 4,sOO hours to do the work now
done by machine in ~ hours.
The ocean, it is cstima ted, contains
100000 cubic miles of salt, and if it
conld be taken out at once the level
of the water would drop an inch.
1t is said that 25 per cent of the
young men who have applied for ad-
mission to West Point have been un-
able to meet the physical qualitica-
tions.
Jean Coquelin, son of the great
p actor, is giving promise OF high work
as a dramatist and his version OF
"Quo Vadis" has just been most sue
cessful in Paris.
The Pope has from time to time in
vested his surplus income in United
i States government bonds and the ex-
7 tent of his holding of this sort is now
estimated at 30,000,0O0 lire.
= DR.. N. Seward Webb's country place
in Vermont, Shelbnrne farms, covers
1000 acres of ground, and is the 1arg-
est estate owned by single indi:id-
ual east of the Mississippi.
Cinnamon always show great re-
empire funeral professions have the
right of way in the streets and all
traffic must give way to them.
Fosters "Old Folks at Home" is the
most popular song in existence. 1t
has been translated into all the lar
guages of Europe and also into some
of Asia and the isles Of the sea.
James Outterson Pratt, who is said
to have bought for $3.50 the site on
which the town of Johannesburg now
stands, died several weeks ago in the
Guilford workhouse, near London.
The Count and Countess de Castel-
lane were barred from entrance to
the cathedral at Rouen few days
Z ago on account Of their costumes.
They were in bicycle rai,rcnt so loud
I that the sexton in charge could not
hear their protests.
Snow has visited unusual places
j; this season. 1t has fallen in Mexico
City, the first time in fifty years, and
4 in Madrid, where it had lot been seen
), for eight years. In Jerusalem snow
4 fell to the depth Of 12 inches.
n The horses ridden by Lord Kitch-
b ener's flying cavalry to chase the elu-
4 sive Gen. De Wet across the South
II s$African vcldt are shod with shoes
made in Pennsylvania, the contract
; for their construction having been
l made through the instrumentality of
s&the commercial museums in Philadel-
aassphia.
N; The Atlantic pigeon post, Which
II was suspended for the winter, will be
! resumed this month. Passengers on
] board Atlantic steamers can avail
i themselves of the birds to let their
& friends hear of the progress of the
Voyage or Of their impending arri'
n val. Of the hundreds of pigeons sent
sSoff to sea last year only two went
;astray. Some flew over 800 miles.
~ MA veritable "quicl luncheon" it is
II ssanid, is to be had at restaurant i'll
" sParis, where u dinner of several
5sscourses, composed of concentrated
Y food in the form of tablets, can be
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