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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
John Hubbard of Waterloo.


A correspondent writes to us from
Firth: There died here last Tuesday
morning an old man in his ninety.sev
enth year, named John Hubbard, whose
biography may be interesting to many
of our readers. At the age of % he was
working on a farm at Yexham, Market
Dereham, Norfolk, when he received the
sum of IS guineas for enlisting in the
West Norfolk militia. Twoyears after
warl he enlisted in the Twentv-third
Royal Welsh Fusilers for seven years;
and was shipped for the Peninsula,
where he landed at Passay. A few days
after landing the regiment was paraded
TO supply 100 yol4nte ers for the forlorp
hope at the storming of St: Sebastian,
Aug, 81, 1878. Hubbard was one Of
the 100. and he had the good fortune to
escape unhurt, After being sent to
England as one of the guard in charge
of prisoners he returned to the PENN
sula, where lie found bis regiment in
the Pyrenees. He took part in the bat.
ties there, and was also engaged at Or
thes, Toulouse, and Waterloo. As he
was only a seven year man and was
never wounded he had n" ''~~'- .:,
'nt Ca -. warrant of March II, 1874. en-.
titled him to Is. Sd. a day."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
Z" 11D3 GIFT OF All.

One and-twenty, one-and-twenty,
Youth and beauty, lovers plenty;
Health and riches, ease and leisure,
Work to give zest to pleasure;
What can maid 80 lucky lack?
What can wish that fate holds back?
Youth will fade and beauty wanes;
Lovers, tlouted, break their chains.
Health may fail aud wealth may fy you.
Pleasures cease to satisfy you;
Almost everything that brings
Happiness is born with wings.
This wish you; this is best
Love that can endure the test,
Love surviving youth and beauty,
Love that blends with homely duty
Love that's gentle, love that's true,
Love that's constant wish you.
Still unsahshed she lives
Who for gold mere silver gives.
One more joy wish you yet,
To give as much love as you get.
Grant you, Heaven, this to do,
To love him best who best loves you
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
The Locomotive in Winter.

Mechanical Engineer:
A locomotive cab in winter is q drearv
place. 1t is bad in day time, but on
winter night, when the snow flies
fast, the locomotive cab is good place
to keep out Of. Even in tho day it is
impossible to see anything if a snow
torn prevails. The rails run right up
nto the air. Nothing can be seen
ahead but q jumping-otf place. The
windows are frozen up or covered with
snow, and from innumerable cracks and
crevices around the floor where it joins
the boiler come draughts that bite and
sting. The engine caws like q crow
haugh, haugh, now fast, now slow, &C.
cording as the drift cover the track or
uncover it for brief space, and when
1t strikes drift it throws the snow in
binding clouds all over itself, Just as
the spray flies over a vessel shipping a
sea. The track is rough, for the frost
has disturbed it, and the engine lurches
ahead, staggering to and fro like a
drunken man.
There are few moro impressive
spectacles in the world than power
full locomotive laboring through q
heavy snow storm. To the observer
beside the track it looms up through
gloom tremendous and awful. The
locomotive seems the embodiment OF
the Death Angel, moving swiftly and
noiselessly. The snow has mufiled the
whir Of the rolling friction of the
wheels on the rails, and the train glides
by like the unsubstantial pageant of q
dream. With its black breath, its
snorts of fire, its hoarse voice, it is
truly Apollpon, the destroying angel,
and the man must be nnimpressible in
deed who does not feel thrill at it's
advent.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
Hannibal Halnlin.
From the Philadelphia Press.

r4Olu tAo 1AuaueApAAa IIoSs
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of
Maine, is firmly convinced that lie will
live to the ege Of 100. He is now =
hale OLD man Of 80, tough as gutte per-
cha, and bright and active as q school.
boy, He is about six feet in height,
with strongly marked couptenapoe
and eyes Of an intense velvety black.
The secret of such a mans longevity is
worth studying, Mr.. Hamlin never
wears an overcoat, and it 10 only with
in the past few years that he has worn
fannels. His face is of such rich
brown color as to s'"""~+ A.
once circulated by his enemies to the
effect that he has negro blood in his
veins. The old stager went through
the campaign last year. He sits up
late at night. He is fond Of parties.
He can keep pace with 4 three bottle
man at dinner: Beginning in the morn:
ing before breakfast he smokes all day
and half the night, using the strongest
and blackest cigars that can be pro-
cured. Such habits ought to have
killed him long ago. But he aourishes
apparently with undiminished vigor.
His vigor is of steel covered with sole
leather.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
the green hedges, directly across her

the green hedges, directly across her
path.
II was drinking at the ice cold
spring." he said, "when heard your
footsteps. What is it,"
She told him as we'll as she could for
excitement and breathlessness.
Come" she cried. ooh. do make
haste!"
He paused only to blow small will
low whistle which hung ON his steel
watch guard.
THAT will bring my workmen," he
said. Its signal we have agreed up-
on among ourselves, for just such an
emergency as this. You and Jones,
jamie. shall go around to the back door,
Hall and Robbins will watch tho front,
and I'll go up and settle the fellows"
jamie glanced with shy admiration in
to his set. determined face. After all,
1t was something to be man.
The little campaign was skillfully
conducted. The two thieves were TAX
en- red handed, the diamond rings were
delivered INTO JANE Bars keeping and
the ruffians were dragged 70 the near
est Jail.
"Oh Ralph" said jamie, when all tile
little crowd was gone, chow can 1 ever
thank you?"
He smiled.
by letting me put on those shingles
for you," said he.
II cant!" said jamie, laughing and
blushing. "They are put on already.
But LII promise you my next job of
carpentering."
will you let me be your carpenter
always, Janie?" he asked. "Will you
promise one day to he my wife,"
The words had risen almost inyolun.
tarily to his lips as he held her hand
in his-tbe words he so longed yet
dreaded to speak
And jamie hung her head and col
ored like q carnation, and said "she
would see."
And Ralph Parsons knew that he had
won the day.
Mrs. Barr and the boarder were alike
amazed when they returned home.
"Our jamie to circumvent gang OF
burglars?" said the proud mother.
"To save my three diamond rings!"
Historically cried Mrs. Lepell.
"But that isn't all have done, moth
en-" said jamie, laughing. Il have
shingled the roof. And-I have prom
ised to marry Ralph Parsons next
spring. Upon the whole, I think it
has been rather an eventful day, moth.
er don't you?" -Philadelphia Call.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

That was a queer anti-tobacco law
which the General Court OF Connecticut
passed in May, 1647. It was ordered
that no man under twenty-one and no
man over, who was not accust omed to
the use Of tobacco, should take any
until he had certificate "under the
hand of some who are approved 70,
knowledge and skill in physic," that it
was useful for him, "and also that he
hath received a license for the same. -
NO man was to take tobacco in the
street, in the fields or woods, except
when on journey of more than ten
miles, or more than once a day, and
then not in company with any one.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
The Thoughtlessness efa karried
II m.

"Look there, will your" exclaimed a
guest at an evening party. DO you
see that?"
"What?"
"Why, don't you see Jones?"
"Yes, to he sure; but what of it,"
"Don't you see that he's making love ?"
'fOf course I do; but what Of it?"
Don't you know the woman?"
mo; but I admire his taste. Who
is she?"
do you mean to say you don't know
herr"
"Never saw her before; but she Is .
beauty, isn't she?" =
"Why, it's his own wife,
"H4ayehsl Why. the man is cra=yl
1tll' kill him dead if the matter gets
known q the club. F wouldn't have
believed he was 50 off his base, I a.
ways took him to be y very proper and
discreet sort Of person. Boston Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

Experts in wheat estimates figure the
yield this year at 413, 900, 900 bushels,
and 121 900 900 bushels left over, max
ing supply of 534, DOC, 600 bushels for
the next crop year, against home con-
sumption Of 315, 0OO,OO This gives
PIG, DOC, 900 bushels for export; and the
estimates for the supply of the foreign
demand, even IN case of the limitation
CT Russian and Indian exports on &C.
count of war, is about lac, O0O;; 900 BUSH
els, leaving on hand about 50, 600, 600
bushels 0fsurplns. These estimates ara
based on The probability that the spring
wheat crop will be the same % last year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

In the London churches it is custom
ary to pray for editors of the great
papers that they may be guided by d.
vine wisdom. The effects of those
prayers is not usually obvious to the
readers If there is any result at all.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

! am using DR.. Graves Heart Regulator
with great results; had Heat Disease for
nine years, so bad could not lie down.
John McGuf, Pike Station, O. The Heart
Regulator cures all forms OF Heart Disease
nervousness and sleeplessness. Free pham:
phlet OF +. f. Ingalls,, Cambridge, Mass.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

People who desire to preserve their health
should be careful about their diet at this
season, and at no time should they be with.
out a supply ofPERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER,
the safest, surest and speediest remedy fol-
all troubles OF the stomach or bowels. All
druggists sell it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

Grand Union Hotel, opp Grand Cent Depot, N.
Y city, 6OO elegant rooms, 81 day & upward.
Travellers arriving at this depot save So car
riage hire and baggage transfer, European plan.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
MALARIAL POISON.
ULCERS.

For SIX or eight years snffere, with ulcers on nv
right leg. was treated with odile of Potassium and
Merculy and became helpless Six bottles of Swft,s
Specific made permar:., cure
Feb. 49, 1888. II. d. WILSON, Gainesville Ca
Blood ana Skin diseases mailed free.
l59 W. 13d ST. N.Y.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

For DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, Depression OF spir
its and General Debility. in their various forms
other Intermittent Fevers, the 'FERRo- p,1osrpo
RATED ELIXIR OF CAL1sAYA" made by Caswell
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drug
gists, is the best tonic, and for patients recover
ing from Fever or other sickness, it has no equal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

The distinguished o. s. Senator from In.
diana, Hon. Daniel w. Voorhees,, certifes
that in case OF rheumatism in the back, he
obtained instantaneous relief from St. ia.
cobs Oil. He says it is remarkable rem.
edY1
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters give tone and
strength to the whole system. All genuine
bear the signature OF J. P. Allen, Druggist,
St. Paul, MINI.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

Throat Diseases commence with a Couch.
Cold, or Sore Throat. "Brown's Bronchial
Troches" give immediate relief Sold only
in boxes. Price 25 cts
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

ErOR DISEASES of horses and cattle, nothing COM
pares with Veterinary Carbolisalve. 1t il the only
that leaves no scar and grows
and $lOO. ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

At Hamilton, o., George Schneider, con
vlcted OF having killed his mother in Octo-
Der last, was hanged.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25

man named Glover is arrested at Fall
Creek, Wis.,, for murder in Ohio.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-25
CONSTITUTIONAL TONIC
1T HAS NO EQUAL.
$1-OO a BOTTLE
Il. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, NY,

W.K SAGE, of St. Johns, Mich, was completely pros-
trated by the hardshps endured during the late war
He returned home wreck both in mind and body For
than alive until he was restored to health bv Warners
TIPPEcANoE The Best He advises all old vets to try
t. Write to him at St. Johns Mich.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-21
A Queer PeorIa.

Pref. Johnson at Anthropological Instituted
The Watalta are queer people who
inhabit Talta on the Indian ocean. The
body IS disposed to be hairy, but is care
fully depilated all over, even to the pluck
ing out of eyebrows, eyelashes beard and
mustache. The color of the skin is gen,
orally dull, Sooty black Boards are the
alteration OF the race, and are worn in i'm
mense quantity by the men and women.
There are but slight traces of religion
among them, but they are in great dread
of spirits, and are believed to inhabit
large forest trees. The sun is their true
conception of an oVerruling deity Their
marriages are first arranged by purchase,
the intended husband paying the father of
the girl the three or more COWS fixed as
the price. When these preliminaries are
settled the girl runs away and affects to
hide She is sought out by the bride
groom and three or four of his friends
and carried off to the hut of her future
husband.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-21
A New York Funeral Corteee.
- riA


In truth time is money, and consequently
the dead travel quickly in this steam city.
One would imagine that the living were
in hurry to get rid of these burdens that
cucumber them. But why not send the
collins by express, well sealed and adj
dressed? 1t would be done more quickly
and would be more practical. At the
commencement Of his sojourn in New
York the stranger sees a cortege of hand
some carriages, full of flowers and grave
looking. people, who appear to be in a
hurry, for the horses trot quite rapidly.
He thinks it is a grand wedding. How
happy. are they who are to get married.
That is the reason they travel so fast.
And he passes through the town, meeting
with nice carriages, always full of flowers.
and moving in line He says to himself
that the people here are very fond of mat
rimony. But at last he sees another cor.
tege, with about the same number of car
riages and the game supply of flowers.
The people are not gay; the horses walk
very slowly. "Ah, " thinks the stranger,
here is funeral" But, no, this is the
wedding. In truth. one might easily con
found them
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-21
Beats the Old Button Trick.
Boston Transc ipt.1


II beg your pardon" said a slouchily
dressed individual, reaching for a bur
which adhered to the coat sleeve of a gen
tleman just ahead of him; there's a bur
on your coat, sir; permit me 20 remove
it THANK you; no consequence, said
the gentleman himself removing the bur.
The impecunious one struck an attitude,
told the regulation story of hunger, and
preferred a request for 10 cents with
which to buy bread. He got the money,
but still fingered. What is it, my MANI"
asked the gentleman. please sir, =" re-
piled the tramp. you have my bur in
your hand. I'd like it, if you please It
is my capital, you know" Your CAPT
tal?" Yes, my capital; you see, sticks
it on to q cove what looks downy, you
know, and then l steps up and takes it
off. Sometimes only gets thanks for
my trouble, and sometimes l don't get
that much; and then some of 'em comes
down handsome. Yes, boss, that's my
capital; couldn't do business without it:
have to Shut up shop, you know. "
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-21
Arrest of SeniIe Decay.


In considering the possibility of sus
pending the advent of old age it is conse-
quently a matter of the highest moment
to ascertain what foods contain the small
est comparative quantity of those salts
which tend TO accumulate in the system
and obstruct the vital processes. The
cereals are found to be richest in them
bread, therefore, the so called staff of life,
except when used in great moderation,
favors the deposition of these salts in the
system. The more heterogeneous our food
the greater its percentage of calcareouS
matter. Hence diet composed prinuI.
pally of fruit, from its lack of nitrogen,
is best adapted for preventing or suspend
ing ossifcation
Moderation in eating must ever be of
great value in retarding the advent of
senile decay. Large eaters more rapidly
bring on Osseous deposits by taking in
more food than is utilized or excreted,
thus blocking the vessels and impairing
their functions. The writer cites as what
seems to be the best articles of food for
delaying the deposits fruit, fish. poultry,
flesh of young mutton and beef. Fluids.
as a part of the diet, have special i'm,
portance. All well and spring water con-
tains considerable of the earthly salts and
should therefore be avoided and replaced
by cistern water. Water clear of foreign
matter is the better prepared to dissolve
the earthly salts and convey them out of
the system. The addition of fifteen or
twenty drops of dilute phosphoric acid to
glass of water and drunk three times a
day will add to the solubility of these
earthly salts, and thus tend to suspend
the advent of old age by assisting in the
removal of those substances which mark
its chief physiological characteristic.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-21
SweIIin3 the Cigar Mems Receipt :.


Gen Grants illness, and the talk
about cigar smoking which it caused, had
a slight effect upon our business " said a
downtown dealer the other dav, land the
curious part of it is that it swelled our re.
ceipts. 1t is easily accounted for The
women folks. who, you know, are always
ready to seize some excuse to urge the
men to cease smoking, undoubtedly
talked great many men into making
cast-iron resolves to give up the habit.
Nine out of ten of our customers
would speak about it jocularly as
they bought their cigars. Most
of them who are in the habit of smoking
i've or six cigars compromised on two
one after dinner and one after supper
but when a man stops smoking half
dozen cigars day and substitutes two. he
always argues that he deserves better
cigar for virtues sake. Men who used to
buy three fOr-a-quarter cigars to the ex-
tent of half dozen o day, now buy 90
or 25cent cigars and content themselves
with two of them We make more money
selling man two cigars for 80 cents than
we do selling six for the same amount
But the other aud most important
point is this: The man who contracts the
habit of smoking 25-cent cigars
will rarely if ever go back to cheaper
brands, unless his expenses force him to,
so that in the end, it is my opinion, to-
baccOnists will make rather than lose by
the anti smoking agitation
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-21
FAST TRAINS IN ENGLAND.
America Has Nothing to Compare with
Them-Some Striking Comparisons.

AhOTlCd mas TO compare Wild
. Them-SOme Striking Comparisons.
! LChicago Herald.l
You are right, said an English gen.
| tleman connected with an American rail-
| way company 1.-The trains in this country
are absurdiy slow. Even the so.caiied
! fast mails and fast trains are anything
| but fast. In England we read of the can
non bali trains, lightning expresses and
special limited trains of America, and on
coming here we expect to find trains max
ing something like mile a minute. But
you can imagine our astonishment upon
discovering that these trains are slower
than our third-class passenger trains in
England Why, extra fare is charged on
trains in this country making thirty
four or thirty five miles an hour, the
extra charge being solely for the speed.
But in England our third class passengers
ride from forty to forty-ive miles and
nobody pays extra fare.
i have been making some com RI
sons between English and American all
way service From New York to Al
bany it is 142 miles. by splendid track.
There are ten express trains daily between
these cities, and their average speed
is tWenty-nine and tWo-thirds miles
an hour. Between London and
Sheffield, 1872 miles, the Great Northern
runs nine express trains daily, with an
average speed of forty-four and one
third miles an hour One train
makes fifty miles an hour Between
New DIRK and Boston, 233 miles, there
are only eight express trains daily, with
an average speed of thirty-two and two
third miles The fastest, a train of
sleepers, would not be called an express
at all, its speed being only thirty-eight
and three-fourths miles an hour Be-
tween London and Manchester, 2O3 miles
there are twenty express trains daily,
their average speed being forty-one miles
an hour, and some of them travel nearly
forty eight miles an hour
Between New York and Pittsburg
444 miles, there are five express trains
daily; their average speed is lust under
thirty miles an hour, and the fastest
thirty-seven miles Between London and
Glasgow, 40 miles, there are thirteen
daily expresses. and their average speed is
thirty eight and three quarter miles The
East Coast express runs the whole distance
at torty-tWo and one-half miles an hour
l ind that about the only trains in the
United States making more than thirty
miles an hour are the two Chicago eX-
presses and few trains running north or
south from New ! ork city.
" The only really fast passenger trains
IN America are three or four which run at
speed of about forty-siX miles an hour
between New York and PHILADELPHIA. All
over England and Scotland our express
trains. composed of first, second and
third Class carriages, make from thirty
five to fifty miles an hour Between New
DIRK aud Philadelphia there are twenty
express trains daily with an average speed
of forty-two miles an hour. Between
Liverpool and Manchester, much smaller
towns, there are ffty-two trains daily,
four Of them making fifty, one and one
third miles an hour, and the remainder
between forty-tiye and forty six miles. "
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-21
One of CoIorado's Geniuses.
New York Tribune.

A tall. spare man, with curiously con-
Trajectory personal appearance by reason
of a young face and stopped shoulders, is
frequently to be seen about the uptown
hotels. He comes and goes between this
city and Denver four or five times year.
A Colorado man pointed him out to me,
saying: There is one of Colorado's odd
geniuses His hobby is irrigation. 1t
has become paying hobby, too Wher-
ever he finds large tracts OF arid lands he
builds irrigating canals. Then he gets
people to settle on the land. take it up
under government claims, and buy water
CT him for so an acre year for irri-
eating purposes. Their crops never fail,
and his income is constantly on the in
crease. 1t is better than gas stock in
New York city. When he first started
out people laughed at the project. Now
he has So. 600, 900 or $4,000, 600 invested
in it, a great deal of which is eastern cap
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