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Cremation.

Tho Venini process Of cremation a.
now used in all the principal cities of
Italy. consists of two parts: first, the
generation of gas; and second, the
cremation proper. The apparatus is
constructed with eas-generator loca-
ted in the basement of the crematory
building. The furnace itself is on the
main floor, and the heat ascendS from
the gas-generator through flues con-
structed of refractory material. The
fuel used may be either wood, coal or
coke as desired. The first combustion
takes place in the as-generator. The
fuel which carries of the result of the
first combustion consisting of smoke,
and other carboniferous products,
trends in the direction of the main fur
mace. Before reaching the furnace a
new supply of oxygen is admitted on
the fuel, causing . second combustion,
whereby the products of the first are
completely consumed, and the heat
raised to high degree, is brought into
the crematory chamber in a colorless
state. Here the third combustion, that
of the body itself, takes place. As
viewed through an aperture in the wall
of the furnace, this combustion pro-
crosses as follows: When the heat is
first admitted to the chamber it is
filled with dense black smoke which
lasts for minute or two: this is sue
oeeded by white vapor for the next
minute or two; this disposes of the
fluid parts of the body, the remaining
time being taken up in the cousump-
ton of the more solid proportions.
After the disappearance of the white
vapor the chamber is left absolutely
clear until the moment when the body,
completely consumed, drops away in
white ashes. The products of these
three conclusions are carried through
flue to the chimney, but before reach
ing the chimney an additional supply
of oxygen is admitted to the hue.
causing a fourth and absolute COM
bustion. The final products which
escape from the chimney are not ap-
parent to any of the senses, having
neither smoke nor Odor. In fact, from
the beginning to the end of the pro-
cess, there is absolutely nothing to
offend the most fastidious person.
There is no approach to cooking or
burning. The process is purely
chemical one, and reduces the body by
the most expeditions and clearly means
to its component parts. The amount
of fuel used is little more than half a
cord of wood or its equivalent. The
time occupied varies with the size of
the body, from three-quarters of an
hour to an hour and quarter.-But:
tdl0 Courier.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

What . Highsg 1duoasloa Jlesaa
When . s.highee eduoation'' b de.
manded. for any class Of persons-as
women-it means that Il has become
desirable to train their faculties for
more difficult work than that tradition
ally assigned to them. and also that Il
il desirable to enable them to get moro
enjoyment out Of any work that they
do. The necessary correlative Of tho
possession Of powers is the opportunity
for their exercise. The existence of .
larger class of effectively educated wo-
men must increase their demand for .
larger share in that part Of the worlds
work which requires trained intell-
gence. OF this, literature and other
art is one and only one portion. The
work of the professions, Of tho upper
regions of industry, commerce, and
finance, the work Of scientific and Of
political life: Is the work appropriate to
tho intelligences which have proved
themselves equal to course Of training
at once complex and severe. A person
destined to receive superior education
is expected to develop more vigorous
mental force, to have q larger mental
horizon, to handle more complex mass
es of ideas, than another. From the
beginning, therefore, he must not mere
~ receive useful Information, but be
habituated to perform difficult mental
operations, for only in this way can the
sum of mental power be increased.
The order, arrangement, and sequence
OF the ideas he acquires must be as
carefully planned as is the selection of
the ideas themselves, because upon this
order and internal proportion his mem
tai horizon depends. He must be
trained in feats of sustained attention,
and in the collocation and association
of elementary ideas into complex COM
hinations. Since ideas arc distractions
from scnse-perceptions. he must be
exercised in the acquisition of accurate,
rapid, far-reaching, and delicate sense
perceptions, in their memorization, and
in the representative imagination which
may recall them at will, and be able 10
abstract from them, more or less re-
motely. ideas. Habits Of rich associa.
ton Of ideas must be formed, and of
pleasure in their contemplation. Aud
very early must be offered to the child
problems to be solved, either by purely
mental exertion. or by that combined
with manual labor. "An Exper-
in'ent in Urinary Education" BY Dr..
Na,y ftltnan-jacobi, IL, Popular Sci
snce Monthly for august.
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stasesulsal "a Chvear-a.l.e,r.

000 V000Rs0s10O1s
Henry Watterson loves to tell the
story Of how Albert s. Will, rot into
Congress. II seems that IN some by
gone day hs and Judge Hoke, both Of
Louisville, were Democratic aspirsuts
for con9rsss. The odds were pretty
evenly divided, and the democratic
mind 10 the district was in topsy-turvy
excitement. whom Hoks suggested that
the two settle 1t BY tho method Of the
honorable and digni6ed game Of ..heads
and tails. /" Willis was willing, and to
use the words of II. W., 1T was .
rare sight. There wis two gentlemen,
representing Ill the dignity and intelli-
gence of the great Democratic party in
this district getting down to chuck-a-
luck in order to show their disinterested
devotion to that party, the grave Judge
placing his ambition on the head of
the coin, while the astute Congressman
uttered tail Head lost and tail won.
and Hoke at once withdrew from the
Canvass" Watterson made lots fun
about the affair, and perhaps it had
something to do with growing the moss
on Willis who always has it in his
mind.
"Why yes" he said to me, 1T is
true. The Judge and had been intim~
ate friends for fifteen years, and in or
der to settle the contest without un
friendly feelings we determined the
candidature by lot, thus saving the ex-
pense of q convention. That method
of settling contests is authorized by the
statutes of Kentucky, let me tell you.
More than that it is quite common use
age everywhere. Do you know that
even the Electoral Commission in 1876
was de termimed by lot'''
"No?''
Eyes, sir. You know that only one
member from q State conld be selected,
and two of the Virginia Representa-
tives, Mr.. Tucker and Mr.. Hunton.
were contending candidates before
their Democratic friends for the honor
of being on that Commission. 1t was
friendly contest, and when Ben Hill
declined to act as an umpire the two
gentleman met in one of the committee
rooms to determine the matter in a
friendly way. They placed their names
in q hat. land blind-folded page drew
therefrom the name of the one, whose
judgment, differing from the others
for ought I know, might have decided
the Presidency!''
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

In West Virginia the pocket-dask is
called ''tickler,' and every farmer
has one. In some country stores =
stout linen cord may be seen hanging
from tho ceiling to the floor. The
purchaser, slipping quarter of a
dollar into the split cork Of his tickler,"
ties the empty bottle to the string and
walks out Of the place. As soon as the
coast is clear the ''tickler'' is rapidly
drawn up, passed through a small trap
in the ceiling, filed and returned. The
purchaser enters, unties his precious
bottle, and concealingit in his pockets,
rides away to enjoy his toddy in
solitude and peace.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

Careful attention to diet is tho best guard
against disease. 1t IN q fact which Ill
should know, that over eating not only cor
rupts the blood but destroys nerve force,
and induces dyspepsia, jundice, bad breath,
piles, pimples, low spirits, headache, ague,
malaria, and all stomach and liver trou-
bles. Dir. Jones' Red Clover Tonic quickly
Cures all tho above Diseases. Can be taken
by the most delicate. Price fifty cents Of
druggists.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

We should economic at all times, but
more especially when times are Close OBJ
serve the purchases OF your thrifty neigh
obtained from a fifty cent bottle Of DR..
Bigelow's Positive Cure than q dollar bottle
of any other cough remedy. It is prompt,
safe and pleasant cure for all throat and
lung troubles. Sold and endorsed by drug
RiStS,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

The Boss zinc and leather ankle,
boots AND collar pads are tho best and
most durabl%. Harness makers are in
structed to tai, them back after q trial
of 60 days if you are not satisfied.
Manufactured by Dexter Curtis, Madi-
con. Wis.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

The population of London in 1881
was 4, 764, 1912, the increase since 1871
having been 1926 per cent. There are
now every week almost twice as many
births as deaths, to say nothing of the
immigration. One would therefore,
not be far out of the way in declaring
that there are in London 100000 in
habitants.
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No They Had.

"Say,' shouted a boy in front of the
city hall the other afternoon.
Something like fifty men came to a
dead halt.
Say! your wife said I was to tell
you not to forget to bring home teal"
continued the boy in a louder voice.
Forty-ive men wheeled, slapped
their legs and grunted out:
Hanged il l hadn't forgotten all
about it!''
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"1,ove him? No, mamma, l hate
him. The impudent young scamp
Then 1 suppose, my dear, you will
break your engagement with him?''
mo. indeed not; l shall marry him. -
''Well, well, didn't believe YOU hated
him as badly as that"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

THERE ARE MORE DISEASES than there are
visible stars, but there is one remedy that
goes to their common source in sscretions
and the blood. That is Dr. WALKERS VEG
perfect remedy for all diseases OF tho
blood. 1t gives new vitality to the secret
ing aud excreting organs, and flls the arte-
ries with new material for strength.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

At wedding in Bridgeport. Conn.,,
recently, the groom. q young man, who
appeared nervous from the start. broke
into hysterical sobs before the ceremo-
ny was over.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

! Three Chicago children have been
arrested and fined for stealing Is pill:
lows. Those 25 pillows were from .
summer hotel, and were. concealed in
one Of the boys vest pocket.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

A recently dedicated church in Iowa
has several ''babies' corners little
rooms divided off by curtains where
babies can sleep while their mothers
attend the service.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

July has been a fatal month for
Presidents and ex-Presidents. John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson died Jul.
4, 1926; Monroe, July 4, 1881; Taylor
July 9, 1850, while in office, and Grant
July %, 1885, while Garfield received
his death wound upon the End of the
same month, 1881.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

Col. D. J. Williamson, Quarter- Master
Peru, spent 80 900 in eight years in trying
to cure himself of rheumatism, but got no
relief until he used st. Jacobs Oil, which
cured him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07
G. w. HACKETT,
President.
PAUL D. FERGUSON,
Treasurer.
1885.

1885. MEM
HkRDWAR
6trong -Hackett Hardware Co.
TarWell, Ozmun = Jackson.
Adam Decker.
IRON, STEEL AND HEAVY HARDWARE,
s.sS1: = = R sSe;on.
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS.
Indexes, Warner 4 sohurmeier.
Powers, Durkee 4 Co.
MOTIONS AND FURNISHING GOODS.
z z'ssss: W W:nr:" ! : x Ss:S's''
8R0CERS
=. II. Kelly Mercantile CO.
AlIeD,. Moon 4 90.
aaxf1eld 4 seabuTy.
Beaopro, Koogh Co.
Yanx, Origgs q HoWes.
TEAS, C0FFEES AND SPICES.
Bsfkey, Talmadge d Co.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
@. Gotxian d Co.
Kellogg, johnson Co.
Foote, Sehulze & Go.
FoFepeugh 4 Tarbox'
HATS, CAPS AND FURS.
Gordon d Ferguson.
Lanpher, Finch + Skinner.
0trelssguth Drake.
DRUGS.
Noyes Bzos. 4 Cutler.
Ry.n Drug Co.
CHINA, CRoCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Craig, Larkln 4 smith.
Pollock, Donaldson 4 Ogden.
LEATHER, SHOE FINDINGS AND SADDLERY
HARDWARE.
p. II. l.. lIardsnburgh 4 Go.
8chener 3 Rossu,n.
Chss. G. Schmidt.
PAPER AND STATIONERY.
W:ra. iii; i aeG,eilsn:
Pioneer Press Co.
BOOKS, PAPER AND STATIONERY.
O. Paul Book d Stationery Co.
CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS
Campbell d Burbank.
MEMS FURNISHING GOODS
0uitermsn Bros.
fAILoRS TRIMMINGS AND WooLENS
Xallop. DeGroot . Co.
RUBBER GOODS AND Betting.
et. Paul Rubber Co.
Goodyear Rubber 90.
CIGARS AND foBAcC@
Whltsnan Bros. ~
NOTIONS ND COUNTER SvPPL&
A0s0sDsg04 O. =. e.
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''Athlophoros is doing my wife a great
deal Of good, more good than any other
medicine she has ever TAKEN" is the testi.
monial to this great remedy for rheuma-
tism and neuralgia given by J. 8. Helm
ick, OF Berrien Springs, Mich.
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For the L@dles.

For tho Ladies'.
Laughter IL the poor mans plaster,
Making every burden light;
Turning sadness into gladness,
Darkest hoar to May dawn bright.
Ills tho deepest and tho cheapest
Cure for Ills of this description,
But for those that wOman's heir to,
Use DR.. Pierccs ''Favorite Prescription"
Cures all weaknesses and irregularities,
clearing down. sensation, ''internal
fever" bloating, .displacements, .inflama-
eancerous disease. Price reduced to one
dollar. By druggists.
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''MonE THAN ALL OTHER LUNG REMEDIES -
is what E. W. Fairman, druggist ct Day
ton, Ind, writes about the sale of Aliens
Lung Balsam He has sold 1t for eight
years, and it gives satisfaction. Sold BY
all druggists at 25c., &c., and 81 90 bottle.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

i Delicate Diseases, affecting
male or female, however induced, speedily
and permanently cured. Illustrated book
for 10 cents in stamps. Worlds Despensa-
ry Medical Association, 663 Main Street.
n. Y,
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The New York World says child in that
tanning morphia or opium. There is no
such danger in Red Star Cough Cure. 1t is
purely vegetable, prompt, safe and sure.
q canta
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

Henry Ward Beecher says that the
first public address made by him was
on temperance, at Brattleboro, w.,
while he was q student at Amherst Col
lepe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

The fun of amateur theatricals is all
on the side of those who take part in
them. They are sad affairs for an audi
ence.- New Orleans Picayune.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

Straw hats and linen busters will not
so very popular as heretofore; DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup. however will be as popular
az ever.
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not an Ae\e

paia in the Rheumatic line have had since using
ATHLOPH0R0S two years ago. II made = thorough
sale II ny Case Mrs. Ella Saith. q n Poster Street.
spian .e;ghins other Injurious ios.easn. and
pAesos lfyou get Il Of him do ny something
ese: but order q once We viii send It express
ATHLoPH0RoS CO., liz Wall st.. New York.
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Every one is perfectly satisfied who uses
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.
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BITTERS.

n -..0L n VlnSxar BlttcrD. q
IEd06&Qlf cnHlpurg and tonic. purifes
NN the blood, strengthens the
l LNNxENHSvll liver and kidneys, and viii
IN A ~ Ircstorc health, however lost.
| A2&SHMAM ! Vinegar Bitters is the
IAk best remedy discovered for
kSzS M promoting digestion, curing
| headache and increasing the
2Re,a&5 w. ~ vital powers.
Vinegar Bitters a.
eimilAteS tho food. regulates the stomach and
bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Vinegar Blttcrs Is the great disease pro-
veoter. and stands at tho head of all family
remedies. No house should ever be without It.
Vinegar Bltlers cures Malarlal, Bilious
andother fevers, diseases Of the Heart, Liver and
Kidneys, and q hundred other painful disorders.
Send for either Of our valuable reference
books for ladies, for farmers, for merchants,
our Medical Treatise on Diseases. or our Cat
echism ON Intemperadce and Tobacco, which
last should be In the hands of every child and
youth In the country.
Any two of the above books mailed free
ON receipt Of four cents for registration fees.
RH.McDonald Drug Co, $50 WashingtoHCk. ny.
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All Others are Frauds.

All Others arc FRAUDS.
Every bottle of the old, original and gen.
uipe Aliens Iron Tonic has the following
signature on the front
label, made mum only by
Up. ALLEN mr. MIN st. Paul,
Mimi. This TN>A> '~~~stN\ is tho re-
modv thatc knock 8
Dyspepsia higher than a kite, and stirs up
the torpid liver to action. See that the
signature is on every bottle, take no other
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MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES.
Roser.. viii: Co.
Campbell, Walsh Jilson.
WOOD AND IRON PUMPS AND PLUMBER
SUPPLIES
II. p. Rusg 4 Co.
SCALES, WINDKlLLS ETC.
Fairbanks, NOrse Co.
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS
A. Oppenheimer = Co.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Nathan Ford.
W. J. Dyer BRO.
FRUITS, NUTS, ETC.
b. Presley . Co.
FURNITURE.
Quinby Abbott.
CRACKERS AND CONFECTIONERY.
Berr,.ford =: Geo.
DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS.
1ohn M Manu-! s.s Co.
WAGONS AND AGRICULTURAL IIPLElEAn
Mast, lsufori + Eurwen Co.
q. y. Thnrst"n SON.
J. III. Mailer Co.
st. Paul storage. Forwarding . l.Das-
meat Co.
WINES AND LIQUORS.
Perkins, Lyons 3 Co.
Geo. Benz & Co.
GRAIN AND COMMISSION.
W. a. Van slyke 4 Co.
FLOUR.
st. Paul Roller Mill Co. =.
ROOFING AND BUILDERS SUPPLlE
scribner Roofing + Coruice CO.
LUMBER
J. r. Gribben Lumber Co.
| Rood = Maxwell.
T.. r. SUNNI alt.
C.. N. Nelson Lumber Co.
W. II. Ftfeld & Co.
John Martin Lumber Co.
barrOnDett Lumber Co.
BOhn Manufacturing Go.
LINE CEMENT AND PLASTER.
The Northwestern Limo CO.
FUEL.
g. Paul Pacific Coal Z Iron Co.
| NoFthwestern fuel Co.
TRUNKS, ETC
II. .. Crippen q Co.
SEWING MACHINES,
| Domestic 8. II. Co.
STEAM FITTING, FOOLS AND SUnLIR
II T. Osbssss.
Guns, Nsf0lS AID QolIue ooDl
In =. xsa.eay . Desss
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HISTORY OF BABYLON.
An UnonterprislnG Town and Its Rapid
Decay.

An UnentsrprislnE Town and Its Rapid
Decay.
[Bll Nye, in Bloomington Eye.I
The history of Babylon is fraught
with sadness. It illustrates only too
painfully that the people of a town
make or mar its success rather than
the natural resources and advantages
it may possess on the start.
Thus Babylon, with three thousand
years the start of Minneapolis, is to-day
hole in the ground, while Minneapolis,
socks her xxx flour into every COR
ner of the globe. and the price of real
estate would make common dynasty
on its throne.
Babylon is good illustration of the
cay of q town that docs not keep up
with the procession. Compare her to-
day with Kansas City. While Babylon
was the capital of Chaldea 1870 years
before the birth of Christ, and Kansas
City was organized so many years after
that event that many of the people
there have forgotten all about it. Kan
sas City has doubled her population IN
ten years while Babylon is simply a
gothic hole in the ground.
Why did trade and emigration turn
their back upon Babylon and seek out
Minneapolis, St. Paul. Kansas City and
Omaha? Was it because they were
blest with bluer sky or more gen.
ial sun? Not by any means. While
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-29
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
LEARNING TO SING.

You dear httde birdie, who taught you to
sing
Among the green branches and blossoms of
spring?
wish you would tell me; for then. don't
you see,
I'd ask the same person to try and teach
me.
wonder, whenever hear you If you
Have to sit in tree for an hour or two
And practice your dear little twitter and
trill,
When it is so dreadfully hard to keep still.
% When you want to play in the sunshine all
day,
Does somebody hold up finger and say.
AS solemnly: Now, little bluc-bird stay So
And carefully practice your do, re, mi,
90 Do you have to learn about octaves and
And chords and arpegglos and other hard
words?
And those terrible scalesl Why, of all that
do,
think them the hardest to practice. Do
your
~ Well; however uou do am sure of one
thing
That have TO practice before lean sing
And with all l may learn, and the best can
do,
never shall sing, little birdie, like you"
-SDdheu DdDre In ". y. Independent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-29
PARADISE MYTHS.


The Peculiar Ideas Entertained by Various
Uncivilized People.
Paradise traditions seem to owe much
of their local popularity to a peculiar
local fitness. In swamp village Of
the upper Congo the brot hers Rago-
zinski last summer interviewed woody
presbyter, who informed them that in
the far west, beyond the grave, there
was a valley of peace, where good
spirits fit about, engaged in catching
mosquitoes and protecting the sleep Of
the just. The paradise of the Boto-
GUIDES is land of cool streams, shaded
by forests 50 free from underbrush that
the blest departed can ramble for miles
without scratching their sensitive
skins. All desert-dwellers believe in q
thickly-wooded hereafter. rhe Yakoots,
of Eastern Siberia, hope to find a
land of ready-lighted fires hung
around with bubbling kettles Of
fish-oil. The natives of the lower
Carolines dream of an isle of souls so
large that a tipsy man can stumble
ebOOut I'll III nv w ibhOdu AOetL VI VI
ing his neck in the shore-cliffs. Our
Saxon forefathers hoped to line their
TRANSPORTED selves with beer and pork
steaks, diet which would make a Turk
prefer the other place. The spirits of
the Scandinavian braves slaughter each
other in the halls of Thor; and that the
Greeks were at heart less truculent is
proved by the sentimental pastimes of
their elysium. Chinese paupers, pinched
by hunger and Buddhism, hope at least
for the advent of golden age, when
every MANS paunch shall be as convex
as prize pumpkin. Few Moslems
would accept q pass to paradise with
out houris, and a poor Esquimau, whom
Rev. Claas Hansen hoped to charm
with the prospect of heaven without
ice and sea monsters, declined the offer
on the ground that Greenlanders can
not subsist without walrus blubber.-
Chic00O Times