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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26
THE DUAL CITY.


apolis has led to u suggestion for the
union of the two cities under one gov
crnment aud one name. aud the prepa
ration OF Il charter to lie submitted to
the next legislature.
This may look u little premature, but
under the plan suggested Of i general
government and tw" local govern
inents. it is quite feasible and may be
realized soon.
Tie ADVANCE feels quite an interest
in this matter and always has, not
pecuniary interest at present, but an
interest which has grown For years in
SEE ing \ second Chicago, and a greater
one, as the metropolis Of the North
west. In 1873 tho ADVANCE wrote:
"Minnesota lies 1T the eastern limit
Of the wheat belt of the continent,
along which belt. as Mansfield, the
Ohio statistician admits. must in fu-
ture flow the tide of population on the
continent Of America. Through Min
nesOta, rs through a great gateway or
the mouth of 4 great funnel, the pro-
ducts Of this vast belt must flow to
meet the markets of the East. Hence
III Minnesota must spring up one of
the great commercial cities of America.
L
oils of the Northwest and already feels
\ mighty destiny stirring in her blood.
Tie city is to be mapped ont for
one of the finest cities Oh the globe.
The union Of st. Paul and Minneapolis
(having together y population of 10000
now is proposed, and the two cities
are to be united by broad avenues, and
system Of parks is projected 10 in
clude the Falls of Minnehaha and
Lake Como. Avenues are also pro.
jected along the magnificent bluffs
which, surround tle city, and another
generation may look down from those
heights over vast commercial city
and be reminded Of New York seen
from the Palisades. In the MinnPap0-
lis quarter of this city will be utilized
and developed Il water power capable
Of making te, sucl, cities as Lowell.
Massachusetts, while in the St. Paul
quarter a second Chicago will stretch
out into miles Of massive blocks. Du.
lntt and Ashland will be the lake ports
Of this metropolis"
In the poem read at the St. Anthony
Falls celebration July 4th, 1880, the
following lines occur:
Here springs the Dual City which h shall 'll
Piaymates in childhood, hand In hand they
went
And grew and loved till their glad youth was
Soon shall the nuptin,s come and man and wife,
Go forth one flesh to one iliustriOls life.
And natiOnss y e the twain to wed'ock given. T..
And say, Behold. marriage made In
Heaven!'
That marriage will occur sooner than
we then anticipated.
Ayers SarsapArilla is prescribed and
recommended by eminent physicians and
is taken with. perfect safety by old and
young. Its cleansing and vitalizing
effects are sure and speedy, and it is
universally conceded to he the most
effective Of all blood purifiers.
Miller, of the Worthington Advance
refers to Miller of the Luverne Herald
as "nur criminal and penitentiary
natRhbOr." They are evidently not Al
SLOWING. as they should be- .''-Heror
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26

BURIED IN A SNOW BANK.-A CLOSE
CALL AND SHARP EXPERIENCE.
A letter from the north gives the fol.
lowing account of tbs experience of
three men III Seward township:
EDITOR ADvANCE:-.On the 18th Is.
F. Young, Johu Bloom and Alvin
Bloom started from the residence Of
Young to break u road toward Worth
inKtOu. On their return the blizzard
caught them - miles from home. They
followed sticks which they had set for
halt Il mile aud :. then lost the track.
They faced the storm II miles further
and Came to 4 grove where it WIS i'm
possible tn get 4 team through. They
embarrassed the horses and tried to
save them but were compelled to leave
them. They knew that home was only
about 80 rods from the grove and they
endeavored to reach it but were misled
by mistake as to the direction Of the
wind. They then found death staring
them in the face. Facing the storm
till AL hope OF reaching home had fled,
they turned aud walked with the
storm till they came to what is known
rs the Boyer Grove. Here they decided
to dig into \ large drift. With faces
neck and ears covered with ice. and
nothing to dig with bnt hands. feet and
"a dead limb, they finally made a hole
6x2 teet and got into It. They filed up
the entrance and awaited their fate.
Being thinly clad, they were anything
but comfortable. The warmth Of the
bodies and the breath soon began to
melt the snow with which their cloth.
ing was filed and it was not long until
they were wet through. After repeat.
ed trials they struck a match, looked
at i. watch aud SAW il WAS at past II
at night.
Toward morning they opened a hole
III the SNOW and saw the stars were
shining. They resolved to make a
break for home. They were scarcely
outside before their outside clothing
was frozen, but it was home or death
| and they preferred the former. About
daylight they reached home with faces,
necks, ears. hands and feet badly fro
| zen. They were poWerlesS to help
themselves, but the good woman Of the
house. by the aid Of u butcher knife,
soon Invested them 0f their frozen gar
ments, and three men were never more
grateful for the blessing Of hay fire.
| The mercury marked so below.
| After Il warm breakfast, Ben and AL
vim started after the horses, Johns
feet aud hands haing 81 badly frozen rs
to render him helpless. The horses
y ere found in Il DRIFT near where they
| were left. One died while they were
digging the other cue ont. The second
| one laid down on the SNOW as natural
as any horse ever laid down to rest
and then walked home.
The boys will stay hy the stove TIE
| rest Of the winter. Johns mustac't
was broken off or pulled out by the ice
and will need time to grow.
Ask any Of them and they will tel
yon that the u. s. Treasury is few
dollars short Of enough to tempt them
to spend ano:hcr night on the prairie
in q blizzard.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26

Send 81 to the Pioneer Press Co., st. PAN, AM
you will receive the We ky Pioneer Press for
one year and ore copy of the History Of the
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ted free. Send 10 cents extra for postage Oh
the History.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26
THE POSTAL TELE1RAPH

THE POSTaL IEl.E1KAId.
Petitions have been circulated and
nu1nernusly sign. d about Woct!,inGton
favoring the passage Of a Postal Tele'
graph law. The bill introduced by
Senator Cullom is probably the one
whose passage is asked. We notice
that it provides TOR the apprAlsiuy and
taking OF any patents for its USE. Our
fellow .towusmdn y. u. Giundsten
wrote to Congressman Lind for his
views and received III reply 4 COPY ct u
lett-r written to 4 Mank"tO party on
the same subject. MIR. Lind is inclined
to favor II postal telegraph.
The ADVANCE Is heartily in favor OF
a public telegraph, controlled by the
government, ii it is not exclusive, and
not so omtrageously abused as is the
postal system. At present three
fOurths of tine towns and villages Of
the country are dependent upon rail-
road telegraph lines, and these are
lately beginning to be particular about
what messages they send. especially a:-
ter railroad accidents. We need OF all
things, Il Peoples Telegraph Line.
On the other hand, there is danger
that the Comstocks and Class Monopo'
lists will come whining to the Govern
ment aud ask that the syscrm be run
in their. interest, and to further Their
religious, political, and economic
views, just ~ the postal system is now
prOstituted to the purposes OF bigotry,
l'ers.cutio" and great wrong to one
class Of citizens. ut the instigatiCn of
another class. The posta, system of
the United States is now nsed ~ n
trap. baitrd by men hired to procure
crime, anh set to catch and ruin citi:
Zens who ar" guilty OF no crime. Ii
the Postal Telegraph is to be thus con.
trOlIrd, better not have it, If this is
to g on, better not have Government
control ar Interference. Better that
the great body Of the people should say
'hands off, ;" and take III" risk Of being
called "AnarchisrS" by the shallow
creatures who have no ideas beyond
the political platform Of their party.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26
THE Il. Il. LAND TAX CASES.

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Stoury udi rNohcsC sCount.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26

Ayers Sarsaparilla is prescribed and
recommended by eminent physicians and
is taken with, perfect safety by old and
sftscts Sheets; are re- sure s and speedy. % and it Is
universally conceded to he the most
effective of all blood purifiers.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26

Miller, Of the Worthington Advance,
refers to Miller of the Luverne Herald,
as .'nur criminal and penitentiary
netghb0r.' They are evidently not as
Glowing. as they should be. "-Heron
!. Lake news.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-26

TINS GOOD Old 81AWO"0Y
aeoompiiahss foe svRybody exactly whas isclaimed
1oeik Ooeof the 6oe tAs great popularity Of
10 Mustang Laninsat = found IN NJ uaiversal
aDpltcabiljty. 1v0ybody neods such nedSc'ne.
The LambeP0an Aoeds it In case Of accident.
The HoaseWilo needs Il for geneEalfamily use.
The Canaler needs Il for HID teams and his men.
The Mechanic aoeds Il always On hb work
The D(iner needs it n case Of emergency.
The Pioneer neodsit- sse along without IT,
The Farmer noods II IN his house. his stebaa.
cid hi stock yard.
The 9eoanboae man Or The B0ae0a1 needs
n in nheeal supply a1oatand aaAoea.
The H0roo-Ea1ci0r needs Se-lt q h1s bess
friend and safest reliance.
Tho 9tock.gF0WoR needs tit WIN ssve h1ns
Thousands Of dollars and . world OF trouhla
TIE Railroad na1 reeds Il and wra need II -
long ~ his life round Of accidents and danScrA
The BaekWoodsDo1 neodsi f. 1hers + EosA.
ins Ike Il - IN antidoso for Tie dangers 70 me-
LIMB and comfort which surround The pioneer.
The Merchant needs tt about his store among
his employees Aoc3dentD VIII happen, and whe4
these come tho Mustang Ilnimsnt - wanted asosoA
Keep Beetle inths Hoase. 'Tts tho 6sse q
economy.
Keep q Bettlo II the Factery. l;stmn'ed'sae
uee In Of accident pain and loss Of wsgaA
Keep . Doselo Always In che asseie iee
csc VIXEN WaDteS-
, 1888-03-21

Hamerton says: at often happens that
mere activity is n waste of time, that peo-
pie who have n morbid habit of being busy
IRE often terrible time wasters; while, on
the contrary, those who are judiciously
deliberate, and allow themselves intervals
of leisure, see the way before them in
those intervals, and save time by the ac-
Curacy Of their calculations"
Another writer, unknown, says: "Some
men are in incessant action, early and
late, and all through the day. They have
no time for family or friends. AS for
holidays, the less for them the better.
They have inherited a nervous tempera-
ment, and are doing just the wrong thing
with it-Rllowing it &c hurry them to an
untimely end. They wear themselves
out. Their brain is ever in a state Of
morbid activity almost like that of an in
n man. A little careful planning, and
n proper laying out of work, and especially
doing everything in the proper time,
would avoid all such hurry and worry,
make work much easier, secure an abun-
dance Of leisure and greatly increase
length of life."-Scientiic American.
, 1888-03-21

The Listener witnessed recently IN in
teresting little ceremony-the removal Of
three charges from an old revolver, which
had been borne, and evidently used, by
an officer on the field of Cedar Creek, on
Oct 10, 1864. On that day, Capt. G.. +.
W, of the Thirtieth Massachusetts,,
had, as he charged with his company the
stone wall behind which the Confederates
were ~entrenched, drawn this old five
shooter, of the most approved ante war
type, which looks about as much like the
ordinary Colt or Smith s. Wesson of this
day as n revolutionary hrelock does like
the latest pattern of magazine rifle. The
revolver was loaded, but the captain had
discharged two shots from it. Then he
was himself shot through the heart, and
fell. The men pushed on; the C%onfeder-
ates were driven from their position, and
defeat turned into victory; but when Gen.
Sheridan rode before the reformed line,
and complimented the troops upon their
bravery, the gallant captain lay back
upon the field, among the dead and
wounded.
His revolver, with the remaining three
charges in it, was sent home to his family,
and from that day to this the charges re-
manned in it, like a sheathed weapon ready
for service; Occasion had arisen, how-
ever, to pass the old pistol on TO a still
younger hand, and it was deemed best to
draw the old charges at last. So the three
percussion caps, that looked as old fash
toned MS n flint lock itself to this genera
ton, were removed. The bullets, with
their paper cartridges, were carefully
drawn; aud the powder fell out of them,
some of it as bright and doubtless as
energetic, If one were to test it, rs when
the captain loaded his revolver before the
battle of Cedar Creek. To one who was
f1..rn fLa @F-lV - 49, Ia -..4s1-.
must have brought back a grim and NOV
ing spectacle of as gallant a charge as the
war had Known. - Boston Transcript
Listener"
, 1888-03-21

People who travel nowadays In Pullman
sleepers and buffet cars can't imagine
what railroading used to be before the
war in the west. Now the percentage of
deaths by accident on railroads is very
small. Then n man took his life In his
hand when he made a trip on the railroad.
The rails then were known rs strap rails.
fiat pieces of iron spiked down to the
wooden beams laid along the track. Every
now and then n wheel OF n car would tear
one end of a rail loose and it would fy I'D
through the bottom of the car and then
smash its way through, killing anybody
It struck and breaking the wood work of
u car all to pieces.
L was an express messenger in those
days on q road running between Cincin-
natl and Indianapolis. One day one of
these rails broke through my car, struck
my safe, and then came squirming and
twisting like a snake at me. tried to
dodge 1t, but 1t seemed to bend all over
the car in n second, and 1t caught my
b~reeches, tearing them clear off one leg.
If it had struck my body l would have
been nailed to the roof by it, as it went
on out that way. Sometimes these broken
rails threw the train Off the track, but
generally the cars bowled merrily along
over the break, and the passengers were
so accustomed to being shaken up that
they didn't know that anything extraor-
binary had happened until some one told
them.-Joseph Temple in Globe-Demo-
crat.
, 1888-03-21

l stood at n corner on Main street the
other day and watched the people making
their way across the muddy street. Did
yOu ever notice how differently this Is
lone by different people. r.
There is the lady who pauses moment
nrily in dismay, then gathers her skirts
with one hand and dAintily picks her way,
striving to step where some mans big
brogan has left its imprint, but falling be-
cause the brogan took such long steps.
Then comes the well dressed man who
never deforms his shapeIy feet with over
shoes He chances down at his well pol
ished boots, mutters aLpimprecation about
tho street commissioner, and walks across
on his heels, maintaining his balance with
difficulty and losing his temper altogether.
The old resident who is used to this sort
OF thing, and who would not feel at home
with a clean pavement in the spring time,
does not permit the muddy crossing to
delay him, but with a skill, born of long
experience, takes advantage of every pro-
jecting dry spotthat the pavement affords,
and doesn't get very muddy after all.
But the man who produced the strong
est impression upon me, the man whom
you will at once recognize, was the man
whose unpublished boots and insensibility
to dirt enabled him to disregard the mud.
This man sets his foot down like n pile
driver, or yanks it through the liquid mud
like a NOW pillow and literally bespatters
everybody and everything within a radius
OF five yards. You have met him; every
body has met him. He has splashed you
with mud; he has splashed everybody. ,
He should be abated as a public null
sance.-Kansas City Journal.
, 1888-03-21

Tie comparatively light depth of snow
in the north frigid zone is tolerably easy
ut explanation, but the difference in CON
sistency between it and the same material
further south is not SO easy to understand.
In the former case we really nave but two
seasons when the snow falls-the spring
and autumn-the intensely cold weather
OF winter being rs unfavorable for a snow
storm seemingly as the summer itself; in
fact, l have seen n snow storm every July
and August / WINS in the Arctic, while
there were n number of months in each
winter OF which l could not say the same.
The Eskimo plainly recognize these two
seasons of snow storms, and have two
different names for the spring and fall
SHOWS.
During the winter there may be high
winds, which carry the loose snow in
drifting packs, so that a person caught
out in such n gale would think at first
sight that he was in n first class snow
torn; but, nevertheless, none has fallen,
md although drifts have formed deeper
here and there, this has been picked up
from the ridges and hilltops and the
average depth is the same as before. For
this, too, the natives have a name, and
Will inform you that at that temper
nture and that time OF the year
10 snow falls. In Greenland OBJ
servations have been carried on for
many years by Danish m~eteorologists, and
DR.. Rink, the best authority on that
region, says that Gin north Greenland the
amount of snow annually falling is in
ferior to that of south Greenland" and
his law seems to be general. In short,
the heaviest fall Of snow is not ia the
frigid no more than in the torrid zone,
bnt somewhere between the two.-Lieut.
Frederick Schwatka.
, 1888-03-21

"In the streets of Cardiff, {" writes Mr..
Leonard Boyne, ~ once saw an Italian
stab another fatally. l was on the oppo-
site side of the road, and l gave a yell or
scream and rushed to take the knife.
That incident is always wildly before my
yes when l see Tybalt stab Mercutio, and
l have ever since, when playing Romeo,
.sed the yell / nave noticed a dead
silence come over the house Immediately,
as II something beyond mere acting had
happened. One of the audience told me
that the scream was so effective thai he
thought the man was actually stabbed,
and he was completely carried way by
the scene" This seems at first sight like
a perfect example Of emotion recollected
in tranquility" But can Mr.. Boyne re-
produce the cry, with certainty of effect,
in perfectly cold bloodf' Does he not de.
pend upon the emotional tension of the
scene to attune him for the effortf l CON
Tess to a doubt whether Talma himself
could reproduce in perfect tranquility the
'spasmodic vibration" OF voice which he
originally owed TO overmasterfng emo
hon.-Longman's Magazine.
, 1888-03-21

The Eskimos are called Innuits by some
writers because the name is derived lfrom
q native word signifying imam, " n Is
supposed to be their own designation of
themselves. In Alaska the Eskimos num-
Der altogether about 10, 900, inhabiting
most Of the coast line, as well as the in
terror portions Of the Arctic division.
Where they came from is, OF course, pure
matter of conjecture, but one theory is, that
they originated in the centre of the Amer
lean continent, and that their settlement
on the Alaskan coasts was coincident with
the general migration which led a portion
of the same race to Greenland. The the
DRY of common origin finds some sup
port in the fact that the kaiak, or skin
canoe Of the Alaskans is identical in con.
struction with thRt of the G~reenlanders.
This kaiak, which is a covered boat, is
found only among pure Eskimos, and is
lost wherever there has been intermixture
with other races, This is q curious fact,
as IT forms a distinct mark of Identity
Chambers Journal.
, 1888-03-21

A fight between about 100 crows and
perhaps 200 or 300 English sparrows was
witnessed at Cu~mminsville, o., just be-
fore shutdown some time ago. The crows
were returning to their rookery from feed
ing, when they were attacked by the spar
rows. Four or five Of the latter would
get after n crow and pick it SC badly as
to almost disable it. In fact, three or
four fell to the ground, being so badly in
jured rs to be unable to fly. The fight
resulted in the complete rout of the crows,
and they seemed only too anxious to get
away. One Of them which was picked
up was found to have had both its eyes
literally picked out.-Boston Budget.
, 1888-03-21
Wealth of the RothschIIds.

The Rothschilds believe in enjoying
their wealth, and like to have nice things
about them. One of the Frankfort barons
not long ago paid $4,000 for a silver
cup, which he wished to use as n center
piece Of a table service which he was
making up, and one Of the Vienna barons
has a stable which cost him $50, 900.
This stable has marble floors, ~encaustic
tiles painted by distinguished artists, and
its walls are frescoed with scenes done by
well known painters. The rings, chains
and fittings of the stable are silver, and
one box stall for a favorlte horse cost, it
is said, $12, 900. The income Of the owner
OF this stable Is about 50, 900 a day.-The
Arnnnnnt
, 1888-03-21

The average weight of the brain of man
apparently bears a definite relation to tho
climate a higher brain weight being found
in cold han in warm countries. In pro-
portion to their stature, the Lapps have
the largest heads in Europe, the Nor
wegians next; then comes the Swedes,
Danes, Germans, french and Italians.
In the Arab the head is found to be smaller
than in any of these, while in the far north
there exists a people known as Chugatshes
who possess remarkably large heads
Globe-Democrat.
, 1888-03-21

Oars are coming into use In which the
blade is made from the best sheet steel,
highly tempered, and is alleged to be
much stronger than the ordinary wooden
one, and cannot be broken without undue
violence; the handle fits into the socket,
running nearly the whole length of the
blade, and forming a backbone of great
strength; and the oar, being much thin
ner in the blade than the wooden one,
enters and leaves the water cleaner. The
handles are made separately, of spruce
or ash.-New York Sun.
, 1888-03-21

Fires are considered a great luxury
here. We have immense andirons, and
the fires are built on the stone or tile
floors. They generally burn n sort of
brick made of pressed coal, called u
~briquette, warranted to last five hours.
AS l tell sister, n common brick would
last longer and give as much heat. The
French people are so economical !they
jump up and pour water on the fire to
keep it from burning up too quickly
Elizabeth Nourse in Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
, 1888-03-21

Judge Tillman, chairman of the con-
gressional committee investigating the
Reading strike, Is 60 years of age, strong
and active, and. has never worn an over
coat. Like Hannibal Hamlin, he has II
great prejudice against this garment. IAN
overcoat," he says, sis a pneumonia
breeder. When l am cold on the street L
button my coat, and the blasts have no
terrors for me. When l was at Harvard
coliege-that was forty years ago-I tried
to wear ~flannels, but I've never worn
'em since. New York World.
, 1888-03-21

The learned DIR. McKattrell, in an elab-
crate article in The Nineteenth Century,
on the rapidity of thought, states hat it
requires one-thirteenth Of q second to
judge between blue and red. If the doctor
had ever noted the time taken by u
woman in choosing the right shade of rib
bon for her spring bonnet, he would not
have been led into so glaring an error
Pittsburg Bulletin.
, 1888-03-21
The neaf Chilled by a Drum.

Who would think of calling deaf men
by beating n dTum' Yet this is exactly
what is lone in the institute for the deaf
and dumb at Flint, Mich. With the drum
resting on the floor and beaten in the usual
way, everybody in the building is
awakened in the morning. 1t is also used
to call the boys from the Fairgrounds.
The teachers state that those who can
not hear at all feel the vibrations and
answer h summons.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.