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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20
TENTED FACTS.

DIR. JOSEPH PARKER, of London, re-
Gently preached on communion wine,
expressing himself very strongly against
the use of fermented wine at the sacra-
ment-
In France from 1927 to 1880 about two
hundred thousand persons committed
suicide. OF these over fifteen thousand
men and eleven hundred women were
inebriates and intoxicated at the time
of death.
The New York clearing house recent
~ Endorsed two checks to the value of
81, l6s,4s2 They did not represent the
outlay of foreign missionary board or
even the output of great mercantile
house; they were the price of q single
purchase Of beer!
Dr. DEscARrEs, of Paris, writes that
over half the income of all medical
men of France comes 1arectly or indi-
rectly from excessive use of spirits
This is true of the medical practice in
large cities in this country, especially
in practice among men.
ALL employees of the New Jersey
Central railroad have been notified that
they must bstain from the use of in.
toxicating liquors while on or of duty.
These notifications to employees of rail-
road companies are becoming moro and
more frequent, and bid fair soon to be.
come the general rule.
The Lancet remarks that while En-
gland is taking = very active and cred
liable rart in the attempt to prevent
the importation of alcohol into the in
terror of Africa, she can not do better
than labor to abate the alcoholism of
home communities, thriving and we'll
employed but kept back by drunken
ness.
1.-THE Cost OF Drunks" is the Interest,"
ing theme to which Toronto newspapers
are now devoting some space. It is fig.
ured out that the 5. al drunken men ar
rested in the town last year represent
deficiency IN wages lost, ETC.. of SOL.
$50. No wonder q Toronto editor de-
plors the prevalence of drunkenness Tin
our midst"
The amount Of bad gin and rum which
Germany is sending to Africa is appall-
ing. In some ships 100. 600 cases of
gin are sent out and used in barter for
hundreds Of valuable articles. It may
be said that every case of gin costs .
negro his life. The merch ants who get
rich 1T this trade can not have q very
high respect for themselves and their
Injurious commerce ought to be checked.
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perfectly san.

O@oer Of tho New York Steam Heat
ine Company Injecting another oflicer Of
tho company on Broadway. near Fulton)
Good morning. sir. Tho agitation
against our pipes still goes on.
Second Ofcer-Yes, and 1t 10 doin1
~ great injustice.
Commissioners Gilroy says they are .
constant menace to life.
Preposterousl They are perfectly
safe. (Startlng violently Is q sound
like an explosion Is heard.) But lot us
walk down this street , piece, and talk
this matter over. They hurry away
from the dangerous locality. )-Texas
SiftinrN
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

PROVIDENCE, R.:4- is to have statue
OF Robert Burns, the. poet, erected by
tho Scotch residents of that city in
Roger Williams Park. The design is
by w. Clark Noble, OF Newport 1t
poses the poet in an armchair, easily
and gracefully, it is said. His dress is
OF his period, with ruffled shirt, high
rolling coat-collar. small clothes and
stockings. A heavy shawl, similar to
the plaid of the Highlander. is draped
gracefully over the back Of the chair.
and corner is drawn: across the lap of
= the figure. The likeness, it is said,
follows closely the best portraits of
Burns. '';:.
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
LET AL GIVE THANKS.

0ovsrnor lGsfTian Proslainns Moves bsr
~ - Thanksgiving Ny.
Governor Merriam has issued the fol.
lowing Thanksgiving proolamation:,
The season returns laden with bounteous
harvosts; health and peace have prevailed
within our borders and general prosperity has
crowned the labors Of the year.
Observing most honorable custom Of public
and grateful recognition Of benefcent Provi.
denoe which has crowned the year With mcs.
cies, by authority vested in me, Is Governor Of
the State Of Minnesota, hereby set apart
Thursday, Novembers7, 1890. Is day Of thanks
giving and prayer, and cordially recommend
that our people turn ssido from their labors
and devote this day to worship and praise to our
Heavenly Father for Ill His goodness. to fam.
lily reunions Ut home aresides, to Christian
charity In kind remembrance Of the fatherless
and the needy who may be near our doors
In witpess whereof have hereunto set my
name and have caused the great seal Of the
State of Minnesota 70 be af1xed at the capitol ID
the city Of ST. Paul this 9Th day Of November,
A. D., 1890. rs u.s.
BY the Governor.
IT, uHvv n
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

! e. VITAL REcnE recently celebrated his
ninety-sixth birthday in Rochester, N.
Y. He has lived there over half a cent
ury. Notwithstanding his advanced age
he Is hale and hearty. and walks with
:, great activity: He has never missed
voting on election day since he was en-
titled to vote. At least ten of his an
cestors reached the age of one hundred
years. His brother died two years ago.
eand had he lived three months longer
would have te'.n one hundred years old.
His grandmother lived to be- one hun
drcd and four, and his cousins ranged
from one hundred TO one hundred and
three years :,
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TOLD o. KINGLY PERsoNAGEs.

EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH and the
King of Saxon both beat Emperor
Williams sporting record at Murzsteg.
They each brought down nino chamoia
against four shot by the Imperial guest.
The expedition yielded five head of big
game and thirty-two chamois.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, is a man OF
unusual will power. After having for
years smoked to excess, he suddenly and
completely renowned the habit. When
his physicians advised him to abandon
the use of the weed, it is related that he
pondered q moment and said: ION my
kingly honor I'll never smoke again, -
and he has kept his word.
ALL Of Emperor Williams Hohenzol
lern ancestors. born since 1922, as we'll
as himself, his brothers and sisters, have
been rocked in the same cradle. This
ancient family couch is clumsy affair
OF oak and richly carved. Around the
four sides is cut in Roman letters the
text: "He hath. given His angels charge
over thee, and they keep thee in all thy
ways" r.. s~s- -
KEUPP, the maker Of great guns, has
just given to. the Emperor and the
Crown Prince cannon each. The EN-
peror's present is deliberately decorated
with military designs, and is considered
by Krupp to be the finest bit OF work.
manship ever turned out from his foun-
dry. Although supposed to be but a
miniature coast gun, it weighs 1000
pounds.
The Russian Cars wardrobe vies in
extent and variety with that of Henry
Irving. His Imperial Majesty has forty.
four different uniforms, all Of which be
has worn save one, that. of Russian
Field Marshal Although the titular
head of his army, the Gar has vowed
never to wear the dress Of = Field Mar.
shall until this rank shall have been
conferred upon him by the other Field
Marshals after victorious war.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

MIR. HowEL1.s says. he learned to set
type 50 early that he set up and printed,
In his sixth or seventh year, his first
attempt in literature, and in after life
he could not come within smell of the
Ink, tho dusty types, the humid paper
OF a printing office without that tender
swelling Of tho heart which 80 fondly
responds to any memory-bearing per-
fune; his youth, his boyhood, almost
his infancy, came back to him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

cg.'' The Figaro, of Paris, soberly tells of
= wonderful slot machine which it says
is in use in this country. The machines
are stationed at the outer edge of the
sidewalk, and bear the following le-
gend: Drop nickel in the slot and l
Will hold your horse" This is all very
convenient; but when the man comes
back to get his horse he finds this legend
staring him in the face: drop two
nickels in the slot and I'll let 20 of
your horse" Ha! Ha! Very funny! And
80 true to life, especially the little re-
mark In the story that in American
cities all business men do business on
horseback.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

ON his first voyage Columbus sailed
three thousand one hundred and sew
enty-four miles in thirty-three days, or
ninety-six miles day. On his second
voyage ne sailed about two thousand
five hundred in twenty-one days, or
one hundred and twenty miles day.
On his fourth voyage he sailed two
thousand seven hundred miles in twen-
ty-one days, or nearly one hundred and
thirty miles a dav.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

The coming year will initiate num-
Der Of novel expositions. The first to
open will be the international exhibit
at Jamaica, which is undertaken with a
view to calling popular attention to the
resources of that tlourishing little ISL
and. Several lesser exhibits are being
prepared for IN Europe, one in Italy, one
In Spain and one, it is intimated, in Scan
dinayia- On the whole it promises to
be very snowy year for big shows.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

THERE'S lots of go:in the West The
Utah cowboy is quite as audacious as
his Texan brethren, says the Salt
Lake Tribune. A gentleman recently
from the East was enjoying drive on
the boulevard the other day when two
fiery. untamed broncho-busters came
dashing along at 2 furious gallop AS
they passed one O. themscoolly reached
over, lifted the gentleman's whip from
Its socket and in twinkling had clat-
tered out of sight. .
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

= WORD comes from Athens that the OK
cavations of the archaeological society
on the acropolis of Mycen~ have been
rewarded by the discovery of some six
ty different objects of antiquity. The
list has not been published, hence it
can not be ascertained whether among
them we're the mother-in-law joke and
the lnan-who-knew-it-all the-time.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

A CLASSIFICATION of the immigrants
OF the past nine months shows that
there have been received into this coun-
try, among others, 20, 400 Italians, chiefly
= ssof the less desirable class. II, 600 Poles
and 1900 Hungarians. OF this aggre-
gate Of 900 newcomers it would inter
esting 1t record could be kept of how
many:have developed into respectable
residents. how many are mere foaters
upon the edges of the industrial centers
Of the country and how much each man
receives in wages while here The dutv
Of further restricting this heterogeneous
influx would be made much palmer By
the general publication Of such record,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20
sECRETARY PROCTOR.

e synopsis q HIS Annual Report Of the
workings Of tina War Department. Oar
ing this Year.
sz .WAsHINaroN, Nov. II. Secretary Of
War Proctor has submitted his second an
:nual report to the President sho wing tho
condition and needs 9f the department.
While admitting that the Government
has little I'd fear from invasion the Sec
srectary says no great civilized nation
has moro Just cause to look we'll 70 tho
condition Of its coast defensea Under
the fertilization act OF last session posi-
tons for forty-eight mortars in three
groups of sixteen each and for three Of
the new long-range guns will be pre-
pared In New York harbor; for one
group Of mortars ana one gun in Boston
harbor, and for one group OF mortars
and two guns at San Francisco. He
says:
in the line OF y reasonable yearly appropriation
for the completion Of the work on which the
Nation is but just entering With such .
policy manufacturers could safely put in tho
necessary plant and be able to furnish
material 1T cheaper rate With
an annual appropriation Of 100000 to
$4,000 Ooo-only little, moro than that Of the
present year-the construction and emplaoe-
ment Of guns and mortars, works Of torpedo
defense, for the whole coast can be carried on,
and in ten years our principal harbors and
cities rendered reasonably secure. --
The Secretary calls attention to the
advisability of the three-battalion
formation for infantry which already
prevails in the other arms Of the service.
The number of assertions from tho
army for the twelve months ended Sep
TENDER 80 were 2, 0s6, as against .2,751
for the same period last year, decrease
Of % per cent. This result is due to
such Improvements in the service as
could be accomplished under existing
legislation. ss, 49, - 6 r.:.3&
the number of officers now awaiting
retirement is about sixty. These men
are performing no service whatever
but receive full pay, while junior off,
GERS doing their duties for them are un-
justly deprived of both the pay and the
rank which the law intends to attach to
the positions they are filling. The in
congruity of the present law Is illus
trated by the fact that where an officer
is disabled in the line of duty instead
of opening the way for the promotion
of juniors it may and often does actual.
~ retari it.
In order to obtain exact informa ton
concerning Alaska the Secretary has
approved the organization of a sys-
tematic survey of that Territory and he
recommends an appropriation by Con-
gress for that purpose.
The expenditures under Secretary
Proctor's dire ction for the year ended
June 80 were: Salaries, ETC., $l,34O. 700;
military establishment, 23,061, 500;
public works, $l53s2, 7S5; miscellane-
GUS objects, $8,O72, 900; total, $47, 357,
756. The total appropriations for the
year enled June 80. 1891, are S62, 100,
sos. The total estimates for the next
fiscal year ending June 80, 1892, are $43,-
| US, 936.
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she Was From Boston.

Miss Beaconhill( Visiting the country.
How warm it is! feel thirsty.
Mrs. Moadows-Wouldn't You like q
drink Of well-water, Miss Beaconhill?
Miss Beaconbill-Do not employ id.
verbs to qualify nouns, Mrs. MesdowA
Say good water" not ''wen water
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

TBE noble sport OF wife-beating still
fourishes in England. At recent trial
in Bristol wife testified as follows:
1--WE have been married twenty three
years. He bcat me the day after mar
rirgo and there has never been three
days at q time when he did not knock
me down or whip me. with a strap l
think he has beaten me two thousand
stimes"-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

The richest gold mine in the world is
the Mount Morgan, in Now South
! Wales Gold occurs there in forma-
:. lions in which it has never hitherto
been recognized. -
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Not a Local
Disease

Because catsrrh Affects your head. Il 10 not
therefore local disease fit did not exist in yoaP
blood. it could not manifest itself In your nose.
Toe blood now in your brain 10 before you Anish
reading this article back In your heart again ana
and 90 on. Whatever impurities the blood does NOT
carry away, cause what We call diseases. There.
fore when You have catarrh of the head. . snug or
other inhaant can ct most give only temporary n.
NET. The only way to effect cure 10 to attack the
disease in the blood, by taking . constitutional
remedy like Hoods Sarsspsrilla. which eliminates
all Impurities and thus permanently cstsrrh.
The success Of Hoods sarsaparilla . remedy for
oataErh vouched for by many people It has cusod
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

MARRIED persons, it is declared, live
longer than single ones, and the tall
have better chance for long life than
those of short stature. Women have
more chances of life in their favor
previous to 50 years of age than men
have, but fewer afterward.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

STANDARD time has been fully ao-
copied in Asia by not less than forty
million people, in Europe by almost an
equal number and in America by more
than sixty million.
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Work Of INcontliar!e3.

OD1N. ILL.,, Nov. IA $25,000 fire
visited this place Sunday morning and
destroyed the mammoth hay-barn Of A.
m. Woodward and Cox and the adjacent
dwellings of w. B. Morrison, Miss Jane
Rankin and James Peart 1t is sup
posed to be the work of incendiaries
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

: GENERAL BOOTH, commander-in-chief
Of the Salvation Army, has issued a
prospectus in which he proposes to re-
form and support the criminal classes Of
London for five million dollars cash.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

BETWEEN; thirty million and forty
million gallons of wine:will be made in
the United States this year, of which
California will produce more than half
Seven-eighths Of the grapes Of California
20 to the wine press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

A TUNNEL ITO Prince Edward Island
across Northumberland straits, dis
lance of six and one-half miles, is the
next great engineering feat talked of
in Canada 4tsle -.ss.s5-rys ss7Pe - - g
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-20

FIVE HUNDRED children under ten
years. of age we're taken into custody
= last-years in London rs drunk and in.
GAMBLE.
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WEST AND SQurA.

AT the session Of the general Assem-.
bly, Of the Knights of Labor at Denver.
COL. Grand Master Powderly in his re-
port said the late New York Central
strike had almost brought the organiza-
tion to financial ruin. and it developed
the fact that the press of the country
was not friendly to the knights.
AT Noble Lake, Ark, Jack Buokinp-
ham (colored) committed suicide by
taking morphine. This was the first
negro suicide that ever occurred in
Arkansas.
GEORGE w. BURNsIDE's livery at
Sioux Falls, s. D., was burned, and
thirty-four horses lost their lives.
In default OF $40 fine for drunken
ness, A. F. Anderson, at one time the
leading attorney at 1id1n, O., WAS sent
to the work-house.
In railroad collision near Yarmcr.a,
Miss, fifteen persons were injured.
The official returns from the Iowa
election show tho success of the entire
Republican ticket by pluralities rang.
ing from s66 for Railroad Comm issioner
to 2,Soo for Secretary Of State.
AAS Ao6 A0AoVuIO "a <14A O1"o COu V6u6O
oh the 12th.
RETURNS from the recent election in
California give the Repub1icansfour of
the SIX congressman, making the dele
CATION the same as the previous one.
IN the town Of Cape Gracios, La,
every house was blown down BY = hurri-
cane. ef-.
THERE are s, 500 Indians in tho State
of Washingt ton, according to the report
OF special census agent. .'&t:l...
The Official returns from the recent
elections show that the Democrats
elected the entire fourteen Congress-
men in Missouri and eleven of tho thfr-
teen in Indiana. -
TIE first State Legislature of Wv
oming met at Cheyenne on the 1ath.
There were tofty-nine members, nine
OF whom were Democrats w. r
Schnitger. Of Cheyenne. was elected
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THE dynamo Is replacing the battery
to such IN extent in telegraphy that its
use will, It is thought, be universal in
few yearA. It is both cheaper and more
efficient. ~ s. @Hs "a e
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LATER
Tho Dafiv RAILWAY Wreck.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 17.-Early this
morning freight train of six cars and
an engine of the Kansas City, Wyan-
dotte and Northwestern. just entering
the city from Beatrice, Neb., plunged
through bridge and down into the
muddy depths of the Kaw river near its
mouth in Kansas City, Kan.
No one knows yet how many persons
were on board, but there may have
been anywhere from dozen up to thir-
ty, and so far as the names are known
OF those rescued the list of saved COM
prise only four members of the train
crew and one or two colored men who
were riding across the bridge. The list
of killed so. far as known is as follows:
Fred Allen, fireman, Lawrence, Kan,
Henry Coleman, Will Crawford, Henry
Williams, s-
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Could all the drinkers be excluded
from the general population the con-
trast would be still more marked. The
foregoing facts in regard to the effects
of the use of narcotic poisons on the
bills of mortality, taken in connection
| with the almost universal use of them in
some form. prove beyond the possible
ty of question that such use has a very
marked effect in shortening human life
and thus reducing the average of hui
man longevity. Could the whole popu-
lation of the country by education and
training, enforced by philanthropy,
mortality and self interest, be led to
entirely abandon the use of these mar
cotic poisons, who can doubt that it
would add several decades to the aver
age Of life. That such condition of
affairs will be reached in time there
seems scarce room to doubt in view of
tho light that modern science is throw
ing on this subject and the very general
interest that is awakening on the ques-
ton. and, moe especially, most of our
States have already enacted laws, and
all probably will soon, requiring the
effects Of narcotics on the human sys-
tenn to be taught in all the public
schools. When such knowledge shall
have become universal in the country,
it is uncomfortable that these poisons
will be permitted to blast and blighs
and destroy as at present The law of
here dity is believed by many to be an
tagonistic to the theory advocated in
these papers. By this law parents
transmit to their posterity physical,
mental and moral traits, characteris-
tics and tendencies Even acci-
dental detormities and appendages,
a. six fingers and toes, the
appearance of peculiar excrescences
resembling porcupine quilts, the
appearance of different-colored bunch
OF hair on particular part Of the head
and other similar peculiarities that
have been transmitted through several
genera tons, illustrate the power of
heredity to mold and fashion the off,
spring after the pattern Of the parent.
II this be true of accidental characters,
1t is much more so Ut fundamental and
permanent ones. The features. shape
and movements, as we'll as mental
traits and moral feelings. are thus trans
mit:el from parents through countless
generations. The acquisitiveness of
Abraham. by which he be.,a me 1.-THE
r'fii*sst tnan y: all the ia I. is seen in
his l'sceal.ucs = tho Jows to day
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1t one hundred thousand Incorporate
persons and like number of the gen.
eral population be taken 1T the age of
twenty yeas, there will be living at
successive periods the following num-
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IT is the latest theory that the cleo
tricjty Of thunder-storms is due to the
friction Of water-drops on ice