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The Irish standard., 1891-01-31
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

Gallagher & Kinnane, Counsellors
Law, 4O1 .403, Guaranty Loan Building.
NJ. Gill, undertaken, has removed
from Labor Temple to 1926 Washington
avenue north.
Have your property insured by Kane
& Co, SIS Boston block. Best com"
panies, lowest rates.
Fire Insurance, T. w. McGrath, Top
Floor, Temple Court. Insure to-day.
Your fire may come tomorrow.
Gleason & McAllister. funeral direc-
tors, 254 First avenue south. j. M.
Gleason, formerly Of the firm of Gleason
& Byorum.
You can get any repairs for your
stoves at American Stove Repair Works,
1873 West Seventh street, st. Paul,
Telephone 1882. .@...
Cards, letter heads, note heads, en-
velopes. bill heads, blank receipts, bank
checks, lawyers briefs, and in fact
every thing in the line Of job printing.
neatly executed by the "lrish Standard
Job Printing company No, AZ Third
street south, ROOMS 81 and e.
There IS a legacy of $1,000 awarded
the daug liter Of the late Owen McCabe,
She is now married but neither her
name nor residence IS known. She is
supposed to be living IN Dakota or
Montana, Any one kno wing her ad-
dress will confer a favor By communi-
eating with DR.. A. Fl. Salisbury of Min.
neapoIis, MINI.
The Irish standard., 1891-01-31
MINNIE POLIS,
THE THEATRES.
The LYceum.

The LYceum.
Fun and lots of it will be the pleasure
Of the Lyceum patrons next week.
Manager Hayes announces a most snpe-
rior comedy attraction in the engage
ment of Jno. T.. Kelly and Gus Williams
in their most laughable farce, entitled
..U and L." The skit does not possess
much plot, but is merely conglomera-
ton of funny incidents and most ludi
crous situations. The two stars are
we'll known; John T. Kelly, as an Irish
comedian, easily leads them all. His
fun is original and he has certain
polish to bis work that makes it more
pleasing Gus Williams, the celebrated
Dutch comedian, has long been famous
for his most successful Interpretation
of German roles and is said to have no
peer In this line. The play selected for
the displayal Of the eccentricities of
these two comedians is said to be ex-
ceedingly funny, and while it lacks plot
it abounds in rich and original humor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

when good woman gets as sweet
IS sugar look out for sand.-nenver
Road.
or. Teach Thorn or bear with them
Marcus Aurelius.
IF you were to take the conceit
out Of some people, the remains would
defy Identification. Joseph News
How slight clue ones public char
actor affords to the profounder SYM
pathies OF his acknowledgement Fuller.
"A genius is person whom nature
let's in on the ground floor, and whom
circumstances force to live in an attic
Puck.
Somehow or other the man who
shores tho loudest always seems to 60 to
sleep first in a Pullman car. -Elmira
Gazette.
Suspicion is very often an index of
character. What a man suspects in 9TH
srs he would very probably do himself
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
There isn't mansion in Heaven
but what would DO thousand times
hotter for the sinner than tho lowest
place in the pit.-Ram's Horn.
A Poor -Richards-"Your
clothing is badly rented" Hungry Hig-
gins-'I know it, have been the ton
ant for many weeks. "-Boston Herald.
-Bibbs-Well, Impecune, what song
are you going to sing this winter? Inn
pecune-That ono which begins "All
loan, my watch + m keeping. "-Drake's
Magazine.
You haven't heard any thing until
you havo heard both sides," says a
writor This may be pretty logic, but
the base drum refutes it.--Bingham-
ton Herald.
Wanted Ono More.-Customer-
What is this, waiter? Waiter-Just
what you ordered, sir-pea soup. Gus
tomor-Please bring mo another pea as
q side dish.-Boston Herald.
knowledge must be gained by our
selves. Mankind may supply US with
facts; but the result, even if they agree
with previous ones, must be the work Of
our own minds. Earl of Beaconsfield.
Duty is never uncertain at first. It
is only after we have got involved in
the mazos and sophistries of wishing
that things were otherwise than thoy
are that it seems indistinct. Robert
son.
Said a-mattor-of-fact man to an ses-
thetic Ian1sel who was talking about
"beautifyirg property" 1.-The most
charming decoration for a plate is good
beef-steak, with we'l-cooked potatoes,
and just a suf,iciency of gravy. 1t will
beat trailing vines or a sunfower any
dav in tho week
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
AN ANCIENT BEVERAGE.


Chocolate Was Known and Favored by
the Aztecs.
To the uninformed cup of chocolate
might well seem modern luxury; that
it is an ancient American beverage, the
plant from which it is produced as in
digenous to our continent as is the tea
plant to China and the coffee plant to
Arabia, will without doubt be matter
of surprise to many.
The Aztecs drank a beverage made
from the seeds-or "beans," as they
are now called-their method of pre-
pairing them for use being very much
upon tho same principle that is now
used in the great modern manufactor-
les.
The first step in this procedure Is the
roasting of the bean. This loosens the
shell, which becomes easily detachable
from kernel, the part that is used.
The roasted kernels are next ground.
Upon the same fat stones upon which
their maize was pulverized, the ancient
Aztecs ground the roasted seeds of the
liquid was served in a chocolate vase,
the chocolate mixed with water and
certain spices being placed within it.
and then beaten to a froth or a foam by
a mallet-like beater called a stirrer.
1t is said that the peculiar noise made
by tho brisk stirring gave to it the
name Of chocolates word the noise is
supposed to have resembled.
In those days the greater delicacy,
cocoa, was altogether unknown. This
last II made by extracting the rich oil
from the seeds which are roasted,
ground and pressed to exude the OIL
The pressed cakes are again ground,
sifted 3nd are then ready for use.
Chocolate aud cocoa are both n6tri.
tcus; palatabls and harmless. -petkoi.
1SsS PrseA :.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
Poor Penmanship.

Many amusing stories have been told
of illegible penmanship. One of the
best is rcloted of tho late Mr.. Beresford-
Hope. A friend of his having received
a letter from this gentleman, of which
he could decipher nothing but the sig
nature, after puzzling over it for some
time made careful copy of the hero
glyphics and sent it back as an answer
He commenced the document with: my
dear Beresford-Hope," and affixed his
own name to the end thereof. In return
he got a note from his friend, which
curiosity and the magnifying glass ena-
bled him to read. In this note Mr.. Hope
expostulated with his correspondent,
declaring that he really could not read
a word of it. In the ranks of scribblers
by trade the first prize may be awarded
to Captain Marryat, his MSS. being so
badly written that the printers, when
setting up his copy" had to mark the
spot where they left off with pin so
that they might know where to resume.
Boston Herald.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
A FRAGRANT OFFERING.

Awalked alone among the hills,
The voices in the DIR
Were kindJier than the thouphtless tongues
OF the worlds thoroughfare.
heard no ring Of Mammon's bells,
Thro' all the scented Dir,
No 5argon Of the tiresome crowd
Assai'ed me anywhere.
Agrander than St. Peters dome
Shone brilliant overhead!
stood alone q worshiper
In the city Of the dead.
Alone? Another followed mo,
So pure she looked, and bravo
And laid her fragrant Offering
Upon new-made grave.
Twas thus the Scottish poet knelt
TO kiss the wild flowers bloom,
know the pathos that he felt
Beside the silent tomb
To be remembered, so thought,
Is nevermore to die,
In floral language thus is taught
Our immortality!
OFT by the graves Of those we love,
Our sorrows find release,
In precious promise from above:
In Me ye shall have peace"
My tears fell-an unspoken prayer
Upon the fresh green sod,
And there laid my cross OF care
To walk alone with God!
Arthur L. jerks, in Jury.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
A PHANTOM DRUG CLERK.

Remarkable Appsritioa In Silesia .
Couple Of Hundred Years Ago.
A curious thing is said to have hap
pened in Crossen, Silesia, in the year
1860. In the spring of that year one
Christopher Monigh, drug clerk ian
apothecarie's servant, as the old account
says), died and was buried with the
usual services of his church. A few
days after his death a shadow exactly
like his in face, clothes, statute, mein,
etc., appeared in the drug-shop where
he had been employed before his de-
cease. In the shop he would walk
about, sit himself down, take boxes,
pots, glasses, etc., from the shelves, al
ways returning them to their exact
places. Later on he began to try the
quality of medicines and to weigh var
ious drug stuffs in the pair of scales
used for that purpose; would pound
drugs in mortar with a '.mightie
noise and even serve people who came
on business to the shop; in a word, do
all that servant in such capacity
could do. He looked very CHASTITY upon
those who had formerly been his fellow
servants, they being afraid to say any,
thing to him. The owner of the drug
shop was sick at the time and this
phantom servant soon began to cause
him deal of trouble. performing all
sorts of tricks on the invalid, such as
pulling down the bed upon which he
lay, burning sheets, coverlets, etc., and
at one time even going SO far as to
throw the lamps in the fire as
often as they were brought into
the sick-room. During all of this
time he had never been seen in
the streets or heard to speak
Finally, one day he put on a cloak that
hung in the shop and walked out into
the streets, minding no one and turning
neither to the right nor to the left. Near
ing the church-yard where his mortal
remains had been deposited he met q
maid-servant with whom he had form
erly been on speaking terms; accosted
her, only to see her fall in swoon.
This single instance is the only ono in
which he is said to have spoken during
tho six weeks he was terrorizinE all Of
that portion Of Silesia. When the girl
tainted the gallant phantom essayed to
help her to her feet, and placed in her
hand paper written in blood-red ink
telling the location of much buried
treasure. That night Princess Elizabeth
Charlotte, the then chief magistrate Of
Crossen, determined to put an end to the
ghostly raids of the drug clerk. She
ordered the grave opened and the corpse,
grave-clothes, and the coffin burned.
This weird proceeding was carried out
to the letter, and nothing of the ghost
clerk was ever seen afterward, although
exact pictures of him appeared in every
window-pane in the drug-shop building.
Some of these pictures, which much re-
sembled sand-blast work, faded in a
few months, but two of them, in en-
attic window where the clerk lived pri-
or to his death, were plain to be seen up
to the time the building was destroyed
by fire in 1741. Noexplanation of these
mysterious shadows has ever been
giVen.-Chicap 90 Times
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19

There's a good deal of
guarantee business in the store
keeping Of today. It's too
excessive. Or too reluctant.
Half the time it means moth
ing. Words-my av0>&s.
This offer to refund the
money, or to pay a reward, is
made under the hope that you
won't want your money back,
and that you won't claim the
reward. OF course.
So, whoever is honest in
making it, and works-not on
his own reputation alone, but
through the local dealer whom
you know, must have some
thing he has faith in back of
the guarantee. The business
wouldn't stand a year with
out it.
What is lacking is conf
dence. Back of that, what is
lacking is that clear honesty
which is above the average
practice"
DR.. Pierce's medicines are
guaranteed to accomplish what
they are intended to do, and
their makers give the money
back if the result isn't ap-
parent.
Doesn't it strike you that
a medicine which the makers
have so much confidence in.
IL the medicine for your
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

CAPTAIN KINGS novel, 'sBetween the
Lines" has won high praise from the
foremost military authorities in Great
Britain.
EMILE lola has been paid $4,000 for
money" in one of the Paris evening
papers.
ELI PERKINS has written book Of
"reminiscences of famous men he has
met on his lecturing tours, and just
published under the title of "Kings of
Platform and Pulpit"
Lucy LARcoM, the authoress, is SUPER
stitious in that she believes it bad
omen to speak of her future literary
work to even her most intimate friends;
If did," she says, II should never 20
on with it,
ToLsTo1's niece has prepared an edi-
ton of "War and Peace" for the blind.
This edition will be printed entirely in
raised letters. and each copy will contain
about seven thousand pages. The prep
aration OF the work has lasted five years.
MRS. SoUTHwoRTH is the author of eigh-
ty novels, "Retribution,' the first story,
being published in 1s49. That is big
work for a woman's hand and brain,
and the world none the worse for it,
either. The latter fact is her browning
triumph.
AN old schoolmate of Rider Haggartl
says that at college the future author
OF ''She" was not accounted clever. He
was a plain, matter-of-fact boy, who
lived simply. He had preference for
travelling, however, which he INDUCED
Immediately after graduation.
AFTER tifty-nine years of labor, Bar
thelemy Saint Hilaire has finished his
translation of Aristotle, work in thir-
ty-Ave volumes. For the last twenty
years the translator has also been very
active In politics as Secretary to Theirs,
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, and Son.
stoy, ~.-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
A LOng.Healed hoy.

''Never throw stones at carter when
you are Alone" said small Canadian
boy to the painter of his portrait whom
he had taken into his confidence. "You
must always have another boy with you
when you throw stones at a carter
"Why?" because when the carter gets
down to run after you, then the othe,
boy can throw stones at the horse and
start him up, and the carter will be
obliged to leave you alone and 40 to take
care of his horse. Always have anothe'
boy with you when you throw stones at !
carter. "-Boston Transcript
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19

DIR. Edith Fl. White, who had an Office
In Minneapolis, eloped with Harold
Chambers, a clerk in the auditors office
OF the Great Northern railroad in St.
Paul. DIR. White left Minneapolis say
ing that she was going to visit her
daughter in St. Paul Chambers left
his wife and children ostensibly to go
to his work. Mrs. Chambers and her
two little children were destitute.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
Mammoth Lumber Contract.

The contract was signed in Dubuque
between George w. Stevens, manager
of the Gran berry Lumber Company, of
Ashland, Wis, and R. A. Gray, of Du-
luth, by virtue of which the latter
agrees to cut at least 10000 feet of
lumber for the company during the sea-
son of 1891 at his Duluth mill. The
company agrees to employ the mill at
its full capacity for the season.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19

AT the Navy Yard.-"We cast can
non in here" said the guide, as they
stepped inside. "Do you?" asked the
pretty girl. ''Now, please show us
where you blow great guns. 1 often
hear my naval friends speak of them. {"
kate Fields Washington.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
The News Briefly s:hrOnicied.

The News Briefly s:hronic,ed.
Gus Kepp committed suicide at East
Winona by hanging.
j. d. Fuller, for twenty-five years a
locomotive engineer, died at Little Falls
of pneumonia.
Albert Garvin filed his oath of office
as warden of the State prison, accom-
panied by bond in the sum of SIS, 900.
At Faribault fire in the Y. NJ. C. A.
building caused a loss of $500
William Stark, while being lowered
into a well near Marshall, met fire
damp, lost his hold and fell about fifty
feet. When taken out he was dead.
Charles Drum, who pleaded guilty to
snatching purse from a lady in Min
neapolis, got three years and half in
the penitentiary.
Judith" a painting valued at S1O,-
900, an heirloom in the Ferrant family,
was ruined by a fire in the home of
Emil Ferrant at Minneapolis.
The Scandinavian Lutherans of
Winona have decided to build new
brick church to cost $4,000.
The St. Paul Catholic Benevolent So
ciety celebrated the twenty third an
niversary of its organization by ban
quet and hop at the Windsor Hotel.
The directors of the Duluth & Winni-
peg railroad met and ratified the action
of the officers on the extension of the
road to Duluth.
H. T. Games &, Co., grocers, butchers
and cattle dealers at Fergus Falls, as
signed to President Brandenburg, of
the National Bank.
The contract has been let to McIntire
Bros, of Buffalo, N. Y, to construct a
5000 horse power dam at Thompson by
April II, for the st. Louis Water Power
Company.
Two boys, aged 10 and ~ years, sons
of German farmer, August Ford, were
found dead two miles northwest of
Utica. They were caught in the biz
zard.
A colony of Hebrews from Russia,
comprising 100 families, arrived in St.
Paul and Minneapolis. They were sent
to the United States by Baron Hirsch,
who donated a large sum of money for
the purpose.
The National German American
Bank of St. Paul filed a petition for the
appointment of a receiver for Charles
Faber, alleged insolvent. The petition
says Faber's debts amount to $40, 900
and his assets to 100000.
A new enterprise with capital of
$50, ZOO has been started in Minneapolis
for the manufacture of confectionery
machinery.
A crowded tenement frame house of
two stories at Duluth was burned. It
contained five families, and three chill
dren narrowly escaped.
Mrs. Fritz Castenbrick suicided at
Lake City by strangling herself with a
cord. She had been sick and had near
~ recovered, but was very respondent.
John Wilkey, proprietor of a grocery
and dry-goods store in Duluth, made an
assignment to Moses Stewart. His liza
bilities were $4,000. y.
The United States Senate concurred
in the House amendment to the Senate
bill for public building at st. Paul.
reducing the amount from 81, 500, 600 to
$500, 1000.
John Wilkey, the proprietor of the
general store in the Opera-House block
at Duluth, executed a trust deed to G.
c. Prlndle in lieu of an assignment.
His liabilities were about SO, 900.
Miss Lent, the school-teacher who
was recently cruelty beaten by the
the Cruzen family near Winnebag6
City, was not dead, as currently report
ed, but was alife snd would probmb1y
f0oovsr.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
Historians Elect Officers.

The Minnesota Historical Society at
its meeting in St. Paul elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, General H. II. Sibley; First
Vice-President, Hon. Alexander Ram
sey; Second Vice-President, Captain R.
Blakeley; Secretary and Librarian, j.
Fletcher Williams; Assistant Secretary
and Librarian, J. B. CLANCY; Treasurer,
II. P. Upham.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
Drove or an Embankment.
Ordered by the Malta.

The Italian murder in St. Paul is now
rumored to have been the work of the
Malta. 1t is believed by some that
Radino was sent to St. Paul to organize
a branch of the hated order. The MUIR
der of Binda was not unprecedented,
as first supposed. The inquest resulted
in the finding of verdict that Bmda
came to his death by a knife wound in
the left breast inflicted by Sarino
Badino.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
A Far-Seeing Doctor.

Sick Man-I'm afraid I can't have
you any longer, doctor; my money is
all gone.
Family Physician (cheerfully)-Oh,
that doesn't matter. I've insured your
life in my favor.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
A Biblical COnundrun.

''What two little boys never leased
their mother for permission to go over
and play with the neighbours ch;laren9"
"pein and Abel "z-5ury.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
Gained a. Pounds.

Mr.. James J. McCalley, Of
Monet, No., says he had
dyspepsia for eight years,
which made him a wreck,
sick and suffering during
the whole time. After try
ing all the remedies, 1nclud-
ing all the doctors in reach,
he discarded everything and
took Swift's Spe cific. he
increased from ia to 158
pounds and was soon Q
So11n6 and healthy man.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
How Is Your Appetite.

If it is not good
you need a tonic.
Hunger is a sauce
that gives your food
a flesh making and
strengthening pow
er. S. S. S. is ia
nous for it's health
giving and building
up qualities. 1t is
the best of all tonics.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
Ancient Gloves.

There is nothing new under the sun.
The carving of a long glove has been
found in a hole where cave-dwellers
once lived. Just when these strange
people existed has not been decided,
but it was thousands and thousands of
years ago, and the sculptured glove is
of the same shape as the many button
ones worn by fashionable ladies of the
present. The gloves Of the ante-glacial
occupants of a cave are supposed to
have been made of roughly-dressed skin
sewed with needles of bone, but they
were worn just the same and the general
pattern remains unchanged. There is
plenty of other evidence that gloves
are of very remote origin, although
none that goes back so far. The An
glo-Saxons wore gloves in the seventh
century, but the men were the ones
then to observe the custom, the ladies
covering their hands with their sleeves.
Earlier than this Norman officials and
high personages of that country COW
cred their hands, and in many places in
the Bible the word "shoe" is used
when scholars maintain it means
"glove."-N. Y. Ledger.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
Assets of the Litchfield Bank

Judge Young, who was appointed re-
ceiver of the bank of Stevens & Co., of
Litchfeld, has received q statement of
the assets and liabilities which was
prepared by the senior partner of the
bank, Stevens, and book-keeper who
had been in the bank for years. By the
showing made by these two parties the
liabilities are 500, 1906 and the assets
S53, $40. This is the bank that was
closed On account of the suicide of the
mayor of LitchGeld, who was an official
in the bank.
Beat His Wife with the Bible.
Mary L. Holcomb secured divorce
in Minneapolis from her husband,
Charles H. Holcomb, for a rather re-
markable reason. She testified that
Holcomb was a God-fearing man and
they used to have devotional exercises,
in which he would read from a large
family Bible. After the exercises were
over, however, he would use the mas
sive book as a weapon offensive and
mauled the whole family with it, her
self preferred.
Fire swept away the old military
quarters at Fort Smelling, near St. Paul,
leaving standing nothing but the gaunt
old walls of stone. The fire is regretted,
as it removes the most beautiful and
picturesque structure in the western
country. The old fort stood on a high
bluff overlooking the JUNCTION of the
Minnesota and the Mississippi and was
noted among tourists as one of the
loveliest spots in the West.
Drove or an Embankment.
Frod Gruenwald, middle-aged
farmer who lived near Shakopee, Hen
nepin County, was found dead at the
foot of an embankment leading to the
Shakopee bridge. In the afternoon he
sold load of wood and, after filling up
with liquor, started home about 9
o'clock and drove over the embank-
ment before reaching the bridge.
When found the runner of his bob-sled
was across his neck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19

For twenty-five cents you can get Carter's
Little Liver Pills-the best liver Regulator in
the world. Don't forget this. One nill a dose
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-19

The duck takes to both water and land
for divers and sun-dry RESPONSIBILITIES