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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

THE chinch bug is the latest pest to
attract the warfare of science. Chan
cellor Snow, of the Kansas State Uni
versity, is declared to have discovered a
way to rid the fields of this arrant little
cereal destroyer. He inoculates sam
pie bugs with cholera and turns them
loose. Contagion does the rest. The
chinch bug is as deadly parasite to the
farmer as the tuberculosis bacillus is to
the consumptive. 1t will afford happi-
ness to mankind to see both destroyed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

The number of males and females in
the world is about equal, and their
average life is about thirty-three years;
one-fourth of the inha bitants die before
they reach their fifteenth year. To
one thousand persons only one reaches
the age of one hundred years: to every
one hundred only six reach the age of
sixty-f and not more than one in five
hundred live to see their eightieth year
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

NOW THAT so much is being said
about Russia few statistics from the
last Official year book of that country
viii be of interest. The population Of
the Empire is placed at 10, 62S, 676, of
which 100, 100000 are in Europe. The
rate of increase in population is fifteen
per 1000, a higher rate than that of anv
other European nation. In the matter
OF education Russia is progressing rap
idly, her public schools now costing the
government, in bounties, 1000, 900 rou-
bles, or over $4,000, 600 annually It
does not require much reflection to
show the immense possibilities of such
q people. go. $780,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

. A CANVASS by the Farm and Home of
Springfield, Mass, to ascertain the
Presidential preferences of farmers
throughout the United States shows
these figures, the question being who
should be President: OF 1os,75s per-
sons making their choice for the head
Ct the Democratic. ticket IS. 90 per cent.
favor Mr.. Cleveland, 1874 per cent. Mr..
Hill, 1918 per cent. Mr.. Hatch and 500
per cent. other men. OF the 4O7, S41
Republican voters returned Mr.. Blaine
has &c. A per cent; Mr.. Harrison, GIFTS
Per cent. Mr.. Rusk, 1928 per cent, and
1885 per cent. are scattered among
SAx3opS candidates.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

THE Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
reversed decision of the Allegheny
County court, where dealer was fined
ten quails he had on sale and had
bought in Missouri after the season in
that State had closed. The decision
opens the Pennsylvania markets to
game from other States at all seasons.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

BERLIN, with its 1900, 900 inhabitants,
has 1888 physicians, 107 dentists, and
120 licensed apothecaries. For every
10000 persons there are therefore 9.32
physicians and fourffths of an apothe-
cary. There are thirty-four hospitals,
with 1866 beds, in the city.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

CERTAIN New York firms have been
trying good-looking women as bill col
lectors. So far the scheme has been un-
successful. Three of the women mar
ried inside of week and four more
were engaged, while the balance SYM
pathized with the poor fellows who had
run into de bit and had not collected cent
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

| SOME 100000, it is estimated, will be
subscribed in California to secure land
in Mexico for the exiled Hebrews in
Russia. Some fifteen hundred Jews are
expected to come to the coast in the
event of the subscription plan being
successful.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

The most valuable printed document
in existence in relation to Columbus is
that in the possession of B. Quaritch, of
London. 1t is the first printed copy of
the first letter of Columbus written
from Lisbon to Ferdinand and Isabella
when the court was in Barcelona, and
printed there. This is held for FL 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
A MONKEY ON A DRUNK,

The Good Sense Displayed by the Animal
When He Got Sober.
Mr.. Pollard states that in his drink
ing days he was the companion of a
man in Arundel County, Md, who had
a monkey that he valued at thousand
dollars. We always took him out on
our chestnut parties. He shook off all
our chestnuts for us and where he
could not shake them off he would 20
out to the very end of the limb and
| knock them off with his foot
One day we stopped at tavern and
drank freely. About half glass of
whisky was left and Jack took the glass
and drank it all. Soon he was merry,
skipped, hoped and danced and set us
all in roar of laughter. Jack was
drunk. We all agreed. six of us, that
we would come to the tavern next day
and get Jack drunk again and have
sport all day. l called at my friends
home next morning and went out for
Jack. Instead of being as usual on his
box he was not to be seen. We looked
, inside and he was crouched up in a
heap. ''Come out here" said his master.
Jack came out on three legs; his fore
paw was placed on the side of his head.
Jack had the headache. knew what
! was the matter with him. He felt Just
as l had felt many morning Jack
was sick and couldn't go, so we waited
three days. We then went, and while
drinking glass was provided for Jack.
But where was he? Skulking behind
the chairs. Come here, Jack, and
drink" said his master, holding out a
glass to him. Jack retreated. and as
the door was open slipped out, and in
moment was on top of the house.
His master went out to call him down
but he would not come. He got cow
hide and shook it at him Jack sat on
the ridgepole and refused to obey. His
master got a gun and pointed it at him.
monkey is much afraid of a gun.
Jack slipped over the backside of the
house. His master then got two guns,
and had one pointed on each side of the
house, when the. monkey, seeing his
bad predicament, at once whipped up
the chimney and got down in one Of
the fues, holding on by his fore-paws
The master was beaten. The man kept
that monkey twelve years but could
never persuade him to taste another
drop of whisky. The beast had more
sense than man.-The Standard.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
Cold
Wet Weather

Drives tho blood from the surface Of the body,
and causes congestion of the liver and kidneys.
which are thus unable to fully perform their duty
Of eliminating impurities. Hence Tactic acid 10
accumulated in the blood and deposited in the
Joints and tissues resulting in the pains and aches
We call rheumatism. Hoods Sarsaparilla has had
great success In curing this disease, both chronic
and tndammatory. 1t purifes the blood neutral.
ICES the tactic acid, and restores the liver and
kidnaYa to natural action.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
THE WlFE'S ALLOWANCE.

Mrs. HARRISON thinks every woman
should be allowed some settled amount
for her household as we'll as her per-
sonal expenses.
Mrs. SENATOR SPOoNER doesn't be-
ieve in a regular allowance and dislikes
keeping accounts. She prefers to be al
lowed all the money she needs and no
questions asked.
Mrs. JUSTICE FIELD is positive in her
views that every woman should be al
lowed q regular income, without which,
she asserts, there can be no real domes-
tic comfort.
Mrs. Acknowledgement MILLER con-
siders the question one of vital impor-
lance, and declares that more than half
of our unhappy marriages are the direct
result of this neglect.
Mrs. SENATOR MANDERsON considers
that the Importance of trusting a wife
with a regular sum, according to the
means of the individual, is too obvious
to be considered for moment.
MIS-. SENATOR Do1pn thinks that tho
wife who receives a regular allowance
is more economical, and that the hus-
band can better calculate his yearly ex-
penses, thereby bene6tting both.
mo WOMAN. should be compelled or
expected to ask her husband for every
cent she spends" declares Mrs. Robert
p. Porter, wife of the census commits
sioner. ''It puts her in false and
humiliating position" ,. g.
''M all means,'' says Mrs. William
w. Morrow, wife of Representative
Morrow, should women possess an
annual allowance. How can a wife
keep things running smoothly unless
she knows just what she has to depend
upon?'
MAINE men do some strange things.
The owners Of an unsuccessful pants
factory are converting it into maple
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

! The list of Harvard clubs which have
been established in different parts of
the country is interesting. Nineteen in
all are given, with total membership
of nearly 2,OOO.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
A Silent Appeal for Help.

When your kidneys and bladder are IN
active, they are making silent appeal for
help. Don't disregard it, but with Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters safely impel them to
activity. They are in imminent danger, and
it is foolhardiness to shut ones eyes to the
fact. Be wise in time, too, if you expert
rheumatism, constipation OR nerve trouble.
The Bitters before meal adds zest to it
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

Mrs. BELvA LOCKWOOD has officially
withdrawn from National politics: She
says she will never run for President
again. This leaves the track trife
clearer for 1892
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

A COLUMBUS celebration in 1892 will
be held by Spain at Auleva, in Andal-
usia, 1.-THE diseoverer having sailed from
the estuary now known as Huelva
harh0r"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
They All DO IT.

Distracted Woman lat the police sta
tion)-Oh, sir, have lost my poor Old
father! This morning he wandered
away, and fear for his safety, as he is
totally deaf.
Police Sergeant-In that case, madam.
we will soon find him. He is walking
on the railway track.-Puck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

THE State of New York has upward
of five thousand Indians who keep up
tribal organizations. They have in their
reservations ninety. thousand acres of
land
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

The will of the late jeremiah Loot
was probated at Philadelphia. It is q
peculiar document. Eighty thousand
dollars is left in trust for his family,
provided they shall lead godly lives,
avoid the use Of tobacco and liquors in
any form, insl~dinE siasp.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

LITERARY men do not, as rule, have q
head for business. and so, paradoxical as It
may seem, they 10 not get ;4head--Somer-
Vile Journal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

Tn11 d moro Casarrn In this saotann -
the country than Ill other diseases put t.
gether, and until the last few years was sun
posed to be incurable For great many
yeers doctors pronounced it local disease,
.stantly failing to cure with local Treatment.
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be q constitutional disease. and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halps Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
stitutional cure ON the market. It is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to q tea
spoonful 1t acts directly upon the blood
snc mucous surfaces of the system. They
oner one hundred dollars for any case It
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. FL. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
there are many thcrrs without roaes.-
Indianapolis Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
Mardi Gras at New Orleans.

For the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. Feb
fuary ~, 1891, the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
q Northern R'y will make q very low ratio
10r the round trip from stations on its line
turn until February %, 1891. In order to
accommodate parties desiring to take this
trip, through sleeping car win be started
from Cedar Rapids and run to New Orleans,
leaving Cedar Rapids February 1. For
further Information, regarding time of
ticket agent of this company, or.
J. E. HANNEGAN, Gen'L Tiki. & Pass.
Agt., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
In Texas It is unlucky to find horseshoe
Il horse happens to be attached to it
YenoWines News
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,


Mr.. GLADSTONE, it was said, had
reformer in which he declared that
practically his end had come so far
as public life and politics were con.
cerned.
In Jamaica a company has been Or
gained for the purpose of cultivating
fruits and vegetables on very large
scale for the United States market.
The Canada cotton mill combine con-
trolls all the mills in the Dominion and
an output of So, 25O, ZOO.
The statement of failures in Canada
for the year 1890 shows total of H.
600. with liabilities amounting to $780,
600. OOO
AT the age of 10 years the monk
known as Father Pasquale died in the
Casertini monastery at Naples.
The floods at Carlsbad, Germany,
caused loss of 1875 lives and 500, OOO, 600
forms worth of property.
FIRE destroyed the Royal Hotel in
Moscow and nine persons were fatally
burned. Among the victims was a Rus
sian General.
THROUGHOUT all Europe cold weather
prevailed and many persons were
frozen to death.
FLAMES in pianoforte warehouse in
Paris caused loss of 1000, 900 francs.
On the Persian frontier five Russian
spugglers broke through the ice while
crossing lake and were drowned
In New Guine hunting tribe at
tackled a village and killed forty of the
inhabitants and looted many dwellings.
CoURTANz Germany advices say
that while large crowd was skating
on the frozen Boden sea the ice gave
way and forty people were drowned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

DuR1Ne 1890 s,107 carloads of or
anges were shipped from California.
The wine product of the State was 49,
400, 900 gallons. .,.s d." -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
DRINK AND LoNo LIRE.
A <omparison Between Total Abstlnene

"A comparison Between Total AbstlneneO
and Moderation.
When the death of centenarian Il
reported in the newspapers, it usually
ELECTS from the reporter one of two
comments. We are either told that the
deceased had been all his life total alb
stainer from tobacco and alcoholic
beverages, or else that he had always
INDUCED with moderation in those
stimulants. On such statesmen, even
if authentic, we could not base any
trustworthy inference regarding the eff
feet Of alcohol upon longevity be-
cause the facts are contradictory, and
secondly, because they are too few.
The large amount of data needed for
even provisional induction is now for
the first time presented by an English
life insurance company, which has been
for some years collecting statistics
bearing on the subject. The Scepter
Life Association, which has been in ex-
istence for quarter of a century, has
kept two records of the persons insured,
total abstainers being classed in one
section and all other risks in another,
the so-called general section. Even
from the last-named category heavy
drinkers and persons engaged in the
liquor traffic are excluded. The data,
therefore, collected by the company are
intended to afford the means of COM
parison between total abstinence and
moderate indulgence in alcoholic bever-
gevity.
The results of the company's ex-
perience during the five years ending
December, 1888, have just been pub
lished. In the general section during
that period six thousand seven hundred
lives were insured; in the abstinence
| section, four thousand five hundred and
| twenty-seven. In the general section
! the actual deaths constituted only
seventy-six per cent. of the deaths ex-
pected, according to the British act
uaries' tables On the other hand, in
the abstinence section the actual deaths
were only fifty-seven per cent. of the
deaths expected. The evidence sup
piled by these statistics must be ad-
mitted to be cogent, if not absolutely
conclusive. It indicates that even a
moderate drinker is much less likely
than a total abstainer to live to an adj
vanced age.
| Another interesting fact is brought
out by the medical examiner of this
life insurance company. He says that
in the examination of many thousands
of applicants he has found that total
abstainers, as rule, exhibit a much
cleaner condition of the tongue, resem-
bling, indeed, that of a young child. His
observations have also led him to concur
with the late Baron Liebig in affirming
that total abstainers eat more than
moderate drinkers. Y. Ledger.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
After the Robbery.

Unresisting Passenger-You divided
the plumber among your friends, see."
Snapshot Dick-Well, what of il:
Passenger-Nothing, excepting that
the ten thousand was left to You Ivy
your uncle's will, and I've come way
out here from Boston to hand it Oyc1 tn
YOu?-Judge.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
Capture OF a Big Embezzler.

Detective John P. Hoy, of Minneapo.
lis, left St. Louis the other night for
that city, having in charge Leon HUI
fern, the ex-confdential clerk of the
Columbia Milling Company. Hulfern,
it was charged, embezzled $35, 600 from
the company and secured $4,000 from
the banks by means of forgery.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
INTERESTING FACTS.

SIxTY-s1x saloons in New York are
reported as being kept by women.
A sALooN-KEEPER breaking into court
in an endeavor to compel the mayor to
issue him license is distressing spec
tacle in city where there are already
five thousand saloons.-Inter Ocean.
INQUIRY through the United Kingdom
Alliance shows that of English mayors
at the last election at least thirty-four,
probably more, are total abstainers.
A CONGO chief, lately tried, convicted
and executed for assassination, was
asked just before his death if he would
like any thing, and said: Eyes. gin;" he
drank half a bottle and was then shot.
VERMONT has State law by which a
railroad company that knowingly en-
ploys as conductor, engineer, brake
man or switchman, one who uses in
toxicating liquors as beverage, shall
forfeit not less than three hundred dol
lars nor more than three thousand dol
lars, with the cost of prosecution, and
shall also be liable for damages sus-
tanned by retention of such employe.
Michigan has similar law
In one year there were seventy thou
sand cases of drunk and disorderly'' in
Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool.
Where had these cases their origin? In
the public-houses of the respective
cities. Let it be remembered that for
every case of permitted drunkenness
and disorderly conduct there was
breach of the license. How many per-
sons were punished in the same period
for the enormous amount of mischief
involved in these seventy thousand?
Just fourteen!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

HAS He STRUCK OH
Indications Of an Oil Bearing etrs4una II
OttAr Tail Connfx

Indications Of IN Oil Rearing strstuua u
Otter Tail County.
Jens G. Durham, Of Norweoia1
Grove, recently member Of tho Leqis-
latu-e from Otter Tail County, put
down q tubular drive well last june les
feet deep. When he first began pump
ing water from it he noticed an oily
scum on the water, but attributed II to
oil which had exuded from the Joints Of
the pipe. Instead Of gradually disap-
pearing, as he expected, this oily scum
has constantly increased, until now,
Mr.. Durham reports, the surface Of the
water in the tank into which It is
pumped is constantly covered with it.
It has the usual BLUSH, shimmering ap-
pearance Of oil floating on water, and is
unquestionably mineral oil Of some
kind. Mr.. Durham is quite anxious to
have the matter tested.
State Teacher Association.
At the annual session in st. Paul OF
the State Teachers Association it was
recommended that q text book commits
sion be created whose duty it shall: be to
select not less than five nor more than
seven textbooks or series of textbooks
on each subject pursued in the common
and graded schools of Minnesota and to
make contracts with the publishers.
The following officers were elected:
President, Horace Goodhue, Ut Carlton Col.
lege; Vice.President Frank A. Weld, OF Fer.
gus Falls; Corresponding Secretary, s. A.
Farnsworth, Of St. Paul; Recording Secretary,
MISS A. 8. Beede, Of st. Cloud; Treasurer,
Geo:ge E. St. John, Znmbrota ta
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
LATER.
A New England Storm.

New YORK, Jan. 12.--Tidings Of a
storm on the New England coast and
inland have been received from many
points. At Birmingham, Conn.,, fresh
ct in the Housatonic river broke up the
ice and swept it over meadows and un-
der and through bridges. Three hun
dred feet of piling of the Derby railroad
were snapped off like pipe stems. At
Fall River, Mass, two schooners were
blown upon Anthony's wharf. The
American Printing company's works
and the Metacomet mill have been COM
PEELED to shut down, their fires having
been extinguished by the. incoming
tide, At Providence, R. l., railroad
tracks and wharves are under water,
and on the east shore buildings have
been beaten over. The tide was the
highest in fifteen years.
At Eastport the wind reached a ve-
locity of forty-five miles an hour, the
barometer dropped lower than for many
years past, and the tide was the high
est since 1869; wharves were covered
with water and damage was done in the
lumber yards near by. In Machias the
water was the highest ever known, and
much damage was done to wharf prop
erty and bridges.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
Shot by q Carpenter.

Victor Heath and Harry Merrick, en-
ployes of the Adamson Loan Agency at
Minneapolis, were shot by M. B. Lap
ping, carpenter. Tapping had mort
gagged his furniture through the agency
and it was foreclosed. He had threat
ened to kill every one working in Adam
sons Office if the foreclosure took place,
but was not supposed to be in earnest.
The men were not seriously hurt.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
They Arc Often Seen.

What prodigious amount of anger
is evolved when anybody rises to object
to the too prevalent custom of cigar
smokers making q nuisance of them
selves in public. People who carry
lighted cigars into the cars, or who send
smoke and ashes into street-car from
the front platform, or in other ways
and places show that they are not e. n
tlemen, understand quite we'll that they
annoy somebody. But they are indig-
nant that anybody should be ANNOYED.
They know that tobacco is unpleasant
to many people, and they are savage
because it il The fact is that people
who respect the feelings of others are
getting very scarce. and. it is one of the
consequences of the mob forcing itself
into ascendancy. The man who can
not ride few miles without the aid of
Bad cigar ought to walk Ram s Horn.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15
State Teachers Association.
Was Once . Society Leader.


A few days ago Mrs. NJ. P. Kempster,
a dress-maker at Minneapolis, was ar.
rested for larceny, and it now appears
she is the divorced wife of DIR. Walter
Kempster, an insanity expert of Ma
tional reputation, who was for years
and until 1884 superintendent of the
Northern Asylum in Wisconsin. Her ex-
travagances compelled his resignation.
She was leader in Wisconsin society,
but since her divorce has been in re-
duced circumstances.
Dairy Commissioner Appointments.
A. K. Finseth, of Kenyon, called at
the capitol and received his appoint
ment as State Dairy Commissioner.
After visiting his new Office he gave
out the following list of appointments:
Assistant Commissioners, J. A. Lawrence,
Mortified, and w. w. Rich, Marshall; Secre-
tary, A. H. Bertram, Monticello; Inspectors,
j. v. Wilson, st. Paul; p. w. Wi!dt, Faribault,
and H. A. Hokemeier, MINNEAPOLIS; Chemists,
w. S. Eberman, St. Paul. and DR.. @. w. Drew,
Minneapolis