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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22
LITTLE CONDOLENCES.

THE trousscau for the infant son of
Emmons Blaine cost S1,7Oo.
THE personal estate OF the Due IL.
MontpcnSier has been sworn at nearly
Ell, 900, 900.
Mis-. CHANDLER, the widow Of Zach
ariah Chandler. is erecting beautiful
house in Washington.
THE Gar is TIC largest Of all living
landed prci- rioters, owning an estate
which is nearly equal in area to The
whole of France.
The White House children are not Sc
old as they are usually thought to De:
''Baby Mckee" is three years old. and
his sister Mary is only two.
MISS FLORENCE WINDOW, the daughter
of the Secretary, is more than an am.
ateur artist. She has been studying in
Boston for some time and has done
work which critical judges have pro-
nounced more than ordinary.
Mrs. GARFIELD is said to be over
whelmed by her correspondence.
Letters come to her from every part of
the country and on every conceivable
topic. Every communication she re-
ceives is given careful attention and
frequently q pleasant letter OF some
length is sent in answer.
Mrs. MAY FRENCH SHELDON, who is
to lead an expedition to the Congo in
Stanley's footsteps, is a physician of no
mean ability, and has also won a repu-
tation as an author and sculptor. She
has an enviable position in literary and
scientific circles in London, where her
husband is the manager of an American
banking house.
The Maharajah of Baroda owns a
carpet about 10 feet by 6, made entirely
of strings of pearls, with center
and corner pieces of diamonds. This
carpet too:s three years to weave and
cost 100000. 1t was made by the
ordcr Of khande Rao, who designed it
to be present for q Mohamedan lady
who had fascinated him.
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s'snsnsry.

The following remarkable feat q
memory was performed by an Irish VA
ter spaniel: His master was out walk
ing with him at the beginning Of the
long frost in the year 1855. which Get in
about the middle of January. He went
on . frozen mill dam, where the water
was Of course very deep, and accident
ally dropped his snuff box through =
little round hole in the ice. The dog
was dreadfully distressed at not being
able to get it, but was obliged to 60
home with its owner, who thought no
more about the matter. Two months
afterward, when the frost had gone, he
and the dog passed by the same place.
The dog paused opposite the spot where
the box had disappeared, seemed to
think intently for minute, then plung-
ed in, Owed to the bottom, and returned
with the snuff box in his mouth Quar-
terly Review
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Tho News Briefly ChrOnIcIei,


The annual report of the public II:
brarian shows total of 26, $40 bool-3 ia
the St. Paul library.
J Seven new motors ere to be put on
the electric line between Minneapolis
and St. Paul.
Noah Labrie, of Minneapolis, took a
swallow of carbolic acid by mistake and
died in agony few minutes later.
Reports received by the State Auditor
from the hospitals for the insane for
current expenses in the month of De:
cembcr are as follows: First hospital,
$1s,047.54; second hospital, S16,53S. o..
third hospital, S5,2S2.52.
There was a $4,000 or $1,000 fire in
the grocery store of Il. d. Hart & Son
at Minneapolis.
Miss Birdie Lucas, of st. Paul, eloped
with Milton Dubois, livery stable en-
ploye, and was married at Hudson, Wis
John +. Kelly, a st. Paul lawyer, has
compiled a new edition of the general
statutes.
Surveyor-GeneralA sh's report of the
timber cut in the Fifth district in 1890
shows 223,0OO,0 900 feet lumber sawed
during the year and 266, 500, 900 feet in
logs.
John Clark, Duluth workman, fell
downstairs at clearinghouse and
broke his neck and died. He was 50
years old and leaves family residing
in New York City.
The net receipts of the National
pageant at Minneapolis were $1,2s6. 90,
which will be devoted to charitable pur.
poses.
j. F. Givens, cook at the Park Hotel
in Fergus Falls, was caught robbing
the servants trunks and was fined $50.
Louis Foster dropped dead while sit
ting in his chair in the Sherwood Hotel
at Winona. He was the proprietor of
the hotel, was 50 years old and leaves
two daughters.
c. F. Anderson, Minneapolis tailor,
claims to have fallen heir to 81, 900, OOO
by the death of his grandfather in Swe-
den.
A golden eagle was shot near North.
field by George Ebeling measuring
seven feet across the wings and weigh
ing twelve pounds.
Cornelius Daley, an old pic neer of : .
town of lakewood. aged Is years, died
at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
Catharine McClernan. He was born in
Ireland and came to Minnesota in 1853
The treasurer's report at the annual
meeting of the st. Paul Relief Society
showed that the receipts for the past
year were $3,o04.5l, and the expendi.
lures So, 500. rs. e.
A new Duluth company has closed
negotiations with one of the largest in
dustries to Be established at the head OF
the lakes, viz: pipe and foundry plant,
capital $500, 000t The concern will en-
ploy 500 man.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

IT is reported that a novel door, es-
pecially intended for the economy of
space, has just been patented. The
door is IN adaptation of the principle of
the roller-top desk and cover, and con-
sists of series of Stats. about one and
one-haf inches wide aud three-quarters
of an inch thick, joined together by
wooden spindles, one revolving within
another. When the door is opened it is
wound upon spiral drum at the top
and bottom, and all is inclosed within
adoor-casing: A three-foot door is made
to wind up in a roll seven inches in d.
ameter: The arrangement should make
money for its inventor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for IS. Prepared only
By C. l. HOOD CO.. Apothecares, Lowell. NasA
100 Doses One Dollar
Syrup

For children a medi-
ACough cine should be abso-
and cro,,n lutely reliable. A
'~ ~ mother must be able to
Medicine. pin her faith to it as to
her Bible. It must
contain nothing violent, uncertain,
or dangerous. It must be standard
in material and manufacture. It
must be plain and simple to admin
ister; easy and pleasant to take.
The child must like it. It must be
prompt in action, giving immedi-
ate relief, as chi1drens' troubles
come quick, grow fast, and end
fatally or otherwise in a very short
time. Unjust not only relieve quick
but bring them around quick, as
children chafe and fret and spoil
their constitutions under long con-
fnement. It must do its work in
moderate doses. A large quantity
of medicine in a child is not desira-
bic. It must not interfere with the
chi1d's spirits, appetite or general
health. These things suit old as
we'll as young folks, and make b.
schee's German Syrup the favorite
family medicine. o
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

FROM newspaper printed in the year
ITO, is the following description of a
dandy: "A few days ago a macarroni
made his appearance in the assembly
rooms at Whitehaven, dressed in a
mixed silk coat, pink satin waistcoat
and breaches covered with an elegant
silk net, white silk stockings with pink
clocks, pink satin shoes and large
pearl buttons; mushroom colored
stock, covered with fine point lace,
hair dressed remarkably high and
stuck full of pearl pins" Where would
our modern dude be in the overpower-
ing presence of such a gorgeously ar.
rayed creature?
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
RIGHTS or SETTLERS.

An Important Decision Rendered By the
Secretary Of the Interior.
Secretary Noble has rendered de.
cision In the case of Amanda J. Walters
and others and g. w. M. Reed and 9TH
ers in, diving the right of settlers to per-.
feet their titles to lands formerly occu-
pied by the Mile Lac Indians in Mime
sofa. The Secretary holds that the In.
dams were not entitled to take allot-
ments on the lands occupied by them for
the reason that they had ceded all their
rights to the same in 1858, and that the
lands were not. in reservation. He
therefore directs that the cases Of the
settlers be taken up and disposed of on
their merits. This decision involves the
rights of a large number of settlers.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

IT is not often that lost art is re-
covered, but it is said that the chemists
have triumphed in the matter of the
ancient "Alexandrian blue This blue,
the ideal of painters and decorators,
was peculiar and remarkably durable
color. The chemists are said to have
achieved successful analysis of the
coloring on the Pompeiian frescoes, and
to have reproduced the paint, identical
with the ancient coloring in every par
ticular.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

IT is reported of Dion Boucicault that
e4o, 900 have been spent in the last
twenty-five years by the public to see
his plays; that a single play, ''The Col
leen Bawn," brought him 81, OOO, 900, and
another, "The Shaughraun, $500, 900,
and that thirty-five dramas out of his
total of over four hundred ran for at
least one hundred and fifty nights each
at their first production and have been
each played over five thousand times al
together.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22
Will Utilize Water Power,

Another great water power nowgoing
to waste is soon to be utilized for me-
chanical purposes. 1t is reported that
a syndicate has been formed at Duluth
to take advantage of the natural fall Of
the St. Louis river at that place and by
the establishment of vast electrical
works to make it possible to supply
power for many miles about.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

The Railway Master Mechanic re-
ports that during last year 1898 engines
were purchased and 1854 others built by
the railroad companies of the United
States. This is at the rate of about one
for each 100 miles of road in the Union.
The total number built in the United
States and Canada for home use was
about also, or a little more than per
cent. of the number running. The con-
struction of 1889 was 2, 100.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

MR. GEORGE HARLAN and Mrs. Kate
Woodson were married recently in
Dyer County, Tenn. The bridegroom
is hale and hearty man of one hum
dren and seven years, and the bride
was blushing under the weight of
eighty-three summers. The groom
served in the Mexican war and the
great rebellion. Mrs. Woodson is his
fifth wife. The last. one he married in
his one hundredth year. The groom is
the fourth husband of the bride.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22
Rich Body of Bessemer ORE.

A fine body of superior bessemer ore
was struck in Itasca County, near the
Duluth & Winnipeg railroad, by Gin
cinnati syndicate. The mine is called
the Buckeye. The same syndicate con-
trolls large body of land on the same
vein northeasterly to the Canada line.
1t is the nearest to Chicago of any Min
nesota iron strike yet made
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

A MAINE exchange says very intel
hgent dog is one of the residents of Bar
Harbor: He was carrying paper the
other day, when several canine compan-
ions began to bother him He put the
paper on the ground, and when a dog
attempted to touch it sprang on him
and gave him good shaking These
tactics he repeated several times, till at
last he could not get any dog to touch
the paper, and then he quietly picked
1t up and walked awav.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22
silk is not var

Artificial silk is not yet manufac-
tured on an industrial scale, but it APP
pears that this will very shortly be done,
and, while it is impossible to foretell
with certainty what will be the COM
mercial results of this curious invention.
it is impossible to resist the conclusion
that it is highly practicable, and that it
even contains the elements of great
future success.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

A NEGRO in Chattanooga, who had
killed very large rat, was persuaded
that it was great delicacy with the
Chinese and they would buy it. He
took it to laundryman and barely es-
capped with his life. The Chinaman
threw Aatirons and every thing throw
able about the place at the frightened
negro, and chased him several blocks
up the street.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

THE guns of the British man-of-war
Aceton that went down off Charleston
Is. CO. harbor in 1868, when Admiral Sir
Peter Parker was attacking that city,
were recovered from the wreck few
days ago and three of them have been
purchased by St. Louis commandery.
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Had to Get Ont.

The village of Evansville, in Doug
las County, has genuine White Cap
episode and the prosecuted Jew is the
victim of it. The mans name is Jack
L. Haiman. Last October he decided
to start dry-goods store at Evansville.
So he purchased stock of goods, in
vesting some $4,000 or 81, 1000 in it, and
opened the store. The.next morning he
received letter addressed in bold
business hand notifying him that no
Jew would be allowed to do business in.
Evansville, and, very much frightened,
he sold out at sacrifice and left.
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In the Railway Station.

'sWell, well; hurry up there" said tho
information clerk, impatiently. What
is it you want?"
''lf you please, sir,' returned the sar-
castle traveller, II want to know it all.
You're the gentleman that can tell it.
Amt you?''-Harper's Bazaar.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

THE late General Spinner was the
first official to propose the employment
of women in the public service. The
thousands of women holding office
under the Government ought to raise a
monument to his memory.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

SWITZERLAND gets about two million
dollars q year out of American tourists.
She makes the best return she can,
however, by sending her strongest
cheeses to America.
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Put Under Bonds.

a st. Paul woman named SCHNEIDER
was arrested on the charge of beating
her husband with broomstick. When
the pair stood up in the municipal court
SCHNEIDER had his head bandaged up to
protect his bruises from the gaze of the
cold world. The lady attempted to ex-
plain matters through an interpreter
but the judge couldn't see it her way
and put her under bonds to keep the
peace.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

GRACE GREENwooD's name is now
more closely allied to works of charity
than to literary labors. She still writes
a little, but can usually be found where
sorrow and suffering hold sway.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

A TELEPHONE line about five miles
long has been established in Iceland
and is regarded as great curiosity,
being the first ever established on the
island. The "hellos" are kept in the re-
frinoro<Op
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

J., A UNIQUE and remarkable tourney
was witnessed in New York. A cab
man, while trying to get out of the way
Of q car, ran his vehicle into another
cab. He turned to apologize, but re-
ceived q blow across the face from the
whiplash Of Jehu number q. Jehu mum
Der l retaliated, and then commenced d
most remarkable duel. The two cab.
men drove round and round each other,
managing their horses with the left
hand and5plying the lash with the ri hit:
It looked like q scene from some old
Grecian history. The two-wheeled cabs
answered very well for war chariota
md the whips for spears Or swords
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

~ allus kills my chickens in tho
wood-shed," said old Mr. Rural to Fun
nicus, who was boarding with him.
''Oh, that was the wood shed, was it?'
returned Funnicus. II judged from the
appearance of things it was the blood
shed "-Harper's Bazar.
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The Exiles to siberi,

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 17.-Ohacial
reports show that 800 persons were
transported to Siberia during 1890. It
Is known, however, th.t the numbsr
was far greater.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

On the Persian New Year every one is
expected to put on a new suit of cloth
ing. Here every one is expected to pay
for the last years suit.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

SENATOR JOSEPH M. CAREY, of the
new State of Wyoming, is physically
the largest man in the United States
Senate, . r..
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that if her husband goes on another
. trip to Africa she will accompany him.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

IT was reported that in the western
part of Kansas the farmers crops had
failed for five years and that now they
were actually dying from restitution.
Two sCHooNERs went down in gale
on Chesapeake bay, others were
wrecked and several lives were lost. -
The Nebraska Supreme Court on the
18th decided torecognize Governor. elect
Boyd. Governor Thayer, however, still
retained the Office on the ground that
Boyd had not proved his citizenship.
WILLIAM SHALZER's wagon loaded
with wheat upset in a ditch near Peru,
Ind, and Mrs. Shalzer was fatally in
jured and the baby in her arms was
killed. -
ADv1cEs of the 18th from Pine Ridge,
s. D., said that General Miles had re-
ccived the absolute submission of all
the chiefs who had been the disturbing
leaders among the Brules. The reds
were Pocketed in ravine within two
miles of the agency with the troops on
all sides of them. Kicking Bear, Short
Bull and Two Strike said that the wal
was over and they were willing to do
just what General Miles ordered.
ACCORDING to the State Commissioner
Of Railroads there are 7,O1s.7S miles of
railroad in Michigan; The gross earn
ings for the year 1890 aggregated $685.
323, 071.62; net income, 1871, 800, 279.54.
JOHN L. RouTT was inaugurated as
Governor of Colorado on the 18th at
Denver.
HARRY LEWIS, Dennis Simmons and
Joseph Hughes were killed 1T Dead.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-22

"1HAvE," says Maine pension agent,
"what consider funny pension case
on hand. Several years ago secured a
pension for a soldier of certain regi-
ment and company, and then after his
death secured a pension for his widow.
Now she comes to me to help her secure
another pension as the widow of anoth-
er member of the same regiment You
Gee that since secured her first widows
pension she had married a comrade-in-
arms of her first husband, and now that
he, too. is dead, with frugality that is
commenda BILE she ,is~ applying for the
second pension. 4. have never known
exactly similar case.'' :; ~
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
LATER
&uropean Cold Weather.

1O1OP01n NOAO "O8en0Es
BERLIN, Jan. 19.-Reports from all
parts shows that the thermometer
touched many degrees below zero.
Advices from Naples report the death
OF two persons from the cold. The Ital-
ian rivers are encountered with ice.
The roof of a school for boys at San
Demetrio gave way beneath it's burden
OF snow and ice, and the whole mass
went crashing into the schoolroom be-
low. Twenty-Five of the pupils were
more or less seriously injured. On the
frontier, near Geneva, a man was found
frozen to death.
Several vessels have been wrecked in
the Bay of Biscay, and a number of
lives have been lost. The gales through
out Europe are the severest in thirty
years
Several steamers in the ice-bound
river Elbe have lost their propellers by
dashing against ice foes. A number of
vessels have parted their anchors
chains and are drifting helplessly in the
stream.
In the northern part of France some
wells were frozen. A man froze to
death in Paris.
The Emperor of Germany on the 10th
telegraphed his coincidence and sympa-
thy to the family of the late George
Bancroft. The telegram comes through
the legation and becomes state docu-
ment.
HE House committee in Congress on
the improvement of the Mississippi riv-
er on the 10th, agreed upon bill for its
Improvement by a system of levees.
The bill will extend the distance to be
| improved, and will recommend that the
appropriation for the improvement be
increased to 10000, 600. The bill will
be reported to the house as soon as pre-
pared.
The news from Hamburg on the 10th,
says that the Baltic sea, so far as it can
be seen from Buell Lighthouse, is COW
cred with ice. The channel separating
the island of Fehmarn from the Hol-
stein shore is frozen over. The lake of
Constance is so covered with ice that
navigation has been suspended. -
NEARLY all the railroads throughout
Austria are blockaded with snow.
A LADY was found frozen to death on
the 10th, in one Of the railroad coaches
at one of the stations at London,
The first annual dinner of the Con-
federate Veteran Camp Of New York,
was held in New York City on the ev-
ening of the 10th.
| TIE trial of the st. Paul and Mime
apolis census enumerators began ct WI
mona, Mimi, On the 18th