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Nevada County picayune., 1891-12-03

An upstart is a man who has been more successful than the man who tells you about him. - Elmira Gazette.
Nevada County picayune., 1891-12-03
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

1t was decided by Assistant Secretary
Bussey that there is no provision in the
dependent pension act of June p, 1890,
nor in any other act, whereby minors
pension that has lapsed for years by
reason of age may be revived and start
ed afresh, even though the claimant be
a dependent.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 275 against 273 the
preceding week.
THIRTEEN states and territorie S
worlds fair appropriation bills have
been passed and are in force as follows:
California, 100000; Idaho, $50, 900: In
diana, $4,000; Iowa, $50, 900; Montana,
100000; New Mexico, $4,000; North
Carolina, $4,000; Oklahoma, $1,000;
Oregon, 500, 900; Pennsylvania, $780,
900; Vermont, $1,000; Washington,
s1OO,OOO; West Virginia, $50, 900; total,
$1,OO7, 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
PURELY STATISTICAL,

THE estimated population of the world
is l,45O, 100000.
SEVEN hundred million oranges are
exported every year from Europe to
this country.
LAST year Germany produced $685.
O73, 600 quarts of beer, or over 1O6 quarts
for each of it's population.
The Statistical institute of Rome an
nounces that sixtythrec per cent. of all
Italians are unable to read and write.
The imports of Victoria, Australia,
last year were sa2,o52, 900, against 424,-
4O2, 900 in the previous year, and the ex-
ports were 1921, 900, against e12, 1884,
600 in 1889.
NEARLY 1850 persons commit suicide
in Russia every year; the violent deaths
of all kinds annually reach $4,000; while
10000 die of typhus fever, the most de-
structive disease in tho country.
AFRICA has an area of II, 600, 900 square
miles; it is larger than any other CONT
nent except Asia, and is 234 times the
size Of the state of New York; it pre-
scnts unique field for the geographical
distribution of animals, as out of it's to-
tai of 523 species, Az are peculiar to
that country.
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Hoods SarsaparilIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for 5. Prepared only
By C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Syrup"

We have selected two or
Group. three lines from letters
freshly received from pa
rents who have given German Syrup
to their children in the emergencies
of Group. You will credit these,
because they come from good, sub
stantial people, happy in finding
what so many families lack-a med
icine containing no evil drug, which
mother can administer with con-
fdence to the little ones in their
most critical hours, safe and sure
that it will carry them through.
ED. L. Willis, of Mrs. JAs.W. KIRK,
Alma, Neb. give it Daughters College,
to my children when Harrodsburg, KY. I
troubled with Group have depended upon
and never saw any it in attacks of Group
preparation act like with my little daugh-
it. 1t is simply mi ter, and find it an in
raculous valuable remedy.
Fully one-half of our customers
are mothers who use Boschee's Ger
man Syrup among their children.
A medicine to be successful with the
little folks must be a treatment for
the sudden and terrible foes of child
hood, whooping cough, Group, diph-
liberia and the dangerous infamma-
tons of delicate threats and lungs. @
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
ON RAILS OF STEEL.

THE Georgia railroad has been in op-
Grafton since lS45 and has never killed
passenger. 1t is over three hundred
miles long.
DRIED toadstools pushed into bleed
ing nostril will stop the hemorrhagc.
They are also said to make excellent
pipclighters.
The street railways of the United
Kingdom have an aggregate of 94s
miles, with 27,719 horses, SIS locomo-
tives and 1881 cars.
THE life of locomotive crank pin,
which is almost the first thing about an
engine to wear out, is 10000 miles, and
the life of 33-inch wheel is GO. 1873
miles.
RECENT statistics show that French
railways annually kill one person out
of 100000 carried, while in England
81, 900. 600 are carried before one meets
violent death.
ABE GOULD, brother of Jay Gould,
will have charge of the purchasing de-
partment of the Union Pacific and Mis-
souri, Pacific railroads under the pro-
posed consolidation.
Mr.. GOULD is quoted as saying that
an advance Of one mill per ton per mile
in the rates would increase the net
earnings of the Missouri Pacific railroad
over S., 900, 900 per annum
The United States has a mile of rail-
way for each 400 of population and each
% miles of area, while the balance Of
the world has mile for each 1900 of
population and 227 miles Of area.
THE fastest travelling in England is
made by an express train between
Grantham and Doncaster. The dis
lance is seventy-one and half miles,
and the trip is usually made in fifty
six minutes-a speed exceeding mile
and quarter a minute.
Tie word ''milliner" owes it's origin
-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-''W'kat's Wings business?'' dec.
orative artist" 'What is his specialty?"
''The town."-St. Joseph News.
Never speak i'll of anybody; you can
do just as much execution with shrug
of the shoulders or significant look
Milwaukee Sentinel.
-"Where's the proprietor" asked a
man, as he entered a downtown res
tuarant. "He's gone home to dinner,
SIR" replied waiter.
Watts - ''Hello, Potts. Why are
you eating down town? Wife gone
away?" Potts-"No. Her dog is dead. I"
Indianapolis Journal.
-Gazzam-"It is said that many a
book is sold by its title" Bunting
MANY American girls are sold by
titles, too."-Smith Gray & Co.'S
Monthly.
Say to the average man that there
is new sensation in town, and the
thought will flash across his mind that
he has been found out at last.-Atchi-
son Globe.
Another Temptation.-Mrs.H ojack
"A woman who can write poetry and
will not write poetry should be-
Hojack (interrupting) - ''Richly re-
warded.' Ocean.
We've all Been There.-Mrs- Hust-
ley-'O, our church fair was wonder
full success! We cleared over 1900"
Mr.. Beenthere-''What frightfu! rob-
bery!'-Boston Courier.
-"Have you heard about Blicker"
"No; what's up now?" ''They say he's
struck natural gas" Natural gas'
Well, I should think so! He's married a
before she was forty"
-''I hear the plumber is engaged to
your housemaid." YES" "Why don't
they get married?" ''He is not rich
enough yet. She hasn't been in my en-
ploy long enough to stuff the water
pipes more than once. Epoch.
-Weakley - ''Statistics show that
men Of brain and thought attain good
old age, and that nincompoops die very
young" Miss Sharpley-'I presume
you have your obituary prepared, Mr..
Weakley?"- Cincinnati Gazette.
Mrs. Bu)lion-''I bought to-day a
genuine Partisan work of art" Mrs.
Iilladoo-''One of Detalie's paintings?"
Mrs. Bullion-''No. A bust of some
young woman named Hebe. The dealer
assured me it was real plaster of Paris"
Jewellers Circular.
Newspaper Titles.-Little Boy
''Pop, what's the difference between an
editor-in-chief and a managing editor?"
Pop ian old reporter)-''The editor-in-
chief is the man who attends banquets
and gets all the glory, the managing
editor is the man who does the work.
Good News.
Different Men, Different Minds
''Why do the poker players sometimes
get up and walk around their chairs?"
They are superstitious, and think that
will change their. luck" ''Why doesn't
that old gambler do it," Hes afraid
he might shake some of the cards out
of his sleeve. N. Y. Sun.
-Presentiments.- do you believe in
presentiments. Dodsley?" Il do, Duffer,
most thoroughly did you ever know
one to come true?" 81 never allow
them to. When you made an appoint
mcnt to meet me l had presentiment
that you wanted loan. and left my
pocket-bool at home" "Well, that
knocks out mine. too. had PRESENT.
ment that you would oblige. but never
knew one to come true. Chicago
Times
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

A New YORK preacher, commenting
on the proposed law to make the exer-
else of the franchise compulsory, puts
the case as follows: THE man who
deserts in the army is held to be a
traitor and is shot. The man who de-
sertS the ballOt-the substitute for the
bayonet-should be punished by civil
law as criminal. The crime commit
ted is precisely the same in degree as
that of the deserter."
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WEST AND SOUTH


Arizona exempting from taxation for
twenty years all railroads built in the
rritory within three years.
In Colorado three men employed at a
mine on Treasury mountain were killed
in a snowslide, and two men lost their
lives in similar manner at Silverton.
FIRE nearly wiped out the village OF
North Washington, Ia.
WILLIAM A. WIsONG, treasurer of the
Baltimore (Nld.) Poor association, was
said to be sholt in his accounts to the
extent of over $4,000.
Mrs. SARAH G. CAMPBELL was killed
in wreck near Greencastle, Mo-, the
conductor was fatally and eleven others
were seriously injured.
DURING a quarrel over the massacre
of Italians in New Orleans Frank
Waters, newspaper man, was shot
dead by Arthur Dunn, and the latter
was fatally wounded by Waters before
he died.
The death of Mrs. Harriet Leturno
occurred at Mexico, No., aged zoe
years. She was half breed Indian, a
granddaughter of Blackhawk.
The oldest postmaster in the United
States, Celestine Kaltenbach, died at
Potosi, Wis, aged IS years.
AT the age of 70 years William II.
Herndon. the former law partner OF
Abraham Lincoln, died of the grip at
his home near Springfield, Ill.
ANDY MOORE, aged p, and Miss Allie
Cox, aged 16, were drowned at Birming-
ham, Ala. Moore could have saved his
own life by swimming out alone.
The cotton receipts at Savannah for
this season have reached 1000, OOO
bales, the largest receipts for one sea-
son in the history of Savannah as cot
ton port.
MARY E. DEWEY, of Goshen, Ind, in
applying for pension brings to light
the fact that she served through the
war in the Twenty-sixth Ohio volun.
teers as a man, passing as Charles
Dewey.
JAMES BOYLE and Peter Herbert
members of a white cap gang, were
killed by Ralph Stinson, a young farm
er living near West Plains, NO., while
defending his home from attack.
Three consumptives were reported as
completely cured by Prof Kochs rem.
edy at San Antonio, Tex.
In fire at Baltimore, Nd, three col
ored children were burned to death.
The firm of j. e. A. Simpkinson, boot
and shoe manufacturers at Cincinnati,
have failed for $500,
AT Louisville, KY, Theodore
Schwartz Il Co., private bankers, failed
for about 100000 the crash carry ing
down the Union tobacco works.
THE doors of the United States saw
ings bank of Topeka, KAN, were
closed. with liabilities of S35O.O0O.
GOLD was said to have been founc
near Boston, Mo.
AN English syndicate has purchased
the famous Laguna de Tache ranch il
Tulare county, CAL, for 1000, 900.
ALL the country about New Orlean.
was under water owing to the breaking
of levees.
In session at Lansing, Mich, the SUI
preme association of Patrons of Indus
| try elected N. H. Lake, of Rose, Mich.
as president The report of the secre
tary showed total of 11s, 900 member
in the country.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

In the suburbs of Providence there
has just died widely-known Rhode
Island ola-timer, John Ingraham, aged
ninety-four years. He never wore a
piece of undertaking of any kind in all
his life, nor anything around his neck,
nor did he ever wear an overcoat He
gathered up fortune of over $500, 900,
enjoyed life and died serenely happy,
never having called for the services of
a physician in all his life
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

The oldest man in Tennessee is an
inmate of the county workhouse at
Chattanooga. His name is lobe Lewis
and he claims to be one hundred and
thirty-seven years of age. He has doc
umentary evidence to show that he is
considerably over one hundred. lie has
been married nine times and is the
father Of more than forty children. He
remembers the revolutionary war, and,
as he is in good health, will probably
live several years more
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

AFTER an absence of over a month an
escaped prisoner from the Baton Rouge
lLa) penitentiary presented himself be-
fore the warden of that institution, say
ing that he wanted to serve out the bal
ance of his term. 1t seems that during
his imprisonment he learned of the ILL
ness of his mother, and, being DESTROYS
of seeing her before she died, he deter
mined upon escape, and accordingly
took the first chance that presented
itself. He attended at his mothers bed
side, nursing her faithfully, until she
became convalescent, and kissing her
good-by went back to the Jail to serve
the rest of his sentence
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

WHEN pair of electric conductors
is grasped, one in each hand the path
for the current, so it is stated, is from
one hand up that arm, into the trunk,
where it ramifies in all directions
through the numerous paths open to
it; thence through the other arm and
hand to the other conductor When
single conductor is grasped by one
hand, with the feet resting on the
ground, the path of the current is
through that hand and arm to the
body, and thence by way of the lungs,
stomach and legs to the feet
and into the ground, completing the
circuit.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

PRAYING by machinery is usual
among the inha bitants of central Asia.
A large, hollow cylinder like a drum is
erected, and within it are inclosed the
prayers that anyone may wish to offer,
written out neatly. The cylinder is
then made to revolve by wind or water,
and every time that it goes round the
devotee imagines it to be equivalent to
a verbal repetition of all the prayers it
contains
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

THOUSANDS of Cinnamon leave China
every year and settle in other countries
especially South America, the islands of
the Pacific, and the West Indies; but it
it is rare thing for Chinese women to
leave the land of their birth. There
are probably less than one hundred of
= them in the United States. 1t appears
by the Cuban census that there are
nearly fifty thousand Chinese men in
Cuba and only eighty-four women. The
customs of the people are adverse to fe-
male emigration. Few of the Cinnamon
who go abroad are married; nearly all
are young. They leave China to make
money and return there to get married.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
ONE ENJOYS

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG syrup co!
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
1T takes the tusks Of seventy-ive
thousand elephants year to supply the
worlds piano keys, billiard balls and
knife handles.

THE number of Indians in the United
States who can read English is stated to
be over twenty-three thousand; the
number who can read Indian languages
is over ten thousand.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

THE New York Commercial Bulletin
says: The fire loss of the United
States and Canada during February
amounted to 49, 226, 500 The losses for
February, 1890, were S7,;5S7.o25 but
while the property burned in February
OF this year materially exceeded in to-
tai value that of the same month of
1890, there was a marked saving in COM
parison with the records for February,
1883, and February, 1889, those months
being respectively chargeable with
11,213,5O0 and $l2, 100000. The second
month of the year usually proves an
expensive one to the fire-insurance in
tareSt "
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

THE national motto, "E Pluribus
Unum," on different United States
coins, was never authorized by law; al
though the mint was tablished in 1892
the use of the motto was not directed.
None of the coins since 1887 bore the
motto until the standard silver dollars
were coined. 1t remained on the early
gold and silver coins until 1884, when
it was omitted from the gold COINS
From the double eagle in 1866. In 1886
it was dropped from the twenty-five
cent piece, and the following year from
all silver coins, the trade dollar only re-
wing it's use. 1t was first used on a
half-penny in New Jersey in 1867.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

FoUR-F1FrHs of the engines, including
locomotive engines, now working in the
world, have been constructed during
the last twenty-five years, and repre-
sent grand total of forty mine million
horse mower
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES persons who
thoughtlessly consign old numbers of
magazines and other illustrated periodi-
calls to the waste basket or the flames
are being reminded in various ways
that they could better devote these
publications to the hospitals and asy-
lnms. In nearly every large city socie-
ties exist for the collection and distribu-
ton of such gifts, the labors of which
are productive of much genuine enjoy
n.ent among the needy
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
Land for Everybody.

At Browns Valley a jubilee was held
on account of the opening of the Wah-
peton and Sisseton reservations. 1t is
body of land representing 5000 quarter
sections, equal in every respect to the
famous Red river, of which it is really
part. The reservation lies along the
west line of the state
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
The Grin in MinneapOlis.

The grip claimed its first victim in
Minneapolis this winter in the person
of Thomas Callahan, an aged gentle
man from Ohio, who had been visiting
with his daughter, Mrs. James Heavy.
The grip, or that which most people
designate as such, prevails to an extent
which has caused much uneasiness. A
careful estimate places the number of
cases in that city at fully 10000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

MUCH the most deplorable feature of
the recent floods along the Ohio was the
fact that thirty thousand people were
thrown out of employment, many of
them for months. 1t is bad when homes
are swept away, but even worse when
is lost the resource which created them
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26
THE EAST.

By mine explosion near Ashland
Pa, two men were blown to atoms and
one was fatally and others seriously
hurt.
FLAMES among business buildings in
New York caused loss of 81, ZOO, OOO
The flames started on Blocker street
in the building occupied by Alfred Ben
jamin & Co., the largest manufacturing
house in this country in mems fine
ready made clothing.
1T is requested by Commander in
Chief Veazey of the Grand Army of the
Republic that the various posts of the
country celebrate the silver anniversary
of the order April 6.
Mrs. COPE, of Pittsburgh, Pa, after
searching for ten years, found her hus-
band in Chicago.
DAVID KUPPERMAN, his wife and
three children, of Lawrenceville, Pa,
were fatally burned.
AT the Crescent steel works in Pitts
burgh, Pa, an explosion killed Fred
erick Bonnhunt, Hans Whitman and
John Gustavison.
In burning tenement house in New
York three persons lost their lives
For wrecking the Sixth national bank
of New York Peter A. Classen was SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment.
The steamer Cacheca, from Naples,
arrived in New York with 1868 Italian
immigrants on board.
A MAN aged about "a years and we'll
dressed jumped over Niagara falls at
Prospect point. He came from the west
and had ticket for New York
JUDGE YERKEs rendered a decision
at Doyleston, Pa, in which it is held
and laid down as law that the word
tissue in will includes illegitimate
children.
FIRE destroyed the steam cordage
works at Eliza beth N. j., the loss be.
ing 100000.
In fire in a New York tenement
house Peter Cryan, aged so, and his sis
ter Mary, aged 55, were burned to death
A NUMBER of children died at Mad.
ison, n. j., from drinking water from
a badly polluted well at the school.
| house.
Miss MARY E. INLAY and BENJAMIN
Farabee, of Old Concord Pa, elope d tc
L "ClC I1Ct. L lie
groom is a wealthy farmer IS years OF
age and the bride is only 20.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, James NJ. Nolan
| wealthy resident, died after eating
prepared meat obtained at a grocery
His wife was taken violently ill, but
would proba bly, recover.
THE Keystone national bank of Phil.
| a delphia closed its doors. 1t was said
that the banks deposits amounted tc
81. 40O,O 900.
TIE firm of A. De Reisthal & Co.,
china and glassware importers at New
York, failed for $150,000, due princi
ra'ly to European houses.
+. T. HARDING, of st. Adams, VT.
aged %, husband of dissolute woman
shot her dead and then killed himself
with the same weapon.
AFTER an illness of three days Law.
renee Barrett, the great tragedian, died
in New York city of pneumonia, aged
SO years
THE death of Rev. Frederic Upton
said to be the oldest Methodist clergy
man in America, occurred at Fairhaven
Mass, aged 81 years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

IT is authoritatively given out that
English society has expunged the word
"lady" from it's vocabulary. Hence
forward, in polite converse, only the
good. plain and unmistakable word
woman will be used in reference to
tho GOV
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

A BOX alleged to contain books and
addressed to minister of the gospel in
Montana was examined by customs in
spectors and found to contain ninety-six
pounds of opium, valued at over 81, 400.