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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

ONE afternoon large concourse of
spectators watched a novel contest at
the Boston Athletic Club between a
man and rod. Mr.. George Mixter
attempted to bring Swimming Pro-
lessor John Robinson out of the tank
while the latter, who was fastened to
the end of fishing line, stoutly re-
sisted the persuasive argument of q
trolling rod in Mr.. Mixter's hands.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

A PECULIAR accident happened yes
terday on the local Omaha line, says
the st. Paul Pioneer Press. In going
to the junction, and before reaching
Hersey & Beams mill, the passenger
and smoking cars left the track, owing
to broken rail, ran some distance on
the ties, struck a switch, and regained
the rails. The engine and tender had
not left the rails.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
He Remembered the Annie.

Mother Eve (after they were ex-
PEELED from paradise) -Addie, I wish
you would take me to the orchid show.
Father Adam (angrily) - Orchid
show! Don't you know that we haven't
had any show since your adventure in
that orchid?
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
IlnpOrtant information.

"Look here! This piece of meat
don't suit me. It's from the back of
the animals neck" said an Austin
man to German butcher.
"Mine frien', all dot beef vat I sells
is back of dot neck. Dere vas nodding
but horn in front of dot neck"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
Spring Signs.

Small boy-Grandpa, the robins are
singing this morning. LIS that o sign
that spring is here?
Grandpa (who has been deceived too
often)-No. It's sign that robins
amt got NO sense. Street Dc Smiths
Good Ne1ys.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

THERE is nothing in the universe
that / fear but that / shall not know
all my duty. or shall fail to do it.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

The Supreme Court OF California
has decided that the Legislature may
enact q law requiring scholars OF pub
lie schools To submit TO vaccination on
the ground Hthatwhile vaccination may
not be the best and safest preventive
possible, experience has proved it to be
the best method known to medical sci
ence 10 lessen the liability to infection
with the disease. In thus giving vac
4cination the credit OF being the most
effective method of preventing the
epread ok the disease referred to, the
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

A New JERSEY man who made fifty
seven weather predictions last summer
and hit one of them, is now out with a
card of advice to farmers to get their
hay in as soon as possible, for March
may bring "no less than three seperate
earthquakes, with deluge of rain af-
ter each" Go ahead, old boy you
can't scare our fish away!
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

court seems to have forgotten sanita-
ton and isolation.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
STORIES OF IRA n Ell.
TOLEDO, sPAIN'S FORMER CAP
lTAL. NOW A RUIN.

Palaces of the Time OF Columbus Crumb-
ling wrecks-But Remnant of the
Population of Prosperous Days Remain-
ing-Pictpresque Spaniards.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

THE real man is one who always
finds excuses for others, but never ex-
cuses himself.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
Literally True.

Cobalt-That's striking likeness,
old fellow.
Madder-Yes, I believe you; the
string broke and the portrait struck
me on the head this morning.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
The Future Weapon Of ohense.

England intends to arm the front
ranks of her dragons with lances.
They would not stand much of a show
in contest to the death with line of
German dragons armed with Koch's
lymph.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

PHosPHo-BoRIc glass for microscopes
is new kind of optical glass, which
contains phosphoric acid and boracic
acid, and is designed especially for the
construction of object glasses. The
Photographic Neaos says it is asserted
that by means Of this new glass, lately
produced in Germany, an object pos
sessing no more than the 1-S20th part
Of . millimeter can be distinctly recog-
nized.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

LIZ you own horse which, by letting
out every link, can make his mile in
2 80, Won had better sell him to q
butcher for about 5000. There are
nearly 500 trotters in the United States
who can do this clip and are at the
same time just fast enough to get beat
en- by the 2 20 class.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
Putting Hin to the Test,

Farmer Peastraw-Well, son, what
did you learn at college?
Son-I learned to fence, for one
thing. ...
Farmer Peastraw-That's good; I'll
get some nails tomorrow, and well
have bout. -Motnsey's Weekly.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
Questions of the Hour,

Will the Kansas mans artificial egg
harmonic with the ham? And is the
artificial egg planta growing industry !?
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorias
when she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
when she had Children, she gave them Castcria

UNFoRTyNATELY frogs are not the
only croakers the world has to listen TO.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

In the celebrated French trial of the
man Eyraud and his mistress Bonn
pard for murder, the latter claimed to
have been hypnotized by the former and
therefore not responsible, but the jury
decided against her. She was not sem
fenced to as severe punishment as the
man
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

CHINA supplied 81 per cent. of the
the supply of the world in 1864, and
India 3 per cent, but in 1888 China
stood at 43 per cent, and India at 81
per cent. In 1921 the tea plant was
discovered growing Wild in Assam, and
in 1884 the Indian Government caused
experiments TO be made by bringing
plants from China and cultivatlng
them, and it was not until 1854 that
tea plantations were opened up.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

It's sometimes said patent
medicines are for the igno-
rant. The doctors foster this
idea.
"The people," we're told.
ARE mostly ignorant when It
comes to medical science"
Suppose they are What:
a sick man needs is not knoWl-.
edge, but a cure, and the medi-
cine that cures is tine medicine
for the sick.
Dr.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery cures the "do
believes and the "don't be-
lieves." There's no hesitance
about it, no eff" nor "possi-
bly,"
1t says-"I can cure you,
only do as | direct" !
;, -, u
Perhaps it fails occasionally.
The makers hear of it when it:
does, because they never keep,
the money when the medicine
fails to do good.
Suppose the doctors went
on that pririciple. eve beg
the doctors pardon. 1t
wouldn't do |!
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

The Metropolitan Public Gardens
Association of London, England, has
offered $500 each to twenty of the city
vestries and district boards to be ex-
pended in planting shade trees in suit
able public thoroughfares in each dis
trict, on condition that the local au.
thorities agree to maintain the trees
when planted, replacing such as may
die.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

A NEW bellows machine weighing
only seventeen pounds has been tested
in Australia for DISCRIMINATING rabbits
with very satisfactory results. The
machine is charged with half teacup-,
full of deadly specific comprised of
one third arsenic and two-thirds sui
phur. The burrows being closed the
specific was placed in the furnace of
the machine and the fumes blown into
the borrows. On trenches being dug.
twenty minutes later, dead rabbits
were disclosed at the end of the bur-
rows,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
HUM on.
i i iIHlxind fsarrsarIs.

OR some time Mira
+ erguson and Mrs.
ClamWhooper have
not spoken. Mrs.
Ferguson, who lives
on Madison avenue,
is known among her
acquaintances to be
very stingy. Not
long since she visit
ed q neighbor, Mrs.
Clanwhooper, who
is very sarcastic and
reckless ia her con-
versa tion. They
were conversing
about coCkroaches
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

In spite of all life-saving appliances,
there is still death in the mine to
frightful extent. Civilization gets it's
supply of coal and iron at costly ex-
pense of human life. A parliamentary
paper which has just been published
shows that during the year 1885 the
total number of fatal accidents was
500, and the total number of deaths
occasioned thereby l,214, showing q
decrease compared with the totals for
the preceding year of 81 in the num-
Der of fatal accidents, and an increase
of 216 in the number of lives lost. On
an average during the year there was
one fatal accident to every 648 per-
sons employed. The average for the
ten years, 1874 to 1883, is one fatal ac-
cident to every sol persons employed,
and one death by accident to every 54S
persons employed. The proportion Of
fatal accidents to the number of per-
sons employed is therefore lower than
the average of the last ten years, and
the death rate is also lower, which, of
course, is gratifying, as far as it goes.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

OVER 100 tools and processes have.
been invented by safe-burglars, which
are marvels of ingenuity and scientific
knowledge. A recent burglars outfit
captured by the police consisted of
little giant knob-breaker, diamond
drill, and high explosive of the ma
ture of dynamite. but put up in the
form of powder. 1t would open the
strongest bank safe in half-hour, and
without noise enough to disturb people
in the next house, while the entire out.
fit could be carried in the pockets of
an ordinary coat. ,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

but they do very little beyond turning
ont a few weapons for show. Many OF
the banks that look ait first to be OF
earth and rock prove, on close ex-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

EIGHTY years ago James Larkins
bought an area of land five miles
square of the Indians in Wisconsin for
an old shotgun and a gallon of whisky,
and the chief who made the sale lit out
as quick as possible for fear that
Larkins would change his mind and
want to trade back. In those old days
the red man had no tricks about him.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

Mr.. GLADSTONE, the English states.
man, is reported to have expressed sur
prise that his head has grown in size in
the last twenty years, as shown by the
fact that hat which he had twenty
years ago is not large enough for him
and will not come down on his head at
ALL He declared that he had never
heard of similar case We think IL
is exceptional or rare. Statistics of
brain weights show that the brain is
likely to weigh most about the TWEEN
tieth year, and to gradually decline in
weight from that on, until about eighty.
Possibly Mr.. Gladstone's head has
changed in shape instead of size.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

Choking, sneezing and every
other form of catarrh in the
head, is radically cured by
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
Fifty cents. By druggists.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07

THE following anecdote of General
Sherman is not new, but readable:
Ont at Fort Bayard there lay, for a
long time, an old cannon, of no use to
any one, but which had greatly taken
the fancy of an old Apache chief. He
daily asked the commander for it, but
was put off with the excuse that it be-.
longed to the Government and could
not be given away. One day General
Sherman arrived at the fort, and the
request of the chief was referred to
him. He examined the cannon, saw
that it was worthless, and told the old
chief he might have it. Then, put
ting on grave air, he said to the chief /:
II am afraid that you want that gun so
that you can turn it on my soldiers and
kill them" Ugh! no." was the I'M
expected reply; cannon kill cowboys.
Kill soldiers with Climb"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-05-07
81 UKtTIs Al) n Ell ISER.
sTURuIs. MEADE CO.. 8. b.

I i q. CROW. PusIIsHER
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
What tho eth Minnesota Legislat urt Il
Doing.

Doing.
ST.. PAUL, April 6.-The past week
has been an important one in legisla-
ton. Both branches from the start
seemed to be in a sepulchral mood, evil
dencing a strong desire to bury meas
ures rather than to pass them. The
number of small bills that have been
killed, either by indefinite postpone
ment or by ballot would. number a
score or more, while of the important
measures of general public interest, at
least three have been consigned to
oblivion. On the other hand there are
important matters that have had favor
able consideration and advanced step
toward being formulated in laws.
In the House the principal event was
the loss of the Currier bill. The defeat
of this bill does not in the least indicate
that the present legislature is opposed
to railway legislation, or laws that will
correct and strengthen the present
statutes, but rather that they did not
consider that House File 9O1, the Cur
rier bill, covered the case. In the bill
in question the feature that caused dis
trust was the clause establishing ratea
and tariffs based upon distances.
Those opposed to the bill claimed that
the adoption of the clause would have
the effect of raising tariffs instead Of
lowering them. The friends of the bill
disclaimed this. When the bill came to
passage call of the House was Or
dered and 104 members responded and
the result was as follows:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09
German
Syrup

The majority of well-read phys
icians now believe that Consump-
ton is germ disease. In othe:
words, instead Of being in the con-
stitution itself it is caused by innu-
merable small creatures living in the
lungs having no business there and
eating them away as caterpillars do
the leaves of trees.
A Germ The phlegm that is
coughed up is those
Disease. parts of the lungs
viii G have been
gnaweo of and destroyed. These
little bacilli, as the germs are called,
are too small to be seen with the
naked eye, but they are very much
alive just the same, and enter the
body in Our food, in the air we
breathe, and through the pores of
the skin. Thence they get into the
blood and finally arrive at the lungs
where they fasten and increase with
frightful rapidity. Then German
Syrup comes in, 1oosens them, kills
them, expells them, heals the places
they leave, and so nourisl and
soothe that, in short time consump-
tlves become ger1n-proof and we'll. q
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09
WELL-KNOWN AMERICANS.

SEVEN native sons of Vermont will
sit in the United States senate.
Mr.. WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR has
opened regular business Office in Lon
don.
JAMES T. KYLE, senator-elect from
South Dakota, sawed wood to pay his
way through college.
SENAToR-ELECT PETER wears no
nccl1tie. He docs not have to. Ills
whislzers hide the lack.
FOUR senators, whose names begin
with the letter "V," have recently been
elected-Vance, Vest, Villas and Voor-
hees.
SAM JONES, the evangelist, declares
in a letter to Texas friend that his
health has failed, and he is on the verge
of physical collapse.
TIE wife of Chief Justice Fuller does
all of her marketing herself. Her car
riagc is wcll-known at the old Central
market in Washington.
THE late George Bancroft was partic-
ularly sensible to the charms of young
girls, whom he would never allow to be-
come awed by his presence.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN l.. MITCHELL, of
Milwaukee, is said to be the wealthiest
member of the incoming house. His
fortune is estimated at $40, 10000
SENAToR-ELEcT Hansbrough, of North
Dakota, is said to have once been a
tramp printer, and journeyed west by
the overland route, working his way.
SENAToR-ELEcr Brice has been elected
a trustee Of the Ohio Archaeological and
Historical society, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of r. 3.
Hayes.
THEY say that Gen. Sherman and
Gen. Johnston entered into an agree
mcnt soon after the war that the SUR
vivor of them should serve as a pail
bearer at the Others funeral.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09
Woman In AtreAt Cara.

sTalk about women being impolite
and selfish in street cars" remarked q
conductor, ttthe women beat all. Men
are comparatively mild. Now watch
this. woman and see what she
does She was not fair but she was
positively fat and forty, and as she
pushed and elbowed her way into the
crowded car she appeared to consider
nobody's comfort but her own. A thin
man, who had been sitting in space
not more than six inches wide between
two women, arose and offered her
seat. She didn't thank him-not she.
But she smiled at each of the other
women and then proceeded to throw
herself at the back of the seat. There
was no help for it; the other women had
to contract, for each of them was giving
nearly half her anatomy as cushion
for the newcomer. Then the fat wom-
an settled down comfortably and
smiled again, while the other women
chung to the edges and didn't smile.
'That's the way it is" the conductor
went on. "Women have absolutely no
consideration for each other, at least in
street-cars. What man would have done
that?''-Chicaqo Post.
DISTINCTION with difference-cupid and
cupidity
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09
RULES FOR YOUNG GYMNAsTs.

Dangers to be Avoided in the Cultivation of
the Muscular system.
Much benefit can be derived from
gymnastic appliances if they are used
undcrstandingly. No advantage is to
be gained by exercise that is carried on
in a careless manner. Neither too much
nor too violent exercise is beneficial,
though constant and regular work is
necessary. 1t is better to work for a
certain length of time every other day
than to devote all of one week to exer-
else, and not go near the gymnasium
the next.
TO use any apparatus carelessly is to
use it dangerously. ! have had many of
my worst falls in doing some of the
simplest tricks, because I was careless.
and did not put my entire mind upon
what l was doing. There is something
besides and beyond the mere pleasure
of being able to perform tricks in gym
nasium; there is a lasting benefit to be
obtained in careful gymnastic exercise.
Let me impress one fact upon your
minds. you are laying the foundation
of a splendid manhood at the same time
that you are gaining skill and grace.
You are laying up for yourself store
of health that you can draw on when
you are grown men. and the days for
gymnastics are passed.
In beginning your exercises there are
two points that you must always bear
in mind. Stand erect, and before be-
ginning any work draw long deep
breath. Breathe from the abdomen. so
that the lower part of the lungs are ex-
banded You will find by following
this simple device that anything you at
tempt will be much easier for you than
if you go about y our exercises in a care
less or slouchy way. There should be
no round-shouldered gymnasts. and
have yet to see any one who has
achieved distinction as gymnast who
was not as straight as an arrow, and
across whose shoulder blade yard
stick could not be placed without touch
ing his back.
In your exercises avoid devoting too
much time to one kind of work Do
not spend all your time, for instance. on
the horizontal bar, or on the parallel
bars. What all would-be gymnasts
should strive for is a symmetrical devel-
opment of their muscles. You do not
want to have legs like piano, hard and
knotted with muscles, and arms like
pipestems. Nor do you want to have
the arms and chest of blacksmith and
legs like those of a crane. You want to
have all your muscles developed alike,
not one at the expense of another. To
avoid this lop-sided kind of growth is
the reason that gymnasiums have such
variety Of appliances.-Roland Mo
lnssux, in Hsrper's Young People
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09

AT Elwood, Kan, the rapid rising of
the Missouri river caused several blocks
of lots to fall into the stream.
MARGARET DENTON, of Seymour,
Ind. died at the age of 100 years She
was the mother of fourteen children.
THREE Mexicans were killed in a
street fight at Ranger, Tex.
G. w. PORTER, of Kansas City, Mo-,
high ranger of the Independent Order
of Foresters, who had absconded, had
four living wives
The laboring people, principally farm
and timber workers, were said to be
suffering for food in Monroe county, w.
Va.
CH1CKAsAw Indians have ratified the
sale of the land owned jointly by them
and the Choctawa They will receive
over $7OO, 1000.
SMITH, BASTARD & Co., wholesale
boot and shoe dealers at St. Joseph,
NO., have failed for 100000.
ERNEST FORBES (colored), who COM
mitted an assault on Bertha Phipps in
Anne Arundel county, Nd, November
last, was hanged at Annapolis.
THE west bank of a reservoir at Wap-
akoneta, O., was nearly washed away
and houses for miles around were food
ed, causing loss of over $25O,OoO.
In the Holmes mines at Candelaria,
New, over 100 miners have died of the
grip.
THOMAS GADsDEN, prominent citi-
zen, committed suicide at the grave of
his daughter at Savannah, Ga.
WARD DEMAREE, aged %, cut his sick
mothers throat at bloomington, Ind,
and then his own. Both died instantly.
No cause is known.
In New Orleans Detective O'MaHev,
who was charged with packing the jury
in the Malta cases, has surrendered
himself to the authorities.
The superintendent of the census has
made public the result of special
count by races of the state of Cal
ifornia. as follows: White, 1.111,55s;
colored, 11,43s; Chinese, 7l.6Sl; Jap.
anese. 1,099; Indians, 1885; total,
l,20s, 100.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

IT was said that Philip Slattery, a
farmer living near Peoria, ILL.,, had dis
covered rich lead of silver ore.
In Chicago the total number OF
deaths for March was s,249, one-third
being caused by the grip.
IN Detroit township, ILL.,, Harvey PEG.
pies, aged 81, shot Miss Nellie Dyke,
aged 10, because she refused to marry
him. and then blew out his own brains.
BUSINESS has been resumed by the
American national bank of Kansas City,
which failed January 10.
THE bill making train wrecking pun
ishable by death has been signed nv
Gov. Markham. of California.
THE residence of Robin Hood in Mon.
roe county, Ind, was burned by in
cendiaries and Hood was suffocated.
In fractional fight among the Nor.
mons of Independence, Mo-, the church
building of the sect was wrecked.
In Kansas the wheat acreage is 81
per cent. greater than last wear, and
the prospects for crop were unusually
good.
AFTER a years illness J. b. Grinnell.
founder of the town of Grinnell, Ia.
died at the age of 70 years. He was a
member of congress from 1864 to 1855
The death of Mrs. Ellen Gray oc.
Cured in Milwaukee at the advanced
age Of 90 years and Q months
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09

The people of St. Petersburg seem to
get good deal of fun out of the long.
cold winters. At recent aristocratic
balls ice statues of celebrities have been
the fashionable decorations. Famous
sculptors did not disdain to try their
skill in this line, and the figures were
most effective when placed among
shrubs and plants and lighted up by
many colOred lamps.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-09

In Chinese smuggling case at Utica.
N. Y, it was argued that Cinnamon
may come from Canada to this country
in rowboats, such crafts not being
vessels within the meaning of the
statute. United States District Judge
Cox held that the law was broad
enough to cover coming to this country
by whatever MEANS but promised to
give the question further considera-