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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
DANGER IN BOTTLED GOODS.
Prof. Swings Opinion of All Drinks Tha
Come in Hotties.

Prof. Swings Opinion of All Drinks That
Come In Bottles.
s. Bottled goods are dependent for
their existence upon the general ig-
norance of the human race as to
the reason and value of water Not
all men, women and boys would ask
much happiness or profit from bottled
goods did they know the goodness and
absolute joy of water. Even ginger ale
and apollinaris are poor, false, painted
creatures compared with good, pure
water: When the English, German
and American physical machinery has
become clogged with the sediment of all
kinds of alcoholic and diabolic drinks it
is taken to some natural springs to be
washed out. Gallons of water will
sometimes wash clean all the human
filters and send back the machine to
new life and new happiness. When the
old lady in the dimness of her eyesight
oiled the kitchen clock by means of
feather dipped in the gum-arabic jug
the pendulum felt fresh for time, but
the false oil soon closed in on the wheels
and the time-piece ceased to mark the
hours.
"When the old lady's son, home from
college, learned all the facts of the case
he took down the machinery and soaked
it for two hours in a tub of warm water
Thus men, half-dead by means of bottled
goods can often have life extended by
means of most copious draughts of good
water. The water washes the soiled
fabric of the flesh" His conclusion of
the whole matter is that ''water is the
best thing. Chicago Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
DANGERS or DRINK IN AFRICA.

49,
The Deadly Effects of strong Drink In the
Tropics.
Sobriety of life is an absolute neces-
sity if you wish to live long and well in
Africa. In fact, the safest general rule
would be to abandon the consumption
of all forms of alcohol whatever from
the day that you land on African soil,
unless wines, spirits or beer are actual
~ forced on you by aqualified doctor as
necessary medicine. If you are really
i'll and are positively ordered to drink
some form of alcohol it should not be
drunk until after shutdown. Alcohol
taken during the daytime in Africa is
simply poison to white man-an in
sidious poison if you like, and one that
often DISCUSSES its effects, so that care
less observer might attribute them to
other causes-but a deadly poison all
the same, and perhaps the more deadly
because the punishment it inficts is not
readily recognizable. Unfortunately,
especially among the British, alcoholic
excess is terribly prevalent; I mean
what may be called excess in Africa,
but what in England would be looked
upon as the allowance of temperate,
sober man. And that is where so many
good men 60 wrong. They can not be
brought to understand that because
they do not drink till they get drunk,
and because what they are taking for
their daily consumption in Africa is not
a drop more than they consumed in En-
gland, they are nevertheless exceeding,
and piling up in their systems store of
poison which will either result in ter
ribly sudden death or the shattering of
their health.-H. Fl. Johnston, in Fort
nightly Review.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
TUFTS Liver Pills
CURE CHlLLS AND FEVER.
PfIee, z6e. Once, 30 4 81 Park Piaes, r. Z
Syrup

Here is something from Mr.. Frank
A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt
House, Lewiston, and the Tontine
Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel men
meet the world as it comes and goes,
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost q
father and several brothers and Sis
tiers from Pulmonary Consumption,
and is himself frequently troubled
with colds, and he
Hereditary often coughs enough
to make him sick at
Consumptionhis stomach. When
ever he has taken a
cold of this kind he uses Boschee's
German Syrup, and it cures him
every time. Here is a man who
knows the full danger of lung trou-
bles, and would therefore be most
particular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinion? Listen! II
use nothing but Boschee's German
Syrup, and have advised, l presume,
more than hundred different per-
sons to take it. They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrup
In the MARKET" o
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

ACCORDING to the estimates of French
a.4d German statisticians there per-
sshed in the wars of the last thirty
FEARS 100000 men, while there has
been expended to carry them on the
sum of $1S, 600, 600, 900. OF this amount
france paid nearly $500, ooO, 900 as the
cost of the war with Prussia, while her
loss in men is placed at $4,000. OF
these $4,000 were killed on the field of
battle, $4,000 died of sickness, accidents
or suicide, and 10000 in German pris-
ons, while there died from other causes
enough to bring the number up to the
given aggregate. The sick and wound
ed mum bered 477.421,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

The preliminary work upon the Mic
nragua canal is now all completed A
belt ten miles long and five hund.ed feet
wide has been hewn through the forests
Mt 4 cost of 100000 and the actual
work of excavation will at once be be-
gun. There is every reason to believe
that this will be accomplished with pro-
portionate speed and satisfaction. The
Nicaragua canal is an American enter
prise, controlled by American money
and brains and in its success all amer
leans will have right to feel proud.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

The announcement came from Wash
ington the other day that number of
United States Senators had been
swlndled by man calling himself
William Duvall, residence! Baltimore,
who wrote to each statesman inform
ing him that he had named his first
born child after him and setting forth
that he (the father) was in financial
straits, being prevented from working
BY 9 broken leg. Some of the Senators,
o stated, sent currency, to which
others added silver mugs appropriately
inscribed and other articles Of value. it
was believed he would be prosecuted tor
III anegal money-making operations
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

AN effort is to be made in Germany
to bore for oil and natural gas. The
fact that Russia is one of the greatest
oil-producing countries in the world has
stimulated the hope that similar de-
posts may underlie the fatherland. 1t
is very agreeable to Americans to learn
that the tools and supplies necessary in
these tests have been ordered from the
United States. With no desire to boast
it can be truthfully said that the con.
quests which American brains are max.
Ing abroad afford every reason for Amer,
lean complacency. The acquisition o1
territory is idle pastime compared with
this growing intellectual supremacy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

FOLLOWING are few Of the items of
the first square meal consumed by Sig
nor Succi after the conclusion of his
forty-fve days fast in New York: But
tered anchovies, caviare, chicken soup
with rice, fried calves brains, quail on
toast, fruit, ice-cream and coffee" All
OF these dishes the Italian swept clean
without pause. A lot of dyspeptic
millionaires paid sums ranging from
one to five dollars for the privilege of
seeing succi devour the repast, and the
majority of them would doubtless have
been willing to give one thousand dol
lars for his appetite.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

IT is estimated that $40, Zoo, 900 has
been spent in the last twenty years on in
ventions for new type-setting machines.
Within the last year, however, there has
been a notable revival of interest in
type-setting machines, and the predic-
ton is made by many that it is now only
question of a short time when, for or
binary and straightforward work, the
machines will be in general use. As
there are no less than dozen different
Inventions now before the public, or
soon to be placed before the public, the
advocates of mechanical type-settine
have chance to prove their prediction
fI1o
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

In the war of the revolution the COL
onies had 1871, 461 men. In the war of
1912 the United States had $1,000 men.
In the war with Mexico the United
States had 1920 men. In the war of
the rebellion the United States had
e.2l3,365 men. The war of the revolu-
ton cost the United States s135, 1913, 703.
The war Of 1912 cost the United States
6107, 159,003 The war with Mexico cost
the United States 500, OOO, 900. The war
of the rebellion cost the United States
C6, 589, 920, 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

THERE is a project to construct ship
canal across New Jersey from the Della
ware river to the Atlantic. The scheme
was first suggested by merchants of
Philadelphia, who desire a shorter water
route to New York and an abbreviation
of the journey of hundreds of miles
down the hay and around Cape May to
strike the ocean paths to Europe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

New YORK buys more lace than any
other city in the world, and there are
said to be scores of New York ladies
chose collections of lace vary in value
from $4,000 to $4,000. The Wander
bits possess laces which rival the Prus-
sian and Austrian crown laces, and are
valued at 100000. The late Mrs. Astor
had lace dress that cost $4,000, and
another was recently sold to an Amer
lean lady for So. 900.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

IT is said that no graduate of Vassar
College has ever been divorced from her
husband. Such is the statement of .
man who married one of them, and who
declares that the young ladies who have
been educated at the college are the
best cooks IN the world.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

A PARROT in Connecticut is one hun
bred and eighteen years old. 1t has
peen for one hundred years in one fam
1y, having descended from father to
son through two or three generations.
Think Of the marvellous toughness of
the bird. Probably it has been asked
thirty-six million five hundred thousand
times in its life if it didn't want a
cracl<er.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
Paid a Pension Of a1o. 0oO.

John Bossidy, United States pension
examiner at St. Paul, finished his years
work by making out the necessary
papers for the payment of pension of
$4,000 to Vanness Robinette, a blind
man, who served in the rebellion as a
member of Company NJ, Twenty
second Minnesota Cavalry. Robinette
lost his sight from the effects of disease
contracted in the service.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
LITER
Emma Abbott Dead.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 5.-Em-
ma Abbott, the great American prima
donna, died in this city to-day of pneu-
monia. She was taken i'll on Wednes-
day night, but persisted in going on
the stage and singing her part in "Er-
manu." Notwithstanding her physicians
advised her not to. On New Years day
she was taken alarmingly i'll and a
conference of physicians was ordered.
From that time she has grown worse
until this morning when she died.
The scene at the death bed was pa
thetic one. The great singer was con-
scious almost to the last moment, de-
spite the fact that opiates had been ad-
ministered. Her last words on earth
were: II am not afraid to die" There
were present at the bedside Alice Eller-
ton, Miss Fellie Franklin, Miss Vernon;
Mr.. Pruette, her manager; Mr.. Michel
ena, Miss Annandale, of the company;
Manager Pratt and wife of the hotel,
and DR.. Pinkerton.
The body was embalmed and enclosed
in handsome casket and will go from
here to Denver, thence to Chicago and
thence to Gloucester, Mass, where her
husband is buried. Her will provides
for that disposition Of her. remains.
Two years ago to-day her husband died
at Denver, also of pneumonia.
THERE is great activity in naval cir
cles at Washington growing out of the
controversy with England over the
Behring sea fisheries. Under the pres
eut orders, no less than eleven war
ships and five revenue cutters will
soon be in commission in the Pacific
and ready for duty. If in addition the
rumored chartering and arming of sew
en- steamers for revenue cutter duty.
in Behring sea proves correct, the
United States naval force will number
twenty-three ships, against the five
British gunboats and one armored yes
sci at present protecting Great Brit
aims interests in the North Pacific.
The force bill was practically shelved
on the 5th, in the Senate BY the action
Of the silver men and the opponents of
the bill. 1t was brought about BY
Stewart of Nevada upon motion to
take up the bill to provide against the
contraction of the currency.
The war department has given orders
that settlers who are obliged to leave
their homes on account of the Indian
troubles shall have government ations
issued to them. Be
. GEO. PECK was inaugurated Governor
Of Wisconsin on the 5th. The drst dem.
ocrattc governor n ltyeafs
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
A NEW FUEL.
Crude Petroleum and Cold Air Are TIL
Raw Materials. Ess

Raw Materials.
James Leedy, a German inventor,
who has been carrying on his experiment
in Minneapolis for over year, believes
that he has solved the cheap fuel prob
lem. He proposes to manufacture gas
by dropping a stream of crude petro-
leum through blast of cold air from a
force pump. The gas thus obtained
will be confined in regular cylinder
open at one end, where the gas is to be
lighted. In the experiments which
have been tried the fame has been sew
eral feet in length, and. intensely hot.
The inventors plan is to heat boilers by
means of this fame, and he believes
that the cost of heating large blocks
can be reduced to from $50 to 500 a
month. Mr.. Leedy was in Washington
getting his invention patented. A local
company has been formed, and T. w.
Wilson was one of the capitalists in
tereSted
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

If fifty years ago man had been told
that destructive shell, capable of de-
stroying small craft, could be project
ed fifteen miles at sea he would have
secuted the idea as an absolute impossi-
bility. Yet this feat was accomplished
not once but many times recently at
Sandy Hook by Government engineers
experimenting with an new thirty-foot
rided gun.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

The increase of about one million
people in thirteen years in Spain is at
tributed in great measure to the sue
cess that has attended the changes in
the hygienic condition of the cities and
large towns.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

Mrs. RICHARD A. PROCTOR proposes
to perpetuate the memory of her famous
husband by building q $685. 900 observa-
tory on Mission Heights, San Diego,
Cal. She means to raise the money by
1oo<uripr
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
Died Suddenly.

The proposed happy celebration of
the golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Evans Sr., of Minneapolis,
parents of Robert Evans Jr., has be-
come one of mourning instead. The
mother died suddenly. Mr.. and Mrs.
Evans had been stopping with rela-
tives in Owatonna for several months,
and it was in that city Mrs. Evans
died.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

CHEF GALL, who succeeds Sitting
Dull as head of the Sioux nation. led
the Indians in the battle that brought
defeat and death to Custer. He is not
only fond of fighting but is capable of
handling body of Indians successfully
when in the field, and has frequently
exhibited the qualities of generalship
lie Is, moreover, an Indian of some hon
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
Walked Three Miles In a Sewer

An employe of the sewer department
named Gustave Jason entered a man
hole in Minneapolis to clean it. He had
no light and lost his bearings. He
wandered about for two hours and
finally noticed that the sewer was get
ting smaller in dimensions and he
found place from whence he could
escape. by great exertions he reached
the surface in an exhausted condition,
having made q subterranean pedestrian
tour OF three miles,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08

-Swipsey "a newsboy) - "Hello,
Stokesey! How's trade?'' Stokesey
(shoestring vender) Trades rushin';
but / just took in q lead dime, and that
knocks the profits tor to-day."-Har.
peS'S Bazaar,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
Triple Tragedy in St. Paul.

Samuel Mickles, who lived in St.
Paul, returned from Minneapolis, and
calling on his wife and daughter shot
the latter in the face, the girl running
out into the street and falling dead on
the sidewalk. He then led his at
tention to his wife, shooting her in the
abdomen and then slashing her throat
with a razor. She was fatally wounded.
Mickles then ran into a back shed and
shot himself in the right ear, falling
dead. Family trouble was the cause.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
The EAST.


who had been in Boston selling horses.
was robbed of s7,4OO while asleep on
the night Pullman train.
j. E. PIERCE, secretary of the City
Building and Loan Association at Will
mington, Del, was said to be defaulter
to the extent of 81, 1000.
In New York Montgomery & Co., tea
auctioneers, failed for 500, 600.
AT Broderick Patch, Pa, Michael
Curley, a saloon-keeper, his wife and
Michael Hodek were murdered by John
Tirello, Hungarian. The murderer
escaped.
In Philadelphia Gerlach & Haries,
bankers and brokers, failed for $3.50, 900.
OFF Barnegat the schooner Lucinda
4. Potter capsized and seven men per-
ished
A. E. BATEMAN & Co., bankers in
New York, failed for $1,OOO,OOO.
AT Richford, VT, the mercury regis
tered 40 degrees below zero on the 3Oth
ult.
OVER 10000 stamped envelopes were
stolen from the Government stamped
envelope agency in Hartford, Conn.,, and
sold by one Fay, a former employee of
the agency.
AT Hicks Mills, Pa, Henry Lutz,
aged 50, was arrested on the charge of
numbering family in Germany thirty
years ago.
AT Troy, N. Y, John j. Reed was
sentenced to seven years imprisonment
for misplacing a switch or the New
York Central during the late strike on
that road.
FIRE destroyed the new portion of the
Clinton IN. w. prison, causing loss of
$500, 900.
AT the port of New York 81, 1893
steerage passengers were landed dur
ing 1890, against 315,223 during the
year 1889. There were 80, 1879 cabin pas
sengers landed, against 9O,6s6 in 1889.
AT Fairfield, Me-, the thermometer
registered 60 degrees below zero on the
31st ult.
ON Broadway, New York, a fire de-
stroyed block of buildings, including
the Fifth Avenue and Prof. Herrmann's
theaters. Total loss, $500, 1000.
A NEW YORK business agency in their
weekly review of trade reported that
business in many lines last year sur
passed that of any previous year:
WEST AND SOUTH.
On the 10Th "Uncle" Baldwin, living
near Marshall, NO., celebrated the Tooth
anniversary of his birth.
At noon four robbers entered the
Merchants Exchange Bank at South
Chicago, ILL.,, and ''held up the clerk in
charge. They got away with $1,000,
but after an exciting chase they were
captured.
1T was announced by the Second
Adventists in State convention at Bluff
ton, Ind, that the year 1891 would wit
ness the overthrow of all worldly king
doms and municipalities and the estab-
ishment of Christ's reign upon the
earth. ...
The death of Daniel Curren occurred
at Lima, O.. at the age of 1os years. He
was born In County Kerry, Ireland, in
1852. He has brother living aged 105.
HE recent battle in South Dakota
between the Big Foot hostiles and the
Seventh Cavalry resulted in the killing
OF twenty-four and wounding of thirty
three OF the cavalry troopers and the
almost wiping out of the Indian vii
lage, composed of about 10 warriors
and $50 women and children. Half .
dozen Indian children were all that
were left Of the entire hostile camp.
The Indians fred one of the schools on
the 3Oth ult. at the Catholic mission
near Pine Ridge, and in the fight which
followed six soldiers and many indians
were killed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


The official census of Germany gives
Berlin a population of 1,574,4s5. Ham
burg, $40, 543, Leipsic 1882 Munich
344, 1913 Breslau s24,71o, Cologne 2s2, 5s7
Dresden 276,0s5, Magdeburg 20O,O71
and Frankfort-on-the-M 179,s
On the 29th Mr.. Gladstone celebrated
his s1st birthday at his homo in Ha
warden. He received many present:
from his friends in the United State:
and England.
In London fire consumed a large
number of buildings, including St. Ben
cts Church, famous edifice. The los.
was estimated at $1,OO0,OOO.
In Europe intensely cold weather
prevailed, and in Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main
seven persons were found frozen to
death in the streets.
PRESIDENT D1Az, of Mexico, has up
proved the bill passed by the Congress
of that Republic admitting corn from
the United States free of duty.
FOLLOWERS of Pierola attempted a,
Lima, Peru, to start revolution by
capturing Fort Santa Catalina. A fierce
fight followed, in which seventy-tive Of
the insurrectionists were killed.
In the Old World the whole list Of
casualties during 1890 where the loss Of
life was large enough to bereported by
telegraph, including those who persisted
by disease and in battle, was 9o,7s0
against e6,sso the previous year.
In fire at Yohosake, Japan, owe,
800 houses were destroyed and three
persons were burned to death.
;: AT a school fete in Wortley. neal
Leeds, Eng, four children were burntc
to death.
In a powder house at Durango, Mex.
an explosion killed twelve men and ia,
tally injured three others.
In England family of five persons
without a home, who had been tramp
ing, were found by a roadside near Cam.
bridge all frozen to death.
BY an explosion in a coal-pit at
Bochum, Germany, nine men were
killed and ten others were not expected
to survive their injuries.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-08
The Cost Of Drink,

There are $4,000 gin-mills in full blast
day and night, engaged in turning out
criminals and paupers. The city treas
ury gets about 81, 0OO,O year in the
shape of licenses. It costs the CITY
nearly s5,0oo,ooo a year for a police
force, which is mainly employed in
looking after the criminals and dru1 k.
ards manufactured in these gin-mills.
The charities and corrections, police
courts and criminal courts cost from
100000 to $4,000, 900 a year-say
100000 q year all told Allowing
the gin-mi1ls credit for the 1000, 900
which they pay in licenses, we have
$6,O0O,000 left which the taxpayers are
compelled to pay in order to support
and care for the direct product of these
gin-mills. Why does the voter tax him
self out of house and home to paw a
debt he never contracted? Does he ever
reflect that it is his money the gin-mill-
keeper spends on fast horses and yearly
trips to Europe? Has he the moral
courage to throttle the vampire that is
sucking out his life-blood?-N. Y.
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