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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20

steps and learns. to walk upon her toes.
This, which, when well done, always
eicits applause, is by no means So diff
cult as it appears. In reality, the dancer
walks on her big toes, and the others do
notttouoh the ground. The big toe is
bent slightly, toward the others, so that
the pressure is as much on the side as,
on the end. But il is far more difficult
to use the arms gracefully than the legs
on the stage. In order to find this out,
q person has only to take 8 stick and
wave it after the manner 81 q stage
fairy. There must be no angles, and
the curves and movements must be
made very slowly in order to be effect
i've. i The dancer must know how to
hinder her body from following the
movement of, her arms or, her legs.
Whatever steps she may be taking with
her feet, whatever curves she may make
with her arms, her body should be il re-
pose, as though her limbs were uncon-
nected with It. TO realize the effect Of
T graceful movement. let any one observe
the movements Of q bad dancer on the
stage. Instead OF only dancing from
her waist, her body is twisted this way
and that With every step she takes, and
thus she produces the impression Of a
young heifer indulging in gambols. -
'LO72d03l Truth. -!.:t&qtHa7 X ,Eg:o? -.,..s..
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20
Learning the Ballet.

To learn how To- dance on the stage
requires considerable time. A girl Is
first taught to turn her feet out by
standing with the toe Of eacn foot to
the heel OF the other. The next thing
is TO give her 20 point. This is done,
by seating her on form with one leg
strapped to il at the nee-joint, while Z
person presses the toe down 20 sass %
arch the instep. Then she b told 20
hold on to q bar and TO throw each leg
as high g possible without bending the
knee. This exercise loosens the joints
and renders them supple. After daily
work Of this kind during some months,
and aometime1 ysar1 Tho eirl = tsught
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20
Character in Voices.

81 I have noticed as q fact that struck
me as being peculiar that the bravest
and largest wild animals always had
deep voices, and that they were gener-
ally melodious, full of music as it were ;
while the small fry, which would run
from a common cur, had high, harp
voices. I have hunted with some of
the bravest men, the best scouts and
the most famous hunters in the West,
and ] found that they also had heavy
tones as q rule, and deduced from this
that the highest order of animals, those
that were brave and daring, were also
deep ia voice, and that their intonations
never Jared on the ear. When I saw
that the heroes IN an opera were tenors,
il struck me IS an odd idea that thin
voiced animals were seldom I. courage
Gus III actual life as their deeper toned
congeners, and this has caused me to
express It here, to see il it is in any
way founded on fact, or whether it is q
mere artificial system Of display 81:
Sporting Adventures IN the Far
Vest. 81
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Now Russian Wolves Capture Wild
81 Horses.

, Whenever wolves associate together
for mischief, there is always numerous
train of smaller ones to follow in the
rear, and act as auxiiaries in the work
of destruction. Two large wolves are
sufficient to destroy the most powerful
horse, and seldom more than two begin
the assault, although there may be a
score in the gang. It is no less curious
than amusing to witness their ingenious
mode Of attack. If there is no snow, or
but little on the ground, two wolves ap.
proach in the most playful and caress-
ing manner, lying, rolling and frisking
about, until the too careless and unsus-
pecting victim is completely put off his
guard by curiosity and familiarity.
During this time the gang, squatting,
are looking on at distance. After
some time spent this way, the two assail-
ants separate, when one approaches the
horses. head, the other his tail, with
shyness and cunning peculiar to them
selves. At this stage of the attack their
frolicsome approaches become very in
teresting; the former is mere decoy,
the latter is the real assailant, ard keeps
his eyes steadily fixed on the ham
strings or tanks of the horse. The
critical moment is then watched, and
the attack is simultaneous; both wolves
spring at their victim at the same in
stant-one to the throat, the other to
the farmland if successful, which they
generally are, the hind one never lets
go his hold till the horse is completely
disoh1o1 Tnstaa1 If a,,ri n oin n foruard
Or kicking to disengage himself, the
horse turns round and round, without
attempting defense. The wolf before
then springs behind to assist the other.
The sinews are then cut, and in half the
time have been describing it the horse
is on its side; his struggles are fruit
less-the victory is won. At this signal
the lookers-on close in at a gallop; but
the small-fry of followers keep at re-
spectful distance until their superiors
are gorged, and then take their turn
unmolested
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4 Benevolent >Israellte.

% About twenty-five years ago, q rich
Jew died in New Orleans. The city
:mourned Judah Touro. He had
cheered hundreds by his secret benef-
cence, and among merchants had been
honored as "the. Israelite without guile,
# He WAS an eccentric man., Money
flowed into his Golfers, and yet he did
not love: it Of itself, nor for the lux
uries it placed at his command. He
lived in q plain way, and did large
business with but q single clerk. 49,.
He had but one purpose-and it was
his single passion-to do good to men.
To carry it out he toiled and denied
himself. A-t'% r. y H.: %:''ss ~ - ~
J. He gave away, secretly, thousands
of dollars during his life. At his death
half :; Of his large fortune was left to
charitable and religious institutions.
, The other half was given to friend
who saved his life at the battle of New
Orleans. H':'r 'TSt '''
" An anecdote illustrates his eccentric
benevOlence. .~:.j 90. ...
y A poor widow, with several children,
had not q cent. She was without food
or decent clothes. Her rent was over
due, and the landlord threatened to
turn her into the street.
In her misery she thought of the rich
Jew. :. He was known as benevolent
man; he might take pity on her. She
went to him and began to tell her pitt
full story.
Long before she had concluded, Mr..
TOurO had filed up check, Giving it
to her, he begged her to go and draw it
at once. She presented it at the bank,
and the teller. seeing her badly dressed,
refused to pay it.
B.. Thinking that Mr.. Touro had insult
ed her, she hastened back, and, handing
him the check, remarked that it i'll be-
came arich man to mock poor widow.
"My dear madam" said the aston
ished Israeite, lit is all I can spare to-
day; it is, I know, a small sum, but
it is all I can spare now"
T. "But the bank officer refused to give
anything for it," replied the woman.
= "Oh, yesl I see it all; he requires
proof of your identity. Here" turning
TO the clerk, Ego down to the bank with
this LADY, and tell them to pay the
check?"
As the check was for ST. 800, the teller
had properly refused to pay it to a
woman whom he did not know and who
was so acknowledging.
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tell you the rest? Do, my dear Helen, be good
enough to say that ImaY. ~ E
p With all my heart lax fas@NsWTTrn, .-.

enough 10 say that may. #35ssS$ g. r5.
With all my heart, .ass75 aas WILL"
The old gentleman looked at the en-
velope; it was certainly addressed to him.
"Hm, ha! So that the way the. wind
blows, my fine young mani! And this is
the way you attend to my business in
town, Is lt2'' g. = ~
] After Mr.. Bray had leisurely eaten his
breakfast, he sat down at his desk and
enclosed the letter to William Adds,
ESQ.,, adding a note to say that if he were
in Springfield he should be glad to have
him stop and tell hlm the rest; and as it
was, he would like to finish that game Of
chess any evening with him. !. s
Amore wllted young man never lived
than was Will Adds when he received
Mr.. B1ay's letter. What in the world
had he sent to HELENE
He hurried up his business, and on his
return stopped at Springfield, where he
soon, made it all rig ht with her.
She could not get over laughing when
she read at home the letter he had writ
ten to her. "The idea of calling father
My darling!'" she said. sslf you have
such names as that for your father-in-law,
what are you going to call me, sira"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20

IT is popular idea that every por-
ton of the globe furnishes in some tree,
shrub, plant or mineral remedy for
the diseases prevalent in that section.
It is also very generally believed that
the seedlings produced in any part of
the country will be found specially
adapted to the soil and climate of that
region-very hardy and productive.
Many persons who raise promising seed
ling fruit trees, and who find that they
fail in the region where they are pro-
duced, make no effort to test their value
in other localities. It would be the
part of wisdom, however, to send speci-
mems to remote portions of the country
for the purpose of allowing local horti-
culturists to test their merits. The
fruit produced on a Seeding apple tree
originated in Kentucky may rot on the
branches and be declared worthless.
But tree of this variety planted in
Michigan might mature its fruit in
prime condition. The Maiden's Blush,
which is summer apple along the Ohio
river, is an excellent late fall apple in
this vicinity, and late keeper in North
ern Wisconsin. The Roxbury russell
and Rhode Island Greening, which keep
well till April and May in the New En-
gland States, not infrequently rot on
the trees in Kentucky and Tennessee.
A gentleman near this city raises some
apples which he is able to keep nine
months. They are the product OF trees
procured in Georgia, where, singularly
enough, the fruit npens in June and
decays before autumn commences
CHICAGO Times, .se.* 10. T,as. sss~.saa-s -
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A Bit of Daring.

A Western paper tells the story
OF Steve Venard's fight with three rob-
bers in 1866. The stage coming to
Nevada, Col, had been robbed BY three
men, and the streasure-box taken. A
party set out for its recovery. Venard,
armed with a Henry rifle, followed the
trail alone. into. one of the widest and
toughest of spots in that wild and rug
ged region. The hills hung steep
above. The waters of the ravine came
tumbing down it's steep bed of bowl
ders with rush and. noise which rem
dered no other sounds audible. Venard
attempted to Cross the stream at the
head OF the fall. He walked on short
log to a rock. Above, him rose the
huge mass Of granite, buttressed in
front by two smaller rocks. Between
these latter was an alley which led to
the base of the Titan. His position was
sucn as to look up the alley. Atthe
base of the great rock Venard discov-
cred the leader of the gang sit
ting on the ground drawing his
revolver. Venard leveled his
rife upon the robber, twenty feet
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other ofthe gang pointing at him over
the edge of a rock. There was no time
to change his aim. He fired; the leader
fell back, shot through the heart. The
other robber attempted to shield, him
self farther behind a rock, leaving the
point of his pistol exposed over the
top. Venard covered the spot with his
une1ring Henry, and when the head of
tie robber peered over the top hi,
brain was pierced with bullet. There
was yet another, but he was not to be
seen. His pistol might at that mo-
ment be pointing at Venard. The
latter clambered up to beard HIM in his
den. He found the treasure, took the
pistols from the dead, covered quickly
the former with earth and leaves, and
proceeded to hunt the missing robber.
He found him running up the mount
ain, sixty yards or more ahead. We
nard fred and the robher fell. Another
bullet, and the last robber rolled down
the hill-dead.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20
Mother Worship In India -Strange Ira,
QluOuSs -, z.-

A wvitor IN tho T,ondon dfhooo rpo,o,o
sava aNIotha- no.sl;n :, aa,an s ta -,
~ athar = ths Muts - svHs ~ IT,
n tha e.. 80 , .,1oae ona "Gis - ath !.
ia van o dsy e, pHs5y fsaE %ot he,.
cb;ldran T = a1.nast go. 10y H.. * 10
hos it, cun snao;a; g1ar 49, : atheS
called Mana - M e, - tha ao,, 1917 y Z
India Amman1 Thera' ars 40 oh k'1 Ia AZ
distinct mothers n 4niar 81 i a as II -
the Rrahnoins F. Ia d ;ffaront fn-,n .. IL
s;va,a 'enn.ort - u, n Tbev so ,oa1I1 tha
renresentat;yas ~ .anc;ent loce1 da;t;e es
Crane, devastasa. 'vorsh;naI' n. ;: tSa
inhah;tonts froro +;ma ;noIpo,no ~. NY T
v;s;tad = s,ooa11 1;li 49, 49,. Ta;r. - :
s;dad 900 hr ,aotbo- -e .rorsh;naa ; p ~
dor ~ w a ~ KpoS:Sa. r THf;aaia - -
$500 o~. 80 - nae SSas ntscnetl, ,!e
b 1a'e sue - sap?ossu t Wnen - gu anna
NJ NJ - o 49, - so Sne e. siom 1.al ILL
~ - $40 LEU unues1ivne otIel natne, TOT
1ne w.. . .atI scna9souS Mnen nel !e.a
bra a onto ~ nefteo1: ;,ianau RSah
Hf; NIL: ~ 1s :ue tInateie' u.no5
oust no a - neuess1 h ~ ne oneaueu anu
far;nn w e "p0, nar1.ns o h~ pioaa %,
other roother IN - 9a;ooIo ,I,v +;,,a ~
is worah;nad nnder tbe nona e Tnta;
She has tba anec;ai fnnct;nn - 49,
venting or TnGrodnc;no conoh IN ch;i.
dren An6tRer Named Rera1 nrevants
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20
~ Daughters, wives and McchorS.. 81
3. 3; MAkCHISPs UTERINE OATHOLICON vii

-. Dauxhter., Wives ana Moclsors. 81 !
Roe,fveiy eIre Female Weakness, such q Falling Of
g. me W9mo, Incidental Hemorrhags or Flooding
An OLD s1d reliable remedy. Send postal card for
phystctsns and patients, to HOWARTH BALLARD
UTICA N. Y. Sold BY al Druggists per bottle
sob, howl do wish my skin was as
clear and soft as yours, said lady tc
her friend. a"You can easily make II
so,n answered the. friend. Shove
inquired the first lady. tsBy using Hor
Bitters, that makes pure, rich blood and
blooming health It did for me, as You
observe" Read of it.-Bvlzetiu. 81 :
In regard to the method Of colorina
butter; The theory is that cows, when
well fed and cared for will make yellow
butter; the fact is that not one in ten
will, except in times, of flush pasture.
This is just the reason that the very best
dairymen in this: country use Wells
Richardson & Co.'s Perfected Butter Col
Or.-M00r6'8 Ralr1Z. ,,,~ 5.-.
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TWO

~, &
To one he brought the rarest flowers ID d
That gold could buy,
And gave them with courteous smile
Thatmasked sigh. i. z. ~.
Upon the other he bestowed,
With scarce look,
A few wild violets, gathered by
A way side brook.
When from the skies, that golden day,
Went outthe sun,
OF all the flowers the first received
Remained not one!
Some lured the swans, some gaily graced
The fawn she, petted: ~, s,rts g....x-- e-,.s
Some decked her starling's cage; all died, I
Not one regretted. .&&1S ;
The other, shyly from the world
Turned her apart,
And hid her wayside violets
Upon her heart.
And he who gave to each that day
Such different share,
By one was scorned; the other breathed Il
His name in p, aver.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20
"A! Buried Race in Kansas.

. It is we'll known that the wrought
stone implements found in the ancient
river grayelso California prove con-
clusively that during 4or before the
glacial period the Pacific coast was in
habited; by man. In q report on
archaeological, explorations in Kansas,
Judge 2. P. West, Of that State, pre-
sented . large amount of evidence to
show that st an equally remote period
that region was peopled by o race com
pared with which the mound builders
must be accounted modern 5st>,gsi A.. -.
The geology Of the region is simple.
Prior to the drift epoch the river chan
nels were deeper than now, and the
river valleys were lower. Subsequently
the valleys were: filed by a lacustrian
deposit Of considerable depth. In or
beneath this last deposit the remains of
an extinct race occur. " -. 80
L. Such remains have been found at
various depths in seven different coun-
ties along or near the Kansas Pacific
railroad, namely, Douglass, Pottawato-
n1ie,.: Riley, Dickinson, Marion, Ellis
worth and Lincoln counties. With one
exception, the remains have all been
found on the second bottom or terrace
of streams, and consist of stone imple-
ments, pottery, human bones and bone
implements. In most cases they were
struck in digging wells at q depth of
from twenty to thirty feet below the
surface In view of the fact that there
is not more than one we'll to the square
mile in, the counties named, and the
area of a well forms but a. very small
fraction of square mile, Judge West
thinks the evidence already obtained
not only sufficient to prove the former
existence Of the buried race, but to
prove that they we're very numerous,
We can hardly assume that chance has
directed the digging Of wells only
where human remains are buried.
y: Whether the race existed before the
glacial epoch or Immediately after it is
too early to determine. Judge West is
inclined to fix their time of occupancy
as after the glacial epoch and prior to
the deposition Of the Loess. In calling
upon the local newspapers of Kansas to
lay the facts before the people and
urging the propriety of saving such re-
mains when found, and noting carefully
the conditions under which they occur;
the Judge says: r.
"Here we have a buried race en-
wrapped in a profound and startling
mystery-a race whose appearance and
exit in the worlds drama precede still
pendous geological changes marking
our continent, and which, perhaps, re-
quired hundreds of thousands of years
in their Accomplishment. The prize is
no less than determining when this
mysterious people lived, how they lived,
when they passed out of existence, and
why they became extinct" --Scientifc
Am ericn72
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Cutting Oranges and Apples.

10 cut the orange, make two parallel
cuts, through the skin only, leaving a
continuous band about an inch wide
round the body of the orange. Remove
the rest of the peel. Gut through the
band once, just over one of the natural
divisions, and gently force the whole
open, and out, leaving each section de-
tached from the other, but still fast to
the band of peel
The apple is cut by setting the blade
OF a narrow, sharp-pointed knife in the
oblique position of the intended cut,
and pushing it, point first, directly to
the core. When all the cuts are so
made, the apple will come apart in a
very pretty manner. Care must be
taken not to let the knife slip through
the apple into the hand.
10 Here is E good though not a new way
to cut an apple SO that it will look whole
and unmarked while in the dish, but,
when pared, will fall to pieces without
being cut with knife:
Take a fine needle and thin, strong
thread; insert the needle at the stem of
the apple in such a way that the point
will come out again away from the stem
and short distance from the first in
sertion; pull the needle and thread
through very carefully, SO as not to
break the skin or enlarge the holes,
leaving a few inches of thread hanging
at the stem. Then put the needle back
into the second hole, thrust it in the
same direction as before, bringing out
the point still farther from the stem, and
again pull the thread through. Go
on in this way Straight around the
apple, and, when tho thread comes out
at the stem, pull it By: both ends very
carefully, until it. hiss cut entirely
through and comes out o. the apple. Il
parted now the fruit would fall in
halves, but, by. working the thread
round under the skin as before, at right
angles to the first cut, and again pulling
the thread quite through at the stem
the apple will fall into quarters.
+ After a little practice the cutting car
be done SO skillfully that only very
keen eye will be able to find out how ii
was accomplished.-St. Nicholas.
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The SUMS Light,

The sun is, in round numbers, says
the Edinburgh RevieD, $4,000, 900 miles
from the earth. But the vibrations of
light pass across the vast chasm that
lies between the sun and the earth
in eight and one-fourth minutes or
in 1876 seconds of time. In order, how
ever, that they may accomplish the long
journey in such time, they must travel
with speed of nearly $4,000 miles in
second, or, in other words, with We
locity 100000 times greater than that
with which the vibrations of sound are
propagated through the air. The dis
covery of the rate of the propagation of
light was made in very ingenious and
remarkable way by the Danish astrono-
mer Roemer just two centuries ago.
lie was at that time residing at Paris
and engaged in observing the move
ments of the satellites of Jupiter, and,
while doing SO, he happened to notice
that the return of the first satellite into
the shadow of the planet took place
after a perceptibly-longer interval with
each successive recurrence. After 100
returns, the satellite was fifteen minutes
behind what should, to appearance,
have been the proper instant for its
plunge into the shadow. While re-
hecting upon the possible cause
of this retardation and irregularity,
it occurred to Roemer that, dur
ing the entire period of this observed
retardation, the planet itself had been
getting further and further away from
the earth, as it swept on in its vast or
bit, and that, if the indication of it's
position and behavior had to be con-
veyed to the earth by an agent which
required time for it's progress, that
agent would obviously need more time
for the performance of its passage
when the planet was far away than
when it was near. Subsequent calcula-
tons Of more refined and exhaustive
character established the fact that the
eclipse of the satellite occurred 163
minutes later when the earth was on
the opposite side of the sun to the
planet than when it was between the
sun and the planet; or, in other words,
that the vibrations of light required 163
minutes to make their way across the
entire breadth Of the earth's orbit, OF
81 minutes to traverse the half Of that
breadth, which is the same thing as the
distance of the sun from the earth.
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failure in business, a wreck IN constitu-
ton, nothing to, boast of as a: beauty,
nothing as q wit, less than nothing as a
legislator for woman s rights, and even
brilliant as . membet Of the press; but if
he is our own father; we overlook his
shortcomings and cover his speccadilloea
with the divine mantle of charity. Then,
as our husbands, how we love to parade
them as paraggons In the sublime Ian
guage Of the Inspired poet: 'sa ''.s.z: ;,
Wen lie for them, - - s. 500
Wen cry for them, : t -Iai4aSo,a%i sssss?' /;
~ h And if we could, we'd fly for, them
4 Wed do anything but die Tor Them
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Put it to Proof.

At time when the community is flooded
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tons, it is refreshing to find one that is bcneici
of DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consumption
Of the worth of their remedy, that they Offer
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certainly would be disastrous to them did moi
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for Consumption will positively cure Asthma
Quinsy, Hoarseness, Group, or any affection OF
the throat and lungs. AS you value your ex.
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calling on any druggist and obtaining tria,
bottle free of cost, or regular size bottle TO,
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