Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-27
A Professional Whittier.

/ William Yoke claims to be the
champion jack knife artist of the day,
although he was born in St Louis
aud not Yankeedom a Post-Dis-
patch reporter heard Of this profess
slonal lacerator of pine sticks and
sought him out. 1t was not until the
inside Of an unused Methodist Church
at Kirkwood, this country, was reach.
ed that Mr. Yoke and his knife were
conered The knife was slashing
cigar boxes to pieces at railway speed
when the reporter opened up with:
Are you the man who is making an
automatic worlds fair and St. Louis
Exposition with a knifel'
mo, that isn't what | call it. | am
making what | call the Missouri
Pacific and Strasbury Cathedral
Automatic Wonders, with the Gold
en- Ark Of the Covenant. 1t Will con
tam over 1870, 900 pieces and viii have
1, 100 moving and working figures
All around the gaunt and dismant-
led church were piles of cigar boxes
and laths and myriads of nicely
carved pieces of wood apparently
portions of models of buildings. The
whittier was a small man, with keen
eyes and ready tongue, and about 80
years Of age. In the course of an
hours conversation he said in sub
stance: II din't know that was
anything extra of "a whittier until
about 1869, when in a small way |
made some models. | was in Texas
working a millwrighting. The first
Il. dol
Of a Bermuda Castle Afterward |
made Calmoral Castle, Bingen Cas-
tie, Mramar Castle, the Steamer
Bristol, Solomon's Temple, and the
Texas State Capitol at Austin Solo
mon Temple contained ~, PCS pieces,
and had 1869 windows 1t is now
on exhibition in Texas. The Austin
Capitol Building 63, GA pieces and
56l moving people. Every room and
department in the building was given,
J with all the officers and Legislators.
Everybody was represented, down to
the man saving wood in the base.
ment for the furnaces. All the figures
were moved by a wooden engine,
which was run by sand falling on an
Overshot wheel. / made this piece at
odd moments in 1880.
81 have Just hired this church and
begun steady work | shall sleep and
eat in this church until about May 1,
next. The material Yes it takes
considerable l have already used
up y67 cigar boxes and 800 laths. 1t
I win take in all 1 500 cigar boxes. 500
laths. and 500 feet of lumber. The
cigar boxes | get for one cent each.
fused no tools except my knife,
by Ginger, lie Looked Mighty Pale
Prairie Farmer
= One day they were talking i'm I'm
Gle Hanks grocery about large bed
bugs and tough bed bugs
r II boiled a bedbug nine hours and
b it swan around ON top all the time,
said old Clifford
i put a bedbug in a kerosene
b lamp, said Charley Campbell kept
il there -four years, and it Matched out
D. twenty seven litters of bedbugs right
in the kerosene.
4 Old Hank Allen, who had been lis
II teuing as am outsider here gave in hi,
. experience i'm correlation of the facts
SAID he.
"Some years ago | took bedbug tC
Woods iron foundry and dropped i
into "a ladle where the melted iron
I was and had Il run into a skillet
& Well, my old woman used that skllle
for six years, and here the other day
g She broke ID all to smash. and wha
= do You think gentlemen that err
insect Just walked out of his hol
= where he'd been layin like a frog I'M;
:, rock, and made tracks for his ole rOos
/. upstairs But, added by way of par
+ enthosis, by ginger he looked might,
pale
'r One of the best and most strength
euing drinks. as we'll as "a pleasantoue
10 give delicate child, is made b,
! beating up IA egg In "a tumbler with.
little sugar until IL frothS then OH
with rich milk. and have the chill
s drink ii at once Thenourishmeut ii
, the egg aud mills combined viii Su,
! tain the system an day If nothing els
is taken
.e The National Association of Tro
= ting Horse Breeders al New York
Y Saturday, elected U w II Mali Pre-.
I ident, Leland Stanford First Wee
Z and j. w Gray, Treasurer. Ther
n lsa balance ln the treasury ot So
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