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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-12
Yorkey Pete.

James Ward. who is known some
what extensively as ''Yorkey Pete,'' q
St. Louis bootEiack, arrived in this city
by the overland train recently. 'Pete,
who is a native OF New York, 10 years
of age. and who looks every inch a
''shiner,' called at the Examiner office
and gave an account of his much
checkered career. He says that at an
early age he ran away from a comfort
able home in the east, and after drift
inc about for many months landed in
st. Louis, having in his rambles be-
come possessed of a box with a piece
Of inch board nailed upon it, can of
backing, and y queer looking brush.
With this stock in trade he began bust
ness for himself. Resolved to become
some day man of Importance, he ap-
piled himself studiously, and he has
now the snug little sum of $4,000.
''Pete's' greatest achievement, and
one OF which he speaks with pride, was
the erection about a year ago Of $40,-
600 home for newsboys, on Olive street,
between Eleventh and Twelfth, in St.
Louis. To raise this money, he says,
he took the stump and in several
seasons lectures gathered sufficient
funds for the completion of the work.
A few years ago he organized a strike
among the St. Louis bootblacks, and
performed the great act of raising the
price of shines from to 10 cents.
pete will remain in San Francisco
for two months, after which he will 90
to Australia and thence to England,
occupying about twelve months in his
journeyings. When asked what he in
tended doing during his stay in this
city, he said he was going to walk
about and act like a gentleman. His
mother, he says, is one of the most fam
GUS actresses on the American stage.
San francisco Examiner.
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Sam Spauldiny and the Indian,

Sam Spaulding. OF Spaulding & Mer-
rick, Chicago, is known as :. practical
joker and fisherman from Portland,
Maine, to Portland, Oregon. There is
not I: trout stream in the United States
that he doesn't know ali about it. His
chief delight is brook-tlo,lt fishing. A
few years ago he spent Il month at Bay
field, on Lake Superior, engaged at his
favorite sport. Day after day Sam
would so out to see if he could not
catch enough SO that he could send, as
he had promised, a nice mess to his
partner, Ni"rcick, at Chicago, also to
his friend Hub Atkins, OF Milwaukee.
At length thc long anticipated good
day, and}good luck, came around. 1t
was the day that President Garfield
was :sssassinate.l that Sam pulled out
with his skilf for the mouth OF Onion
river, about fave miles from bayfield,.
Here he had . hnc catch, but not quite
enough, he thought, to ship in to his
friends. An Indian came along with 4
fine lot Of large brook trout That he had
caught in {: set net. They looked so
tempting to Sam that he asked Mr.. Lo
his price for them. The Indian re-
piled, Give dolla,' holding up five
fingers. Spaulding knew that it was
against the laws Of Wisconsin to catch
brook trout with set net, so he told
Lo he would give him Il dollar for his
fish, and if he refused to make the sale
that he would enter complaint against
him ut Bayfield,. Mr.. Indian concluded
it was best to take the dollar. Sam
took the fish, giving Lo a big drink
from his flask; bidding him good bye
he pulled out for Bayfield,. When he
reached the dock he found MIR. Indian
there waiting for him.
Indian: you pays me eight dolla.
Sam: "What for?''
LO: ''For dem fish.
1t seems that Spaulding did not
know that he was liable to 4 heavy fine
for having in his possession brook
trout that had been caught with net.
Lo: ''You pay heap quick. Me
know law BETA you. You no fool In
dian man. Ole man 60 read EN- law"
Sam, of course, consulted a. petifog-
ger and was advised to pay the Indian.
Squire w. charged ten dollars for his
advice. The next day it leaked out
that the red man and Squire w. had
divided the pot. Sa1l treated all the
boys, including Lo, shouldcred his fish
pole and started for home. His bloom
ing face and genial countcnance has
not been seen in Bayfield, since that day.
-Peck's San.
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Edward Payson Weston,

An American who has financially done
well in England is Edward Payson
Weston, the pedestrian. So thoroughly
Yankee in speech and person is Weston
that he is at once accepted in that coun
try us 9 representative American.
knew him well during his career in the
United States, and | regard him as a
most remarkable walker. 1t was not
SO much that he was able to leg it 500
miles in six days, and did it several
times before the long distance record
exceeded his limit of endurance, but
his more wonderful achievement was
that OF being a professional athlete
without any association with profess
sional sporting men. He did not for
years enter into race. His walks
were scientific tests of human endur.
ance.' | had to do with one of these
events rs a newspaper reporter
''Who arc to be the judges?' Iasked.
''Oh, I'll have Prof. Doremus, the
Rev. DR.. Hepworth, and Judge Daily"
he replied.
Nonsense" said l; ':they won't let
us use their names in connection with
q fOot-race.'
''See if they don't,' he confidently
retorted; land what's more, they will
actually serve-at least for the first
day.
And so they did. Moreover, they lent
him the money with which to pay the
preliminary expenses. He had been Il
book agent" That was /, calling in
which he developed wonderful ca
pacity for working and talking. His
responsiveness was equal to gaining the
names and presence of the three men
toned eminent men. Added to this
was 4 store of good luck. James Cor
don Bennett was among the spectators
at the midnight start. He is strong and
expert at nearly all kinds of exercise
including pedestrianism. The notion
took him to occupy the track with
Weston for the first mile. The next
mornings papers gave accounts of the
start, placing the professor, the divine,
and the Judge in the scorers stand and
che journalist on the track. Nothing
more was needed to command fashion
able attention. The building was
thronged throughout the week by people
in fine clothes. Ladies were abundant.
The distance covered by the pedestrian
was only 435 miles. for this was the oc-
casion OF one Of his several failures to
go the promised 500. Now that the go
as-you-please record has been raised to
675, Weston's earliest performances at
heel-and-toe walking seems insignif-
cant. Nevertheless, the 435 miles were
quite sufficient to satisfy the spectators
then, and he cleared nearly $4,000. I
see that he is now Flooding through
England as total abstinence pedestri-
an, travelling fifty miles every day and
lecturing on temperance every evening.
He will fool them on the distance walk
ed if he gets the chance, for he never
failed to resort to trickery whenever it
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-12
The Balance,

Givcadam Jones, of the Lime Kiln
Club, secured the floor to observe that
there was rumor in the air to the eff
feet that the treasurer's report for the
last quarter didn't balance with the
cash-book within So. He didn't pay
any attention to rumors himself, but
some of the members were little panic
stricken and would like to hear the
truth in the matter.
..Brudder JONES' replied the Presi-
dent in voice that shook the shingles
overhead, "does you emagine dat has
gone blind or lost de power Of addin'
up figgers? When reports an books
doan' balance in dis club dar' won't be
any rumors to h'ar. OAR will be SIGH
a ruckshun dat you'll all know what's
de matter! OAR hain't muffin in dis
club which doan' balance to cent.
When our Treasurer can't make the
footin's come out chen dar' will be q
gallopin' up an down until dis ole foo
won't hold de crowd. Sot down, Brud-
der Jones. OAR am no 'cashun fur to
be alarmed. - Detroit Free Press.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-12
The Slim Mans Remarkable Shot.

A number OF gentlemen were IN the
depot waiting room admiring " fine lot
of ducks a friend had shot up on the
lake, and were somewhat surprised to
hear him tell of killing three ducks
with one discharge Of his gym. About
this time u slim, pointed nosel man,
who had been quietly listening, re-
marked:
''Ihat's nothing very extraordinary.
INLAY be that's the way YOU always
kill ducks sarcastically remarked the
hunter.
oval, that depends on how load
my gum replied the slim man. ...
ssThen it does make & difference how
you load. does it? | presume You use
about a peck OF six ounce lullets?' re.
marked the hunter, who began to feel
that the glory with which he had COW
cred himself, had melted, and was be-
ginning to run off.
oval, now, don't you get ratified.
don't know as Ill give the scheme
away" retorted the slim man.
How many ducks did you ever kill
in omc s:lot?" asked an interested list
eucr
oval, stranger, l have killed and
strung over fifty Of EN- answered the
slim man.
"Eifty ducks at one shot" exclaimed
half II dozen.
Eyes, over fifty,' replied the sim
man, ''an' don't mind telling We how
twas done, if yc really wantto know"
GLOW on earth could you do such u
thing? You must have been where the
ducks were thick?" venturcd meek
looking individual.
oval, if yen give me Il chance III
tell yc. took a trip up to Calumet
several years ago and | never seed so
many ducks in all my life. l took an
old army m'skct along and one cart
RIDGE
"Onc cartridge!' exclaimed half IL
dozen. ''You don't mean to say you
only took one cartridge and no other
ammunition"
oval, didn't take anything else,
but an old army musket, one cartridge
and a big spool of wire thread. That
the sum total of what l always take.
Yc see, l.
What was the wire for?' inquired
the meek man.
"Wait till finish, hang it, an yell
know. Wal, when / got out on clear
water away from the r,lshcs I saw
about a million Of ducks right ahead
Of me. just took the end OF the wire
and fastened it to the bullet in the cart
ridge and loaded my gun an put the
spool on the bottom of the boat where
l thought it wouldn't get tangled up,
and then l waited for a good chance. |
happened to blow my nose, which of
course made q noise, when every duck
raised hi, head to see what WAS up. |
drew bead on the eye of the duck
nearest to me and pulled the trigger
before they had q chance to get scared.
Jewhiz! how that spool did spin while
the wire was unwinding. The ducks
few away, frightened by the noise OF
the gun, but ! had just one hundred
and fifty ducks, all strung by their
heads on that wire. The bullet had
gone through their heads, dragging the
wire with it and it took eyes every time
excepting one; it took the tail of that
>i;lcis just IS he raised from the water
In" bullet would have got more ducks
only the spool got caught before the
wire was ali llnWound and stopped it.
believe if l had had another cartridge
and another spool o.
The slim man found himself talking
to the stove. The rest had fled, and
none but he remained---Pecb's S1l'S.
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Fed q. Ghoica.

He was a Nevada millionaire, and
he had been in a deep pure for ten
minutes, when he suddenly rang the
bell for his butler.
James, am about to give {. grand
party
Eyes, sir-ycs, sir
Il shall invite 1000 people, >
Eyes, sir--yes, SIR
81 want the party written up to the
extent OF two columns in the papers
here
''Certainly, sir. -
you 90 out and ascertain what it
will cost me.
eyes, Sir.
At the end of an hour James returns
to report.
(which did YOU want, sir-to buy
the editor for $50 Or the two column
space for 1872 And, sir, the price for
not pitching into You and calling the
whole thing q shoddyite lizzle will be
$3.50. Vat Street Neus.
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In a Chimney Over Fire.

| was once taking a ride through SUI
vance county, Fla, adn1iring the lux
uriant vegetation, the lazy swing of the
birds and the ripple of shining waters,
when at an abrupt turn Of the road I
came across dissipated-looking cabin,
the only sign of life about it being a
white-hcadcd old ''cracker," who was
lolling on the doorstep, viciously suck
ing at the. stem of a sublimely dirty
clay pipe.
As 1 was tired and very thirsty, l
rode up and asked him if he could
give me q drink of water.
Hardly looking up, he Hospitality
pointed to a bucket and said: ':'Light,
stranger, take the gourd and help
yourself" dismounted, took a drink
of water, offered him a cigar and took
{; seat on the doorstep beside him. The
cigar seemed to have Il magnetic in
fluence upon him, looscned his tongue
and he told me of q most surprising
adventure he had once had with the
Indians during the war of 1887.
One cold day in December he had
gone into the woods to look at his
traps and, it being time of supposed
peace, had left his trusty gun at home
1t was an unusually cold day for Flor
ida and, besides his heavy clothing, he
had q large thick blanket thrown
around him. He had reached a point
about five miles from his house, when,
looking through the woods, he saw a
large body OF Indians moving in his di-
rection.
+ lie was almost petrified with fear at
first and could not move from his po-
sition. Another moment and it was
too late. The Indians had discovered
him, and with fiendish yells were in hot
pursuit. Now came wild race with
u human life at the stake; up hill and
down hill, through briars and tangled
woods, the savayes gaining at every
step. He knew they would catch him
long before he could reach his own
house, SO bent all his energies towards
a disnlautlcA monastery that had been
erected b. the Spaniards more than a
century before. OF these ruins only
the tall CHIMNEY remained. With q
supreme effort he managed to scramble
up this chimney, and climbing nearly
to the top was, as he thought, beyond
the reach OF his foes.
When the Indians saw him disappear
in the chimney, after their first yell of
disappointment, they gathered heaps of
bark and brush and made q roaring
fire to roast the imprisoned foe, but he
told me'hc frustrated their amiable de-
sign by taking off all his clothes, and
laying them with the blanket, which
he had strangely held on to all during
the race, in the chimney below him,
and this prevented the flames from
reaching him:
''But,' said l, II should have
thought the clothing would have taken
fire and burnt up.
$50 'twould, stranger said he, 'sbut
yc see it war powerful warm whar l
war, an swcatcd SO smart like that
it kept them az ixins' soakin wet, an
the fire couldn't ketch on. AFTER they
thought war all burnt up, they left an
l elm down and went home. That
chunk OF rock in thar KEN outer that
self-same chimbly.''
''Good-by, old man. said l, as re-
mounted my horse, ''you can discount
ELI Perkins every time. Cor. Phiza-
Qelo/si0 Times.
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was feasible; and as for the advocacy
of non-alcoholism, have seen him drink
beer in safe place while publicly pro-
claiming adherence of it.
Then Weston is fraude? No, he is a
lunatic. A mentally wilder man never
passed for a sane one. He has made
fully 100000 in pedestrianism and all
of it is gone. After winning a great
London match and $4,000, he spent the
whole in three months at Brighton. A
line of creditors mark the entire route
of his Professionalism, and yet he could
not keep a dollar. In his last effort in
this city, at the Madison Square garden
races, he was attended on the course
by three men in livery.
Il want to show that I am q gentle
man." he said, ''and not mere pedes-
trian. Cor. Baltimore american.
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An organ which has lust been bull

An organ which has just been built
in Germany is believed to be the largest
in existence. 1t counts la registers
and is worked automatically by gas
motor of four-horse power. Its height
is twenty meters, it's width eleven, and
its depth ten. Its largest wooden pipe
is ten metres long and Of cubical capaci-
ty OF 1000 litres. The instrument is to
be set up in the Cathedral Of Riga. For
the St. Stephens Cathedral of Vienna
the same builders are soon to construct
still larger organ. The well-known
organs Of Boston, Ulm and ST. Peters
burg We're built by the Same mon.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-12

1t is said that glass is gradually be-
ginning to take the place of wood and
iron in the construction of brid ges in
England. The inventor makes blocks
of glass, which he hardenssiN y special
process. In solidity it is saIdFt leave
nothing to be desired. The experi-
ments already made have giyen sur
prising results, and the. .costs.iA below
that OF bridges Of wood or iron. More
over, the glass cannot be injured BY in
sects, like wood, nor rlls.ea like iron.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-12

When in China in 1848, we were tax.
en- to see the tea factories. There we
were shown the corpse-like women who
made green tea by rubbing the black
tea leaves in hot copper pots. The
poor devils were, in a manner, protect
ed from the copper fumes by wearing a
damp cloth over the nose and tied be-
hind the ears to protect their mouths
and nostrils We were told that these
workn1cn rarely survived their second
year at this employment.-Sun. Cor.
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an abnormal development, as in the
case of the head operator at the central
office, who has been in the telephone
business for four years: she has SO ac-
customed herself to fix her attention on
the machine before her and to abstract
her attention from her surroundings,
that when she is in her home she often
fails to hear when she is addressed by
members of the family.
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2 AT E N is

Obtained, and al other business in the
U. ). Patent Office attended to for
MODERATE FEES.
Our Office is opposite the U. S. Pat.
ent, Office and we can obtain patents
in less time than those remote from
WASHINGTON.
Send MODEL OR ORA WING. We
advise rs to patertability free Of
charge; and we make No Charge IN.
less aOe obtain Patent.
We refer. here. to the Postmaster,
the Snpt. Of money order Div, and
to officials of the U. $. Patent Office.
For circular advice, terms and refer
ences to actual clients in your own
State OF county. write to
e.. A Snow q Co.,
Oppo- Patent Office, Washington, DC.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-12

That Big Thing in Life, Comparison.
A man, don't know how r. < getting
along unless he compares h:n.sel: wis:
his neighbors. Comparison IS q big
thing in this life. Ii Mr.. Lowry hasn't
got any better crop than I have I am
content, for Mr.. Lowry is a good farm
CT. Sometimes step around his fields
and look over the fence, and if his cot
ton is low and thin, and his corn pretty
much all nubbins | can't to save my
life feel bad about it, [ wish I could,
and reckon could if my own crop
wasn't so much like his. Human ma
ture is powerful mean about the like of
that. They say that a woman is right
we'll satisfied with her new dress and
her new bonnet until her neighbour
comes to meeting with a little finer one,
but reckon that is mistake. I read
not long ago about Boston lady tax
ing arsenic because she saw her neigh
Dor at a party with :. set OF new dia
mond earrings. She was about to die
when they told her the earrings were
hired from 4 iewelry store, and then
she got well. 1t takes power of grace
to make q man rejoice over his neigh
bor's prosperity.-BW arp, iae atlanta
Constellation.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-12

TO wink once in u Minnesota drug
store is to ask for soda and rye whisky;
to wink twice and smack the lips is TO
demand half tumbler. of Jamaica
rum; to stand with the forefinger and
thumb in the waistcoat pocket and ask
mildly for banana syrup is to convey a
hint that ginger brandy would be CRATE
fully received; to wink thrice and Jerk
the thumb over the left shoulder implies
that gin is the liquor requircd;> and
when customer transfers his Quid of
tobacco from his mouth to his left hand
the chemist at once prepares a hand
made sour mash. And although the
list OF American drinks is a long one,
the Minnesota code is so complete that
it even enables the thirsty soul to signal
whether he prefers much or little lemon
juice IL his cocktail. ST. James Gazette.
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The estimated extent Of the coal
: fields o. Tx ) IS 10000 square miles.
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Effect Of tbs Telephone on Hearing and

AGJSnG.Ou.
1t has been assumed by some that the
effect of constant use of the telephone
is injurious to the ear. The Springfield
Republican finds Just the opposite to be
the case with operators and others there.
One of the young girls in the central
office there says her hearing is con-
stantly improving. When she began
this work she Numbered sadly; now the
ear is drilled to catch the faintcst sound,
and the. sense Of hearing is remarkably
acute. 1t must be noticed that the reg
ularity of this schooling of the ear is
largely responsible for the good result.
II an operator were to take a switch
board only one day in the week and do
all the work required on that day, the
practice would doubtless be detriment-
al, because it would be exhaustive to
both the muscular and nervous make
up OF the ear. The systematic use of
the telephone seems to develop the
hearing above it's normal acuteness,
but does not make it technically abnor-
NAL. One benefit from using the tele-
phone is evident to both subscribers
and central office operators, that of
cultivating the attention, 4 process
which is reckoned as the third or intel
lectual method of developing the sense
OF hearing. A good share of the diff
Guilty which people find in working a
telephone comes not from any defect in
the machine, nor from deficient hearing,
but from inability to fix the attention
on what's heard. This trouble readily
disappears by practice in listening
closely to what is said over the wire.
Indeed the attention may be trained to
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IN n IA week at home. IS OUTFIT free. Pay abso.
Xhhtutely sure. No risk. Capital not requil ed ;.
ID(J( jReader, If you want business ut which per-
+ sons Of either sex, young or old, can make
great pay all the time they work, with absolute
certainty, write for particulars t1H. HALLET Il
Co., Portland, Maine. Dec 1884
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The Philadelphia e.;stcr Of wills
states tnat NOR people are making
their wills til : year ti,;,n ever before