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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-03
MAKING TOYS.

The Art Descending From One Generation
to Another In St. Ulrich.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, in her Gun
trodden Peaks,'' mentions many an in
teresting visit to the homes Of the work
ing people of St. Ulrich, where SO many
toys are made. ..-.E>., ..~
In one house, runs the account, we
found all old, old woman at work, Mag
dalena Paldauf by name. She carved
cats, dogs, wolves, sheep, goats and ele-
plants; She has made those six animals
her whole life long, and she has no idea.
of how to cut anything else. She makes
them in two sizes, and she turns out as
nearly as possible thousand Of them a
year. r.>','-r. ~ ~.
She has no model or drawing of any
kind to work by, but goes on steadily,
unerringly, using gouges Of different
sizes and shaping out her cats, dogs,
wolves, sheep, goats aud elephants>with
an ease and an amount Of truth to ma
ture that would be clever if it were not
utterly mechanical. Magdalena Paldauf
learned from her mother how to carve
those six animals, and her mother had
learned, in like manner, from her grand
mother. Magdalena has now taught the
art to her own granddaughter, and so it
will go on being transmitted for gener-
atoms.
In another house Miss Edwards found
the whole family carving skulls and
crossbones for fixing at the bases of
crucifixes, for the wood carving of Grod-
ner Thai is religious in its nature as
!. we'll as amusing. In other houses there
were families that carved rocking horses
or dolls or other toys, and in still other
houses there were families of painters.
In one house we found about doz-
en- girls painting gray horses with black
points. In another house they painted
only red horses with white points It is
separate branch of the trade to paint
saddles and headgear. A good hand will
paint 10 dozen horses day, each horse
being about a foot in length, and for
these she is paid IS soldi, or about Is. Sd.
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Feeds His Horse by Clockwork.

George W. Belt of Auburn has invent
ed an ingenious device for feeding his
horse, and he does it with one Of the Or
binary little alarm clocks. The horse
gets its feed of grain when the alarm
goes off. For in stance, if Mr.. Belt wants
tho horse to have it's morning feed Of
grain at 5 O'Clock, and he himself does
not care to turn out until O'Clock, he
sets his alarm for 5 .o'clock, and when
the morning comes the horse gets its
breakfast an hour before its owners
eyes are open. 1t is so arranged that the
alarm pulls the slide, letting the grain
run through sluice to the manger. -- ~.
Lewiston Journal :z
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-03
In the Wrong Place.

Lawley expert shorthand reporter -
! say, James, the boy from the newspa-
per Office has called for the report Of
that lecture. Is it finished?
James "a novice)-All but q short
sentence in the middle Of it, and I can t
for the life Of me make out from my
notes what it is. -. " -...EE@.
Lawley-Oh, just put in "great ap-
plause" and let it 60 So !;
James acts on the suggestion, and
the lecture is sent for publication with
the doctored part reading: Friends,
/ will detain you but 9 few moments
longer. Great applause. ''-Exchange.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-03
HOW HE WORKED A. MINE.
Tho Sheep Mountaineer Enlightens the
College Bred Inquirer.

Tho Sheep MOuntAineer Enlightens the
College Bred Inquirer.
Glow do we work mine?' exclaim-
cd the Sheep mountaineer. "Well, you
unsophisticated, undeveloped outcrop-
ping of the land of the rising sun, I'll
proceed to enlighten your beclouded col,
lege bred understanding.
The college bred young man from the
land Of the rising sun sat down on a
$500 to the ton chunk Of ore and turned
his undivided attention to listening to a
discourse on mineralogy. @
"We first prospect around until we
find a tunnel in on the jugular vein and
a pile of ore on the dump. Then if the
other Teller ain t looking we jump. Then
we proceed to sink q shaft on the float,
gather all the, gangue and sack it, being
careful to preserve technical phrases in
meteorological science in so doing. Then
we prospect the stockholders with an as
sessment, and if they don't como down
put in blast At this point we ca II tho
roll, grab No. 4 warranted not to rip,
wear, tear, ravel, cut or run down at
the heel ragical, tragical, irrasive smelt-
or and run up our stack. If the other
Teller holds the best hand, the stack
will diminish, and we consequently
drift for pay streak. If we don't got
through drifting by fall, it's the fust
thing we go at in the spring. We now
concentrate our efforts, and if the silver
PANIED out don't have the eagle stamp
ed on it we sample the outcropping in
every saloon within radius of ten
miles and take a fresh chew Of tobac-
co. Then we get to work in earnest,
salt the dump and 80 east and sell all
the stock we can. We return, renew our
grub pile, pack it into the cabin and
wait for spring to open and the snow to
go off. During this period we amuse
ourselves playing seven up for the
drinks. We then import a mining and
civil engineer, run few levels, cross
cut for another assessment, get it, cave
in the shaft and abandon the property.
Them - The Sheep mountaineer paused
for moment to catch his breath, but
the moment was fatal to his learned dis
course, for the college bred young man
from the land Of the rising sun feebly
reached for his pick, staggered slowly
to his feet, looked wildly through the
impid atmosphere toward the summit
of Sheep mountain and disappeared be-
hind the giant outcroppings Of the Big
Eliza lode.-Lump City Miner.
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4 sHIPWREck RECORD.
The Spanish Have Been Particularly On
fortunate With Their Ships.

The Spanish Have Been Particularly On
fortunate with Their Ships.
\ The loss Of the Reina Regente recall
ed the fact that Spain, once the greatest
naval power Of the world, has lost not
less than GOO men-of-war in shipwr6ck
since the beginning of the sixteenth cen
tury. There is ample documentary evi-
dence to this effect, and the greatest dis.
asters to the Spanish fleets are here re.
counted in their chronologic order.
Of the feet sent against Algiers in
1918, under Admiral Don Hugo de Mon.
cada, 80 vessels founderod in q storm,
with 4, 900 men on board.
Another expedition against Algiers.
sent by Emperor Charles V in .154l, lost
40 vessels Oh the rocks of MaroQco,
$500 men losing their lives.
Of the feet that sailed in 1862, under
General Mendoza, to deliver Oran from
tho Mussulmans, 20 ships, including
the flagship, with the above named gen
eral on board, never returned. S88S#
A year later, in the fall Of 1868, a
cyclone in the bay of Cadiz sent 10 Of
The governments best caravels to the
bottom. g&#
In 1888 the famous armada, believed
10 be invincible, met her doom in the
English channel, 81 out Of $50 vessels
sinking with most Of their crews. The
loss of men is estimated at 1000.
Fourteen Of Admiral Don Antonio
Navarro's vessels foundered in q storm
off the Mexican coast near San Juan de
Ulloa in 1890. %
Six years later fearful storm in the
Biscayan bay caused the loss Of Al YES
sells belonging to the fleet Of Admiral
Martin de Padila.
Not long after this Admiral Marquis
de Santa Cruz lost 10 vessels, with g. 800
men, on the Corsican coast. @
After long pause General Jose Pi-
zarro lost five men-of-war in an engage
ment with the English in 1741. .&s
Within the last 1876 years the records
are much easier Of access, and the fig
ures can be given absolutely correct. In
this time the Spaniards lost IL large
battleships under steam and 81 first
class sailers, with 1870 guns; % frig-
ates, with 500 guns, and more than
100 gunboats, torpedo boats, briggs,
galeotes, etc. The loss of life in this
period is conservatively estimated at &c.
500 men. J$:
Thus the worst enemy of Spanish su-
premacy on the seas seems to be other
than man. More than double the num-
Der of ships have been lost by the in
clemency Of the elements than were lost
in battle.-Philadelphia Record.
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MIA. Carlisle ON Finance,

Apropos Of woman's editions, heresis
q pretty little story of Mrs. John G.
Carlisle which is now going the rounds
of the Washington press It seems she
was asked to contribute to one Of the re-
cent numbers of woman 8 editions issued
for the benefit Of charity. When the re-
quest was rendered the secretary's wife,:
it was asked that she should write upon
finance. Mrs. Carlisle replied, with
charming franmess and the soul Of wit,
''The only thing I know upon the sub
iect Of finance with sufficient clearness
to write authoritatively is that % will
go farther than 81"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-03
QUEER ANSWERS.
4 1hey Cazas From Children Of tho City Of
{sStSa IA nj Wisdom. t&S

4 they Gaze From Children Of tho City Of
~ Ii5S Al NJ s!4 Wisdom.
Since wit mas been defined by Noah
\ Webster as the felicitous association Of
objects not usually connected so as to
produce a pleasant surprise, !" may not
the pupils OF some Of Boston's public
schools, who gave the following answ ers
20 their examination questions, lay claim
to 1t? The record as here given is bona
fide, having been read during the grad
uation exercises of one Of the leading
grammar schools Of this city:
~, First. Who were the, pilgrims? A
dirty, filthy set who lived under the
ground. T -,
Second Name domestic animal
useful for clothing and describe its hab-
its? The OK. He don't have any habits
( because he lives in stable.
Third.-1f you were travelling across
tho desert, where would you choose to
rest? / would rest Gil a stool.
+: Fourth.-Mention fye races Of men.
Men, women, children and babies.
Fifth. Describe the white race and
show that it is superior to the other
races. A white man will nod at you
when be meets you Oh the street.
Sixth. what is the surface of the
earth composed? Dirt and people.
Seventh. Name fruit that has its
seeds Oh the outside. A seed cake.
Eighth. Name five forms Of water.
Hot water, cold water, faucet water,
we'll water and ice water.
Ninth. Name and locate the five
senses: The eyes are i'll the northern
oart of the face and the mouth in the
southern.
Tenth.-Who were the mound build
ers? History cannot answer these ques-
lions. Science only can.
Eleventh. finch and use it
in sentence. Finch, to shrink. Flan-
mel flinches when it is washed.
Twelfth. By what is the earth sur
rounded, and by what is it lighted? 1t
is surrounded by water and lighted by
gas and electricity.
Thirteenth.-Name six animals OF
the arctic zone. Three polar bears and
three seals.
Fourteenth. What is yeast? Yeast is
vegetable flying about in the air and
hitching itself Oh to anything.
Systematically do you open the
hampers in stove when lighting afire?
To let the oxygen in and the nitrogen
out.
Sixteenth.-What did the constitu-
ton do for the country? 1t gave the
president q head.
Seventeenth -What are the last teeth
that come to man? False teeth. -Bos-
ton Budget.
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SKETCHlNG.

Its Practice Essential tt the Success Of
the Student In Art.
Originality and skill in inventing or
telling q story and in expressing the
passions depend, like everything else in
art, on q painters powers OF observa-
ton, and the difference between the
greater or less painter results very much
from this-that the first thinks of his art
everywhere and at a., times. the last in
his painting room Oh ) and at set hours.
Hogarth, describing his own habits,
says: ''Be where W. uld while my eyes
were open I was & .ntinually at my
studies and acquiring something useful
tony profession, "and Stothard' s sketch
books were filed with groups Of figures
and scenery made without selection, but
merely of what chance offered to his no.
tice while travelling sometimes objects
which the windows of an inn presented
while horses were changing, and some
times what he saw from the top Of a
stagecoach.
Students should be assured that the
practice of redeeming spare moments OF
time by sketching whatever is thrown
in their way is an Invaluable one. Those
who adopt it will be sure to be reward
ed by often finding memoranda so made
of far greater interest than they had
imagined, and it will correct the habit,
always fatal to originality, Of going to
nature for things only that resemble
what they have seen in art. Among the
drawings by Raphael collected by Sir
Thomas Lawrence were many evidently
of what chance presented to him. One
in particular was singularly elegant, OF
three or four young men in the dress OF
his time sitting at table, and their at
titudes but very slightly varied-an &C
cidental group in all probability Of his
pupils.
In the works of Michael Angelo we
meet with very many attitudes that bear
the stamp of being adopted almost i'm
mediately from nature, and indeed most
Of the noble range Of his prophets and
sibyls have this look. A subject happily
adopted from nature should not deprive
the painter Of the credit due to inven-
ton, for indeed the mere faculty Of in
venting an incident is far more common
than the nice and quick perception OF
that in nature which is fitted to the pur-
poses of art, and which ordinary OBJ
servers would pass by or reject perhaps
as trifing or unworthy. Burns turned
up mouse with his pillow and was
heard to say by man who was at work
with him, "I'll make that mouse i'm
mortal.' And he kept his word.-Lon-
don Architect
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] Sell DEFENSE.
Tho Law Relating Thereto laid Iowa by
..s a.a& ll.L the Supreme Court. M. N

Tho law Relating Thereto Laid Down by
the Supreme Court.
"A United States district Judge In
Arkansas instructed q jury that every.
where except within his own house the
law requires man to run away and do
his best to escape from an assailant be-
fore killing him. The judge further
said that when assaulted on his own
premises, but outside Of his house, a
man must show his sense Of danger by
efforts to escape before his plea that he
killed his assailant to save himself from
great bodily harm can be accepted.
This instruction was handed down
from ancient times when weapons of
assault consisted of knives, bludgeons,
swords, ETC., which an active man had
some chance of escaping. But it b not
applicable to- these days Of revolvers
and winchesters, whose bullets no man
can dodge or outrun, and the United
States supreme court has sent it to the
black letter lumber garrett.
The man sentenced to sight years
imprisonment by the Arkansas judge
obtained from the supreme court an Or
der for new trial under a new instruc-
tion. This new instruction declares that
wherever a man may be, if he has a
right to be there and if he has not him
self provoked the assault, the law justi-
fies him in standing his ground and
killing his assailant provided the prov
able circumstances are such as to salts
fy jury that he had reasonable grounds
for believing and acted on the belief
that the killing was necessary to protect
himself from great bodily harm. :.
Putting any further Limitation on the
tight to kill in self defense would abol-
ish it altogether. Arkansas is only one
of the many states in which a man may
have to decide very hastily whether he
shall be tried for killing fellow citi-
zen or let the fellow citizen be tried for
killing him. In these cases, with bis
attention excitedly fixed on his assail-
ant, he has no time to get legal advice
or to study the necessities Of the situa-
tion through the eyes of bystanders.
Court and jury will do that afterward,
and he is under restraint enough when
be knows that in saving himself from
the peril Of the moment he incurs the
further peril Of having to satisfy a joy
that his act as justified by the circum-
stances.-New York World.
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FASHION IN OLD JERUSALEM.

Tho Jewesses of Ancient Times Were Cor
geously Arrayed Indeed.
AS far back as seven centuries before
the Christian era there were very gayly
dressed women in Jerusalem. The
Prophet Ezekiel tells Of them. They had
garments of silk adorned with broidered
work. Their bodies were swathed in fine
linen. They had shoes of badger skin.
They wore ornaments Of gold and sill
YER, rings in the ears, bracelets on the
wrists, chain around the neck, a jewel
over the brow and a crown upon the
head.
The prophet speaks of the earrings
which were worn by the women Of Je-
rusalem, but these ornaments were worn
by Jewesses ages before the time Of
Ezekiel, even in the days of Moses and
earlier yet. There were earrings among
the other gifts in the oblation given to
Moses, as described in the book Of Num-
bers. The first Biblical reference to
them is in the part of Genesis which
tells how Rebekah obtained as gift
s"golden earring Of half q shekel weight
from Abraham's servant, who "put it
upon her facc.' At a later period the
patriarch Jacob procured all the ear
rings which belonged to his household
and hid them under an oak tree. Sub
sequently to that time earrings are fire.
quently spoken Of in the Bible. Even
Job, the patient man Of w. must have
owned lot of them in the latter part Of
his life, for when all his brethren and
all his sisters and all his acquaintance
came to comfort him under his Attic
tions "every one Of them gave him an
earring Of gold. "
In the very early periods Of Jewish
history women seem to have been rs
fond of dress and decorations as they
are in modern times. When the daugh-
ters Of Jerusalem were appareled and
bejeweled in the way described by
Ezekiel, their garments and ornaments
must have been nearly as expensive as
those Of the grand danes who now shine
in society. The wearing Of "divers col
ors," however, does not seem to have
been a mark Of honor.-New York Sun.
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Ancient Ropes.

While conducting a series of tests
with 100 ton testing machine at the
Yorkshire college in England, which in
cluded the testing Of steel wire rope,
Professor Goodman stated that such
ropes were not modern invention, and
that he had recently seen bronze wire
rope one-half inch in diameter and from
30 to 80 feet long, which had been found
buried in the ruins of Pompeii, and
which must have been at least / 300
years old. philadelphia Ledger.
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Announcing q Baby.

The following quaint advertisement
is from South Africa paper:
1T was on Thursday, at $50 a. m. ,
the 4th of April, that III the passive re-
tirement of G. M. de Tarnowsky family,
at Bonne Terre Poenix, lovely babe
named Eliacin Milton Lubomir has
drawn his first breath Of life on this
earthly world. All generous, Christian
friends, kindly to pray our heavenly
Father to protect this puny, living spring
through time and for eternity
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The New Vi1ilantes.

The hoarse shouts Of the mob indicated
that the fell work was done. S
"Stole horse, I presume, " ventured
the tenderfoot, gesturing in the direc-5
ton Of the deceased. 3
Bicycle, I" they rejoined, not without
revealing the pain the suggestion Of the
other occasioned.
The end of the age was at hand and
progress was squirting in the stretch
Detroit Tribune. 49,
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Fin dc Steele Logic,

Grandma-My dears, should like to
reward you for all your kindness, but
you must take the will for the deed.
Mazie-Well, if that's all the same
to you, grandma, we prefer the deed.
Wills are SO easily broken nowadays.
you know.-B., K. & Co. g Illustrated
Monthly. @
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Just tho Man Wanted.

Applicant understand that you
want a reporter? NJ
Editor-Yes,s I am in want Of man
to do the verbatim work. Are you a
shorthand writer? Ii
Applicant--No, sir. But am rapid
writer. I used to be an actor and have
had experience in writing stage letters.
Editor-Ah, You are just the man we
want Boston Traveller.
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Doctors' Language.

Patient-1 s'pose, doctor, you make
out your prescriptions in Latin so that
your patients won't know what it is? i.
Doctor-Possibly.
Patient-And you make out your bills
in English SO that your patients will
know what it is?
Observation-Disclosures Answer.
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The United States has all kinds Of
climate from that of the Sahara in the
sandy deserts of Arizona to that of the
Amazon in southern Florida and that
Of Greenland in northern Idaho and
Montana.
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Women who have fancy for heavier
perfumes than delicate toilet waters and
clean smelling colognes, and who affect
some special essence, are not always
aware, perhaps, that few Of the flowers
after which their favorite odors are
named play any part in contributing to
the rich fragrance.
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The Conservative Elephant,

Nowadays" said Mr.. Bugleby,
pretty much everybody carries a dress
suit case, but notice that the elephant
sticks to his trunk. No dress suit case
for him, eh ?''-New York Sun.
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Reason Enough.

"Wly are you making such din?"
asked the bald eagle, who sat in the
front row, addressing himself to the
crows, who occupied the gallery. ~
ooh, caws!' replied the saucy birds
In chorus. -Pittsburg Chronicle-T elc-
graph.
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Cause For Surprise.

Mrs. Greene-It is so discouraging!
Ny husband finds fault with almost ev-
erything I set before him.
Mrs. Sta1emate-You don't mean TO
say your husband takes his meals at
home! Well, never Boston Tran
script.
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Pleasure In His Work.

e ''That sour old fellow, Grumpus, has
q job that just suits him. -
IL "What's that?''
tHe's station master where so trains
60 out every day, and he sees somebody
miss every one of them. Chicago Rec
ord t
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When a man says, "Of course it's no
business Of mine" it is q sure sign that
he is going to do the best he can to
make II his business.
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The old scythians painted blind for
tunes powerful hands with wings to
show her gifts come swift and sudden
H.-Ghepman. H..
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In 1880 the approximate wealth Of
the country was $43, 642, 900, 900, an
average of $87O to each individual.
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In The great fire of London 1865,
$4,000 houses, churches, halls, libraries,
hospitals, ETC., were destroyed and only
six lives lost. -
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Browl,-For what purpose?
Did His work well.

Bootblack-Dis yere business il
mighty hard on me eyes.
Customer-On your eyes2
Bootblack-Yes. Yer zee puts sect
Is daszlin shine on de shoes IL hurtl
EN-. Chicago Record.
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In the temperate zones, the maximum
Of heat IL attained about q month aftef
the longest days
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Missouri produced, according to the
last census year, sos, 1907 bushels Of rye
from "a, 1888 acres ,ss
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The Aroostook, in Maine, was named
from an Indian word meaning ''good
mem"
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The average rainfall Of Great Britain
ia estimated to equal 630, 900 gallons per
acre every year-almost 5000 tons.