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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
ADVERTISEMENTS READ.

Hon. John Forsyth, the veteran editor
of the Mobile Register, used to tell a
story to illustrate the value of newspaper
advertising as means of getting before
the public whatever you wished them to
know of your wants and wares.
Mr.. Forsyth was accidently drawn in
to discussion of the subject with mer-
camille friend, who expressed emphatic
doubts whether advertising benefited a
mans business at all, and closed his side
of the debate by the common remark
cts all money given to the aid of news
papers. Nobody reads my advertisement,
or thinks of it, or looks after it, except
your foreman or collector.
Forsyth replied, Let us test the truth
of your assertion. Sit down and write
such an advertisement as I dictate, and
We will put it in the smallest type the
cases contain, and insert it in the remot-
est corner of the Register you may
select"
The next morning there appeared in
agate, without bit of display, and in the
most out-of-the-way place in the paper,
the following advertisement:
WANTED: To buy dog. Apply at Mo-
Blank street"
The contract was, that in case the tad
was a success" the merchant was to
pay s. and to treat to wine and oysters.
If it failed to meet the parties with mer.
charitable CANNES, the editor was to pay
Sc and set up supper for two.
During the day of the first appearance
of the experiment, the merchant called
at the Register Office several times. He
looked as though he was in trouble, ap-
peared nervous, looked over his shoulder
like one pursued by some terrible bore
or persistent dun.
Finally, late in the evening. he met his
editorial friend, and before the latter had
time to open his mouth, the merchant
said, hurriedly, "For heavens sake, leave
that advertisement out of your evening
edition. There's 90 for it, and s. for
saving that No.-Blank street has
bought dog. Let's go and get the oys-
tiers; I'm nearly worried to death"
The poor man had recklessly made
himself and family the victims of a ter
rible persecution. Before the carriers
had gone the rounds with the Register,
customers Of all sorts, with every imagin-
able breed, size and color of animal
sausage dangling at the heels of the own
er and would be vendor, swarmed in the
vicinity of No.-Blank street. They
rang at the street doors thousand times
an hour; they waylaid every member of
the family; servant, nor proprietor, nor
child of the house dare appear on the
streets until officers were sent for, and
the prosecutions stopped by the threats
to lock up the swarm of urchins, dogs
and all.
The merchant enlarged his advertise
ment, and thereafter attended to it as any
other branch of his business. He had
learned that people DO, somehow, find
out the contents of newspaper adver-
tisement.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
The Microscope.

1t was in 1864, says Scientific Hints
when John MiIton's 'chief of men.
who had welded the power of England
with firm and vigorous hand, strongly
contrasted with the royal but feeble
fingers, which previously and subse
quently endeavored to direct it, had
gone to his long account, and just after
the rupture of the close union, which
had endured, almost without Interrupt
ton, for nearly seventy years, between
England and Holland, that Dutch
youth of eighteen, holding glass thread
in the flame of candle, perceived that
the melted extremity assumed spher-
zeal form. The intelligent lad Sc zed on
the happy accident. lie had seen Leu
wenhoeck manufacture lenses, such us
they were, and went on burning his
glass threads, and attempted to place
his little glass spheres between two
pieces of lead, through which he made
an aperture with pins point. Placing
a hair before this simply constructed
instrument, he found to his great joy
that he was the maker and possessor of
a capital microscope for those times,
and he secured to the photographers of
the day what they had Sc long sought.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
Ailments of Fowls.

! In the first place, says a correspond
ent of the Rocky Mountain Husband
man, hold that fowl well cared for
will not get sick. and when she does il
! is better to look for lie cause, and then
you will generally find the cnre. Mis-
management in most cases is the trou-
| bic.
1st. Hens, non-sitters, do not need
| any crowding to make them lay. They
should rather be held back for health
Many times they are crowded with
warm food and pepper, even though
lnoulting, and fail under the pressure
lay themselves TO death.
I'd. Sitters, or those predisposed to
| fat, are over fed with warm meal, and
not enough of wheat and the like, and
are taken with apoplexy or leg weaken
ing, or cannot drop the egg, and die in
the nest.
Sd. A few small hens are put with
very heavy, vigorous cocks, and are
killed.
4th. They go without water perhaps
one day, and have plenty the next, or
have foul water to drink all the time.
and are soon taken with the gapes, or
diarrh9a, or with cholera.
5th. They do not have what they
! want, and are forced to eat filthy or
poisonous matter; or
9th. They do not have change of
| diet, and are good subjects for many
diseases.
18th. They do not have good clean
| dust bath, and green food, and are
troubled with yermin or lose their
feathers.
Sth. One or two are quarrelsome, and
worry others to death.
9Th. They 60 out in all weathers,
stand in the rain or snow, or are OBJ.
liged to roost where the wind blows on
them; they get cold and have the roup.
10th. They don't have animal food,
and eat their own feathers and eggs.
In any of these cases the first thing
to be done should be to look for the
cause, and check it at once.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
Hope.

Hope is necessary in every condition.
The miseries CT poverty, of sickness or
captivity would, without this comfort,
be insupportable; nor does it appear
that the happiest lot of terrestrial eX-
istence can set Us above the want of
this general blessing; OF that life, when
the gifts of nature and of fortune are
accumulated upon it, would not still
be wretched, We're it not elevated and
delighted by the expectation of some
new possession, of some enjoyment yet
behind, by which the wish shall be at
last satisfied, and the heart filled up to
its utmost extent Hope is, indeed,
very fallacious and promises what it
seldom gives; but its promises are more
valuable than the gifts of fortune, and
it seldom illustrates us without aSSur-
ing us of recompensins tbs delay by a
greater bounty.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

THERE is a clock at Worsley, Lord
Ellesmere's seat in England, which at
1 o'cock always strikes thirteen. The
reason is that one day the great English
canal maker of the last century,the Duke
of Bridgewater, to whom the estate be-
longed, found a number of mechanics in
his employ idling about after l, when
they ought to have returned to their
work. lnquiring the meaning of this, he
was told that they had not heard the
clock strike, it being much more easy to
miss hearing the single stroke than half
dozen or 50. The next day the clock
struck thirteen and has done so ever
since.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

ENGLISH tradesmen have the most Pc
cular way of only keeping one or two of
the component parts of divisible object
if the rest of it happens not to exactly
belong to their line Of business, and SO
you have to keep trotting around to a
dozen stores sometimes to find a thing
that in America you would have been
sure to be able to purchase en- bloc. The
other day an American gentleman started
out from the Langham TO purchase scrap
book and mucilage bottle. He bought the
scrap-book, but found this stationer did
not keep mucilage and was directed to
another for that; and after buying the
mucilage he was surprised to find that
the bottle had 10 brush, nor did this man
keep brushes, and to obtain brush he was
obliged to go to third vender. To this
Individual he expressed surprise at this
odd way OF doing business, and said:
"Now, in America, shoaia have found
ali these things in the first store J. went
into"
'Indeed!' replied the shopkeeper.
"They must have very large capital,
then"
"No," answered the gentleman; ''put
they have singular knack of keeping
the things that people want" To buy
eight shillings' worth of things he had
spent twelve shillings for car hire.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
OLD DRINKING CUPS AND COS.
TUNES.

Drinking from the same cup by sever
al individuals is an old custom which is
still kept alive in Italy and in all parts of
Germany, and Is not unknown IN Eng
land among those classes who are lovers
of malt liquor and drink it 'from the
pewter" When O. friend meets another
in coffee house or tavern, the one who
has already ordered something does not
issue a second order for his friend, but
holds out the vessel for the newcomer.
The German krug and the English
pewter mug still show the popular feel
ing in favor of one large vessel for
friendly party. The formula of Saxon
politeness which consisted in two drink
ers employing the same vessel is well
known. The first who drank said IVES
he'll Heres health to you,) and the one
who received the goblet, before empty
ing it, said Drink heu q drink your
health.) From the "Roman de Rou" it
appears that this was customary among
the English as late is the twelfth century,
There were hanaps mounted on one foot,
in the form of a chalice, others were
mounted on three feet, and others still
were made in the form of bowl or cup.
Some were made with covers, others
without, and the materials employed in
their construction were as varied as their
shapes. The hanap was particularly used
by persons Of high social position; the
tankard with handle being the more
popular vessel. And such was the fear
of poison in the Middle Ages that great
parsonage was served from hanap with
a cover which could be used as vessel,
from which cover the servant drank
little of the liquor, which he poured from
the goblet for that purpose. These pre-
cautions clearly proved insufficient, and
preservatlves against poisoning were
sought after under the most absurd pre-
JUDGES. The fabulous animal known as
the unicorn or HcOF7lc was thought to
be the enemy of everything impure.
People fancied that by causing their
beverages to be served them III vases
made of the horn of the magical beast,
they could easily detect the presence of
poison in their drink. Handles were
made, as they thought, of this material
for knives; for it was said that blood
would exude from horn and bone OF the
licorne, when brought in contact with
poisoned meats. The long sword of the
narwhal, when brought to Europe, was
thought to be the horn of the unicorn;
and it is probable that fossil ivory of
many kinds WAS also sold under the same
name Well-sppointed houses possessed
q large number of hanaps. The inven-
tory, engrossed in 1880, of the household
Of Charles V. of France. surnamed the
Wise, describes four gold hanaps and lis
many ewers, weighing in all nearly
ninety-six mares: and III tankards of
gilded silver, nearly all ennmeled and
weighing in the aggregate SOB mares of
silver. Some of these vessels were pro-
yided with air tight covers, as they wero
intended to be carried about with already
prepared drinks. Among northern ma
tons they were sometimes made of
maple-wood, and beautifully carved.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

Choose for the head of your flock a
strong vigorous bird, with a crow long,
loud and full, and with clear ringing
voice-one that shows, with the ending
of his crow, that he has still reserve
power of lungs. Avoid bird with an
asthmatical trGw. See that his eye is
bright and full, his comb glossy red as
if vanished, wattles the same and full
and pendant. Absence Or deficiency
of ~aities. in the full waited varieties,
denotes sterility. His coat should be
smooth and sleek, glossy and bright,
and his action quick, strong and con-
slant.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
THE following assertion is made by

THE following assertion is made by a
paper printed away off in Hamilton, On
tario: ''Some time since lady in this
city mailed a copy of The Times to lady
friend in neighboring city, but before
doing so, clipped a small item of news
from it for preservation. The lady duly
received the paper, and her curiosity was
so much aroused to know what it was
her friend had cut out and prevented her
from seeing that she wrote to this office
for perfect copy of that days issue.
This has been mailed, and in all prob.
ability before she is "a hours older she
will have had the satisfaction of having
her feminine curiosity appeased, and we
hope not disappointed in the bargain"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

GENERAL MYER-otherwise "Old Pro.
bsbiliues" said to be intensely dis
satisfied with any failures in the daily
average % weather reports, and asserts
that in ten years time success will come
All such failures came from the ocean and
the northeast. He has. it is reported, a
plan to anchor six ships at distances of
$50 miles each, just like the lightship of
the Highlands. to put them in telegraphic
communication with the Atlantic cable,
make them floating harbors of refuge so
that any boats crew on the main channel
of commerce could reach 8 home and
shelter, within little more than hun
dred miles, and SO that tho news Of any
disaster, any gale, any low barometer,
an storm impending on our northern
coast, couio come to him in his Office at
Washington.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
TREMENDOUS POWER OF SEA WAVES

TREMENDOUS POWER OF SEA Waves
The tremendous force Of the ocean
waves has been illustrated at Wick, Oh
the extreme Northern coast of Scotland,
where breakwater has been building
for some years past. 1t may give al idea
of what is meant by wavepower. 1t was
found that stones of ten tons weight were
as pebbles to the waves, which have been
measured to be there forty two feet from
crest to the bottom of the trough. The
outer end of the break-wlter, where the
storms beat most violently was built of
three courses of one hundred-ton stones
laid on the rubble foundations; next
above these were three courses of large,
fiat stones, and upon these a mass of
concrete built on the spot, OF cement and
rubble. The end of the break-water was
thought to be as immoyeable as the nat
ural rock. yet the resident engineer saw
it yield to the force of the waves and
swing around into the less-troubled wat
er inside the pier. 1t gave away not in
fragments, but in one mass, as If it was
monolith. The displaced mass is esti-
mated to weigh about 1850 tons.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

Just one," murmured he, invClunta-
rily drawing closer to the luscious lips,
that smiled upon him with such raw
ishing bewitchingncss, while his own
quivered i'll an agony Of expectant antic-
ipation. $50 l notice." replies she
coolly, glancing at the clock, land time
for you to turn up your coat collar and
shut the door from the outside" He
went.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

A young woman, with pretty face
and modest ways, took a room in a
Springfield hotel. The other guests
pitied her because she seemed timid
and unprotected. Before the week was
out three men had called to see her.
One was the husband from whom she
had eloped. A second was the man
with whom she had eloped. A third
was man with whom she had prom
ised to elope, but had Tilted. The 81
multaneous meeting of these four per-
sons was so inharmonious that all were
turned out of the house.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

In England the beginning of the pot
terry manufacture are enveloped in OBJ
security, but for the last two centuries it
has conferred in Staffordshire. A kind
of earthenware called deli, from the
place of its origin, in Holland, was large
ly made in that district in the seventeenth
century. This was SO improved by Jos.
Wedgewood, nearly 200 years ago, that
when Queen Anne became one of his
patrons he called it Queens ware" a
name it still retains; and now along the
valley of the Trent there are more than
200 potteries, whose products are pushed
by English mercantile energy to every
part of the world where British COM
merce penetrates. The peculiar comb
nations of clay discovered by Wedge
wood are still one of the secrets in the
immense establishment continued by his
descendants. Mr.. Gladstone Justly calls
Jos. Wedgewood one OF the greatest
benefactors of the English people.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
HOW A STANDING COLLAR WON A
SUIT.

All things are fair, SO it is generally
thought, in war, in horse trade, or in q
law case. It is probable on that bad
rule that the late President Lincoln act
ed when he defeated an antagonist before
a jury. The anecdote is thus told by
DR.. Bateman:
He was often pitted against eminent
lawyers during trials in the Sangamon
county circuit court. On one occasion
he was opposed to very able advocate,
who made powerful, eloquent and con-
vincing speech to the jury. and Lincoln
saw that is had been very effective on the
minds of the jury. The gentleman. more
over, was man who was very precise in
his dress, and as well as manner and
oratory. But Mr.. Lincoln had been OBJ
serving him, and saw flaw in his usu-
ally faultless attire.
Gentlemen of the jury said odd
Abe when he rose to speak, the gen.
tleman who has just spoken has made a
strong argument. He has quoted the
law and evidence, and it is not for me to
say that he is wrong. He may be cor
rect in all he has said. But ] want you
to take a good look at him. Look es-
pecially at his upper half, and then, gen.
tlemen, tell me if any man who comes
before you with his standing collar but
toned wrong end to, with the point
sticking away out behind his ears. may
not be altogether mistaken in his argu-
ments. The plan was successful. Mr..
Lincoln had broken the spell which the
eloquence of his opponent had thrown
over the jury. '"-Er.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

A Snowman travelling with a pano-
rama Of scenes from the Bible, met a
Yankee, and on learning that he could
play the piano, engaged him TO play ap-
propriats selections after each picture
at his show that night. The curtain
rose revealing The Return OK the
Prodigal Son." upon which the player
struck up when Johnny comes march.
ing home.a The effect produced was
wo.->aerful. Consider yourself engaged
to travel with me, 1 '''e $780,. 20.
aou draw better than the picsu.~-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
Like the Gold Ground.

Like the gold ground of Fra Angelica
Not bright but clear and pure, whereon go
flying
The musc-making angels 10 and fro,
More fair for all the glory underlying;
Whereon all shapes of heaven and earth but
seem
To float and float, not real, save as they cover
But for a time the ever-during CLEAN.
AS clouds between US and the sunlight hover;
So shines thy love within the silent room
OF my still heart 50 shines my love for thee.
Making golden light within the gloom
OF all the time and space between that be
While all things else thereon like shadows pass
and glide
Drawing therefrom alone their beauty or their
pride.
-HLrpsT's.
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Anatomy of 4 Pian0fOrte.

A writer has taken the trouble to
give the actual material used in con
structing pianOforte. In every in
strument there are fifteen kinds of
wood, viz, pine, maple, spruce, cherry,
walnut, whitewood, apple, Eastwood
and birch, all of which are indigenous;
and mahogany, ebony, holly, cedar,
beech and rosewood, from Honduras,
Ceylon, England, South America and
Germany. In this combination, elias
ITCHY, strength, pliability, toughness,
resonance, lightness, durability and
beauty are individual qualities, and the
general result is voice There are also
used Of the metals, iron, steel, brass,
white metal, gun metal and lead. There
are in the same instrument of seven and
half octayes, when completed, 2l4
strings, making a total length of 1877
feet of steel wire, and 500 feat Of white
covering wire). Such a piano will
weigh from 900 20 1000 pounds, and
will last with ocstant use mot abuse)
lifteen or twenty years.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

ONIONS are useful in sickness. Cover
two quarts of white onions with soft wa
ter; stew them to Jelly, strain through
q cloth or fine sieve; weigh the liquid
and add an equal weight of brown sugar
the commoner the better--simmer all
together until it is of the consistency OF
treacie. Dose, o tablespoonful three
times day. If it causes 10 pain, more
should be taken.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

The pressing Or coagulation of the
milk of animals, as cows, sheep and
goats, seems to be as old as history it.
self, being well known to the Greeks
and Romans, and also to the Jews. 4
vegetable acid, as the milky juice of
figs, was used to effect the coagulation,
by separating the composition of the
milk, as is now done through the use of
rennet
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

The mules of Morocco excel even
those of Spain. Some of them are as
large as full-sized horse. Flooding,
patient, sure-footed and docile, they
carry the traveller at the rate of four
miles an hour, through a long day,
with few halts and little sustenance.
The are found to carry heavier weights
than the camel, and to travel faster.
The price of ape ranges from 500
to 500.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

1t is said that old John Brown. of
Haddington, used to address his divin-
ity students of the first year to this ef-
feet: Gentlemen, ye need three things
to make ye good ministers: ys need
learning and grace aud common sense.
As for the learning, I'll try to set re in
the way of it; as for the grace, We must
always pray for it; but if We have ma
brought the common-sense with We. We
may go about your business
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

The French hatters say that. in gene
raj, men from thirty to forty years OF
age have larger heads than those from
twenty to thirty. Notso, however, with
the ecclesiastics, whose heads cease to
grow at about twenty-five. The cures
bishops, archbishops, etc.. have no
larger heads than the students of the
larger ssliGsFiss,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

When MI. Greeley once upon time
was occurring in Indiana, i'll the palmy
days OF State banks, the committee Of
the town paid him-ine vitably-in notes
of the local institution. He locked at
them, and then said: "Could not you
give me, instead of this stuff, a we'll
executed counterfeit on some Eastern
bapkpn
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

The largest bell iii tie world is well
known to he at Moscow 1t is badly
cracked, and is now lying on the ground
and it is doubtful if it was ever raised.
One story says that while it was being
cast fire broke out in the city. and
some water was thrown on it, causing
the crack. Another story is that it
was hung and its immense weight of
1913 tons caused it to fall. There is an
other bell now in its place, which
weighs l2s tons, and that is the largest
now in use
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27

"Brudderin,' said al elderly colored
preacher, in the course OF funeral
sermon over the remains of one of his
flock, whose head had been caved in by
the hind feet of mule" Brudderin, il
am powerful strange dat, arter mon a
hundred Vars of sastrus Experiment., a
culled pusson shud pussist in 'proachin
q mule FUN de r'ar.''