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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Advantages OF Crying.

A French physician is out in long
dissertation on the advantages Of groan-
ing and crying in general, and especially
during surgical operations. He con-
tends that groaning and crying are two
grand operations by which nature allays
anguish that those patients who give
way to their natural feelings more speed
lily recover from accidents and opera
tions than those who suppose it unwor-
thy a man to betray such symptoms Of
cowardice as either to groan or cry.
He tells of man who reduced his
pulse from one hundred and tWenty-six
to sixty in the course Of few hours by
giving full vent to his emotions. If
people are at all unhappy about any
thing let them go into their rooms and
comfort themselves with loud boo-hoo,
and they viii feel hundred per cent
better afterward,
In accordance with the above, the
crying Of children should not be too
greatly discouraged. If it is systemati-
cally repressed the result may be st.
Fitus' dance, epilentio fits, or some
other disease OF the nervous system.
What is natural IS nearly always useful,
anG nothing can be more natural than
the crying of children when anything
occurs to give them either physical or
mental pain.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

DR.. Lewis S. Pitcher has made val
liable report to the Kings county IN.
" Medical Society or the subject Of
Group. DIR. Pitcher has studied that dis
ease with much care with reference to
local conditions. Under the term
"croup,'' the author includes sail forms
of acute iIflammatory affections Of the
larynx or trachea which may produce
narrowing of their caliber to such an
extent as to occasion serious prolonged
dygpnGa." This embraces three condi-
tiOns, namely, catarrhal Group, mem
branous Group and diphtheritic Group.
The first two differ in the secretion, in
the former case being liquid, and in the
latter its giving rise to false membrane
Of varying thickness. Diphtheritic
Group differs only from membranous
Group in being recognized as part of a
general diphtheritic infection. The
disease runs riot among the large num-
bers of badly nOurished and weakly
children in the thiokly populated tene-
ment house districts; and wherever ex-
iilniniation has been made into the phys
ical nature of the soil in localities where
Group has been most frequent, there un-
favorable conditions have been enc0un-
tered. Along the water front, occupy
ing ground rescued from the river or
bay; upon the site Of marshes, now
more or Iess obscured by the filling in
process; in valleys that have been the
sites of watercourses, whose drainage
is imperfect; these are the districts over
which, as the map plainly shows, the
malady has destroyed the most people.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
RUTH MARYWEATHER
Why She Stopped the Paper.

She came bouncing through the sane
tum door like a cannon ball, and with
out pausing to say ''how dye do?' she
brought her umbrella down upon the
table with a mighty crash and shouted:
Il want you to stop my paper!'
''All right, madam.
stop II right OF, toG," she persisted,
whacking the table again, for l waited
long enough for you to do the square
thing"
She Quieted down for a moment, as
we ran our finger down the list of
names, and when we reached hers and
scratched it out. she said:
There; now mebbe you'll do as you'd
ough' to after this, and not Slight a
woman jes because she's poor. Ii some
rich folks happen to have a little red
headed, bandy-legged, squint-eyed,
wheezy sQualler born TO them, you puff
it to the skies and make it out an
angel, but when poor people have a
baby, you don't say word about it,
even il its the sQuarest-toed, blackest-
haired, biggcst-ieaded, nobbiest little
kid that ever kept a woman awake
nightg. That's what's the matter, and
that's why stopped my paper"
And she dashed out as rapidly as she
came.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Keeping Poultry In Orchards.

This IS a matter that should be prac-
ticed when possible. We believe that
If farmers and fruit-raisers knew the
benefits arising from such management
they would at once adopt it. Last fail
we visited an orchard in which fowls
were kept: the owner of which told Us
that before the fowls were confined in
II, the trees made little or no growth,
and only a corresponding amount Of
fruit was obtained. But what change
was evident now. The grass was kept
down, the weeds killed and the trees
presented an appearance of thrift, which
the most enthusiastic horticulturist
could not but admire and envy. The
growth or the trees was Glcst vigorous,
and their foliage remarkably luXuriant.
The fruit was abundant, of large size
and free from worm and other imper-
feouOng. This excellence vas accounted
for by the proprietor, who remarked
| tiat the hens ate all the worms and
curcullO III their reach, even the can
ker worm. He found less trouble with
their roosting IL trees than he expected,
and that picket fence six feet high
kept them within bounds. His orchard
was divided into three sections, and the
fowls were changed from one to anoth-
er, as the condition of the fowls OF the
orchard section seemed to require
Poultry Worid.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Tut Life Into four Work.

A young mans interest and duty both
dictate that he should make himself in :.
dispensable to his employer. He shoul9
be SO industrious, prompt and careful
that the accident of his temporary alb
Sence should be noticed by his being
missed. A young man should make
his employer his friend, by doing faith
fully and minutely oil that is entrusted
to him. 1t is a great mistake to be
over-nice or fastidious about work.
Pitch in readily and your willingness
will be appreciated, while the high
toned" young man who quibbles about
what it is and what it is not his place to
do, will get the cold shoulder. There
is story that George Washington
once helped roll log that one of his
cOrpOralS would not handle, and the
greatest Emperor OF Russia worked as
a shipwright in England-t0 learn the
business. That's just what you want to
do. Be energetic, look and act with
alacrity, take an interest in your employ
ers success. work as though the bust
ness was your own, and let your en-
ployer know that he may place absolute
rsiance i'll your word and on your act.
BE mindful have your mind on your
business because it is that which is
going to help you, not those outside at
fractions which some OF the boys y
are thinking about. Take pleasure
in work do notgo about it in a listless,
formal manner, but with alacrity and
cheerfulness, and remember that while
working thus for others, you are laying
the foundation Of your OWn success in
life.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Neapolitan Milkmen are very funny

Neapolitan milkmen are very funny
fellows. They do not have a milk
wagon and horse or even pail and dip
per. They have only little three-legged
stools tied to themselves $50 that when
they want to sit down they are all
ready,) and they drive their goats and
COWS before them to the different
houses, and milk them at the door in a
bowl provided by each customer. No
chance Of watered milk there, you see.
That is not the queerest part o. it
though. Italian houses are very high
five, six and seven stories often, with a
different family living on each floor.
Even the palazzoe (palacesl OF The rich
are divided ii this way. Is the first
floor mot the ground floor there are
sometimes from eighty to one hundred
marble steps leading up. On this floor
perhaps a duke may live; On the next
above some one lower III rank, till it
would not be impossible that the noble
dukes laundress might live in the
seventh story of his palazzo. These
uppermost families usually take goats
milk, because the goat can 60 upstairs,
even to the very top floor and be
| milked in full view of the customer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

Americans are apt 10 be scandaliZed
in Europe 10y the field labor of women,
but we learn from the statements Of the
special agricultural correspondent Of
the Edinburgh Scotsman that in this
country, also, women are similarly en-
ployed. Writing from the great settle
ment in Kansash he says: The majority
of those who have settled here within
the past two years are Russians and
being working people without capital,
they have reduced the cost Of labor
greatly. They break prairie and plough
land at IS. or Gs. Per acre, which used to
cost lbs. or 1!s.; and for days work
Russian women charge only 25 cents, or
L., and excellent workers they are"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Evenings at Wome.

The long evenings, which follow the
short days, are made, in some fanliles,
the liappiest of all nappy times the
cares OF the day are ended; themother s
resting-time has come; the father has
dropped all sorts of business worries and
perpleXities, and the whole family throw
themselves With Zest into the innocent
pleasures of the home circle.
Solomon tells us that there is time for
all things; time TO weep, and a time
to laugh, to play, and to dance. Surely
the time to laugh, to play, and to dance
comes most appropriately in the long
pleasant evening h Jurs, when
The cares that infcSt the day
Fold up their tents like the Arabs,
And silently steal away.
1t is well for the women of the house
hold to remember that the pleasant
evenings at home are strong antidotes
to the practice of looking for enjoyment
abroad, and seeking for pleasure in 10y
and forbidden places; for relaxation
and recreation will be INDUCED in some
how by most men, and happy are they
who find i'll the home circle the diversion
they need. y lively game, an interest
ing book read aloud or, in musical
families, new song to be practiced,
will furnish nastime that will make an
evening pass pleasantly.
A little forethought during the day, a
little pulling of wires that need not ap-
pear will make the whole thing easy,
and different ways and means may be
provided for making the evening hours
pass pleasantly, and time TO be looked
forward to with pleasant anticipations.
We visited once in a large family where
it was the duty of each sister, in turn,
toprovide the evening S occupation, and
there was pleasant rivalry between
them as to whose evening should be the
most enjoyable The brothers entered
fully into the spirit of the simple home
entertainments, and were as 10th to be
obliged to spend an evening away from
home as their sisters and parents were
sorry to have them absent. Every one
spoke of this family as an uncommonly
united one, fer each and every member
showed such a strong attachment for
the home to which each one contributed
SO much pleasure.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

Mr.. w. Whitestone, an English che
mist, has recently succeeded in an in
vention which will obviate many of the
difficulties and Objectionable features
attendant on the use of cotton wicks in
oil lamps. The invention, which is al
ready patented, consists in forming the
wick or burner Of the lamp Of porous
pottery. The mouth Of the oil reservoir
is closed by a disc or plate of metal,
which is pierced to receive a metal or
other suitable tube. The upper end of
this tube is closed by two, three, or more
fat or circular pieces of porous pottery
which form the wick Or burner. In such
cases as the oil reservoir is below the
seat of combustion, the pieces of pottery
which constitute the burner clip be-
tween them some spun glass, asbestos,
or other incombustible fibres, which are
allowed TO project downwards into the
oil and form the road by which the oil
passes by capillary action to the porous
pottery burner.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

To prevent a COW from taking her
own milk take an ordinary halter used
for horses. made of heavy harness
leather, with brow band and throat
latch. Make the nose band large
enough for her to feed with ease. Then
take a strip of some kind of leather, the
entire length of the nose band, punch
holes one or one and one-half inches
apart in this strip, large enough to
admit 10 or Spenny nail, and small
enough to prevent the head from pass
ing through. Then insert in each of
these holes a nail with the point sharp,
and sew or rivet it to the outside of the
nose Oand, having the heads between
the nose band and strip, and the points
outwards. When she attempts to suck
herself the nails will prick her in the
TANKS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
"DujS.O -

Little Mrs. Dagget was going down
Brush street. She had on her store
clothes and was sailing along like a
Baltimore clipper, when she met a
strange woman. They surveyed eacn
other as they slowly passed. Mrs. Dagget
could tell exactly what the other had on
and the cost, and the other could do the
same by Mrs. Dagget. As their eyes
met they both elevated their noses.
Your coral jewelry is only wax !"
exclaimed the stranger.
And that's shoddy lace ~ screamed
Dagget.
And that dress only cost twenty cents
per yard"
1t cost seventy cents, and l saw yom
bonnet in a secondhand storeln
Then they gave each other love taps
on the mouth, and pulled each others
| hair, and Mrs. Dagget retreated from
the encounter to find solace in beer. She
was out on the war-path, half drunk,
when arrested.
And now," she said as the charge
was read, must a lady, when she walks
out with her fine dudS on, be insulted
by such heathenS as that woman trains
with 70
Butyou looked at her-you criticised
her clothing, too"
so l did, your Honor. 1 thought
she had the worst taste ever saw. Did
you ever know a real lady wear red on
her bonnet, green around her neck, and
yellow bows on her dress ?"
Never !" he exclaimed.
Well, that's the way she was rigged
out. Look at me, your UOnor-see the
soft harmony-the pleasing contrasts
the mingling of the tender and the beau
tiful. This ribbon cost ten cents a
yard, sir, and this calico is warranted
not to fade, while this apron can't be
bought anywhere for less than thirty
cents.n
4 have often been panied to see
women turn and glare at each other"
observed the court. I'm rather glad
you abused each other, but | can't eX-
cuse your intoXication. The fine is five
dollars
'Here is the same" she promptly an
swered. Real ladies can pay double
that, while such trash as that woman
must go to Jail. Goodbye, sir; l know
what belongs TO good manners, and l
pays my fine and goes out with SMILE
Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

Mix together itharge and glyeerine
to the consistency of thick cream or
fresh putty This cement is useful for
mending stone jars or any coarse earth
enware, stopping leaks in seams of tin
pans or wash boilers, cracks and holes
in iron kettles, &c. have filed holes
an inch il diameter in kettles, and used
the same for boiling water and feed. 1t
may also be used to fasten on lsmp-tops
to tighten loose nuts, to secure loose
bolts whose nuts are lost, to tighten
loose joints of wood or iron, loose boxes
in wagon hubs, and in a great many
other ways. In all cases the articles
mended should not be used until the ce-
ment has hardened, which will require
from one day TO a week, according to
the quantity used. This cement viii
resist the action Of hot or cold water,
| acids and heat.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Prisoners Going to Siberia.

The saddest sight in Russia to trav-
ouerS are treated. 1t is common
spectacle to see 500 or 400poor wretcheS
on their way to Siberia under military
escort; for most of them are chained
together in couples, while the women
and children who have elected to share
their bread-winners' lot have also to
submit to be treated as criminals. Poor
ly clad. and apparently half-starved, the
wender is that any of the party should
ever survive the dreadful journey. A
Russian criminal condemned to exile
is sent away with very little ceremony;
but when an officer of the army or other
prisoner of note has been sentenced to
banishment for life, he is dressed in
full uniform, and led to scaffold in
sofae public place. In the presence of
the crowd he is made to kneel, while
his epaulets and decorations are torn
from his coat, and his sword broken
over his head. He is declared legally
dead; his estates are confscated, and
his wife can consider herself widow
if she chooses. From the scaffold he
starts on his journey for Siberia. His
wife and children, sisters or mother
can follow Or accompany them if they
choose, but only on condition that they
share his exile. Mr.. Arnold in his book
entitled, Through Persia by Caravan,
relates how, when passing through
Russia, he saw party of prisoners
embarked on board steamer on the
river Volga. They were positively
Gagged amidships, so that every part Of
the interior could be seen, just as in
the lion houses in the Geological Gar
dens, with this difference-that in the
case of the prisoners there was no over
hanging roof to prevent rain or sun
shine from pouring in upon their
wretchedness. At the back Of the cage
was lair common to all, without dis
tinction of sex or age. And when all
were secured, including the guiltless
women and children, fights occurred
for the places least exposed to the east
wind This is a system which must
surely fade away beneath that public
opinion which is fast becoming too
strong for even autocratic monarchs to
despiSe; for we are told that the eman-
cipation of the Russian serfs has made
/. vast legal, social and material inn
provement in the lower orders Of the
people; and it is to the people that the
reform, which will enable Russia, per-
haps at no distant day, to take an hon
orable place among civilized nations.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Permanent Silver Mines.

In his treatise on silver mines, Full
ier says: wherever in any part of the
~>sorId silver mines have been worked,
they are worked now, unless from war,
invasion of Indians, etc. We know OF
no silver mining regions in the world
that have given out. Mexican mines
worked by the Aztecs before the con-
quest by C0rteZ are still worked as
prolitably as ever; the old Spanish
mines opened long before Hannibal's
time, are still worked with enormous
profits; the South American mines have
constantly yielded their wealth for more
than three hundred years, and are as
productive as ever; mines in Hungary
that were worked by the Romans be-
fore the Sayior'S time, still yield abund-
ance of ore; the silver mines of Frei-
burg, opened in the eleventh century
and worked continually ever since,
yield their steady increase. SO in Nor
way, Sweden and Russia, and indeed
wherever silver mines have been
opened, we believe without exception,
they continue to be worked at the pres
ent day, and generally are more pro-
ductiye than at any time in their past
history"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
4 Little Every Day.

The longest life is made up of simple
days-feW or many; but the days grow
into years, and give the measure of our
lives at the last.
The life IS at the last what the days
have been. let the children, therefore,
look after the days-One day at time.
and pat into each one something that
will iast-somcthing worth doing, some
thing worth remembering, something
worth initiating by those who follow
us.
/. Every day little knowledge.
One fact in & day. How small a thing
is one fact! Only one! Ten years pass
by. Three thousand six hundred and
fifty facts are not small thing.
>. Every day little self-denial.
The thing that is difficult to do to-day
will be an easy thing to do three hun
dred and sixty five days hence, If each
day it shall have been repeated. What
power of self-mastery shall he enjoy
who, looking to God for His grace,
seeks every day 10 practice the grace
he prays for.
3. Every day a little hopefulness.
Welive for the good Of others, if oul
living be in any sense true living. Its
not in the great deeds of philanthropy
j that the only blessing is found. In
/ Little deeds of kindness"
repeated every day, we lind true hap
piness. Vt home, at school, in tbs
| street, in the Ecighbor's house, on the
/ play-ground-we shall find opportunity
everyday for usefulness,
4. Every day 4 little look into the
Bible. One chapter day. What q
! tr9asure Of Bible knowledge one may
acquire in ten years. Every day verse
committed to memory. What a vo'
lume in the mind at the end of twenty
| five years.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

Sugar-raising has at last proved sue
cessful in the British possessions in
India, and this years crop will amount
TO 10000 tons-a pretty good beginning.
Some of it will find its way to England,
which is yearly becoming more and
more independent of other countries
for many of its prime articles of con-
sumption. Much of her coffee now
comes from Jamaica, and the raising Of
it is becoming developed in others of
her distant colonies. Cotton she is now
growing with considerable success in
India also in Egypt, which is nothing
more than an English colony.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

Forty-fve dollars pound was paid
for butter at Colorado Springs recently,
yet we would not advise people to make
a rush for the dairy business there
This is how it came about: the ground
for building to be occupied by Colora-
do College was broken at the Springs on
the 4th of July. Four pounds of butter
given TO the building fund by a lady
and sold again, until they brought $3.50,
or SIS a pound. Ten thousand dollars
has also been subscribed by citizens Of
Colorado Springs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

In July, IT'S, large number Of riae-
men from the South arrived in Boston
to join the army. They attracted much
attention. They had enlisted with
great promptness, and had marched
from four TO seven hundred miles.
They were stalwart men, dressed in
frocks and rifie-shirtS, and wore round
hats. AT a review, company OF them,
while on quick advance, fired their
nalls into objects Of seven inches diam
oter, at distance of go yards. They
were stationed on the lines and became
| terrible TO the British.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
Tie Silent KGoar.

How can 1 speak to thee? The far blue sky
Hath never speech for men;
The longing brecZes round thee fit, and then,
Unspoaking still, they dic.
Like SKY and breeze, I g3szp. l fnurmur near,
Oh, must lny LearL ne duHDz
And BtIst n dove Izc formiessbreezos come.
To sigh aud perish hercF
cannot speak to thee; and yet in this
\ last dear hope may tie,
For could tell my loves eternity
Ia one long. silent kiss
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

The flowers and pods of the white
clover may be ground up into sort of
time of famine in Ireland and Scotland.
This bread, which is considered to be
very wholesome and nutritive, is, in
Ireland, called Chambroch bread,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05
WISCONSIN HOUSE.

WE'RE DALEY. PROPRIETOR, CORNER
u nrath and JAY ST This l. a new House, and
well fitted up with nil the modern improvement :.
a GOOD STABLE is also ia connection with the
house.
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WlNDIATE HOUSE.

- WINDIATE. PROPRIETOR, YORK ST.
{. This Grat-clus- House is in excellent condi
tiou, aud the Proprietor is confident that he can
give perfect satisfaction to the travelling public \
from the boats. 4 coon LIVERY STABLE i Kept
in connection with the House.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

rN ESIIEN. PROPRIETOR. FRANKLIN ST.
ihi'.h has been newly nffnYsntJt 9nrJ', 4RHhf;
espcrtiuly ask for share 81 The put lc patronaGc.
! tt,,t,a -fABiE is kept in connection with the
lou>e where stock viii be yell provided for.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

INASHIONABLE TAILOR ALL GOODS
l. made by the subscriber are warranted to fit
Ihc form Prices reasonable, and am bound To
please those who give me their custom. shop
on York street two doors West of the Nlndlate
House.