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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
Rryan;'s Young DAYS and NaYs.

In his younger days, as we are told by
those who knew him at that period of
his life, he displayed shrinking timidity
in social intercourse, was indisposed to
general conversation, restricted IL the
expression of his ideas, III at ease in n
feminine presence, with little command
of eolloquial language, and, in fact, with
no taste for the pleasures of society.
With a wider experience Of the world,
this tinidity gave place to a more assured
confidence in himself; he enlarged the
circle OF his acquaintance, entered more
freely into general society, by which, in
later years, he was greatly courted, and
which he greatly enjoyed; but he never
entirely oYercame the habitnal reserve
which formed so large an ingredient in
his nature. In the tenderness of the
family home, and IN the proud sympathy
of his father with the precocious genius
Of the son, be found the necessary ali
ment of affection, and for 2 long time
seemed disinclined to pass beyond the
corner of the ancient fire place for a
wider appreciation. and love. IN after
life he certainly had not the need of com
munication which makes so many persons
delightful social companions, while it
exposes others to ridicule by the flush of
their garrulity and the naiyete of their
confessions; he was always a model of
dignity and repose; never talking FOR
the sake Of talking; never wasting his
time and fatiguing his listeners by empty
DISCOURSE; never counting dispute and
controversy; bat never aversa to the ez-
preston of dissent from your opinion,
and at times perhaps a little TOO ready 10
expose an error in your statements or q
fallacy in your reasoning. His reserve
of manner no doubt often subjected him
to misrepresentation. He was sometimes
set down as hard, cold, unsympathctic
by reason OF his paucity of words, or his
! astringent silence; but his reticeuce
came from no lack of kindly feeling, but
in addition to his natural reserve, from a
dislike to solemn commonplace, and an
invincible desire to verify his assertions
before haZarding their utterance.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
Tie Stinming Trna.

Though the tropical scrubs Of Queens
land are very luXuriant and beautiful,
they are not without their dangerous
drawbacks, for there is one plant grow
ing in them that is really deadly in its
etfects-that is to say deadly in the
same way that one would apply the
term to fire, as, if certain proportion
Of any ones body is burnt by the sting
ing tree, death will be the result. 1t
would be as safe TO pass through fires
as TO fall into one Of these trees. They
are found from two to three inches high
to ten and fifteen feet, in the old ones
the stem is Whitish, and red berries us
ually grow on the top. TENTS pecu
liar and disagreeable smell, but is best
known by its leaf, which is nearly
round, and having point at the top, IS
Jagged all round the edge like the net
tie. All the leaves are larger-some
larger than Il saucer. sometimes"
says a traveller, while shooting tur-
keys in the scrubs / have entirely for
Stlltli Vic SllllSIiI tlCt, III "ttiIlCN u
its close proximity by its smell, and
have then found myself in little forest
of them. | was only once stung, and
that very lightly. It's effects are curl
Gus; it leaves no mark, but the pain is
maddening, and for months afterward
the part, when touched, is tender, in
rainy weather, or when it gets wet in
washing, etc. have seen man, who
treats ordinary pain lightly, roll on the
ground in agony, after being stung, and
l have known a horse SO completely
mad after getting into grove of trees,
that he rushed Open-mouthed at every
one who approached him, and had to
be shot in the scrub. Dogs, when
stung, will rush about, whining pite-
ously, biting pieces from the affected
part. The small, singing trees, few
inches high, are as dangerous as any,
being so hard to see and seriously I'M
periling ones ankles. This scrub is
usually found growing among palm
treeS.u
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

ADMIT THE SUN.-Dont shut out the
sun, oven though your carpets suffer a
little under his ardent CLEAN. We are
more active under the influence of sun
light-can think better and act more Wig
orously. Let us take the arrest, the
choicest, and sunniest room in the house
for our living room-the workshop,
where brain and body are built mp and
renewed-and let us have a bay-window,
no matter how plain the structure,
through which the good twin angels of
nature-sunlight and pure air-can freely
enter. Dark rooms bring depression of
spirits, imparting sense of confinement,
OF isolation, of powerlessness, which Is
chilling TO energy and vigor; but in
bright rooms is good cheer. Even in a
gloomy house, where walls and furniture
are dingy and brown, We have but 10
take down the curtains, open wide the
window, hang brackets on either side,
set the flower pots on the brackets, and
let the warm sun stream freely in, to
bring health to our bodies and JOY to our
souls.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
Greek lire,

The re-intrOducti0n or Greek fire in
to Wafare-itS effect, Of course, i'll
creased by modern science would nos
be an inappropriate, if gilastly, accom-
paniment of the New Crusade" ii
was during the cruSades Of the middle
ages that this destructive agent came
into general notice; and the vaguely
quaint description Of the historian will
be remembered; lie described it as fly
ing through the air about the bigneSS
OF a hogshead. At a recent meeting of
tie Institute Of Naval Architects, a
paper WAS read suggesting that q jet OF
crude petroleum might lie thrown upon
the deck Of an irOnclad with eXcellen4
results. The crew would be so scorch-
ed and smothergd by the smoke as to
be forced TO retire from working the
guns, when launch with Il spar, or
other torpedo, could approach and de-
liver the fatal blow. 1t was calculated
that such jet could be thrown 800
feet with accuracy, apparently much
after the fashion III which water is d.
rected from q hose on a conilagratiOn,
only with precisely the contrary intent.
Already tie necessary apparatus has
been designed; and it is believed that a
single gallon of petroleum would rem
der 100 square feet Of surface Uninhab-
liable b. man for some little time. 1T
is not clearly explained, however, how
q barrel with Greek fire is TO get as
near as 800 feet TO an iron-clad. with a
Gatli 2 gun OF two aboard, and care
ful watch Oh the lookout.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

THE Tower or BABEL.-Babel, or
Baalbel, was lofty temple built at
Babylon, by Belus, both as an obserya-
tory and a temple of the sun. 1t remains
Nimrod, and has been amply described
by Rich and Porter. 1t was formed of
eight sqaure towers, one on the other,
six hundred and sixty feet high, and the
same at each sile of its base. Lately, its
height was one hundred and sixty feet,
and the reeds, between every three or
four layers of brick, were perfectly fresh,
while the brick seems to be calcined by
fire. Babylon continued, for two thous-
and years AFTER to be the most splendid
city in the world, and so Alexander
found it as late rs 325 Is. c. It decayed
on the building Of Bagdad by the Cal
iphs, as better situated for intercourse, in
go 4. u. According to the Jewish an
nails, it was built 1854 D. c., beautitied
and enlarged in 2150 by Samiramis, who
led from it her armies of all nations.
The Euphrates passed through it. 1t
was a square fifteen miles on each side,
with one hundred brass gates. 1t was
composed of twenty-five streets each
way. fifteen miles long. and one hundred
and fifty feet broad. crossing each other
at right angles, besides four half streets,
two hundred feet wide, facing the walls.
in detached houses, with gardens and
pleasure grounds. The walls were 81
feet thick aad three hundred and seventy
feet high.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
App for pw1i Marriages,

There is considerable variation III the
different European States OF the age at
which a legal marriage can be contract
ed. In Austria, the age OF discretion
for both sexes is fourteen. IN Hun
gary. each religious sect makes It's own
regulations, marriages being regarded
us. an entirely ecclesiastical affair.
Russians can contract marriages at the
age of eighteen in the case Of males
and sixteen in that OF females. The
Italian law fixes the age at eighteen
and fifteen years respectively. In
Turkey there is no general law. The
French and Belgian codes allow mar
riages of young men at eighteen and
girls at fifteen, but powers of disrensa-
ton in special cases are reserved. In
Greece, Spain and Portugal. parties Of
fourteen and twelve can contract a
binding marriage, but i'll the latter
country the consent Of the parents is
necessary ii the parties are under
twenty-one. According to the amend
ed paragraph OF the new German civil
marriage bill, the state of wedlocl, can
not be entered upon under twenty and
sixteen respectively, though the exist
.ng laws of Prussia and SaXony per-
mitted marriages ut earlier periods,
There is much dissimilarity IN the
Swiss laws, every canton having local
regulation OF its own. In some of
them the consent Of the parents is nee
essary up to the age of twenty-five.
The influence Of climate upon the tenn
permanent and constitution is observable
in the earlier age at which marriage is
allowed in the Southern nations, where
maturity is reached at 4 much earlier
period than among the Northern peo-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

Our planet is not true globe, because
. Of its former plastic condition before the
formation and cooling of the surface.
When the globe was soft it was more or
less yielding, and then toe rotation of
the earth to which | have referred tended
to drive off, as it were, the matter in the
equatorial regions; 50 that the distance
through the center Of the earth between
the two surfaces as far as possible re-
moved from. the poles of rotation, or
those parts of the earth which the i'm
aginary axis comes through, is rather
greater than the distance between the
two points where the axis comes to tie
that it must have been SO, has been
beautifully established by several exper-
iments. That the earth was once hotter
than it is now is therefore proved, both
by the irregularities of its surface, and
by lis shape as whole. We must not
imagine, however, that there has been
but one change. The minor irregulari
ties are all gradually changing by inner
energies and the action of air and water,
and it may be that even the largest ones
are young, compared with the age of the
planets surface. Nor does the change
end here; the equatorial protuberance
itself may but after all mark a point in
the great cycle of change, which has
caused the earth to rotate now about one
axis and now about another, Mathema-
ticians consider it highly probable that
the axis of the earth may have been in
ancient times very differently situated to
what it is at present, and, indeed, that
cit might have gradually shifted through
ten, twenty, thirty, forty or more de-
grees, without at any time any percepti-
bic sudden disturbance of either land or
water" Thus it appears that nature
prevents catastrophes by the very huge
ness of the scale on which she works.
! L0cIyCQP in GOOD Words.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

\ few dry lines in the official diary of
the war now being carried on between
the British and certain kallir tribes of
South Africa, tell story of heroism. On
Monday, the Goth of April, the British
made a combined attack upon the kaifirs
in and about Intaba karndoia, and the
savages were evidently getting the worst
of it,. when, says the diary, "a large
number of women 400. belonging gen.
orally to Sevolo's, Pato's, and Edmund
Sandili's people came out of the. bush.
During the fighting these women threw
themselves between the troops and the
Kaiiirs, thus enabling the rebels to es-
cape"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
Weller'S Philosophy.

You are quite philosopher, SAM
said Mr.. Pickwick.
1t runs in the family blieye, sir, ;,
replied Mr.. Weller. My fathers
VERY much in that line now. If my
mother-in-law blows him up he whis-
ties. She flies in passion and breaks
his pipe; he steps out and gets another.
Then she screams Very loud and falls
into 'stericks; and he smokes Very
comfortably till she comes to again
That's philosophy, sir, amt it,"
= very good substitute for it at all
events, = replied Mr.. Pickwick, laugh
ing.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

A certain lawyer had been laboring
for his client in long-winded speech,
but the verdict was found against him.
POUNDS exclaimed he, Il believe the
Jury have been in0culated for stupidi-
ty." That may be- said his opponent;
but you, Mr.. Sergeant, seem to have
had it the natural way"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

\ Georgia farmer smeared his hogs
with tar to rid them of fleas, and turned
them loose III the wood. At night they
did not return to the pen as usual, and
il the morning he found them stuck to-
gether, the tar making them adhere in a
mass. They might have gone home,
nevertheless, by concert OF action, sbut it
isn't IN hog to harmonic.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
nlonitoruoe pilot.
THURSDAY, JULY 1. 1873.
Fate.

Sorrow knocked: barred my door.
Go" 1 cried, IAN d come no more;
have guests who, gay and sweet,
Cannot bear thy face to meet"
But ere long from every room
Vanished light and warmth and bloom;
Hope and JOY and young love went,
And, late lingering, sweet content.
Then my door opened wide;
sorrow haste to come" cried:
"WelcOme now, no more to roam;
Make henceforth my heart thy home"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

Du Cilaillu doesn twonder that polyg-
amy is popular in Africa, where women
do most OF tile work and don't require
extensive OUTLAWS for dress. lie saw an
African chief who had $50 wives, and
the whole lot hadn't three cents worth
Of dry goods about them.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

: Kansas letter says the wheat harvest
has begun a month ahead of the usual
time, and the prospect is that not enough
men can be obtained to harvest the vaSt
crop. 1t is in splendid condition, not
withstanding the reported frost, and the
yield trancends all precedent.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

The cruelty Of which Wisconsin wife
complains, in her suit for divorce, is that
her husband tied her securely and shaved
her head. The defence is that size bleach
cd her black hair to lemon color by the
use of acid, and that lie, deeming such a
thing highly scandalous, took the only
means of undoing what she had done.
He says that he bought q wig for her,
initiating her natural hair, so that her
bare head might be concealed while nat
IRE was remedying the designation.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

The largest strawberry farm in the
world is probably that OF John L. Young
Jr., about two miles from Norfolk, Va.
He cuitiyates two hundred and fifty
acres, and the yield last season was over
Eve hundred thousand quarts.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

Women attain maturity of growth at
Rio Janeiro at an average age of twelve
years, and it is no unusual thing to see
young man of twenty-one with
mother OF thirty-two.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

\ barge with two thousand beehives
aboard is afoat in the Mississippi, and is
to be moved up and down the river dur
ing the season, SO as to be all the time in
the midst Of flowers. The bees Will thus
be kept continually within reach of the
best material for honey.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
An Amusing CNmcuY Of ErrOrS.

Mime, de Y. was very jealous, and
determined to watch her husband.
One day he told her he was going to
Versailles, and when he went out, she
put Oh her bonnet and followed him.
She kept him in sight until lie turned
into passage which shortened the way
to tie railroad station, where she
missed him. She stood fer q few min
utes in the passage looking about, and
suddenly saw a man coming out of a
glOye-Shop with 4 rather oyer-dresSed
lady. From distance she made sure
the man was her husband, and without
& Wcrd OF warning She gave him three
or four sound boxes on the ear. When
the gentleman turned round to con-
front his aSSailant, she perceived that
she had made mistake, and at the
time she caught sight of her husband,
who had replenished q cigar-case at a
tobacconist's and was crossing the
street. What could she do? She faint
ed in the arms of the stranger whose
ears she had bOXed-While the other
lady ran off az fast aa she could 10
avoid scandal. The stranger, who was
a cOmmedian, was aStoniShed to find
an unknown lady in his arms; and,
while his ears We're still tingling with
the blows. he was again startled. y
gentleman collared him, and shaking
him roughly. asked him what he meant
by embracing a lady in the street.
why, she boxed my ears and faintedl'
screamed the actor. 'She is my Wife"
shouted the irate husband, and never
would have struck you without cause.n
The infatuated gentlemen shook their
fists until the lady, who had been car
ried into a shop, recovered sufficiently
TO explain how it happened.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

A man il Nirgini;. counts up five
hundred and fifty lineaI descendants.
all living in Il Sal rs of five miles
around him.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

Not long ago q man ana his wife went
to Kansas to settle. To enable them
to preempt two quarter sections Of land.
they we're divorced; each pTeempted a
claim. and as soon as their claims were
made good they were remarked, thus
obtaining so acres of land.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04

PARIS GREEN, pure, fresh and cheap,
at I. & J. Robinson's. eziuly9
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-15
WHO WAS THAT WASHOE COUNTY
MAN?

AS soon as 1 stepped on the train at Reno,
for Carson, met Washoe county man and
he commenced to talk politics. The Washoe
county men are all politicians, and they want
to open the political campaign right now. [
told this man that | was from the g Great
East" and did not know anything about pol
itics-but he insisted on how Lander would
stand on Lieutenant Governor [ told him
Lander had man of her own whom she was
going to run for Lieutenant Governor and
he wanted to know his name; and [ said it was
Martin Seng; and he said he had never heard
of him before, but supposed he must be cap
italist; and said he was; and then [ changed
the subject and spoke of the cold weather
and then he said eyes, it was cold and asked
if [ thought Bradley could be elected for
third term; and [ said he could if he got votes
neutrality-suspicious. Reveille.
Who was that man? Come, now, let's I'M
derstand this thing Reno Gazette.
His name is w. Fl. Olecloth from the uni
versity of California. ''Another County
heard from" Set EN- up again, Fred.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-15
WASHINGTON NEWS

| Washington, January 12.-The Postoftice
Department has prepared complete list OF
Presidential offices for which commissions will
expire before May l. 1t includes only four on
the Pacific Coast, namely: San Francisco,
March 80; Nevada City and Placerville, Cali
February rs. No recommendations have
been filed in regard to appointments for term
Of these Offices, but they are reported well
conducted and the department has no desire
to displace the present incumbents Post
master Coey, in particular stands very high
in the estimation of his superior officer, and
his record for efficiency and faithfulness is so
good that no doubt is entertained Of his re-
appointment.
The President to-day appointed R. NJ.
Deleplaine and J. n. Camden of West Viz
ginia and Joseph L. Stevens and Charles P.
Chateau of Missouri, Honorary Commission
ers to the Paris Exposition for those States
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections this morning heard further argu-
ments Of the woman sufragists. At the con-
clusion of the addresses the committee agreed
to meet Tuesday next to consider the matter
in connection with the arguments presented
in favor of the proposed Sixteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution offered in the SEN
ate by Sargent on Thursday last.
The Senate Patent Committee room was
robbed early this morning by three well-k known
thieves, two of whom were arrested The
third made his escape.
The President viii not be able to attend
the funeral Of r. c. Anderson, his former
classmate, found dead near Dayton yesterday
The two most important committees to work
under Glover's resolution are Whitthorne's
committee in the Navy Department and
Govers in the Treasury. The latter have
evidence already that promises sensational
developments.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-15

London, January IA Vienna CORE
spondent telegraphs that advices from Turkey
show that the works of Adrianople are only
PARTIAL a med and untitled to resist an at
tack In Constantinople it is believed posi-
BILE that Adrianople may be carried by coup
lie main The Notifications of Constantine
pie are consequently being looked to as a last
resort, although they seem to be in even a
worse condition. Everything points to the
complete confusion and dismay Of the Turks.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-15

Constantinople, January IA The Porte
has received a telegram from the Grand Duke
Nicholas, STANG that the latter is ready to re-
ceive the Turkish delegate to discuss armistice
conditions, but cannot at present give any in
dications as to the terms of peace, as he is
ignorant thereof
Server Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Kamyk Pasha, leave here for Kezanlik to-day
to meet Grand Duke Nicholas. They have
been invested by Ministerial Council with full
powers to treat for peace.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-15

Havana, January 14.-Rumors are ahoat
that MARTINEZ Campas will proclaim a truce
for one month, and invite Generals Masimo,
Gomez, Garcia and Mashesto Diazo to confer
with Campas relative to peace.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-15

Dublin, january 1.-THE Fenian prison
ers, recently released, arrived here last night
and were greeted by a torch light procession.
From $4,000 to 10000 people witnessed the
reception, and twenty national bands took
part in the procession.