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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
FOREIGN MASQUERADES.

At st. Petersburg a Russian
countess gave a grand costume ball
and turned the wide court room
into ballroom. The classic dress
of the Roman lady is one that suits
the tall and the short, the slender
and the stout, the young and the
old, and therefore many wore it.
One lady's peplum cost alone 49,
900 francs, because richly embroid-
cred in gold. Aside from those
there were infinite varities Of cos
tunes of Rome in the time Of Aug
ustus. Libyans, Modes, Parthians,
Jews, Greeks, Egyptians, peasants
from the Danube and tatooed saw
ages from Britain were then famil-
liar to the eyes of Romans. But
this ball was outdone by the one
given at Bucharest, by the Prin-
cess Georges Bibesco. The YES
thule leading to the dancing room
was green with pine branches pow
dered with snowfiakes; the supper
room, rustic barn, was strewn with
fresh straw and hay. Wild flowers
were everywhere, and birdcages
| with black birds and doves in them,
linnets flying about, swallows
nests in the corners, spiders hang
ing from their webs for luck, and
the servants were dressed as peas
ants. The Arabian Nights is moth
ing compared to the splendor and
originality that woman will give
and invent, providing she has a
purse to carry out her designs-she
surely does not lack the genius.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
1T is reported that the Duke OF South

1t is reported that the Duke OF South
ernland has been playing a good joke Oh
Bull Run Russell who as a British cor
respondent wrote up very dramatically
the First Battle of Bnll Run. The
Duke is on visit to this country, and
started out the other day to visit the
ground. He bribed the engineer OF the
train on which they were travelling to
stop fifteen miles short of the historic
battle-ground of Bull Run. Russell got
out and was very much affected, like
Mark Twain at the tomb of Adam; he re-
membered the idental SPOT where he
stood, and exactly how both armies were
posted When the joke was told the
party exploded, but Russell didG't enjoy
it. The fact is that he was not near the
battle-ground when the fighting was 60
ing on, nor probably at any time from
that day to this.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
nlanitowoe pilot.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1881.
BAYARD TAYLOR AND
TENNYSON.

Taylor had a prodigious mem
DRY, and his acquaintance with
poetry was astonishing. | could
never quote line but he could
give the context. More than once
he has corrected me when | used
a synonym and not the exact word
Of the author. 1t was a peculiar
pleasure to hear from his own lips
poems Of his long before their pub
LEGATION in the magazines. Of all
his productions he had given most
labor to his great lyrical drama
Dcukalion, and this is the best ex-
preston of his mature genius.
Speaking Of Taylor's reading his
own poetry reminds me of an anec-
dote that he told me about Tenn
yson, whose style of reciting verse
he initiated to my hearty delight.
While he and his wife were visiting
Tennyson some years ago at the
Isle Of Weight, in conversation a.
bout the laureate's poems, Taylor
said that he could never read aloud
the scene Of the parting of GUM
evere and Arthur in the Idyls OF
the King without breaking down. Il
cam" said Tennyson, confidently;
'1et me show you" And there in
the sacred upper room of his house
before his wife and guests, he be-
gan. GAS he went on with his
deep, sonorous voice, chanting like
an old British board, and, was
getting fairly into the pathetic
part" Taylor said, ''as l glanced
around Mrs. Tennyson was in tears,
my wife was vainly attempting to
repress her emotion, a great lump
came into my own throat, my own
eyes filled, Mr.. Tennyson's voice
was becoming more and more
tremulous and husky, till finally
he choked with feeling and broke
down utterly. 4 thought [ could
do it, was the only explanation Of
his failure"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
NEARLY A MIRACLE.

E. Asenith Hall, Binghamton. \. T.,
writes: 81 suffered for several months
with q dull pain through left lung and
shoulder. lost my spirits, appetite and
color, and could with difficulty keep up
all day. My mother procured some
Burdock Blood Bitters; 1 took them as
directed, and have felt no pain since first
week after using them, and am now quite
we'll. Price 81, trial size 10c.-Sold by
Robinson & Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

II is much better, by proper care and
attention to diet and mode of living, to
keep well than 1t Is to live unwiselv, get
sick and take medicine to restore US to
health. There Is no reason why people
should not be healthy, but should you be
so unfortunate as to be troubled with
Piles, DIR. Bosanko's Pile Remedy is a
medicine upon which you can rely for
immediate relief and permanent cure
Sold by G. T. Buerstatte.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

A LITTLE Shelbyville boy, who is in
the habit of saying his prayers before 60
ing to bed, the other night asked his
mother: Mamma, how long viii it be be-
fore I'm big enough to quiz saying my
prayers? You never say yours, do youl
And the mother said: Little boys
shouldn't ask so many questions. Go
to sleep, my child"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

WHERE ignorance is bliss: Miss
Fetherfuss, sitting in the front pew
in her gorgeous new hat, was to-
tally ohlivious Of the innocent little
tag that told to the congregation
that the stunning spray of flowers
cost her Just "62c."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

The difference between Farragut
and girl smitten by cobbler's
charms is that the one was dashed
to the mast and the other is mash
ed to the last.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
Husband'

"YouNG Husband" House
cleaning means for the women to
tie towels around their heads and
run the men into the street without
any breakfast every morning for
a week or so, while they break
lamps and spill whitewash on the
SfaIrc
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
TALK OF THE ANIMALS.
THE FUNNY PHRASES USED BY THE
BULL9 AND BEARS ON 'CHANGE.


Bear market-When the market is
| heavy and falling, and lower prices
| are expected in consequence of the
efforts of the clears"
Bear the market. e., operate
for a decline. 4 bear is natur
ally short OF stocks, and expect
ing a profit ~ decline.
Borrowing and loaning stocks
When a party has sold stock short
! and has not bought it in by the time
! delivery must be made, he 'bor-
rows" the stock for theEpurpose Of
making delivery, paying the own
er the market price at the time, and
| agreeing to return it at the same
price on demand or at a fixed time,
| the lender of the stock paying the
| borrower an agreed rate of interest
on money, or the borrower paying
the lender an agreed premium for
the use Of the stock, as the case
may be.
| Cover, to ''cover ones shorts
! Where stock has been sold short,
| and the seller buys it in to realize
his profit or to protect himself from
loss, or make the his delivery. This
is covering short sales"
| A call-The privilege obtained
for consideration of calling for a
certain number Of shares of stock,
at a given price, within a time
named.
| Carrying stock-Holding stock
by broker for his customers on a
margin.
| Clique-A combination Of oper-
ators formed for the purpose Of az
tifcially influencing the market by
their combined operations.
| Corner-When the market is
oversold the shorts, if compelled to
deliver, sometimes find themselves
in "corner."
| Curbstone brokers-Men who are
not members Of any regular organ
ization and do business on the side
walk.
Flyer-Isa small side operation
not employing ones whole capital
or not in the line of his ordinary
operations.
Lamb-A very green "outsider"
who essays stock speculation.
Limited order-An order to buy
and sell within a certain mixed
price, above or below which the
party giving the order does not
wish to 60.
Margins-Where one buyer sells
for speculation, and deposits with
his banker percentage ofvalue to
enable the latter to ''carry" the
stock and protect him against loss
from fluctuations in value.
Milking the street.-The act of
cliques or great operators who hold
certain stocks so well in hand that
they cause any fluctuations they
please. By alternately lifting and
depressing prices they "milk'' the
small operations and the outside
public.
| Put-To buy a "put" is to OBJ
tain the right for a consideration to
deliver stock at certain agreed
price within a given number Of
days.
Stop orderAAn order to sell out
stock in case it should decline to
a certain price. A means adopted
by a party 'long" or "short" of a
stock to limit his loss to certain
figure.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

NICE dog to have: Miss Brown
stone says if she had dog she
wants one Of those great Sarah
Bernhard dogs that dig those dear
old monks out ofthe snow in Swift
arlaDd
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
DEAF AS A POST.

Mrs. ". j. Lang, Bethany, Ont.
states that for fifteen months she was
troubled with disease in the ear, caus-
ing entire deafness. In ten minutes af-
ter using Thomas Eclectric OIL, she
found relief, and in short time she was
entirely cured and her hearing restored.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
NO DECEPTION USED.

1t is strange so many people viii con-
tinue to suffer day after day with dispep-
STA, liver complaint, constipation, sour
stomach, general debility when they can
procure at our store SHILOH'S VITAL
IZER, free of cost if it does not cure OF
relieve them. Price Toe. Sold at the
Central Drug Store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

A NEWS item says: 'Beacons-
fields photograph was buried with
him" And yet Beaconsfield was
not so very homely. Now, if
George Eliot's photograph had
been buried with her, we should
not have been surprised.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

AYERS HAIR VIGoR, as its name i'm
plies, invigorates and strengthens the
hair. 1t not only restores the original
color to gray or faded hair, but by its
stimulating action at the roots, produces
a vigorous growth, and gives it that
beautiful lustre which results only from
strong, healthy growth of the hair. je9
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

DIR. GREEN'S ORIGINATED BTTTERS is
the oldest and best remedy, for Dyspepsia, Bill
fouSneSs. Malaria. Indigestion, all disorders of
the stomach, and all diseases indicating an i'm
pure condition of the Blood, Kidneys, Liver,
Skin. etc.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
PILES.

DURNO'S CATARRH SNUFF cures Catarr
and all affections of the mucous membrane.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

Seif-Ahtlse. as
Mental Anxiety,
Loss of Memory,
Pains in the back
or side, and dis.
eases that lead e
consumption, In.
sanity and an ear.
~ grave The Pc
cihC medicine Is
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02
For sale by o. r. BACON.
To Nervous Sufferers Great Euro
pean Remedy, Dr., J. B. Simpsons Specific
Medicine.

II Is positive cure Tor spernatorrhoa Seminal
Weakness Imaotency aad all diseases resulting from
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

being used with wonderful success. Pamphlets sent
to ALL Write for them and get full particulars.
Price. Specific, 81 per package, or six packages for
5. Address all orders 20 oSljanS2
J. b. SIMPSON MEDICINE Co.
No. los Main street. Buffalo, n. Y.
Sold at City Drug Store, Manitowoe, Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

PULLMAN EOTEL DINING CARS.
thee runs
Yak
da Canadas
Tickets this road be other
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-02

Stop orderAAn order to sell out
a stock in case it should decline to
a certain price. A means adopted
by party ''long" or "short' Of a
stock to limit his loss to a certain
figure.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10
Notice to Bridge Builders.

GEALED proposals for an open Wooden
~ Bridge over the Patapsco Falls, on the
Deer Park Road, between Baltimore and Car
roll counties, will be received at the office OF
the County Commissioners for Carroll eoun-
ty, on the 18th day of September, next.
The bridge will be 65 feet inches between
masonry, II feet depth of truss and 1t feet
wide in the clear. The top plate will be com
posed of one piece of timber, Sxl2 inches,
connected to the end by inclined post, which
will be Sxl2 inches, by a casting. The IN
cliRed posts will rest on the lower chords
against casting also the two intermediate
posts, which will be 5xI2 inches. The lower
chords will be composed of two pieces OF tim
ber, 6x12 inches each, and in two lengths,
and connected at the joints by splice piece,
with six three quarter inch bolts, and by two
bolts at each casting also two bolts IN the
centre of SPAN There are to be three glrders
in the bridge, 7xI2 inches each, and to be OF
one length. Joists, SKIP inches space,
feet from centres side braces, 5x7 inches,
well bolted; hand rail, 2xl2 inches turing
posts, Axe inches end posts, for hand ran
6x6 inches flooring will be inches thick
and from to II inches wide; sets OF lat
eral braces, 2x6 inches each, under the floor.
The two wall plates will be SKIP inches each;
splice pieces, 5xl2 inches and 3xl2 lnehesf
and feet long; truss rods, inchesi ana
4 truss rods inch in diameter, bolts to be
I inch iron, castings same size and shape to
match the timber All timber to be OF the
best quality of white oak or white pine, ex,
cept flooring, which must be white oak. All
bolts to be Of the best quality of wrought iron;
For further particulars see drawings and
specifications at this office. -,
Also on the same day sealed proposals will
be received for an open Wooden Bridge over
-, 1F,F
Taneytown, which will be of the same dlmen-
siOns as the above except 60 feet between
masonry. JOS. A. WAESCHE, Clerk.
aug 27-3t
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10
LsprOsy in the United States.

The nightmare story Of Mr.. George Ca
bic Of leper secluded for years in house
in New Orleans, turns out TO be no novel
ists fancy, but only a small part of the
terrible fact. The annual report Of the
Louisiana Board of Health for 1880, Just
issued. contains detailed statement OF the
progress Of the Asiatie leprosy in that
State during the last century. 1t was
brought in 1850 to the West Indies by
the negro slaves, and thence to Louisiana
la l77S this disease was so prevalent
amoug the blacks, together with the Afrl-
can elephantiasis, and another equally hor'
riblc, named yaws, peculiar to Guinea ne
sroes, that hospital for lepers was estab-
iished Ia New Orleans. At the present
time the majority of the lepers in that city
are found to be whites, of French, German
aud Russian extraction. The disease
seems to be hereditary, and certain fami'
lies are known to be infected by it, and are
stunned as corpses would be, could they
walk and move about antI spread the con
taeion of death. The mother of one oi
these families, when the disease showed
itself was deserted by husband and chill
dren, and nursed until her death by young
girl who now is the victim of it. An Ital
ian Catholic priest who attended cases Of
leprosy 10 the Charity Hospital is now dy
ing of it in the same house. New Orleans
it appears, has no separate asylum for these
incurable patients, and they are received
into the Charity Hospital and placed 10
the crowded wards to scatter death.
The President of the Board Of Health
has made a personal investigation into the
extent Of this disease, even venturing into
the deathly swamps Of the lower BaySu
Lafourche The whole district, he states
is several feetlower than the turbid bayou
sloping back into cypress swamps liable tc
constant overflow from crevasses. The
poor Creole inhabitants live in low hut;
surrounded by wet rice fields, living upon
fish and fsh-eating birds. They are sepa'
rated from the rest of the world and have
intermarried for generations, So impreg
mated with disease that some of the explor.
ing partywere struck down on reaching II
with violent hemorrhages and fever. Ofal
foulcorners ofthe world tits the Gttestforthe
disease most dreaded by man since the be-
ginning of the world to hide with its prey
Below Harang's canal, President Jones
found Asiatic leprosy existing in different
generations of six families. Some of these
wretched creatures have been driven out
from human habitation, and are living apari
in the swamps, dying of decay. In some
instances their flesh had become as insen-
sible as bone, and they were able to handle
fire with impunity. It was impossible to
make correct estimate of their numbers
as a rumor spread among them that the
searching party had come to carry them of
to an uninhabited island of the sea, ant
they hid themselves, their friends, too, re
fusing to give their names or number.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10

As many as $50 fires having occurred
10 the city Of Toxic last winter, the author
ities came to the conclusion that many Of
them were the work of incendiaries, and
have had their suspicious confirmed by the
arrest at fire of two men carrying off
goods and chattels, clearing themselves
passage through the crowd with noisy vo-
alterations, and bearing aloft large lanterns
on which coats of arms we're painted con-
spicuously. When brought up for trial
they confessed that they belonged to a
band of more than thirty incendiaries,
When the state of their finances necessi-
tated activity, they cast lots to determine
who should undertake the role of incen-
diary. So soon as the confagration was
started the members of the band fastened
to the spot, carrying baskets or wheeling
hand-earts. The custom in Japan is that
a man should send assistance to his friends
when a fire breaks out in their vicinity,
and the thieves were easily able to pass
themselves off as persons specially de-
spatched to help. If the police happened
to become inconveniently inquisitive, mem
bers of the band were always ready to be-
gin disturbance, under cover of which a
retreat was affected By these tactics
they have been able to commit an unpar
alleled aggregate of undiscovered crimes,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10
How Postage Stamps are Made.

Postage stamps are printed from engray-
ed plates under hydraulic press on paper
especially prepared for this purpose. Two
hundred stamps are printed on one sheet
at each motion of the press. The eolors
used 10 the lux are ultramarine blue,
Prussian blue, chrome yellow and PruSsian
blue (green), vermillion and earmine.
The sheets are gummed separately; they
are placed back upward upon fiat wooden
support, the edges being protected by
metallic frame, and the gum-eomposed
of an aqueous solution of gum dextrine
with a little acetic acid aud alcohol-is
applied with wide brush. 1t dries quick
ly, and then the sheets are pressed. Each
sheet is cut in half, and is then ready for
the perforating machine The perforating
machine was invented and patented by
Mr.. Archer in 1852 The patent was
purchased by the Government for twenty
thousand dollars. The perlorations are eff
fected by passing the sheets between two
cylinders provided with series of raised
bands which are adjusted to distance
apart equal to that required between the
rows Of perforations. Each ring on the
upper cylinder has series of cylindrical
projections which fit corresponding de-
pressions in the bands of the lower cylin-
der; by these the perforations are punched
out, and by simple cOntriyance the sheet
is detached from the cylinders in which it
has been conducted by an endless band.
The rows running longitudinally OF the
paper are first made, and then by siml-
lar machine the transverse ones. The
sheets are finally subjected to heavy pres
sure, by which the roughness caused by
the punching operation and other manipu-
lations is removed.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10

MUSTARD AND ITS UsE.-Beforc the
year 1929 mustard was little known, ac-
cording to the Grooers' JsRraal, at Eng
lish tables. About this time an old woman
of the name Of Clements, residing 10 Dur
ham, began to grind the seed in mill,
aud 20 pass the -four through several pro-
eesses necessary to free it from the husks
She kept her secret to herself for many
years, during which she sold large quanti-
ties of mustard throughout the country,
but especially in London. Here it was
introduced to the Royal table, where it
received the approval of George l. From
the circumstances of Mrs Clements being
resident Of Durham, it obtained the name
of Durham mustard The manufacture Of
mustard consisted in simply grinding the
seed into a very fine flour, bushel of seed
weighing 60 pounds yielding % pounds
to 80 pounds of -four Of mustard. A false
taste, however, arose for having au i'm
proved colour, and the -four of mustard
was introduced from which the oil had
been distracted. Hence other materials,
such as capsicum powder, turmeric, terra
alba, wheaton -four, &c, are added to
bring up the favor and to increase the
hulE
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10
PressrTine Fruit.


4 great deal Of fruit is being shipped
Eas, from Sacramento. The amount IS
much larger than this time las, year.
Among the shipments has been car load
Of assorted fruit, pus up in the Dietz pack
ing, recently patented process The Sui
sun Republican says that the presevative
agent is earbouiEsd wheat bran, and that
by il fresh fruit is preserved from decay,
so that i, can be shipped East by slow
freight aud sold of as the demand is made
for il without being compelled to sacrifice
il for fear Of loss The car load shipped
goes TO Philadelphia. Ii contains grapes,
plums, peaches, aprieots, etc, aud goes as
fast freight, though hereafter it is the plan
to ship By slow freight, as it will reduce
tue charges over one halt, or from 81 100
10 $500 a car load to New York. If fruit
can be packed in this inexpensive manner,
and preserved indefinitely, and shipped
anywhere, the business viii develop.
Fresh peaches at Christmas, and grapes
at midwiuter," are very alluring, and Mr..
Dietz says that they may be had by simply
packing them in wheat bran reduced to
charcoal.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10

A ROPE OF HUMAN HAIR.-In his de-
tail of Indian horrors that came under
his notice Mr.. Markley, the New Mexico
Indian killer, stated that in 1867 he gave
an Indian half dollar for hair rope ten
feet in length and about the size of his
little finger. He untwisted the end and
found that it was smade of red, auburn
aud black hair, which, from the length of
each kind, was evidently that of women.
He questioned the Indian, who told him
that the rope was made from the hair of
the women and girls slain in the Noun.
tain Meadow massacre, for completely with
which murder John ID. Lee, the Mormon,
was tried and shot few years ago. The
place where he purchased the rope was at
Paleronasote, sixty-6ve miles from Noun
tain Meadow, where the most narrowing
and brutal massacre of modern times oc-
curred.-,S. Louis Republican.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-09-10

There are five cities in the world having
each population of over l ,OOO, 600 IN
abitants-one each in Great Britain, Uni
ted States, Germany, France and Austria,
Then there are nine having more than
SOC, 900 inhabitants-three in Great Bri-
tain, three in the United States, two IN
Russia, and one in Turkey. Of cities
having between 100000 and 100000 in,
habitants there are twenty nine-six in
the United States, FIVE in Great Britain
four in Germany and in Italy, three in
France, two in Spain and one in Russia,
Austria, Belgium, Holland and Portugal,