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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-01-25

First publication Jan. II, 1881 No. 4
IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COUNTY COURT.
i In the matter of the estate of Patrick Doud
deceased.
To all whom it may concern: Letters testament
Connell the 9Th day of January, A. D., 1885, and
six months from and after said day being allowed
and limited tor creditors to present their claims
for examination and allowance, notice is hereby
given that the undersigned will, on the first
Tuesdays of each month durinl the time so linn
ted and also on the 10th day ofJuly 1888, at the
probate office in the city of Manitowoc in said
county, receive, examine and adjust all claims and
demands Of all persons against said deceased.
Dated January 9, 1888.
r. d. SMART, County Judge.
Nash & Nash, Attorneys. feb Is
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Ne make a specially of sending goods to the
amount of $500, or over, c. o D., with
privilege to examine, when suffi-
cient sum is enclosed to pay
express charges
both WAYS
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Wagging the Ears,

That humanity possesses within the
compass of its frame a considerable
number of examples of useless parts,
which, as G. H. Lewes remarked, have
reference "to a former state of things"
is readily proved. If, for instance, we
make a superficial examination of the
muscular surroundings of the human
ear, we may discover certain plain ex-
amples of the rudimentary organs, to
which the modern anatomist attaches
high importance as cleWs and guides to
the past history of the race that exhibits
them. The power to move our ears, Is,
of course, non existant in the vast ma
iority of mankind Now and then we
meet with an Individual who can fulfil
one of Lord Dundreary's tests of super
iority in that he "can wag his left ear"
and can move his right ear also.
At will, such individuals can
produce feeble but distinct
movements of the ear. This power
depends upon an unusual development
of muscles which, in ordinary individ,
uals, exist in n rudilnentary state. The
ability to move the ear is held to be
relic of Il power once well developed in
the ancestry from which the humane
he saw lone man who could draw the
whole ear forward; other men he con-
tinues, "can draw it upward" another
could draw it backward;" and adds
Mr.. Darwin, "from what one of these
persons told me, it is probable that most
of us, by often touching our ears, and
thus direct our attention toward them,
could recover some power of movement
by repeated trials" Three little muscles
named in anatomy the attolens, attra-
hens and re trahens a rem, respectively
Tor the ERASER" "forward-drawer" and
"back- drawer of the earl, are found as
ISOLATED with the outer ear in
man. Theyare 80 small as to be useless
Tor any purpose of ear movement, as we
have seen; but that their former and
ancestral function was that of moving
the ears admits of no question. In lower
animals we find corresponding musCl'
well developed; while we may also dis
cover additional muscles to be repre-
scented in the belongings of the ears of
many ouadrupeds. In the ear of the
horse there are such additional muscles;
and we can readily conceive that the
wonderful pliahiiity and range of move
ment of the outer ear IN this and other
animals would demand an increased
muscular supply over that found in
higher quadruped life, whore ear move
ment becomes of less importance than
in lower existence. Thus We discover
that in such apes as the climpanzee and
orang, whose ears closely resemble
those of man in form, the ear muscles
are well nigh as feebly developed as in
the human subject. and the ears of
these animals do not appear to be cap
able Of any greater range of movement
than is exhibited by man.-Long-
mans Magazine.
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had advantages to which many persons
look back with respect. If we have less
Tune to be formally polite and the brew
Ivy OF life no longer permits us to dance
the minuet, we can still be courteous in
our more modern fashion. Even if we
hive in days in which the doctrine of
evolution has wrought a terrible olsen
chantment we need not entirely lose the
sentiment of reverence which forms the
basis of all respectful attention to others.
The rapid stream of life may now and
then be checked in its headlong current,
for decent social observance and kind
feelings may oftener underlie the artih-
cial manners and small etiquette which
has taken the place os the grander style
and manner of our ancestors. We are in
danger of allowing the glitter of wealth
to supply the place of said virtues and
the superficial refinement of an educa-
ton that includes a little of everything
to be considered equal TO the truer and
deeper character that made our fore
fathers worthy of all respect. 1t is to be
hoped that the diminution of body will
not be accompanied by like contrac-
ton of the reverential element and the
moral sense, in the saving of which is our
only refuge against the sea Of material
ism that is setting in so heavily on us.
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sUNFLOWER AND LILY.

Over the seas came Sunhower rare,
And after him followed Lily fair,
And when they had reached Americas land,
They gazed about them, smiling and bland,
And seemed to say: "Now here are we
From over the moaning, foaming sea,
And do you think there can aught compare
With this Lily sweet and this Sunaower
rare7"
And the men all gazed at the Lily's grace
And said: "She is perfect in form and face,
But the women they crimpet and curled thei
hair,
And said: THE Lily is not more fair
Than the flowers that grow beside the sea;
And each one thought; 'only look at MEL
And the women stared at the sunhower's
hair,
And simpered: "oh my, but he's not more
rare
Than the flowers that thrive in American
air.
While the men in disgust threw back their
head
"What feminine travelling showl'' they
said.
So it still is in doubt if the Lily be fair,
And what is the charm of the Suntlower
New York World,
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A Young SOmnambulist.

TDr. George townsend in the New York
Journal
| remember young student at the
Columbia Law School We were rusti-
eating at Haverstraw year before he
graduated, and boarded with an old.
fashioned farmer on the outskirts of the
village. He was passionately fond OF
birds, and often expressed desire to
obtain some live swallows and take them
home with him. Under the caves Of the
farmers barn numbers of these little
birds had built their nests, and he found
great delight in watching them by the
hour One night he deliberately arose,
clothed himself, and opening the door
passed into the hall, vainly asked him
what he was about, and so concluded to
follow and watch his movements. When
reached the barnyard he had already
scaled a ladder resting against the barn
and was busily engaged tearing TO pieces
one of the nests. | shouted to him, but
he paid no heed. At last he drew out
three fedgling swallows, tenderly de-
posted them in his hat, and with inf
mite care descended. At the foot of the
ladder | confronted him and congratu-
lated him on his capture, but he passed
quickly by without noticing me, and
reaching our room deposited the hat
with the birds in it upon the table. and
after covering them with some patches
of cotton returned to bed. The next
morning mentioned the occurance, but
he stoutly denied it until he searched
for his hat, which restored 10 him
with the chlrping swallows in it. He
appeared astounded, but only admitted
that he dreamed that he had made such
capture. This gentleman is one of the
best known civil lawyers at the New
York bar.
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Personal NEWS NOTES.

Gen. Wallace, American minister at Con
stantinople has refused to accept the notice
given by the porte of the termination of the
treaty of commerce between Turkey and the
United States, on the ground that il is given
too late The American consul has gone to
Bitlis Asiatic Turkey, to inquire into the
case of the two American missionaries at
tackled and nearly killed by Kurds near that
place. Gen. Wallace has demanded, and
tie porte has promised, that the guilty par
ties of the outrage shall be punished.
Miss Rosalind Young, who wrote an arti-
Gle two years ago on Pitcairn Island, her
home, is twenty-six years old. A sea cap
tain, who recently visited the island, writes
"She weighs 200 pounds, never had shoe
on her foot, and ii necessary could swim off
to a ship four miles from the island and
back again to shore and then go into the
little church and play the organ ne rly as
well as any young lady in the states
Rev. d. b. Knickerbacker OF Minneapolis,
Bishop elect of Indiana, has sent in his res
ignation as rector of Gethsemane church.
The vestrymen of Gethsemane church have
unanimously elected Rev. A. II. Graves OF
Bennington, VT, as the successor OF lr.
Knickefbacker. Mr.. Graves was assistant to
DIR. Knickerbacker several years ago. He's
said To he much like the doctor and capable
oftaking up the work CT the church ana car
| rying it on efiectually.
James Mutt, who shot Dukes, is yet lad
| in appearance and manner. He is of rather
slender and awkward figure, and wears in
| Jail a plain suit of clothes such as beiit his
occupation for he worked his father s acres.
In Difference to his wishes, Hiram Hol-
lenbush, of Reading, Pa, mineroligist and
sci enlist, was buried without any GER
emonies whatever, the casket being
silently lowered into the grave.
John r. G. Hassard, whom the stock
holders of the New York Tribune would not
allow TO he made managing editor because
he was a Catholic, has been made an
LII. D. by st. Johns college.
Addison Daniels, a banker OF Marion,
Iowa, died recently. He was one of the
founders of Cedar Rapids, and leaves an es-
tate valued at 100000.
Mrs. Kate Rice wife Of w. b. Rice, late
master car builder of Omaha road, died at
Shakopee OF paralysis, aged 40. She leaves
| six children.
| Cadet Engineer Belden mysteriously dis
appeared from Mare Island navy yard May
10, and no trace of him can be discovered.
Gov. Blackburn of Kentucky says that
not drop of liquor of any kind has passed
his lips since he has been governor
Mrs George P. Marsh has presented
marble bust of her husband to the universl-
| ty of Vermont.
Dan Rice has fallen by drink again. His
daughters have put him in an inebriate
asylum
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spects one of the wisest, broadest, deep
est and most learned in the United States.
He has neither the presence, voice nor
tongue Of the orator, but when no SPEAKS
i'm his thin, deliberate, measured tones'
never wasting a word, the Sudreme
Court of the United States listens as IL
listens to almost no other man. MI.
Campbell is absorbed in his work. he
has no eyes or ears for anything or any
body not Immediately concerned In the
case in hand. He lives very quietly In
New Orleans, surrounded by one OF the
finest law libraries in all iangua-
pes i'm the world. He is profound civic
LAWYER with Justinian at his tongues
end. aud at the same time common
LAWYER. competent to battle with the
hest of chat class. His memory Is as
wonder full as George Bancrofts. he
apparently remembers every scrap OF
Iiw he ever saw or heard. and he has
MS resources so CLASSIFIED and catalogued
that he can bring them forth at will.
This is what makes his dry monotomous
arguments so well worthy of the praise
great lawyers give them. Flowery tropes
and magniloquent metaphors world be
out of place with such learning. Once
retained in a case he becomes a recluse.
When he emerges from his books he
has absorbed that case with all its bear
ings, either of his own side or the other.
Washington Correspondence Philadel-
phia Record
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ALawyer of Great Note.

Just before the supreme court adj
iourned Chief Justice Waite said of an
argument made in the case of the states
of New York and New Ham oshire
against the state of Louisiana: This is
the finest legal argument | ever heard"
And Associate Justice Miller, who took
his seat on the supreme bench IN 1862,
and therefore antedates all the others,
said: l concur in that opinion" The
man who made the argument was John
A. Campbell, of New Orleans. He was
member of the supreme court of the
United States when the most famous of
its present members were unknown,
He held his place until the war broke
out. and then he left the union and the
bench with his state. He is
very old man; bis
form is thin and bent. his skin is in the
parchment state and his hair is as white
as the driven snow; but a great mind
looks out through his keen bright eye
and q great soul controls his fragile body.
He is q lawyer to the core; in some re-
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advocate of freedom, who died in 1881, was
unveiled at Washington park, Cincinnati,
the 2lst. The procession was the most inn
posing in the history of the city.
The flint glass manufacturers at Pittsburg
recently decided not to work TOR six weeks
after the last day ofthls month, and to stop
each wear for the same time. This will
avert the expected war.
Judge Day, of the Iowa supreme bench,
will be beaten In the state convention, be-
cause he sided with the anti-prohibition
Judges in declaring void the constitutional
amendment.
The town of Cleveland is excited over an
elopement. Miss Rosa Everett, daughter OF
the county treasurer, escaped from the sec
ond story window aud went of with Club
Davis.
G. A. Hasbrouck was appointed receiver
for j.. b. Day & Co., Milwaukee carpet
dealers, who owe $4,000, with assets be-
lieved sufficient to cover that amount.
The camp meetings of Red Rock near st.
paul beean on the 2tst They will be con-
tinued until the 4th of July. The grounds
are reached by rail and steaiiie s.
The Woodruff sisters, in New York were
the leeches who. in ten years secured $780,
600 Of John ellis money, and sent him to
an insane asylum.
The Mahoning Furnace company of Ind
lana. Pa, have made an assignment Liabil-
tiles, $40, 900; assets clalmed to be $4,000.
Ten thousand barrels of whisky were de-
stroyed by fire in John Gibbons & Sons
distillery at Gibsonton, Pa.
The latest figures on the Minnesota log
drive give total drive of S9l, 100000
feet.
The California wheat crop is now figued
at SO ,000, 600 bushels.
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ATemnerance Story

In the district court recently George
Basto, machinest at the GreylOck mills,
an intelligent mechanic who has always
earned good salary, was arraigned for
nonsupport of his wife. The charge
was made by his wife, who came from
Utica. N. Y, for that purpose. When
Mrs. Basto entered the court her eyes
rested on her husband. Taking seat,
with her hand over the region of her
heart as though to still the paltitation,
she cried frantically: George, why do
you leave meP Why do you put me away
from you'll | want to live with you. |
love Won more than anything else in
world, and don't want TO live aw y
from you" The husband gazed steadily
at the court, shaking his head depreca-
tingly. The wife began to CRY and Law
yer Thayer, who appeared for the hus-
bands defense, forgot his clients cause,
and pleaded with Mr. Basto TO return 10
his wife, who sat before him in tears,
but the husband refused, and said that
he had tried it too often; that he had
three times returned TO his wife and
each time the result was the came.
There was no charge of infdelity on
either side and no jealousy. IL was on
ly Mrs. Basto's horrible appetite for in
toxieating liquors, said her husband, and
he could not live with her, for he had
three times tried it. The husband re-
turned to Greylock, and the vile in
tears to house in Washington avenue,
where her husband volunteered to pay
her board while she stays here.-North
Adams Transcript. 5
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Hard Working Millionaire

Nevada CALI Enterprise.
Orrin GOwell, large owner in the
Manzanita hydraulic mine at this city, is
worth in the neighborhood of 81 900, 900.
lie owns considerable valuable property
at San Jose and has palatial home at
Fru,tvalc. He spends several months of
each year in Nevada City, and is one of
the most industrious men on the coast.
He dresses as commonly as does the
humDlest laborer in his employ, and no
man around the mine gets to his work so
early in the morning or stays so late at
night as he. He doesn't stand around
with hts hands in his pockets like some
superintendent and Ioremen that we
know of. but with pick and shovel puts
in as many Hicks" in a day as though
his situation depended upon the indus
try he displayed 4 few evenings since
a friend was rallying him good
on his lack OF ''stvle," when he laughed
heartily, and sail that it was sometimes
q source of much amusement to him.
Zone day last summer" said he, 81 was
doing some work near my house at
Frutvale when an Irishman came along
the street, and, seeing me there, jam
med his face against the pickets of the
fence, and called out cautiously: ''Soy,
Pat, can't yees ship into the kitchen
widout missus seein' Nv yees and git me
bit of bread?" The poor fellow looked
hungry and honest, and | went in and
got him some of the best the cook could
give me. When | brought it out he was
the most grateful man you ever saw, and
congratulated me on my shrewdness In
making such good haul without being
caught and losing my place"
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Nothing in the history of the New
World is more wonderful than the
growth of our industries, In thirty-two
years ''the number of manufacturing es-
adjustments has more than doubled,
and the capital invested in them is now
over five times what it was in 1850" AT
that date the wages of operatives Gin
Guiding men, women and childrenJ av-
ersged $l4S year, while the wages paid
now average $345 year. If industrial
development continues at the rate OF
the last ten years, by the beginning OF
the twentieth century Americas manu-
featuring interests will have reached
colossal dimensions undreamed of by
political economists of the past who
aided in establishing our industries on
the solid rock Of protection.
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A Bon for Ghosts and Ghost
eSSeS,

GhoAiof all kinds ought to feel ex-
| tremelyiEdented to the legislature OF
me stat of Ohio in America. That
| sapient ody has decreed that hence
| forth ANYBODY who claims to be spirit
ualist "ledium" must pay q yearly tax
of $40 fc permission to practice his So
called pDfession. The news will be re-
ceived 18th considerable satisfaction in
ghostIy ircies, for the inconvenience to
which respectable spirits have often
been putin the way of attending seances
and raping tables amounts to positive
scandal phantom that had retired for
the NIGH vas liable to have his legitimate
repose dsturbed at any moment by the
inconsidrate summons of profess
sionaI siritualist in the upper world,
and coul hardly call his soul his own.
EVERYDAY knows that the different
states oAmerica are allowed to manage
all theiIocal affairs and to levy taxes
lust as sits themselves, so lolg as their
measure do not conflict with the con
stitutionor with special laws passed by
the suprme legislature. BY the Name
Liquor law, for example, anybody IN
that particular division of the country
who deSes to partake of the flowing
bowl hattie trouble of goingJust across
the bordr to crafty his propensities
II is aim It needless to say that the state
of MaiHa has a geographical fringe OF
most iiorisning liquid bars. Its bound
aries onthe north are beer tayerns, and
on the sdth are whiskey saloons, and
its Inhabitants are supposed to enjoy
good dealof domestic tipping on the
sly. on TN same principle by which Ar
tenus WGd declared that a temperance
hotel usallv sells worse liquor than
any Other kind of inn with which he
was acquainted. Why, therefore, should
not Ohio, if it so chooses, follow the ex.
ample ofhe wise men of Maine, and
prohibit Spirits" though of a differ
ent sort? There are many good reasons
why no s,eh tax should be levied on
"medium'' as is proposed, but the Ohio
parliament is not likely to see the force
of them Just yet. Probably the chic.
result WILDE that those gifted with the
remarkable faculty for interviewing
members bf the world of shades will
charge an Enhanced fee as the price OF
attendingt seance. The lower class OF
mediums, who only call up spirit or
two monh, will possibly be thinned
out underline operation OF this financial
law. But viii it check the high-class i'm
posters, orthe sincere and affiuent in
dividuals vho believe in the genuine
ness of ''Sirit Photographic" and lm-
palpable aiparitions, despite the many
cases OF ppved swindling which have
occurred? Anything that tends to him
der free INJURY into the regions outsi de
of science j to be deprecated, and We
should hardy have expected an exam
pie of intolerance towards unotfending
phantom-rdsers 10 originate in the
American republic. Yet so it is. The
ghosts aud gaostesses will lead much
happier and EASIER life than of yore, but
the persons Who "raise" them at 81 an
hour will hive to put on some more
gate money" or ply their avocation in
an adjoining state.-London Telegraph.
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1hreatcned Barb wire War.

large meeting of the barb wire manufac-
Eurers of the country, licensees of the firm OF
Washburn & Moen, Worcester, Mass, was held
at the fremont house, Chicago, throughout
Thursday. Forty delegates, representing every
state in the Union except California were pres
emit The discussion, of private but important
nature, was on the propriety OF paying further
royalty to the Washburn company for the priv
ileges enjoyed by the licensees. This matter
has come up for consideration in view Of the
conflicting decisi0ns--dn the one hand OF Judges
Blodgett and DrummoId Of the Illinois court,
and on the other OF Judges McCreary and Love,
of Iowa. The old barb wire ASSOCIATION, known
az the Manufacturers Equitable, Is dead, aud
in the hands of receiver, but it is not unlikely
that the manufacturers viii prepare TO conserve
the interests of their trade by the formation OF
2 new association. The history OF the grew
apce in brief is as follows Some years ago
man ia central Illinois invented machine for
tel element in the manufacture of barbed wire
fences Massachusetts, firm purchased
tho entire rights of the inventor.
aud have bad for several years mon
oJoly of the patent twiste' 5. The firm imme-
diateiy refused the use of the machine to any
other unless a large ROYALTY we're paid upon
each machine used Finally many establish
ments inthe country became The licenses OF tine
Massachusetts, firm, and it was retpiug an i'm
meDse profit from the business. The heenseAs
finally became tired of paying a large percent
aga Of their profits in ruya.tes, and about atty
suits have grown out OF the trouble These
were generally decided n favor of the Horces-
teer firm Last week. however the massachu-
sets firm struck a snag in the adverse decision
Of a couple of Iowa courts. WHICH held the
patent to b invalid and the mogopo uawar-
ranieL The oppressed 1ncerns tOoa courage
at this and deciie1 10 make formal organlzt-
ton and press the ma ter vigorous =, uuttt
they get what they consider their rights