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Advice to Sleeping-Oar Pnrtars.

Your duty is to make up berths in a
sIeeping-car when people want to sit up
and read newspapers, and to unmake
them when people want to sleep. II
the train leaves the depot at five. COM
mence making up the berths about six.
1his may not be entirely to the liking of
the passengers, but this need not bother
ym. The sooner your work is done the
better for you. About midnight, when
everybody is asleep, whistle loudly
tbs Will amuse those who have an ear
f0 music. You can alternate your pas,
tine with an occasional song and
bahg OF the car door. Whenever the
tI1ln stops at a depot, open the door
VIDE and let in the night breeze. There
lsnothing like ventilation. Clean your
passengers boots thoroughly. If a man
hs pair of shoes with cloth uppers.
b careful to put as much blacking on
te uppers as possible This NAV NOT
stG HIM, but you needn't mind. He is
pobably fop, and your act will cpre
I'M OF his folly until he can afford TO
py new pair. You can also mix
yur passengers boots up like Butter-
ccp did the babies. A pleasant thine
$50 put pair Of top boots under the
Hth occupied by single lady. She
ny not exactly see the joke, but the
Essengers will. If you have any infiu-
ece with the conductor OF YOUR car.
%ays put ladies in the upper berths
al reserve the lower ones for gentle
nh. Women never give you quar-
!. Men do, Another excellent way
tteearn an honest penny is to hide some |
Iie things belonging to passenger. |
hen he has spent an hour looking for |
me will probably ask you to assist |
h In finding it. His gratitude at
pr success will always amply repay
y Tor the trouble you may have taken
the matter. When a passenger gives
y his hat or his overcoat to hang up.
so, and place it where it will be sure
tie covered with dust and oinders be-
R the Journey is over, This will in
Sc you chance to brush it off and
sther quarter Comic Ann'l.
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Keeping Our End Up.

As last Tuesdays west-bound train
passed Cape Horn, a large party OF
Englishmen, of the s'direct-from-Lon-
don" variety, crowded out on the plat
form and loudly expressed their dissat-
lsfaction at the scenery which was mot
at all up with the guide-books you
know, by Jover'
As they returned to their seats to en-
Joy jolly good British all-round grum-
BILE, entirely oblivious of the indignant
glances of the native passengers, q
meek-looking, gentle voiced journalist
from Frisco approached from the other
end of the car and volunteered TO give
the tourists some valuable facts con-
corning the country. In an ingenious
and plausible way, he answered their
questions in a manner that reduced
our critics from over-the-pond to q con-
dition of profound amazement, not to
say ave..
The next morning the journalist was
informed by the porter that commit
tee of gentlemen wished to see him in
the baggage car. AS he entered the
latter, he found dozen travellers, all
native, and to the manor born, waiting
to receive him, hat in hand. The
spokesman advanced and said:
''You are the party who was giving
those globe trotters in the rear sleeper
some pointers about the coast, l be-
lieve."
Il am, sir,' said the quilldriver,
modestly.
You told them, understand, con-
tlnued the chairman ''that Mount Shas-
ia was 10000 feet high?"
THE same"
"You divulged the well-known fact
that trains on this road were often de-
tanned four days by herds of buffalo,
and that they frequently have to use a
Gatling gun on the cow-catcher to pre-
vent the locomotive being pushed off
the track by grizzly bears?"
"Yes, sir.'
You further acquainted them with
the circumstance that the Digger Indi-
ans live to the average age of 204, and
that he ratification of the air on the
plains is such that an ordinary pin
looks like telegraph pole at the dis
tance of forty-two miles?"
81 think wedged that in" respond
ed the newspaper man.
sand we are informed they all made
a memorandum of your statement that
at. The Palace Hotel an average of two
w4iters per day were shot by the guests
for bringing cold soup-ehP''
.'They did,
s'And, finally, we believe that you
are the originator of that beautiful
that b-e-a-utiful-er-fact regarding
that fallen redwood tree up at Mari
posa-I mean the hollow one into
which the six-horse stage drives, and
comes out of a knot-hole 165 feet fur
ther along!''
Il told them all about ii"
''Just so! just so!'' said the committee
man, grasping the patriots hand and
producing a well-filled buckskin bag,
land / am instructed by this committee
of your fellow-countrYmen to present
Won with this slight token of our appre-
you have vindicated the honor of our
native land; God bless you, STRIP
1raUelers' Magazine.
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A Slangy Girl,

Under the present order of things,
should the novelist 90 into the highways
and resorts of the world to study reality,
he will find many a daughter of the
gods. divinely tall, and the most divine
ly fair. who, when her lips are opened.
will dispel the charm of her presence
and bring to mind the old fairy-tale of
the damsel from whose lips dropped
toads and snakes at every word; who
acknowledged no law of etiquette but
her own whim; whose standard of re-
gard to others is her own convenience;
whose greatest virtue is Indifference,
and whose best charm absence. 1t is
true that at summer resorts there are
charming and lovely girls, but their
refined presence is completely over
shadowed by the pushing. noisy vul-
garity of the registering girl of the peri
cd, the girl whose family is often excel
lent, whose advantages socially and
educationally have been all that posi-
ton and wealth could command, yet
who remains to the end vulgar, selfish,
and obtrusive.
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Thu Elenhant Seal.


Almost The first voyagers who sailed
into the then unknown seas surrounding
the south pole took back to Europe
stories about gigantic seal, much
larger than the elephant, and, Ike that
animal, furnished with trunk. But
the people had begun to doubt the sto-
ries of travellers, and consequently not
much reliance was placed on these va
rious accounts.
When the real Robinson Crusoe,
whose name was Alexander Selkirk,
was found on his island OF Juan Fer
nandez and taken home to England, be
also told about the giant seal, and gave
such minute particulars concerning it
that its existence was no longer doubt
ed. Still, it was not until a century
later, when the report of Captain Cook $
voyages was published, that any real
interest was reused in the sea-elephant,
or elephant seal. This report said that
the oil and skin furnished by the ami
NAL were valuable, and that statement
was hint enough for one or two enter
prising merchants. Without more ado,
they fitted out few whaling ships, and
sent them to the southern seas to pro-
cure the oil and skins of the hapless
creatures.
Among these ships the trimmest and
swiftest was the MARY Ann"
How many elephant-seals were
slaughtered by the crew of the 'Mary
Ann" is not known; but it is recorded
that, within twenty-five years of the
time of her visit to Georgia Island,
there were killed on that island alone
over one million two hundred thousand
animals, or about one thousand every
day during the season. How many
millions were killed altogether can new
er be known, but it is certain that the
killing did not cease until the elephant
seal was almost exterminated. 1t will
interest you to know that two Young
elephant-seals are now to be seen in
the Geological Gardens at Philadel-
phia.
The young sea-elephant is as big as
small man when it is born, and in
eight days it will grow four feet longer
and one hundred pounds heavier. That
Is pretty quick growth; but to reach a
circumference of eighteen feet and a
length OF thirty feet in three years, it
has need to grow quickly.
Penrose. in his account of the ele
phant-seal, says that his sailors used to
mount upon the backs of the animals
as they were in the water, and race
with each other, making the animals
swim by squirting them with their
knives. This story is not precisely
doubted, but it is not believed, either.
Ihe elephant-seal always comes ashore,
If possible, when about to die, which
seems somewhat odd. when the water
is the element in which it is most ct
nome. There it is surprisingly swift
and agile, and, indeed, IL is so comfor-
table there that it sleeps ON the rocking
waves as quietly as on shore. r.
CoryeA lg ST, Nicholas for October.
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Tho Roar of T.ondon

w. j. Stillman says in the October
Century, in his essay on the sCharac-
teristics of London" .As | write sit
ting by my window, full five miles from
the city proper, l hear the roar of the
traffic like the sea on a rocky shore
the rush of incessant trains alone the
iron ways, the rumble of myriads of
drays along hundreds of miles of stone
paved streets (for which wood is now
oelng In part substituted), each no
more to the general symphony than the
mum OF a gnat to the sounds OF a sum-
mer day-a volume of sound nninter-
mittlng from dawn till dark. Yet lam
powered in green trees, with cowsl;n
and daisy-tecked fields spread out mn.
der my eyes-not spire, not a chin
ney-stack of the metropolis visible.
and the carols of larks and thrusbes
the song of the nightingale, run tbrouob
the web of sounds like gold and silver
threads through a dingy fabric. with
the twitter of scores of sparrows lika
tiny spangles thrown On at random
out OF the monotone flashes the indiyidu-
a. roar OF a nearer train, the scream of a
and the roar dies away aoain
nto the sulien monody. This is audible
London
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An Arizona Monster.

William Blackheath, when he return
ed from six months sojourn in Arizo-
na, brought to ComStock, New, the
skin of what he, for want of better
name. calls Gila monster, but which
is evidently that of saurian of differ
ent species. The skin now measures
seven feet from tip to tip, and it has
evidently shrunk some inches in drying.
Though about the color of an ordinary
Gila monster, the reptile is. evidently q
kind of inland crocodile, or, more prop
erly, cayman, as it had not the webbed
feet of the crocodile.
The strange saurian was found in 3
small valley in the Wheatstone Noun
tains. When alive it stood two feet
high, and its body, just back CT its fore
legs, was over three feet in circumfer-
ence. The creature was as savage as a
bulldog, and as full of fight as viper.
1t was found by the dogs of Mr.. Black
heath and partner. When the men
arrived at the haunt of the reptile-to
which they were attracted by the fierce
and peculiar araing of their dogs, three
in lumber they found that one dog
had already been killed and the others
were badly cut up and covered with
blood. The creature displayed such
activity, and was so diabolically vicious
that the two prospectors feared to go
near it, being armed with nothing bet
ter than a prospecting pick and shov-
ell with short handle.
Finally the thing got one of the dogs
by the fore leg, and finding that it held
on like terrier, with no signs of loos-
ing its hold, Mr.. Blackheath ran for
ward and struck his pick into its head
Even then the reptile held on, and it
was not until it had been struck several
blows with the pole of the pick, that its
jaws relaxed and it gave up the ghost.
When the dog was released it was found
that his fore leg had been broken at q
point about two inches above the knee.
Mr.. Blackheath says that he has met
with several of the creatures known as
Gila monsters that were two feet and
two and half feet in length, but never,
before or since, saw, or even suspected
the existence of one so large as that
whose skin he possesses. 1t was sur
prise to all the white men in that sec
ton, but some of the Indians asserted
that far south in the Sierra Madre
Mountains they had seen some that
were as large or larger.
Unfortunately, in flaying the saurian,
Mr.. Blackheath's only idea was to have
the hide tanned and made into boots
and CATERS, therefore he did not pre-
serve the feet, otherwise the skin mi ght
be stuffed and mounted by taxider-
mist. He says the teeth of the creature
were over an inch in length, were sharp
as needles, and in shape resemble the
teeth of shark. = Vir. City Enterprise.
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Hard on Newport,

From the subjoined written by Bos.
ton woman, it would appear that Boston
and Newport are out
verify, notoriety as cheap. A hun
dred thousand year, Partisan chef
Il visiting list, when in England, and
you may lead the fashionable world in
America, brains or no brains, and roll
up and down Bellevue avenue, con-
sclous that you are the observed of all
observers, that you have achieved q
position which all ether American wo-
men may well envy. Am / seyerep
Study Newport and New York society
talked and written of, and that which
our English visitors best know, and YOU
VIII see what the mighty dollar can do
Ior any man or woman. Said a rood
lttle woman to me yesterday, who has
oeen month in this same society. Il
shall be glad to get beyond the reach of
the scandalous gossip one hears on
every side here at Newport. Fashion
able society here is not only rotten at
the core, but this season its rottenness
is Haunted in our faces and insults de-
cent people every day If we continue
TO advance as We have this season in
rlotous living, domestic scandals made
public, wasteful entertainments and
disgusting exhibitions of rowdyism.
family feuds and vulgarity generally,
we shall vie with those tales history
gives Us of other Summer life: even
back to the day of Pompeii, shameful
blemlshes upon the worlds history,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-10-25
Dirt Eaters Of the Amazon.

AOu lHCy dIo UlTG caI0rSr
Eyes, sir; and l mean it in its literal
n9aeo,z You know the French traveller
amazon, found tribe OF IndIans 80 - Ino Ino
ternally lazy that, having eaten up all
the four-footed animals in their reach
including monkeys, and parrots, snakes
ana creeping things, they were reduced
TO living solely on bu gs and insects.
inese ottomacs are fully as bad. They
I'VE upon mudballs when the river il
nigh and fishing ceases. 1t ia sort 80
unctuous clay of peculiar kiDa ,vhioh u,
sl ne mas upon banks of st1reams # is
SOFT, sort to the touch. Ire putty In its nat T.
bnt mt ate'e wSaa y Is of yellowish gray color,
s,,,. !" Ao' hardened before the fire it as
Les tinge of red, owing to the oxide
OF iron that it contains"
''Is it nourishing?''
mot IN the least. 1t merely fills up
produces safety and satisfies the
pangs of hunger. l have been told by
chemists and medical men, who have
analyzed the little mudballs into which
they roll 1t to store away, that it con-
tanned nothing nourishing. simply sick
and alumnia, with or per cent. of
lime. He calls these little balls poya,
and stores them up into little pyramids,
lust as cannon balls are piled in a fort.
Each ball is three or four inches in di-
ameter. When hungry, he takes ball
and softens it by wetting, and eats
about pound a day There is some
thing in the dirt eating habit which pro-
duces a sort of craving for it. / do not
think that tho bobit - oo,E,oJ ox-.1
slVely to the Ottomacs, but believe that
1t IS generally known among the Indians
OF the tropics. | have heard of poor
class of whites living in North Carolina
VINO, when pressed by hunger, eat the
mud daubings that hide the chinks in
heir cabin. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A duel, in which an eminent pianist
was to have taken leading part. is
sad to have been happily arran god
without loss of life or limb on ether
side. An alteration had taken olacc
at Paris cafe between the said pianist
and well-known man of fashion. and
1t at last became SO animated that tna
latter offered the former his ear, anS
accepted one in return. TIE nianst @
waite waited at home the next morning. bnt
n heard nothing from BIS opponent. The Tps
,bS das straa. arser~ara ne met him by chance in
,ns.. ane siEees ta ap@. expressed surprise at
"hae ,s h'o or rather at what had NOT
70 t'N0 place. 81 asked you the day be-
ore yesterday" said the pianist's ad-
yyersary, .'for satisfaction, and yesterday
received it.. How sop asked the
pianist, more astonished than ever. .In-
stead OF visiting card you gave me q
ticket for your concert" was the reply.
Il went 10 it, heard you play, and was
more than satisfied y 81. james Gaz-
ette.
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A Reputation Made by "Does It2u

ooa9iou mcsuo NY LOGS lCl
there is a story at his own expense
ich the late Prof Moses Stuart
eips used to tell with great glee. In
days when he was a graduate stu
1t at New Haven he took a walk one
rnlng with Prof Newton, man
Q lives in the world of mathematics.
simply exists in the common world
ordinary things. Prof. Newton, as
lis habit started OFF on the discussion
IN abstruse problem. AS the Pro-
'or went deeper and deeper, Mr..
lips mind wandered further and
ther from what was being said. At
Mr.. Phel ps' attention was called
K to MS companion by the Profess
IS winding up with, (Which, you
gives US *" ..Does it?" asked
Fnelps, thinking that in politeness
ought to reply something. "Why,
snt it?" excitedly exclaimed the
fessor, alarmed at possibility that
aw had been detected in his calcu-
ons. Quickly his mind ran back
T the work. There had indeed been
mistake. You are right, Mr..
iips, you are right" almost shouted
Professor, 1T doesn't give us K
lVes Us .y. :" And from that hour
f Newton looked upon MIR. Phelps |
p Mathematical prodigy. He was |
first man who had ever caught the
gfessor tripping. ..And so, fan
lips used to add, with his own pe- |
lar smile. in telling tho story, ~ /
aeved reputation for kno.ipo a
'g l hate. It's way many repnta-
ls are made in this superficial |
'io. Waterbury american.
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Hotel Society in WASHINGTON.

Then there is the hotel society. The
ladies staying in the Brown House all
receive on the same day. Ladies call
ing can thus kill all the birds, socially
speaking, there are in the Brown House,
with one handful of cards. The ladies
of the Smith House have another day;
er. Then at inteiPStsiiigp apnH nHfUlse 4R.Qtb;
so'ree. invitations to which are pener-
ously distributed. There is fine band
ana inner supper, and dancing unlim-
lted. congressman and their wives and
daughters, lobbyists, Southern colonels
and numerous generals" visiting
strangers, politicians, and the rest
make up a mixed company. At one of
these entertainments the wife of a con-
gresham whose constituents had omit
ted to re-elect him, spoke sharply to a
laoy sitting on sofa next to q friend
OF the congressman wife. You
might move up, said she. When the
lady had moved up" and the congress
mans wife had settled herself down t-
the room thus obtained, sha .,.- -
her friend and proeeetiea " -.ined ,3 TO
We SVe, Its Just az .elI Lycurrus U.S. Tb;s Taa
o.t ~ "' society units one for any
;-Her society. You can't 90 back 10
.ne society you were used to once-yon
lust can't. No; l tell Lycurgus. we
must come to the House. He Saws we
~, Gah :, out say we can And we must !
! nat all there is about it.'' A few
months later "Lycurgus'' is wrestling
N the dust of the district arena for q
,enomlnation. No one who sees him
Engaged In that delightful occupation
,eu IN the face, metaphorically speak
NJ n0t ana out OF breath-knows that
IS all because of the social aspirations
II Mrs. Lycurgus, who has been untit.
ed ny Washington society for the hum
,ier society in which she once moved
any man doubts that women rule the
Vofld. he can have his doubts removed
q any circle of Washington society,"
1acad u. Lloyd, in the Manhatten for |
)ct06er 1O'
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Inc prisoners in the San Antonio iail
MADE certain rules governing them
serves Some of these rules wers brok-
en- by man named Dwyer, and he y.
tried by kangaroo court and has
alnadoed. una Dwsor organized the NEGROES
anu Nnel che prisclers were turned in
~ tae corridor for breakfast the blacks
naae an assault on the whites with
se0D weapons as they could lay hands
on. The small band of whites were
surprised. but soon rallied, and defeated
their opponents. No one was seriously
ha5t. put several of the negroes were
oaaiy cut and bruised, one having both
ears ehewed into shreds.
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FROM Col. Q. H. Mackey, 33d Iowa
infantry: ''To persons afflicted with
Catarrh, [ would state that I have
derived more benefit from Elys' Cream
Balm than anything elec / have ever
tfled. L have now been using it for
three months and am experiencing r,o
trouble from Catarrh whatever. / bave
been sufferer for twenty years. g. H,
MAcKEY, Sigourney, Feb. %, 1892.
have used Elys' Cream Balm for
Hay Fever, and experienced great relief
L most cordially recomn. end it as the
pest of all the many remedies | have
tried. 1, b. JEN1s, Lawyer, Grand
Rapids, Mich. Price so cents Ok
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CoNv1NcING.-The proof of tne md
ding is not in chewing the string b.t @ ~
having an opportunity to test tie art;oIa % h
direct. Emil Fischel or F.. q Rnars0
tatIe the druggists, have a free trial
bottle OF DIR. Bosanko's Cough and Lung.
syrup for each and every one who is;
afnlcted with Coughs, Colds, Asthma.
Consumption or any Lung Affection. 4
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FRED. SEEGER,

OFFER STO HIS FRIENDS AND THE PUB
~ lie generally choice selection of Fresh
Meats, Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef and
Hams Shoulders, Sausages,, Tallow and Lard at
the lowest rates. Market on Commercial Street.
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RARRER SHOP

C1ARL PANGBURN'S Barbershop, in Barnes
I Jblock on n NoIth Eighth street. Work done in
GOOD taste. Particular attention paid TO Ladies
and Children's hair cutting and shampooing. By
alFmeans call and see Carl.
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M. KETTENHOFFEN.

NORTHWESTERN HOUSE, FRANKLIN AND
~ MI Ninth streets dMS5aissG2%y2Res SEaSeIeerfo viii
attached.
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Politeness always pays. A New York
gentleman, who courteously gave up
his seat on Rockaway train. had the
satisfaction of knowing that his substi-
tute was soon afterward killed.
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CHARLES HOVER.

MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISH
ISl meut, on Sth street, near south end ofBridge.
The tailoring department is complete, and con
tains large assortment of fashionable cloths ana
GeTS's furnishing goods constantly on hand
Please call and examine before purchasing else
yybafe.
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WM. MI. SEEGER.

DENTIST. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ANDER-
IL sons Block, Corner South Eighth and Quay
Streets, Manitowoc, Wis. Prompt attention will
be given to all work entrusted 20 me. apr27-Sl
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WILLIAMS HOUSE.

A D. SMITH, PROPRIETOR, CORNER OF
N. Eighth and Franklin streets Manitowoc.
a nrstclass American Hotel, centrally located,
offers every inducement 10 the travelling public.
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y SANDERSON

rANUFA CTURERAN DEALERIN BOOTS
tN Shoes Leather, &C, &C. Shop on Buffalo
street near the corner of Eighth. Repairing
neatiy ' and promptly executed.