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Curiosities of Dispatch Writing.

During the French War of the
Fronde" leading member of the pop
ular party transmitted an important
letter in roasted crab. The order
which decided the sea fight of Solebav
in the reign of Charles III. was carried
by a little cabin boy, who swan
through the fire of the Dutch fleet with
the paper in his mouth, and that boy
afterward wrote his name in history as
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel I'M
mediately before the outbreak of the
seven years war Frederick the Greats
emissaries in Saxony discovered sever
al REASONABLE dispatches hidden under
the skin of a bologna sausage One of
the Jacobite leaders of 1745. when
about to be surprised in his own house
by party of soldiers, was warned of
the necessity of instant flight by the
gift of a feather of a friendly neigh Dor,
the meaning o. which somewhat ambig-
uous present, to his credit be it spoken,
he at once OWNED. Warren Hastings,
when blockaded in Benares by Cheyte
Sing, succeeded in communicating with
the British army by singular use of
his knowledge of Asiatic customs He
IhSCltC Win LUIS VI pttl lutO
the quilts which his native messengers
wore in their ears, and thus sent his
dispatches safely through the very
midst of the besieging force. The fall
of Robespierre in 1894 was telegraphed
to the prisoners in the abbaye from the
roof of an adjoining house by holding
up robe and a stone pierre) and
finging both down into the street.
When the Russian garrison of Samar-
cand was hemmed in by the Bokhari-
otes in 1868 a loyal native succeeded
in passing through the enemy's camp
with letter stitched up in his sandal,
with which he reached General kauf-
mans army just in time to recall it to
the rescue. 1t is even stated on good
authority-although it must be owned
that the statement has a strong Mum
chausen" flavor about it-that French
spy in 1870 traverSed the German line
with a Photographic dispatch conceal
ed in the hollow of one of his false
teeth.-Leisure Hour.
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Mlanitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1885.
Judge Blacks Memory.

Memory can not be depended on to
observe any fixed law of development.
1t is quite as likely to take one channel
as another. Some people who display
astounding memories in one special d.
rection, and on one particular line of
thought or occupation, may be strange
ly weak in others. Take, for instance,
says the New York Graphic. the late
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania. He
lived to be over 60, and wore his age
with the ease of a well-preserved ath-
lete. Shortly before he died he made
a visit to Europe. What do you think
he went to see? There were only three
things and they were all in England.
An English horse-race, an English
court of assize, and the field of Runny
mede, where the magma charta was
wrung from King John. Barring the
passion for horseflesh which always
dominated the big old Judge, the other
points of interests to him in England
bear some relation to the fact that
probably no citizen this country ever
produced has more profound and in
tricate knowledge of the struggles pass
ed through by the Anglo-Saxon race
before constitutional government was
reached. Not considering now his
purely professional attainments as
lawyer, or his varied accomplishment
III many fields of polite literature, the
judge was a cyclop8dia of constitu-
tional history. He never forgot what
he read, and when once fairly aroused
he would electrify with the depth and
brilliancy of his talk.
hnn irrlt a. L,
Washington in February, 1877, during
the hot days of the electoral count, a
gentleman made some remark that
clashed with the Judges notions. He
had advanced some heterodox views
about the fundamental principles of
English liberty. The implacable old
Judge heard him patiently, taking men
tai notes the while, and when he had
| finished the Judge threw back his head
against the wall, began twirling the in
eyitable silver tobacco box between his
thumb and forefnger, and opened on
his victim with reply. There were
only four present, SO the entertainment
was not, of course, billed in advance,
nor was there any effort at oratorical
| display. The Judge quietly unfolded
his stock of information on the subject.
For nearly an hour there was a flow of
history and precedents and citation on
| this vital theme that would have
| charmed the illustrious men who talk
| ed at the Holland house in the golden
prime of Macauiay. His memory was
well nigh incredible. In making these
citations from ancient and modern his
| tory he would refer to the very volume
and page where they could be found.
Before the judge was half through it
became evident enough that some one
in the small audience had overestimat-
ed his own acquaintance with constitu-
tional English history. He was more
than satisfied The case was never APP
pealed.
The Judge, poor man, so the doctors
say, must certainly have weakened his
memory by chewing tobacco. Perhaps
this habit was providentially sent as a
check, for, if he had not been held
down by this handicap, he would have
| remembered SO much more that moth
ing would have been left for the doc
| tors and the rest of US.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04
A EIY.Haunted Town.

The wall of King-Choo-Foo is creme
lated forty feet high on the outside
in certain places, but on the inside
sloping and covered with a jungle
growth of bamboo, banyan, and other
shrubs to the very top. At intervals
of every few hundred yards along it is
a small smooth-bore cannon of remark
ably peaceful aspect No doves were
discovered building their nests therein,
but in my mile walk along the parapet
numerous filters of pacific pigs were
seen doing in the very openings of the
crennelles. Not soldier was observed
in making the circuit of this ancient
and formidable fertilization, the drag
on-guarded yamin of the Taotai had
fy-haunted, somnolent air, in the
streets business proceeded lazily, and
over all the grove-like openings of the
capital city the very spirit of summer
peace and quiet seemed to hold its be-
neticent reign. Our cortege, with
which we made the circuit, was COM
posed of scarcely more than dozen
aimless hoodlums and inquisitive ur-
chins. and we left the place impressed
with the idea that if the inha bitants
thought of danger from the French it
was still as an intangible effort of the
imagination-as something SO far off
as scarcely to be considered, or if con.
sidered, amply provided against. Cor
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04
A Rare Bird.

A prominent Clinch County physician
has an owl that roams around loose at
his house, and is terror to cats and
mice. Not only is he useful for this,
but he is rare bird, the Doctor having
learned his owlship some rare tricks.
For instance, he will take the owl and
whirl him around and about in his
hands, and will then put him upon the
floor or table upon his back, side, or
any other position he may see proper.
telling the owl to sleep, and he will re-
main perfectly quiet. The Doctor can
then tell the owl to dream bad dream
and awake frightened, when, after
about thirty minutes, the bird will
jump up from the table, apparently in
a great fright, popping his bill, and
showing other signs of alarm.-Savan-
nah NeaCs.
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Bathing.

Many people are in the habit OF dab
bling a great deal in bathtubs filed
with fresh water during the heated
term. This is injurious. Sponge bath
ing, in the majority of cases, would eff
feet the cooling and refreshing pur-
poses intended and cleanse the pores
just as well. Nature evidently intends
man shall battle frequently in summer.
In winter, if one is not engaged in par
ticularly dusty or dirty pursuits, bath
all over once, twice or perhaps three
times week should be plenty. Cold
baths are best for the strong and Wig
orous, but the weaker ones who begin
with tepid bathing water, should end
each bath with 4 dash of water as cold
as the system will bear. A good fric-
ton with coarse towel, supplemented
with hand rundown or perhaps lit
tie bay-rum or alcohol rubbed in after
the coolest bath, will restore healthy
action and bring glow to the surface,
causing the whole body to feel reinvig-
orated.-NetO York Telegram
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04
The Greek Idea of Death.

A writer in Mac Miilan'S Magazine,
says Greek peasant looks upon death
quite differently from what person of
the western world is taught 10 believe.
To him it is the end of all JOY and glad
ness; the songs over his body (myriolo-
guess speak of the black earth, the end
of light and brilliancy. A popular
kleptic song on the death of Zedros,
when read by the side OF Sophocles'
description of the death of Ajax. shows
how curiously alike are the ideas of
death as painted in the two poems
Charon is still believed to be white
haired old man with long and fearful
nails, and in myriologues or lamenta-
tons, which are still of everyday oc-
currence in the islands, you actually
hear of Charon's caiqoe. He is now
spoken of as Charos. In some parts of
Greece they still, it is said, put money
in the mouth of deceased person to
pay the passage. At the funeral of
child in a mountain village of Naxos a
wax cross was put in the child's mouth
by the priest, and on inquiry the writer
was told that it was the freight money,
so completely has the eastern church
incorporated into itself the ancient
ideas
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04
Getting the Combination.

/ knew that there were only three
or four million permutations and COM
binations of numbers, and so | thought
l would run through them all 1t
wouldn't take long. and one of them.
of course would be the right one.
Winding up the dial on fireproof sar-
cophagus all night with the thermome-
ter forty-fve degrees below zero is ex-
citing, but the excitement does not re-
pay one for the nervous exhaustion and
resultant fatigue. Well. screwed the
North American dofunny around to
right and left as long as l can remem-
Der. and when the senior partner came
down at 9 O. clock he said L sat there
with a small lamp in my hand mechan-
ically turning the knob back and forth
and yearning for my bed clothes, When
a thing is SO secure that you can't get
it yourself, you naturally think that
the matter of security can be over
done.-Biu Nye, IN ST. Paul Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04
Cured of Absent-Mindedn

l would like to tell you of an incident
of observation-disclosures that cured a
school-master entirely of this often
comical mental defect. The bell was
ringing for school, and the masters
wife wanted pail of water and hod
of coal. TIC save time the master
strove to get both the water and the
coal at the same time. He drew the
water from an old-fashioned well, and,
getting his hod filled with coal, entered
the house with his hands full. He
walked up to the sink, and placed the
hod of coal where the pail of water
was usually kept, and, taking the pail
of water into the sitting-room, poured
it into the stove. The Kissing steam
blew open the stove door, issued from
the coal chamber and every seam in
the stove, scorched the master, put
out the fire, and filled the house with
steam.
Amid it all issued the agonized shout
of the schoolmaster: BLAST my ewes.
I've made another mistaken He new
er made another. In the week that he
was done up in linen bandages and
goose grease his mind as well as his
body was restored to healthy condi-
tion.-Nortctch Bulletin.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04

College athletics cost more than is
generally supposed. Harvard and Yale
have the heaviest boating expenses,
Columbia coming next. The paper
shells in which the races are roWed
cost 800 to 5000. Trainers and
coaches must be hired and eating
tables provided at which the diet of
the crews may be closely watched.
The crews eat at training tables from
Easter up to the race in June. at q cost
OF about S100 per man. After they
have been coached and trained for
three months they are sent TO New
London, Conn, where the races are
rowed on the Thames. Here they are
kept at the respective lighthouses I'M
der the strictest training. They are
coached daily from the steam-launches
which accompany them. Yale owns
steam-launch, and the cost is reduced
to S12 daily for coal and service. The
other colleges hire launches. and the
cost is increased All the crews are
uniformed at a cost of SO to $50 per
man. Yale presents its crew with
white flannel suits besides the regular
uniform at an expense OF $500. Har-
wards expense in this line is larger
The total cost of the New London race
for Harvard, Yale, or Columbia is
about $1,000. The Harvard freshmen
pay 81, 800 yearly for the luxury of de-
feating the Columbia freshmen. A
class regatta at Harvard or Yale costs
about $3.50 for each crew, not counting
cost of shell. Glass shells cost $500,
oars S75. Each class uses two shells in
its course. Barges Tor practice and
rough rowing cost 5000
Baseball costs less than rowing. and
can count somewhat on gate receipts.
Williams and Amherst will pay 81 200
each for their respective mines this
year; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
from $500 to $500. Yale employs
Jones, formerly of the Athletics, to
coach its nine; Princeton and Brown
also have professional coaches. In
track athletics the principal cost is for
trainers and grounds. All the colleges
which compete in the intercollegiate
games at Mott Haven employ profess
sional athletes as trainers These men
are paid from 5000 to $500 for the sea-
son. In the larger colleges athletic
grounds are provided by gifts of the
alumni, as in the case of Holmes field,
at Harvard, and Yale's new park,
which, with its track and grand-stand,
cost about so, 600.
Football has lately become self-sup-
porting at most of the larger colleges
Tennis at Harvard this year will cost
$4,000, at Yale 81, 000 Renting courts
and keeping them in order is what
makes the expense. A freshman class
at Harvard pays $4,000 for its crew of
eleven, nine, lacross team and tug-of-
war; at Yale and Columbia the CORE
spending expense is somewhat less.
Travelling expenses, hotel bills (only
the best hotels), trophies for the victo-
ries, etc, make further demand on
the students pockct-book. All these
expenses are betrayed by voluntary
subscriptions of students and alumni.
= Cancinnatt Times star.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04
The True Object of Arctic Research.

The best results will be gained by
considering the exploration of the polar
regions as one continuous task, and
fitting every new expedition into the far
seeing scheme of IA thorough investiga-
ton of all the problems subject to
Arctic researches. In this way we
have the strong conviction that i'm
portant results will be gained quicker
than by spasmodic efforts now in
Greenland, now in Behring Strait, now
in Franz-Josef Land. There can be no
doubt that such plan will be expen-
sive, and not so apt to produce stirring
results as any other; however, it is not
the purpose of the outgoing explorers to
become sufferers and enduring heroes,
but to bring home results which are
important for their science The me-
neurological stations which were estab-
Gshed in 1SS2-'S3 were the first step
to the organization of an enterprise
like that we demand, and their results
will show the utility of well-founded
plans.
Hitherto have only referred to the
exploration of the unknown region
never visited by men. There is more
WIN iCIl, loNCNCl, w HUI udS W NC
included in a comprehensive plan of
research. The southern parts of the
Arctic regions-for example, the east
shore of Greenland, many of the i'm
mense fjords of its west shore, Baffin
Land, and the central parts of the
north shore of America-are barely de-
lineated. If we look at the charts, we
might be induced to believe that most
of those lands are sufficiently known,
while, indeed, every new journey dis
closes the deficiency of our knowledge.
These countries, which may be reached
without serious difficulties, are the
proper place for Investigations of great
Importance. and the exploration of
the Arctic is even more urgent than
that of the far north, as the study of
the numerous tribes which live on the
shore of the Arctic Ocean has to be ac-
compliShed very soon; else the rapid
diminution of those peoples and the in
tluence of European civilization will de-
prive the photographer of anything to
study but their moldering remains
DR.. Franz Boas, ia Popular Science
Monthly for May.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04

Letter carriers here" says a Salt
Lake City dispatch to the Aita Calitor-
MIA, ''are having unique experience.
On account of the late polygamy ar
rests here all the Mormons have been
severely warned against talking to
strangers, giving their names or resi-
dence. The carriers in their rounds
knock at doors, and scurrying ensues
inside. A child answers the door. 1t
is asked who lives there, and it often
refuses to tell. 1t does not know the
neighbors or where its father or mother
is to be found. The uniform is sign
OF enemy, and no information is to be
had.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04

Mr.. Sampleson is very irascible
man, and is in the habit of Furnishing
his boys severely. Not long since he
observed that one of his sons needed a
new pair of pants. He scolded the boy
for wearing out his clothes so fast.
PA, no pants can last any time the
way you hits" replied the SON re-
proachfully.-Te1as SyttnsS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-06-04
HOLERA is rapidly NOV

ing westward and will soon
= appear in this country. In
order to prevent disastrous
effects fromits ravages every
preventive should be en-
ployed, and the system
should be in perfect condi-
ton. At this season of the
year the system is in a weak
state and easily susceptible
to dangerous disease. Pain
in the back, WEAKNESS, las
situde, headache, dyspepsia,
indigestion, kidney and liver
complaints are but the result
of neglect. During the last
visitation of cholera to this
country no medicine was
found equal to Mishler's
Herb Bitters, both as a pre-
ventive and cure, and it has
been equally successful in
all the diseases above men,
toned. 1t renews and in
vigorates the blood, restor-
ing to health and strength,
and thus shielding the
system from disease.
ynrr urpp
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Ssd-Buzs. Flies.

Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder ant
Urinary Diseases, Scalding. Irritation. Stone
Gravel. Catarrh of the Bladder. 81. Druggists
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Adam Forepaugh was formerly a
butcher in Cincinnati, and got into the
circus business by having to foreclose
mortgage on show. He is worth
about 3. 600. 900.
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Mothers

Cures cholera, collie. cramps diaTThoea aches
pains. sprainS. headache neuralgia. rheumatism
zoe. Rough on Pain Plasters, I5c.
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Pretty Won en-

Cures Piles or Hemorrhoids. itching, Pro-
truding, Bleeding. Internal or other. internal
and External Remedy in each package. Sure
cure, soc. Druggists.
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Lite Prsseruar

II YOU are railing. broken, worn ont and ner-
Vous, use Wells Health Remover" 81. Drug
gisIS.
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Thin PeorIe

Flies. reaches, ants, bed-bugs. rats, mice, goph-
Rats" I5c.
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"Rcush On Cons. ;.

Palpitation. Dropscal Swelliugs, Dizziness,
Indigestion, Headache, SIeeplessness cured BY
Wells Health Remover"
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Rough on Pain.

Wells Health Remover restores health and
Nlgor cures Dyspepsia, Headache, Nervous
ness, Debility. 81.
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SIxty-three varieties of grapes are
growing on the grounds of a physician
at Lake City, Fla.
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Crouch On Piles

II you are losing your grip on life. try Wells
Health Renewer.' Goes direct to the weak spot
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Rough on Itch" cures humOrs pruptions
ring-worm, letter, salt rheum, frosted feet
chilblaius.
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Collects offensive odors at once. Complete
cure of W crSt chronic cases. also uncquucd as
gargle for Diptheria, Sore Throat, Foul Breath.
ste.
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Ladies who would retain freshness and vi
vacity, don't fail TO try Wells Health Renew er
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Ask for Wells Rough on Corns." l5e. Quick
complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts bun
ions
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Water Rugs

Singing. irritation, inflammation. all Kidney
and Urinary complaints, cured by "Buchu-
Paiba." 81.
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w ateI BuEs, RoacheS.
Rough on Rats clears them out, also
Beetles, Ants.
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The Hope Of the Nation.
Children. slow in development. puny. scragn
and delicate, use Wells Health Reviewer
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IsRn,1rla IN Eats |,
Heart Pain 6

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants. bed
bugs.
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system from disease.

Ask your druggist for MIsHIER HERB BITTERs.
II he does keep it do not take anything else bu.
eend postal card to MIsHIER HERB BITTFR9
Co. 525 Commerce Street, Philadelphia
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Rough en- Catar.h. %

Rough On Itch.
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The regular old established
Physician and Surgeon DIR.
at the old number
to treat with his usual
great skill all private,
chronic, nervous and special
DIR. CLARK r is
the oldest Advertising Physician,
lSrfiles of PantrS show and ali
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-10
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The Smallpox Epidemic in Canada-How the |
Disease Is Spread.


Disease Is Spread.
OTTAWA, Sept. GA young woman afflicted
with the smallpox was found walking along the
street last evening having just arrived from
Hartwell's Locks. She was at once taken to the
contagious disease hospital. Another case was
admitted to the hospital last night the patient
being young man who was stricken at Rock
land, where he arrived last week from st. Jerome,
Quebec, having passed through Montreal on the
train. There is no smallpox at either St Jerome
or Rockland, and every possible precaution has
been taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
The official report of the health Office to-day
states that forty new cases of smallpox were
reported yesterday. twenty three of which were
authenticated. Twenty three deaths are re-
ported.
A Richfeld, VT, dispatch says: Smallpox
has reached Sutton, Que, a town eight miles
from here, and fears are entertained that it will
reach Richford. The victim Of the disease at
Sutton is q railroad man employed by the South
eastern company, and officials Of that road have
not fled their employees that they must be either
vaccinated leave. Sleeping cars between
Montreal and Boston are now detained here on
the trip from Boston, and are not allowed to
enter Canada. On the arrival of the night train
from Montreal car is attached to the train and
run to Boston as usual.