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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-24
HUMAN BEAUTY.
1t LIS All Well Enough, But Doesn't Last


Jennie Chamberlain is now generally
quoted as the beauty of the day. 1t
seems unfortunate that she was not here
in New York when Forepaurh advcr-
tised for the handsomest woman. since
she might have carried off the $4,000
prize. As she is now, however. sur
rounded by titled admirers III England,
she may do equally vel Her portrait
has been painted by n London artist,
which certainly is important. consider
ing the evanescent character of the
original. Beauty, alas, is SO short
lived, and then what an effort it must
be to resist the inevitable change which
time SO cruelty brings! This leads
Young to rather unkindly exclaim:
All! Why so vain, though blooming IN the
Spring,
Thou shining, frail, adored and wretched
thing,
Old age will come. disease may come before,
Fifteen is full as mortal as three score.
Another poet (Blair), who is still
more severe, writes thus:
Beauty! thou pretty plaything-dear deceit,
That steals so softly DER the stripiing's heart,
Aud gives pulse never known before,
The grave discredits thee.
When any one expects to travel
through life on good looks there must
be fearful consciousness of what Pope
says:
Years following years steal something every
day.
And in view of this sad result, he also
exclaims:
Was it for this you took such constant care
The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare;
For THIS your locks i'll paper durance bound,
For this with tOrturing irons wreathed around,
FOR this with tillets strained your tender head,
Aiethinks already your tears survey,
Already hear the horrid things they say.
+ JOHNsON'S IDEAS.
johnson viewed beauty Gas he did
everything) from the darker side of ex-
perience, as may be seen from the fol-
lowing extract from the VANITY of
Human Wishes:'
The teeming mother anxious for her race
Begs for each birth the fortune of face;
Yet Vane could tell what i'll from beauty
spring,
And Sedley cursed the form that pleased the
Pope, in his epistle to Fanny Blount,
moralizes thus:
Trust not too much your now resistless
charms
Which age or sickness soon or late disarms.
Love raised on beauty will like that decay,
Our hearts may bear its slender chain Il day;
AS nowely bands i'll wantonness are worn,
pltdsufe ana at evening TORN.
He repeats this idea in another place
thus:
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll,
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the
soul.
This leads to the remark that often
the highest order of attractions is found
among plain-looking persons, or in
other words, that true beauty is char
aGter expressed through the features
an idea thus neatly rendered by Young:
What's female beauty, but an air divine,
Through which the winds all gentle graces
shine,
Hence men are often captive of face
They know not why-of no peculiar grace.
That this is often the case is often
proved by the neglect endured by the
doll-faced beauties when under that
rivalry which the poet so neatly de-
scribed in the above eXtract.-"Aa-
ccuEay" IN the Rochester Democrat.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-24
Agriculture in Mexico.

Although the main business of the
country is agriculture, this branch OF
industry is carried on under exception
ally disadvantageous circumstances.
One of its greatest drawbacks is, that
the whole country is divided up into
immense hdciendas, or landed estatesi
small farms being rarely known; and
out of population of ten million or
more the title TO the soil is said to vest
in not more than six thousand persons.
Some of these estates comprise square
leagues instead of square acres in eX-
tent, and are said to have irrigating
bitches from forty to fifty miles IN
length. Most of the land of such estates
is uncultivated. and the water is wasted
upon the remainder in the most reck-
less manner. The titles by which such
properties are held are exceedingly
varied. and probably to a considerable
extent uncertain. Some came from the
old Spanish Government, through its
viceroys: some from Mexico, through its
governors or political chiefs; while over
a not inconsiderable part of all the good
| land of the country, the titles of the
church. although not recognized by the
govern lnent, are sui, W u CcItdIH GA
tent, respected. Added to all this, there
is marked indisposition on the part of
the large owners of real estate in Mexi-
co to divest themselves of such property;
| and this for various reasons. Thus, IN
the heretofore almost permanently revo-
lutionary condition of the country, the
| tenure OF naOUdbIe or personal property
was subject to embarrassments from
which real estate, or anlmord6le pro-
perty. was exempt. Under the system
of taxation which has long prevailed in
Mexico, land also is very lightly bur-
dened. And, finally, from what is
probably an inherited tradition from
Old Spain, the wealthy Mexican seems
to be prejudiced againt investing in CO.
operative (stock) or financial enter
prises-the railways, banks. and mines,
in both Old Spain and Mexico, for ex-
ample, being to-day mainly owned and
controlled by English or other foreign
capitalists.-ROn. DaUtd d. WeLtS, n!
| Popular Science Monthly.
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THE OCEAN GRAYHOUNDS.

Recent developments In the attainable
speed of steam yachts and torpedo boats
have set engineers to specializing as to
what may be done by ocean steamers,
says the Chicago News. The Hereshoff
yacht Stiletto has beaten the Mary Pow
ell, the famous Hudson river greyhound,
probably the fastest river steamer in the
world; and torpedo boats are now built
to make twenty-five miles per hour with
certainty. These boats are only 80 to
100 feet long and weigh only thirty to
forty tons, including hull, machinery and
equipments, and their performances are
enormously beyond anything vet
achieved by larger vessels, the difference
in size being considered. Thus the i'll
fated Oregon, the Servia, America and
Etruria-the latest examples of the best
modern naval architectlre-measure
from 500 to $50 feet in length, with dis
placements of from $500 to 5000 tons,
and make about twenty knots or twenty
four miles-an hour in smooth water.
Vessels of 800 feet in length and 3S,-
600 tons displacement, if built in ac
cordance with the principles of tne tor
pedo boats, would attain an average
speed of forty knots-oc forty seven
miles-an hour, at which rate the At
lantic could be crossed in three days and
half. Such vessels are now confidently
predicted, their construction being mere
y question of demand To make a
vessel of these dimensions profitable
would require a passenger list of 500
souls at $3.50 apiece and some 5000 to1s
of freight. With the rapid growth of
ocean travel witnessed within the last
quarter of a century, Mr.. Robert Dun
cans prediction, made in 1872, that such
vessels will be the ferryboats of the ocean
before 1900 is in nowise improbable.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-24

The Turkish minister at Washington
tells a reporter thai the Mohammedan
religion permits only four wives If the
first wife objects the husband cannot
bring a second wife under the same
roof; indeed, he cannot marry another
unless he is amply able to keep separ-
ate establishment. The law gives the
wife the right to have her husband drag
ged before the courts if he violates that
rule. Plural wives are not universal
among the Turks and in Constantinople
one wife is the general rule. In Asiatic
Turkey the custom of plural wives
among the peasantry is very common.
The first wife, who works in the field
with her husband, urges BIN to marry a
second, third and frequently fourth
wife, in order to have more assistance in
tilling the farm. These women, too,
are great company to each other, and
help to Tighten the common daily bur-
dens.
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PARNELL'S MYSTERIOUS HOME

OEe Oh Ine most mysterious matters
| connected with the home rule movement
to English men has always been to know
where Mr.. Parnell lives, writes lou
don correspondent of The Neao York
World. Ii anyone asked his address of
| an Irish member be was always directed
to write either to the house of commons
or to the general office of the Irish par
nentary party. Even members of the
party who are known to be on terms of
the greatest intimacy with Mr.. Parnell
have always declared that they had not
the slightest idea where he lived beyond
the fact that it was somewhere In the
country, not far from London. Every
few mouths, occasionally even at critical
moments, Ireland's uncrowned king
would disappear entirely for a week, no.
A narrow escape from an accident which
he bad the other day has led to the dis
covery of his little retreat.
On the southeastern railway, about ten
miles from Cbaring Cross railway station,
hes the small village of Ethan, in
Kent. One approaches the little village
by pretty road, such as Kent is famous
fer, and, passing through the village,
turns into secluded street of semi-de-
tached villas. A brougham meets him
at Ethan and conveys him to Wonersh
lodge, the name of Mrs O'Shea's house,
the fifth of the row. This is Parnells
mysterious home. It is not his own
home exactly, but the home Of his de-
voted follower and recent parliamentary
companion, the famous Capt. O'Shea,
the negOtiator of the Kilmainham treaty
and many other similar things. There
Mr.. Parnell is either as guest or lod
ger of Mrs. O'Shea.
Here the Irish dictator seeks repose
from the bitter struggles of the house of
commons and periodically hides him
self away from the world. He generally
leaves Charing Cross station by late
train after the sitting of the commons is
over.
The accident mentioned above was
caused bv large wagon laden with fruit
and Vegetables, going in the early morn,
ing to Covent Garden market, coming in
collision with the brougham, the latter
being considerably damaged, but Mr..
Parnell ESCAPED without the slightest in
jury. He gill owe that market wagon a
grudge, however, as long as he lives for
causing the betrayal of his we'll kept
secret. The villagers of Ethan, 1 may
add, know little about Mr.. Parnell's life,
but speak of him with admiration and
respect.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-24
The Two Buttons Behind.

We acknowledge utter inability to ex-
plain why two buttons are placed on
the rear of a man coat, or what the
original purpose may have been. There
is theory that the custom of wearing
these beautiful ornaments began in the
DAYS when men considered it necessary
to carry big swords around with them
to get them into cutting scrapes and
trip them up when they went home
drunk late at night. The sword was
suspended from belt or sash, and the
buttons helped to keep the stomach
band in place The custom is contin-
ued, perhaps, because the buttons re-
ieve the dreariness of a mans back,
but we say we are not certain about it.
Anyhow, their absence, or the absence
of one of the pair, is noticeable, and
app TO cause the remark. if the remark
er is woman, that if that man were
her husband she would give his coat
an overhauling with needle and
thread. - Cincinnati Commercial Ga.
zette.
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THE GREAT WAR PICTURE,
SOMETHING ABOUT THE BATTLE OF GETTYS-
BUBG-oVER A MILLION OF VISITORS
To THE PANORAMA, ETC.

Perhaps there is no place in Chicago
where an hour can be spent more profita-
bly, than at the Panorama of the Battle of
gettysburg, the fame of which has spread
all over the West. From early morn I'M
I'll nearly midnight visitors GO in and
llnger as they gaze at the landscape
spread around before them, and then
examine the details of battles magniti-
Gently stern array" portrayed with such
fidelity and startlingly real. There is no
picture in the world like this of Gettys-
burg. No other panorama presents such
a sweep of country and no other presents
nature arrayed in the garb of Summer,
with the Summer sun producing the
innumerable tints and the lights and
shade that lend to the scene charm
that is wanting in other paintings of this
kind. And what scene it is, to be sure
the distant hills covered with forests,
ripened grain ready for the sickle, high
ways and houses which have been happy
homes, and the contending hosts gallant
men struggling for victory; the artillery,
which can be almost heard to thunder,
the fierce charge of cavalry, the masses
of Infantry, the hand to hand encounters,
The dying and the dead ard all the hor-
rors of war are before the spectator. 1t
is not surprising that the scene fascinates,
that people go again and again, and that
although over a million people have seen
the battle of Gettysburg, the cry is "still
they come" The poet Keats wrote:
A thing of beauty is joy forever;
Its lovelineSs increases; il will never
Pass into nothingness.
Keats did not write these lines on ac-
count of the Gettysburg Panorama, for
he died in 1921, and he never had the
pleasure of viewing the picture, but had
he seen it, he might have derived his
inspiration from it, because, after having
been before the public for three years,
it is still 'thing of beauty" and it
promises to be 'aioy forever. Chicago
EUeaing Journal, Mar. 26.
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In personal appearance Father Ryan
was very striking man. He had a
clear, open countenance and lofty
forehead. His eyes We're blue and
kindly. Besides being poet, he was 9
musician. He would frequently 90 tc
the house of one of his parishioners,
and, telling the servant not to call anJ
one, would take his seat at the piano.
With a cigar between his teeth, he
would play and improvise for hours
and upon coming back to the things Of
this world would be surprised to finu
that he had spent four or five hours in
perfect ignorance of his surroundings.
Louisville CO2trier-JOurnaE
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Fun by the Roaring Red: Tennessee.

started out with companion in one
of these frail little tubs on a tour of in
spection. For sail' was conspicously
posted on che corner of a neat story-and-
a-half cottage that was almost entirely
submerged and seemed inclined to float
off. "When do you sail?'' inquired my
mischievous companion of red-headed
woman who was leaning out of win
dow ccmplacently smoking pipe. ''As
soon as we're able to raise the wind,
bedad" was the reply, and we padded
silently by. On the door of church
that was partially submerged some wag
had tackled card on which was writ
ten: No one allowed to fish here but
the parson. y Chattanooga Cor. -Atbany
Journal.
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Some men in Georgia while out hunt
ing recently, near Bloody bluff came
on house that seemed to have been
built many years ago. Grass and weeds
had grown up over the steps, as if no
one ever visited it. Looking IL, to their
surprise they saw cooking utensils, stove,
bed, etc, tumbled up as if just left that
morning. Everything seemed so mys-
terious that the party set about solving
it. Five miles away a farmer was found
who shed light upon the mystery. Two
years before a man With a wife and
three children took possession of the
house. They would never give their
names, their origin, nor their history.
A few weeks after the neighbors We're
summoned to the burial of the wife.
The next day the father and three chill
dren disappeared, and have never been
heard from since. He left the house in
its present condition, and so great is the
superstitious fear of it that it has never
been disturbed
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-24

The fame of the divided skirt has at
last reached Paris, and one of the pa
pers discourses to its readers on the
programme of the National Dress As
sociation" and its President, ''Mme. la
Vicomtesse Huberson. The French
critic warmly defends the wearing of
stays, and wakes indignant over the in
suits heaped on '.the poor little corset,
so useful in sustaining the feeble, re-
straining the stout, and rallying the
stragglers" As for the divided skirt,
if women really wish to dress up like
zouaves, well, they can do it. But
what makes him most indignant is the
idea OF England venturing to take the
lead in any question of costume. Lon
don is not vet recognized as the Capital
of the world of taste, nor has Paris lost
the sceptre of elegance which she has
held for so long"
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Pretty She VIII Be.

An English woman is beautiful by
nature or not beautiful, and there is an
end of the matter. A Parisienne can
rarely compete with the beautiful En-
glish or American women in features or
in complexion and purity OF skin, but
she exerts such an effort of will in max
ing herself fascinating that she often
surpasses her rival in spite of natural
disadvantages. Take Rachel, for in
stance. Nature gave her thin face
with a large and prominent forehead,
deep-set eyes, sunken mouth, point
ed chin, a scraggy body, and lean arms.
Out of these natural materials the little
Jewess, by dint of genius, will, passion,
love, and gold spent on beautiful OBJ
3ects, made the Rachel that men will
ever remember-a woman of Corinth or
of Syracuse, with the caressing gesture
of a statue by Coysevax, the intensity OF
a water color by Gavarni, lips that al
ways caught and reflected the light, and
in her sombre eyes the subtle flame of
intelligence.
In the Parisienne, from the shop girl
to the grande dame, there seems to be an
innate cutie of her person. a respect OF
her flesh, pride in her silhouette and
bearing, and withal constant effort to
refashion and remake her If in accord
ance with a marvellous ideal of beauty,
grace, elegance, and youth; to take from
antiquity, from the East, from all ages
and all countries that which has consti-
tuted their peculiar elegance, and then
to reduce those elements of elegance to
the Partisan formula. Every Parisienne
is living work of art, the product of q
mysterious collaboration of surrounds
ings.
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A Story ofJustic Duvars Wife.

Speaking of Stanley Matthew's mar
riage. writes correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader. reminds me of a
story which Ogle Taylor tells of Justice
Duval, who was on the supreme bench
for twenty-five years, serving from 1911
to 1886. Judge Duval was a represen-
tative from Maryland to the first con-
gress, and while there he and William
Is. Giles, of Virginia, boarded in Phila-
delphia with Mrs. Gibbons. who had a
daughter who was neither young nor
taciturn. Giles and Duyal became
great friends, but after they left con-
gress they lost sight of each other for a
time. They met again in Washington
at the beginning of Jefferson's admins
tration, when Giles was Senator and
Duval comptroller of the treasury. They
were happy in the revival of old times,
and were enjoying themselves in chat
ting about them until Senator Giles in
quired of Duval. What has become of
that id cackling old maid, Jennie
Gibbons?'
'.She is Mrs. Duval, SIR was the re-
ply, and it is needless to say that the
conversation after this was for time
rather strained.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-24

In a 700 at Hamburg the other day a
$4,000 elephant got to be so vicious
that it was thought well to kill him.
An EngIshman offered $3.50 for the
privilege of shooting the animal, but
when brought face to face with the
beast elected to pay a forfeit Ulti-
mately strong chains were passed round
the unfortunate creatures neck and
tightened by powerful pulleys until he
was strangled. 1t is probably the first
time that an elephant has ever been
bowstrung. To drop an elephant with
a ball in the forehead is still the high
est exploit of craftsmanship; for the
brain is very small for the size of the
beast. and the immense skull is almost
wholly filled with mass of honeycomb-
like-bone, in the cavities of which a
bullet produces no immediate effect.
Against poison-so far as has been
hitherto ascertained-the elephant is
practically proof. But in any case a
rogue elephant is, as Boston the weaver
has it, so fearful wild fowl that in the
interests of society, to say nothing OF
science, museum is a filter place fo1
him than menagerle.
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Big Hotel Bills.

The amount OF money spent IN hotels
in New York must be enormous, says a
correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
Q4irer. | was chatting with we'll
posted hotel man tonight, who was
telling me about the prices paid by
some of the guests. The Hoffman
House." said he, .'has a guest who pays
S115 a week for his rooms, or over $40
a day, Admiral Maxse of the English
navy. His services and meals are eX-
ira, and must bring his bill well up to
5000 week for himself alone. John
w Mackay pays 500 week for rooms
at the Hoffman When James Nc
Henry, the London railroad man, was
over here on New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio business, be paid so day
for a suite of rooms with private service
and table at the Victoria Hotel. 1t was
the same suite of rooms that President
Cleveland occupied when he held his
famous Victoria Hotel conference to get
acquainted with the prominent Demo
Gratis of the country. There IS q MIR.
Dean at the Fifth Avenue Hotel whose
bills are about $50 day. He is re-
tired Californian and has a family and
several servants. He has been there al
winter. The Windsor frequently has
guests who require service to the amount
of $50 or 500 a day. Nine. Barrios, the
widow of the Central American, was one
of the heaviest paying guests New
York hotel has ever known. She stop
ped at the Langham, where her numer
Gus family and large retinue of servants
brought her daily expenses up to at leas
S2OO''
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Venice.

There are two things in Venice that l
have never been able to make out: How
do they build house. and how do they
put out fire? Building materials, OF
course, can be procured, and there is
certainly no want of water. But where
is the ground on which firemnn or build
ers can take their stand? Even for the
commonest repairs of houses three or
four stories high, in streets only five OF
six feet wide. some plan must be adopted
of which | have no conception. Two
or three beams, half a hundred building
stones, and q hod of mortar would block
up the street, and interrupt the traffic
OF whole quarter. 5. Foa RochaH.
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THE ROMANCE OF A NICKEL.

lsO AhhANSIA vi n ANISAlIi4.
A romantic courtship, begun in Balti-
more under peculiar circumstances, has
ended in happy marriage in Richmond,
Va. The bride is Miss Blanche Thurs
field, and the groom is Mr.. Thomas Bow
ers, now a merchant in Richmond, but
at the time this love story opens resi-
dent of this city. One afternoon last
June Mr.. Bowers boarded an up town
Madison avenue car, and was soon deeply
Interested in an afternoon paper. Pres
emily handsome young lady entered and
took seat beside him. He glanced at
the new and pretty passenger, and as he
looked at the pretty face and figure be-
side him he noticed the young lady draw
her hand from her pocket and blush
mantle her cheek. He saw that she had
forgotten her purse, and as she was in
the act of signaling the conductor to stop
the Car he politely asked her if he could
be of any service. The flush again rose
to her cheek, and her embarrassment in
creased when she informed Mr.. Bowers
of her situation.
''But permit me to pay your fare, y
requested the gentleman.
"If you will give me your card, so that
can return the money, | will consent, .
she replied.
The conductor came along, and hr.
Bowers dropped the additional nickel in
his hand.
ri am ever so much obliged, said the
pretty miss. "Now will you give me
your card?'
Cards were exchanged, and the nex'
n pnt Mr. RnuapS
Office and handed him a neat envelope
addressed in lady's hand. 1t contain
ed nickel and the neatly expressed
thanks of Miss Thurstield. Correspon.
dence followed, and the acquaintance
thus formed soon ripened into friend
ship and terminated as above related, and
the bridal couple are now crossing the
Atlantic on their wedding trip. Mr.
Bowers is a well-knowu and successful
| merchant of Richmond.