The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-17


virtue, charity vice, poverty crime,
and rascality the means of all wealth
and the sum of all wisdom"
A Washington letter to the Galveston
CTex.) NetOs says: "Spooner is not a
teetotaler, and has never had much to
say one way or the other about temper
ance; but it is fact that he never
| touches drop of liquor of any kind.
Whenever he is questioned about it and
the general subject of temperance he
replies indiferently: i have three
boys that | love. They have never
smelled liquor in my breath, and they
never shall That's the only temper
ance argument that he has ever made. J"
Hypochondriacs are generally filing
up the country. Every day we meet
| men who are sensible on every subject
except their own ailments. They dread
| malaria in the breeze. fear the water is
| unwholesome, regard nearly every ar
ticle of diet with suspicion, and view
sunshine and clouds alike with fear
Such men should 90 to the country and
live in the open air. They can not be
| cured while they remain in the neigh
borhood of drug store.-Atlanta Con-
| Siituti0n.
1t is believed that over f1,000,0O0 is
spent yearly in pilgrimages to Mecca
and Medina. Many of these Mohamme-
dan pilgrims travel immense distances.
Thus nearly 5000 of them are nom the
Soudan and neighboring parts of Afrl-
ca, 1900 are Moors. 1,400 Persians, TO-
900 Malays and Indians, and some 25,-
0D0 T1rr-c or Ec,r-,+ionc fTho-a 40
figures for the year 1888, when there
were no fewer than $4,000 pilgrims to
these two famous shrines.
A recent study of comparative heights
and weights among different classes of
population in Great Britain shows that
| the criminal class average no less than
! forty-five pounds in weight, and four
and one-half inches in height less than
| their antagonists, the Metropolitan
| police. Compared with the general
population, too, this class is seen to be
| eighteen pounds in weight and two
| inches in stature below the average,
standing on about the same plane in
| physical endowmentS as lunatics.
The sublimation of the mind-cure
craze in Boston is a man named Ben
| nett, to whom patients 90 in and lay
down so, never more nor less the
doctor pronounces the formula, you
are cured, and the patient walks out
again. There is no diagnosis, no treat
ment, nothing but faith; and yet it is
said that Bennett is making big in
come, so bills coming in by the mail,
and requests for consultation by tele-
graph. He calls himself an apostle of
the Order of the Inspirati."
Mrs. Wallace says that Ben Hur'
occupied all Gen. Wallace's writing
time for seven years. After the van
ishing of the Christ child, to give details
of battle, love-making, social life, adj
venture, and over all to float the BAN
ner CT the cross, and keep the babe of
Bethlehem in the mind of the reader as
the central figure. was a difficult study.
Geikie's Life of Christ was the refer
ence book, after the bible, in the writ
ing of Ben Hur.' Eighty thousand
copies have been sold, and still the
white camels are coming. 1t has been
translated into German and Turkish"
1t is found that where the Chinese
can do so they will ingeniously load
raw silk with foreign substances, rice.
sugar, ETC., to make it weigh heavier
even when they know the deception
must inevitably be detected and will
loose them good and steady customers.
The only way, it is said, to put check
on them is by concerted action among
American manufacturers to shut out
all raw silk which does not come up
to a certain standard An experienced
mo 1I,fu ot,1 Io+
tons are imperative to make the China
man honest in his dealings with the
foreigner.
The southern variety of proof-reader
is described in the Memphis (Tenn.)
AUdldnche as a man who is only pres
ent when he is absent. He is the Ish-
mael of every office. Every mans
hands are against him. He is the scape-
goat on whose back are laid every
mans sins. In addition, he bears his
own burdens, and these be many. He
acquires feline stealthiness and side
longness of walk, as if he We're expect
ing bootjack to turn every corner.
tie sleeps with his eyes open like rab-
bit. To the public he is nonentity
when his work is done, and only visible
WYNN SOlAiO ODSCuIGS ulIn.
Amherst students tried to break up
the performance of a theatrical troupe
in that village. They guyed the actors,
threw beans on the stage, blew fish
horns, and yelled in chorus The man
ager ordered policeman to arrest a
student This was attempted, and the
students made a rush to rescue their
fellow. The manager sailed in with a
chair and club. An old negro took a
hand, yelling, I'm over sixty years
old, but I'll take care of any four of
you" Several citizens also took part,
and when the fight was over the stu
dents were so badly used up that they
didn't even dare to give genuine APP
plause.
The contest over the will of Gusta-
vus Nicholson, Baltimore banker
who died last year, has developed the
fact that the old man was great lover
of cats. He had over a dozen of his
own Tables, and these were permitted
to invite their friends, so that hosts of
the feline species were entertained at
the bankers home. He took cats to bed
with him, and sometimes matronly
cat would provide nest in his comfort
able feather bed, and there a litter of
kittens would be born and raised The
old gentleman always had several cats
sleeping with him. The servants testi-
fed that at one time he had six Maltese
cats living in his room; these were the
favored ones. Six commoner cats were
kept down in the kitchen. He loved
his cats, and grieved when any died.
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