The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-12-30
LITTLE PHIL.

In the corridors of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel General Sheridan moved back
and forth nodding every moment or
two to some one that he knew. He
was clad in dark suit of heavy Eng
lish goods, his coat aud vest being
buttoned close to his collar and the
trousers being cut IN the wide style of
the day. A SLOUGH hat covered his
iron-clad hair and the inevitable cigar
was fixed between his lips. General
Sheridan doesn't move as gracefully
now as he did a score of years ago.
Frankly speaking the hero of Win
chester is getting fat and, like Oscar
Wilde, waddles when he walks. Al
though he Indignantly denies the ru-
NOR that he has become a patient of
the same massage physician who is
treating President Cleveland, his
friends joakingly insist that the rumor
is true, and they cite long walks,
horseback rides, and various other
feats of physical exertion that Sheri-
dan now performs, as evidence OF the
systematic efforts he is making to aid
the work of flesh reduction There
isn't an evening IN week that Sheri
dan can't dine ont with some friend if
be wants to, no matter whether be is
at his headquarters at Washington OF
In New York, and the sleek appear
ance he now presents is prima facie
evidence that he isn't in danger OF i'm
mediate starvation He is a jolly fell
low with most fastidious taste, and
a dish that receives his sincere APP
proval every bon vivant in Washing
ton would partake of though the heav-
ems fell.-Philadelphia Times
TELLING A REDwooD.-''Now she
takes it! Keep clear shouted Jim
Lane, a muscular Sonoma bull
whacker," in warning to the group OF
woodchoppers in the redwood forest
at the northern end of the San Fran
cisco and Northern Pacific railroad, as
the death rattle of a California giant
was heard. After hours of under
cutting and cross saving they had cut
through all but one and half inches
Of the monstrous trunk, fifteen feet IL
diameter, and the cracking Of the
wood announced that the monarch was
about to fall Its lofty top, 275 feet
above the ground, wavered moment
and bowed gracefully and with a state
ly air, like a grand lady courtesying;
then, gathering impetus as it left the
perpendicular, the great trunk rushed
to the earth with terrific force Keep
ing to the course marked out for it BIZ
the woodsman, it tore the foliage from
the protruding limbs, filed the air
with flying branches and bits of bark,
swept away every article in its patti,
and, descending with tremendous
force, struck the ground with thud
to be heard a mile. Clouds Of dust
shot up sixty feet; the earth shook am
rumbled. The PROSTATE giant trem
bled once from top to stump and a.
was over. It was a death scene q
awful grandeur and solemnity. Eve
the lumbermen, accustomed to tn
sight daily, dropped their sledge,
double bitted axes, mauls, goads, an
water buckets, and gazed in silenc
ct the overthrow Of the many-ceutur
"a monarch. The cutting Of the req
woods is the mammoth numbering q
the world California has no con
petitor in big trees. They belong t.
The genuine SeqH0ia-a name derive
from Sequoyah, Cherokee, who II
vented an alphabet and written LAM
uage for his Indian tribe, and are G
two species. They are found in Il.
tract west of the Sierra Nevad
mountains, between the 34th and AZ.
degrees Of latitude, ranging in heigh
from two hundred to four hundrea
feet. The famous big trees Of Gala
veras and Mariposa belong to The
.SequoiG Gjgontea, while those along
the coast north OF San Francisco are
,ScqUo5u semperrjreas, Or redwood
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