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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
WASTEFUL ECONOMY.
1t Doesn't Pay to Stint the Furnishing
of the Kitchen.

MANY young wife" said mother
Tribune writer, would find the wheels
of her household moving much more
smoothly if she would spend little
less money on the furnishing of her
drawing-room and devote it, instead,
to supplying her kitchen with labor
saving appliances and plenty of uten-
sis. Economy in kitchen utensils may
easily be pushed too far, and if there
is one place where a woman NAV be
more readily excused than another for
extravaganza it is just there.
TO have to stop in the middle of
making dessert in order to clean a
saucepan or kettle in which the soup
had been prepared, because you have
not another, is folly when soup-kettles
can be had for % cents each. To have
your kitchen-knives of such poor metal
that they will not stay sharp or TO let a
good knife remain dull because YOU
think you can not afford to spend 10
cents to have it sharpened is real
waste of strength out of all proportion
to the saving. To have nothing by
which you can measure your iu-
gradients accurately because it costs
more to buy set of weights or a
graduated glass measure than to trust
TO guess work and an old teacup has
spoiled many good dish that cost
just as much and has brought humilia-
ton on many Il good cook. To scrape
your porridge- pot with a spoon because
You will not buy patent pot-scraper
Tor II cents wears out ten spoons to
one pot-scraper, and the hired girl in
variably selects your best spoon for
that purpose. Sitting the coal ashes is
such dirty business as it is usually
performed and the servant kicks
against it so vigorously that the most
economical housekeeper soon abaudons
it in despair. A patent ashsifter
that allows no dust to escape and pre-
serves all the half-burned coal will
paw for itself in one winter and last
five. A cheap refrigerator can be had
for one-third the cost of good one of
the same size, but if you buy it your
Ice bill will be twice as large.
There is hardly anything in the
kitchen of which there are not two
varieties, the cheap and the dear, and
the result of the use of either is gen
orally its exact opposite in actual cash.
But IN comfort to ones self and to
ones husband and children saving of
time, temper, brain-worry. and back
ache. they repay their own cost many
times over every week"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
She Had Eaten Pie.

From my end of the car down the
narrow aisle l see the conductor and
the porter struggling with a woman
and trying to calm her while men are
starting out of their births to lend a
hand to the rescue writes CORES
poudent of the Courier-,Jour,aai. 1t is
quite apparent that there are enough
people around that woman to prevent
the murder, and in that opinion the
calm and Indifferent man in the lower
berth opposite unites with me, SO we
await developments.
A few minutes later when the uproar
has subsidized and the porter comes max
ing his way down to that mysterious
boudoir, where he shines boots at so
cents pair and meditates schemes of
robbery and pillage upon innocent
passengers, my cool neighhor across
the way puts his head out between the
curtains. and seizing the ebony official
by the arm as he passes. asks him in q
tired sort of way:
Porter, who was killing that wo-
mani"
Nobody, sab. The lady has eft pie
or supper and has been having dreams!'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
HIS ANNAMEsE WIFE.


DIR. Hocquard, who recently returned
to France after residence OF over two
wears in Tonkin. tells about the Anna
mese bride of French officer stationed
at Namdinh. The Doctor visited the
officer at his home in the big town, and
there met a very pretty native girl
about Is years old, who wore robe of
violet silk and more rings on her
fingers than Western bellies regard as in
good taste.
You see. I have married an Anna
mese," said the officer. laughing.
That is, / have bought her from her
parents for forty francs. They signed
a contract before the notables of their
village, in which they relinquished all
their rights over their daughter. |
can do with her as l please, but l
must treat her well. If l choose, | may
return her to her parents, and they
must receive her again. 1t is a very
easy sort of divorce. She cannot
leave me without MY permission. and
if she runs away from me her father is
responsible and must return to me the
money l paid for her. That is the
Annamese law"
udU SCCLlS W NC a NCl PA aSeANoi
and economical arrangement, re-
marked the Doctor.
Not so much so as you think" re-
piled the officer. Il give III San-for
that is her name-fifteen piastres 4
month for her wardrobe, to say moth
ing of the presents l make her from
time to time, and the disagree
able surprises to which she treats
me now and then The other day for
instance, Ii San blossomed out in a
beautiful robe of brocaded silk that l
had given her. Then with one of her
friends she left the house for prone
made. and while strolling around the
town she saw party playing cards in
gambling house.
Like all her people. III San is
passionately fond of gambling. Moth
ing could tempt her to pass that house.
and so in she went and seated herself
at the table, and was soon absorbed in
lost all her money, her jewels, and
finally the clothing she wore, and
when she returned to me the next
morning she was arrayed in a lot of
rags that had been given to her out of
charity.
That is not all. The contract /
made with her parents provides that /
must feed her well. The clause seems
to include her entire kindred. She had
been with me only two days when her
family (and you know families are not
small in this country swooped down
upon us and installed themselves in a
house near mine. Every time l enter
my kitchen l find my cook preparing
rice for all these ravenous persons. /
offer them thousand insults, but they
never vince, and nothing will induce
them to bulge from my premises until
they have had good, square meal.
You see, marrying an Annamense girl
has it's decided disadvantages.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
A Shrewd Damsel.

A bright-eyed little creature, who
would probably admit eighteen sum-
mers and as many winters, says the
Pittsburg Dispatch, entered confec-
tionery store one day last week where
liceman to keep order. SO many custom
long counters. But this saucy bit of
humanity didn't assume an expression
of patience and mock-humility and
with due reverence for the rights of
others await her turn. No indeed.
Making her way to the counter she i'm
mediately began to nibble at the
sweets there displayed in thoroughly
appfeclative manner, meanwhile look
ing the impersonation of innocence.
What will you have to-day, miss?"
as uttered by one of the clerks, startled
those around the little maiden, but did
not apparently affect her in the least.
With perfect composure she gave her
order, amid the indignant chances and
up turned noses of earlier custom
ers whose claims to recognition had
been ignored in her favor. Her de-
sired candy was speedily-very speed
lily in fact-boxed for her. Receiving
it in an Indifferent manner from the
hands of the salesman the little lady
rejoined her girl friend, who had tar
ried near the door, and who expressed
surprise at her quick return. With a
suacy toss of the head and merry lit
tie laugh the miss with the box replied
to her friends expression and surprise
with:
''Oh, know how to make them wait
on me quick, no matter how many peo-
pie are in the store. You see, | just
go up to the counter and commence
tasting of the candies, and the longer
1 have to wait the more vigorously |
taste; so, to prevent bankruptcy, they
have to wait on me. Good scheme.
just try it some time" concluded the
shrewd little sweetmeat-purchaser.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

How It Came to Have the Numbers BY
Which 1t Is known.

Every seamstress. whether she wants
No. 80. or 40. or 120 thread, knows
from the number just what kind of
sewing it can be used for, but how the
numbers came to be just what they are
and what they mean not one person in
1000 knows; yet it is very simple
matter to explain. says the st. Louis
Republic, providing you only know the
points and how to eluGdate them.
When $40 yards of yarn weigh 1000
grains, pound of cotton, the thread
makers mark it No. l. If 1850 yards
weigh a pound it is marked as No. 2.
For No. so yarn it would take 80 null
tiplied by $40 TO weigh a pound: this is
the whole explanation of the yard
measurement as used by the spool-cot-
ton manufacturers. The early manu-
featured thread was of three instead of
six cord, the number being derived
from the number of yards to the pound,
just as it is to-day. No. 60 yarn made
No. 60 thread, though in point OF
fact the actual caliber OF No. 50 thread
would equal No. 20 yarn, being made
of three No. 20 strands twisted togeth
er.
When the sewing machine came into
the market as the great thread con-
sumer unreasoning in its work and in
exorable in its demands for mechanical
accuracy, six-cord cotton had to be
made in place of the old and roughel
three cord. it being much smoother.
As thread numbers were already es-
tabiished. they were not altered for the
new article, and No. GO six-cord and
No. 60 three-cord were left Identical in
both size and number. TO effect this
the six-cord has to be made of yarn
twice as fine as that demanded in max
Ing the three-cord variety. The No.
90 six-cord is made of six strands OF
No. 100 yarn. The three-cord spool
cotton is of the same number as the
yarn is made of. Six-cord spool cotton
is always made from yarn double it
number. Thread is "A simple thing.
but. simple as it is. there are 2,UW
kinds OF it, and each kind goes through
hundreds of different processes.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
The Presto Change is the name of
the new paper at Presto. MINI.
The Doctors First Fec Was a Pig

doctors have queer experiences in
the beginning of their medical career
said one Of the young medics who re-
Gently was graduated into the science
of healing here in Detroit. II began
practicing as an undergraduate in B.
lumber town in northern Michigan, and
if | had but little money my patrons
had less. l wanted to put an adver-
tisement in the weekly paper, and was
permitted to go into the composing
room and general Office and set it up
myself, to save expense. The first fee
l had was pig" There was roar of
laughter from his chums, toothpicks all
round, and he resumed:
Il was sent for to see very sick
woman. Six or seven other women
We're in the room. and they all focked
around me and all talked at once. l
hadn't an idea of what allied her, and l
haven't to this day, but at once pre-
scribed anti-pyrine and opium powder,
to be given at regular intervals. In
the morning she was better and dis
continued the medicine In a few
days she was well. Her husband said
he had no money. but he would give
me pig worth $l2. l shouldered the
pig and sold it on my way home for s..
That was my first fee "-Detroit Free
Press
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
EPOCH

The transition from long lingering aud
painful sickness to robust health, marks
an epoch in the life of the individual.
Such remarkable event is treasured 10
the memory and the agency whereby the
good health has been attained is CRATE
fully blessed. Hence it is that 80 much
is heard in praise of Electric Bitters.
So many feel they owe their restoration
to health, to the use of the Great Altera
tive and Tonic. If you are tronbled
with any disease of tlfe Kidneys, Liver
or Stomach, of long or short standing
you will surely find relief by the use of
Electric Bitters. Seld ut SOC and ST. 90
per bottle at II. Hinrichs' Drug Store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
For Every Girl to Remember.

have seen mothers who have sac
rifced youth, appearance, health and
comfort in the effort to save money to
educate and dress their daughters,
browbeaten, crushed and virtually
ignorned by their daughters in return
for it all.
The American girl is taught that she
is a young princess from the cradle to
the altar. 1t is great misfortune
when she forgets that the mother of a
princess must be a queen, or queen
regent. and should be so treated.-EAG
Wheeler WikcOr iaa LADIES' Home J0urlaai.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
THEIR BUSINESS BOOMING

Probably no one thing has caused
such general revival Of trade at H.
Hinrichs Drug Store as their giving away
to their customers of so many free trial
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Their trade is simply
enormous in this very valuable article
from the fact that it always cures and
never disappoints. Coughs. Colds,
Asthma, Bronchitis, Group and all throat
and lung diseases quickly cured. You
test it before buying by getting trial
trial bottle free, large size 81. Every
bottle warranted.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALvE.

TEE BEST SALvK in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter. Chapped Hands,
Cbilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price Is cents per box. q Jan. 80
FOR SALE BY Henry Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
Paris Street-Sweepers.

There are 1900 men and 600 women
employed as street-sweepers in Paris,
besides $500 more workmen engaged
in draining, paving, planting. and SIM
sweepers get 81 day, their deputies
80 cents, and the rank and file about
70 cents for ten hours work. The wo-
men work shorter hours and get about
45 cents per day. They all have to
find their own tools. 1t is now pro-
posed to increase the wages OF the
sweepers. aud to retire them on pen
sion of 500 per ye;,i when they reach
Is years If age.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
Magnetic Needles.

A manufacturer of magnetic needles
relates that few years ago he had
prepared large number of magnetic
needles. all made from the same plate
of steel. all made by one man. the best
workman, and as nearly alike as posi-
Bile. Yet in the testing the readings
differed by from nothing TO a whole
degree. The result was surprise and
\ mystery.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
CLARKES Elk TRACT OF FLAX
COUGH CURE

1t is sure cure for Whooi 'ng jcn9h.
1t stops tine wnocp and permits e cni!d
to catch it's breath. It is sutir' :, harm
les. Good for any cough of childhooh
or old age it heals the bronchi and
lnngs and stops the corgh. For winter
or Bonchial Cough this syrup is the best
ever discovered Ouiy one S za large
bottle, price 81 90. at J. f. B,rnstein's
Drug Store. Clarke's Flax Soap mikes
the Skin smooth, soft aud white. Price
25cts.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

The motion lately m1de in the house
of commons by Mr.. Lsbouchere in favor
of abolishing the hereditary principle in
the house of lords, came so near success
that change of less than thirty vots
from one side to the other would have
turned the scale. Scarcely any attempt
was made to defend the hereditary legis
latOrs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
Horrible Acciden. to an Office Ca,

The office cat of the Erening Bulletin
got mixed up in the press on Thursday
afternoon just rs the last edition was
going to press, and the result was
a square yard of very thin cat and a
badly damaged press. 1t took an
i,ours hard work to scrape pussy of
tile forms and straighten the bent roll.
erS' aud the postscript Bulletin came
cut later than usual. ALL the news in
the paper was strongly tinctured with
tabby, and the Bgletin's sheets con-
veyed minute particles of pussy all over
the city Philadelphia Record.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

A new work on "Half a Centnry OF
Music in England" draws ia" interesting
contrast between tie time nhcu Lord
Chesterfield warned his son against being
= fiddler, even In the amateur sense, and
the present, when a prince OF the royal
blood is the most noted amateur il Eng
land.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
EXTRAORDINARY BONE

Herbert Sperry, fremont, ILL.,, had
Erysipelas in both legs. CoLfiued to
the house six weeks. He says: "When
l was able to get on my legs, had an
itching sensation that nearly run me
crazy. Scratched them raw to the bones.
Tried everything without relief. was
tormented in this way for two years 1
then found Ciarke's Extract of Flax
[PapilIonl Skin Care at the Drug Store,
used it, aud 1t has cured me sound and
WE'LL" Clarke's Flax Soap has no equal
for Bath and Toilet. Price 25cts. Skin
Cure 81. 90 for sale at j. e. Barnstein' 8
Drug Store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

GREAT French Remedy. DIR. DELUCs PERIOD
ICAL PILLS. from Paris, France, act only on the
suppression of the menses (from whatever cause),
and all periodical troubles peculiar to women
A safe, reliable remedy, warranted to excite men,
SITUATION money refunded. Should net be
used during pregnancy. The large proportion of
the Ills to which ladies subject is tho direct
result of a disordered and irregular menstruation
Robt. Stevenson g. Co.. Chicago. III. Boswarth &
Co. Milwaukee. Wholesale Agt. F. e. Buerstatte.
Al. b., Mahltowoc. Wis. ex30may90
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

A man at Allentown, Pa. has two tree
frogs which dwell contentedlv in glass
jar containing water and tiny ladder.
When the weather is fair the little fel
lows crawl up the ladder and gaze around
but when rain is coming they dive to
the bottom of the jar. These movements
are made hours in advance OF the change
in the weather.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
Piles! FILES! Itching Piles.

symptoms Moisture; intense itching and sting
ing; most at night; worse by scratching. If al
lowed to continue tumors form which often bleed
and ulcerate, becoming very sore. Swayn's Oint-
ment stops the itching and bleeding, heals ulcer
alton, and In most eases removes the tumors. At
druggists, or by mail, for Scents. DR.. Swayne &
Son, Philadelphia. aug14
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

Kate Kane, the lawyer who used to be
in this state but is now in Chicago, has
Just been admitted to practice in the
United States supreme conrt.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

The newspaper veteran Horace A.
Teuny is seriously i'll at his home in
Madison. He was accidently scalded L
few weeks since, and complications have
arisen from the injuries received.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29
PctrOieuIn.

Every year shows a large increase in
the shipments OF Russian petroleum to
England. while America remains near
ly stationary.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-05-29

When man wants to find fault he
will do so, even if he has to be up all
night looking for it.
The Russellville Democrat., 1890-08-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

RoBERTaB BROWN, aged so years, was taken suddenly sick at Richmond, Va. on the 24th and died in few moments. He was an uncle of Charley Stephen son, the husband of Kate Claxton, his sister being Stephens mother.
 ACTING SUPERINTENDENT CoBB of the Mint shipped to New Orleans on the 24th 500, 600 ounces of bullion.
 A FARMER named II. A. Smith, living near Mulvaney, Kan, was on the 24th tying up his horse when it turned on him, seized him by the shoulder and threw him down. Just then the barn door closed, shutting off all means of escape, and the horse viciously attacked the man, biting, paving and kicking until Smith seized a club and killed the horse. He was so badly exhausted, however, that he died shortly after be- ing discovered, when he had just strength enough to tell of the fight.
 THREE miles south of Harriston, on the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad, on the 22d, north bound freight train had @ terrible wreck. Engineer J. Fitzgerald was killed in- stantly. The fireman is badly injured and will not recover. Conductor Hooke was slightly hurt, but not seriously. There was a tramp aboard the train and he was badly injured.
 REPRESENTATIVE HANsBoRouGH, of North Dakota, has introduced in the House joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution provid. ing that neither the United States nor any State shall pass law authorizing the establishment or maintenance of lottery or any scheme for the distribu- tion of prizes by chance.
 TIE Colored State Farmers Alliance Convention of South Carolina on the 22d adopted resolution that there should be no politics whatever in the order.
 Ar Shelbyville, Ky, on the 22d, ex- Postmaster James Nj. Bell died from su location by an abcess, caused by pulling tooth.
 GEpHaE E4RLy and Byrd Woods were execnted at Rocky Mount, Va, on the 22d for the burning of that town last fall.
 Gov. EAGLE on the 22d received q letter from Superintendent of Census Porter giving tho actual population under tho 1890 census of forty-five ad- ditional counties in Arkansas. The total figures are 463,270. Tho counties iu i6So gave s43, ls5,
The Russellville Democrat., 1890-08-28
THE CENSUS.
The Rough Estimates of the Population of the Stntes--The Gains Made since 1880 -Good Showing in the West and South-A Total of Almost 65, 100000.

Ant h0uEn Estimates or tne. fOputHttOn
 of the Stntes--The Gains Made since
 1880 -Good Showing in tho West and
 South--A Total of Almost 5,00O.o0o.
 The Census Office has finished the count of all the schedules in hand, com prising tho returns from all but 12,000 Of the 43, 900 and odd districts into which tho country was divided. The total population counted is 62,C96, 955, but it is estimated that the districts yet to come in will increase the total to 64- 470,000. The latter figure may be taken as the population of the United States, July 1, subject to variation os few thousand when the final and revised count is made. This will not be known for three or four weeks probably, as some of the districts will be late in coming in, and in number of cities recounts are in progress. Approximately the popula- tion of the States of the Union, arranged according to their relative rank, as shown in some cases by actual count in others by postal-card returns, and in others by careful estimates based on the count just completed, as classed by a member of Superintendent Porter's staH are as follows:
The Russellville Democrat., 1890-08-28

The population of the country shows an increase of about 30 per cent and the greater part of this is in the vest ern and southern states. The official and final count will be required to set- tie the rank. of some of the Common wealths, the race being practically close between Iowa and Massachusetts for ninth place. Kansas and Wisconsin are neck and neck for tho honor of standing fifteenth in the sisterhood, and Minnesota will have to depend upon the result of her count for beating New Jersey in tho contest for nineteenth place.
The Russellville Democrat., 1890-08-28
------------------------7----s--- NOT so PEACEFUL.

Ezeta Win Not Accept the Proposed
 Terms of Peace Between San Salvador
 and Guatemala, tho Terms Not Being
 Satisfactory. f,
 NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-The Herald's special from San Salvador says the proposition for peace made by the dip lomatic corps to Provisional President Ezeta imply the abandonment of the autonomy and independence of San Sal vador. Possibilities, which have been suspended up to this time, are liable to be resumed at any time, as Ezeta has declared that he will not submit to the dictation of President Baril.as, and it is currently reported that he has definitely decided to reject tho proposed treaty. The pro- tocol as submitted by Guatemala de- manded that Vice-President Ayala as sume the executive power and arrange for the election of president Ezeta says Ayala is 8 traitor to his country.