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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
LEADS of q Mountain Sheen.

No; the mountain sheep does not leap
from great heights, and land either up
on his horns or his feet. He knows the
strength Of his material too well to try
it. His horns and skull might success
fully Withstand the shock, but the
weight Of his body would break his
spinal column IN two or three places,
TO say the least Of it. 1t is true that
when hard pressed a herd will some
tim IS plunge down a terribly steep IN
cline, sliding and bounding from point
to point, until they plough into the
"-.l--rocl" below: but as to -leapiug
over a sheer precIpice, I never saw any
one who even claimed to have ever wit
messed such a thing, says an authority.
The old rams often fight by butting each
other terrifcally, and often splinter,
or sometimes break off the ends Of their
horns in that way.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
American Girl In Her Trave,.

The American girl, wherever she
goes, is Immediately covered by the
Iorgnon Of foreign curiosity" writes
Mrs. Burton Harrison in the Ladies
Home Journal She can neither move
nor have her being without being dis
cussed as type Of her now famous
class. No doubt her success, socially.
wherever she is known, has much to do
with It. Other women. old and young
English women re-eminently-are on
the lookout for her every departure
from EOod form. From her chance,
tritlinG lapse at table d d'hote in speech
or action from their accepted tenets
they Judge her kind. This may not
seem amiable, but 1t IS strictly true.
one cant make the round of half a
dozen countries of Southern Europe In
the travelling season and not have It
borne upon ones inner consciousness.
The chaperOns of other countries say to
each other, "Ah, these American girls,
they are sad pOachers on our pre-
serves" and consider It their duty to
condemn our maiden upon the smallest
preteAt. As for their passing criticisms
upon her speech. that is a matter of
course, and to steer clear of them she
might almost feel tempted to hold her
tongue altogether in foreign company
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04

III the south Of Italy there was once
fiourishing Greek colony Galley Sy-
saris. The town was we'll situated Tor
commerce. the surrounding country
was very fertile, the climate was the
finest in the world. aud tor some cen
tUries the Sybarites We're industrious
and enterprising, carrying on a profit
able trade with other countries and
heaping up immense wealth But too
much good fortune finally proved their
ruin. Little by little they last their
habits of labor and thrift, and instead
gave themselves up to pleasure. Fin
ally leaving all kinds of necessary
work 10 their slaves, they laid aside
the cares OF life, and spent their days IN
eating ari drinking, in dancing and in
listening 10 fine music. or in attending
the circus and watching the feats of ac-
r0bats or performing animals.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
LOW RATES TO COLORADO.

On account of the meeting of the Na
tioDal Educational Association at Den
yer, Col, The North Western Line will.
on July 4, ) and (and also on July 7,
for trains reaching the Missouri River on
that date,) sell excursion tickets to Den
yer, Colorado Springs. Manitou and Pu-
"hlo, at a rate not to exceed one fare for
the ronnd trip with $500 added for
membership fee.) tickets good for return
passage until Sept. 1st, 1895. This rate
is available to the general public, and an
exceptionally favorable opportunity is
offered for an enjoyable and economical
trip to the Rockies" as we'll as Yellow
stone National Park, Salt Lake and the
health and pleasure resorts of the West
ard Northwest. For tickets and full in
formation apply 10 agents Chicago e
North Western Railway, 4tiuly4
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
DANGER FROM LIGHTNING.
Is 1t Increased or Diminished by the
Presence OF Many telegraph Wires?


There is somewhat widespread i'm
preston that the use Of so much wire
for telephone and other electrical pur-
poses in cities and towns largely in
creases the danger of lightning strokes.
The notion IS based upon the COncentra-
ton within certain limits of a great
quantity Of conducting material, which,
1t is assumed, attracts the electricity
and thereby increases the danser Of It.
While 1t IS true that the increase OF
conducting material increases The at
traction, It is not true that il increases
the danger As a matter of fact it
decreases the danger, for the more sur
face electricity has over which to
spread, the more readily and quickly
il is carried to the earth. \ house with
a metal roof IS not often struck by
lightning. for While the metal may at
tract the electricity, II also gives II
room 10 spread out, and its force is thus
dissipated This fact was demonstrate
ed by Franklin with his kite long ago,
and lightning rods are put on buildings
to give storm clouds means of dis
charging their electricity into the earth
This discharge takes place without the
report that we call thunder, for cleo
tricity makes no noise unless it meets
some resisting medium. 1t IS a we'll
known fact that there is less danger
from lightning in cities than in the
country, and this is due 10 the general
use of iron, steel and other metals in
city buildings. The buildings are tall
and would seem, therefore, 70 be spe-
cially attractive to the lightning; in
deed, they are often struck, but the
metal in them dissipates the force OF
the ftlid and carries it harmlessE and
quietly to the earth. The effect Of tele-
phone wires upon atmospheric electric
ity has been under official investiga-
tion by the German department Of
teiegraphs, and statistics from goo cit
les show that the danger from lightning
strokes is four times as great in towns
that do not have the telephone as in
those that have IL. The conclusion Of
the whole matter, therefore. IS that an
abundance OF wires gives protection
from lightning, instead Of increasing
the danger.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
EXTINCTION OF THE BISON.
Only Two Hundred wild Buffalo Still
Alive In America.

AllNS IN America.
In a wild state, the American bison,
or buffalo, is practically. thought not
quite wholly, extinct At the present
moment there are about two hundred
wild buffalOes alive and on foot in the
United States. To obtain these high
figures we include the one hundred and
fifty individuals that white head-hun-
teTs and red meat-hunters have thus
far left alive in the Yellowstone park,
posed TO be protected from slaughter.
Besides these. there are only two other
bunches: one Of about twenty head in
Lost park, Colorado protected by state
laws; and another containing between
thirty and forty head, in Val Nerda
county, Texas, between Devils river
and the Rio Grande. -Four years ago
there were over three hundred head
in the Yellowstone park, thriving and
increasing quite satisfactorily. Through
them we fondly hoped the species would
even yet be saved from absolute ex-
unctiOn. But, alas, we were reckoning
without the pOaChers. Congress pro
vides pay for just one solitary scout TO
guard in winter 1915 square miles Of
rugged mountain country against the
horde Of lawless white men and In
dians who surround the park on all
sides, eager to kill the last buffalo!
The poachers have been hard at work,
and as a result our park herd has re-
centely decreased more than one
half in number. 1t IS a burning
shame that formerly, through lack of
congressional law adequately to punish
such pOacheTs as the wretch who was
actually caught red-handed in January,
1894, while skinning seven dead buffa-
l0es. and now, through lack OF a paltry
$1,000 a year to pay four more scouts,
the park buffalOes are all doomed TO
certain and speedy destruction. Be
sides the places mentioned, there is only
one other spot in hll North America that
contains wild buffaloes. Immediately
southwestWard- of Great Slave lake
there lies a vast wilderness Of sWamps
and stunted pines, into which no white
man has ever penetrated far, and
where the red man still reiens supreme.
Il is bounded on the north 10y the Lizard
and Mackenzie rivers, on the east by the
Slave river, on the south by the Peace
river, and on the west by the Rocky
mountains. Mr WarburtOn Pike says
it is now the greatest beaver country
in the world, and that It also contains
q few bands of the so-called wood I
buffalo. Sometimes they are heard Of
at Forts Smith and Vermillion, some
times at Fort st. John, on the Peace
river, and occasionally at Fort Nelson,
o.. the Lard; ;-. Su.-it IS .llilJssi-
bic to say anything about their num-
bers." At all events, in February, 1890,
Mr.. Pike found eight buffaIOes only four
days travel from Fort Resolution, on
Great Slave lake, and succeeded In kill
ing one. The Canadian authorities es-
innate the total number in that region
at three hundred
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
HYPNOTiSM ON SHIPBOARD
Ocean Travel WIZ BE Delightful When
Each Ship Has Hypnot'st.

Each Ship Has Hypnotist.
"Hypnotism." remarked the drummer
to the hotel clerk, = a great snap"
so is turtle" responded the clerk.
"But there Is lots in It," added the
drummer.
I'm what-the turtle?"
"Aw, let up" commented the drum
mer "Hypnotism has solved the rid
die for me, and I'm going to Europe
next year"
What has it done? Dropped a cou-
pie of thou. into your inside pocket?"
"Os course not. You know I have
never gone because I couldnt stand
the seasickness."
That's what you always said"
THAT was the reason, too; but yes
terday I met a friend who has been
over there for a couple of years, just
because he was afraid to come back
again"
Couldn't he compromise with his
creditors?" interrupted the clerk.
AS I was saying" continued the
drummer. regardless OF the Interrupt
tion. he was SO shaken up on the trip
over that he was afraid 10 come back,
and he might have died on foreign soil,
II ne ndll run ACROSS ii OlSAlIlb ulSiACN
hypnotist In Paris who was coming to
America. and the Frenchman suggested
that he make an experiment on him
he had only been anxious to make, TO
wit, continuing q sensitive in the
hypnotic condition for an indefinite
period. My friend proved 10 be good
subject, and after a few experiment
ashore they went aboard ship, the
hypnotist put him under the Influence,
that is. by suggestion, as they say, SIM
ply telling him every morning he
wouldn't be sick. and he came across
as smooth as you please. and never was
sick for a moment The captain of the
ship was so pleased with the expert
ment that he secured the services Of
a hynotist to go with the ship regularly,
and I'm going to Europe on that ship
in May. and l won't be the only one,
either. It's going TO boom ocean travel,
and III tell you ~ it feels when
come back"
The clerk gave a long, low whistle Of
doubt, and sent a pitcher Of Ice water
to room 13.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
THE DISCOVERY SAVED HIS
LIFE.

Mr. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beav-
Arsville, Ill. says: To DR.. Kings New
Discovery l owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the phi
slelans for miles about, but to no avail
md was given up and told | could not
Ave, Having DR.. Kings New Discoy-
cry III my store | sent for a bottle and
began It's use and from its first dose
i'egan to get better. and after using
three bottles was up and about again.
1t Is worth It's weight in gold. We
won't keep store or house withous it -
Get free trial bottle at Henry Hin
rich's Drug Store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
MRS. GREELEYS DISCIPLINE.
Threw Hat and Coat of Her Husbands
Guest Out of Doors.

While have the floor" said Amos
Cummings. while in storytelling
n~od the other day. I might as well
tell story about Horace Greeley I
worked with Greeley for years. He al
ways called me Asa never could re-
member Amos One day | went over
to See Greeley at Chappaqua about
some newspaper business The old
gentleman saw me coming as he stood
looking out Of the window and opened
the door himself
Come in here, Asa" he said in his
high, mealy tones, as he led me into a
fashion Of parlor.
Il followed him into the room, and az
I was only going TO remain moment
laid my hat, gloves and cane on a cen
ter table. Greeley and l had just inn
mersed ourselves in a talk when Mrs.
Greeley swept into the room Now.
Mrs. Greeley w"~ ~. might call
a spirited woman - moment she
entered the 1oor eyes fell indig-
nantly on my L. -.ssau as I'd piled 1t
up-hat, gloves and stick-on the table
Without a word, and before I could
speak 10 her, she swooped on the outfit
like fishhawk. and the next moment
threw them out of the window
Then she left the room, without
pausing for speech. as one who had
taught somebody that the hall was the
place for hats and canes and similar
brica-brac. I was inclined 10 get a
trifle hot; man naturally might who
sees his hat pounced upon and cast into
the shrubbery. But before / could get
UP or say word Greeley stretched out
his hand in a depTecatory way and
cheered me with a remark:
Never mind, Asa she thought they
w~re mine
"Afterward, however" concluded
Cummings, when I recalled what
GreeIey's hat used to look like had my
doubts"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
THE FAD FOR POSTERS.
Il New Mania in Collecting Which We
owe to the ParlsIans.

'HN W tilt IiFHians
The poster mania is a comparatively
new disease-an excellent disease. By
the way, for II furnishes material for
some rich and curious collections and
one which has brought into being a
whole branch Of commerce and Industry
far from unimportant. The successive
stages OF this commerce In posters are
Interesting TO note. When the frs.
WORKS Of this kind appeared upon the
walls the novelty lovers began their
campaign. How could these mural
frescoes be secured7 To peel them off
the walls ones self at night seemed the
simplest plan. but it was also the most
dangerous. 1t involved the risk of be-
ing caught in the act, taken to the DO
lice station and sOundly fined, to saw
nothing Of the risk Of "peeIinY" Them
badly and getting of the wall only q
thing Of tatters. 1t became necessary
then 10 secure the completely Of an
aI!-poWeTful perSOnage-the billpOster.
How many great collectors, honorable
and honOred men, rich and well placed
In life. haye bowed down before his
majesty the b!llpuster. The paster Of
posters, realizing q sum which varied
WIKI The importance or the vogue Of
the matter in hand, came to deserve
the name of the unnaster of posters.
ihat was the primitive period the
stone age. Of poster collectors. The
bronze age began when one or two
print sellers in the neighborhood Of the
quais arranged with the billposters for
few copies which they sold to the
consumers. The print sellers. driven
by the growing food of demand, final
ly decided that it was worth while to
arrange with the proprietors of the
posters themselves that a part of each
printing should be reserved for anna
teurs: and so the commerce in posters
became 4 real profession.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
RELIEF In SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the New
Great South American Kidney Cure. -
This new remedy is a great surprise on
account OF its exceeding promptness III
relieving pam III the bladder, kidneys,
back and every part Of the urinary pas
sages in male or female. 1t relieves re-
pention of water and pain in passing 1t
almost Immediately. If YOU want quick.
relief and cure this is your only remedy
Sold by +. G. Buerstatte, Druggist, Mani
towoc, Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
ANovelty in Bicycles.

A novelty in bicycles went UP Broad
way last week, says the New York Sun.
4 young colored man rode il and
showed off it's fine points in way that
attracted a great deal of attention In
stead of being stationary the handle
bar could be moved backward and for
ward. Every time the rider pulled the
bar back the bicycle shot forward In a
way that showed that 1t had some sort
of a rowing machine attachment which
worked In conjunction with the pedals.
There We're the ordinary pedals on the
bicycle, and the rider used these the
greater part Of the time, but every now
and then when the rider got in a tick
lish position among the trucks, cable
ears and other vehicles he would give
the handle bar yank backward and
the wheel would dart ahead.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
NOBILITY OF THE DONKEY,
He Used to Be Classed Among the Great
Ones,

49, ASCu W bC NidsstG tESat
Ones
Tka donkey, who rather undeseryed-
ly has come to be considered one OF the
'ne eturals'' of the animal world, was
dedicated by the ancients 10 Bacchus,
wltle the ass of Silenus was raised to a
place among the stars. Apparently he
wGS a more intellectual parsonage in
early days than he IS supposed TO be at
present. Ammonianus, the grammar
ian possessed one who invaria bly, at
tended his masters lectures on poetry.
ane would even leave the choicest
luncheon Of thistles to do so. Wicked
as red ass" ran an old prOverb, which
the Copts believed in SO firmly that
every year they sacrificed an unhappy
animal Of the detested color by hurling
It headlOng from a wall. In an old
black letter translation of Albertus
Nagnus the donkey figures In the fol-
lowing extraordinary recipe: Take an
adder's skyn, and auri pigmentum, and
greeke pitch of reupiritlcum, and the
wake of newe bees, and the fat or
grease of an ass, and breake them all
and put them all In dull seething pot
full Of water, and make 1t 10 seethe at
a glove fire, and after let 1t wake cold.
and make taper and every man that
shall see light of 1t shall SCENE head
lesse." Burton, in his Anatomy OF
Melancholy" mentions as a valuable
amulet, "a ring made of the hoofe OF
an asses right foot carried about"
tract written by a certain "A b" IN
1895, entitled The Noblenesse of the
Asse," is exceedingly laudatory of that
excellent animal. He refuseth no bur
den; he goes whittier he is sent without
any contradiction. He lifts not his
foote against anyone; he bytes not; he
is no fugitive, nor malicious affected
He doth all things in good sort. and to
his liking that hath cause to employ
him" But what chiefly fills the worthy
aUthor with admiration is the donkeys
voice-his ''goodly, sweet, and cOntinu-
all brayings," which form "a melodious
&ed proportionate kind Of musicke."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
SOUTHW RID HO!

FARMERS who are seeking to bet
ter themselves should go South. The
Queen and Crescent Route offers a
million acres Of farms at $500 to
So 90 an acre ION easy terms;) and low
round trip land rates to principal
points Go and see. No blizzards.
No cold waves. Fine schools and
churches. Hospitable people. Send
for books and information.
", L. RINEARsoN, G. 7. A,
Cincinnati. @
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04

English SPAWN Liniment removes
all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps
and Blemishes from horses. Blood
Spayins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney
Ring Bone, STILES, Sprains, all Swol
len Throats, Coughs, etc. Save $50
by the use Of one bottle. Warranted
the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever
known. Sold by T. G. BIerstatte,
Druggist, Manitowcc, Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
NEED EYES TO JUDGE WEIGHT
A BlindfoIded Person Is Deceived by
the BULK.

NJ. Flournoy, Of Geneva, recently de-
vised a novel experiment for testing
the limits of human Intelligence. He
arranged a series Of common articles Of
all sizes, and requested his class to put
them in order Of weight The weight
OF all was really exactly the same, but
only one student discovered this fact
The majority placed a small leaden
weight first, and a large wooden basin
last. The ordinary mind, apparently
ranges the weight Of objects in inverse
proportion to their size, Only when the
eyes are shut does a true appreciation
become possible, says the Cincinnati
Gazette, showing that the sensations Of
innervation, by which we should be
enabled to tell when the support Of DIFF
ferent objects calls forth the same ex-
penditure Of energy, do not properly
exist.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04

Tit-Bits: NO" said the man who
was shot in the head by his friend while
they were out shooting. lost the greater
part Of an ear and was scratched con-
siderably, I don't mind the wounds so
much, but it breaks my heart TO have
my. head mistaken by my most init
mate friend for a rabbit"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
IS BILL COOK COMMONPLACE?
study of Famous Outlaw by Prison
Superint endeut.

Superintendent Mcintyre Of the Al
bany County penitentiary has been OBJ
serving Bill Cook, the young and much
advertised outlaw from the west, and
Is not much impressed with him, writes
an Albany correspondent Of the New
York Sun. He says that he has just
put Cook on shirt machine and he is
busy cutting out wristbands. He finds
Cook TO be nervously eager to conform
70 al the rules and earn as much COM
mutation as possible bv good behavior.
As for any latent wiCkednesS. the sup
erintendent says ii IS not in him. He
Is merely a very ordinary youth. stolid
even TO the verge of stupidity. whose
achievements have been largely in the
imaginations Of the Indian Territory
marshaIs and western newspaper writ
ers, who have pictured him in places he
never visited doing deeds he had no
nerve TO perform. Superintendent Nc
Intyre says there is nothing of the nero
or the villain about Bill Cook He IS a
very commonplace criminal. There are
others in the batch Of western ooa-ders
whom he will watch closer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
SnaI Marriage Fee.

Probably the smallest marriage fee
ever offered in Bourbon county, Ken
lucky, was recently rendered by az TIM
pecunious bridegroom when he offered
a magistrate ten cents for performing
the ceremony. 1t was all he had left
after paying for the license. This same
magistrate was offered twenty-five
cents after performing another wedding
ceremony recently.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
GhOrtncss of Time

We all Of US complain Of the shortness
Of time, and yet have much more than
we know what to do with. Our lives
are spent either in doing nothing at all,
or IN doing nothing to the purpose or
In doing nothing that we ought 10 do.
We are always complaining that our
days are few. and acting as though
there would be no end Of them.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04

I. F. Anthony, 1-Postmaster of Prom
ise City. Iowa, says: II bought one bot
tie of Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and
took two doses of it did more good than
my medicine | ever took" Sold by +. G
Buerstatte, Druggist, Manitowoc.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04

It is supposed by some that when a
tree is struck by lightning it is torn
uot by the electricity bat by the explo-
sion of water suddenly converted into
steam by the heat of the arrested cur
rent.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04

tits claimed that the good work done
by the Improved Industrial Dwelling
Co., OF London, the death rate of that
city has been reduced from 80 to II in
1000.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04

Lieut.. Bersier. Of the French navy.
has inyeuted compass which steers
the vessel automatically in a course
set by the navigator.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-07-04
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair. San Francisco.

Persons born in the spring are said
to have more rerObust constitution than
those born at other seasons.