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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
LIFE IN GREAT CITIES.
1t Is Less Eneryating Than That In
Isolated Communities.

And as to the tendency of tho growth
of great cities to enervate nations, there
is no proof of it ut all, unless we identi
fy the life of great cities with the pas
zion for idleness and pleasure and self
Indulgence which sometimes. but by
no means universally, accompanies
their growth, says the London Spec
tator. When you get large proletari-
at, living, as that of ancient Rome and
possibly of Nineveh and Babylon did,
on the aims of the rich and powerful,
then no doubt you have the conditions
of thoroughly unnatural and unhealthy
life, and no one can wonder at the
rapid decay of such cities and of the
nations which gloried in them. But
where the honest working class far out
number the proletariat, where the
middle classes of distributors md man.
ufacturers and professional men are Ia
borious and energetic, and even the
class that lives on its accumulated
wealth contains considerable spriEk-
ling of serious and disipterested work
ers, we dc not believe that there Is the
smallest evidence of any greater danger
In the life of the agricultural village or
the pastoral tribe. Indeed, we should
regard Olive Schrciner's picture of the
life of the modern Beers as indicating
4 condition of things more prolific of
morbid elements, with its almost COM
plete absence of any stirring CT active
intelligence, than any kind of modern
life that is honestly laborious at all.
The Boer life is too sleepy, too desti-
tute of stirring thought or effort, 10
be altogether natural. 1t needs at least
the old element of danger aud neces-
sary vigilance to render it even braciug.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
THE FUNNEL TRICK.
An Interesting Problem Devised by Sport
i've CaIifornians.

An Interesting Problem Devised by Sport
i've Caiifornians.
Jerry Lynch has finally learned the
funnel trick. He took it in too doses
one on one evening and the other the
next. The senator sauntered up to the
Bohemian club the other day and saw
two or three of the younger members at
tempting a now feat, and he watched
them with interest. One of them, says
the San Francisco News Letter, stuck
funnel in the top of his trousers, threw
his head back, placed 50-cent piece on
his forehead and tried to drop it in the
funnel by slowly lowering his head.
After all had failed Jerry insisted on
trying it, though all had tried to
dissuade him from attempting feat too
difficult for them. The funnel was
placed i'll the waistband of his
trousers and he threw back his head to
receive the coin on his expansive brow.
At that juncture a pitcher of ice water
was emptied into the funnel. and by the
time Jerry got through dancing the
jokers had vanished. The senator's
temper improved with dry raiment AMI
the next night at the club he started in
to show a couple of friends the funnel
trick.
Its this way" he explained, you
put the funnel in the top of your panta-
looms, so, then throw your head back,
so, and-wow."
Again Jerry was forced to change his
raiment, and he is not showing people
what he knows aboutsthe funnel trick
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
NEARLY SMOTHEREDBYvIOLET
Miss Sadie Connolly Has Narrow Escape
In New York.


Miss Sadie Connolly, an actress, was
half smothered by the sweet breath Of
violcts the other night. She was able
to be out of the bed the next day to re-
ceive in person the congratulations Of
friends, though still nervous and upset
over her extraordinary experience.
When not on the road she has been
at home in her snug fiat at 1445 Second
avenue, of which her sister Julia is
housekeeper. The two sisters live en-
tirely alone. Monday morning am ex-
pressman delivered at Miss Connolly's
fat a huge box of violets shipped all the
way from California in a bed of moist
moss. There were nearly 5000 separate
flowers. The penetrating odor filled the
flats. Miss ConnOlly's bedroom has no
means Of ventilation except a door open
ing into the front parlor and another
communicating with her sisters bed
room.
The air being chilly the actress re-
tired in the midst of her violets with the
windows all closed. The next morning
her sister found her unconscious. \
physician who was promptly called
brought her back to earth after having
dumped the violets outdoors. These he
said were partly responsible for the
young woman's condition. AS they
were cut flowers and in the process of
decay they had added greatly to the
carbOnic acid in the room
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
QUAKER OF THE ORIENT.
The Herculean Turkish Porter Whose
Place of Business Is on the Street.

Place of Business Is on the Street.
The Turkish porter is one of the most
interesting objects seen in a tour Of
the orient. OF IIeTculean strength and
power of endurance, he is usually
prompt and obliging. also honest so far
as in him lies. He cannot speak the
truth, and would not respect himself
if he could, for that is virtue of the
Frank
His place of business, says the Chica-
go Times Herald, is on the streets of his
native town, where he can be found at
all hours of the dag, clad in a loose
soiled jacket, usually gray, with gray
CATERS, Turkish shoes or sandals, the
inevitable fez and a neckerchief that
makes him look as if he were strang-
ling.
All the burden of conveying large or
small articles falls upon him and he
will for gratuity carry a piano as cas-
lily as a trunk. He is the most con-
tented of the working fraternity one
meets abroad, whether he is found in
the streets of Constantinople or in those
of STEAMBOAT, and the tourists make
much of him because he is interesting,
his occasional smoke under the shade
of a mulberry tree, or his lazy sips of
sherbet, being treats that renew his
strength for the hard work by which
he must live-if ne is not able to sell
merchandise. Being sturdy and indus
trious, the traits of the Turkish porter
commend him to the public, hence a
picturesque description of him by one
traveller who named him the Quaker
of the Orient"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
A Chinese PjledrIyer.

Piles were being driven in one of the
new buildings for q foundation for q
punch. They were eight inches i'll
diameter and fourteen feet long. The
staging was bamboo, and SO was the
frame for the hammer, which was a
round piece of cast iron, with hole in
the center for a guide rod. Attached
to the hammer block were q ropes, car
ried up to the top of the frame and down
on the outside, looking very much like
the old-fashioned Maypole. Twenty
seven women had hold of the ends, and
with n sing-song, all together, pulled
down; up the rod, four feet, trav-
eled the hammer; then, at q scream, all
let go, and down it came on top of the
pile, which was protected by band or
ring. The women were paid 20 cents in
gold per day. This Maypole driver is
in general use throug hout Japan and
China.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
HARD ON CATS.
French Government Commissioner Gem
sures the Conduct of Official Cats.

A French Government Com issioner Gem
sures the Conduct of Official Cats.
The French government has just had
occasion to appoint a commission to
inquire into the grievances of the eats
In its employ. Their report is an anus
ing exhibition Of official stupidity, and
will rouse a righteous indignation in
the bosom Of all friends of the useful
mouser.
It appears that cats are kept in some
of the French military magazines to
keep down the surplus population of
rats and mice. Their food is regulated
by ministerial decree according to cir
cumstances, and at present there is a
regulation in force authorizing an eX-
penditure of 2h centimes per cat per
diem. But this does not seem enough,
as the unfortunate governmental cats
have grown extremely thin, 50 at last
the ministry appointed specialists to
inquire into the matter. These have
gravely reported that "the cats of the
army are very slow to accustom them
selves to the diet prescribed by the gov
eminent circular. Thus they seldom
eat bread, and never lap up greasy wa
ter unless actually driven thereto by
pangs of hunger, so that they IRE dying
off or else abandoning the military mag
azines."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
WATER PIPES GUARD CONvICTS.
When Prisoners Cut the Pipes Watcr Es.
capes and Guards Are ThcrahY Alarmed.

When Prisoners Cut the Pipes Watcr Es-
capes and Guards Are Thereby Alarmed.
y new idea in Jail construction has re-
Gently been successfully tested in Bos-
ton. In brief, the scheme is to con-
struct the cells Of hollow pipes and fill
them with water. When pipe is served
the water escapes, and by a system of
registers in the office of the Jail the fact
is made known, as well as the particular
cell where the pipes have been attacked.
No attempt is made to have the pipes
particularly hard. Common gas pipe
is as good as any and will answer every
purpose. The water is kept under q
high pressure so that it will be sure to
give the alarm when the pipe is severed.
Under the usual system of jail con-
struction it is aimed TO make the bars
so hard that saws will not affect them;
OF, at best, SO hard that cutting would
be a slow progress. But copvicts in
jails are as clever as the men who con-
Struct Jail cells, and methods have been
discovered for taking the temper out
of the hardest steel Nitric acid will
do, and so will common candle. If the
flame Of the latter is kept for several
days close against bar of chilled steel
steel saw will cut it. Solid steel plates
have been eaten with acids and escape
made possible. The filling of hollow
pipes with water seems TO be a good
thing
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
FEW ARE FREE.
Some Pet Tancies or Horrors of Prominent
I'eouie of 10th Uemisphercs

People OF Loth HemisphercS
Most men are ashamed of their SUI
perstitions, because they hate TO be
laughed at. yet we have known many
to make fun OF the weaknesses of others
merely TO keep their own courage up,
says the New York Press. Nearly ell
Of tie greatest men in history were
the victims of silly superstition.
Marshal SAKE, who met and overthrow
armies, fed at the sight of a cal. Peter
the Great dared not cross q bridge. DR..
johnson would not enter any door or
passage with his left foot first. Caesar
was thrown into couvulsions by the
sound of thunder. Queen Elizabeth
could not bear to hear the name of
Mary Of Scotland mentioned. The word
death" or its French equivalent, would
SO discomfort TalleyraId as TO unfit
him for all business. If hare crossed
Montaigne's path he was miserable for
a month, imagining all sorts Of hor-
rors. Voltaire, the fearless mocker,
shook with alarm on hearing rocks
cawing on his left. Rousseau looked
under his bed every night before retir-
ing. Lord Brycn succumbed before the
weakest prejudice and was victim OF
all the petty superstitions of MS day.
Andrew Jackson cut off the tails of
his hounds and buried them under the
doorstep, believing this to be q sure
means of keeping the pack from wan
deriEg away. Washington wonld make
wish and bow nine times to the new
moon. Garfield, who looked in glass
oil day, dared not come face to face
with one in the dark. We might go on
and name hundreds of similar cases.
Great and small, old and young, weak
and strong-all have their supersti-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
CAUSTIC IN MOTHS.
discovery of the Substance Used In Es-
Gaping from Cocoon3.

ASiscOFery or the substance Used In Ea-
Gaping from Cocoons.
y most remarkable cntomological lis
eDvcry has been announced by Oswald
Latter, the great naturalist. 1t is to the
effect that the image of the moth Dicra-
lnu1a vinula secreteS pure cauStic
potash which it uses to penetrate the
tough silkcn bag or cocoon in which
1T is Enclosed, says the ST. Louis Rcpub-
lie
Ca1stic potash is, as most everyone
knows, a powerful caustic which de-
strOys skin and flesh when brought in
contact with it. That it should be Sc
nal anatomy of any living creature is
40 singular and unlikely that the cnto-
moiogists were at first inclined to dis
believe the story as related by Mr.. Lat
ter, in selling of his discovery.
1t has long been known that this par
ticular species of moth used some KIND
of liquid with which to soften the CO.
coon when he arrived at the age when
nature limited that it was time to get
rid of the silken envelope. but Mr.. Lat
1er's experiments have for the first time
disclosed the nature of that LIQUID.
Prof. Latter made this singular disoov-
cry by clipping the ends from coooons
and catching the liquid when it wus
elected This he subjected to chemical
analysis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
1OPCOATS PAWNED IN SUMMER
Thrifty and Thriftless Alike Find the
Scheme satisfactory.

Scheme satisfactory.
"Twenty thousand overcoats have
been taken out of pawn during the past
week." said pawnbroker to Chicago
Times-Herald reporter. The cooler
weather has forced US to unlock our
cedar chests and undo the bundles
which have been packed away in cam
phor During the next month, unless
the weather becomes warmer, as many
more overcoats will be taken from the
pawnshops.
NO, it is not because they are pow
erty-stricken that SO many men have
overcoats in pawn during the summer.
Of course, if man wants to pawn any,
thing, there is nothing that he should
lie more likely to soak during the
summer months than his unnecessary
overcoat. At the same time many Of
the overcoats are left with us merely
that they may be protected against the
moths, who thrive during the sum-
mer, ana to prevent them from accumu-
lating dust as they would while living
in closets. 4 man can pawn his over
coat for two dollars, and have it with
us until he needs it in the fall, and 1t
costs him but so cents.
"Of course it is good deal of
trouble for us, but we are able to make
it pay US well, and the temptation to a
man who is improvident is to borrow
more than a nominal sum on his coat,
and, of course, he has to pay more in
terest.
"A great many dress suits are also
pawned each summer to preserve them
until needed in October. They arc worn
very little in the summer, and the same
reason that leads to pawning of over.
coats operates in their case"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
BIDDY'S HALF HOLIDAY.
Most Wonderful Law Presented Befor
the New Zealand House.

the New Zealand House.
The New Zealand house of repre-
sentatives has been doing some wonder
full things, and its latest achievement is
bill for a statutory half holiday for
domestic servants, which has already re-
ceived its second reading. According
to this proposal, every mistress is bound
to turn her servants out of her house
from three p. III. until ten p. N. one
day III every week. If the servant is
found employed at her ordinary work
during the statutory half holiday, the
mistress will be liable to penalty of
$25. If the servants return TO their
homes for food during the time men
toned, the mistress must wait on them
or be mulcted to the same tune, but we
take it, says the Westminster Gazette,
that the mistress has legal right to
refuse admittance. The result will be
that a large number of the servants
in the town, being country girls with
out friends, will be driven to parade the
streets for these six hours of compul-
sorry holiday. The humorous complete
ness of this proposal will, we are afraid,
be fatal to its chances of becoming law.
y prominent lady politician has al
ready avowed her preference for a
statutory half holiday for overworked
mothers of large families who have no
servants. The husband will then be
compelled to remain at home and mind
h. house in the absence of his wife.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12

ST. JOINS, n. F., Nov. 6.--The
schooner Maggie White, entering this
habor with twenty three persons
aboard, was struck to night by the
steamer Tiber; which was steaming
outward at full speed. The schooner
sank from the force of the collision.
carrying down with it thirteen persons.
four of them women, one the wife of
the captain and another his sister. A
young married couple named Power
and brother ard sister of the name
of Holloway are of these drowned.
The passengers were coming to St.
Johns to secure their supplies for the
winter before navigation closed. Those
who escaped We're kept afoat by the
aid of planks from the schooner's
decks and were picked up by the
steamers boats, and brought back to
the port by the pilot which had the
Tiber in tow. The Tiber continued
on her voyage
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
WEARING LANTERNS.
The Latest Craze in Paris Is the Result of
the Fair at NeuillY.

The last new craze in Paris is the
wearing of lighted lantern as per-
sonal adornment. The fashion origin
ated with a speculative manufacturer,
whose petites lanterns were bought By
tents of thousands at the fair at Neuilly.
The lantern is very small and neat,
and made in n Gothic form after an an
Gent model; it is only of tin, but is
sufficiently solid. 1t has well-fitted
glass plates. is about the size of a wal
nut, burns for some hours. and is sold
at the price of six sous.
Almost everybody who returns from
q suburban fair to Paris recently looked
as if he were outwardly symbolizing
the Midsummer Saint, John the Bap-
tist "a burning and shining light"
The men and boys had the little Ian
terms in their hats, land the ladies carrie
them in their bouquets.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
A Lengthy Courtship,

y eourtship remarkable for its length
is that of Abram Maris, aged GO years,
and Miss Sarah B. Williams, aged 81
years, and the scene is Damascus, a
quaint little Quaker village of Ken
lucky. Both bride and groom are
among the wealthiest members of the
Society of Friends in that state, and
Tor 10 years met each other on Sunday
at the old brick church in their quaint
village. The attachment between them
began when Miss Williams was rosy
checked girl of II, but the only love
making was smile and minutes con-
versation at the church door once a
week, year in and wear out
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
YOUR BOY WONT LIVE A MONTH

SO MIR. Gilman Brown, of "a Mill St,
South Gardner, Mass, was told by the
doctors His son had Lung trouble,
following Typhoid Malaria, and he
spent three hundred and seventy five
dollars with doctors. who finally gave
him up. saying: Your boy won't
live a month" He tried DR. Kings
New Discovery and a few bottles re
stored him to health and enabled him
to 60 to work perfectly we'll man.
He says he owes his present good
health to use of DR.. Kings New Dis
oovery, and knows it to be the best in
the world for Lung trouble. Trial
Bottles Free at Henry Hinrich's
Drug Store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
FREE PILLS

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len 4 Co, Chicago, and get free sam
pie box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
A trial will convince you of their
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and are particularly effective in the
cure OF constipation and Sick Head
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they have been proved Invaluable.
They are guaranteed to be perfectly
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
A Swimming Machine.

The old-fashioned method of teaching
swimming by means of q belt and rope
running on wire over the bath is still
In vogue in many swimming schools,
and has survived many more preten-
tious systems. A somewhat elaborate
looking machine has been invented for
this purpose which is said to be of great
assistance to the swimming pupil. The
machine is q series of strong metal rods
on which the pupil is placed. These
rods move in such way as to cause the
pupil to make all the motions of swim
ming. When the habit of striking out
properly is learned, the learner is al
lowed to go into water and put. it into
practice
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
A paripatatir 6aalpr in canary bird

A peripatetic dealer in canary birds
lately did up" number of the peo-
pie of this city. Louis kemper pur
chased one paying three dollars for it.
He secured a guaranty that in case the
bird did not sing it might be returned
and money would be refunded. The
bird did not sing and was returned,
but came back with the explanation
there was no such firm. That made
an additional expense of one dollar on
the bird. Ferd. O5tenfeldt bought
one and it kept changing its colors
add soon developed into pugnacious
English sparrow 1t had been paint
ed. Ernst Wagner purchased one
too, but no returns have yet come
from this bird.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
topper In the Tissues,

For several years past the working
chemists have claimed that native cop
per may be found in minute quantities
in the tissues of every known species
of plant and animal. Since January |
a commission appointed by the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science has made 10000 examinations
and chemical analysis by a great va
riety of processes and has not failed
to find traces of copper in q single in
stance. They found it in the coloring
of flowers, in the feathers, beaks and
eyes of birds, in the human brain and
blood, in the blades, grains and roots
of wheat, IN the scales of fishes and ser
pents, in short,everywhere
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12

A young doctor just starting out in
his work was once on the stand as a
witness, and the lawyer cross examin-
ing him was rather impairment, max
ing several sarcastic remarks reflect
ing on the ability of the doctor to IN
derstaDd his business.
DO you know the symptoms OF con
cussion of the ~ asked the learn
ed counsel.
L do" answered the doctor quietly.
"Well continued the attorney, sup
pose my learned friend. Mr.. Bagwig,
and | were to bump our heads to-
gether. should we get concussicn of
the brain7''
Your learned friend, Mr.. Bagwig,
might" replied the doctor gently. and
the conversation to rned.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-11-12
'tiilJ'i. -, 1870.
BY the Court
IS, ANDERSON, County Judge.
oChHItz ~ hlf"ah' httS r. decln

! ttlrst publication oct. p. 1891 No II
| | N NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COUNTY COuRT
/ l In the matter of the estate Of Joseph l.
] mOrrlssey, deceased.
On reading and hlIHg the petition Of g. NJ dor
Tlssey administrator with the " II annexed of the
/ estate of said deceased for the adjustment and
/ allowance of his administration account (and
! the assignment Of the residue Of said estate Ia
sIch other persons as are by law entitled To the
/ Samel
IL is ordered that said account be examined
adjusted and allowed at Il special term Of sand
court to be held at the Office of the county nudge
IN the city of Mautowoc, in said county on
Tuesday, the 2lth doy IF NOyemhcrA d. 1896
1t Is further, ordered that npuu the adjustment
and allowance Of such account By tins court as
aforesaid, the residue of sad estate be. by the
further ordcr and Judgment of this court as
signed TO such persons as are by law entitled to
the same
1t Is further ordered that notice Of the time and
place OF examination and allO,gauce Of such a..
count, and IF the assignment of the residue of
sald estate be gwen to all persons i 4, esed by
publication of this order for three successive
weeks, before said day.in the ManItowUc Pilot n
weekly newspaper printed and published at the
city and county of Manir0woc and state of Wis
sin.
Dated October Dist, lsgg
By the COurt,
J. s. ANDERSON. County judge
Il. Il. and {. Ii SedgWick, attorneys uoyl9