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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-12-19
AIUlL.ENFI0Ff & K0RBER
aa1 Agontes del cheque Bank Id
Lenders y New York.

llaeen ragos por cable.
Giran sohre to,'ss las capita!os 3o Espafe,
sohre LON DHtsS, PARIS, NGkNA-lORK,
HAMBURG0, H.tBANA.
Compraa ' vcnden orc, toda clase de
moneds e&tsaniera.
Cnclpran, yen1en y dan aNancos sohFo
Cdduias llipolecariaa del Banco Territorial y
Agrfooia, etc.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-12-19

Gran tigisI 'IngIafana" ns1 Ho5s! sI5sdL de- RI
Monsado 10 al;nra de los uleiares de Europa.
Yistas ia bahia. Con gabinete de lectura,
lepsrtamenta de e2utiaa, tahs4uerfa an ele-
ganta Salon d. Reereo. Hos gedqje iesde Dos
PESOS en- adeante. segdn Ia habitaci6n cue Sc
coupe. "A. as Do, -(Propistatio).
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-12-19

Socsdad An9aia. e99E1 eA5 Eps'..s5a 1ELEF3S 1,s.e
por tgrnina.io 81 periolo de ins, .iaoidn De las
lfneas tanto dentro &c la pobIac6n euanto en
Santurce ia Junta Drectiya acordo que hssta
q dia y lei M slo actual Sc sdm.tan SO.
ictu ies de aparatos para ser instala los gratis,
como viene hac.tnaosa ahera, y ! parir del
/ 9 de Enero de ls@s los soi;oitantes pagaran
por alelantato con arreglo d los materlales
q sean necesarios el Imports de su installation.
Puerto Rico ) de Diciemhre De 1897 III
Sltretario. L.Laz.lae Lslla8o. -
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-12-19

CONSUL T0nI0 ,,, de saf'rmsaads* '",a &c Ia ga'
sutas gratuitas dc 10 b II dc la maIlana por Ell
Dr. haixauli Plaza de San Jose Gunto la
lglaaia). +
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1897-12-19

En- Ia estaoldn espers los excur-ionistas
una or1neata : numsrosa eseogids concurreu-
c a, entire Ia oual habia cuarenta distinenilss
seforllas con ramiletes de flores. Ofreoisron.
las a senior Ma1oz Rivera CON dos preciosos
estan lartes, uuo de ellos dc Ia honrada clase
de arte,anos. Los yitores son incesantes en-
toIo e transito.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
WANTS THE EARTH.
Russia Constantly Renchin. Ont for
New Territory.

Russia Constantly Reaching Ont for
New Territory.
In his paper, the Sviet, the Russian
general Komaroff publishes an article
which contains the following remark
able passage, says the London News.
"The east, with all it's countries, as
China, Persia, Beluchistan and even In
dia, is by the will of Providence des-
tined for the Russian people. Sooner
or later the east will be ours. In or
Ger, however. to attain this object VIC
must guard our positions in the west.
and must be strong there, too. All our
efforts must be directed there, all our
thoughts and talents. There we must
show themselves genuine Russians. We
must thwart the German intrigues and
German tricks emanating from Ber-
lin, and have a sharp eye to our real
foes. If we retreat in the west. we
lose everything In the east. Now in
the west a matter comes TO decision
which is for us of vital Importance,
namely, the question of the BosphoruS
and the Darda2elles. The straits must
by all means come into our possession
for the sake of securing peace in the
south, and for the sake of cur own de-
velopment-Iiay, even existence. In
the straits we must be as strong as or
the Vistula and in the Baltic. Inpreserv-
ing for ourselves the west we must
above all be Slavs, and we must keeI.
alive the consciousness of relationship
in all the people of Slavonic nationality
up to the Adriatic, those people being
our real prop and support in th'
struggle against the greatest foe of our
nation, namely, Germanism."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
HIS CARD.
1t Saved Him the Annoyance Of Fool
ish Questions.

1t Saved Him the Annoyance of Fool
ish Questions.
The fellow who gets a two weeks va
cation usually has enough to contend
with in the shortness of his holidays
without being subjected to wholesale
cross-examination at the hands OF his
numerous sohcitous friends when he
gets back. says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. There is always the chap who in
sists upon firing the same old stock
questions and making the same trite
comments, until the poor devil who has
just returned to work grows decidedly
weary.
One Of these came back to town a
couple of days ago and Immediately
upon his appearance in his favorite
haunts 1t was: Hello, old man! Been
away2" Or: Pretty we'll sunburned,
amt you? Where have you been
Have q good time?" and a host of other
t;resome greetings embellished with
interrogation points.
The second day he determined to
save his breath, and to all his anxious
friends he handed card on which he
had written: "Yes. l have been away.
l spent my vacation at Atlantic City
| had good time. l know | am sun
burned. l agree with you that am
looking better than before l went away.
| noticed that it raiLed considerably.
didn't go fishing. Any queries not an
swered here will be attended to by mali
upon receipt Of a stamped and adj
dressed envelope" The scheme has
worked very well.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
TROPICAL TIPS.
Showing How to Make Hot Weather
Endurable.

Showing How to Make Hot Weather
EndurabIe.
A hint comes from India which Is
worth using in the hot summer days.
Lassitude and loss of appetite are
among the first evidences of the effect
of the suns heat upon the body, and in
hot weather many persons who have
never had sunstroke are debilitated by
what might be fairly called sun fatigue,
which, although not serious, renders
work of every kind more laborious than
1t would otherwise be-
The influence of the sun varies enor-
mously en- different individuals, some
of whom have to take special precau-
tions in order to be able to resist it. A
spinal pad is used by soldiers in many
tropical countries. 1t arrests the light,
which often works such injury, but is
uncomfortably hot, and soon becomes
Objectionable from its absorption of
perspiration.
In India the boon and blessing be-
yond compare with those who have to
spend part of their lives under trop-
ical sunlight is an orange-colored shirt.
An English engineer declares that he
frequently fell i'll after duty in the sun,
until he treated himself as o photo
graphic sensitive plate, and surrounded
his body with yellow light.
All clothing, however thick, allows
certain rays to pass, and although thick
clothing would arrest all the injurious
ailments of sunlight, 1t would inter
fere with the escape of bodily heat.
The yellow shirt, for sensitive people
who are much in hot sunlight, Is an ex-
cellent protection, only inferior to that
simplest and best of all India protec-
tives-a white umbrella, which has not
yet been acclimated in this country.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
THE BROWN.TAIL MOTH,
A Poisonous Pest of Massachusetts
TOyyna

AoAbonOuB rest Oh M009aChu9CttO
Towns.
Many residents Of Somerville have
been afflicted recently with a strange
disease, which baffled the physicians,
and for which no one could offer an ex-
PLANTATION, says the Boston Transcript.
They seemed to have been victims of
Ivy poisoning, the hands and arms red
dening and swelling, but they had not
touched any ivy. 1t Is now definitely
known that the trouble all came from
the presence Of that new pest, the
brown-tail moth.
This discovery was made by the en-
ployes of the gypsy moth committee,
who. to their sorrow, have found that to
touch a brown tail moth Is equiva-
lent to taking dose Of poison. When
the employees of the committee began
their annual work of turning burlaps
to see how many pupa had Sc
creted themselves Hereunder, they
found in the places contiguous
to Someville number Of pupa
of the brown-tailed moth. Grown
careless by the innocent nature Of the
ocneria dispar, they plucked them off
and destroyed them. Then the trouble
began, and loud are the complaints Of
the men with poisoned hands and arms.
The moths are now handled gingerly
The center of the gypsy moth pesti-
lence has moved from the Malden-Med-
ford district, where 1t originally devel-
oped, TO the Saugus woods. 1t Is esti-
mated that the cOInmjtfae men are
slaughterlng 100000 daily.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
WHAT THE MONKEY FOUND.
1t Proved to BE q Disastrous Dis

1t Proved to BE q Disastrous Dis
cOvery.
The Philadelphia Times gives an ac-
count of singular accident which oc-
Cured the other day in that city. Two
Italian boys, with hand organ and a
monkey, were amusing a crowd and
incidentally collecting pennies at Il
street corner, when the monkeys atten-
ton was caught by o roll of pasteboard
which he found near the curbstone.
Angelo, the older boy, who was
turning the crank. stopped for mo-
ment to chide the monkey for his mat
tention to business. The chiding had
no effect, and the other fellow, Michael,
after some difficulty, got the paste
board and carried 1t to his brother,
who. with a curiosity equal to the
monkeys, began striking it against the
organ.
The crowd by this time was edging
back, and several voices called to the
Italians to be careful what they were
about; for the crowd saw plainly
enough that the mysterious object was
nothing but a cartridge.
The Italians understood no English,
and presently there was fash and q
report, and the two boys were dancing
about the pavement, Angelo wringing
his hands. while Michael had both hands
to his head. The organ, badly dam
aged. lay on the sidewalk. and the
monkey sat at the top Of a lamp post.
An examination Of the boys after
they taken to the hospital showed
that one of them had lost the thumb
and forefnger of his right hand, while
the other had received scalp wound.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
AN ALiBI OFFICE.
A Curious InstitutiOn Opened Up In


Parts.
Novel ideas are being put into prac-
tice every day, and if rumor Is to be be-
ieved the latest thing In original con-
ceptions has assumed the form of an
alibi office. What is an alibi of11ce9 the
bewildered reader may be inclined to
ask, says Paris correspondent Of the
London Telegraph. Well. IN this par
ticular case it is an establishment
which undertakes to post letters from
any and every corner of the world. II
is, in fact, sort of philanthropic insti-
tuition, devised for the benefit of per
sons who. while remaining quietly at
home in sort Of incognito condition,
can make believe that they are on a
long tour. Thus is human vanity salts
fed, and thus are the expenses of
regular journey saved. A man takes
leave of his friends at the close Of the
season, with the announcement that his
recreation will assume the form, for in
stance, of run through Spain and
Portugal; and at regular intervals fol-
low letters from Madrid, Seville, Lis
bon, Oporto, and so on, duly stamped
and postmarked. The alleged promot-
ers of the enterprise are represented as
arguing that after all this pleases some
people who do not care for the trouble
and fatigue of travelling, but are eager
to enjoy the prestige with which
grand tour will. as they fancy. invest
them In the eyes of their friends. after
all, this may be mere report, for the
office is described as being a very dis
Greet institution. having no outward
and visible sign of existence.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
SIXTY YEARS LETTER-CARRlER.
Hannah Brewer Equals the Queen in
Years of Service.

Hannah Brewer Equals the Queen in
Years of Service.
Hannah Brewer, the old Bitton post
mistress, who has just joined the ranks
of the supeannuatet., has recently told
representative of the London Daily
Mail that she has been delivering let
ters without intermission during the
whole 60 years of the queens reign.
She began when child of 12, and dur
Ing her many years Of service had
walked 250,0OO miles. Her father was
subpostmaster of the village. and the
district she covered consisted Of the
scattered hamlets lying between Wick
and Bitton, on the borders Of Glouces-
ter. Her daily round was IL miles in
all weathers, and included many steep
hills. Although the district Is sparse
ly populated, the old lady said she had
never been robbed. stopped or molested
in any way. Her travels. apart from
her daily visitsstions, have never extend
ed beyond Bath or Bristol, and since
1892 she has lived alone, those related
to her being too poor TO render her
ary assistance. Notwithstanding the
hardships she has undergone, old Han
nah Brewer has enjoyed good health
during her term of Office. Her ab-
sences from duty, she said, had been
very few indeed, and now, at the adj
vanced age of 72 years, she has retired
from the service of the postmaster-gen-
eral on a small but well-deservN pen
sion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
HIS CLEVER RUSE.



How . Congressman Swells the Heads
OF His Constituents.
There Is a member of congress who
does not live q thousand miles away
from Pennsylvania and New Jersey who
has hit upon a very clever scheme to
make himself solid throughout his dis
trict. In fact, this congressman, says
New York correspondent Of the Phil
adelphia Press, is continually hitting
upon such schemes, and they extend SO
far that he can probably represent his
district as long as he wants or until
his constituents conclude to put him in
some other Office, the governorship Of
his state, for instance.
His latest little scheme to bring him
self pleasantly to the recollection OF a
large number of h,e constituents is
unique. There al sever al hundred post
offices in his district, and, Of course, the
usual number of applicants fo- each
one. The Endorsements Of the appli-
cants are on file at the post office de-
partment, and usually contain long
list of names of prominent patrons Of
the office.
When the congressman makes a rec
ommendation Of man for any post
office he takes the list of the mans in
dorsers and sends each one personal
letter much after this fashicn:
I'm accordance with your recommen-
dation l have to-day named -
for postmaster at -
Each MN who receives such letter
Immediately has new idea Of his own
in politics and is pleased to think that
his congressman recognizes his impor.
tance. In any case, the receipt Of q
personal letter from O member of con-
gress is apt to tickle the vanity Of a
private citizen.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
BACTERIA IN INK.
A Recent ScieAtfac Discovery I'm
Leipxi0,

Leipzig.
Bacteria, dangerous to health and
life, have been found In the air we
breathe, the water we drink, in various
kinds of food. and even in the muci
lage Of the ubiquitous postage stamp
but it remained for the eminent Ger
man scientist, DR.. Warpmann, of Leip-
zig, to discover the poisonous bacteria
living and thriving in ink.
He has recently made microscopical
examination of 81 samples of ink used
in the schools in Germany and in other
countries. Most of these were gall
inks, and contain various sorts of bac-
terra, as well as those of other minute
organisms known in the scientific world
as saprophytes and micrococd. Nj
grosin ink taken from freshly opened
bottle, which had up to that time been
tightly corked and scaled, was found
to contain bacteria in large quantities.
Red and blue inks of the sort so fire.
quently used in offices also yielded nu-
merous bacteria.
To determine whether or not these
bacteria were really as poisonous as
chemical analysis would seem to sug-
gest, DR.. Warpmann decided to "culti-
vate" some specimens for actual ex-
periments. The result of these expert
ments showed that a bacillus from
ordinary black ink would, if introduced
into the blood of mouse, prove fatal
within four days. Similar experl-
ments the doctor in the interest of sci
ence performed upon other small ami
imals-rabbits. guinea-pigs and the like
always with the same fatal result.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
LINCOLN AND THE DANDY.
A Humorous Remtniscence of tks
Famous President.

Famous President.
In some gossip from the national
capitol Henry L. Stoddard says,
Among the applicants for foreign
missions in Washington recently was
New England man attired SO fault
lessly that he might have served for
fashion plate. He reminded the vet
eran Tom Donaldson Of a story told Of
an Ohio dandy whom President Lin
coin appointed as consul to South
American country. A wag met the
new appointee on his way to the white
house to thank the president. He was
dressed in the most eXtravagant style.
The wag Mortified him by telling him
that the country to which he was as
signed was noted chiefly for the bugs
that abounded there and made life un-
bearable. They'll bore q hole clean
through you before week has
passed. was the comforting assur-
rance of the wag as they parted at the
white house steps. The new consul
approached Lincoln with disappoint-
ment clearly written all over his face.
Instead of joyously thanking the pres
ident, he told him the wag's story Of
the bugs. I am informed, Mr.. Presi-
dent he said, that the place is full Of
vermin and that they'll eat me up In a
weeks time Well, young man. re-
piled Lincoln, If that's true all I've got
to say is that they will lea a mighty
good suit Of clothes behind"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
CHAIRS IN MANY STYLES.
Big WarerOOms Containing Chairs In
Hundreds and No Two Alike.

Big Warcrooms Containing Chairs in
Hundreds and No Two Alike.
With the great development of the
furniture industry in this country
there has come about in recent years Z
subdivision of 1t into branches for
greater facility and economy of pro
duction. Thus there are manufactur-
ers who confine themselves to special
lines of goods, as desks, tables, chairs,
and so on, and these may sometimes
be further subdivided, manufacturers
devoting themselves to particular kinds
or grades. Of chairs, for example, there
are hundreds of manufactures in the
United States, many of them large es-
Establishments. The present total pro-
duction of chairs in this country is
about sc, 6,0O0,OOO annually, says the New
York Sun.
While the manufacture of chairs is
much subdivided, there may be In
chairs of one kind, that is, of the same
materials and made by the same
processes of manufacture. many styles,
and there are some establishments that
produce chairs in great variety. There
are single concerns that make as many
as 500 different styles, and SO in the
wholesale furniture district of the city
there may be found large warerooms
filled with chairs alone, the floor Gov
cred with them in long lines and the
walls hung with them-hundreds of
chairs. no two alike.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11

II read with interest" writes man
from Topeka to the Atchison Globe,
"your account of the usefulness of the
hen in Klondike gold-mining, and viii
accept the suggestion. leave for Klon-
dixie next week and will take with me
q coop containing six hens and a roos-
ter, instead of a pick and pan. l have
figured it out that by turning my
chickens loose they will scratch over
more ground IN one day that l could
with pick In a month. If each hen
scratches up gold dust valued at s6,745
per season, and the young chickens 60
20 scratching as soon as they are
Matched, some idea of the wealth / will
bring home may be obtained by your
sratistician. j am counting on having
30 young chickens in the field within
three months after get there"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
OLIVE OIL BEFORE WINE.
Then the Drfnker VIII Keep His Hes
Clear All Evening

The glasses were going round when
the man who had been in the navy
spoke, says the Louisville Courier j our
nal. wait a. minute, boys. We've had
several. Let me give you a tip that
learned when l was on the China sta
ton. You are pretty good drinkers,
you kentucky boys, and you could hold
your own with anybody east, west or
north who tries to put you under the
table. But unless you carry out my
plans don't you ever stack yourself es
up against an Englishman, and espe-
cially an army or naval officer. You
could knock them out on whisky, but
they don't drink it, except in smoky
Scotch and Irish denominations. But
with champagne, brandy, claret, ale,
sherry, port, pulque in Mexico, saki In
China, palm liquor in Africa, bamboos
and shandygaff in India, steer clear of
them-that Is, unless you have the good
luck TO meet a certain little yellow
faced, wizened creole from Louisiana,
whose recipe is passed around the mess
tables of United States men-of-war to
this day. 1t started in the old DAYS
when the British officers always had
the pleasure of outstaying their Amer
lean guests or hosts whenever two ships
met on n foreign station. Then that
little yellow devil came along with his
trick and the Englishmen have never
since come better than second in any
drinking bout. The secret? Olive oil.
One wineglassful before the fun begins
and, if possible, another later on and
youcan keep your wits and legs through
out the dampest evening. suppose one
of two things happens. Either the oil
coats the stomach and keeps the alco-
hol from being absorbed by the sys-
tenn, or else it floats on top and keeps
the fumes from rising to the brain.
But you'll have 10 ask the medicine
man about that. All know is it's prac-
teal result, and that has enabled us
Yankee Doodles to go home cheerful
and clear-headed many an evening
when our foreign cousins were speech
less ~
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
RAILROADS FOR CHINA.
Millions of Dollars Being Spent to
Omen the ElOwery KINGDOM.


The close of the century will have
witnessed the beginning of profound
change in the industrial conditions OF
China and the adjacent parts of the
orient, says Review of Reviews. Besides
the great trunk railroads that the Rus
slams are to build in the north of China,
and the Chinese lines that will be built
by the Belgian company recently char
tered, IL Is announced that the French
government has completed important
arrangements for the extension of rail-
roads from Cochin China, the Tonquin
region, well into the adjacent Chinese
provinces. On the west the trans-Cas-
plan lines nre approaching Chinese ter
ritory, while railroad building under
English governmental auspices in the
Malayan peninsula is progressing with
much enterprise, and new concessions
have just been wrested from the Chinese
government. Several million dollars is
about to be spent for constructing 200
miles of road as an extension of exist
ing lines. All this work in and about
China means the gradual opening up OF
an enormous commerce with that rich
and productive empire.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
There is no Joy in this world equal

There is no Joy in this world equal
to the happiness Of motherhood. A
woman's health is or dearest possess
ion. Good looks, good times, happl-
ness, love and its continuance. depend
on her health. Almost all the sick
ness of women is traceable directly or
indirectly to some arrangement of the
organs distinctly feminine. Troubles
of this kind are very often neglected
because very natural and proper
modesty keeps women away from ply
sicians, whose insistance upon exami
nation and local treatment is gener-
ally as useless as it is common. DIR.
Pierce's Favorlte Prescription will do
more for them than 80 doctors in 100.
It will do more than the hundreth
doctor can unless be prescribss it.
1t is prescription of DIR. r. V. Pierce
who sor 30 years has been chief con
sulting physician of the Worlds Dis
pensary aud Inval:ds' Hotel, at Buff
falo, n Y
Send 81 one-cent stimps to cover
cost of mailing only, and get his great
book. The Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser, absolutely FREE.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-11-11
Gifts of Great Value.

Government experts have just com.
pleted their valuation of the pictures
and art treasures of one king and an.
other bequeathed to the English nation
by Lady Wallace, who during her life.
time was barred from presentation a
court and subjected to much unkindly
ostracism by English society. The
value is set down officially at the enor
nous sum of So, ,oOO, ,ooo The govern
ment has decided to keep the collection
where it is-that is to say, in Hertfort
house, which the state is now about tC
acquire for the purpose.