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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-07
THE UNLUCKY TURTLE.
II 1t Succeeds In Evading Human
Hunters 1t Is Run Down by
Dogs or Tigers.

while preparing our evening meal,
says Prince Macmillan, of Neuwied, in
his "Tour in Brazil" land collecting
dry wood on the beach, we found CO.
lossal turtle on the point of laying its
eggs. Nothing could have been more
grateful TO the hungry company.
Our presence did not disturb the
turtle. Four men lifted it up from the
ground, but it evinced no other sign of
restlessness than putting and blowing;
and the moment it was put down again
it began throwing up earth with its
fin-like hind feet. One of our soldiers
laid himself on the ground beside the
turtle, put his hand in the hole which
it had eXcavated, and threw out the
eggs as fast as the animal laid them.
About hundred were collected in this
way in ten minutes. This turtle usual
ly lays from ten to twelve dozen eggs.
Turtles often crawl up from the sea
and travel distance of from 500 to
1000 feet on the shore to deposit their
eggs. Junghuhu found hundreds of
turtle skeletons on the coast of Java,
many Of them five feet long and three
feet broad. Some of them were
bleached, but others were still fresh
and bleeding. In the air multitudes of
birds of prey were circling.
This is the spot where the poor tur-
ties are attacked by the wild dogs.
These savage animals, in packs of 20
or more, attack every available spot of
their luckless victim; they bite its head,
paws and tail, and manage to turn it
over. They then tear up the stomach
shell and feast on the flesh and eggs.
Sometimes the turtle escapes and
reaches the sea, dragging the Juggling
dogs after it. Sometimes, too, the tiger
regales himself on the turtle. jung
huhu's Javanese drove off tiger which
was worrying turtle, and seized the
still living prey, which six men could
scarcely carry
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-07
ALUMINUM'S NEW STAGE.
Is No Longer Merely the Theme OF
Speculative Writers hut an
Assured Success.

aluminium has passed its pipe
dream period" said John r. Bentley, of
Buffalo, n. Y, land has settled down
into a quiet respectable metal. The
person who first brought it into public
notice was a novelist who has foreshad-
owed more great scientific develop
ments than any other one man who ever
lived. | refer to Jules Verne. In his
Journey to the Moon he described the
aluminium and INDUCED in some re-
markable conjectures as to the prob
able part that the metal would play in
the industrial world. At that time u
new German process of reduction had
reduced the price to something like
four dollars pound, which was
thought to be amazingly cheap, but
Verne foresaw still simpler methods,
and his prediction was fully verified by
the electrolysis system, which has
scaled it down to about 80 cents. That
was only a few years ago, and the
pseudo-ecientific scribbers immediate
ly declared the new metal, as they
called it, would usurp the place of
steel. They filled the papers with ex-
travagant stories of aluminium steam
ships, engines, carriages, derricks,
portable houses and even cannon, all
of which was pure wind. 1t was found
in actual practice that the pure metal
was unsuited to almost all the innumcr-
able purposes that were suggested, but
it proved n most valuable and excellent
alloy. Nowadays its practical utility is
pretty well understood, end the con-
sumption is steady and enormous. A
great deal of it is made into wire, some
thing to which ii is peculiarly adapted
by its tensile strength of 10000 pounds
to the square inch, hard drawn. There
IS u good deal of talk at present of it's
being used as n substitute for copper
in electric cables, owing TO the recent
big advance in the price of the latter
metal, but / am skeptical of the prac-
ticability of the scheme. To begin with.
copper is still nearly IS cents pound
the cheaper of the two, and aluminium
has only about three-fourths its cleo
trio conductivity. Moreover, the
chances are that the copper boom is due
to a speculative movement in stocks
rather than any serious shortage in the
supply, and if that is the case it is
bound to soon take a drop" - N. O..
Times-Democrat.
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49,. i. .y.

The Cucumber VS.. kurnel Bunker he
might have safely reckoned ON an early
call from the man who had two horses
shot under him at Louisiana Court
House. l found the gentleman in his
sanctum and opened the case by in
viting him to step down stairs across
the street into the state house grounds.
He followed me, sab, and at proper
moment | turned on him and produced
cucumber and asked:
"'Sah, will you do Kurnel Bunker
the favor to name this esculent?
HE replied that it was cucumber.
"'And please name this?' l said, as
l produced pistol.
He did so, and drawing a second one
/ handed him the first and requested
him to wait while l stepped off the
usual ten PAGES. / had come to show
him the difference between cucumbers
and dueling pistols, but / was not put
to any great trouble. He came down
handsomely, sah-came down befo'
with which he entered into the cam
paign made me 200 votes not counted
upon. Egad, sab, but the way that Gu
cumber business dropped out of his
paper raised the price of pickles dol
lar barrel that winter!
"Once mo-, sah-once mo-" huskily
continued the Kurnel, as he gazed long
ingly into the vast emptiness of the
glass at his elbow. "a certain editor
had characterized me as a relic of the
drift period. 1 could not mistake his
meaning. 1t happened that he was the
last of the fraternity on which had
to call. When /. had introduced myself
7 said.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-07
MARY MAUD.

Now Mary Maud is visiting US,
l have the hardest time
Trying to be-oh! so polite,
She doesn't know how TO climb
The very easiest apple tree!
And then, she's 'fraid of cows,
And kind of 'fraid of hens, guess!
Besides-her mother lows
Her hair to hang in great long curls;
Mine s in the tightest braid
Ever my folks can get ii in!
/ don't mind when she's 'fraid
OF things; / say, Just as polite,
What would you like TO play?"
But when think about her curls,
l most wish she'd go way.
Elizabeth L. Gould, in st. Nicholas
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-07

"'Mistah Nightingale, plead guilty
to having lived long number of years,
but have called this afternoon to con-
vince you that Notwithstanding my adj
vanced age 1 can still hold pistol-a
pistol. sab, and that / can count the
shirt buttons on man at ten PAGES.
Will you take a walk with me in the
grounds of my friend Judge Dorsko, or
would it be mo- convenient for you to
meet this relic of the drift period at
sunrise tomorrow mawnin'?
"The next issue of that EDITORS paper
was out day ahead of time," said the
Kurnel, as his eyes twinkled with salts
faction. ''He was in q hurry to set me
right, sah--to give the number of my
battles at II and my wounds at five,
and to announce that my nomination
as state senator was equivalent to an
election. Beautifully done, sah--bewti-
fully done for country editor who
wasn't posted on the drift period, and
he has ever since insisted on sending
me a copy of his paper free. There
you were, sah-Kurnel Bunker VS.. the
editorial fraternity of the Second SEN
atorial district-Kurnel Bunker VS.. the
Cucumber - Kurnel Bunker VS.. the
drift period. And the Kurnel still lives,
sah-still lives, and should it meet with
your approval, sab"
1t did, of course, and he used both
straws at once this time.
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ALLEGoRIcAL WATCH DIAL.

Mass. 1t contains, instead OF the usual
numerals, twelve small but distinct sill
houette figures, beginning with wom-
an with a very small child in her arms.
At one o'clock the little mother and
her miniature baby are clearly depict
ed, the infant being in "long clothes"
At two o'clock the same figure appears,
but the child has perceptibly grown.
At three O'clock the little mother is
still the same, but the baby is in short
clothes" At four o'clock the child
again appears, and so on up to eight
o'clock, when he goes to school for the
first time. At nine o'clock he is seen in
college gown, standing beside the now
elderly mother. At ten o'clock the
deathbed is brought to view, the Poung
man taking leave of his loved parent.
At II o'clock he is aged with the SHOWS
of many winters. At II o'clock he
makes his final appearance, an old and
decrepit specimen of humanity, pray
ing for his end. During the next II
hours the same scenes are again en-
acted. The little machine is wonder
sill round
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He wanted to move the cottage higher
up the hill, at the foot of which it had
stood.
A number of skillful building movers
were called into consultation, but
after looking over the ground they
shook their heads and pronounced the
job impracticable. Mr.. Morton had al
most given up his idea when Charlie
Cavanagh, a boy scarcely out of his
teens, offered to perform the feat.
The owner of the cottage was rather
skeptical, and frankly said so, but the
boy was allowed to go ahead and show
what he could do.
The job was a pretty difficult one.
The building had to be lacked "a feet
up to the level of the top of the hill, and
then slid across to terra firma. Whas
old hands in the business had pro-
nounced impossible this boy did with
out bIunder. No wonder Mr.. Morton
has been lavish in his praise of the
boys feat. - Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
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'Egad, sab, but l must write that
editor q personal letter thanking him
for his courteousness," said Kurnel
Bunker. as l handed him a newspaper
clipping which spoke highly of him
as a soldier and politician. Eyes, sab,
an autograph letter will please him in
return, and he will treasure it up among
the archives for his grandchildren to
read"
AS the kurnel looked around he
found what he was wishing for at his
elbow, and after critically examining
the two straws and making choice of
the longest, he settled himself back and
said:
when / began my political career
she press did not take kindly to me. l
had come back from the wah to make
"A place for myself, and the stay-at-
homes resented what they called my
impertinence. The press was con-
trolled by the stay-at-homes, and at
the first mention of my name there was
"a howl of derision and defiance all along
the line. Egad, sab, but some of 'em
went so far as to say that l was made
Kurnel for being kicked in the leg by an
army mewl! 1 was called crank and
a pretender. and kindly adviced to con-
fine my ambition to the mayoralty Of a
village. 1t was the freedom of the
press, sah-the boosted freedom of the
press.-but they did not know their
man. Kurnel Bunker, who broke the
lines at Chantilly and wanted to turn
Little Round Top at Gettysburg, was
not the man to rest under the asper-
.sions cast upon his character in civil
life. gave them rein for few weeks
and then sat out to make some personal
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END OF THE WORLD.
A Scientist Figures Out That Ii
Yet Three billions of
Years OFT.

Scientists do queer things sometimes
One of them has attempted to calculat
in cold mathematics how soon we ma,
expect the judgment day; and has pre-
pared Il paper on the subject whici
he expects to read before the American
Association for the Advancement o.
Science when it meets next month in
Columbus. Starting with the total en-
ergy stored in the sun and the fact
that the orb of day is continually dis
tributing energy equivalent to the work
of seven men for each area of the
earth's surface of the size of the hui
man body, our statistician calculates
that it will require 3 1875, 900, 900 years of
outpouring before sensible diminu-
ton of the quantity of energy given out
can be detected. Up to this distant
period mountains will stand, rivers will
run, plants will grow and animal life
will exist much as it does to-day.
Ifyourealize that solar energy as soon
as '.sed reasserts itself in some other
form, either as sound, electricity or SIM
pie motion, it is easy to see that this
estimate is too small rather than too
great. At any rate the world is not
liable to stop going for few years yet,
according to his reasoning.
Some idea of the vastness of the force
that is melted out to us from the phys
ical source of earthly life may be
gained, he says, by considering that if
the energy that the sun gives to the
earth in single day could be bottled
up and directed against Niagara falls
il would cause that great body of wa
ter to dash back again up hill for 1000
years. If turned into single blast of
heat il would cause every living creature
instantaneously to blight and wither;
the ice around the poles would be melt
ed in 1A minutes and in another IL
seconds all the oceans would be turned
into steam.
If transmitted into electricity, n
spark would flash from the earth as far
as the planet Jupiter. If collected into
single sound the vibration thereof
would not only break every ear drum
in the world, but would uproot the
giant trees of the forest, and even level
mountains. If changed into mo-
mentary flash of light its burst would
be so binding as to penetrate the walls
of the deepest dungeons and destroy
the sight of every living creature. In
brilliancy this flash would exceed the
brightness of the sun itself over a mil
lion times.
For one man to expend an amount of
energy equivalent TO that which the
earth receives from the sun in the tenth
part of second he would have to
work hard continuously for 100000
years.
This calculation is remarkable in that
its result differs by more than 3,374,-
100000 years from the period when
scientists generally believe that the
world will come to an end. Such eX-
perts as Darwin and Huxley believed
that it could not sustain life 100000
years hence.-N. Y. Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-07
GLASGOW FUNCTIONS.
University CeremOnials Which Are
Conducted with Great Pomp
and Show.

The comforting upon Sir Henry Irv.
ing of an honorary degree by the Uni
versity of Glasgow and the ceremonial
proceedings which, as usual in such
cases. marked that occasion have drawn
attention to the peculiarly gaudy char
acter of Glasgow university's academic
al functions. At other great seats of
of the 'domini doctores" and other
members of high degree, your mere
student, or undergraduate, must wear a
gown or cloak of sober, often rusty,
black. But at Glasgow the students are
still divided into "Togati" and Non
Togati," and the former-'students of
humanity, Greek, logic, ethics and nat
urai philosophy classes must, ac-
cording to the university statutes,
wear the ancient academical fobe-a
scarlet cloak"
Owing. probably, TO the anti-papistic-
al tendencies of Glasgow, the authori-
ties of that university are not given to
emphasizing the circumstances in its
history which this scarlet cloak really
commentaries. ST. Andrews, the old
est university in Scotland, was founded
in 14ll by Bishop Henry Wardlaw, and
on petition of King James /. and many
great men of his realm was sanctioned
by a bull of Pope Nicholas V. two years
later. Next in order OF antiquity comes
Glasgow. But no Scottish name is re-
corded as that of the founder Of that
university. In fact, it was not founded
by any Scot, but by this same Pope
Nicholas v, who issued his bull for the
establishment of a ''sudium generate"
at Glasgow in 1850, and endowed the
same, so far as it was endowed at all,
out of the funds of the church. 1t is 10
this fact that the Presbyterian students
Of humanity and the other ingenious
arts az GLASGOW owe their scarlet
cloaks.' And the origin of the universe
~ is unique, as is the garb of its stu
dents. 1t is the only surviving purely
papal foundation in the British Isles
~ Y. Tribune
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BOY WITH A FUTURE.
He Undertook job OF House-MovinE
Which Professionals Had Re-
fused to Perform.

Commodore George w. Morton's fa-
nous Red Lion cottage at Hough's
Neck, Mass, has for some time been
considered historic landmark by the
inhabitants of that vicinity. They have
regarded it with reverential awe, but
recent windstorm treated it with con-
tempt.
The cottage was so badly damaged
as TO be rendered almost uninhabit-
able, and its severe battering brought
woe to the heart of many loyal Quin-
cyite.
Mr.. Morton took gloomy view of the
remains after the storm, and concluded
that ne would not attempt to rebuild
If he had to occupy the same location.
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calls. The editor who combined me
with an army mewl and kick on the
leg was the first one visited. When 1
had introduced myself l inquired on
which leg l had received the kick men
toned. Then l elevated the bottoms of
my trousers and asked him if the scar
he saw on my right leg was caused by
"a federal bullet or the hoof of con-
federate mewl. / had produced pis-
tolls, sah--pistols for two-when he
picked up his pencil to write a retrac-
ton, and the materials were so fruit
full that he did not finish under a col
ANN. 1t was bewtifui tribute, sab,
and Vt was double-leaded and published
in his next issue, and that editor has
never gone wrong since. What was the
name of that last decoction, If you
please?"
"a mint julep, Kurnel."
"EXactly-eXactly. Very good for
the vocal cords, l belitae. Well, sab, a
certain editor had been asking in his
paper every week: Who is Kurnel
Bunker?' The query was repeated
about fo'ty times in each issue, and of
sco'se the object was to belittle me.
decided to call in person and reveal my
identity. l found him at home, sab
at home and surrounded by the para
pharnalia usually to be found in a
.sanctum-and l saluted him in my
Enthusiastically suave manner and
observed:
"'You have been inquiring after the
identity of Kurnel Bunker, sah-per-
.sistently and laborionsly making in
,quiries. He now stands befo' you, and
you are at liberty to ask any questions
you see fit
But he had none to ask" said the
Kurnel. as he smiled grimly. THE
man was embarrassed and COMPOUNDED,
and could only look at me with open
mouth. 1t was only when l had asked
him to name friend and an early date
that he shook off his lethargy and
begged the privilege of shaking hands
with the hero of South Mountain. My
biography, which he published in his
next issue, occupied four columns, and
was one of the most valuable documents
of my campaign. Not bad man, that
editor, but he hadn't sized Kurnel Bun
ker up right, you see. Too much free
Dom of the press, and too little of kur-
mel Bunker. Might have gone with
some men, but wouldn't pass with me.
Have you observed, sah-?"
I had. / signaled to the colored boy
and he brought on two more, and when
the straws had done their duty as be-
fore, the Kurnel briskly remarked:
Il had other calls 70 make. The edi-
tor of certain weekly paper had seen
fit to ridicule my affair Of honah with
Majah Tripper, and had boldly declared
shat we we're only armed with cucum-
bers. Some men might have passed it
over. sab, but not SD Kurnel Bunker.
When he published an item headed:
-Kurnel Bunker VS.. The Cucumber
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IneaunIities I'm the Language.

Mrs. Brown-Our language is full Of
misnomers. For instance, met man
once who was n perfect bear. and they
called him civil engineer"
Mrs. Smith-Yes, but that's not 50
in bank. He won't tell you anything.
asked one the other day how much
money my husband had on deposit and
he just laughed at me.--Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-07
TITLED MARRIAGES.
Marrying Noblemen Is Not Always
Pleasant Thing for 4tmeri-
can Girls.

Marrying an English title is not all
honey. 1t depends, though, on the mo-
tive whether the woman feels she is
compensated by adding handle to her
Christian name. The transaction may
be entirely for barter, and in that case
no sympathy need be wasted on either
party. The title is bought with for
tune by the bride, and if it does not
pan out well she must simply regard
it as bad investment, like many an
other made in business. Now less than
a year ago a handsome and exceedingly
wealthy widow, not satisfied with her
affiliations in New York society, mar
ried an English earl of broken down for
tune and health, whose sole claim to
associations with the royal house of
England.
BY the aristocracy he was tolerated
because he was one of them, but out
side of that sacred band he was a no
body; he was as poor as church mouse.
However, his great name counted for
something and the rich American
widow fancied it would be Jolly" to
be countess, when so many other New
York women were Ladies Somebody or
other. There was no love lost, evident
", for the earl threw himself in front
of an express train, or had a fit, the
coroner said, and left Will that ignored
his new wife, whose millions had given
him ease from creditors and taken his
establishment out of quad.
No arrangements had been made for
her and the consequence is, beyond the
privilege of using the coat-of-arms of
the Straffords and being called dow.
of New York, is precisely where she was
year ago, as far as society is con-
cerned. 1t may be this was all under
stood in the marriage settlements, yet
the lady scarcely counted on so brief q
tenure of the coveted position; she gave
so much for so little, she should have
all there was to it for some years to
come. Alas and alack! for the grail
tude of man.
The earl bequeathed every bit of
property he possessed TO his two
daughters, not even making provision
for possible heir, which the countess
now leads the new earl to expect. One
really hopes the expectation will be
realized, if ii is only to see the compiled
tons that then will arise unsnarl them
selves to the satisfaction of the hand
some American widow. But Lord STRAIT
fcrd did,not have an easy life of it. His
daughters married inditferently. Lady
Mary Byng, the younger one, who was
the queens maid of honor, contracted a
disastrous alliance with an impecu-
NOUS French count, and the pair kept
a sort of young noblemen's boarding
school in France until the other day
the authorities went and shut it up on
the plea of politics. Perhaps the father
in-law of this Visoount De Mauny Tai
vande became discouraged with the out
look for his favorite daughter and con-
Guided life was not worth living, and
then. again, he may have had a real fit
and tumbled under the wheels of the
train-Chicapo Chronicle
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in Far North.

The most northern newspaper in the
world is published at Hamnersteip.
Russia. The editorial work is done in
a small wooden house rooted with turf.
The paper is called the Nordkap, and is
published weekly. The news is fire.
qnentlya fortnight old before it reaches
the subscribers. Most subscriptions
are paid in fish
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Keeping MILK from Souring.

Z The city boarders sojourning at the
farmhouse were seated at dinner. On
the outside storm was raging.
us il true" asked the young man in
the striped shirt front, as he had his
glass reflled for the fourth tine, that
thunder sours milk?"
Sometimes it do" replied the old
farmer. from the far end of the table,
but guess they amt none of it around
here goin' { git chancct' sour."-Ohio
State Journal.
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AninnI Lore.

"Uncurl yourself and fght!" yelled
the catamount. you have no back bone
at all
''Mehbe I haven't" came muffled
reply from the rolled-uP porcupine.
'but have spines to .hrow away
indianapolis Journal.
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Innr md DrenrN.

Father McSweeny Dennis, if you
keep on ia this way you will shorten
your days.
Dennis--Oi was t'inkin' that same
mesei<, father. Oh was sober two days
lasht wake, and they war the longesht
days of ME loife.--Chicago Times-Her-
aid,