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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
Experimenting with a New Fuel.

A new compound fuel is now being
tested in England with claimed salts
factory results. 1t is composed of 9S
per cent of coal dust and per cent of
a mixture of pine and caustic lime.
These three substances are mixed and
run into molds, where they harden to
such degree that they do not sepa-
rate in burning and are sold in the
shape of perforated brick Weighing
about ten pounds each, for big furn-
aces and for domestic use in cakes or
Jumps of lenticular form, of which 40
weigh 100 pounds The new fuel is sold
in London for $5.25 per ton. retail. 1t
gives out an intense heat and only
traces of smoke, while the residue Of
ashes does not exceed 8 per cent. 1t
can be burned in an ordinary crate and
the fire resembles an exceedingly brill
liant coke fire.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
VICTORIA'S BEAR tanner.
Long title Conferred on . Poor AMI
NAL Trainer Mt the Request OF
II Little Prince.
Tribune.

During the recent visit of Queen Vic
toria to Balmoral, says the Chronik der
Zeit, the queen was taking drive with
her grandsons, the young princes OF
Battenberg, when, nearing the gates
of the park, they beheld a bear tanner
with a huge animal standing in the
road, evidently waiting for the APP
proach of the royal carriage.
Persuaded by the children, the queen
ordered the carriage stopped and
watched with much pleasure the per-
Torrance of the bear. She sent the foot
man with sovereign to hand to the
tanner, who refused to accept the money
and asked if her majesty would con-
descend to give him some sort of a note
as proof that his bear had had the dis
tinguished honor of having danced be-
fore the gracious eyes of her majesty.
The queen hesitated to grant this
rather impudent request, but the chill
dren prevailed upon her to accede to
the tanners wish.
"Why not do it?" argued little Prince
Henry. "Was there not a horse made
consul in Rome? ~
well, tell me the name of the en-
peror who committed such folly" said
the queen, "and the bear shall gain
recognition
The prince named Caligula without
the slightest hesitation.
That same evening a letter bearing
the royal seal was delivered to the bear
tanner in which the title: Bear Lead
er of Her Majesty the Queen of Eng
land and Ireland, Empress of India"
was conferred upon the happiest of ami
NAL teachers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
JUDAS THE BETRAYER.
to u DecOy Steer at the Chicago
stock Yards.

One of the sights of the great cattle
yards of Chicago is an old white OK
named Judas. An OK may rise to en-
inence by his cunning and wisdom as
well as a man, and Judas has risen. He
came to the yards good many years
ago, while he was yet frisky steer, and
he was Immediately purchased by one
of the great packing houses and driven
from the train which brought him from
his Iowa home to distant yard.
The life of most animals at the cattle
yards is very short-a week at the very
most. A few days after the arrival of
Judas the herd of cattle which occupied
the pen with him was selected for kill
ing. The way to the packing house led
down long alleyway with high fences
on each side, then up narrow chute
and into the building. For some reason
the cattle seem to know what is COM
ing, for they always object to being
driven up the chute. Judas was no ex-
ception. He plunged madly about
among the herd and the cattlemen had
more trouble with him than with any
other animal. At last, however, he
seemed to realize that sooner or later
he must go, and he made a virtue of a
necessity, trotting quietly up the chute,
and the other cattle followed rapidly
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30

1t is not often that horse is'enter-
tanned in the parlor of a hotel and fed
from one of the best tables, but that
was the experience of Boston horse.
The animal was doing duty between
the shafts of huckster's wagon. and
had been hitched in front of hotel.
while the driver went around the COR
ner. Some practical joker released the
horse from his servile position and led
him up short fight of steps to the
veranda and thence through the hall to
the parlor. A watermelon was taken
from the wagon, cut up and spread on
the table for the horse to eat. There
was great excitement when the animal
was discovered contentedly swishing
his tail and devouring the succulent
fruit. 1t took six men TO persuade the
horse to go down to the street, but all
efforts failed to find the ingenious
Joker.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
Lions Love for Music.

While Rev. w. j. Davis, of San Fran
cisco, was living in Africa his little son
John, boy of four years, went too near
chained lion in neighbours yard. 1t
was called a pet lion, but was SO wild
and vicious that no living thing was
safe within the radius of its beat. There
was great CONSERVATION among the by
ISLANDERS, but none were able to deliver
the child. His governess, seeing the
peril of the child, ran upstairs, seized
an accordion and FASTENED to the win
dow which looked out upon the lion.
There, with a shout TO attract his at
tention, she began playing tune. The
lion at once released his prey, went the
length of its chain toward its fair
charmer and stood in rapt attention.
Fhe boy in the meantime got up and
ran to his mother. He never thought Of
crying until he entered the house and
saw how excited everyone was. Then,
quite out of danger, he had good cry
on his own account
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30

than at any previous period in the
worlds history. The sewing machine
and many other inventions of its class
save the labor of the hands only to add
to that required of the eyes, says Lip
pincott's.
New employments, new amusements
and new fashions are continually being
introduced to increase the exactions laid
upon these sensitive and delicate or
gans. The steady decrease of illiteracy,
together with the general cheapness of
literature and a spread of taste for it,
the enormous circulation of novels,
magazines and newspapers, the ever-in-
creasing use of artificial illumination,
all combine to overtax the eyes and to
weaken or possibly destroy the sight
unless the required aid and protection
be supplied through every means at our
disposal. Thus it happens that the
sometime luxury Of properly adjusted
glasses has come TO be recognized and
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
DOLL GYMNASIUM.

are made in similar fashion, merely
two horizontal bars, little lower than
the single one. To make the swinging
rings, make your uprights longer than
in the other designs, and tie on two
mosquito bar rings with Irvine.
Now, if you fix the dolls hands to the
rings she will do all kinds of antics,
after little push, but don't be too
rough or dolly will lose her arms. To
make doll swing, the uprights are
made still longer, two little hooks are
screwed into the horizontal bar, and
then two pieces of strong Irvine are
run down through the ends of bits OF
wood or cane, which keep dolly from
falling out, while the bottom or seat
of the swing is formed of single light
bit of board or pasteboard.
The Irvine is knotted under the seat,
and now dolly may swing safely as long
ms her mamma wishes. There is Il
chance for brothers and sisters to play
together nicely, especially If the boys
will not play too hard for the health
of the dolls.--Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
The Origin of "GrinjgO."

People often wonder and ask why the
Mexican calls the American "Gringo,"
or what the word means. That can be
explained much easier than why the
American calls the Mexican "A "Greas-
er." When the Americans went to war
with Mexico melody every verse of
which ended with Green grows the
rushes, oh" was very popular IL
pleased almost everybody's, fancy, and
was sung by Old and young. While liz
camp the soldiers would sing constant
", and all the MeXicans could hear
was: Green grows the rushes, OH"
They Immediately began to call the
American soldiers by the first two
words as it sounded to them, grin
goes" They made it into one word, by
which they will ever know the Ameri,
cans-"Gringo."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
WHAT GRANDMA SAYS.

Those were wonderful days of long ago,
Grandmother says. and she must know.
There was quilting to do the whole year
round
The length and the breadth of those quilts
astound;
Then summers were nicer far than these,
Apples were larger. so were trees
Grandma says.
The manners of folks were more polite;
Winters less cold, and flowers more bright,
And churning and chores went on all day
Nobody could have stopped to play;
Now, where were the little children then?
For girls were all women, boys all men--
Grandma says.
DO you think they had then discovered
toys?
Or ever had games and other joys?
And as for a shout or a romp, I'm sure
That would not have suited folks demure.
They never had any time for fun;
Everyone knitted. darned or spun
Grandma says.
Now X puzzled me once all this to hear.
Till one day | brought to grandma dear
A doll that I'd found. so queer and old,
Its body its limbs could scarcely hold.
She took 1t up tenderly, and smiled
Its Betsy Jerusha Perkins, child!'
Grandma said.
Then she smoothed down It's ragged frock
and told
or playtimes In those good days of old;
A far-away look came into her eyes,
That beamed with the mildness of twilight
skies.
But why did she weep II she was glad?
THE prettiest doll l ever had"'
Grandma says
George Cooper, In Golden Days.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
"No Doubt About Your Funcnin' Hop Lee"

your part to evade work and taxes
Kin you scrape up five dollars, Tom?"
mot in ten years, your honor!"
'Wall, then, it'll be 80 days in Jail,
and as we hain't got no Jail this court
will apply the boot and start you down
The trail fur Segarsville, and if you
show up agin under six months I'll
manage to make your heart ache. AS
to that shirt, you kin take along the
upper half of it. Hop-Lee has got
money, and though he brung this suit
to git jestice, he'll hev to pay the costs.
In fact, he pays six dollars fur what he
gifts, which may be called jestice, or the
tail of a shirt. He can't make no great
use of it, but he kin nail it up on the
door as a sort of sign that everybody
in this kentry, from the president down
to squint-eyed heather, has rights
under the law and is entitled to a fair
show. l don't reckon there will be any
appeal from this decision, but l might
jest as well say to both plaintiff and
defendant at this stage of the game
that should they so fur forgit them
selves as to kick again the verdict and
want the case taken to higher court,
l should hev 10 look upon it as a per-
sonal matter, and act with my usual
promptness. Court is now ad journed,
and anyone else hankerin' arter iestice
will find me at the Red Dog saloon up
TO IL o'clock tonight"
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'sThe fust case on the docket to-
day." said Judge Hoke, of Sandy
Bend, as he opened a book of the
statutes of Wyoming and a family
Bible and lighted his pipe, SIS that
of Hop-Lee VS.. Tom Shanger. This
yere Hop-Lee runs washhouse down
by the creek, and while his washing
is like his looks-nuthin' to brag Of
he does well enough for the times we
live in. Hop-Lee is likewise heather,
and it's a question of whether he has
got a soul to be saved, but under the
statoots he's got the same rights as
any of us, and it's my dooty to see
that he gets plumb squar' show"
tom Shanger, the defendant in the
toward Tom with his pipestem, has
lived around yere fur couple of
vars, and we all know him. When
I'm off the bench and behind the bar
of my saloon, and jest plain Jim
Hoke, l amt putin Tom either ahead
or behind the average. He's a critter
with his good and bad p'ints. When
I'm ON the bench, same as now, L
don't think he amounts to any great
shakes, and I'm allus wonderin' why
he don't hunt fur a change of climate.
When you bile the case down it's a
consarned heather VS.. a durn pore
white man, and I don't propose to
make any great fuss over it.
Let US git at the facts in the case.
This court has bin told that in the
east they don't keer a kuss fur facts,
but chuck out the law till everybody
has had enough and is willing to quit.
I'm runnin' things a leetle different
at Sandy Bend. I'm sorter mixin'
law, facts, jestice, heathens and white
folks together and then comm to a
decision which neither side kin kick
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agin. Tom Shanger trades shovel
fur a shirt. That's like Tom. As
long as he had shovel he was sorter
expected to earn at least enough to
pay fur his drinks. EVgot rid of that
shovel to git rid of work. From his
looks / jedge he would like to buck
agin my remarks, but if he talks back
it will be contempt of court, and I'll
raise him out O. the game. When he
gifts the shirt he diskivers that it
ought to be washed. Some men would
hev taken a bar of soap and gone
down to the creek and rubbed away
fur a day or two, but Mr.. Shanger
had high-toned streak on. He car
ries the garment up to Hop-Lee, and
putin on his swaggerest style, he
seq:
"'Yere, you blamed wall-eyed son
of heather, washee, this shirtee
plenty goodee and mighty nice, and
I'll drop around after it in two days.
"These are facts which no one dis
rutes," said his honor as he turned
over a dozen pages of the Bible to
SlllhC HSN CHdP LcdS lWlSc, tllS
court hasn't heard 'em disputed, and
he probably won't. AFTER two days
Tom goes up to the Confucius wash
house fur his shirt. Hop-Lee greets
him with a smile of welcome. The
shirt has been washed and ironed and
dried, and is awaitin' its owner. Now
arises the question of pay. There are
critters at Sandy Bend who never put
on clean shirts; there are others who
wash their own at long intervals; there
are others, STILL who argy that a
heather ought to be mighty proud to
wash white mans shirt free, gratis.
fur nothin'. Tom Shanger is one of
the latter class. He was fur takin' that
shirt away without handin' over any
dust, but Hop-Lee files an objection.
His eyes are on the squipt, his knees
knock together, and he'd sooner eat a
rat than rabbit, but he amt washin
shirts fur the fun of the thing. He's
in bizness TO make his pile and go back
to Chiny and run a duck-farm, and his
motto is: No payee-no shirtee.' In
the language OF high society. Tom
Shanger is turned down fur Is cents.
I'VE hev got our facts, and now fur
what they calls evidence. Facts and
evidence may be all one puddin' in the
east, but it amt so we're. We want
each one of them to stand out fur it
self. The evidence goes to show that
Tom grabbed that shirt to take it away,
and that Hop-Lee also grabbed it to
hang on till his wash-bill was paid.
The plaintiff can't talk the English
language fit fut coyotes to listen to,
and the white man is liar from way
back. Howsumever, we kin imagine
how it was. They jawed and jawed
and fit ard fit. They kussed each other
and abused each others relations.
Bimeby, as they kept it up, the material
result follered. There was rip and
a tear, and Tom Shanger had the body
of the shirt in his hands and Hop-Lee
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after him. Thus he ran until he had
just reached the door of the packing
house. Then, quick as wink, he
turned and galloped down a side pas
sage and escaped, while the other cattle
went onward into the building.
Judas had been SO very clever that the
good-natured cattlemen let him go for
that day, for genius is to be appre-
ciated in a steer as well as in a man.
The next day, however, they drove him
up again with another herd. This time
he made not the slightest objection,
but trotted forward quietly, and the
other steers, having a confident lead
er, behaved admirably. But just as
Judas reached the door of the building
he lodged again, SO suddenly that the
men couldn't turn him, and escaped
as he had done before, while the herd
behind him went careering into the
killing room.
Since then Judas has been a regular
employe of the cattle yards. Every
day he leads up a herd of cattle and
every day he lodges just at the door
of the building. lie has saved the cat
tlemen no end of trouble and delay
with riotous herds since he began his
service. He has grown fat and sleek
on the good living of the yards, and so
highly are his services regarded that
the cattlemen provide him with white
blanket on cold days to keep him com
Portable.
And thus he is living to green old
age, but he bears the disrespectful
name of Judas-the Chicago
Letter in Detroit Free Press.
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understood by very many of the present
generation as one of the real necessi-
ties of their lives.
Fairy Rings.

Mr.. Steele has an article In knowledge
on Fairy Rings those green circles in
pastures which were formerly believed
TO be caused by the midnight revelry
of the fairins. They are caused by a
fungus whtse spawn spreads centrif-
ugally in every direction and forms a
common felt from which the fruit rises
at its extreme edge, the soil of the inner
disk Is exhausted, and the spawn dies
there while it spreads all round in an
outward direction and produces an
other crop, whose spawn spreads again.
The rank growth of the grasses com
posing these rings is probably due to
the fungus taking up from the soil or
ganic nitrogen which lis not available
to the grasses, and in some way be-
coming the medium Of supply of the soil
nitrogen to the grasses forming the
circ.e.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
JUDGE HOKE
Not Much Law at Sandy Bend, But Lots of Justice.
BY NJ. QUAD. Copyrighted,
BY NJ. QUAD.
(Copyrighted)

the tail. That's the evidence, and now
Gums what may be called corroboation.
The Chinyman brings me the tail of the
shirt and black eye and wants justice
done, and he has only departed when
in walks Tom with the body of the shirt
and slaps it down on the bar of my sa-
loon and SEE:
"'Jest look at that, will yer, and then
tell me, is there any jestice fur a white
man in these diggins!'
1--WE hev had facts and evidence and
confederation, and we now cum to tes-
tmony. There's the shirt and the
shirt-tail. The court will now ask
Hop-Lee if the defendant offered to pay
his wash bill?"
Him no payee," replied the China
man, as he rose.
1.-The court will now ask Tom Shan
ger why he didn't put down the dust?"
Didn't hev it, replied Tom.
did you promise to pay at some fu-
ture time?"
Il did, your honor; / spent over an
hour talkin' soft soap to the heather,
but he was sot. 1t has cum to purity
pass when a heather won't take a
white mans word fur Is cents"
That's powerful true, Tom, but /
can't say I'm blamin the bloomin
heather so very much. I'm noticin'
that very few white men are takin'
promises in place of cash. Wal, we've
got in the testimony, and next follers
the decision. The warrant was fur as
sault and battery, and there aip't no
doubt about your punchin' Hop-lee in
the eye. i amt goin to rest the case on
that punch alone, as airy of us is liable
to swat a Chinyman any day in the
year. I'm takin' the hull thing tc-
gether, from the time you traded your
shovel fur the shirt. 1t was a plan on
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
A DOLL GYMNASIUM.
1t Is Highly Prlxed by Dollhouse
Owners md Keeps Mal0e-De-
Iieve People In Fine Trim.

Did you ever see doll gymnasium?
Well, you can have one if your broth
ers will help you. All that is needed il
the common pocketknife and little
soft wood. Any boy can white out
the bars shown in the diagrams and set
them up for his sister. Take an ordi-
nary cigar box lid, or any fiat piece of
board five or six inches square. Bore
two holes in it, about four inches apart,
and glue the whitfield ends of the two
uprights into them.
Then put the horizontal piece in place
by fixing its ENDS in the uprights, and
you have good horizontal bar for the
dolls to practice on. The parallel bars
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ried over the falls. The falls are 40
feet high, and consist of two pitches
and the rapids. Of course the man was
given up for dead, and the driving crew
thought it useless to search the river
for his body, as the logs were piling over
the falls at rapid rate. The next
morning, however, the Indian walked
into camp for breakfast. He had been
swept down the river and up against the
bank, where he managed to crawl out.
Finding only few scratches and
bruises, but being, as he remarked.
rather tired he lay down and slept
until daylight, and was none the worse
for his adventure
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
EYEGLASSES AND WHY.
The Increase in the Number Worn
Not nm Evidence CT DeTenera-
ton of the Eyes.

The question is often asked, particu
Iarly by those who can recall the Gus
toms ard experiences of % years ago:
"Why do so many persons nowadays
wear glassese" The answer is easy:
1.-THE increase in the number of spec
tacles worn is not to be regarded as an
evidence of modern degeneration OF the
eyes, but rather that a long-felt ne
cessity has been met" For it should
be remembered that within the past
quarter of century much has been
learned about the value of glasses, and
the range of their application and use
fulness has been enormously extended.
OF course, the eyes need more help now
than formerly, as the amount of work
they are required to do is much greater
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-30
DUTCH LOVE SUNDAYS.
Four Sabbaths In November Are Fete
Days in the Land of bikes
and bitches.

The four Sundays of November are
Observed as fete days in Holland.
They are known by the curious names
of Review, Decision, Purchase and
Possession, and all refer to matri-
monial affairs, November in Holland
being the month par excellence de-
voted to courtship and marriage, prob
ably because the agricultural occupa-
tions of the year are over, and pos
sibly because the lords of creation
from quite remote antiquity have rec
ognized the pleasantness of having
wives to cook and cater for them dur
ing the long winter, says the Denver
News.
On Review Sunday everybody goes
to church, and after service there is
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church parade in every village, when
the youths and maidens gaze upon
each other, but forbear to speak.
On Decision Sunday each bachelor
who is seeking wife approaches the
maiden of his choice with ceremonj-
Gus bow, and from her manner of re-
spending judges whether his advances
are acceptable. Purchase Sunday the
consent of the parents is sought if the
suit has prospered during the week.
Not till Possession Sunday, however,
as actual or prospective brides and
prOOmS,
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In the Austrian court it is contrary
to custom for per,shable articles TO APP
pear twice on the imperial table. The
result is large perquisites to the at
tendants. Toone man falls all uncorked
bottles, to another the wine left in the
glasses, to another the joints, and to
another, still the game or the sweets.
Every morning a sort of market is held
In the basement of the palace, where
the Niennese come to purchase the re-
mains
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The Explanation of a Term,

Mabel--Papa, why do they call any
body who buys all kinds of expensive
art goods collector?
Her Banker Father-I presume it's
because it keeps him hustling for
money to crafty his tastes!-Jewel-
ers' Weekly
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Peoples Names in Ireland.

ireland has $1,000 people named Muir
ply; Kelly, $4,000; Sullivan, $4,000;
Walsh, 41,7oo; Smith, $4,000; O'Brien,
33.4oo; Byrne, $4,000; Ryan, 80, 900; Con-
nor, 1920; O'Neil, 100, and Reilly,
10000. Kelly is Kildare name, Sulli-
van Cork and Kerry and Byrne Dublin
and Wicklow.-N. Y. Sun.