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UNCLE SAM SLOW.
rakeG Much Time Over sixteen
 Cent Bill as Any Others.

rakeG Much Time Over & sixteen
 Cent Bill as Any Others.
 A grizzled veteran of two big wars and several smaller Indian combats, was relating stories Of his experience while in the service of Uncle Sam. One of them that will show your Un- cle Samuel one of the real business men of the world is told by the vet eran, as follows: tsI went through the civil war, and rose from the vol. unteer ranks to a first-lieutenancy. and was assigned to the regular army. In June. 1873. while attached to the quartermaster's department of my troop I disposed of some oil to private parties. In selling the oil I sold one gallon more than I had, and turned the money over to headquarters be- fore discovered my mistake. I then wrote the department at Washington asking 1t to return the price of the oil, so that I might have my accounts strengthened. AS only sixteen cents was involved thought the matter would end by the return mail bringing back the amount of the claim. h that I was much mistaken, as I am still forced to answer documents that read Tn reply to yours of June, 1873.' my possession stack of documents weighing not less than fifty pounds. and still they come"
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PRICES FOR SKELETONS.
I Latest Quotations from the European
 Markets for Teeth

Palper Europe has caused an out cry from new line of American in- dustry, says the Philadelphia Times. American articulators of skeletons are up in arms against the importation of the pauper skeletons of Europe. Ma tive bones, ill consequence of recent importations, are quiet and depressed, while the demand is for the products Of the French and German markets. F1rst-elass American skeletons are a drug in the market at $S01250, while the Gallic or Teutonic article, not one whit more seryiceable, brings fancy price. A recent Frenchman, who hap pened to depart this life with full set of teeth is offered at $35, ordinarily imported skeletons going from $20 to S2750, according to the number of teeth they were shy. Purchasers can, Aot be fooled by false teeth. The only superiority in the foreign article is in the matter of complexion. Frenchmen and Germans who have shed all of themselves except their bones bleach better, or their survivors are able to bleach them better. In the matter Of articulation the American workman is perhaps the superior of the European artist, but he cannot get i'll the tints and the refreshing shades of complex zion so much admired by skeleton ex- perts. or those who desire such articles for household ornamentation Skulls are $2.5O03.25, varying according to size and the skill displayed in prepara- tion. A skull that was prepared for the market with brick is not ill as much favor as one that found its way in by the natural channels. The de- mand for pelyises is light, at S140@ 265; tibia, in slight call at 45@55c. Feet articulated are quoted: Lefts, s2Q2.75; rights, $2.10@2.S5; west sides (by weight only), s4.30. Hands are slow and generally unsatisfactory at $1@450, although fancy price, $68.40, was paid for one recently just before the close of the market, or rather all inspection was secured of it for that sum. Wooden legs are heavy and slow, but continue moving up and down a peg. In teeth it's the same old grind. Full sets are moving up and down at S3@125; bieuspids, by the brace, are steady at $24275; molars. dull at 76e Q$6 Wisdom are dear.
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 BURIED HIS LEG.
And Had an Expensive Tombstone Placed
 Over the Grave.

Calumet (Mieh.) Correspondence Of the Detroit Journal: In the little vil lage of L'Anse lives a shoemaker named Peter Murphy, who is one or the most eccentric men in northern Michigan on just one subject. Ten years ago the physicians found 1t nee- essary to amputate one of his legs just above the knee. When he recovered from the operation he decided that the part of his leg which had been taken off was dead and therefore it should be buried and he arranged to have funeral service. The amputated mem Der was placed in a small coffin and buried with all the pomp and cere- mony Mir. Murphy would have ex- pected if 1t had been his own funeral. He attended the funeral himself and wept genuine tears as the earth was shoveled on top of the rough box. But this didn't end his devotion to that part of his body which was dead. He purchased an expensive tombstone, had a likeness of the leg cnt into the stone. and then had it inscribed with the facts of the case, telling that 1t was Peter Murphy's leg, and the date Of the funeral. Although this all hap pened ten years ago, Mr. Murphy never negleets the sacred spot where his leg is buried, and every week he hobbies out to the cemetery. where in the sum- ner time he keeps the grave prettily decorated with flowers. His wish is that when he dies the remainder of his body shall be inferred with his leg. Murphy is a veteran of the civil war, and his injuries during one of the bat tIes were the indirect cause of his hay- ing the leg cut off.
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Sale ogLlauof.

Washington Special New York Times: 4 decision Of Justice Brewer has been raked up which may enable druggists to sell some kinds of liquor wEn communities under the control Of 'tAe federal government where such practices are supposed to be prohibited The District of Columbia pharmaceu- tieal Association has been trying to find out how it can prevent the sale of certain kinds of malt extracts, and has been enlisting the aid Of the dis trict government. As a result of the investigation of the legal aspect of the question it has been found that the act of congress regulating the sale of Intoxicating liquors esistalns no aef- nition of intoz ating liquors. An opin5an giVea V the district attorney cites ssA Cd of Justice Brewer,
 .0lalng that the lion whether any tieular compound ls within or with c4t tae .aw is question of fact
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aiRi, MOTION.
rhsnss Thar Have Been Found Out by

Ihanss IhaI Have Beeu Found Out hy
 the A rship inyen ors.
 In flight the body is moved forward by the resistance of the air to the strokes of the wings. The reason why the start is the most laborioas part of the process IS thus explained by N. Marcy, the great authority of all forms of animal locomotion: When the bird is not yet in motion, the air struck by it's wings first Of all presents resistance due to it's inertia, then be- gins to move, and flies below the wing. without affording any support. When the bird is at full speed, on the con- trary, its wings are supported each succeeding moment by new columns of air, each one offering the initial re- sistance due to it's inertia The sum of these resistanees presents to the winds much f1rmer basis The in- crease of the resistance of the air dtminishes the labors of the bird. Tn calm air seagull at it's swiftest ex- bends scarcely a fifth of the labor which it had to put forth at the be- ginning of it's flight. The bird which flies against the wind Is in still better conditions, fresh masses of air con- tinually presenting themselves to it's wings. The start Is, therefore, the most laborious phase of flight Hence birds employ all kinds of artifices to acquire motion before Tapping their wings. Some run along the ground be- fore darting into the air, others jump rapidly in the direction in which they wish to fly. Others, again, let them selves drop from height with ex- tended wings. All turn their bills to the wind at the moment of starting."
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What raise keport Did.

! M. Sinclair. high sheriff of Done gal. Ireland, committed suicide by shooting himself Aug. 2S, on receipt of the announcement that his daughter, IS years old, had been drowned in another part Of the county The lat ter story now turns cut fo be false. and has caused an immense sensation in the county. where the family is most prominent The author of the false hood, which caused the father to com- gatf suicide t unknown.
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Served Her Right.

The Kansas City Star tells of Trip let tISan.1 girl who sent a dollar to z sma9t New Yorker f9r "sure. cure for freekles This is tlaa recipe which she received: ReVs the freckies carefully with pocket Knife. soak tilem overnight in salt water; then hang up ill the smokehouse in T good, strong smoke made of aast and slippery elm bark for a weah. F'reckles tla4s sated never fail to b. tAoroughe ly cured
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EARTH IS GETTING SMALLER,
At Least It's Peoples Are Coming Closer
 Together Every Day.

Together Every Day.
 From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat One of the wonders of this marvellous age is the rapidity with which the re- mote quarters of the earth are being brought close together. According to the Russian minister of railroad, when Russia's new trans-Siberian railroad is finished the trip around the world can be made in thirty-three days. When Jules Verne, just twenty-five years ago, sent the fictitious Phineas Fegg around the world in eighty days this exploit was deemed to be as near the absolutely impossible as at one time Puek's feat was of putting a girG1e round about the earth in forty min utes.' Two American women travel ing in opposite directions, beat Fogg's mythical exploit a few years ago. When the Russian railroad is built, however, the record of their journeys will, in the comparison, seem like the old stage coach and sailing vessel tray- els do today With what ineredulity would the nayigators of a century ago lOOhCo ell Ii1G IO1 lliIO1ulIS 1eao- sian lime table The remnant of the fleet with which Magellan left San Lu- car, in Spain, in 1519, returned to that port in 1922. Three years, lacking two weeks, were required for the circum- navigation of the earth. The first of the British world eirclers, Drake, who sailed halY century later, was as long making the distance Cook, who made the journey century later than Drake. was two years ten months on the voy age. III the century and a half be- tween Magellan and Cook the time of the world circuit has been shortened in only an imperceptibie degree. There lad been but little improvement in rhe speed of the ocean vessels since the days when 0dysseus in his shallop, af ter the Trojan war, started on his re- turn to Ithica. No improvement of consequence, indeed, was made until the days when steam began 10 be ap piled to ocean navigation and that was at such a comparatively recent date that on May 24, 1919. the day on which Victoria was born, the first steamboat which ever crossed the Atlantic start ed, leaving Savannah for Liverpool. and taking twenty-six days to make the voyage, which would now be made In less than six
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A Map Of 71rance ID stone.

Tie map of France in stone, which the Russians are preparing for the Paris exhibition, is 2 remarkable spe- einen of the lapi1ary. $ skill. It shows sach individual department in coloeed jasper, while the sea is represented by lanis 1azuii the rivers by platinum and the ld6 towns marked by precious stones. The countries bordering on France are given in gray jasper, and fourteen islands are represented by stones of the same color as that nsed for the adjacent mainland. The map vests on a marble slab about three feet square. and it is proposed to enclose 1t in a silver frame.
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Dogs Battle with a Caotns.

Otto Kleemann. who lives on Bel mont street, recently acquired a leau- tiful cactus, which he established in his household, unmindful of the fact that his dog held the opinion that his master should have no other pets be- fore him. Now he has no cactus and the dejteted semblanee of 9 dog. The litte animal espied the plant soon after tta arrival, and issued a challenge. In default of acceptance, he gave battle, but retired at the first shock to recon sider. The enemy had more teeth thar d battalion of bull terriers, and all of them were newly sharpened. He was no quitteF, however. and with rising an. ger he renewed the attack. This time his opponent came down, landing on him heavily and with the touch of barb-wire fence The two rolled over and over in death embrace, and the cactus was finally vapquished, torn in to shreds and scattered about the room. But 1t was g costly victory. The con- queror is punctured in more places than his owner can count He may live to fight another day, but it will net De with a cactus.-Oregeniar
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Chinese Tea Transported Through kaasls

The Siberian News, of Tomsk, is ona of the few newspapers published in si- beria. and gives some interesting par ticulars in regard to the transportation of Chinese tea through Russia. The Tomsk newspaper says proudly that in the first twenty days of last January no less than 19,090 sieighs loaded with tea passed through the Siberian city. Every sleigh carries usually five bales 0f tea, packed in ox skin, each weigh.
 ing from 109 10 t6o pounds mers sleep on the sleighs during the trip across Siberia. which lasts nearly one year. It would be shorter to send the Chinese tea by sea; but in this ease the custom house duties are high while they are comparatively small on tea imported by the land route Russian merchants. who lave long lad most ot the European tea business in theif lands. are greatly disturbed over the great growth in puB6e favor Of the Cey1on teas which are distributed from Loade2
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  Almost Miraculous The $ GeHt Bottle contains M Doses Two Weeks Treatment for Gatar HOTTIE soTYAEs.
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WHl I.rlns snll ln galfea .fs.es s.anrI

1lse Aeifs efi, Baron ds kalb. wae served iA taa Colonial army caring tht Revolutionary war, will bring suit i. tl-e United States courts f9e sale IG partition Of land which Was oaee owned by tHe aevefament The bafon left son. Sebastian whose #8h George went to Cincinnati fbe widow found sefae time ago papers a'hieh her coun. seI says give her tif5e to 1.100 acres Of land in the flcinitx Of clHllcothe. Ohio. which had leeH given 10. Baron de Kaih bY the government in payment for lis services. This traes of land is nnw ary valuable.
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Fernandina, Fla, is the largest ship ping point in the world for phosphate rock. The rock. which is used as a fertilizer, was discovered in Florida in 1888. In 1890 the shipments from Fe1- nandina amounted to f0,428 tons. Each rear it has increased. until last year i95,Qo0 tons were shipped from that port. This year it is expected that the shipments will reach 2SS,000 tons. All the phosphate rock shipped from Fer nandina goes to foreign countries. The harpor of Fernandina is unsurpassed by that of any Flor lda port tie depth of water over ii eng 225a feet
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03

In a dispatch received by the Navy
Department Thursday, Rear Admiral
Kempf, at Taku, called for reinforce
ments of ships and men to protect Amer
lean interests in China. He said that
he was in urgent need of them Instruc-
tons were accordingly sent by the Navy
Department TO Rear Admiral Remey, at
Manila, to send Kempff the reinforce
ments he wants. The departments in
structions to Remey show how seriously
the Government regards the situation in
China. More American soldiers are to
be sent also. Artillery is deemed neces-
sary for a successful march to Pekin,
and it is understood that some batteries
will be sent to Taku by Gen. Macarthur.
The Government has become satisfied
that the Boxer troubles will not blow
over easily, and is prepared to go to ex-
tremes to protect the lives and property
of Americans in the empire.
A special from Shanghai Friday gave
the report from japanese sources that
l,5OO foreigners had been massacred at
Tien-Tsin. An official dispatch received
in Washington from Rear Admiral
kempff, commanding the American
squadron at Taku was interpreted by
officials to mean that the Chinese Gov
eminent had committed a hostile act
which is practically a declaration of war
against the United States and other ma
tons. Admiral kempff says the Ameri-
can consulate at TienTsin has been de-
stroyed by bombardment and this is
taken to mean that the Chinese imperial
artillery conducted the shielding, as Box
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03
Told in a Few Lines.

German reichstag passed the naval bill.
Wall paper trust wants to dissolve. In
dependents hurt it.
Engineer John Hobensack was killed in
a wreck at Dean, Ohio.
While in Grand Rapids, Mich, Dewey
was made a Maccabee.
Nebraska gets second premium on APP
pies at the Paris exposition.
James Dunno Of the Chicago ambu-
lance corps was killed in South Africa
In a collision near Golden, \. T., En-
gineer VIM. Heating was killed
Miss Zoni Harvey, %. burned 10 death,
Eureka Springs, Ark. Lamp exploded.
President Harper Or Chicago Univer-
sity has returned from his European trip.
Queen WiIbelmina has ratified The
Hague peace convention, and 50 has
Spain.
Hamilton Hutchings shot and killed
has brother-in-law, Ernest Ross, al Utica,
Miss
4 phenomenal strike Of placer gold on
the vest coats q Vancouver Island is
rep5fted.
STATE OF Washington grand lodge Of
Masons voted not 10 admit liquor dealers
to membership.
Cyrus Mazerutte. Chicago, visited his
son, 0dilon. st Stockton. Cal He was SO
overcome at the meeting after so many
years Of separation that he died Of JOY.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03

ers are supposed to be without big guns,
or if they have them they are not capable
of using them. Cheefoo advices reported
that the bombardment of Tien-Tsin re-
suited in the foreign concessions being
nearly all burned and the American con-
sulate RACED to the ground. The Rus
slams were reported to be occupying the
railroad station, but were hard pressed.
The apprehensions as to the fate of the
Europeans cut off at Tien-Tsin were
sharpened by Admiral Kempf's message,
which was the first definite announce
ment of the bombardment and destruc-
ton of the foreign concession. But q
London correspondent says that in spite
of ShaE&sai's grim statement that the
Chinese used forty-pounders, and that
/ 800 foreigners were masSacred, there
is no reason to conclude that the foreign
colony has been unable to protect itself.
A Shanghai dispatch reports that Tien-
Tsin was bombarded for two days, that
the casualties were 100, that 5000 inter
national troops are there and that the
allied commanders at Taku are hastily
pushing forward a relief column. Anoth-
er Shanghai dispatch announces that all
the members of the foreign community of
Pei-Tai-Ho have arrived at Chefoo on
board the Nashville, but they left all
their possessions behind them.
All the English women at Tien-Tsin
left there Saturday by a train for Taku.
Shanghai wires that they had some ex-
citing experiences and would not have
got through except for the assistance Of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03
Sparks from the Wires.

Joseph II. Chassaing, GA, well-knoBus
steamboat and hotel man, is dead in st.
Louis.
Several japan horsemen are IN Ken
lucky inspecting the great breeding
farms.
Pierre Lorillard's famous 100000
houseboat Caiman was destroyed BY FIRE
while anchored in the river near New
smyrna, Fla
The Department Of Agriculture esti-
mated the total area planted in cotton az
25,5JS,O00 acres, an increase Of 2,O36, 900,
or 81 per cent over last year.
Charles Cranston, while hur-yiug to.
reach New York to celebrate his 2OtlM
birthday, fell under freight train
Plainfeld, y. j., and was ground
pieces.
John x. Mclean, before departing al
Europe, admitted sending $4,000 to 1
Bryan fund.
American Minister Merry's mails v S-e
robbed in the postoiiice at San Jose, o.
ia Riea.
BY an accident 600 letters were gr3unsA
to pieces in the Brooklyn bridge pneL-
matte ta0e at New York
The cotton acreage this year win be
the largest on record, and win not fall
far short Of 2G,0O0.000 acres
The first electric cars on the Island on
Cuba began operations March Z, when
the line from Regla to Guanabacoa was
opened.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03

force. The Russians lost -four killed and
thirty wounded. The other nationalities
suffered trihing loss. The naval com
manders have appointed Commander
Wise of the American gunboat Mona
cacy commandant at Tong-Ku. He will
superintend the dispatching of s.pply
trains to the front.
Maj Gen. Adna r. Chaffee has been
ordered to take command of the United
States land forces in China and is now on
his way This means, correspondent
asserts, that the Government will not
parley with the Chinese viceroys or wait
on the action Of the powers, but will at
the earliest possible moment place
strong military force in the Chinese cap
ital for tie protection Of American citi-
zens and officials. Gen. Chaffee's imme-
date command will consist of the Ninth,
Fourth and Twentieth infantry, to be
sent from Manila. and the Sixth cavalry,
which has left San Francisco. Gen.
Chaffee should be on the scene Of action
by Aug. /.
A fresh phase Of the ebullition in China
is the probability of immediate outbreaks
In the great southern provincial centers.
The populace there is daily assuming a
more hostile attitude toward foreigners,
and the latter perceive symptoms Of
general rising. especially at Marking,
where, according to dispatch, Kang
WI, one of the most truculent enemies
of foreigners, has arrived by way of the
Grand canal armed with full powers from
the empress TO deal with the southern
provinces
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03
DULLNEss OF MIDSUMMER.
Distributive Trade Is Going Through
the Season of Quietness.

Distributive Trade Is Going Through
the Season of Quietness.
Bradstreet's says: Midsummer dull
ness in distributive trade and industry
and further reductions of prices of manu-
featured goods, particularly iron and steel
and raw textiles, but marked upward
movement in nearly all agricultural pro-
ducts, are the leading features of the
business situation this week. Some weak
ness has been noted in cotton goods, with
out, however, favorably affecting distri-
button. Retail trade in dry goods has
been helped by warmer weather Wool
is lower, and the wooden goods market is
rather quiet. Weakness of prices is still
the leading feature of the iron trade.
Wheat, including -four, shipments for the
week aggregate 4,645, $50 bushels. against
4,61S,O29 bushels last week. Corn ex-
ports for the week aggregate 2,514, 593
bushels, against 1854, 205 bushels last
week"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03
STRIKE ABOUT OVER.
BOYCOTT STILL AN ACTIVE RE-
MiNDER OF TROUBLE.
Last of Sherif's Posse Comitatus Is
Disbanded-Cars Running Regularly
and Well Patronized Election of
: Officers by Worlds w. c. ~.

Except for the boycott and 900 extra
policemen on duty, but little remains to
tell of the great strike on the ST. Louis
Transit Company's system, inaugurated
May g. Cars are in operation on all the
lines without hindrance, and are well pat
ronized, except on those running north
and south. Many thousand persons, be-
cause of the boycott and through sympa-
thy for the strikers, patrOnize wagons
and buses manned by ex-street railway
employees. This is especially true in the
north and south sections of the city. The
other day the rest of the force of Sheriff
Pohlman's posse cOmitatus, about 600
men, was mustered out of service for
good, the board of police commissioners
deciding they were no longer needed.