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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
FIGURES FOR FLY-TTME.
Twelve or Thirteen Generations Pro-
duced In a su IN mer and Millions
from One Fly.

An exchange quotes distinguished
entomoiogist as saying that single
female fly will lay 1870 eggs during her
life OF 10 to Is days, and that of these
90 or leo will produce other flies, says
The Louisville Courier journal. Dur
ing a summer 12 or 10 generations Of
these flies will be produced, so that
millions in one season may be the des-
cendants of single fly. millions"
is feeble word to express the number
that would be produced under this esti-
mate. Putting the first generation
at 100, and allowing that half Of them
are females, the second generation
would number 5, 900, with 2, 500 females.
The third generation would number
100000. the fourth 1880, 900, and the
fifth 81, 100000. Continuing the calcu-
lation on the same system to the
twelfth generation, we should get a
grand total of 1882 S12, 500 900 900 900,
or expressed in words, four quintil.
lions eight hundred and eighty-two
quadrllons, eight hundred and twelve
trillions, five hundred billions, a mum
Der quite inconceivable. Estima ting
the population Of the earth at a billion
and a half, this would give 3,255 POS
333 13 flies to every man, woman, and
child on earth, all the descendants of
one fly in a single summer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
TITLES WERE UP FOR SALE.
French Noble man Conferred X night-
hood and Decorations on ALI
Who Would Buy.

Prince de Vltanval is man of cour-
age and imagination. He is young
Frenchman, whose real name Is La
forge, who has just returned to Paris
after serving SIX months sentence for
unlawfully selling orders of nobil-
ity. His history, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser, is interesting
as showing what young man of mag
nation and courage can do. A year or
SO ago he began to negotiate with the
vatican for title. Had he, penniless
youth, asked for simple knighthood
of St. Gregory he might have had some
trouble in getting it, but his aim was
higher than that. He asked for the I'll
tie of prince. The papal nuncio said
1t would cost him $4,000, and he re-
quested the nuncio to get the patent.
The vatican made him prince and he
forgot to pay for the honor, which
minor fact, however, has not invali-
dated his title.
AS soon as he got his title he organ
lied an order Of knighthood, which he
called the "Order of st. Leon" and be-
gan to sell titles for this at good
price to any one vrho wanted to buy.
A decoration is very dear to certain
class of Frenchmen, and the prince
prospered SO much that he contem-
plated buying an estate on the Riviera
which would place his princedom on
secure foundation. About this time
the law stepped in and decided that he
had no right to sell the decoration,
He was prosecuted and sentenced to
serve six months in Jail and pay fine
of 1000 francs. He paid the fine and
served his sentence.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
LIAM WHO DARED NOT SMILE.
United states Citizen Was Forced to
Frown mt Funny Stories to
Save His Life.

A naturalized citizen of the United
States, ID. Asadodrian, an Armenian,
who is in business in Cleveland, was
locked up in Constantinople, Turkey.
charged with conspiracy. Through
the offices of some Turkish business
men he was released under $1,000
bonds, effective during his stay of so
days. He has just returned to his
home here, reports a Cleveland ex-
change. Concerning his experience he
said:
81 went there on business. AS soon
as my presence became known the Of
ficers came for me. They questioned
me, asking if 1 spoke the Armenian
language. This denied, because had
l admitted it l am sure that l would
never have returned to America. The
Turks fear American Armenians.
They think that in America the peo-
pie have an advanced knowledge of
high explosives, which might be used
to blow up the sultan. They suspected
me of being in sympathy with the Ar
menians. After putting me in prison
they had some men come into my cell
and tell funny stories in the Armenian
language. They wanted me to betray
my knowledge of 1t by laughing. But
l didn't laugh, for had | smiled
would not be here now to tell the tale
The stories were very funny, but
managed to keep a sober countenance
in spite of my wish to laugh"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
SALARIES OF ACTORS.
Are AbsurdIy Exaggerated in the
Public Mind and Actors Keep
Up the 1eceit.

Salaries of actors vary from almosI
nothing to $500 week, with few
exceptions that go above that, writes
f. f.. FyHss, in Leslie's Monthly. l
doubt though that any supporting
actor outside of Weber Il Fields com
pany gets more than $500. Those
that go above are stars, many OF
whom receive fixed salary and a
percentage on the profits. A female
star who crowded New York thea
ter the season before last for six
months received only $3.50, while her
leading man was getting $3.50. But
she was risky venture for her man
ager, who lifted her from a minor
position to stardom, and failure
would have cost him much. Many
stars are their own managers, and
engage n business man to direct
their affairs for n salary, as they
would a supporting actor. The gains
of actors are absurdly exaggerated in
the public mind, and even among
themselves they endeayor to keep
up the deceit. A reason that so many
English actors are imported Is that
players Of the first class in London
receive third less .han equally tai
elrted and well-known Americans.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
QUEER USE FOR HUMAN SKIN.
Mummies Ground by Machinery and
Converted Into Paint for
Artisaa' Colora.

Not many persons are aware OF the
fact that the best brown paint used
by artists is made from human
bodies. The bones and skin, which
are ground up by artists colormen
and sold in tiny tubes, are those of
mummies taken out of the Egyptian
mausoleums.
When a person died in Egypt'a cen
fury or two b. C. he was preserved
in the finest bitumen. The remains
of body treated thus in those time s
on being unwrapped to-day present
an appearance similar to light
colored heather. The bitumen and
the leather-like remains are ground
down by machinery, and turned into
beautiful brown liquid paint which
is the delight of all artists.
In the manufacture of artists
colors, animal, vegetable and mineral
substances are largely used, states
the Detroit News-Tribune. Crimson
and purple lakes and carmine are all
obtained from the cochineal insect.
Sepia is the dark fluid discharged by
the cuttlefish to render the water
opaque for it's own concealment
when attacked by larger fish. Prus-
sian blue is made by fusing the hoofs
of horses with impure potassium car
Donate, and uitramarine is obtained
from the precious mineral known as
lapis lazuli
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
DeWet's Military Staitis.

Gen. DeWet, the sturdy Boer leader
carried his independence with him to
London and showed il in marked fash
ion during his interview with Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain. The latter
addressed him as "Mr. DeWet," where
upon the warrior from South Africa
corrected him by saying Gen. De
Wet" Almost Immediately afterward
Mr.. Chamberlain repeated the Mr.
and DeWet said, sternly: General or
nothing" Then the suave Chamber.
lain followed Lord Kitcheners exam
pie and recognized the military
status Of his visitor.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
A SHOWER OF RATS.
Tornado Over a Town In
Algeria.

The town of Bougie, in Algeria, was
lately visited by shower of rats.
For many years thousands of rats,
In company with many hundreds Of
monkeys, inhabited the Couraya, a
high mountain towering over Bougie.
The great storm which swept ahem
from the mountain arose early in the
Afternoon, and soon developed into q
furious hurricane. A huge funnel
shaped cloud of dust and stones hurled
itself over the mountain, destroying
everything in its path. Oddly enough.
most Of the monkeys managed to hold
on to the pine trees, although the
larger portion of them were killed;
but literally thousands of rats were
carried high into the air and strewn
in vast numbers over the Grand Phare
and the suburbs of Bougie.
The Kabyle tribes of the neighbor-
hood, who are extremely supersti-
tious, were terribly frightened and
fled in all directions, spreading terror
over the district. They believed that
the rats were sent down from the skies
to punish them, and that the end of
the world had come. In the town the
more intelligent Arabs were less
superstitious and promptly set to
work to kill those rats which were
not already dead. But there we're so
many of them still alive and they
found such convenient hiding places
that the hunt is still going on.
The suprefect of Bougie went out
into the country on his motor car to
reassure the Kaybles, and finally sue
ceeded in pacifying the chiefs so that
the people returned to their homes.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
REVEALS INCONSISTENCIES.
Absurdities i'm Dress Are Brought Ouf
In Noticeable Way by the
Camera.

"If women would but remember"
remarked the Photographic artist,
"that the gown when composed of
more than one material should look
like one garment worn over the 9TH
err, they would save themselves from
some grievous artistic errors in
dress. Take the case of the double
sleeve now SO popular. The idea Is
that of a comparatively heavy outer
sleeve, cut away to show the lighter
and generally prettier arm covering,
and a woman with any artistic feeling
always preserves that effect, even
though she may not act on any definite
principle.
"But artistic feeling is a rare thing;
therefore, the double sleeve is the oc-
casion of many artistic atrocities. One
actually sees such sleeves cut in two
at the elbow in order that the puff of
silk may be inserted, thus leaving the
lower half without any apparent con-
nection with the shoulder, and nothing
to prevent it, so far as the eye can see,
from sliding off the arm. The sleeve
may with perfect propriety be slashed
at the elbow to show silk lining, but
to cut it in two for the purpose Of in
serting another material is merely max
ing patchwork of it. Another custom
is to put the material with which the
sleeve terminates over, instead Of un-
der, the predominating material, thus
destroying the idea of an undersleeve
entirely, and leaving the construction
without any show of reason for it's
existence.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
ANN ARBOR RAILROAD

Passenger and Car Ferry Steamship Line,
BETWEEN
Manit0woc. Wis.,. and Frankfort, Mich.
Where connection Is made with Ann Arbor
R. r. trains fer all points IN Michigan.
the South and East.
BETW. FRANKFORT AND MANITOWOC
Leave Manitowoc daily, except Monday $50 q m
FROM KEWAUNEE TO MANITOWOC. =
Lv. Kewaunee Tues, Thurs.and Satur. q m
Ar Manitow &C Tues, Thurs. and Satur. s a m
CONDENSED SCHEDULE ANN ARBoR RAILROAD
TRAINS.
TRAIN No. 1. TRAIN No. 8
Leave Frankfort l0:lOam 1880 D m
Arrive Cadillac R:55 pm l0:l6 m
:" Ann Arbor 8;35 pm ll:30 IN
!" Toledo 1000 pm loo p IN
Arrive Traverse City via Pere Marquette Rail
road 12:40 y m VIII IN
Arrive Detroit via Grand Trunk Railway
9:20pm u 'N a IN.
e. 8. LORD. AGENT,
Manitowoc Wis
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ITALY'S FADING GLORY.
Said to lie On the Verge Of
COiIapsing.

Alarming accounts come from
Aquila as to the condition of the
campanile of San Bernardino. A large
crack has appeared in the southwest
corner of the tower, which is de-
scribed as in imminent danger of col
lapse, says a report from Rome.
1t is possible that the imagination
of the local correspondents is still
under the enlvening influence of the
Venice catastrophe, but the com
handing officer of the garrison at
Aquila considered the danger grave
enough to necessitate the evacuation
of part of the barracks adjoining the
tower, and special engineer has
been sent to ascertain the measures
necessary for it's preservation.
The campanile of San Bernardino
was built in 1472. 1t was struck by
lightning, which knocked down sew
eral feet of the upper part, in 1867,
but the earthquake of 1903, which
destroyed many buildings in the
neighborhood, left it untouched.
At a recent congress of engine ers
at Cagliari motion framed by the
architect, Luca Beltrami, was read
which met with loud applause. The
motion proposes in defense Of 1taly's
historical buildings radical reor-
ganization of the whole bureau
which is charged with their care.
The most important suggestion is
that travelling inspectors should not
hold their appointments for life, but
their appointment should be renew
able according to the merit OF their
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which ERECT certain. speedy ana perma-
nent cures.
X RAY examination in appropriate
cases upon reasonable notice.
HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED.
Many hundI eds of sufferers pronounc-
ed by other physicians ~ hopelessly in
durable, have been restored to health by
Dr. Secrist.
Letters of Endorsement from many
prominent clergymen and hundreds of
grateful patients are on file in his office.
The doctor has devoted much time
and attention in the French Hospitals to
the study of
ALL SPECIAL DISEASES OF MEN,
and has imported many special medi-
cines and appliances necessary to effect
certain cures in the worst cases of
Physical Weakness, Varicocele, Impo-
tency Nervous Debility, etc.
caused by youthful errors, night losses,
general dissipation, improper treatment
and neglect.
The doctor will forfeit $500 where q
cure il guaranteed and not effected.
| KIDNEY and BLADDER disease
treated by new and eminently success
| full methods.
CATARRH in all its various forms;
positive, prompt and permanent cures
always effected
| CLUB FEET, cross eyes and all other
deformities treated with special care
and unfailing success.
| NERVOUS DISEASES, Epilepsy and
diseases of the BLOOD AND SKIN al
ways yield to the doctors modern meth
dds of treatment
PILES cured permanently without de.
tention from business and without the
use of the knife.
| LUNG TROUBLES receive careful
attention, and are always treated sue
cessfully, when not toe long neglected.
DELAY IS DANGEROUS-Those
who are chronically ailing should lose
no time in consulting II special physician
whose reputation for skill is 80 well and
widely known.
Special attention given to
| DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN.
No unnecessary exposure. No exam
nation. No sacrifice of modesty.
The doctor does not publish his pa
Uients' names except with their full con-
cent and approval. English, French
md German spoken. Address,
DIR. II. G. SECRIST,
Chicago and Milwaukee,
| Address all mail to Milwaukee Offices,
Y. Il Cor. Wisconsin and f. Water
streets.
I'd Floor over &. M Il st. p. R'y City
Ticket Offices. Elevator ut f. Water
It. Entrance, opposite Pabst Building.
Established 1880
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Ought 10 He mendvilIe.

A curious political situation is pre-.
scented in Greenwich, Conn, where
three rich men, each named Mead, have
been nominated on separate tickets
for members of the state assembly
There are 2,700 voters In the town, and
of these almost ten per cent. are OF
the same name, including the wealthi
asst and most influential citizens.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
Bed Worth a Fortune.

Countess Anna de Castellane, once
Anna Gould, sleeps in the great bed of
Nine. de Sevigne. than which there is
no finer in all the world. 1t is made
of gilded cedar wood inlaid with pre-
cious stones, and has painted panels
by the greatest masters Of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
Buddhist ENTER of America.

1t is stated that san Diego, in south
ern California, is fast becoming the
Buddhistic center Of America. In one
house there has been erected shrine
to Buddha, and the owner, woman
of means, has brought Buddhist
priest from India, who gathers large
congregation together every week.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
Germany. Cofree Farms.

German farms occupy nearly 1,00o,-
900 acres in Central America. on which
over 10000, 900 coffee trees are planted.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
Demonstrn ted.

A San Francisco boy will get well
from an accident with part of his
brains GONE, says the Baltimore Amer
lean. Science is proving every day
that brains are not more essential to
living than many people have suspe' :
ed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
WISCONSIN GNTRAL
RAILWAYO.
PASSENGER TRAINS.

Between Manitowoc Leave Arrive
and Manitowoc Manitowo'
Collins, Hilbert juno $50 A. nj. 9:45 A. NJ,
ton, Sherwood, Nee
nah, Menasha 3:l5 p. Nj. 7:W +. ID.
Stevens Point Marsh
Geld, Chippewa Falls,
Eau Claire. st. Paul, $50 A. M 7:W p. ID.
Minneapolis Hurley
Irunwood Bessemer.
ST. Paul Minneapolis,
Ashland, Duluth and : 1915 p. NJ 9:45 A. N.
Pacific coast points.
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac,
Milwaukee, Wauke- $3.50 A. III. 9:45 A. M.
sha, Chicago and 3l5 p. ID. 700 T. III.
points East and South
All trains daily except Sunday.
w. q vANDEsRIrr, Agt.
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scIIIy I.Iand FIower,

The Scilly islands produce yearly
TOO tons of flowers for perfume max
ing.
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Chicago & North Western Railway.
NORTH BOUND
No. 81
No. 8

No g.
snd making
dlmkng
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SOUTH BOUND TRAINS.


RIVERS TRAINS
M
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Doctor Secrist will Come to
Manitowoc at the HOTEL WILLIAMS
Tuesday, Dec. 80.
And One Day Only in Every Four
Weeks Thereafter.

The doctor wonderful power of dag
nosis, greatest of al gifts, enables him
to determine the causes of obscure and
chronic ailments, and to apply remedies
which effect certain. speedy and perma-
nent cures.
X RAY examination in appropriate
cases upon reasonable notice.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-12-04
New rlethoo Treatment In
All Chronic Diseases.
CONSULTATION SACREDLY
CONFIDENTIAL.

Examination and Advice Free.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26

banks. To the east, it narrows and dis
appears in the mountains between the
huge cliffs at Balcony Falls; to the west,
it threads its way through low green
mountains, for all the world like teeth of
some gigantic saw, and loses itself In
the hills about Buchanan. fifteen miles
away.
To the north. if the day is clear, you
may see the old town of Lexington nest
y ling in the trees. To the South, the Peaks
Of Otter, forty miles from you.
tower blue and beautiful to the skies.
Away across the Valley you see the Short
Hill, a picturesque ridge about twenty
five miles long, fanking House Mountain
on the. north and Purgatory onstie south.
It's shadow stretches across the hills, but
cannot hide their verdant beauty nor the
homes that seem to culver through the
golden atmosphere beneath its somore
touch. You think, here at least, men
should be happy-ands SO they would en- en-
tirely and completely, but for the un-
rest and the discomfort that the modern
day has brought. Men nowhere are hap-
nv now. Their eyes are ever fixed upon
Impossible goals and their feet are ever
turned to tortuous ways There are
thousands living in the Valley who Wot
not Of its beauties. There are hundreds
living in the old county Of Rockbridge
who never saw the Natural Bridge, who
never will see it, and VIII do not care.
LURAY CAV1RNS-
Some two score miles away are tho
marvellous Luray Caverns. the most
beautiful on the continent They are too
well known to require more than mere
allusion. The Peaks Of Otter are names
familiar TO al, but how many have
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26

impossible, unless one may look upon tee
miracle with his own eyes. Thereupon,
he 1eeiS but does not express. his Won
Ger The impression made upon the mind
when the spectator tirSt ROUNDS a ruSS.:n
angle ard comes suddenly in full View of
the tremendous structure towering above
him. is altogether indescriuaple. IL S
worth While to turn that angle that one
may get a certain definite conception of
the power of the Creator that, perhaps,
he. cannot get elsewhere in the world.
BEAUTY AND GRANDEUR.
The beauties and the grandeur of the
writer's, but no descriptions can paint
the wonder and charm Of it all-the great
arch of blue and gray bending Win .u-
r.ous grace across 4 mighty chasm
which is the home of music SO wonderful
that it may not be interpreted upon any
instrument made by man. Cedar Creek,
that flashes through the gloomy gorge,
murmuls always a weird and iny.iiiSlDi:,
ii unt:anslatable. melody. The mHsic
caresses the dark rocks on either side
and there are vague. soft, echoes that
answer the caress. It is the blending Of
these echoes with the strange unearthly
muse of the rivulet that gives to the
melody that quality that differentiates it
from all other music that has fallen up-
on the ears Of men. You know that the
flashing waters have been mut1nuring
to the rocks through countless ages and
Your mind traversss unfrequented aisles
of speculation as You listen. You are
taken out of the pretty everyday world
+ sn which you exist for the hour and the
day. You wander in ancient ways and
hobnob with compalaionahle, II illu-
sive, past You think Of the Infinite
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26

scaled their rugged sides, and how many
have stood upon their crests and
watched the glory of a sunrise in the
Valley? Those who have not, have
missed wonderful sight, glimpse of
the infinite that eludes all efforts to de-
scribe. Still, one may tell of the gray.
dawn: Of the mists that creep up from
the Valley. creep up to your very feet
and envelope you until the rock upon
which you stand is lone island hidden
in a great white sea. And one may tell
though some magician had swept 1t with
his wand and babe its wonders vanish;
how simperceptibly the gray of the dawn
yielded to tintss Of pearl and rose. tints
that presently deepened to scarlet that
shaded OF to red and amber and topaz.
until finally wonderful opal spaces in the
heavens were reached by tawny stream
ers that We're lost in the deeper hues
Of amethyst and turquoise.
] But one may not tell Of the sudden
splendor that shone in the east as the
sun came up from the underworld and
kissed the waiting horizon. One may
not describe how the clouds were pink
with bushes: how the mists scurried
away revealing the awakening Valley;
how the millions and millions OF
yards Of emerald foliage caught
the myriad tints and stirred and
lsparkled in the first breeze OF
the morning: how the blue mountains
in the distance suddenly were touched by
an unearthly. splendor and glowed like
the jeweled walls Of some infinite city.
One may not tell how the river cleaned
and the crystal creeks flashed like dia-
monds In the distant hollows. II. yop