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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
Very Absentminded.

The celebrated German historian
Theodor Mommsen was the most alb
sentminded of men. Once while going
from Berlin to Charlottenburg, half
hours journey, the trolley car in which
he rode went off the track. The rest of
the passengers took another car and
went ahead, and the stranded vehicle
was abandoned till help could be found
Mommsen remained reading his book
An hour or two later the sound of
him. Rising from his seat, he went to
the door and, with the most complete
unconcern imaginable, remarked, Il
suppose we have come TO a standstill!"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

The origin Of the bridal veil is a dis
puted question that will probably never
be settled Some see in it nothing
more than milliner's substitute for
the usual flowing tresses which half
concealed and half revealed brides
beauty as she knelt at the altar This
opinion is countenanced by the fact
that Elizabeth Stuart was not thought
to require an artificial veil, as nature
had given her an affiuence of hair.
Others see its origin in the veil Of the
Hebrews marriage ceremony or the
yellow "hammeum" of old Roman
brides.
A third source is the old "care cloth"
OF the AnglO-Saxons. a square vestment
held over both bride and bridegroom
till they received the nuptial benedic-
ton SO runs the use of the church of
Sarum and the Hereford missal
Lastly. it has been held to be merely
an amplification of the Golf which medi-
seval brides wore between the garland
and their hair. Margaret Tudor wore
this under her coronet on her marriage
to the king Of Scotland.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
shaving the bridegroom.

The shaving of the bridegroom on his
wedding day is Bulgarian custom
which, handed down from pre-Chris-
tan days. is still observed with due
formality. especially in country dis
tricts. While the barber is at his
task a dancing crowd of young folks
surrounds him and the bridegroom.
AS the latter's hair is cut the snippings
are carefully collected by some of the
girls for preservation in one of the
brides chests. The barber, when his
work is done, receives small white
linen cloth as present and also
trifing sum of money from each person
there. Then the bridegroom kisses the
hands of the girls. washes his face and
dons his wedding dress. which must
first be carefully weighed three times
by one of the boys.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

The Shawano Advocate feels that the
PILOT gave utterance to sentiments, in
a recent article upon matters congress
sional, which were rather narrow and
not expected from such source. The
advocate should remember that the
Pilot was only advising the republic
cans. 1t is well known that the repub-
licans do not care to go out OF the Wis
consin river valley for their congress
sional timber, this is patent on its face,
therefore in mentioning those who
would make ideal congressman the
PuoT only mentioned those of promi-
uesee in the valley and mentioned that
those republicans who held IN their
hands the power to make or not TO
make congressman in this district ana
who know no other part only the val
lev, would be just as safe In sending
such able men as S. II. Alban, nj. A.
Hurley or Chas. Nj. Webb, as to send
prominent lumbermen just for the sake
of giving them the honor. The demo
Gratis have picked their candidates as
often outside the valley as from within
il. and i: is right that this should oe
done. 1t appears, from the looks OF
things, that Web. Brown will not be
candidate again, but that the person
who will be up for that honor has not
vet been selected. and this time those
outside the valley should get together
and insist upon recognition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
The old time Pepper Mil.

A pepper mill is piece Of silver not
often seen on tables nowadays Eng
lish housekeepers, however, still use
the pepper mill, and American silver
smiths sometimes keep it to meet the
demands of old fashioned families who
prefer to grind their own pepper rather
than risk the chance of adulteration.
The pepper mill dates back to the time
when pepper was q scarce commodity
and was always ground at the table
from the peppercorns. Pepper was so
valuable in those days that rents We're
often paid in peppercorns, and the high
prices they brought were among the
incentives that induced explorers to
brave the dangers of the unknown
deep. If a short passage could be dis
covered to the Indies, it was agreed by
all that a wealth of pepper could be
easily brought to Europe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
voRAcIous cNARlEs.
Appetite of n Bird iuch Greater
Than Averax@ 4an.~


Appetite of a Bird iueh Greater
Than Average Janis.
When an old fs6ioned hostess
urges her guests tS/at, after the con-
yentional man2eTof showing hospi-
tally and re%&s. Why, you haven't
the appe%@6f a bird" she really
SPEAK ,a.a, Itruth' though she does not
average man, if he had birds
petite. would devour from thirty to
pyhirty-one pounds of food a day. which
would be a tax on the larder of his
hostess.
Recent experiments have proved that
the average bird manages TO eat about
One-fifth of his own weight daily with
ease, if he can get so much food, and
in wild state, though the bird has TO
hunt for his daily provender, he is eat
ing a large part of the time during the
day and manages TO get his full ra-
tons.
The smaller the bird the more vora-
eious seems to be its appetite and its
power of absorption
A German scientist recently kept a
canary under observation for a month.
The little creature weighed only six
teen grams, but in the course of the
month it managed to eat 512 grams
weight of food that is, about thirty
two times its own weight. The bird
must therefore have eaten its own
weight in food every day.
An ordinary man with a canary's APP
petite would consume $50 pounds of
food a day.
But the canary is an extreme case.
The ordinary bird, in good health, will
be satisfied with onefifth of its weight
day by way of Answers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

The invitation list of the governor
general of Canada is made out strictly
in accordance with precedent. but Is
not kept up to date always. the aid
who has TO send the invitations out,
generally an Englishman or Scotch
man, not always being an courant with
changes on the list.
The late Sir Antoine Dorion, chief
justice of Quebec. was once invited TO
some function. as was proper. but Lady
Dorlon. who was dead. WAS invited
likewise Sir Antoine accepted for
himself. but declined for her ladyship,
on the ground that she was in she
cemetery. The next year, however. the
same mistake was made: so the old
Judge wrote back TO the aid-de-camp
in waiting.
''Sir Antoine Dorion accepts. etc. but
her ladyship being still in St Anne's
cemetery Sir Antoine is compelled
again to decline the invitation for her,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
APHORlSMS.
pneumonia

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony
Shakespeare.
Candor is t..e rarest virtue of soeia-
bility.-Sternau
No circumstances can repair defect
of Emerson.
CheerfulneSs is an offshOot of good
ness and of wiSdom.-Bovee.
Bad men excuse their faults good
men will leave them.-Johnson.
There are plenty of acquaintance in
the world. but very few real friends.
u. K. DAVIS.
Charity ard pe'SSna1 force are the
only investments worth anything. =
Walt Whitman.
1t is generally more profitable TO reck-
on up our defects than TO boast of our
administrative.
A man cannot have an idea of per
lection in another which he was never
sensible of in himSelf.-Steele.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom
which springs from the soul. and the
heart of man knoweth none more fra
grant.-Hosea Ballou.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
PERSONALS.


Ross Beebe returned to Beloit Col
legs today.
-Dt +. A. Walters, ofstevens Point,
spent Saturday in the city
-. L. Kreutzer went to Chicago
Sunday evening on business.
Mrs. R. Paul, of Hurley, is expected
to arrive in Wausau this evening on a
visit,
Frank Ritter departed Sunday even
ing Tor Chicago to purchase goods for
RiTter Il Deutsch.
Miss Edith Rosenberg. of Oak
Park, ILL.,, is visiting in the city, guest
of Miss Nell Dunbar
Rev. Hirst ,Sector of the ST. Johns
Episcopal church is visiting in the
lower part of the state He will be
absent until Saturday.
Mrs. A L. Kreutzer and children
will depart for Hot Springs, Ark, in
about two weeks, where they will
oPChA tiC DtlhuCc Va tHt NlHIcf.
M II. Duncan departed for Madison
this noon to attend meetings of the state
Board of Agriculture and Shorthorn
Breeders association He was accom-
panied by his uncle, NJ. f. White.
-Messrs and Mesdames S. NJ. Yale
and j. +. Wilcox, who had been visit
ing in Wausau, guests of Mr. and Mrs.
&. ). Curtis, returned to their homes in
Minneapolis, on Friday evening
&C A. H. Kopplin, ant son = .
of Blue Earth City, Mimi.
the city last evening
several days with -
pin also has busiA
- department of
Normal school
Nlrned to her home
~ Hening. Miss Johnson
at from the city the great
lge past two years in pursu-
Eudies, and now that she has
N her work and is again at home
source of much JOY to her parents,
Wwell rs hosts Of friends.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
Flag Poles.

With proper care flag pole ought to
last a great many years in spite of the
incessant exposure to the elements. or
course the best preservative of wood is
paint, and man who has a fiagstaff
which has cost him a good sum of
money should see that it is painted at
least once every twelve months. Flag
poles generally rot at the bottom first
and then have to be taken down to pre-
vent them from falling of their own
weight
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02


The SCR. - !. 1.re rhat Charles
Rcade '..s." ed himself.
The novei>s~ $40 aspire toward abb
solute originality 81 plot might think
once in awisiic Of tie sources from
which eegtain masters drew their in
spiration and of the calmness with
which those great workers picked up
whatever would serve them at their
trade. Charles Reade depended on the
newspapers as the living record of life
as it is. One day in the week he de-
voted to his scrapbooks. Passing events
seemed TO him of vital Importance, and
the result of his collating appeared in
novels whose purpose" told.
In Never Too Late to Mend" he ex-
posed the cruelties prscticed in the
prisons before the reform was success
full; in Hard Cash" he attacked the
abuses of private lunatic asylums; in
Put Yourself In His Place he opened
on trade unions. He was modern cru
sader. One day he found in a newspazS
per certain structures on this mar
Of work. His rage was instant a.
lent.
Plagiarism he roared
paper. ''Of course l - 81
Shakespeare was y ol;ara
was a plagiarist & psri1a-au
,iofs Slockhead out of
Except those idiots
- since Homer's time all
e parodied his incidents !.
Bhrased his sentiments. Mo-
ok his own where he found it.
Bfhief of all thieves was the War
1ckshire thief who stole right and
left from everybody. But. then, he
found things lead and left them gold
That's the sort of thief am. Youths
Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

here has been single-tax club in
milwaukee for years. 1t has held reg
ular sessions and its proceedings have
been published. Now what would you
think of a Milwaukee newspaper that
doesn't know any better than to sug-
gest that the ''single-tax' idea means
tax on bachelors. In all seriousness,
or if not exactly in all, then in SO much
seriousness as may be possible under
the circumstances, is not that an
awful exhibition of ignorance Unless,
perchance, it was intended as a joke.
But it was not published in the joke
column, nor was it otherwise marked.
OF course if intended as joke we will,
more or less reluctantly admit that it
was flair to middlin."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Many young men fail in life because
they don't know a chance when they
have 1t and only know what is lost
when it is too late. These youngsters
who want to be masters over the men
who are educating them. and to whom
they owe the inspiration Of their lives,
all wind up by being slaves. One les
son for all leaders-learn to obey till
YOU are able to command. This is old
and good. -Schoolmaster.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
A Rnrnean weanon.

The Bornean mandau. or head TAX
err" is a modification of the Burmese
dab. 1t is heavy, thick bladed cut
lass, from twenty to thirty inches long,
and the edge is ground from the right
side only, the left side being forged
slightly concave. The blade is also
slightly curved to the right, so that the
cutting action of the weapon is like
that of an enormous gouge. Only two
strokes can be dealt with the mandau-
from right to left downward and left to
right upward Chambers Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Creases in drawings. engravings, etc,
may be leveled out by following these
drawing by drawing pins on a board.
face downward. on a sheet of paper; on
the back place another sheet of paper
which retains a very slight quantity OF
moisture over this place flannel or
blotting paper, and. taking hot iron.
pass it carefully over the part where
the creases have been made until they
disappear and then submit the draw
ings or engravings TO pressure between
printers glazed boards.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

WILL Wall street concentrate upon
its efforts to get Hanna nominated by
the republicans Or will it give all its
attention to the democratic convention ,
Or will it try to control both conven-
tons Probably it viii try to control
both.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
The Pnlite Germnnn.

We Germans are not only the most
polite, but also the most ceremonious
people in the world. Without ceremony
it is not possible for us to present a
friend, to take seat in a restaurant or
to drink or even to utter single word.
Consequently people like the British,
which ignores and utterly disregards
these customs, must appear to us a herd
of luhbers. -Frankfurter Zeitung.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
The celtic Affirmative.

In the speech of so highly developed
a people as the Celts there is no equiva-
lent to yes" Thus it happens that
Won shall never hear an Irish waiter
pronounce the Shibboleth "yesslr OF
his English confrere. for he invariably
expresses an affirmative by some such
phrase as Il shall sir" 1T is, sir
Blackwoods Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
Papa Did Too,

This is my son Frederick, Mr.. Eos
dick" said Mr.. Chambers proudly, in
PRODUCING his fve-year-old boy 10 his
caller
"WeIl. Frederick" SAID the caller,
do you obey your mammal
aYes. SIR replied Frederick prompt
ly. and so does papa"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
The Minister.

First Scot What sort of meenister
haze We gotten. Geordie?
Second Scot-We seldom get CLINT
o. him. Six days o. tn week he's en-
wees bic. and on the seventh he's in
comprehens' ble.-London Mail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

wife-Thats the third time you've
stepped on my dress. wish you were
moi so slow
Wife-Indeed. am not
Husband-Well. your train is behind.
Washington Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Miss Passage trust you will con-
slider my criticisms. dear. as coming
from friend
Vera Perte-Oh. | Will I look upon
you as the oldest. the very oldest.
friend Brooklyn Life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
Indication of Interest.

"Teacher is interested in you. pa"
"How so?'
why. today, after she told me seven
times to sit down and behave myself,
she said she wondered what sort of a
father | had. cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
uer Cn1tirateh Taste.

How is your daughter getting or
with her music?"
VERY WELL" answered Mr.. Cumrox.
she has got along SO far that when
l ask her TO play anything | like she
looks naughty and says, The ideaF -
Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
A Hint Desirable.

you're all run down." said the doc
tor. "What you need are quiet and rest.
You ought not TO be worried at all.
''Will You put that in the form of
prescription, doctor and give it to my
wife?' asked the man. Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

"You See" said the young lawyer,
my client is accused OF bigamy, and
he's guilty; so l hardly know how to
defend him"
why, that's easy" said the old law
yer Defend him on the ground Of
insanity and get few henpecked hus-
bands ON the jury. Puck.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

IT seems very evident from what the
republican newspapers are saying
about w. j. Bryan's lecture upon
Moral Issues, that they like it no
more than the reorganizers do
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
saving Himself trouble.

She-I saw you. SIR. with that horrid
widow. and | shall send back your
presents at once.
He-Don't send them to Ele-send
them TO the widow.-Town Topics.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Archie-See how | am run after. All
these are invitations.
Friend-Good gracious. All invita-
tons? Invitations to what?
Archie To call and settle accounts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

She-Why do you look so worried,
BERTHE? Did papa object?
Bertie-No. But he said: ITS all
right You'll soon find out it's useless
to object when Nell is set on anything"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

If the democrats should permit the
republican newspapers to select can
didate for them, as between Hearst and
Cleveland, the former would not have a
ghost of a show.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

An economical way of disposing OF
stale bread is by eating it, Il saves
doctors bills-Detroit Free Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Nohead las he prepares TO take his
leavel-I can assure YOU Miss Nicer.
the time has passed very pleasantly
this evening.
Miss Nicer tabsentlyl-Yes: it Is 3
pleasure to know it has passed
Scraps.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Everybody knows the phrase "All
the world loves a lover" but very
few people know that Emerson said II
and that be said ii in q slightly differ
ast way-"An mankind love :. lover
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

friend whom you have been gain
ing during your whole life you ought
not to be displeased with in a moment.
A stone is many years becoming
ruby Take care that you do not de-
stroy it in an instant against another
stone
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

In the Review of Reviews for Febru-
airy, John S. Wise, the New York lawyer
himself an Confederate, writes elo-
quently of Two Great Confederates,
General John b. Gordon and General
,james Longstreet" These veterapA
both died in January within a wesi
each other, and their deaths n
the last of the Confederate @
Of high rank
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

He-Why does this theater have -
orchestra concealed
she-why: Just wait until you hear
IL play
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
HappiIy Married.

when may a woman be said to be
happily married?"
Not until she has had the pleasure
Of refusing several men. Detroit Free
Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
OBSOLETE TERMS.
Some Big Words That Have been
Consigned TO Oblivion.

Some Big Words That Have Been
Consigned TO Oblivion.
The number of obsolete words that
are TO be found in complete diction-
airy of the English language is consid-
erably larger than the people have any
idea of. The following letter, written
by ali alleged poet to an editor who
had treated ms poetry with derision.
furnishes some idea OF them:
Sir You have behaved like an I'M
petiginous scrogle = like those ~
envious of any mora, celsitude
their unglicity TO the height Of ng
symposically the fecund n which
my polymathic genius IA uber
ity TO abligate the u "a the wet
less. Sir. you ssly parodied
my own pet Yonoh they were
Fgcervate reproaches. |
WI we'll over the atramental
which has chamfered even
Sscerptible heart. | am silent
Ne focillation which my coadju-
l.
to become your fantor anu sdminicle.
| will not speak of the lippitu1e, the
oblepsy you have shown in exacerbat-
ing me, one whose genius you should
have approached with mental discal-
ceation. So | tell you, without super
vacaneous words. nothing will render
ignoscible your conduct to me.
Il warn you that / would vellicate
your nose il thought that any moral
diarthrosis thereby could be performed
If | thought | should not impignorate
my reputation. Go, photographic scro-
gle, hand with your Grass, inquinate
fantors! Draw oblectations from the
thought If you can of having synchron-
ically lost the existimation of the great
est poet since Milton"
And yet all these words are to be
found in the dictionary -Tit-Bits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Baxter-Funny, isn't it? Where we
say man puts his foot in his mouth.
the French say he puts his foot in his
nose.
Foster-Of course. That's ali owing
10 the nasal sound in so many of the
French words.-Boston Transcript.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

In every family there is genius who
can't prove his genius. Their kind
doesn't contradiction Globe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Duncan Bros today shipped a nine
months old Shorthorn bull to Ernst
Bornemara, of Dundas, for which
they received 500. They have sold
nine head within the past few weeks
getting on an average of close to the
800 mark for each. Their sales were
made to the following people: S. P.
Davis, Colby; H. p. Herrick, Kelly
Brook; r. II. Darling, Crystal Falls;
Ira Boyer, Michicot; &. H. Ristel,
Markesan and r. r. Scott, Merrill. To
Mr.. Nelson they sold two, the first. one
plunged into Manager and broke his
neck and the owner concluded 10 buy
another Duncan Bros. have herd of
about forty Shorthorns on their farm at
present.
VIM. Waterhouse is quite sick with
pneumonia.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

He who wishes to secure the good Of
others has already secured his own
Confucius
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02

Be-Was that you kissed in the
conservatory last night?
About what time was it?"-Iife.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
Very Low Rates to the Mardi Gras

and Winter Resorts.
Via the North Western Line. On ac-
count of the Mardi Gras, excursion
tickets will be sold to New Orleans,
Mobile and Pensacola, Feb. 3 to IA, in
elusive, also to New Orleans, on Feb.
Is, for trains arriving at New Orleans
by noon of Feb. Is, with favorable re-
turn limits and stopovers. Excursion
tickets are also on sale daily, at reduced
rates, to the principal winter resorts in
the United States and Mexico. For
full information apply to agents Chicago
& North w esterD R'y.