The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-07-13

wrong, but in the case of the ungallant
police Judge in New Jersey who decid-
ed that 1925 was the right price for a
stolen kiss, the hideousness of the crime
would be mitigated by the Nervousness
of the otfense.
County Treasurer Bubolz has remit
ted 1862. 98 to the state as inheritance
taxes collected in Manitowoc county
for the quarter ending June 30. The
remittance represents 92.5 per cent of
the total tax collected, the county re-
tanning rs per cent. The largest tax
was paid by the estate of Fred Zastrow
of kiel, $l65.26.
DR.. Casper, a Germpn physician, has
been studying the death rate as char
acteristic of various occupations aud
professions. He finds that preachers
have the best chance to reach the age
of three score and ten, while physicians
have the poorest. Here is the table.
OF those who live to be 70 years old
clergymen show II per cent; farmers,
40 per cent: merchants and laborers,
30 per cent soldiers, - per cent;
lawyers, % per cent; actors and other
professionals, % per cent; teachers, y
per cent, and doctors, "A per cent
Remember that the food you take
one day supplies the strength you put
forth the next. 1t is then a mistake
to take heavy meal on the day of
heavy work. The time to take it is
the day before. Wise stable men
know this, and when a horse has a
long days drive before him they give
him only what is called ''check feed, y
a very light meal-to be followed at
night with heavy one. So there are
two good reasons for a mans not eat
ing much on the day of stress. 1t adds
nothing to his strength on that day,
and the process of digestion calls the
blood to work at the stomach when
every ounce of it is needed at the
brain.
The word "rubberneck" came into
use but very short while ago, but it
has found its way into Webster's die
tionary. The purists are now object
-. a. q, IA t,n nc
drummer" for commercial traveller,
sleeper" for sleeping car, "hard up, "
son the &C. and so on. They also
oppose the phrase, ''an awfully pretty
girl" on the ground that beauty never
produces awe in the beholder. Yet
the equivalent of this WORD lawful
rs an epithet of beauty we are told is
found in at least a dozen different
languages. Only dead languages are
fixed and changeless. All living
speech is constantly discarding some
old words and ever making new ones
out of slang. Slang is an innovation
upon custom, and for time it is held
on probation. If it is of service Gus
tom makes it proper and the term
wins place for itself in classic
speech.
No snake is able to jump or spring
from coil, in order to strike, as often
represented in pictures. 1t can only
strike when it resembles the letter
and is lying Hat on the ground. 1t can
then only reach the distance supplied
by stretching the body out straight.
The two curves in the figure S supply
this distance, which is about half the
length of the body. No snake jumps
| through the air to its victim or springs
clear from the ground, rising upon its
tail. Such stories and pictures are all
false. Neither do they coil like rope
and strike from that position. They
may coil partially, but the part of the
body that does the striking is ever and
only that part which makes the figure
S and lies fiat on the ground. Hence
no serpent can strike when stretched
out its full length. Such is the state
ment of Prof. Surface, of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture, an
authority on snakes.
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