The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-07-06

Mrs. VIM. E. Murphy has purchased
the millinery store of Mrs. Franz on
South Eighth street. Mrs. Murphy
will take possession the fifteenth OF
this month
A Chicago Judge rules that if hard
worked husband wants early breakfast
he should get up and cook it,. But,
Your Honor, it is not that kind OF
breakfast he wants.
Misses Bertha Boomer, Clara Salo-
mon, Bertha Klingholz, Caroline Knut-
zen and Mrs. Anna Hall left Monday
for three weeks outing at Idlewild,
near Sturgeon Bay.
S. f. Goetschel, formerly Of CIeve-
land, this county, is now operating a
cheese factory near Hillsboro, Wis,
and in a letter to the Pilot states that
he is doing a lourishing business.
Miss Minnie Norris from Los Ange-
les, Cal, and Miss Irene Morris from
Charles City, Iowa, arrived here Sun
day night to spend the summer with
their mother, Mrs. b. Morris, North
Seventh street.
A law for the regulation of aerial
navigation went into effect in Connec-
ticut last week. Flying machines must
he registered and aviators licensed.
Over your own land or water you may
fly, but beyond these bounds you must
have license.
DR.. William Osler has been made a
baronet, and is again trying to explain
that he didn't mean what he said. OF
course a man ought not to be chloro-
formed at sixty, but there's one above
that age who has passed the age of
successful explaining.
Last Sunday was as hot day as
Manitowoc ever saw. At noon the
thermometer registered l02 in the
shade. With the mercury toying
around the century mark the thoughts
of perspiring mortals naturally turned
to measures of relief and they yearned
for ice cream 'even as the hart pant
eth for water brooks.
Thirty years ago marked the birth
of the telephone. BY 1890 the Bell
system did not have POO, 900 stations.
Ten years later there were more than
100000. Then in two years they went
up to 100000 in five years to 1000, 600
andin seven years tomore than 1900, 600.
In 1908 they were up past $4,000 in
1910 past 100000, and today they are
about 100000
Now that accidents in the water are
arresting public attention, the words
OF an expert swimmer are worth re-
Numbering. He declares that any
body can keep afloat for ten minutes at
least by following two rules, in which
time in most cases hel p would come.
The first rule is to keep the mouth
shut, in order to keep the water out of
the throat, and the second is to paddle
with the hands, as dog does with his
paws when he swims.
The Green Bay Transportation com
pany is again part owner of the steam
er Fannie {. Hart, which it sold to
parties in Florida. The Manitowoc
Drydock company is also part owner
of the boat, which was bid in at a sale
held recently. The boat was taken out
of the coast service short time ago.
The local and Mantowoc concerns are
arranging to dispose of the steamer
and may arrange deal in a short
time.-Green Bay Gazette.
Preventive medicine has reached the
point of suggesting that ali babies be
muzzled Every mother knows that
the first thought of baby is to refer
everything to its mouth, and every on
| locker knows that the first impulse of
woman on meeting neighbours per-
| ambulator is to kiss its occupant. Swal-
lowing the top of mucilage bottle, a
safety pin or other similar articles is
not good for the baby digestion, while
promiscuous kissing is held to be even
more prejudicial to its health. Both
evils point alike to human mu2zle as
the remedy.
The press in the Philippine islands
describes the way the natives catch
monkeys in the interior of that coun-
try. K appeares that these creatures
are very fond of the meat of the cocoa
nut, but are too lazy to gnaw the outer
shell, unless desperate from hunger
SO the natives cut "a small hole in the
she'll Just large enough to admit the
small, slender hand of the monkey.
When the hand is thrust inside and
illed with the cocoanut meat it cannot
be withdrawn. 1t never occurs to the
monkey to relax his grasp and release
the handful of meat. So he chatters
and scolds and shows his Indignation at
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