The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-05-11

| Twelve IN all, SIX gray squirrels ana
six fox squirrels. The gray squirrels
have been put in Washington park and
the fox squirrels in the north side
park. The association has had hol-
low tree put up in each park for a
home for the little rodents.
The Health Department of New York
City reports; that the birthrate among
it's inhabitants is highest in the Jewish
districts, averaging So per 1000 of the
population. Among the Italians the
rate is so, and among the negroes only
q. While in the high-class native
American private residence districts
the rate is a shameful one, being less
than I per 1000. 1t also appears that
the second generation of immigrants
are not as prolific as the first
A booklet has been issued for the
convenience of all teachers who may
desire to attend the approaching con-
vention at San Francisco of the Ma
tional Educational Association. Every
item of expense is given for the trip
transportation, BOARD excursions
through California, and so on. With
this pamphlet any teacher will be able
to plan the trip with very definite
idea of the cost. Write for it to Prof.
James A. Barr, city superintendent of
schools, Stockton, Cal.
Miss Constance Haugen, daughter of
Nils =. Haugen, Madison, state tax
commissioner, arrived here Tuesday
to take the place of Miss Gully, the
city librarian who left for kewaunee,
ILL.,, her former home to accept a posi-
ton in the library there at an advance
ed salary. Miss Haugen will be here
only temporarily until the board elects
a librarian. Miss Gully was courteous
and efficient librarian and made many
friends during her stay in the city.
1t is claimed that the famous Dietz
case arose through poor abstract.
When you pay $500 to $4,000 or more
for property you ought to know what
you are getting. Would you be sur
prised if anybody should enter your
premises and say he has title to your
property? Do not rely upon ineXper-
fenced persons or officials but consult
those that make Abstracts exclusively.
The MANITOWOC COUNTY ABB
STRACT CO., A. f. Schulze, Mgr,
SOS Washington ST., owns and makes
the only Complete and Certified Alb
stract of this county. 46
Our senses of perception from time
immemorial have been reckoned as
five in number, known as the Give
gateways of knowledge" They are
sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
Modern science has contended that the
sense which enables us to recognize
heat is not quite the same as that of
touch and eminent Psychologists have
therefore set apart as a distinct sense
the power by which we recognize heat.
And possibly the human fondness for
the mystic number has led others to
make the same claim for independence
for the sense of muscular resistance, so
that our senses would then be seven.
But the discrimination in these cases
opens no new avenues. 1t is to set up
new sign posts, but not to open new gate
ways. Every messenger from the ma
terial world must enter the ivory palace
of the skull through one of the old and
well known gates.
The history of science has seven
problems that men in all ages more or
less have tried to solve, but which
have finally been given up by all. To-
day they are called follies. The usual
list comprises the following: First
Squaring the circle. Second-Dupli-
cation of the cube. -Trisection
of an angle. Fourth-Perpetual mo-
ton. h-Transmutation of metals.
Sixth-Fixation of mercury. Seventh
Elixir of Life. Some lists put the
Philosophers Stone for the last three
then add astrology and magic to make
the seven. To the unlearned it would
seem possible to draw square which
shall be exactly equal in area to a
given circle, which is the first problem
in the list, but we are told by the
highest authorities that it is impos-
sible. Since the discovery of radium
it is claimed that the change of one
metal into another has been accom-
plished, but it is yet TOO early to dog
Matte about the matter
The Pilot does not as rule publish
snake stories and it never does unless
some citizen noted for his veracity
vouches for them. Friday evening
Judge Chloupek, whose word is as
good as his bond wherever he is kno WI,
says that he and S. +. Wehrwein kill
ed, near Louis Wiegand's, in Center
vile, one of the largest horse snakes
he ever saw. The reptile measured n
few inches over twelve feet long.
After it was killed they noticed the
tail of a snake sticking out OF its
mouth. Mr.. Wehrwein put his foot on
the dead horse snake and Mr.. Chou
PEEK caught hold of the projecting tail
and pulled out of the horse snakes
mouth black COW snake nine feet
long. This black COW snake had life in