The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-12-04
The Pilots Budget of Scraps.

You need not clasp your hands so fer
vently 10 prayer that you cant get them
open when the contribution box comes
around.
General Grant, it is estimated, is
worth $500 COO.
"A man In Coventry, Va, recently pre-
sented bill of $50 against a school dis
trict, Tor water that the children had drank
from his we'll
The Superintendent of Public Build
ings in Washington suggests, in his annual
report, that each State should build and
furnish houses IN Washington for its Sena
tors and Representatives.
-MeCoole has been promoted for braves
ry, ETC., to be second mate of a ST. Louis
and New Orleans steamboat
Tho Fond du Lac Commonwealth says
that one Of the machine shops in that city
has discharged c5 mechanics because
those WHO would ike to have work done
have no money to pay for it.
"A little girl was lately ropro7ed for
playing out Of DOCS with the boys, and in
formed that, being seven years old, she
was too big for thsf DOW. why, grand
ma, the bigger re grow the better We like
EN-"
1t Is estimated that 3 500 to 5000 men
have gone to the pineries Of Michigan to
get out logs for the coming lumber season.
This number Is said to be unpreceden ted
tor this season Of the year.
There are % coo women in the city Of
New York vino do literally nothing except
to dress, dawdie, eat and sleep.
Grants friends so calcd) throughout
the country are kindly furnishing him with
fuel nowadays 1t is in the form OF paper,
written over with applications for office.
"A lady vas urged BY her friends to
marry widower; and, as an argument,
they spoke of his two beautiful children
Children" replied the lady, ''are like
toothpicks. A person wants their own
Wheat in Chicago is selling for IS
oenss less per bushel than one year ago.
The Speakership Of the Wisconsin As.
sembly seems TO lie between a. VI. Thomp-
son. Geo. S. Graves and H. D. Barron
An eminent London photographer hss
just taken portrait Of an ilas,rious per
son, which shows her in the process Of
giving one Of her Children a ride on her
back in the orthodox fashion of childhood
The King of Siam is dead. Hs WAS
not much of a King.
They have a Grecian Bend Saloon in
Cleveland. Breakfast bill sour apples,
cucumbers, and Jersey lightning.
"A "eSlei u CoiI Iuii'+Ght Says tuo I1id-
wathas and Minnehahas of the present day
60 sneaking through the streets OF ST. Paul
and Minneapolis, stealing the first rair Of
boots they can lay their hands or, or beg
ging "tenny cents.
More than one-seventh of the State Of
Mississippi is advertised for sale under exc
cutlon.
-Hayti is trying the experiment Of get
ting along with only four Presidents.
"A New Ravencr sat all day in the top
Of a tree by way of paving an election bet.
Grant and Seward have lately been
seen walking arm in arm together, and the
Radlclls are much concerned thereat
The board OF regents elected General
George B. Met lie Ian Pre-; lent Of the Uni>
versity of California.
Baron James Ro-hschid, head of the
house of Ro.hschild, died in Pals on the
18th.
An ambitious youth Of twenty, resil.
ing near Greenwich, Com, was recently
married to blushing widow of fifty, who
is already the mother of several children,
one of whom is several years older than his
step father.
Nevada uses mahogany for fuel Lux
urlous extravaganza.
Gossip says that Grant cuts Nc
Culioch, Wells and Randall on the street;
that Seward will not be asked to remain in
the Cabinet; that Coliax has already
opened for the succession, and hopes to
control majority Of the Cabinet.
The Portage Register says the average
cost Of a weeks board 3. the Columbia
county poor house is $l96. There are
now twenty Eve inmates of the poor house,
fourteen of whom are insane.
Rats have eaten off 5000 worth of
stamps from whiskey barrels in Dubuque
distillery, raising question for the com
missioner
Miss Nellie Chase, Of Topeka, Kan
eas, will be candidate before the next
Legislature tor enrolling clerk Of the
House.
London policemen are armed with
cutlasses.
In South Carolina, | $50, coo acres of
improved land may be bought for IS per
acYe.
On the l4th two Fulton street IN. Y J
fsrryboat- colliied u persons killed. and
wounded, mostly poor working people.