The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-06-04
General Items.

OF StoannR HIS flVai lOfe-lettefS
postoffice clerk has recently been arrested
III England There are things in love which
are not fair it seems.
The pig-iron product Of Great Britain
IN 1S6Swas $500, 90 tons; of the United
States, ], 603, 900; Pennsylvania furnishing
o25,555 OF, this amount.
Sea fish can be kept alive In tank of
water for an indefinite period byipumping
III fresh air as fast as it is exhausted by
the fish
The cost of an English lady of the Pc
Rod as she appears at a ball or theatre, is
reckoned at about $15, 900, exclusive of the
value of the lady herself
Ona grave stone in Maine appears the
following inscription: ''Our little Jacob
has been taken away from this earthly gar
den, to bloom in superior flower-pot
above.
The rivers of Maine have been SO high
this season that the mills which employ
their water power have several times been
compelled to suspend operations.
/ Portraits of Minister Washburne, en-
grayed from photograph of Vice Presi-
dent Colfax, adorn the illustrated papers of
France just now.
a house worth $75,0 900. 1t is built of chic
ride ore, and will run through the mill
when the owners are prepared to move.
John T. Alexander of Jacksonville,
shipped to the New York market last year
$4,000 becyes He is probably the largest
cattle dealer in the United States.
Martha's Vineyarders were favored by
the fortune of the tides with a profitable
letsam and hotsam, on Monday, 1000
herrings being cast ashore in Kataya Bay,
and thence cheaply caught and sailed.
There is young lady in Terre Haute,
Ind, only eighteen years of age, who
boasts that within the last two years she
has contracted and broken ten matrmoni-
al engagements,
Emigration continues to flow steadily
from Ireland to the United States. Five
hundred and fifty persons sailed from
Queenstown on the 10th inst, and many
were left behind rom want of room in the
steamer.
"A teamster in Maine says he can start
the most baulky horse by taking him out
of the shafts, and making him go around
in a narrow circle till he is giddy. Ii the
first dance of this sort does not cure him,
the second will
Ono of the editors of the Paris Steele
lately committed suicide on being told that
his brothers illness was mortal He
stabbed himself, crept to his brothers bed
side, and died there. Both the brothers
were found dead in the morning.
"A French country curate has estab-
lished new custom. On a recent we'd
ding occasion, observing that the whole
xr;Il,f,a urae, ont VI. fb lrIn,c f,fac onI viz
Inns, he advised the bride to proceed Mt
their head and ask the deputy to build
new bridge.
An Iowa man who was afraid of bur-
glars, buried $4,000 in bonds in his cellar.
short time since he dug them up, and
found they were completely rotten, and
would not bear handling. He has applied
to The government to redeem them.
The height of impotence has been at
tanned by n Connecticut attorney, who lost
all his money ut Il fhro-bank in Hartford,
complained OF the place to the police, got
his money back, and took the same money
to the same place the same night to play
again.
Michael Hames, of st. Louis, has sued
his former guardian, James Graham, for
-, 600 for work performed on farm be-
tween the age of s and Is years, and for
50, 600 damages for not sending him to
school during that time
A II. Stewart has several partners, but
none of them can withdraw from the firm,
except by estimating their share of the
goods ut what they cost. One man under
took to leave and found that he was worth
nothing.
This is what the English girls are to
wear Mt the races: Dress of mauvo poult-
de-soie, with n long train, trimmed. round
the bottom with n pinked out tlounce.
The fiounce is headed with q cross strip,
and n small pattern of SATIN, of somewhat
darker shade than the dress. Large puff
at the back
An Englishman was telling the,late Col.
Isaac .. Barnes, of Massachusetts, of the
great rate the cars run in England ''Why,
Colonel, in my country they go rs miles an
nour. "They ito. says the Colonel, 'they
could not run long ut that rate, or they
would run off the ia little island"
"A ITindoo widow, who had been left
goo, 600 by her husband, had her right dis
puted by other memLers of the family, and
the English courts haggled so long over the
matter that when the case was decided in
her favor it took the whole 600, 600 to pay
the money the poor woman had been
obliged to borrow to defend her claim.
In New York, last week, Miss Carrie
Roberts. beautiful blonde of 20, ran
away with her fathers coaehman, Patrick
OConnor, and they were married; but the
next morning the young lady returned
home, and said that he action was only for
fun. Proceedings for divorce are to be
Instituted.
Carlottas fixed idea is, that she is still
in Mexico. She never tires of saying to
her attendants: 'All of you are PRISONERS;
but | am watching You too closely for you
to do me any harm" For while she alb
solutely refused to take food but such as
her sistcr-in-law, the queen of Belgium,
had already had in her mouth. The kind
hearted queen fed her in that way for five
weeks.
A LAD narrating a street fight in which
he had been engaged, said: '1ll tell you
how it was You see, Bill and me went
down to the wharf 20 fish; and felt in my
pocket and found my knife, and it was
gone; and / said, Bill, you stole my
knife; and he said l was another; and L
said go there yourself; and he said it was
no such thing; and said he was liar,
and could whip him if [ was bigger'n
him; and he said he'd rock me to sleep,
mother; and l said he was n bigger one;
and he said | never had the measles; and
said for him to fork over that knife, or I'd
fix him for q tombstone at Laurel Hill;
and he said my grandmother was no gen.
tleman; and said he dursen't take it up;
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