The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-06-18
Brfuitifs.
MIscpIIa leOuS Items.

Cincinnati beer is shipped to New York
IN large quantities.
An exchange says Scotch snuff sprink-
led on rose bushes will kill slugs.
The Post says st. Louis catches more
alligators in month than Chicago does
In 12O years.
During the past winter the New York
merchants have paid S11 900, 900 for Rhode
Island dry goods.
The New York Medical Society have
resolved that one day of rest in seven is
necessary for all men. ~ ~ - 's IS.
-Phmnixville, Pa, has passed a law
prohibiting two or more persons standing
on the street corners.
The Louisville car-drivers are on
strike. Increased work without increased
pay, is the alleged cause ...
The Germans in some portions of the
country are insisting upon celebrating the
4th of July on Sunday.
There are seven counties of Kentucky
so poor-and honest-that no person in
them returns an income tax.
An Ohio colporteur has cut his throat
he would die within five years.
Six newspapers are now published in
the Sandwich Islands, three in English an Il
| three in the native language.
In Vermont, potatoes are drug at 10
| cents buAhel. In many cases so cents
was refused for them last fall.
| There are about 5000 native French
| IN, FUy
largely on Blue Island avenue.
| Oakley Hall is called the best dressed
Mayor New York has had. He sports q
new necktie and silver buttons each day.
Over seventeen million dollars worth
of property has been destroyed by fire in
the United States since the beginning of
the present year. .....
"A farmer in Scott county, Iowa, has
had sixty acres of corn taken up by the
squirrels, and he wants bounty offered
for the scalps of the animals.
A Kentucky paper thinks that the
word croquet is too Frenchy, and proposes
that the game which it designates be here
after call d presbyterian billiards..
| Mr.. James, the Buffalo bootmaker who
sent Grant those inauguration boots, -
has not received any office, and has sent
in the bill to his member of Congress-.
"A patent has been obtained for the
| manufacture of water proof paper. twill
| be no uncommon thing, by and by, to
carry quart of milk home in paper bag
An exchange warns the mothers and
nurses against the too prevalent practice of
| drawing little children around the streets
| backwards. 1t has beon known to produce
| insanity.
Houses are now plentiful in New York
and Brooklyn. 1t is said that in the latter
| city there are more than a thousand dwell
| hngs for sale or rent, within mile of the
| City Hall.
= There are is, 900 sewing women in Bos-
| ton, who average when they are in good
health and work is plenty, only about so
cents day. and their days are long ones
| at that
Miss Mary A. Gray, of Georgia, by
her personal efforts, has caused the bodies
of l, 500 Confederates, who fell at the bat
tie of Franklin, Tenn, to be collected and
decently inferred.
The report, recently issued, of the
American Prison Association, shows that
of IL, 1876 convicts in the penitentiaries of
thirty states, seventy-seven per cent. had
not learned trade
= In Kent, Md, negro has been dig
glng for money, pointed out to him III n
dream. He digs only at night, his mother
sitting by him with an open Bible for luck
and to keep off ghosts.
The first arched stone bridge in the
United States was built over the Ipswich
river, Massachusetts,, in 1864, by Judge
Choate, and before it was opened for tray
ell was called 'Choate's Folly"
From an old Georgia newspaper of
1919 has been exhumed an advertisement
of Mr. VIM. III. Seward as a schoolmaster
at Milledgeville. The list of his accom-
plishments as therein stated is very i'm
posing.
Information was received at the Treas
ury, on Thursday, to the effect that the
81, 600, 900 i'll Government bonds and notes
which was stolen from Philadelphia
savings bank on the 4th of April last has
been recovered and returned to the bank.
A secret society is being organized on
the Pacific coast, after the fashion of the
old ''Know Nothings," to prevent the en-
ployment of Chinese. The order claims
10000 members, and operates very much
after the manner of the Southern Ku-kluX.
The Rochester Union says: Collector
Parsons has discovered that canal boats are
not exempt from enrolment and tonnage
dues as coasters so long rs they carry to
market the products of other states than
New York.
"A new and somewhat remarkable plant
has lately been introduced into England
from Nicaragua. 1t is gigantic skunk
cabbage, having single leaf fourteen feet
long, on stem ten feet long. The blossom
is two feet long, on n stem eight inches
thick, and exhales very fetid odor ~
Mr.. James Estes, of Jonesboro, Tenn,
has pet in the shape of horned rattle
snake. 1t was captured on the Rocky
Mountains, has II rattles, large, flat, red
head, and is about three feet in length.
There are two large horns situated on the
top of his head, and three spikes to each
horn.
"A live frog was received at the Dead
Letter office in Washington last week, for
warded from a Texas postoffice. The
Southern postmaster said it came to him
through the mails but the address had
dropped off, and he sent it to Washington
to be opened aud returned to the sender |
The New York SIM says the report of
the payment of $50, 900 by the State De-
partment for cable kilograms, WAS errone-
Gus. That sum of money was appropriated |
by Congress for the expenses OF sending |