The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-07-09
Miscellaneous Items.

Iowa has the largest school fund of
any state in the Union-hree million dollars
The Neurology of Harvard College for
the past year shows list of ffty-two
names.
-Farwell Hall, Chicago, has fan weigh
ing Two and half tons. It makes 500
revolutions per minute
The Omaha Republican says beauti-
ful elk calf was brought through from the
mountains on the 25th inst.
The Methodist Church of Tecumseh,
Mich, have expelled member for betting
on the Presidential election.
Indiana has decided in court that a
man having more white than negro blood
in his veins is entitled to vote in that
State.
One Cincinnati brewer paid $50. 1000 a
year for the ice used in his business. This
speaks badly for the temperance of Porko-
politans.
The New York Sun refers to Andrew
Johnson as "The Wandering Jew." He
has been interviewed and does not believe
in Grant.
Nine papers have suspended pubica-
ton In Missouri within short time. There
seems to be an epidemic among the Mis-
souri, press.
The New York Democrat recently..con-
| tanned an article entitled "a Revolution in
Cas-" The Albany journal thinks it al
luded to the late editorial change in it's OF
| fee.
1t is reported that, at the recent prize
fight, which took place ON the 22d instant,
at Springfield, Mass, about one hundred
women attended and witnessed the brutal
exhibition.
The bowels of the earth have been
heard, from, not by way of volcano,
but by letter. A correspondent writes to
an Eastern paper from i, $50 feet below
daylight, Pewahla mines, Lake Superior"
Judge Whitney, in the United States
Circuit Court at Detroit, has decided that.
under the liquor law Of Michigan, con-
tract for liquor is void and note given in
pursuance of such q contract is not bona
Jfde.
MIR. St. John, the rnahager OF the Bos-
ton baby shaw, will offer premiums Tor col
/ pred babies in few days, and the exhib1-
tlon VIII take place at Horticultural Hall,
probably on Independence Day.
"A CHAP, who replied to an advertise
ment offering an article of great use to
those contemplating marriage, "price 80
cents, or four for ST." received for his 3
dimes, pocket handkerchief of the coars-
est material, worth about six cents.
John Martin, editor of the Paducah
Kentuckian, challenged John Oberly, edi-
tor of the Cairo Bulletin, and Mayor of
Cairo, for the publication by the latter of
| squib about the former. Oberly declined
the invitation.
"A great number of American children
attend school in Brussels, where tuition and
board are at a much lower rate than in New
York, and where, moreover. the girls dress
simply, and not, as in our fashionable up
town schools, like little duchesses.
/ The Union Pacific Railway gives to
the Baptist Home Mission Society lands
on the line of their road for the location of
missions. A delegation of the officers of
| the society are now on the route selecting
lots.
The Louisville Courier Journal makes
this unkind fling at the hub: 1.-TWO rich
men have recently died in Boston and left
no legacies to Harvard University. 1t is
supposed Harvard will try to break the
wills.
The redwood forests in California are
gradually disappearing, and will be gone
|
second growth is coming up, and econ
omists predict ali era of drowth unless
trees are planted to attract clouds and
moisture.
The Cincinnati Times publishes copy
of the first mortgage put on record in Ham
ilton County, Ohio. 1t bears date 1895,
and was given to secure the payment OF
SIXTY dollars for a parcel of $50 acres OF
land in the to,c1l of Cincinnati
A st. Louis paper announces that a
leading editor of that city is going to Paris
to marry widow worth $4,000 and that
two New Jersey women have recently
swindled the st. Louis shopkeepers out of
So, 900 by hiding silks under their petit
coats
The number of men organized in the
trade unions OF New York city alone
amounts to 66,099, and they have bank
account of S5S, 1868. The average in
crease of wages since 1860 for all trades
represented in the unions, is seventy PEI
cent, the least increase being 81 per cent.
the greatest 80.
Booths Theatre returns the largest
receipts Of any New York amusement
house for May, $50, 917, closely followed
however by by Wallack's, S31, 657 The
burlesque shops returned as follows: Olym-
pic, S2S, S1S; Niblos, S23, 096; Woods,
j S14, 2S3; Waverley, S13064.
; "A young woman in West Granville,
Mass, arose in her sleep few nights since,
and, after dressing her hair with the ut
most care and precision, walked five miles
to her home in Tolland, in her night dress,
never awakening until just before her ar
rival, when she naturally caused quite a
sensation.
"A week or two ago a young lady of
Iowa, while on her way to her wedding,
was offered SIS by ''another Teller" if she
would marry him, and consented. The
disappointed lover was not to be wholly
cheated out of his matrimony, and there
fore proposed, was accepted by, and mar
ried the sister of the jilter on the same
day.
The attaches of the New York Demo-
crat had a magnificent dejeuner On Wednes
day evening, at the Metropolitan Hotel
Mr.. G. p Sykes, the publisher being the
host on the occasion. There were red-hot'
times all round, and wine and wit flashed
forth unfortunately.
| AT an election in Boston, on Wednes-
day last, Lizzie Harrison offered to vote
Being told that she could not. as she was
not on the list, she declared that she had a
| right to vote, all regulations TO the con-
trary notwithstanding, deposited her ballot
on the box and sailed out.
FASHION AND FAMINE.-The most notice
able feature this summer is the preponder-
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