The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-07-23
Miscellaneous Items.


Miscellaneous Items.
The United States paid to foreign
countries for sugar last year So, 100000
"A new weekly paper, called the West
ern Catholic, has just made its ap 1earance
in Chicago.
"A striped bass weighing fifty pounds,
was landed at wells Beach, Mass, on Fri
day last.
An effort is being made to introduce
German int the public schools of New
York city.
"A negro boy has been fined in NeI
Orleans for ''telling fortunes without a Ii
cense."
"A man IN Kansas City charms bees,
leads them whittier he will and compels
them to do his bidding.
Three convicss attempted to escape from
Jail in Corinne, Utah, and the guard fired
half dozen times upon them, killing all
three.
The first time writer in the Cinein-
natl Times saw Thomas Buchanan Read,
he was FASTING theater bills for strolling
company, of which he was one.
Mrs. Stoves new book, "Old Town
Folks, promises to have a popularity be
yond any of her works except Uncle Tom,
OF which 316 copies have been sold.
Florida contains over seven million
acres of land lying along the Atlantic coast
from Indian river to Cape Sable, admirably
adapted to the cultivation of coffee.
1T is estimated that the number of
persons who visited Florida on business, as
settlers. and as invalids or pleasure-seekers,
last winter, will reach three hundred thou
sand.
There, are g. 500 newspapers published
in this country, of which fve-sevenths are
issued in the Northern States New York
has the largest and Florida the smallest
number.
On Sunday afternoon two little boys
were bathing i'll the river at Chicago, when
a tug passed, the suction from which drew
them into deep water, and both were
drowned.
In the vicinity of Clear Lake, Iowa,
during the recent storm, a house contain
ing nine inmates was swept for nearly
mile down a small stream, and four chill
dren drowned.
"A convention of distillers is to be held
III Cynthiana, KY, in about fortnight,
to devise means to procure repeal of the
stringent revenue laws, or discover way
to evade them.
"A negro woman living in Dog Prairie,
st. Charles. County, Iowa, recently gave
birth to an infant whose body was entirely
black, with the exception of one leg, which
is perfectly white to the thigh.
In the Ketchum case, at New York, on
Wednesday, while one of the lawyers was
addressing the court the father and son,
moved by an irresistible impulse of affec
ton, leaned over and kissed each other
The New Hampshire Legislature has
passed bill allowing nine per cent or any
less rate of interest by special contract,
with provision that the question shall be
submitted to the people at the next cleo
ton.
Mr.. W. L. Phillips says that Miss
Olive Logan has been ga fashionable belle
at that gay, fascinating and dangerous
French Court.
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 81, $50 feet below
daylight, Pewable mines, Lake Superior.
Judge Whitney, in the United States
Circuit Court at Detroit, has decided that,
under the liquor law of Michigan, q con-
tract for liquor is void, and note given in
pursuance OF such contract is not bona
fde.
Mr.. st. John, the manager OF the Bos-
ton baby show, will offer premiums for col
ored babies in a few days, and the exhibI-
ton will take place at Horticultural Hall,
probably on Independence Day.
"A chap, who replied to an advertise
ment offering an article of great use 10
those contemplating marriage, price 80
cents, or four for ST." received for his 8
dimes, q pocket handkerch. of the coars-
est material, worth about six cents.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker has found a
champion in the Galveston News, which
has engaged her as a Washington corres-
pondent and promises it's readers erich
scenes" depicted by her pen.
Mrs. Mary E. Tucker, the charming
writer, whose contribution have been re-
marked in the New York Ledger, is now at
Nyack. Her physicians have ordered her
to cease her literary labors for the present
"A verdict of S22, 500, in favor of the
plaintiff has been rendered in the case of
L. Nichols against the Kansas Pacific Rail
road for damages sustained last summer by
a train running off the track
A new circus feat just introduced in
Paris is for man to leap from height of
eighty feet and bound back again to the
original spot. The performer is fastened
to an elastic cord. .a A.f-
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
q 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.