The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Downington has flushed her new water
works.
TIE Mont Cents tunnel will be eomples:
ed in 1871.
Russia has 66, cotton factoris, With $50, :
600 operatives.
Memphis is anxiously inquiring for more
cotton pickers
Save your cats. Silk hats arc now made
from their hair.
November, in the olden time, was called
the wind month";
A Cleveland paper writes "Feminary"
for female Seminary
The iron,c'ad feet Of England is valued
al $40, $50. 900 in gold.
! A susceptible ludianian faioted At tbs
| performance Of a drama.
The Cos,acks have been converted into
| regular Russian cavalry.
| The original number of cannon on the
forts around Paris is |, 226.
The depth of cowardice e-Fearinf to
strike 4 balance> sheet
The bi.hops Of Aiclaide and Melbourne
Australia, are in New York.
London is to hsve a new illustrated
week. called the "Grumblcr.'
The foundation stone of new city Ii.
trary has Leec laid at London.
Christ church, on Fifth avenue, New
ork, has been sold tor 5000 600.
The great county for butter manufacture
IN Pennsylvania is said to be Tioga
Three Massachusetts churches pay their
pastors s. 900 each.
Denver has fish with head like cat
body like lizard, short legs and fms.
Hartford is anxionS for what it styles "a,
preventive rather :han detective police
The friends Of technical education III
London are endcavoIing 70 open o uniyer-
sity.
England complains Of the great expense
and trouble her Australian coonie, are to
hor
A Western editor is raving about the'
lamhIcnt pastimes of boreal corrusca.
tons"
A child at Knoxville, bitten fatally By ..
spider, swelIed to twice its natural size.
The Boston Transcript advertises =
Mind your own-business Society" in that
town.
Loves other name" j, suh;,ct to ortho.
graphic mutations. Before marriage Il II
aiftctlon; afterwards, it becomes "a TO-
ton"
Black and colorad velvet ribbons are as'
much used ~ bias bands for trimmings.
Shaded velvets and moss trimmings are
setts some time ago, at which about six
teen thousand ounces of silver were pre-
sented to the parties
Twenty one car loads Of grain were ships
ped from Grand Island Nebraska, in ten
days ending September last. SO says the
Independent.
The Maine lumber dealers are preparing
their teams for the winter logging expedi-
,ions. The teams will 20 into the woods
early this month.
The Nova Scotia Annexation League
contemplate large meeting at Halifax, to
forward the Ian of annexing the province
to the United States.
An Illinois candidate rronounces the ad-
ministration for taking the tax off on
planners vot We don, use, and keepin' Il
on whlskey wot We do.
The office of City Chamberlain in New
York il said to he worth $50 600 a year:
$40 900 Of which he gets for the trouble Of
drawing one check.
The brig An,ecolo from New York to
Aspinwal, was wrecked recently. and her
crew brought hack to New York by the
ship Iiorsta Harris
A nervous burglar in Michigan was
prevented from ransack:ng a lady's trunk
the other night by coming into sudden
contact with an artificial snake.
1t is said that the Kaw Indians salt tho
railroad track, in their country, in order.
l. r.. RAl Il
they can get the carcasses.
A proud and loving Missouri father. in
setting forth the accomplish hments Of his
daughter said she could Everlasting paw
ivory and howl like a mule
Drouyn de L'Huys is still on the island
of jersey, making speeches at railroad Gel
ebraions and praising the hospitality of
the isle which has proved a harbor of ref
uge 10 him.
As an evidenc. o. the value Of the new
in-ention for consuming sparks and Gin
ders on railroads. are we informed that on
a rrccnt trip of 45 miles in Massachusetts
IA bushels Of this stuff were accumla--
ted
An Irishman in recommending a COW,
, re marked "She will give milk year after
year without having calves, because she
came CT a COW that never had cali.
Many a man thinks it's virtue that
keeps him from turning rascal, when it's
ONLY ful! stomach. Orc should be care
fui and not mistake bread for principles.
A bright little fellow VIC. travelling in !.
crowded stage coach, and had been taken
on the lap of fellow passenger. The con-
versation turned on pick pockets and their
Il, \, f,n4 oil
the gentleman who had the little one on
his knee, 'how easily could pick Jour
pocket" as il lay open near his hand.
J mo, you couldn't, neither" answered t1io
| boy, with sharp twinkle in his eyes.
''causc I've been looking out for you all
| the way"
| WHEN an Arab woman intends marry
! ing again after the death of her husband,