The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-02-23
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ANAA A'-aN' tT uS
A FLEETING sHow-A travelling circus.
A woMAN's bow ideal-The marriage
tie.
THE best vegetable to raise (s)teers
on-onions.
AMoosE-HEST shooting the "mon-
arch of the woods down cast.
If n woman were to change her sex,
of what religion would she be? A he
then
The fowl interest has an organ of its
own-the Poultry Bulletin. 1t is given
to Growing.
FERNANDO E. ST2EDA, one of the Gu
ban leaders, has been captured and ex-
ecuted at Morton.
SAN Francisco has ten savings banks,
containg sSl, $50, $50, deposited by &c.
Sc persons.
PHILADELPHIA calls upon the insur-
rance companies to bear part of the
expense of its newpaid fire department.
A CANADIAN editor thinks it worth
while to explain that when he, wrote
" The Loaves and Fishes
An old lady in New jersey has given
up snuff, and sends the savings to the
American Board of Foreign Missions.
A MAN IN Columbus, Ohio, died of
too much laughing gas IN a dentists
chair, last week.
NELLIE HARLOW. of st. Johnsbury,
Vt, fell on her way to church on Sun
day, and broke her arm for the fourth
time.
Il CAME near selling my boots the
other day. said Scuttle to friend.
Chow so s' "Well, / had them half
soled."
A NEGRO, on being examined, was
asked If his master was true Christ
ian. "No, sir, he is politician, was
the reply.
AN unpleasant feature of a wedding
party in Troy last week was the depre-
dations of burglars, who stole s57 and
some iewelry.
THE champion "knittest" Of Ver-
mont is Mrs. l.. II. Orcutt, of South
Barton, who knit in nine hours nine
double mittens, mems size-one an
hour.
A LIVELY Hiberpian exclaimed, at
party where Theodore Hook shone as
the evening star, "Och, Master Theo-
dore, but you are hook that nobody
can bate"
THE deposits IN the savings banks Of
Massachusetts last year averaged about
eighty thousand dollars for every day
on which they were open for business.
PH9BE HAUBER, ninety-five years old.
residing at Hornellsville, n Y, has
lived with her husband sixty-eight
years, and counts up 145 living descend
ants.
A GENTLEMAN OF Memphis sitssin his
garden under the shade of IL castor
bean plant twenty three feet high, with
fragrant foliage spreading over circum-
ference of 35 feet.
LAST summer poor Welshman paid
his last money (S75) for q few acres Of
poor land at Monsoon, Maine. He soon
opened a splendid quarry of slate, and
has lately sold the property for SIC, 900.
A LITTLE son of William Curtis of
Westford, N. H., while playing with Il
screw last week, put it into his mouth,
when it slipped into his throat the
head stopping his breath and causing
death in a few moments.
A CHURCH GOING man Is said to have
offered 5000 per annum for the use of Il
cort ain pulpit for al dvertisinc purposes.
agreeing to present no ''notices more
worldly" than some which were read
there every Sabbath.
A DRUNKEN student in the University
of Virginia wantonly shot colored man
on Monday, and one of the local pa.
pers treated the crime as a very anus
ing event, under the caption, Run,
nigger. run" Another paper in the
town, however, characterized it as an
outrage.
BISHOP MClLvAINE, of Ohio, through
the Standard of the Cross, has directed
the use, at morning and evening church
service, of the prayer for rain. He
speaks of the unusual and alarming
need of rain which now prevails through
out the land" The Bishop of Albany,
n. Y. has prescribed q form of prayer
under like necessity.
STURGEON began life as usher in
school at Newmarket; delivered ser
mons at the early age of seventeen, and
gained quite reputation as the "Boy
Preacher For a number of months
he preached in a barn in Waterbcach,
and drew such crowds tlet numbers
could not get inside, but stood under
the sky to catch the sound of his voice.
A FEW days ago in Jackson, ~ H.,
the house of II. G.. Fernald, situated
about eight miles from the Glen House,
was totally destroyed by fire, with the
barn near by The morning was SO IN
tensely cold that the family, who es-
capped in half-clad state, were badly
frozen before they could reach the next
house, which is quite distance off.
THE Lowell Mass city government
Is asked to prohibit theatrical and
Ethiopian minstrel entertainments on
Saturday evening, because they are
specially detrimental to the moral
welfare of the young who frequent
them, and who are thus untitled for any
proper observance of the Sabbath, and
so inclined to desecrate the day, and
imperil their moral welfare