The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-14
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| "THE HEARsE, is the significant name
| Of Nevada saloon.
WHAT ought Away to be up to the
mara? A bullet.
THE navy of Brazil is said to have
never J ct lost a yes sci.
OYSTERS carried from the Atlantic
coast are being planted in Oregon.
THE track of the Hudson River Rail
| road is now laid with steel rails.
CONFINEMENT To sit in the house
anu see other people stuck in the mud.
A MAN in London was lstely fined 800
and costs for keeping = betting office.
RATS ran off with e27 in sovereigns
| and half sovereigns in Manchester eng
| land) store.
THE waste of gas in London from de-
| fec.ive burners is estimated at e, $50 coca
year.
A MASSACHUSETTS, paper asserts that
the Goldfish catch this year is unusually
small.
THE Mutual Life, of Chicago, is con-
Quoted In the interest of its policy holders
not to enrich stock holders.
"JoHN" was the entire name of col
can, Texas, at recent election.
A FRENCH astronomer has invented a
balloon compass which will show both
the course aud rate of speed of a balloon.
A Miss HARRIS. of Columbus Ohio,
fell dead the other day while bowling to a
young man on the street. This is another
fearful warning.
THE Washington is great public favo-
rite; the increase of business last year
over the year previous was greater than
that OF any other cash company.
Inst. Louis, since,the list of January,
1928 building permits have been issued,
! the estimated value of the houses being
$3,771,242
SOME people love others so much better
than themselves that they are vastly more
concerned about their neighbors' affairs
| than about their own.
A HARTFORD man keeps box in which
he regular y deposits his car fare when he
walks 10 and from his place of business, as
he now almost always does. The other
day, at the close of year, he opened it,
ana und he had S109 20.
A CHEERFUL saUant has discovered that
mosquitoes are a provIdential guard against
disease, upon the superstition thai in sum-
mer the human system is peculiarly liable
to fever, and The insects by depicting the
quantity OF blood, get up counter-rrits-
tion.
AT college examination the students
were asked The meaning of the word 'hy-
pothesis." One cand d4te answered that
it was a machine for raing water. "An-
ether said that it was something that
happened to man after death"
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the window of a car in the Union Pacific
passenger train just after it had left Chey-
enne, and while it was going about thirty
miles an hour. The train was stopped
and he was found alive, the only injury
sustained being few bruises and thor.
ough frightening
THE number of passports issued to per-
sons going abroad this year is far in excess
of any previous one, but applications arc
beginning to fall off considerably. Large
numbers of our German residents have
left the country this summer to pay brief
visit to the Fatherlnnd."
IT has probably fallen to the lot of few
in this world to do as much good as Miss
Maria s. Rye. She has now crossed the
Atlantic twelve times, and succeeded in
finding respectable homes and occupation
for five hundred girls, the majority of
whom would otherwise, in all probability,
have been paupers on the street.
CURE FOR LRPROSY.-It is said that a
cure has been discovered for lepTosy. A
surgeon in khundwa, India, reports the
case of a wietched old man who came to
him from Bombay, having been abandon
ed by his friends because of this terrible
disease. He was treated with soap and
water, and then with carbolic acid and oil,
and was completely cured.
A NOVEL wedding took place few DAYS
ago IN shoe mandatory in Cleveland.
FwO OF the employees were placed on an
elevator, and were married by the Rev. d.
9. Osborne. This over, a spring was
touched, and the couple assembled to the
fourth story Returning in few mo-
mentS, MIR. Osborne congratulated them
on their happy bridal tour. Cake was
then served on large sole leather plates
STOPPING HEN FROM o1TTINe.-J. E.
Smith, of Durham, n. II, writes to the
american Agriculturist: Il was quite
amused some days since by an old sitting
hen. Having tried all the usual ways to
induce her to leave her nest, conclude,
10 use moral suasion.' l placed two
Jumps of ice in the nest after taking her
off. The odd critter,' as usual in such
cases, soon returned and took seat, which
seemed to disagree with her, and after
few hours Mrs. Hen concluded to asso.
ciate with her fellows"
AN enormous woman, one Carolina
Heenan, is now ON exhibition in London.
Her age is said to be twenty-five years,
and weight $50 pounds She measures
seven feet around the body, twenty six
inches around the arm, and three feet six
inches across the shoulders. 1t is added
hat mi, lyn fns 10
lady is able to sustain great physical cxer-
ton, is handsome and pleasing" and
highly intelligent" not in the least
"drowsy," nor is her face "fat and greasy"
A NORTH CAROLINA paper, as an in
stance OF the changes of fortune wrought
by the war, states that "a widow lady
from the country was in town Tuesday,
hunting cook place in some nice family
Many years ago her grandfather owned
$50 slaves and six plantations, and at the
q Sc of the war her father had bushel Of
gold. Her husband was poor man, and
died in the war; and row tbs independent
and worthy wild W woa an prefers to cook
IN some nice family rather than live de.
pendent on other folks"
A RECENT letter to the Missouri Re
pnbLicdn, from Coats Store, Rockingham
County, Va, says Son the 2S;h of July,
tornado, accompanied by rain and hail,
swept through portion of this county,
tearing up trees and destroying every
Thing in its way. Many fields of corn
were entirely destroyed. The hail in
many places fell and drifted from five to
seven feet deep. Linvile Creek was 30
banked up with hail that the fish became
frozen. and were picked up along the bank
in great quantities; but the strangest of
all is, that apple trees in orchards were
stripped of all their fruit and leaves, and
now have new foliage heavier than be-
fore, and the trees are perfectly white
with bloom, One large apple tree was
only partially stripped, and now it is full
of bloom intermixed with large and near
ly ripe fruit and trees that had not borne
at all, neither had bloomed, are now full
of bloom / am now visiting this portion
of Virginia, and know the above to be
facts. 1t certainly is very strange"