The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-01-12


"orange brandy"
AN Illinois fire company elected q
lady foreman.
MISERY requires action, but happiness
seeks for repose.
THE Boston Journal advocates max
ing voting compulsory.
/ BUFFALO meat is in the market ii
various Western cities.
A New ORLEANS fertune-teller netted
81, 200 in twenty days.
CALEoRNIA is building one-story,
earthquake proof churches.
CAIRo has ten-year-old boy with
wliskers four inches long.
The breadth of winter wheat sovn in
Ohio Is large, and the wheat is IN ex
cellent condition.
A GIFTED hand -organist at Detroit ac-
companies himself on a iewsharp.
SIX women have just been elected on
school committee in Lynn, Mass.
OLD maids are described as "embers
from which the sparks have fled
THE refuse potato ponace from starch
factories is to be made into paper.
A NrrRo-GLYCEMNE explosion i'll Hun
gary recently killed forty persons.
THE area of the bituminous coal-tields
in Iowais twenty thousand square miles
AMERICAN pianos are popular in Eng
land, and IN many London drawing
room.
THE class - at Yals college has lost
The population of Ohio. according
to the corrected returns, is 2, SOB, 6Sl.
KIDgloves, of heavy texture, are worn
by sensible women for the promenade.
MEMPHIS proposes to institute mer-
chants exchange and a vigilance com
mittee.
BALLOONS still regularly leave Paris.
France with mails and military intel
hgence.
AN American manufactures torpedoes
and other war material at Constant
nople.
g, THE oyster trade of Boston, it is said,
amounts to more shan GOO, 900 bushels
annually.
The Missouri Valley Railroad will
be completed to the Iowa line i'll about
ten days.
A JAPANESE youth has received
commission as sub b-Geutenant in the
British navy.
ONE thousand five hundred and sew
4 - La i
last year
THE Government meteorological OBJ
servations at Philadelphia are to begin
January 1st.
The old bell house in Capitol Square,
Richmond, has been converted into
paper warehouse.
THE last pier of the ST Charles (Mo.)
bridge rests on IA solid rock 6S feet be
low the surface.
THERE are at present in Germany up
wards of $4,000 widows and 100, 900
fatherless children.
THE Mississippi has already been
iammed with ice opposite st. Louis, SO
that people could cross.
AsCoNvENrIoN was lately held in Ore
gon to devise means for elevating the
Indians of the Pacific coast.
The largest and most beautiful Meth
odist church in Cincinnati has 222
pews, of which every fifth one is free.
If we may rely on the ST Josph Her
aid, "the prowling wolves howl the
notes of starvation" in Alaska.
The Campagna around Rome is to be
drained, and made the source of agri-
cultural fruitfulness instead ofmalarIa.
/ AT the battle of Gravelotte, trum-
peter was killed by ball which went
in at the mouth of his instrument
The death of Mankato boy was
caused few days ago, by inflammation
in the head resulting from fall on the
ice
The Chinese relieve neuralgia and
gout by applying oil ofpeppermint over
the part affected, with a camel's half
pencil.
/ A NEW HAMPSHIRE man is said to
have sold his right to chair restorer'
for 800, ,000 after making small for
tune by it's manufacture.
BEAUTIFUL brooches, ear rings neck
laces and bracelets of clear and opa-
que amber, exquisitely carved, are be-
coming very fashionable.
THE six leading news companies of
this cauntry do business, in selling
newspapers and monthly magazines, of
over eight millions of dollars per an
mum.
"MUTToN HAMS are among the
smoked luxr,ries of Georgia, and they
promise to be, as articles of food sent
to other quarters in large numbers,
source of commercial revenue to the
State.
] A LARGE steel-rolling mill is in pro
gress of construction III South Bethle
hem, Leigh county, Penn. When com
pleted, it will be ! 900 feet long; wing
40 feet in length. One of the stacks.
124 feet high, was finished last week.
AT THE NORTH PoLE.-Capt Hall.
the Arctic explorer, in his recent lee
ture in New York, was reported thus:
When he shall stand Oh the North
Pole there is one thing which will
trouble him, and that, how shall he
keep his chronometers regulated; how
shall he tell whether they are gaining
or losing. Every direction then viii
be south There will be no north, no
east, no west. The North Star will ba
directly over head, or nearly so, and on
the first day of March the sun will Just