The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-27
CURRENT ITEMS.

| GLfCERINE Is salu 10 De tne pest remedy
| for sun burn.
| LARGE gilt and enamel combs for the
back hair have come in fashion again.
| A NEW style Of watch chain is orna-
mented with small acorns with enamel
| tops.
| DIVIDENDS car &c aled to keep policies
in force in the Mutual Life, of Chicago.
AT Cambridge, Mass, the other day,
the lightning struck the house Of light
ming rod maker
THE Washington is purely mutual. and
divides its profits among its policy holders
only.
A LONDON magistrate recently punished
a would be suicide by making him pay
ten shillings to his rescuer
LIGHTNING knocked the trowel out Of
plaster's hand at Nevada, Iowa, during Q
recent storm, without injuring the man.
UNTIL the 1st of July, 1870, lO2 persons
had committed suicide by jumping from
the now destroyed Vendome column, in
Paris
| AN Indianapolis merchant has been in
business thirty-two years and never ad-
vertised. He runs q peanut warehouse on
q Curbstone table.
THE papers say that the Harpers had ar
ranged pipes to throw scalding water upon
the New York rioters in case of an attack
upon their buildings.
| WHERE BoUND.-
| "Where do you 'spose that cloud is bound,"
| Said Bill, with a look I wonder;
Id Bob, with anxious look aro md,
| spose it's going to thunde ="
AT recent school examination young
urchin, being asked why it was 80 warm
in the torrid zone replied promptly, BE
| cause II is so hot
| a. WELTY, an old gentleman residing
in Owasco, N Y, killed sixty five coons
| last season, the heaviest one weighing
thirty pounds. The largest number taken
by him in one night was seven.
| ACCORDING to DR.. Green, when young
lady says no" and means YES" she's
afflicted with "Amesic aphssia arising
| from embolus thornbus," the only known
RENE y for which is marriage, for "when
married lady says no. she means 1t.
| NETINA KIMBALL, a colored woman,
was lately sent from Annapolis as freight
10y the Adams Express Company to Mrs
4. Gay, Nashua n. II. She was delivered
at the office properly marked, paid for in
advance, and was received in good order.
! SEVENTEEN Saratoga trunks, two large
| boxes, three hampers, three small carpet
| bags, two bird-cages, a brace of dogs, a
| French maid. two easy chairs and q mirror
comprised the baggage of fashionable
Philadelphia family who recently arrived
at the Stockton House, Cape May.
A VIRGINIA woman thought to frighten
her son, young man, as he was coming
| home the other ri ght. So she went out to
IN ct him with a sheet thrown over her
head. But he did not scare as well as she
| pynpcfpH n no hp OF he
"ghost" with heavy whip he was carry
ing, and she fell sanseless.
THE obituary notices in the London pa.
rcrs give us evidence of the ripe old age
to which the members of the English aris-
tOcracy usually attain. In eight obitu-
aries of eminent persons in a late number
of the London Neass the re was but one of
a person under sixty. Sir j. Bursdell was
ei. .hty-eight; Sir Oswald Mosely, ei shty-
six; Sir Frederick Echlin, seventy six;
Lord Elibank, sixty seven, and so on.
A FEW weeks ago Duke Ernest, of Sake
Coburg- -Gotha, the brother of the late
| prince consoTt, complain ed, in the pres
ence of Pri ce Bismark, that the order of
the Iron Cross had been distributed too
freely and indiscriminatey. IL do not
know about that replied Bismark; 1.-The
o,der is conferred on two classes of per-
|
tioguished themselves during the war;
and, second, as a matter of courtesy, to
men such as your highness and my If"
| The Duke made 10 reply.
| THE announcement of the death Of
resident Of Augusta, Me, at the extreme
| age of 10i yeaIs, reminds the Newbury-
port Herald of the singular phases which
human life often presents Twenty y-eight
years ago this man was quite sick, and his
life was despaired OF. A neighbor, an &C
tive busiLOss man, in average health, paid
him visit at the time, and, returning to
| his own home, remarked that he feared
his aged friend would not live till morn
| ing. The words had scarcely passed his
lips when he dropped dead upon the floor
of heart disease.
A WASHINGTON paper having stated
| that short hand reporter In that city can
| write with both hands at the same time,
the left taking notes and right transcrib-
| ing, the Troy Wing comes to the rescue
with this bigger story: "There is an old
reporter now retired from active life, who
used to take notes with his left hand while
writing check with his right. He is now
wrestling his mush in a greystone front
| in Sing Sing just because he forgot him
| self and took notes with one hand in
hurry"
The oldest woman in Maine, SAYS the
Augusta Journal, is Mrs. Ber ha Foster,
| who was born on the 18th of June, 1894,
| and is, consequently, over 107 years old
Since her one hundredth birthday she has
both spun and knit. For one pair of
stockings krit since that time she has re-
ceived IS. She has been able to read un.
I'll within few years, and to walk quite
we'll until very recently, when she fell,
and has since been obliged to keep her
bed. She still retains her mental facul ties
to remarkable degree, considering her
age.
A JUSTICE of the Peace who had been
hoIOred with the office for twenty years
by the citizens Of the town Of Davenport,
Delaware County, n. Y, was recently
thrown out of office by a new survey of
the line between that town and the town
OF OneOnta, OsWegO County 1t was as
certained that the worthy functionary
never lived in the town of Davenport, or
Delaware County, ard, consequently, was
never eligible to the Office he held and
discharged the duti s of in very accepta-
bic manner for so long time. Some
| questions may yet be IaIsed as 10 the val
| idity of his decisions, and especially the
| legality OF the marriage ceremonies he
has Performed
a HUGE seal was lately captured at Bur
| lington, New Jersey. For week or ten
| days previous to the seal being captured,
| the shad in the river almost disapp, ared.
| The fishermen caught so few that fishing
proved a losing business and tn price Of
| the few shad went up to high figure. All
| this time the seal was swiumii < to and
fro in the river, no doubt doing his share
at shad fishing To keep clear Of him
the shad must have been driven away
from their accustomed tracks, and hence
out Of the reach Of the fishermen. But
the very day after the capture Of their en-
emy they returned to their old haunts,
when the fishermen took them in large
numbers, at once giving abundance and
low prices.
| 1T is a curious fact illustrating the e.
cessity Of cleanliness and of keeping the
pores OF the skin open, that if coat of
varnish or other substance impervious to