The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-21
CURRENT ITEMS.
Is THE natural inference true that DR..
Mandrake is Quack9

| IT is asserted in favor of new lamp
that nitro-g lycerine itself wouldn't ex-
plode it.
A BOY, five years old, is described on
the Jersey City police docket as san
habitual drunkard."
By the payment of annual dividends the
Mutual Life, of Chicago, supplies insur.
ance at cost. Insure there.
IT is said that experience this season has
demonstrated that the rear car is the most
dangerous part of train.
MAKE friends with life insurance, that
when you are old it may comfort you. Re-
member the Washington Life
| A CLERGYMAN was asked whether the
members of his church were united II,
replied that they were perfectly united
frozen together
j. L. SMITH was recently arrested in
| New Orleans for murder he had COM
mitted III Carrollton, Ga, fifteen years
ago.
A MODERN thinker says many people
will be astonished when they get to heaven
to find the angels laying no schemes to be
made archangels.
NINETY Thousand four hundred and six
teen persons eIuigrated from England ard
112 ,095 from Scotland and Ireland, during
the year 1870.
A SUBLIME THoUGHT.-Odd Fellows
and Masons, ike Mssons and Hold Eel
lows ascending ladder, get up by degrees.
l-Commsrcial Bulletin.
\ POUND Of turnip seed contains 301,-
26S. You can easily test the accuracy of
this by getting pound and counting the
SEEDS
A Baum near Dubuque, Iowa, was de-
stIoyed by fire the other day. The barn
was very near the owners dwelling, and,
| water being scarce, the house was saved
By the application OF great quantities of
mix,
THE young men at the Wheeling water
ing places have discarded white vests
Th3 young ladies use SO much oil on their
hair that q vest is only good for one even
| ing on The piazza.
PITTsFIELD, Mass, has developed an
other economical citizen. A young man
called at store and inquired for boot
boxes. but could not find one large enough,
and it came out in conversation that he
wanted it for a coffin for his father.
THE FAC END OF QUARREL.--Stern
parent: Leave off that noise directly,
jack You naughty boy! It's all over now,
and Bertha's LIFT off crying these ten min
utos." Jack: "B-B-Bertha began cry
ing before | did! Boo hoo!"
a DETROIT merchant received a check
| for $4,000 from penitent detaulter. The
amount due being only $4,000, the mer-
chant gratefully made change with check
! for the balance. He INDUCED in much
profane SWEARING on finding the next day
| that the $1,000 check was worthless.
On the 23i of May the cigar seller of
| Quai de rEcole printed with pen,
CLOSED on account of death" on sheet
of foolscap, in order 10 preserve his shop
| from pillage and fire. AS soon as the ink
was dry he took a paste-brush and posted
it on his door. He was about to reenter
the shop when a ball killed him.
Mr.. CHILD, of Exeter College, Oxford,
a recent writer on physiological expert
ments, contends that the degree of sensi-
bility to pain in mankind varies directly
with the increase of civilization; SO that
the moe highly civilized a man is, tie
more he will suffer from given cause
productive of pain.
a YOUNG lady was entertaining some
| friends the other evening, when one said:
miss -, your braid is coming eff"
She ,lapped her hands to her head and
found nothing unslinped The gentleman
quietly pointed to the braid of her dress,
about half YARD of which had been torn
off, AMI was lying on the floor. There
was an audible smile.
AN interesting case was tried before an
Evansville, Ind, justice few days ago.
A man named Dugan had teen killed by
a runaway horse. A subscription was
taken up for the benefit of the widow and
children. John Dugan, brother of the
deceased, collectedfthe subscriptions and
kept the money, claiming that his brother
was indebted to him at the time of his
death. On the trial the widow obtained
| judgment, and the charitable John had to
| disgOrge.
The fact seems well established that GER
| tain articles, such IS old wearing apparel.
well dried wood, etc, are capable of gen.
Grating sufficient heat to induce combus-
ton without the application of fire. We
| think that not a few of the numerous
! fires, supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary," are caused by, perhaps, rag
which has been used with benZine by the
frugal housewife to clean q coat, or by the
heat which is known to be generated from
articles OF silk, cotton, etc, closed up in a
close room.-Erclange.
Mrs. VAN HARMON revived in Montana,
the other day, The memories of our RevO-
| lutionary danes. Left alone in her cabin,
she was startled by the approach of three
Cheyennes, and had barely time to bolt the
door when the Indians flung themselves
against it. Sending her children into the
cellar, the heroic young woman seized
revolver and gun, and confronted the In
dians at the open window. The red skins
were finally driven off, after firing the
| barn.
A NEW thieving dodge is practised by
females hn or oars and fiplinp q ucp-
tleman sitting alone, ask if the other seat
| is occupied. The gentleman at once mo-
tons her to be seated, when she politely
asks him if he won't allow her to sit by
the window. Of course this request is
! also granted, and she becomes seated.
| Presently she finds that there is not air
| enough in the car, and requests the gen.
| tleman TO raise the window. He at once
| rises to do so, and as ne leans over her she
| picks his pocket or removes his watch,
which passes to male confederate in the
neXt seat behind her.
| ACCIDENT has had considerable to do
| with the most important scientific discOv-
cries. A gentleman in Bingham, Utah,
who is sinking shaft with the expecta-
ton Of finding gold in 2 canon, some time
ago nailed piece of sheet-iron up to keep
the water from dripping on the men at
| "a
| off the water for some three weeks, he
| took it down, and fousd, to his astonish-
ment, that it was covered more than an
inch thick with gold, silver and copper,
with little iron, which had been in the
water in solution and became pfecipitated
by being brought in contact with the sheet
An unhappy resident of Buffalo, who
has been long tormented by an offensive
odor about bis premises, ana against whom
the Health Officer had actually commenced
suit for maintaining nuisance, has Just
discovered that it is caused by flow of
natural gas in his cellar. The floor of the
cellar is the natural rock, and to drain it,
before sewer was constructed, hole was
drilled through the rock distance of two
feet, when IN intersice or cavity was met,
into which the water passed. On apply
ing lighted candle 10 the hole a blue
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