The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-20
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1HE cAulate OF Louisiana Is salu TO De
three degrees colder than it was fifteen
| years ago.
For thirty.one years William s. Stodl
| dard has been watchman at the Massa-
chusetts State House.
DEATH will stop all income Provide
for 1t by insuring in the Washington Life
Insurance Company, of New York.
The Rev. James L. Vallandigham, of
Newark, Delaware, is to write biogra-
ply OF the iaie Clement l. Nallandigham
a CoNNECTIcUT editor unkindly alludes
to a rival editors head as the Polar regions,
because 1t is great white bare place.
SINCE 1866 there have been twenty y-six
small planets, or asteroids discovered.
Fifteen Of these were discovered in
America.
COMMENCING attheage ofthirty, five cents
q day will secure policy OF $l,I0O in the
Mutual Life, of Chicago.
MANY COWS in Baltimore have recently
been strangely afflicted with an incurable
Inflammation of the eyes, ending in total
blindness.
"lF you viii all only do wrong and be
sorry for it, ou will go to heaven" is
b. ing extensively quoted as the last remark
OF an Indian who was hanged recently in
California.
THREE Texan women We're shot lately,
while robbing house. One said, as she
lay dying: Z" My father forced NE to steal
before was ten years old, and God will
not punish me Tor my fathers crime"
A EL-KEEPER in the Schuylkill
Valley has placed in his bar-room
placard; Young Men and Boys are For
hidden to Occupy these Seats They will
find their way here too soon for their own
good"
In speech in San Francisco, Senator
Cole expression the opinion that the
Treaty OF Washington will preclude the
possibility of war between Anne RIGA and
England for perhaps century to come.
IT is very hard on Chicago-the report
that it is proposed To abolish the light
house at the mouth of the Chicago River
as an unnecessary expense the sense of
smell of the pilots being all that is re-
quislte to enable them to make the harbor"
MR. JOHN GAIN, of Germantown,
Penn, leaped upon locomotive which 10
saw quietly standing on the track, opened
the throttle, and away it went Mr. John
Calm ana the locomotive pretty quickly
brought up in a ditch, John very much
demoralizt d and the engine wreck
BURGLARS stole everything there was
eatable IN dozen houses in one street in
Baltimore on the Saturday night bt fore
the Fourth. Some of the families were
left without sugar, coffee, butter, or bread
for breakfast, and one or two who had laid
in provisions enough TO last over the
Fourth, lost them all.
CRoQUET is more ancient game than
most people suppose. 1t was introduced
into England from France in 1880, under
the name of "pele mele," and gave the
name to the celebrated LonSon avenue
now the street, called Pail Mall. 1t was
favorite pastime of Charles H. and the
Duke Of York.
A LrTTLN Irish boy went into barber
shop in Des Moines, Iowa, the other day,
TO get his hair cut Chris Bathman and
Hawthorne, BARRIERS, thought il u capital
opportunity tor joke, and shaved
smoothly the head of the lad. For this
bit OF pleasantly they were fined $40 and
SO respectively, and appealed from the
decision.
THE Lebanon (Ky) Standard says: "A
boy gathering blackber1ies near BradfOrds-
Vile, the other day, encountered six rattle
snakes, five of which he killed. 1t was
not good day for snakes--at least not for
MISS DUwIDan hIiIeu II nine. yeaI -UIu Ia,uIc-
snake, last week, in the lagoons below
Newmarket"
Two well-dressed and fine looking ladies
instantly dislocated their necks while
passing each otner, in trying to discover
what each had on. 1t was cloudy; the
spe d at which they were moving, and the
delicate shade OF the dry goods worn by
each, operated against them, and q sudden
tack with all sail set against a stiff breeze
fetched them up too short, and they per-
ished.-Ittusoille (Pa.) Herdld.
LOUISVILLE boasts of an eighteen-yea
old belle who can lift a tub of cl thing
from the ground to an elevation of four
feet, and have the clothes line white with
the results of the labor of her own little
white hands in short while. Meantime
her mother sits in the parlor taking her
ease in her old age. As soon as this be-
comes generally known the railroads run
ming into that city will have to run extra
trains
A FEW weeks ago the remains of Ugo-
Foscolo, the Italian poet, patriot and
,holar, were exhuned at London for
transportation to italy. The coffin was
opened, and though the body had been
buried "A years, the form and features
were as perfect as when he died. The
physician and hair dresser who attended
him in his last sickness were present and
were much affected at the sight of the
man they hau known SO well and SO long
ago.
JUDGE PAxoN, Of Philadelphia, has de-
cided that procession has no right to in
terlupt the ordinary travel on a street.
The Mayor had issued orders that no
street cars should be allowed to cross the
streets so long as the German procession
was passing. A superintendent OF one of
the lines endeavored to force his cars
through gap in the procession, but he
was prevented by police officer. The
superintendent sued the officer for assault
and battery, and won his case.
THE California gamblers are despondent
again Only few days ago Judge Saw
yer, of San Francisco, ecided that keno
was not prohibited by the statutes against
gambling. Then everybody went in for
keno, ard everything was lovely. But the
brightest prospects soonest fade. Judge
Stanley has rushed in and utterly undone
the work Of the other man, ruling that
keno is game of chance, and therefore
unlawful. That decision overcomes the
votaries of tickle fortune like a summer
cloud. .s
II. is pretentious young man Of
slender requirements, who affects lIteIa
ture, especially in the presence of young
ladies. On one occasion he brought down
the house by asking lady if she had read
Mr.. Dickens last novel, "The Diamond
Editionr A more astounding blunder is
the following: Seeing a copy of Lal]a
Rookh lying en- the center table, he called
attention to it, when somebody inquired if
he had ever read it. mo" he replied,
81 have never read any of Miss Rookh' S
poems"
WILLARD YOUNG, the Mormon cadet at
West Point told an interviewing reporter,
the other day, that he has sixteen broth
ers and twenty-five sisters In regard to
"hazing,' the young prophet complained
/" If the cadets see us go by, they spit out
their guilds of tobacco ON the grass, and
then order US IN the most peremptory way
to pick them up with our fingers aid car.
ry them off the ground. Now, l think
that's shame. know it's only done to