The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1873-03-20

Do YOU snow how to tell what size OF a
glove you need? Take tape and measure
thehand around the knuc,lcs. The number
of inches aud quarters of an inch it meas
ures IS exactly the size of n glove. That
Is, if It measures five and three-fourths
inches around, YOU wan. Siore No. 3-4.
When Madame Recamier was getting
very old, though she preserved her beauty
nearly TO the end, she once said to friend
of her charms: Alas YOU cannot deceive
me. The chimney sweeps don't turn
their heads any more in the Streets
Mrs. Charlcs Sumner is doing vas,
amount of good in Europe. More than one
American family to whom disease has come
in foreign lands has found . faithful and
efficient nurse in Mrs. Sumner. In one
instance she Travelled f:om Florence to
Vienna to nurse several merbers of an
American family of whose serious illness,
occurring at the same time, she had heard.
The city physician of Springfield, Mass,
is woman. Il is said that ste has not
made single blunder during her official
career; that she has attended 100 more
patients than any Of her predecessors in
the same length of time, AZ 800 less ex-
pense; and that, acting rs nurse as well as
doctor, her practice among the poor has
been specially beneficial.
An Engishman, it is said, hearing
great deal about the Yankee propensity of
Dragging thought he would make an ex-
pertinent in the art himself. lie walked
up to a markct-voman' 5 stand, and, point
ing to some large watermelons, sa,d:--
What, don't yon raise any bigger apples
than thoes in America'' Apples' said the
woman disdainfully: anybody might know
you was an Englishman. Thcms buckle
berries
One editor not in hurry. \ Hartford
subscriber writes that he is Just recovering
from small pox, and Will be on in few
days to renew his subscription. We hope
he won't mind a little thing like that
We will send the paper and Wait for the
money. We will wait cheerfully. We
amt of that avaricious kind of people who
VIII grab as for very life. We despise
such things. There is no earthly reason
for his coming on; we will wat.-DanJwy
Ners.
Western women think that people are
growing overfusSy nowadays. If a man
dies, and two or three grains Of strycllnine,
or half Il pound of arsenic, or an ounce or
so of antimony be found in his stomach
his poor wife has to &C off to prison, and
go through a trial, and sec her name in the
newspapers, and be acquitted, and neglect
her sewing until she has not q thing fit to
wear.
Certainly it is hard; To be tried for
the triiiing crime Of poisoning ones hus-
band ard having ones name in the papers
as guilty or only suspicioned, is unpleasant
to say the least, but having nothing to
wear causes an agony Of mind that no
woman should be called upon to endure.
ssigatIy AHlbigGous.
The following conversation il, said to
have taken place nj 2 \. Al ono day during
the carnival week between certain New
Orleans gentleman AMI his spouse:
Cruel Iiusband-' Deceive YOU
Indignant Wife, Doa't tell me any
more les, Didn't you say last night that !
YOU were only going to qu;et little / arty-
dominocs and that sort Of :hing?'
Cruel IIusband-'J Just so; that's what !
l said, exactly. Dominocs, Gominoes, you |
know! Always have dominocs at a masked !
ball'
Noman's rights have made some pro
gress in Illinois, if we may judge from the !
fact that the lower ouse of the legislature /
has passed a bill making women eligible to
the offices of school trustee and director in |
the state. The vote stood, ayes l0l, noes !
30. Should the bill become q law Illinois /
viii become the especial favoritc CT the
champions of womeus rights.
At the last preliminary examir alton of |
the Pharmaceutical Society, Miss. Rose
Coombs Minshull headed the pass list OF |
lGG London students. For this e1amina- |
ton 3lS candidate pr -scnted themselves,
Cf whomc l47 failed. Mrs. Ella Lawson, |
who recently passed the preliminary exam
ina'iJn Of the Society of Apothecaries of |
London has been admitted Bachelor des |
Sciences ct dca Lettrcs of the Faculty of !
Paris.