The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

And nov who isthe member of Congress
who win stamp himself as the 6rst pstrio,
Of the age by Introducing bill for zen
sioniog tie Baxter and Brooks warriors
whe were wounded during the late reyol-
ution in Arkansas Louisville Ccerier-
| Journal
The inadeauacy of the English language
to an expression ofstropg emotion was PAIN
| fully apparent to San Antonio druggist,
who was aroused the other morning before
daybreak by violent ring at bis door bell,
and hurying down en- deshabi;le, wss5e-
quested dy stranger who wac just going
of III the stage coach, to put some alcohol
on horned frog in a bottle which be pre-
SERTED.
! Very few persons, says the Baltimore
| Gazette, knox that the father of the I'M
msnse anthracite iron trade is still living.
David Thomas, the inventor of the blast
furnace, is the Oldest citizen of CafaSauqus,
on the Lehigh River. Before his time no
cue thought of suelting IRON anywhere but
in the large cities. Mr.. Thomss began ex-
perimenting.' but without success, until he
found the merits Of the hot blast. This
was in Wales, in 1887, aud from his little
furnace, TINS erected, has sprung the grea t
anthracite iron trade Of Pennsylvania.
When George Francis Train was can
dIdate for Dictator of America he used to
tell of IS, 600, 900 worth of lots that be
owned in the City of Omaha ;-nnd now the
Sheriff of Omaha County, Neb., offers for
sale tbenty acres of these splendid lots to
raise money te-pay an execution for $500
taxes and interest,". He says he is tired Of
being pauper millionaire, and considers
Omaha a fraud.
Two convicts, named Mason and G. W.
Graham, who escaped with others, from
the Colorado penItentiary at Canon City,
were shot and killed by their pursuers on
Wednesday last Graham was formerly an
officer in the Tenth Cavalry, and served
with distinction on the plains.
Dry Weather continues to prevail at
Cairo, ILL.,, and oats 10 that region are nea.
! ly ruined. Wheat is being harvested, and
there is a foe yield. Good aims have fallen,
from Anna northward, which will be a
great advantage. The weather has been
unusually cool for tive days.
A meeting ut Toronto, Friday evening
on the subject of inland navigation, was
attended and. addressed by professor j. W.
Hoyt, Commissioner of the State of Wis
ccnsin.
VIM. Meister and Lester Meister. con-
victed of arson il burning their own store
at East Saginaw, have been sentenced to
| seven years each in the State prison.
Wanted to know-The length of the
Rule Of Three; how many day, in the
March Of Intellect; the width Of broad
| hint.
"What kind Of sausages is them"
queried an old lady of the young man OF
hterdtuEf anu psduuts, us nc pdssed
through the train selling bananas.
A carman is an individual who wants
you to have your furniture all ready t.
to load at seven A.. NJ, and comes around in
afternoon to see if you have done it.
A german professor has worked thirty
| four years to make correct map of the
moon, and all travellers going that route
can depend u2on Its correctness.
"Good Manners says swift, "is the
art of making those easy with whom We
converse; whoever makes the fewest per
sons uneasy is the best bread man il the
company"
Apastor Of a Congregational church
was asked if he was an independent min
lister. He replied: Far from 1t; am
the minister of an independent congrega-
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