The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-09-17
NEWS AND NONSENSE.

A Tennessee man wrote his will en-
paper collar, and il passed safely through
the courts, although little unhaLdy for
fling.
While Western jourpalis. was writing
an account Of y burglary, his own room
vas broken into and robbed by thieves.
The people of Mayfeld. KY, have long
kept standing the platform from which a
murderer was hanged, as proof that the
law is respected IN that community.
One of the old settlers at the Isles of
Shoals, seeing the name Psyche On the
tull of a YACHT the other day, spelled it out
slowly, and then exclaimed, "Wen, If
that amt the drrndest way to spell FISH y
4 Vermont poet describing Bunker Ill.,
does up Gen. Warren in tti. way
Upon mis- as4sul shoulder
He teoK iiis biuHdsrbuss,
An he was thlraf Bunker Hill
In the t.ickest of tae u.uss.
Some months ago a man out West heard
that ST. Croix rum was good for hay fever
The next day he gas taken with the d.
sease, and he hasn't recovered yet, though
the mediGine has been taken daily. Ih.
is only aEpother of the thousands Of Incl
dents showing what virtue thers is in pa
taence.
"Your hapdwriting is very bad indeed"
said gentleman to friend more addicted
to beating thaan thIaaln 70 study ''you really ought
.oo lesFn to write better" "Ay, Ay," re-
plied the ycRpg man, "it is all very well
for you to tell me that but if l were to
write better, people would find out how
spell"
The old house on Smuttv Nose Island,
Isles of Shoales, in which Wagner murder
ed two women is rapidly being cut to pieces
by relic hunters. The bedroom where
there were so many spots of blood is com
p'etely honeycombed, and the woodwork
around the windows through which Mrs.
lioutveut escaped has been entirely re-
moved.
The Safe of Nebraska owns a church
at Lincoln, the capital. The State ad-
vanced money on the church building for
school purposes and .hs debt falling due,
the proterty was offered for sale There
being no offer high enough to pay the debt,
the church was bid IN in the name Of the
Commonwealth. 1t is probably the first
Instance in the United States Of a State
owning church building.
Father Taylor, clergyman, RECENTLY
located at Bishop Greek, Cal, was so i'm
pressed with IA dream that the whole Owens
valley country in that State would soon be
destroyed by earthquake and floods that he
has sold out all his possessions and started
for Arkansas. Before leaving he publicly
warned his congregation of the i'm pen ding
asHSsr@ @ md aafsf Jh JAhH te z ata fa fssi5n III; be
fore it was too lag.
The largest colleges seem to be most
charry Of honors. At Yale's last ccm.
i.encemenAbut two honorary degrees of
ali sorts were conferred, viz: the degree
of Master Of arts uocn Prof. Carter OF
Williams C,ilege, asd upon Prof Me
meyer of Yale. Harvard and Blown are
not profuse in giving kouorl. gale has on
forty two anniversaries granted no lite.-cry
honors on nine only ons and on four-
teen only two persons have received hon
orary degrees Since 1874, a period of
over forty years, Yale has madc But three
D. DIS, viz: the Rev. David Mmdock IN
1852, the Rev. Henry Allen 1871, and the
Rev. William NJ. Taylor, 1872 and one
of these Was a graduate Of GLASGOW Uni
veysity.
a buxom, middle aged country woman
went into store on Hanover street, Bcs-
ton, the other day, and depositing S4 on
the counter, remarked to a clerk, "There,
fourteen years ago, twill be fifteen tn is
fail, bought something next door and
gave them dollar bill, but they couldn't
give me- the change so they sent a boy
into fhe next shop and ne brought me the
changh for S5. ! took it but tain't no
use, | amt going to keep it any longer.
SO Tiers it is all back again After this
singular confesslon the woman hastily left
the store, and the clerk, who was spell
bound with astonshment, did NOT recover
bis presence Of mind in TIME 10 make any
inquiries of his strange visitor. Il &. So
A negro philosophers views of the rela.
tiohs Of the RACES is given in Macdh, Ga,
pnref'as follows "you know de turkey he
roost on de fence, and de goose he foost on
de ground You pull de turkey of de
fence, and he will gittp again: You crop
his wings but somehow he's grine to gN
back on de fence. Now you PIN de goose
on de fence snd he viii fall or he dol,'t
belong dar. De turkey srn d white man.
He's down now, but he's" guine to get up
akain. De nigcer is de goose. lie bG;ter
stay whhf be ttlonss."