The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-08-27
NEWS AND NONSENSE.

They have formed Mean Mans Club
in Toledo 1t takes III every adult male
excerpt man who lately moved there from
Chicago.
The Supreme Court of Maine has decid
ed in p case where the maker of will
believed that her dead husbands $ spirit
dictsted the document that such belief was
not proof OF insanity.
The Washington correspondent of the
Courier Jouraak reports that Seuator Car
pcnter is in Washington, ana has been
called upon to contribute Sl00 for cam-
paign expenses i'll Wisconsin.
When they told an Indiana woman that
her husband had been sliced up by a reap
cr, she impatiently replied: We'll, take
the pieces to the barn; | can't leave the
goo-eberry sauce just now
The faculty of the California University
has adopted a plan OF loanins funds to
poor students, which is designed to do
away with the system Of manual labor
hitherto prac,iced at the university.
The Earle of Dunrsven has bought six
thousand acres or Etcss Park, Colorado,
and proposes Improving" it by keeping
the game and fish from too rapid destruc.
tion, and by erecting buildings for tourists
At a recent sale in Zeiglersv;lle, Bcrks
county, Pa, wagon was sold that had
been standing long enough in one place to
fermit walnut tree about five inches in
diameter to grow up through the bed of
the wagon.
Some more photographs of the Prince
Imperial have been seized in Paris. u;
means of a chemical rrepara Son they were
rendered Invisible on the card, but on
being dpred in water they became clear
and apparent.
The numerous sportsmen's associations
hourishing in the West have made many
arrests this season of persons, some OF
them protesting to Re 81 ortsmen, for lill-
ing prairie. chickens out Of season. One
was fined $50 and costs, his case being
cne to make en- example Of.
The following startling notice is posted
in raral district in Blair county, Pa:
go thss cetayeus of All men
wanting to pay His Road tax BY work
Can Do So By Coming and working any
day next week as ! Kill lie here all week
on the Roades. Supervisor
Bring Shove and matte along, r
A curious incident of the Arkansas Con,
sttutional Couyentipn was a speech BY
q colered delegate named White against
Che entranchisement of foreign bonn citi
z,ns, which, he said, was opposed to the
real iassreets of the. eolorsd people Of
Arkansas. Most of the negro delegates
agreed with White.
The following is the latest gem Of obitu:
ary poetry in the Philadelphia Lsdger, OF
which Mr. w. Chiids, \. NJ, is one of the
proprietors:
We bad little Toby once,
He was our daring pride;
We loved nIm, OF. perhaos too well,
For soon he slept ard died.
1t is alleged with respect to a railroad
N Apksnsas, that in order to realize th,
State aid, the comp my built a section C
ten miles, drew the .:eaas i.,oreen, tco4 u
the rails and rea'a them on tbe next sec
ton, aad drew aaother installmeDt o
bonds, and so on, till the whole quota o
bonds had been dawn, and no road built
Z "A A7stutgeon six feet long, thirty eigb
inches sirth, and weighing one hundre
and hfty pounds, has been taken with
spear n Lake Monona, at Madison, Wi.
The spear had one hundred feet Of line
and with this the sturgeon towed boa
with two men backw ard and forward 20
A hour or two before it was finally landed