The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-06-03
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
DARK AGEs-The ladies.

.SEASE AND NOASENSE.
DARK AGEs-The ladies'.
THE first railroad in Prince Edward
Island was recently opened for traffic.
and the first train took ten hours to trav-
ell 103 miles.
THAT little red bug still slaughters the
Nebraska grasshoppers vigorously. The
little red bug is always desirable, the
yicinage of bedsteads alone excepted.
THE Memphis TENN water.works
were sold at auction May 20, for $4,000.
The sale was under a mortgage, the pur-
chasers buying in behalf of the bond
holders.
THE St. Louis Globe Democrat indicates
its future policy by warning the public
that this is bad year for killing editors.
Csrruth and Anthony still live, under the
most exasperating circumstances.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says that he'll
saw wood all day next Fourth of July in
order to show his contempt for the day
We celebrate. Let the committee wait
upon him and try to buy him off.
THE arbitrators of the Maryland and
Virginia boundary dispute, having
heard the statements from both States,
will decide the controversy on the Both OF
June.
Two YEARS ago a Pennsylvania serv-
| ant-girl was sent to prison for stealing
$500 from her employer. The money
| was found the other day where the man
had hidden it.
STATEN ISLAND is fast becoming the
great center of the Eastern lager beer
manufacturing interests. 1t has eight
breweries, which annually manufacture
| 81 100000 worth of beer.
AN intoxicated Indian was burned in
Nevada hut, and an account of the &C
cident says that when the fire reached
his stomach it fingered there, emitting a
steady, blue fame until about quart OF
bad whisky had been consumed.
A BROOKLYN Baptist minister recently
said; "My salary is $4,000 year, but |
cannot live on it." "How do you get
| along?" asked a friend Said he: q
exc it out with what saved when | was
on Cape Cod at a salary of $500 year.
An old bachelor geologist was boast
ing that every rock was as familiar &c
him as the alphabet. A lady declared
| that she knew of rock of which he was
| ignorant. Name it, madam" said he.
at is rock the cradle, sir" replied the
lady.
THE Jepish Messenger says that some
wealthy Israelites in Rome are discuss
| ing the feasibility of erecting a rabinical
seminary in that city, and the indica.
| tions are that soon, in the vicinity of the
Vatican, college of Jewish ministers
will be established.
AMOS, alias Chicken" Forbes, OF
Rochester, beat his wife, and, when pur-
sued by the police, fell dead in the
| street-from chicken heart disease, one
would suppose The daughter checked
her mothers walllng with: "Shut up
do you want him to come back and
pound you again?"
| JULIA WARD HOWE does not shine as a
punster. Witness the attempt in let.
| ter in the WOmdns Journal, wherein she
eulogizes Maria Mitchell as one "who
processes astronomy, but practices char.
ity. No glittering Saturn or Jupiter
leads her away from the galaxy whose
bright, particular star she is"
OswEGo, N Y, has been designated
| by the Secretary of the Treasury, with
| the approval of the President, as a port
en- route for the entry or exit from or to
| Canada of merchandise in transit, in
| tended under the treaty of Washing
ton either for importation into the Do.
minion or for export therefrom, ola one
| of the seaboard ports; also for importa
ton from Canada under consular seal,
| and for the transit of domestic or non
dutiable merchandise, and duty-paid OF
| free goods, under the regulations OF
| March 30, 1875.
Homeopathic Pudding-Take a ba
sin or any earthenware mold, the size you
| wish; you need not grease or -four it
Line it entirely with moderately thin
slices of crumb bread, sweeten and boi
tender any garden fruit, and when fast
| boiling pour into the bread; immediately
put layer of crumb over the top and
quickly cover 1t over with a plate, SO as
| to shut in the steam. When quite cold
this will turn out firm pudding the
| shape of the mold used, and saturated
with the juice of the fruit. A little Loaf
sugar may be thrown over it. This pud
ding is particularly suitable to those in
yalids who may eat fruit but not pastry
A LADY has just brought an action
against the Partisan jeweler Bloch, from
whom in 1869 she bought a diamond
necklace at $4,000 francs, paying for il
partly in specie and partly in jewels
| stlpuidtluS at lue SAINT tlLlG ludt, as Snt
might get tired Of it, he was to take il
back whenever she pleased for IS, O0(
francs. Owing, it is said, to more solo
reasons than wish for a change of or
nament, the lady in question, Mdlle. La
tour, lately brought back the necklace
and claimed the 5000 francs, but NJ
Bloch was not disposed to abide by thi.
agreement. 1t only held good for shorr
time, he urged, adding that in conse
quence of the events of 1S70-1S71 he hao
lost much by the jewels given in par
payment of the necklace, and that 6
crisis was taking place in the trade, il
consequence of the discovery of dia
monds at the Cape having produced s
great fall IN the price CT these stones, tC
which fact he attributed Mdlle Latour's
tardy recollection of the original stipu
lation. The court found the agreemen
binding, declined even to allow NJ. Blocl
the indulgence claimed for him by hi.
lawyer of paying by installments, and re
quired him, the necklace being returned
to pay Mdlle. Latour the sum of 1900
francs, with interest from the day she
preferred her claim