The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
"a schoolmaster.
THE more mans purse weighs the
more persuasive is his eloquence.
An advertiser called for a small boy in
want of place, and the same night
found baby in basket on his door
step.
You can get good rhinoceros now for
$4,000. Rhinoceroses are coming down
and will soon be in reach of the humblest
families.
IT is predicted that at an early day
Kansas silk will be offered for sale at
lower figures than that produced in any
other country in the world.
A YOUNG lady in Kentucky swallowed
eight percussion caps the other day.
She is an old maid but her mother thinks
her likely to go off at any time now.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING, who fails to
find instances of invention by women,
has strangely overlooked the 1,00l tales
told by ScehereZade in the "Arabian
Nights"
CENTRAL NEW YORK farmers estimate
that, with average culture, good soil and
manure, the cost of producing wheat is
seventy-1ve to seventy-eight cents per
bushel.
A CALIFORNIA boy scorns to ask the
corner fruit-dealer for banana; he
slaps his money down on the counter
and proudly exclaims: "Look yer;
gimme big bananzer?"
A NATTER -oF-FACT doctors wife at
tempted TO move him by her tears. "Ahm
said he, "tears are useless. | have ana
lyzed them. They contain a little phos.
phate of lime, some chloride of sodium
and water.
GREAT SALT LAKE is frozen over, and
the pious Elder, standing on the shore,
points with admiration to dozen or so
of sylph-like forms gliding gracefully
~-,en~tl'A ire and proudly exclaims:
THE Cherokee AdUOcdte asserts that the
Indian Territory has suffered proper
tionately greater losses and has proper
tionately more destitute families from
drought and grasshoppers than either
Kansas or Nebraska.
THE report that New Haven proof
reader is about to be married is ex-
planned by the paragraph in paper
published there, beginning with the
words: While a merchant was rinsing a
plate-glass widow in the store"
UNDER the act of Congress offering
100 acres of land to any person who
would plant forty acres of it in trees
and cultivate them for eight years about
/, 100 persons had taken up about 10000
acres of land in Minnesota up to JAN
uary.
A POPULAR disease prevails among the
Indians in Humboldt, New, and the
medicine men of the tribe do not under
stand it. 1t is something like paralysis,
as those who have been stricken with it
are unable to move their limbs, which
are stiff and at times painful. Rheuma-
tism!
A GIGANTIC swimming bath, composed
of iron and rooted in with plate glass,
has been moored in the Thames at Lon
don. The water that is admitted to it
flows through thick bank of charcoal,
and is so effectually filtered that it
sparkles and glistens as if it were drawn
| from an artesian well.
| THE body should not be confined to
one position in sleep more than when
awake. Variety is essential; still, gen.
orally, it is best to sleep principally on
/
! face and occasionally on the back. The
head should be even with the body. If
sleeping on the side, thin pillow will
| be necessary to bring the head on line
with the body.-HerdLd Of Health.
THE other day a seedy looking old chap
entered wholesale house in this city,
| leaving the door open behind him. A
clerk noted his careiessness and called
out: "It's ten degrees below zerop
a did think of buying about $4,000
worth of goods" said the stranger as he
| halted, "but if this is the way you treat
-" Hold on! hold onl' exclaimed
the clerk, walking forward, ats only
five y-three-two-it's way
up above and we've got to keep that dool
open or pull our coats off! Right this
way, sir. Now, then, what is it?"-De
troit Free Press.
THE Pittsburgh Commercial reads in
contemporary that hlghly-esteemed
citizen of Franklin, Pa, who has dwel'
upon this subunary sphere for the term
of seventy years, and in that time haC
the mingled grief and pleasure to lay
three wives where the flowers of spring
could grow over them and the dews OF
summer sparkle like robe of diamondi
about them, recently took to himself {
fourth partner of his joys and sorrows il
the person of charming widow who ha
deposited two matrimonial ventures in {
place of perpetual security and gazet
on the blushing roses of seventy-fiv'
summers
A CORRESPONDENT of the Erie (Pa.) Dis
patch writes: Yesterday horse, mount
ed by young man, was seen to slip OF
the frosted street stagger and fall
throwing the rider to the ground. BE
fore two seconds had elapsed the hors
was up on his feet again, and the ride
hanging by one foot, which was fastene
in the stirrup. The horse, though frigh
ened, discovered the uncomfortable pos
ton of his rider, and after one or tw
[ steps to one side, as though Lot to trampl
the man, came to dead halt and stoo
! still as statue until a man passing 0
the sidewalk approached and pulled tn
discounted riders foot clear from tn
stirrup. / was delighted to find the ma
entirely unharmed, but found that tn
: stirrups were both wound with carpe
!, evidently to keep the riders fee. warn
i or with a desire on his part to have II
brains dragged out on some occasion lib
|, the present. The incident is more r
! markable from the fact that the horse
u one of fine blood, imported to Erie Tor
! trotter, and costing some thousands
!, dollars"
y A precocious boy was asked wbit
0 was the greater evil of the two, hurtir
r another's feelings or his finger. He sal
v the former Right, my dear child
e said the gratified questioner; and WI
y is it worse to hurt the feelings:" "B
: cause you can't tie rag around them
d explained the dear child.