The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-05-20
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

| W one year imprisonment IOF stealing
| two cents.
A BROKER says: Give me the bonds
| of government and | care not who
| breaks its laws"
"DEBT is the worst kind of poverty"
| Except the poverty which prevents
man from getting into debt.
THE economical man makes that great
| stream the mother of rivers, and spells
it Mrsippi.-Bost0n AdoertiSer.
TAME says: Four varieties in soci-
| ETY.: Lovers, the ambitious, observers and
fools. The fools are the happiest"
AMERICAN catsup tickles the palates of
the japanese. They have tried to make
something like 1t of cats, but failed.
Mrs. GAsKISs, of Carteret County, n.
c., weighs GAO pounds, and one of her
stockings holds a bushel of shelled corn"
THEY complain of lack of horses in
France, but they keep ON eating 'em.
They can't expect the cake and the penny
both.
THE observations of the total eclipse
of the sun in Egypt April were pre-
vented by the prevalence of heavy
clouds.
ABOUT this time small bows accumu-
/ law i"So, olu SOpptI UTOhGn
| bottles and scrap iron with a view to
Fourth Of July funds.
DANIEL BAUGHER, of Hydetown, Craw-
ford County, Pa, while out hunting the
other day, caught a young woodchuck
which had three perfectly-formed heads
on one body.
OF thousand dead horses taken to
| the New York otfal dock during the past
winter, $50 had died from rot and other
| diseases of the hoof caused by travelling
in sailed slosh.
y KANSAS man killed two birds with
! one stone. While he was buying lot
In the cemetery and hiring his wife's
| grave dug he proposed marriage to
| widow who was having her husbands
| grave sOdded.
A NORFOLK (Va.) man who had lost
several sheep by dogs put strychnine in
| large quantities upon one of the carcass
es the other day, and next morning found
thirty-one dead dogs in the field, the
farthest one being less than 100 yards
from the dead sheep.
AN almost ridiculous use of steam is
| found on Duck River, Tenn, on which
| placid stream steamboat, drawing only
| twelve inches of water, and having a
grist-mill on board, wanders up and
| down, stopping wherever she is wanted
| to grind busnel or two of corn for the
farmers of the territory.
| A HARVARD student, the other day.
concentrated all his force in one mighty
| kick at "a football. Then there came a
recoil, and, when he got through, his
| collar bone needed splints on it. Another
| evidence OF the severe strain to which
| the poor youth of the age are committed
by the modern educational system.
THE teachers in the public schools at
San Francisco have been using the rod
upon their pupils with so great severity
that the press have taken up the matter
and insist upon reform. One little girl
was SO severely beaten recently, for "a
trivial offense, that she went into hyster-
les and was ill for a week following.
WHEN horse breaks its leg it is no
| longer necessary to shoot it 4" in order to
save its life," as the Irishman did with
his pig that was hurt by the cars. A
veterinary surgeon of Utrecht, Long
Island, recently set the broken hind-leg
of horse so successfully that the ami
nal is sound as ever. 1t took about six
weeks to effect the cure.
AT Greenbrier, West Va, a few days
ago, child was born which was
most singularly deformed The left arm
was entirely wanting, there being at the
| shoulder not even a rudimentary appear
ance or development. Upon the right
side there was an arm which extended
ouly to the elbow, hand being attached
at right angles to the extremity
TUE fruit crop of Delaware and New
Jersey, from which States the New York
market is supplied, gives prospect of
FULL yield. The late cold weather.
though delaying the season somewhat,
has not materially affected the fruit
| germ, as the vitality of the embryo bud
| has not progressed to such an extent as
to be affected by the low temperature.
The Athens Georgian says: Mr. Joel
NJ. Dean, of this county, informs us that
| upon his plantation and that of T. G.
Macon there are at this time at least 500
| beavers. These aquatic industrials are,
| as usual, working like beavers and
| have built quite number of dams upon
the streams running through their plan.
tationS, cutting down trees for their su-
perstructures measuring at least from
eight to ten inches in diameter"
RECENTLY cat played the following
prank upon Syracuse gentleman: The
person had retired to bed and had lain
there some time, when his wife, in the
next room, heard singular noise. She
inferred from the sound that fer hus-
band was sleeping soundly; but the noise
grew more intense, and she concluded TO
ind out what it might be. She went
INTO the sleeping apartment, and found
the family cat with its nose thrust into
her husbands mouth, and its paws tight
ly clasped about his throat. 1t required
considerable exertion to remove the ami
mai, as it chung tightly to its position.
The gentleman was nearly sutfocsted,
and but for the timely interference of
his wife would have been killed
y sEA-sERPENT story that gets little
ahead OF the ordinary run Of such yarns
comes from Portland. Capt. Oliver, of
the Bath schooner Winslow Morse, re-
lates that recently, when off Cape Eliza
beth, about fifteen miles southeast,
while he was at the wheel and another
man stood on deck, 4 great snake rose
out of the water about four feet above
the rail, and the body appeared about as
large round as a hogshead. The man on
deck picked up long pole With pike
head on the end lying near by and thrust
II into the monsters body. The serpent
Immediately dived and came up on the
other side of the vessel little distance
OF and glided away, making but a small
ripple on the water. 1t appeared about
l20 feet long. The Captain exhibits the
pike covered with the blood and sinews
OF the monster-or some other animal
A SUIT involving the disposition of
large fortune was recently decided at
Wilmington, Del. Under the laws of
that State the property of wife who
dies without issue descends not to her
husband but to those of her own blood.
Ten years ago Harry Stout, a wealthy
Dover lawyer, died, leaving his properly
to his three children. Five years ago
his only daughter married Rev. II. r. |
Hall, OF Lewes, and year later she
died in giving birth to her first child. |
The latter, it was claimed by the father, |
lived for few minutes after being born, |
but this Mrs. Halls brothers denied. If |
the babe breathed for a single second I
after birth then its mothers property /
descended to her husband. If it was |
dead when delivered, however, the