The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-02-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Miss ADDIE LAKE, of Hamilton, called
it eowcumber," and her enraged moth
er hit her with "The History of Canada"
and broke her collar bone.
II Is estimated that 100 young women
stand ready to do copying at two dollars
per week where one is willing to do plain
cooking at double that sum.
THE official number of French electors
registered on the latest lists is 9,549,64
for the whole country, or falling off on
the previous lists of 24l $50 electors.
AN eminent foreign doctor asserts that
the drinking of coffee invigorates and
preserves the sight, and SO prevents the
use of spectacles. Chocolate is consid-
cred injurious.
THE Cincinnati Commercial has an idea
that the national debt could be paid in
cornstalks during the next twenty years.
That would be cornfscation of private
property, wouldn't it?
A CHICAGO paper says that no gentle
man or lady viii leave an opera house
until the curtain is down and all the au
dience has passed OUT An Irishman
couldn't do better than that.
A sCHooL-MIsTREss in Frisco, by the
dexterous manipulations of a friend in
" Consolidated Virginia" has realized
$500, 600 from $500 That ought to altar
her condition in life-Nelo Bedford Xes'-
e,py.
LITTLE JOE CARNEY, of Savannah told
his mother that he would drown himself
If she insisted on combing his hair, and
she was just obstinate enough TO insist,
and he was just determined enough to
do as he threatened.
WHEN woman viii she will, you
necticut, made 7S5 distinct threats of sui
eide, covering period of seven years,
but at last hung herself the other day
and gave Trowbridge rest.
A SINGER, applying for an engagement,
wrote to an imDresSario as follows: |
am good mUsihan, | pla all music at
furst site" "Well," remarked the i'm
pressario to friend. "she may play by
note, but she certainly spells by ear"
WITHIN short distance of Dresden
resides a couple who have been married
twenty-five years and are the parents of
twenty-three children. The age of the
father of this interesting flock is forty
seven. and of the mother thirty eight.
YOU can remove the muchworn gild-
ing from your old china by taking eight
parts of soft water, eight parts nitric
| acid, four parts common salt, sal-am-
moniac one part. Mix, let it boil, put the
| china into it and rub with stiff brush
| TALKING of doctors bills the Medical
Times urges that they be presented
| monthly, inasmuch as they would be
| paid more willingly when the memory of
the recent peril and the physicians skill
| is still fresh than when time has worn
away the vividness of the impression.
T
| newspaper in Maryland and now an Off
Ger in the service of the Khedive of
Egypt, claims to have discovered the true
source of the Nile, in south latitude deg
30 min, and between Urondogani and
Uganda.
THREE Chicago girls are about open
ing BARRIERS shop in that city. One is
to do the lathering, another the shaving
while a third, beautiful blonde, is to
sit on a sort of a throne and play on a |
harp and sing. The outfit of this estab- |
lishment, it is said, will cost $4,000
Cincinnati Commercial.
The legislators insisted upon a speech.
and he declined; they persisted. Then
seizing the gavel he said it reminded him
of the council IN his own island home, |
and he would take the liberty to adjourn.
This he I'D with loud rap.
SAYS the Titusville Courier: 1.-TWO
thousand Pittsburgh glass blowers are
constantly employed in the manufacture
| of lamp chimneys for the trade. These
chimneys are warranted to break quicker
by sudden changes of temperature than
any others turned out elsewhere, and
thus the trade is benefited"
| THE National Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers has inaugurated a re-
form whose beneficial effects may, 1t is
to be hoped, presently be felt through
out the entire country. Engineers who
are addicted to the use of Intoxicating
liquors when ON duty are to be forth
with expelled from the society.
A Mrs. BUSHNELL, living in Pike
County, Pa, had fierce encounter with
| a wild deer which ran and hid from its
pursuers near her house the other day.
She bravely seized the animal by the
horns and held ON until its furious strug-
giles broke the antlers of, and 1t lied,
leaving them in her hands.
SCRIBNER calls attention to the awk-
wardness of repeatedly meeting men in
society whose faces and names you are
well acquainted with, but TO whom you
have not been introduced, and reminds
ladies that il is their place, upon sec
end meeting after an introduction, to
recognize a gentleman, should they wish
to do so, and not wait for his recogni-
ton.
WHEN Edward Irving was asked if in
conversation with Coleridge he could
ever get in a word, the great preacher
answered: "I never wish to get one in
And it is related that at the inn in which
Coleridge was soiourning just before his
: marriage the landlord was so struck with
, his conversation that he offered him
, board and lodging free if he would only
, stay in the house and talk.-CornhiH.
A WASHINGTON correspondent writes
i "I saw Gen. Fremont in the lobby OF
: the House yesterday. He is now old
S and bent. His face is deeply chiseled by
the furrowIng hand of time. His eyes
5 are slightly bleary; his cheek bones
stood out as prominent as those of a
= Sioux chief. Iron-gray whiskers, short
: and stubby, closely trimmed down from
: the base of his jaw bone, grow upon his
!, thin neck. His hair is yet a dark iron
j gray, and is worn quite long, 1t is
: combed well forward, and hangs down
+ in front of his ears. A well-worn beaver
}, set well back upon his head; bright
J, scarlet comforter; a gray tweed hght
|, overcoat and dark suit of under cloth
: ing made up the general articles of his
: attire"
. THE professionally early riser (nt
= blame should be attached to the maj
!, u who gets up when he has to) is naturally
a prig of the anti-somnolent sort. Ill
conceives that his habit bestows on hin
moral superiority which mortals amo
rous of sleep can never hope to attain
. He rises when he has nothing in thi
v world to doom principle, as he is fon'
. of asserting You must have observed
). how patronizingly he greets you whel
;. you descend to breakfast just as it i
J. ready; with what unction he deciafe
; that he has been up three hours; hoy
q inordinately proud he is that not sery
h ant had stirred when he was completed
= dressed. To every member of the house
i hold he puts the question, When di'
q you riser" and on learning, attempts +
y crush him or her with the heroic differ
= ences that exist between some peopl
+ and others. A favorite interrogatory il
! "Are you up?" or :" How did you happel
Il to be ups" as though you had been i
v bed since you were born and he wa
!, startled at your ppearance.-W Washinqto
g Chronicle.
a A spruce youngster with his darling
20 who came from the regions west of Al
3 canum to take look at the bright fea'
n ure of our city, were standing near th