The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS.


ed his artificial teeth for whisky.
THAT awful lad again: "Ms, pa has
got the best of you; you can't strike
matches ON your trousers like he can"
A KENTUCKY man poisoned some wat
ermelons for thieves, and then, by mis-
take, sold them to customers. Lacking
the nerve of druggist, he has fled.
IT has been found that kerosene oil
will remove dandruf' and give the hair
fine gloss, but the aristocracy will not
use it on account of its cheapness
PEOPLE in Richmond, Va, complain
that they can't sleepa at nights on account
of the tinkle of the bar-room bell-punch
all over town.
EXPERIMENTS in mine in Cromwall
England, with the telephone, point to
the probability of its being employed in
conveying signals from deep mines to
the distance.
A GRUB of boring species was found
in a four-foot lath the other day, in
Berlin, Conn.,, that must have been in
the wood for l3 years at least. 1t had
eaten almost the whole length of the lath,
leaving only shell.
IlN Il uuLldll ShtltlolS nave DtelI uIS-
covered at Dombristle, near Dumferline,
Scotland, only eighteen inches below
the surface. The spot was the place of
the murder of the Earl of Huntley, in
1891.
SOME of the Boston mechanics who
have gone to st. John write that they
expect employment there for at least
two years. The indications are that st.
John will overdo the rebuilding business,
just as other cities have done after great
fires.
GAMBETTA is stout, and has power
full neck. His hair is somewhat gray, he
is blind in one eye, his walking is roll
ling gait, and he wears rusty hat. His
voice is like the roll of thunder, and
when he becomes vehement he is great
orator.
MOUNT CARMEL, H., that was de-
stroyed by tornado last summer, has
recuperated so far as to cry out that it
wants national bank. We should sup
pose a savings bank, on the Chicago
plan, would suit it better; it wouldn't
make ruch a racket as the tornado, but
it would sweep things good deal clean
er.-Harkeye.
A YANKEE walks upon the Alps with
his hands in his pockets, and the smoke
of his cigar is seen amid the mists of
Niagara. One sauntered into the office
of a European telegraph company and
asked how long it would take to trans
minutes" was the reply. g / can't wait"
was the rejoinder.
A sCHoOLMAAM in Meriden, Conn, is
so unpopular that the school committee
was requested by the heads of families to
dismiss her. The committee refused,
and all the children have been with
drawn from the school. The teacher
goes to the school-room every day, stays
there alone, and draws her wages
rnoularlv
HUGo'S granddaughter, Seanne, has
very poor idea of the value of money if
what lie Rdppel says be true. al want
to buy lots of things" she said to the old
poet the other day, $50 give me 80 SOUS
If this is too much let me have 2 francs,
anyhow. But this is Georges birthday,
and you can't think of giving him less
than 10 SOUS"
EXAMPLES of California slang from
correspondent: When man tells you
he has got down to bedrock" or is
petered," he means that his last cent is
gone. If he fails in any scheme he
"couldn't make the ripple" If he dies
he has gone up fume." If there are
doubts of mans financial standing, you
hear that "he can't raise the color"
THE following is a literal copy of the
address Of q letter mailed in Boston, the
Globe says:
For mister patrick Davy
Crarston rhode iland
in the state of new york
to be Handed to bridget
flaherty teu be handed
for her sister ann
madigan pantucket
rhodd iland teu remain
in the postofis till
called for monday week
A FEW weeks before the Prophets
death he met lady who bowed to him
on the street. "Fm sure I've met you
somewhere" murmured he, apologetic
ally, "but-excuse me-I-can't place
We. Air you Miss Peabody" "Now
exclaimed the fair dame, in flashing
breath and scorching eye, "you old cur
mudgeonl | amt Miss Peabody. You
old fool, you've forgot me, hey? Yah!
You hard-hearted old reprobate, you'll
Pm your third wife. That's who be"
THE Burlington Hawkeye has been
consulting Nature, and notices that the
corn husks are thin, indicating mild
winter; the woods are full of mast, an
unfailing sign of long, hard winter
there are myriads of spiders, mild win
ter; acres of caterpillars, hard winter;
| the squirrels are idle and listless, mild
winter; the squirrels are noisy and busy,
hard winter; the goose bone is white and
gray. mild and hard winter. 1t is, in
deed, only a question of time, when the
system of weather representations will
become one of the exact sciences.
You've soapsuds and old nicotine have
proved fatal in the case of an English lad
at Dartmouth Park. He saw some chill
dren blowing soap-bubbles on a neigh
boris doorstep, and borrowed clay pipe
from his father, which he soon broke.
He then returned for another, and his
father gave him an old wooden pipe
which had been lying on the shelf for a
year. In an hour the child was very
sick, vomiting and becoming very drowsy
and deadly pale. At the end of the third
day the little fellows. suferings came to
an end. The physician testified at the
inquest that the child died from imbibing
nicotine contained in the old wooden
pipe.
THE Detroit (Mich.) Tribune says:
In the courtyard of the county jail
stands a grapevine trellis, just under the
grated windows of the first ward. The
luscious clusters, as they ripen in their
purple beauty, harrass the thirsty
prisoners with all the aggravated tor
ments of Tantalus Turnkey Blakely
says that all manner of devices are used
by the prisoners Ito coax the fruit within
their reach. Broom-handles are split
with knives, and convict will strain and
wrench himself for hours at time in
the endeavor to capture stem of grapes
in the cleft, break it off with an adroit