The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


PENNsYLvANIANsp paid s14, 000, 900 for
insurance last year.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN is 120 miles long
and 800 around.
THE Eureka mine, in California, has
suspended operations.
THE first Emperor of China reigned in
the year $3.50 b. c.
THE attendance at 1.-The Philadelphia
permanent exhibition is very meagre.
IT has been estimated that the religi-
Gus wars in Europe have cost 100000
lives
A Boston druggist pretends to have
found the elixir of youth in the extract
ed juices of the cactus plant
A GIRL at Manchester, n. H., who had
stolen a watch chain, swallowed it when
she saw the police after her.
THE surface of the sea is estimated at
$50, 100000 square miles, taking the
whole surface of the globe at 1877 ,000, 900
miles.
THE river St. Lawrence is one of the
largest in the world, and is $500 miles
in length, and navigable for the largest
ships.
A CENTURY plant at St. Augustine,
Florida, now about to bloom, has reach
ed height of 81 feet, and is still grow
ing. 1t has "a branches.
1T is estimated that nearly 100000
pounds of steel wire will be required to
build the bridge which is to connect New
York with Brooklyn.
A BROOKLYN woman has three sons,
triplets, aged fourteen, who are so much
alike that the landlord of the hotel where
they stop only charges her board for one
boy.
,'JUsT my luck" said waiting-maid
sadly. "Here am in family where
every one has love-atfair on hand and
leaves letters lying about opened, and |
can't ad."-French paper.
A BosToN merchant forgot the num-
Der of his store on Washington street,
which he has occupied for a number of
years, and is the most laughed at man at
the Hub.
THE administration of sea water, in
the treatment of obesity, is recommended
Il Il
to be prescribed being a small glassful
three time day, in little fresh water
or milk. ~
A BALTIMORE hackman reached his
home at midnight a few days since, and
complained of severe pains in his side.
Rising from his chair he said to his wife,
a shall die before morning." and
walked toward the window. Suddenly
he fell to the hoor-dead.
HERR DRIEsBACH, the lion-tamer,
who gave to Henry Clay three-foot
America, which was to have been used
by Mr.. Clay in writing his first Presi-
Dental message, is still living, near
Wooster, o.
A PoUGHKEEPsIE youth, with the as
sistancc of an elderly lady, has fitted out
a rooster with needed wooden leg. At
first the bird made frantic efforts to kick
it off, but this only made him fall down,
and so he accepted the situation, and
now uses the leg with evident satisfac-
ton. And the boy is delighted.
A BALTIMORE policeman found an in
FAINT wrapped up in heavy brown paper,
in a vacant lot. A dozen pins were stuck
in the paper to keep it folded, and the
child could scarcely breathe from it close
confinement. The policeman, when he
first saw the baby, was about to strike it
with his club, but on getting closer to it
heard noise like that of child and
picking it up tanderly conveyed his
treasure to the station house. The poor
little thing had on nothing in the world
but the brown paper covering which its
mother had evidently pinned about it
before abandoning it.
RECENTLY gang of men working in
the gravel pit ON the Grand River Val
ley Railroad, two miles east of Nashville,
exhumed the skeleton of a man. There
is suspicion that the remains are those
of George Snyder, of Ohio, who mysteri-
ously disappeared when the road was be-
ing built nine years ago. Snyder was a
laborer in the employ Of one Mitchell,
who had the contract of grading the road
from Hastings to Vermontville. One
night while at work at or near the place
where the skeleton was found, he re-
marked to chum that he was going to
draw his pay and quit work. He drew
Two gamblers were in Leavenworth.
Kon., several years ago, with about $50
in their pockets. They desired to get
money enough to go to California. They
went to separate hotels. One registered
as a physician, and advertised remedy
for cholera. The other put up large
quantity of yeast powder into sample
packages, with little crotOn oil in each,
and hired boy to distribute them. Soon
family after family, affected by the GRO
ton oil, felt what they believed were
symptoms of cholera. The sale of the
cholera remedy was enormous, and the
gamblers were enabled to 90 to Califor-
mia. They now tell the story through
the Virginia City Enterprise.
JMARY ELLA HARRINGTON. a Boston
school girl, went to visit friend in New
ton, and her family never saw her after
ward. Her movements after she parted
from the Newton friend could not be
traced. A few days after her disappear
ance her mother received this note, writ
ten in masculine hand: al send you
this so that you needn't worry about me.
| have found a friend, and | am never
coming home any more, at least for a
good long while. My friend is writing
this for me because | have burned my
hand" The police has searched thor
oughly for the girl, but did not find her.
This was last fall, and public interest in
the case was thoroughly aroused. Her
body was found in the river near Lowell,
lately, and it seems TO be that she was
murdered by the man who sent the note,
whoever he is.