The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-11-22
ODDS AND ENDS

cisco.
A MoNCToN, n. s, gardener exhibit.
cabbage with thirty-eight heads on q
single stalk.
BIRDS with breasts pierced
oy golden arrows are worn for hat orna-
ments.
1HE United States averages a yearly
loss OF Soo,00O,000 by fire. Insurance
companies pay it.
a HUNTER in California shot a rlttIe-
snake, and then, when it ran into hole
: stuck his hand in to pull it out. OF
course it was bitten.
/ III costs the women of America IS
/ uOo,OOO per year TO keep their faces
painted, and then they want good clothes
/ besides
/ SWEDEN and Switzerland contribute
the largest number of new members TO
the Mormon church. England is third
on the list.
-tARIsIANs are astonishevl that Grant
speaks not a word of French. and main
tain that his education must have been
sadly neglected in his youth.
The Chinese wear two watches, as the
English did in the days of Burke and
Sheridan. Chinese watches show twenty
four hours on the dial.
The Boston baby show has ended.
Three hundred and forty-seyen babies
were exhibited, and Sl,775 were expend-
ed on prizes. Among the babies was
musical prodigy"
1HE courthouse in Springfield, III,
where Lincoln and Douglas used to talk.
has been sold under the hammer, and
must be removed within sixty days from
the spot it has SO long marked.
In 1918 there was built in Waltham.
Mass, mill believed to have been the
first in the world which combined all the
requirements of making finished cloth
from the raw cotton.
a MISSOURI judge recently refused a
divorce in case III which the parties had
lived together forty-nine years on the
ground that it was not right to spoil a
golden wedding.
A MADRID paper states that a titled
lady of that city is collecting photo
graphs of the prettiest women she can
lind, to be sent to the Paris Exhibition
OF 1873 as specimens of Spanish beauty.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's crown is composed
of 1868 brilliant diamonds, 1878 rose
diamonds and 147 table diamonds, one
large ruby, II sapphires. IL emeralds,
four small rubies and OPT pearls, all set
in silver and gold
THE late General Forest, the ex-Con-
federate, is described as person of un-
governable temper. He once drew a
pistol on tailor who had kept some of
his garments so long that they had been
slightly eaten by moths.
IN a shop window in London, belong
ing to a stutfer of birds and animals, is
exposed a human skull, beautifully
cleaned and bleached, with holes bored
IN tito receive cigars, and matches to
light them, as an ornament for some
ones smoking-room.
NEAR Little Stoney Mountain, Mani
toba, during a recent thunder storm,
what seemed to be dense volume of
cloud struck the prajrie With. .ssleb .Xvqr
about six feet in depth.
The practicing physicians of Wheel
ing, W. Va, have pledged themselves
not to give testimony as experts before
the courts unless receiving the same fee
fessional advice.
Observation-Disclosures Ton coming
home from the seaside): "Why, Jane,
what's become of the bulfinch?" Jane:
"Well, you see, ma'am, it didn't say
much, and looked droopin' like, so cook
put it out of misery, an 'ad it stuffed
for my 'at."-Punch.
A HIGH functionary from Berlin,
upon recently entering store at Stras-
burg, endeavored to conciliate Alsatian
feeling by inquiring of the storekeeper's
wife if she had not found the siege very
long. "Sir," was the reply, "much
shorter than the days that have follow
ed during; the siege we had no Prussians
among us"
EXPERIMENTsin in driving by electricity
have been made in France. An electro
magnet is placed beneath the coach
mans seat, from which one wire is car
ried along the reins to the horses bit,
and another to the crupper, so that the
whole length of the spine forms part of
an electric current. A sudden shock,
which the driver can administer at
discretion, will, it is said, arrest the most
furious runaway.
THE Paris Pot,ie publishes the fac
simile of medal which appears to have
been struck off in order to perpetuate
the hatred of the Communists for NJ.
Theirs. The head of the deceased states
man is seen surrounded by whips and ex
tingushers, symbolical of ilagellation
and obscurity, and on the reverse is the
design of soldiers firing at man tied to
post, with the word Satory" under
meath. 1t was at Satory that the Com
munists were executed.
/ A BosToN swindler has made thou =
/ sands of dollars in New England by stay
/ ing at hotels over night in the guise Of
a travelling salesman, receiving by pre-
yiOus arrangement with confederate
letters containing worthless checks and
pretended directions from an employer,
and inducing the landlords to cash the
checks. His easy, business-like manner,
and the simplicity of the fraud, enabled
him to succeed in nearly every instance.
QUEEN VICTORIA regulates and disci-
plines her children just as ii they were
still boys and girls. Prince Leopold is
twenty-four, but his slightest movements
are telegraphed to Windsor or Balmoral
by one of his suite, so that the other
Sunday when, being in Elgin, he accept
ed an invitation to attend the Episcopal
church, he received few minutes be-
fore the hour of service positive orders
to go to the Presbyterian church. He
went.
THE wedding dress of Maria de la:
Mercedes, future Queen of Spain, has al
ready been ordered, and the feminine
portion of the world will doubtless call il
beautiful. 1t is to be of white satin, en-
tirely covered with Alencon paint, Lace
on which will be worked the arms of al
the realms into which Spain was formerly
divided. This recalls the dress of Queer
Adelaide, of England, which was pref
ty piece of imagination-it was EN-
broidered with flowers, the initials OF
which formed her name.
The Baroness Caterce, daughter OF
the great Lablache, lately visited the
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