The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-05-17
PICKINGS AND STEALINGS.

for stealing iron foot scrapers from door
steps.
ORANGE peel on the sidewalk caused
Usher in London, Mr.. kimpton.
THE ship Lady Turner, from Mel
bourne to Ceylon, Sc days out, has been
lost by spontaneous combustion of her
cargo of bone-dust.
Experience is wise teacher, hut the
man who feels a June-bug creeping in
side his trousers leg has no recourse save
in his natural ability.
A HOUSEHOLDER, in filling up his
schedule of the last census, under the
column "where born" described one of
his children as born g in the parlor," and
the other cup stairs"
THE rays of the sun, shining through
an ordinary stereoscope, set fire to
newspaper lying upon table in house
in Maine, few days ago. An early dis
covery prevented the destruction of the
building.
A MARRIAGE ceremony between col
ored parties in Griffin, Ga, was recently
most disastrously interrupted by the par
son demanding the marriage fee. The
groom being penniless, the twain had to
move down the church aisle, unhonored
and unbound.
GERMANY furnishes annually, 100000
fox skins, 10000 pine martens, 10000
stone martens, 2S0,000 pole-cats, 5000
otters, 5000 badgers and 100000 hare
skins. In rabbit skins she sends out only
800, 900, to Frances 100000 The list
closes with 400, 200 domestic cat skins.
THE Graphic says: "When Il new
pedestrenna makes her debut on the saw
dust track in Boston, the papers call it
bounding from sedentary obscurity into
the arena of peripatetic celebrity They
have to put mustard poultice on the
back of the dictionary every night"
THE danger of long beard was illus
trated in one of the Oswego mills a day
or two ago. A workman, whose length
of beard is, or rather was, his pride, was at
work over shaft, which caught his
beard and wound it round and round in
a twinkling. Another workman thrust
a heavy stick into the cogs, stopping the
shaft, else the mans neck would inevita-
bly, have been broken.
ONE of Edwin Forests dislikes, Celia
Logan says in the entertaining sketches
that she is publishing in the Sunday Dis
patch, was the late John Seton, for
many years manager of the Walnut
Street Theatre, Philadelphia. When
Forrest played there Mr.. Seton had to
keep away from the theatre. He did
nothing, and drew his salary.
THE2E is a family now residing in
Freehold, Pa, who have packed up every
earthly article they possess and moved
them forty-two times and all since the
melancholy days" of 1866. They have
lived in this state, been West several
times, yet they are not now, and proba-
bly, will never be happy until they have
astonished the last tenement house i'll
the country-Phsburg Commercial,
In cafe at Vienna, not long since, a
gentleman, who was playing at billiards,
broke with his cue valuable mirror.
The proprietor became quite excited, and
angrily insisted upon being paid $50
guilders, whereupon the stranger handed
over bank note for 200 guilders, re-
ceived his change and departed. The
next day the proprietor discovered that
the note was forgery.
THE death, at fifty-four, lately occur
red of an Englishman, known.as the Nor
folk giant. He was a farmer, and often
loaded his own wagon by carrying four
bushels of wheat under each arm at
time When in great haste to get farm
work done he has been known to harness
himself TO one of his own harrows. His
weight was 1856 pounds; height 6 feet, six
inches; width from shoulder to shoulder
across the back, TWEEN ty inches. He was
most amiable man.
AMONG the matrimonial announce
ments of Conjungo, the Paris marriage
broker, the Petit Journat, may be noticed:
Young lady, age twenty-ninc, fortune
100000 francs; orphan, age twenty-three,
fortune $4,000 francs; widow, without
children, age twenty-six, fortune 100000
francs; widow, well preserved, age thirty
nine, does not look more than twenty
eight, no false hair, has preserved all her
teeth, plays the piano sufficiently for
dancing, temper quick, but heart good,
slight mustache, fortune 10000 francs,
and an uncle paralyzed on one side,
whose doctor gives him only three
months to live"
WILLIAM WYATT GILL, who was for
Pacific Islands, has written an account
of his life there, in the course of which
he relates many incidents and facts of
natural history. The most remarkable
of these statements is that certain SER
pents in Polynesia coil themselves up
when rain is coming on, collect water i'll
the coil, and thus form fatal drinking
place, to which unsuspecting birds are
attracted to assuage their thirst, and fall
easy victims.
THE Berlin gorilla is going to London
for short season. His name is Pongo,
and he is the only gentleman of his race
| in Europe His education has been
completed at the Berlin Aquarium. He
drinks claret and water, turns hand
springs, swings on a trapeze, drums on the
| floor, chases little dog, and behaves
/ like a gentleman. His manners are very
graceful, especially when he has occasion
to drink wine with his little cousin, the
chimpanzee. Pongo looks like a little
colored boy, and his hands are quite soft
and pretty.
A PARIS paper has devised an ingeni
Gus mode of administering puff. a
doctor, it says, was called few days ago
to attend child which had sucked some
matches When he arrived he found the
/ family disconsolate, thinking the matches
had contained phosphorus, which is a
sure poison. The doctor asked to see the
match box, and discovered that it con-
tanned Swedish matches, for which a
patent had been taken. Their title was
then duly fourished, with an assertion
that they were entirely harmless, and
would, in fact, make palatable article
/ of diet.
/ ASSISTANT SECRETARY of the Treasury
Mccormick has an affection of TIE cyclic
which causes him to wink frequently
A day or two ago two good-looking girls
applied for positions in the Treasury De
partment. Mr.. Mccormick treated them
with politeness, but gave neither any en-
couragement that they would be success
I full. When they came out, one said to
the other: "Well, it looks blue for us,