The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-06-14
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

is Jamesie.
around by 5000 horses.
A TOWN is looming up in the Black /
Hills under the name of "New Chicago. y
JOHN HI. RAYMOND has made S27 ,G00t
from the "Gilded Age" this season;
A MASSACHUSETTS parson declares
that he will not marry men under % or
women under 20 years of age.
If you go down into Maine and malici-
ously kill another mans dog, you will
be liable to a heavy fine and imprison-
ment.
THE will of Fletcher Harper makes
no public beqtests; the bulk Of the
property being left The widow, children
and grandchildren.
Hon. HUGH ]. ANDERSON, who is now
in his 10Th year, is the oldest surviving
ex-governor of Maine. He was govern
or from 1914 to 1871.
Miss NELSON has diamond weigh A..
ing 81 karats, the largest Worn by an
actress on any stage. 1t is set in frosted
gold leaves. and is valued at sl0s0oe.
The we'll known orange tree in the
garden at Versailles, called Bourbon, is
dead. 1t has put forth no blossoms this
season, and its leaves have fallen. 1t is
said to be 445 years old. ~ "a
The Emperor William visited the bat
tie fields around Metz, and at Gravelotte
went into cottage he occupied, August
Is, 1870, and spent some time III a room
where he indited his dispatch of victory.
WHEN you stand at the gate with a
pretty girl and the moon is shining too
brightly for kissing, ask her to fix your
neGktie; which will teqnite son to stoop
and her 10 stand on tiptoes
A MERCHANT in Easthampton asked
bis Sunday school class: What is soli-
tude?" and was answered by boy that
reads newspapers, "The store that don't
advertise"
AN old lady in Harlem, who has past
ed nearly 5000 medical recipes in a book
during fifty years, has never been sick
in her life, and is growing discouraged.
She says that some people are born to i'll
/ luck.
! 4 STONE obelisk, bearing on one side
a basso-felieio portrait of Prince Bis
marck, and on TIE ether the words, I'VE
shall not 90 to Clnossa,," has been placed
%, The summit OF Harz Mountain, The
cost of the monument was Covered b. n
public subscription.
! AN American law student named Fos-
/ ter has Just achieved the laurel of LID.
at Berlin University. astonis hing and
+ delightlng a large audience OF leartied
Germans by the success with which he
passed an examination and the brilliancy
of his dissertation.
/ The jury which sat upon the remains
of Mr.. Modem, who shot himself in
London, Canada, recently, brought in
t the following verdict: "That the death
/ of w. E. Mordeh was caused by bullet
hole in his head, discharged by his own
hand, while labotihg ttnder fit of tenn
p0rary insanity"
4 You've man went to see his sweet
heart in All adjoining town the other
night, and the family were not Inclined
to let him in. Grieyed at so cold re-
ception, he pressed them to know the
reason, but did not linger when in
fosmed; We've got the smallpox. -
,Sp5ingfeM Republican.
A WOMAN in England read a notice in
newspaper that her husband, from
whom she had been separated for II
years, was lying i'll in San Francisco
hospital. She FASTENED thither, and
found that he had been discharged. She
continued the search found him, and
they were recohciled.
THE 4driotico describes a beautiful
static Thich is to be raised to Titan
this year, the 400th anniversary Of his
birth, in the little town of Pioye di
Galore, his birthplace. The head looks
toward the house where he was born, on
the walls of which, tradition says, that
his earliest efforts appeared.
" A POOR, unfortunate tramp, weary of
life, John J. Wilson, 14S Washington
street, New York, two months in the
state, cannot gel einpl03meht;' was
found on a slip of paper, together with
a bottle of strychnine, on the dead body
rift, Oakland, Cal: sd
! A MAN arrived in Buffalo last E'ati,r-
day with his mother for the purpose of
putting her in an insane asylum. After
doing so his own conduct excited sus-
picion. He said his anxiety about his
mother had made him nervous, and that
he had not had his regular sleep for sew
eral nights. He was kept at the hotel
over night, and the next morning was a
raving maniac.
ROBERT BROWN, a colored waiter in
an indianapolis hotel, in passing along
the third story balcony of the hotel on
! his Way to his room, the other night, acs
! cidentally slipped and fell over the rail
! ing to the pavement below, a distance of
4 50 fest. Strahge to say, although stun
! ed for moment, he was not seriously
hurt, and was heard to say as he walked
off, 'Tll have that pavement fixed in the
morning."
! QUEER'postmaster out at False Bottom
postofiice in the Black Hills. He never
has any postage stamps, but always tells
the man calling for them that the gentle
man on the outside of the delivery who
deals in stationary, has few, which he
will sell at five cents apiece for three
cent stamps, three cents apiece for two
cent stamps, and two cents apiece for
one-cent stamps. The attention of the
Postmaster General il respectfully d.
rected thitherward.
WISDOM is fox who, after long hunt
ing, at last costs you the pains to dig
out; it is a cheese, which, by how much
the richer, has the thicker, the homlier
and the coarser coat; and whereof to a
judicious palate the maggots are best. 1t
is sack posset, wherein the deeper you
90 you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is
a hen, whose cackling we must value and
consider, because it Is attended with an
egg, But lastly it is a nut, which, I'M
less you choose with judgment, may cost
you tooth and pay You nothing but a
worm.
A DEsERTER from the United States
army went into business as barber in
oakland Cal and prospered A former