The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-05-31
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

fr has been decided not to rebuild the
Southern Hotel in ST. Louis.
A SCOTTISH paper mentions that bot
tie of whisky 142 years old has been sold
at Edinburgh for e40.
THE Baltimore San is forty years old,
and has always been under one manage
ment.
A FEMALE Justice of the Peace in
Wyoming recently fined her husband
heavily for flirting.
a. GRAHAM BELL, inventor of the
speaking telephone, is a Scotcllman by
birth.
GEN WOOD, now living in New Or
leans, is said to have made made 100000
by the rise in stat bonds of Louisiana
A WHITE rubber rattle, in the making
of which arsenic is said to have been
used, fatally poisoned an infant child in
Royalston, Massachusetts,.
THE present most uncomfortable and
unsightly shake worn by the soldiers of
her Majesty's infantry of the line is
doomed, and will shortly be replaced by
neat looking felt helmet.
Two new forts at Cologne, on the left
bank of the Rhine, are to be completed
by next autumn. The new Notifications
on the right bank will then at once be
taken in hand.
WITH the exception of Governors
/ Hunt and King, all the governors of
1 New York elected since the adoption OF
the present constitution, nearly 80 years
ago, are now living.
/ A FRENCH blacksmith filled large
/ tube with hammers, chisels, bits of lead,
iron, and gunpowder; then put his head
in one extremity, and applied hot bar
/ of iron to the other. The result was
+ that he knocked off his head and blew up
his forge.
/ Two Pi Utes in Newark Valley, Ne
vada, on the 9th ult., hacked each other
/ to pieces over a game of poker. They
( fought with knives for half an hour,
surrounded by ring of Indians, none of
whom dared to interfere. The only re-
mark of the survivor, who shortly after
ward died, was: " Heap cut; heap deadl'
/ THERE is a bottomless bog in an im-
( portant highway which crosses corner
of swamp in Litchfield county, Conn.,
Attempts have been made every season
for the last twelve years to fill it up with
gravel and stones, but without success.
Rocks as large as team of oxen could
draw were dumped in last spring, and for
a time the road bed remained above wa
ter; but this spring the mole appears
larger and deeper than ever, and the
Road Board will be obliged to bridge it..
I WHILE bartenders are closing up their
drinking saloons in the East, they are
encouraging the tipplers to further ac-
tivity in the West. A Santa Barbara
f. (Cal. saloon keeper offers to every one
takes drink a numbered ticket Every
time drink is taken a new number is
given. At the end of the month the
numbers are put into lottery wheel,
and the lucky number draws S25. OF
course the topper who has the largest
number of tickets is supposed to have
the best chance for S25.
A BOY of seventeen and girl of fif-
teen went from Kentucky, where the
law requires parental consent for the
marriage of minors, across the river to
Cincinnati, where they were able to get
license and have the ceremony per.
formed. They had been married about
an hour, when the brides father arrived
but, being unable to detain the couple
he had the boy arrested on a charge o.
: larceny in stealing the girls clothing
Then the groom's father came, and be
came the young peoples friend in neee
by giving bail.