The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-10-24

ana hanged MN.
\ man in embarrassed circumstances
was seen by a friend in a court room, who
| said: ooh, didn't know that you had
aiken to the following OF the law The
man replied: Nor have L it's the law
that's following me-"
A young lady at ball at Dublin Castle
! displayed her charms so freely that a
ooker-on turned to Chief Justice Dohcrty
with Did you ever see the like of that
since you were born" well" said the
| judge, not since l was weaned."
NJ. Arscne Houssaye has disposed Of
the oft-repcated legend as to the room III
which Voltaire died being locked up for
one hundred years under the will of Nine.
de NilIette. NJ. HOussaye says he himself
was tenant of the room from 1915 to
1S47.
''Pa," said a little boy, five years old,
II saw lion and lamb lying side by
side in the meadow this morning" ''TIt,
| tut, James, don't tell me such stories"
said the father. ~ tell you l did, per-
sisted the child; "but it was a dande-
lion"
Senator Gordon, OF Georgia, has pur-
chased a farm Of two thousand acres and
an Atlanta paper says ''he proposes to
shOw the BostOnians that he knew what
he was talking about when he told them
Of the profits OF WOOL growing III the
South"
The United States consul at Buenos
! Ayres has written a letter to the state de-
partment, strongly urging American citi-
zens not to 90 to the Argentine Republic
in search of work. Everything is over
done, and thousands Of workingmen are
suffering.
The most elevated mine in the world is
probably Moose Mine in Colorado, sit
uated nearly on the highest Point of the
South Park range. Miners houses are
being built into mountain at mouth of
mine considerably over $4,000 feet above
tcvcl OF the sea.
According to the latest returns, the cul-
tivated land Of France is divided into
| 100000 properties. Five millions are
under six acres Belgium has like sub
division Of property. In Ireland, on the
other hand, 40 owners hold more than
Gne-tiifth OF the soil.
John A. Swan, pioneer of Monterey,
I an Englshman by birth, says in his auto
biography: "All my share OF tie gold and
land in California, after 80 years passed
on the Pacific slope, is an old adobe house
| in Monterey, once the first theater in CAL
nornia with a lot attached to it."
Charles Matthews told of an aspirant
who replied to question Of the manager:
''Amlet's my leading part "What. you
| play 'Amlct with such d cold as that!"
We'll, and why notl Oos more likely
to ave a cold than 'Amlet, always dab
blin' about them nasty damp raplpartss"
Gortschakoff was one Of the secretaries
TO the Russian Embassy in London in
.S24. Mr.. G. adstOne was still at Elton;
NJ. D,sraei had thirteen years to wait
before JIe entered Parliament for the first
time; and six years had to elapse before
the birth of the present Lord Salisbury.
The entire amount of gold in the world
ut present is estimated at $1,000, 000,0O
in value in United States coinage. This
immense sum is hardly comprehensive to
the mind, but if it were put in solid
mass it would measure only seventeen
feet high, twenty-eight feetwide and fifty
siX feet long.
4 Lowell man who lost his good c}aIae
.er some time ago, was severely hauled
over the Goals by some Of his former
friends. Il know it, boys, l know my
characters gone; lost entirely. And" he
added rather paintedly, ''it's too con-
founded bad, for it was the only one il the
! place worth saving"
Water melons are looming up in the
near future as an important American
! product. 1t is said that experiments in
! California have shown that sugar can be
! extracted from the melons at a cost of two
cents per pound less than from sugar-cane.
Besides this, oil is made from the seed and
alcohol from the rind.
At the recent fshmongers' banquet in
| London, Mr.. Gladstone declared the
| French and Italian cooks to be the best
N the world, and hoped that the English
would learn to initiate them, and stand
| out against the traditional bloody roast
/ beef. He speaks the truth as to the cooks,
| but treason as to the roast beef.
She Cbewitchingly): 90, I'm so glad
you're going to see me to my carriage,
| Mr.. Brown lie (tlatteredl: Indeed;
and may | ask Why" She: 80, because
he girls are so Jealous, and l want to
prove that | do not monopolize all the
! good-looking men, Brown satisfied; but
not so happy as he expected to be.
The lady formerly known as the Prln-
/ cess Salm- Salm, who figured so conspicu-
ously in this country and Mexico some
years ago, Is now prominent in the divorce
| courts of London, seeking a separation
from her husband. Mr.. IIeneage. a promi
| nent diplomat, who willingly agrees TO
separation, but demurs TO the alimony.
4 party bought a saddle of london
( harness maker, and told the clerk to
charge it. The clerk, forgetting the par
tvs name, charged it, at the request of his
master, to all the patrons who had open
accounts surprising in that way he should
discover who had bought the saddle. For
y different parties paid for that saddle.
\ man saw ghost while walking along
/ lonely highway at midnight. The ghost
stood exactly in the middle of the road.
and the waytarer, deciding to investigate,
poked at it with his umbrella. The next
instant he was knocked twenty feet, into
mud-hOle. Noral-Never poke an UNI
brella AT large white mule, when Its back
is turned
A plain-speaking country minister was
asked one day how 1t happened that, con
sidering the good example supposed TO be
set before them, so many minister's sons
should turn out ne'er-do-wells. "1i.s,'s
easily accounted for said the divine.
"You see the devil kens he cannot get |
baud o the geese, SO he just make grab
amang the gaisintr