The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

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NORA DuPREE, young lady pedestrian
attempted to walk one hundred miles in
twenty fous hours Mt Oshkosh, recently,
but .iled.
In Dundee, Scotland, the police use a
| wheelbarrow OF proper dimensions i'll
which to convey disorderly or drunken
criminals toprison.
1t is computed that the tomb of st.
| Charles Borromed. in the Cathedral of
| Milan, contains, in precious stones
| alone, value TO the amount Of million
| of dollars!
Adam Smith was right when ne
taught that the only elements of
wealth are land and labor 1t was
true in his day, and is equally true to-
day, here and elsewhere.
81 didn't know, said an old lady, as
she laid down her newspaper, "that
thieves were so scarce they had to ad-
vertise for EN-, aud offer reward for
their discovery"
The discouraged again presented that
little matter. "WeI," says the friend,
"you are round again?" eyes says the
fellow, with the account in his hand,
''but I want to get square.
There is family in Madison county,
| Florida, of remarkable stature. The
father is seven feet four inches high;
the mother is six feet eight inches: two
sons are seven feet three inches, and
one daughter is seven feet nine inches.
| A newly-invented railway lamp,
largely adopted in Germany, Holland
and Belgium, allows the reading of the
| smallest type at the furthest distance in
the car, and the inventors have been
awarded medal by the Society of
Arts.
| You can teach boy that if he plays
the three and four domino on a three,
leaving the six exposed to the other
end, it counts ten, in about five min
utes; but it will take him all day at
school to learn that four units and six
units make ten units.
The convict choir at Auburn prison is
remarkably musical organization.
| The organist is sentenced for grand
larceny, the first violin, the first tenor
and double bass are murderers, the
second tenor, basSo and sopranos all
| burglars, and the professor is forger.
"Does the court understand you to
| say, Mr.. Jones, that you saw the editor
| of the Argus of Freedom intoxicated?"
Not at all, sir. merely said that l
had seen him SO Hurried in his mind
that he would undertake to cut copy
with the shutters, that's ALL
The average length of life Of Qua
kers is remarkably high in England.
Great numbers of them live to be sew
enty and eighty years of age. This is
attributed to the fact that they belong
largely to the middle class, and are not
only thrifty but Of exemplary habits.
The fourteen English women who are
| studying at the Faculty of Medicine in
| Paris have not only won compliments
from DR.. Vulpian, the dean of the ia
Guilty, but also kind and courteous treat
ment from the six thousand young
| Frerchmen who are their FELLOWSHIP.
dents.
The Madison Democrat has it from ex-
| Gov. Washburn himself that there was
$50, 900 insurance on his A mill and $780,
900 on the B. He expressed his purpose
to rebuild both mills at once, and on even
larger and more perfect scale than be-
fore.
! 'BE good boy and don't break your
mothers heart, for then you would be an
orphan in an insane asylum, where you
would have to listen to couple of ser
mons on Sunday, and two or three dur
ing the week." said his mother, and that
boy has been good ever since.
A correspondent of the american Ar
| chitect found that the reason some cess
| pools near his house were no annoyance,
although not emptied for four years, was
that large tulip tree and two very -four
ishing naples had stuck their roots into
them, and were deriving all the benefit
| High ritual is on the increase in Lon
don. Thirty-nine churches now cele-
brate the daily communion, against II
last year; $40 have surpliced choirs,
against ia; 35 have eucharistlc vest
ments, against IA; 80 display candles on
the altar, and since 1867 the use of in
cense has been extended from three
churches to Is.
| The tribe of Chickasaws maintained
twenty eight schools last year, in
which We're taught rs pupils. The five
tribes in Indian territory have 1Sl
schoolhouses, in which are maintained
twelve boarding and 16S day schools,
employing 1856 teachers, who instructed
1886 pupils. OF the population of So
7l5, there can read 3D. 900. They spent
on the schools last year Sl37,775.
The flowing reporter who wrote, with
reference to well known belle, "Her
dainty feet were incased in shoes that
might be taken for fairy boots" tied up
his wardrobe in handkerchief and left
| for parts unknown when it appeared
next morning: "Her dirty feet were en-
cased in shoes that might be taken for
ferry boats.
81 shouldn' think there would be such
word as breakfast, remarked yonng
linguist to his mother the other morning.
"Why not, dearl" asked she. Because,
ma, ?" replied the boy, sit amt natural I;
things never break fas.-they break
| loose" There was sad bewilderment
of expression in the face OF that mother,
| as she gazed speecblessly upon her pre-