The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-08
SCRAPS.

The st. GotharG Tunnel, under the
Helyetic Alps, measures nearly ten
miles in length, costing about $50 &C.,
800.
Rhode Island has 2,019 manufactur.
ing establishments, with an invested
capital of nearly $4,000 goo. and en-
ploying $3.50 hands, to whom are paid
IN wages yearly the sum of S23, 707 .5l3.
Deacon Jones, just deceased, had a
very red nose. His widow thought it
rather personal in the minister to begin
his funeral discourse: Another shining
light has been taken fr,rh our congre-
CATION"
My son, would you suppose the
Lords Prayer could be engraved in a
space no larger than the area of a nick
Ell cent?" ''Wen, yes, father, if a cent
is as big in everybody's eyes as it is in
yours, l think there would be no diff
Guilty in putting it on about four times.
Good gracious. Seth" said Ms.
Spicer, as the Caledonia Society strobe
along all plated and plumed in tartan
array 'What are those men parading
with bare legs for?" Cant say, unless
tits they are not entitled to bear arms"
said Spicer, as be lifted his hat to the
big chief.
Madame Lucette Delbaree, London
miiliner, has been fined in police court
$3.50 cents for unlawfully employing
women in millinery work after 4 NJ.
Oh Saturdays. The British Worksht ps'
Regulation Act makes it illegal for per
sons to be kept at work in shops after
that hour Saturdays.
The Colossus of Rhodes, one Of The
seven wonders of the world, was a
statue of brass, 80 feet high, each fin
ger being larger than man. 1t stood
afty years, and was thrown down by an
earthquake. 1t lay PROSTATE for 500
years, and was then sold for old metal,
and carried away on thousand camels.
A Warsaw correspondent says tina:
Polish ladies have turn-up noses, never
flirt in public, but do a lot of it i'll phi
vate; are beautiful and not v0luptuous,
but cold and keen, and enjoy the pro-
prieties of life easily and dignidedly,
and much more so than men, who are
very nervous, scheming and self-con-
scious.
The feminine instinct is naturally
averse to profanity, and yet, when a
woman unpacks her winter clothing and
finds that the moths have gone through
her seal-skin furs, the mOurnful suspi-
cion will invade the depths OF her in
most soul that the prevailing system of
female education is abominably circuIn-
scribed and shamefully narrow.
In 1706 combined French and Span
sh squadron made an attack upon
Charleston, S. c., but the inhabitants
captured one Of the ships, and took
many prisoners, and with but a slight
loss to themselves they gallantly re-
pulsed the invaders. The Charlesto-
mans were led by the brave Col. Will
liam Rhett.
Farming for profit. Not for large
crops, nor for notable appearances, but
to support the family and accumulate a
surplus for old age. Let the premium
idea of crOpss disappear then, and de-
strOy much Of the romance which comes
from literary agriculture; the true pre-
MUM crop is the profitable one; the
true romance is the comforts which at
tend prosperous results.
a young Indian girl, who had curl
ously watched the process of marking
barrel heads in a Touring mill in Vino
ma, Mimi, stole in one day, and taking
possess,assaf the stencils, ornamented
her bxPxE with the words, Ellis
worth's choice, - and paraded the streets
with great delight, but to the disgust
Of Mr.. Ellsworth. who is a bachelor
ard has made no such choice.
An Engiishman, boasting Of his coun-
try said, There are springs in England
where the most sparkling soda water
can always be had ready prepared" y
why that is not to be compared with
lake out west" said a bystander with
perfectly serious countenance; there
you can procure the most delicious
champagne, already bottled, and the
banks are made of sponge cake" The
Englishman cayed in.
Michael Angelo, when painting in the
pope's chapel the picture of hell and
the souls of the damned, made one Of
the latter 50 exact a resemblance of a
cardinal, who was his enemy, that ev-
cry one Immediately recognized it;
WhereupOn the cardinal Immediately
applied to Pope Clement, desiring it
might be 6ffaced; to which the latter
replied: you know | have power to
deliver soul out Of purgatory, but hot
out of help
Let person handle the flour of sui
phur for few moments with the naked
hands, and so subtle is the article that
it will penetrate his system sufficiently,
provided he have silver i'll his pocket,
to tarnish it. What is there more
subtle or wonderful in mesmeric action
than this simple fact? Herein the sys-
tenn receives a gentle influence, which,
thClgh entirely unfelt, is very potent
IN its effects.
Matthew Arnold admits the lrregu.
larities of our language, but he says
that 1.-The English Nation will not be
indeed in the hope of making spell,
ing easier. TO take to writing Iced III
not intu temtashun.' "What changes
are made" he adds, Twill not be made
In the hope of making spelling easier
to the children, but because certain
things in our present spelling are IRA
tinnal .