The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-21

4 Virginia miser who left $3.50, OCO,
about one-half his fortune. to endow
manual labor school for children, used to
live in a house where there was less than
$500 worth of furniture. His name was
Samuel Miller. Nevertheless he was mis-
erly to some purpose.
An editor is pretty certain to lose a pat
ron when his foreman inadvertently puts
a marriage notice under the head Of An
other Swindle Come TO Light" Tie
groom, instead of accepting the bluDder
as a new sample of American humor. gets
awfully mad and wants 40 murder some-
body.
Clean, sweet water is absolutely indis-
pensable to the production of clean. sweet
milk. The spores of fungi and germs of
infusoria taken by drinking stagnant water
will pass into the blood, causing fever.
and appear in the milk secre tons, making
them unhealthy for food. Be sure the
COWS have pure water.
There has lately been published in Lon
don, under the supervision OF the English
Committee or Holders of Alabama Eight
Per Cent Gold State bonds Of 1870, and
of the directors Of the railway company,
pamphlet entitled THE Hill Country of
Alabama" earnestly advocating English
emigration thither.
The large English joint stock banks
continue to pay handsome dividends, al
though much less than ten years ago. The
July dividend OF the London and West
minister was 7 per cent for the half year,
and that Of the Birmingham, Dudley, and
District Banking Company at the rate of
1913 per cent per annum.
a poem read at the Wyoming Centen-
NAL urged the vast crowd to ''Strike the
Tyre in warning strainn "Strike the Tyre
in martial strainr' Strike the Tyre in
mournful strain!n "Strike the Tyre in
dulcet strain." And yet hewasn't struck.
Anderson wasn't there. He probably got
wind of what was going to take place, and
remained away to avoid being struck in
all those strains.
The following is Dir. Schaff's prophecy
as to Mormonism: at las been nursed
into power by cruel persecution, and the
fire Of fanaticism and material self-inter-
est may keep it , for considerable
time; but it can scarcely be expected that
as a religious and polyramous system it
will be able to resist 'uch longer the
pressure of the surrounding civilization
and church extension.
A Washington young woman awoke
from her sleep with a confused sense of
somebody standing over her. She reach
ed out Der hands, which fell on the head
of burIy negro burglar. She clutched
the wool firmly and shouted, Somebody
come here quick" The male members Of
the family rushed in just as the strength
OF the young girl gave way, and the buzz
glar escaped.
A hunter in the Adirondacks shot, as
he supposed. an extra fine deer, and he
was eXtolling his unwonted good luck,
when farmer came upon the scene, and
claimed $50 for shooting his horse. Then
the mighty hunter INDUCED in a signiti-
cant laugh on the wrong side of his mouth.
settled his bill and left, using very en-
phatic language at the deception scattered
far and wide of the cheapness of an eX-
cursion to the Adirondacks.
Il ellow-citizens, said a stump orator,
''we have the best country in the world,
and the best Government. No persons on
the face OF the globe enjoy more privileges
than we do. Here we have the liberty OF
( speech and liberty OF press, without oner-
Gus despotism. What, fellow-citizens, is
more desirable than this2 Do you want
anything more, my countrymen" eyes,
Stree said one Of his hearers, II want a
sucl, oat of that flask sticking out OF your
coat-pocket behind"
A man who was not c;evcr at conun-
drums, in attempting to get off one at a
tea party at his own house, became ex-
ceedingly mixed He intended to ask
the old question, "Why is a woman ,.ike
ivy?" the familiar but gallant answer to
which is, Because the more you're ruined
the closer she ciings.' But he put 1t,
"Why is ivy like woman!" which none
Of the ladies could tell, and SO the unior-
tunate man told them himself that II was
Because the closer it clings the more
/ you're ruined"
/ As furniture in a tenement house at
/ Fall River Mass, was being transferred
/ to a wagon, the wife carefully wrapped in
/ a large comforter her little baby and put
I it on the bed In an upper chamber. a
4 little later some one down by the wagon
called to a man who entered the chamber
to throw down something to use for pack
ing to protect some articles. The man
seized the rolled-up comforter and flung
/ 1t out of the window. ItwaS caught by
woman, who, finding lump in it, I'm.
folded it to find the child unharmel
1t is becoming the fashion for ladies to
have their cOronets-and if they have no
coronets, their monograms-cmb
on their shoes. The difference between
this fasion and that adopted three centu-
! ries ago on the Field of the Cloth of Gold
is that whereas the mobiles of France and
I England recognized each other 10y gIanc-
ing at the castles, &c, which they wore
Qpon their backs, you will now have to
eXamins a lady's shoes if you desire to
/ know who she Is. The new style has one
I undoubted advontage--it gives you de-
cent preteXt tor looking at pretty girls
ankles.
! In these days Of rapid transit from
/ presidents and trustees rooms TO State
prison cells, the business Of starting saw
/ ings banks and insurance companies foI
/ speculative purposes is ne. so popular as
/ it was, even a very few years ago. Still the
/ Supreme Court of the United States has
/ done well in admonishing all concerned
that savings banks property exist for the
benefit Of the depositors, and not for that
of the managers. until recently,p says
the Court, The primary idea of savings
bank mas been that it is an institution In
the hands of disinterested persons, the
/ profits of which, after deducting the ne
( eessary expenses of the business, inure
wholly to the benefit OF depositors in div
idends, or III a reserve surplus for their