The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-14
PERSONAL.

THIRTY SONS of Siamese princes and
MOBILES are coming to this country to be
educated.
NATHAN GoFF, of Clarksburg, w.
Va, aged So, has been carried off and
married by Miss Horner, who is hand
some and 10. Mr.. Golf is a millionaire.
Mrs. KICKER, the Washington law
yer, makes it rule every noon to pay
for lunch for the prisoners in the dock of
the Criminal Court.
JOHN You've, who invented the
clothes wringer, died at Amsterdam. y.
y, the other day His invention has
been great saving of domestic labor,
but yielded him no profit to speak of.
QUEEN PA, of Portugal, daughter of
the late Victor Emmanuel, is blonde,
beautiful, and of dignifed carriage, hav-
ing resemblance to Queen Marie An
toinette.
i Col. FRED. GRANT has concluded to
reside in San Francisco, where he has
bought an interest in a grain-cleaning
machine.
/ CIGARETTE smoking is INDUCED in by
many young women and schoolgirls.
The thumbs and forefngers of class in
young ladies school in New York were
examined the other day, and only two
were found to be without tobacco stains.
! AT the golden wedding of Judge Asa
Packer and wife, of Pennsylvania,
/ recently, the preacher who married them,
now 50 years old, was present, as were
also four of the five original wedding
guests.
I Mrs. ANDREW s. HALL, of Brooklyn,
who wants to have her husband adiudged
lunatic, testified by way of illustrating
his insanity, that he asked a foolish
blessing at the breakfast table 1t was
ooh Lord, | hope everything will work
right, and turn out right, amen"
ROBERT RATCLIFF, of Nantucket.
Mass, who is SO years old, was on the
vessel that carried Napoleon to St.
Helena, and remembers well the incl
dents of the voyage. Napoleon used to
speak to him occasionally, as well as to
all the other sailors.
/ ONE of the late Victor EmanuePs
ministers called his attention to the fact
that he was distributing decorations
rather lavishly. "Ah, said the king,
! there are two things you mrst never re-
fuse when solicited-bouquets to women
and crosses to men.
/ MENGONI, the famous Italian archi-
/ tect, was killed few days ago by fall
/ ing from the top of new arch on the
Milan cathedral. He was superintend-
ing the erection of a cornicle, and, step
ping back to judge of the effect, board
] gave way and he was precipitated to the
| pavement,
ROBERT WARDLow and Miss Martha
Draper, of Newport Landing, Califor-
MIA, being both under age, were unable
to get license, and accordingly a few
Sundays ago Robert hired a boat and a
minister, and, putting out to sea, was
soon beyond the three mile limit over
which the United States has jurisdiction,
and there the knot was tied
OWING to sickness and old age COM
bined, the Rev. Stephen II. Tying, who
for 80 years has held the pastorate of st.
I Georges Church, New York city, has
resigned his charge. DIR. Tying is now 81
years old. The church has accepted his
resignation, and settled upon him an an.
nuity of $4,000 for life
NELSON PLACE, an old and well known
shipping merchant of New York, died
January y, aged 10. During the gold
excitement in California Mr.. Place
equipped several vessels and sent them
to the Pacific coast, one of which was
the celebrated Mechanics Own, which
was built, owned and manned by 100
mechanics with their families,
Miss ESTHER ALICE MERKLEHANG,
Jetferson's great-granddaughter, holds a
$1,000 clerkship in the copying division
of the interior department. She unites
the blood of the Jeffersons and Ran
dolphs in her veins, is an occasional
writer for the papers, and the author of
a popular little Sunday school book,
Lost Pearls"