The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
ODDS AND ENDS.
GEN. BUTLER is said to fear that he i:
losing the sight of his other eye.


losing the sight of his other eye.
"orR birth is but sleep and forgetting,
The soul, that rises with u.s. our life star
Hath elsewhere had its setting,
And cometh from afar."
THE male chimpanzee, of the pair re-
Gently received at the New York aqua
rum, has died of consumption.
RHODE ISLAND has Goldfish ball par
ties" They do not give bread at one of
these Goldfish balls.
1T is reported that w. III. Vanderbilt
will settle the suit with Cornelius by
paying him one million dollars.
JOHN Browns bust has been discov-
cred by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in the
museum of Geneva, Switzerland.
A LONDON cont. confectioner is send
ing 200 boxes, containing over 500 varie-
ties of confectionery, to the Paris Expo
sition.
WEST VIRGINIA has already lost $780,.
900 through defaulting sherifs. This
does not include what they owe to the
counties and districts.
ONE of the most popular caricatures
in Constantinople is that of a Cossack
kicking Lord Derby and asking him if
British Interests were being touched
yet"
No use bringing any more chimpan.
ices to this country. The atmosphere Is
bad on them, and they can't compete
with the young man who parts his hair
in the middle.
WHEN the friends of Mrs. Jane Smith
of Wayne county, Me-, helped her cele.
brate her Goth birthday recently, she
bored them by reciting poem of &c
stanzas, which she learned 50 years age
and ought to have forgotten.
THERE is wild excitement among PEG.
pie in Trigg county, KY, over an expec.
tatiOn of the near approach of the judg
ment day. Many have abandoned bust
ness and all earthly concerns, and given
themselves up to religious exercises.
! A YOUNG man of u went to Texas in
March and is already the proprietor of 6
stock farm, with which was convened
also ready-made family, consisting OF
one wife, seven children, and mother,
in-law.
A BELGIAN editor has proved a MAJ
of stern principle. He was convicted Of
an unjust attack on a correspondent, anc
ordered by the court to insert the reply
of the person aggrieyed. Rather thar
obey this order he stopped the publica
ton of his paper.
YALE's Oldest living graduate is Mai
Seth Pierce, of Cornwall, Conn. HI
was of the class of 1906, and is now
ninety-three years old. He is farmer
in good health, walks every day mile o.
two, and can read his newspapers will
the help of spectacles.
/ DIR. NEwCoMB SAYS: $50 small is tn,
earth, compared with the celestial spaces
that if one should shut his eyes and fire
at random in the air, the chance of bring
ing down a bird would be better thar
that of comet of any kind striking the
EARTH"
QUITE a wonderful colonial traveller
named George Moffit, formerly of St
John, N. B., has turned up in Providence
He is about so years old, and, although
blind from his birth, easily distinguish.
coins and bank bills of different demon
nations.
DR.. GEO. RICE, who some years ago
t was refused admission to Columbia col
/ lege because he was colored man, anC
afterward graduated at Dartmouth, anc
studied medicine in Paris, has achieved
an enviable professional reputation il
| London.
"THE hermit of the rock" jane
tombstone, who had lived in a cave neal
White Plains, n. Y, for many years
died recently at the age of so. He KEPT
in his cavern, horses, hogs, goats, dogs
cats and hens, and owned eighteen acre:
of land surrounding his domic;ie.
A PATRIOTIC maniac, residing in Ken
nebunk, has painted his house and barr
! from foundation to roof with alternate
bands of red, white and blue. At eacf
corner of the house is a huge "Unior
Jack" about seven feet wide, and the
chimneys are painted with the national
colors and studded with stars.