The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21
ODDS AND ENDS.


ORANGES are 40 cents a hundred
twelve fora nickel-in New Orleans
A NEW YORK sausage maker is named
Link" Very suggestive.
GENERAL BRANDON BRACES son is
city attorney of Mobile, Ala.
MINERS have superstition that
whistling in mines is provocative of i'll
luck.
STANLEY says that one African native
became so fond of him that he begged
Stanley as favor, to kill and eat him.
THE common foible of women who
have been handsome is to forget that
they are no longer so.
"a YOUNG lady" was sent to iail 10
Listowell, Ont, last week, for being all
habitual swearer
RICHMOND, Va, claims this year
population of 1880, of whom "A, 400
are colored.
A BUFFALO firm, in the foundry line,
has just dissolved, after transacting
business together for forty-two years.
A PORTLAND, Maine, COW has adopted
two fawns which her owner recently pur-
chased.
OBJECTS imperfectly discerned take
forms from the hope or fear of the be-
holder.
A NAN in Nevada mill was bored
through by two inch auger that was
run by machinery.
ACCORDING to one French authority
100000 Frenchmen have committed sui
eide since the beginning of the century
GREGORY XVI used to kick a little
model of a locomotive round his room,
crying, Invention of the DEVIL" But
he was too sensible to pit bull against it.
CowANsvILLE, Ont, boasts of bride
who was recently led to the altar for the
fourth time, and who is not over IS wears
of age.
The wife of a French Canadian la
borer in the village of St. Benoft, near
Montreal, has given birth to a pair of
children united like the Siamese twins.
A MAN out west, aged 105 years, has
son aged five months. The climate of
some portions of the west is remarkably
healthy.
Mrs. DENIsoN, the authoress, has
made enough money out of "That hus-
band of Mine" to purchase residence
in Washington.
BEN PERLEY PooRE, says Secretary
Sherman is building sixt y-four small but
comfortable brick houses Just northeast
of the capitol.
ACCORDING to Mr.. p. T. Barnum's
own figures he has sold, since he began
his business of amusement, no less than
$4,000, 900 worth of tickets.
A BOY of fifteen and girl of four
teen were married with the approval of
their parents in Russellyille, KY. Then
they were sent Oft to separate schools for
three years.
The grandson of an English baronet
drives public hack in Buffalo, and can
charge as exorbitantly as if the pursuit
had been followed by his family for I'M
told generations.
IT is proposed to lay pipes up and
down the bayou near Franklin, La.
through which syrup can be pumped any
distance from any sugar house to the
huge factory on the Teche.
A NEW boot for gentlemen has
steel-clad toe. The increasing army of
book and tree agents has had something
to do with the introduction of this fash
ion, no doubt.
KING HUMBERT is going to pay his
fathers debts out of his own private
means. He intends to sell Castel Por-
zlano, the vast hunting estate bought by
the nation as present to Victor Eman-
uel
ABOUT the middle of February the
United States will sell to the highest
bidder the last remaining relics of the
Centennial, which have been left behind
by their owners rather than settle with
the custom-house.
AT Nashville man died on the 50th
anniversary of his wedding, and the
house in which he was caught fire and
was destroyed upon the same day and
within four hours of the time of his
death.
The want of the age is condensed
homeopathic drinks, in the shape of
pills, so that fellow can carry happy
drunk in his vest pocket and become
beastly without going out between acts
and disturbing the congregation.-Nelc
Orleans Picayune.
"THE SHAUGHRAUN" is being PLAYED
in the American Theatre, Philadelphia,
but the wake scene has been omitted
since the opening night On that occa-
sion shower of eggs fell on the actors
from the gallery, and the managers at
once took the hint.
AMONG the curiosities in the army
medical museum at Washington is the
withered and parched hand and arm of
man who forgot it on the battlefield of
Gettysburg. A cannon ball carried it to
the top OF high tree, where the crws
overlooked 1t for the more abundant
carrion of the field, while the wind and
sun came, drankup its juices and shrivel-
ed it to its present well-tanned condition.
A FARMER at Bellevue, Ohio, was
losing cord wood faster than he desired,
so he purchased half a pound of gum
powder and loaded stick in a way that
would have covered it with glory at
Plevna. Recently that stick knocked
the stove OF one of the principal churches
in Bellevue to pieces and spread conster-
nation and ashes among the congrega-
ton. The farmer is more at loss now
than ever to know what becomes of his
wood.
WHEN William Beverly, the unrival-
ed scene painter of London, was
schoolboy in Camden town he had a
companion pupil who was, like himself,
a great lover of theatricals. The latter
had toy theater, and had devised a
melodrama which ended in the blowing
up of mill and the attendant destruc-
ton of the Williams of the cast, but dared
not carry out his plan for fear of running
the theater. Beverly came to his aid,
however, constructed proper set" and
blew it up successfully. The other boy,