The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-18
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| two cents a meal.
/ a dog is the first TO greet John Chi
/ naman when lie lands In San Francisco
| He bites the new conner.
Springfield makes its tramps work
for their lodgings, or gives them SIX
months III the House of Correction.
The British princes now in trainin,
for the navy are known to their mess
mates by the names OF ''Spuds1 ant
"Sprats."
Exchange-"At full dress reception
in Paris they called Il man Adam be.
cause his wife's dress so closely resem-
bled Ewes"
A New Haven man was struck
speechless by the sound of fire alarm
which aroused him from sleep the other
night.
New Jersey respectfully suggests tina
she is ready TO receive proposals for &
mosquito feet that will disperse Rus
sia's in no time.
1t is better to stay at home and sew
up the rents in your childrens clothes
than to go to the Dorcas society and
sew for the heather.
The rice crop of this country is again
assuming prominence. South Carolina
has an estimated yield Of 1900 tierces
and Georgia 26,O00.
A London fishmonger was sentenced
to two months hard labor in prison for
selling and kissing lady, the wife of
a surgeon, in the street.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany owns 200 900 miles of wire, have
over 5000 offices, and forwards over
10000, coo messages per year.
Several Comanche and Cheyenne
murderers, who have been imprisoned
i'll Florida, are to be educated and sent
to their tribes us missionaries.
The directors of the Great Western
Railway, England, say that fair aver
age days work fora horse is seven miles
an hour for eight hours day.
In 17SS a forged London Gazette ex-
ira, properly stamped, was put in circu-
lation on the Stock Exchange and the
author was never discovered.
81 am astonished, my dear young
lady, at your sentiments; you make me
start" Good! l have been wanting
you to start for the last hour"
a petrilied crocodile has been sent to
Yale College from Como Station, on the
Union Pacific Railroad. The price
paid by the University was s., 200.
The school Of which Chatterton's
father was master, and in which the
poet himself received his earlier educa-
ton, is to be RACED to the ground.
MiddletOWn, Conn, women go to the
meetings held by Pentecost, the evan
gelist, and sit in the gallery and pel5
their male friends with paper balls.
1t is said that little blind girl who
goes about with an Italian beggar in
New \ ork, has been purposely blinded
to make her an object of sympathy.
Practical shepherds assert that cross
ing the common sheep with the merinO
Will double the weight of fleece and add
fully ten per cent TO the market price.
From fifty to one hundred head of
sheep can be kept on each farm of 100
to l6O acres OF land With but little extra
expense, and with actual advantage to
the land.
a colony, to be entirely composed OF
Spiritualists, gathered from all over the
Union, will buy land in Lincoln terri.
tory and engage i'll agricultural pur-
suits.
The general expenses for provisions.
medicines and medals at the conclave
of cardinals, amounted to $1,100,0
though much that was purchased was
not used
A telegraph cable has been laid
through the Dardanelles to Cartal af-
fOrding direct communication with
Europe without passing through Rus
sian stations.
A Chinaman VINO mad his cue cut off
while an inmate Of the San Francisco
Jail sues the sheriff Of the county for
ten thousand dollars damage. 1t is to
be made Il test case.
There are three political parties III
ConstantinOple all working at cross
purposes. One follows the Sultan. an
other the ex-Sultan. aud the third is
patronized by Russia.
The York County, Me-, Patrons Mu-
tual Insurance Company is reported to
be III prosperous condition. In five
months it wrote risks to the amount of
SS3 900, and had no loss.
Little Alice-s grandfather is almost a
centenariam. One of her companions
one day asked her: How old is your
grandpa?" "Hush," says she: ''don t
speak so loud, | believe God has for
gotten him"
There las been so much complaint in
Paris Of late of adulterated wine, that
orders have been given to the Captains
of the different police districts to visit
the chief wine stores and seize samples
Tor analysis.
The discovery has been made that
the world does not rerolve with the
same motion that it did thousand
years ago; but it still swings round fast
enough to satisfy the man With a heavy
note coming due.
Intelligent housemaid: "Oh, please,
miss. there was a young gentleman
called when you was out. lie didn't
leave his card, but can show you who
he Is, cause here's three of his photo
graphs i'll your album
An English vessel of war rescued
Mr.. Sands, Il Scotch artist, from the
island of st. Ailda, and the authorities
sent him bill for board. He objects
to the bill because he lost one breakfast
which they charge for.
A garden should not be shaded by
large trees, since but few plants flour