The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-12-05
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MehtEleI All, iUTkisn general, Is 3
German by birth.
OF the 5000 voters in Lynn. Mass
about $500 are shoemakers.
Lord Beaconsfeld CDisraeli) is 73.
Gladstone is four years younger
Silver is such drug in Texas that peo-
pie prefer paper. So do some people
here.
Mrs Darlington says her minister
preached about ''the parody of the proba-
bic son."
The charities of Sir Cowasjee Jehangeer
who died in Bomboy, are estimated al
S2,500,000.
A New Hampshire pauper lived to be
seventy-nine years old, and then commit
ted suicide.
The beggar women of Boston solicit the
charitable for horse-car tickets, which they
afterwards sells.
Whom did Robinson Crusoe meet on
the desert island2 A great swell, and a
little cove running inland.
IN 1913 France lad eleven million land
owners, Of whom half did not pay more
than five francs year in taxes.
Eighteen companies run the 62,000
miles of submarine cable existing and III
working order at the present time.
In Georgia the present generation have
a way of mentioning 'the od-time South
erner as an article completely relegated
to the garnet.
Opposing lawyers fought with inkstands
IN q OF | oh In
the walls and the presiding Judge as well
as themselves.
To get figs from thistles: Reduce one
ION Of thistles to 20 pounds of potash
Then sell your potash for cash. Then take
the cash and buy figs.
The Massachusetts building. which
formerly graced the centennial grounds
at Philadelphia, is now frst-cIass board
ing-house at Lexington.
Marriage is promotion" says George
Eliot In the eyes of such reasoner, a
man with his third wife would doubtless
pass for brigadier-general.
New Orleans has at present popula-
ton Of only 100000, which, however, is
steadily increasing by emigration from
France, Italy, and Germany.
Miss Braddon, the writer of the sensa
tional English novels, is described as for
ty-oue, and "stout, blousy and proSaic
looking as any ale-wife in England"
An influx of Mennonites is anticipated
between this and 1880, in which yea
their exemption from military service will
end IN Russia, where theynumber 200, 900
4 truly great man-"Don't talk to me
Of Shakespeare Milton, Bacon and them
telers. What was they wuth2 Why,
could have bought up the whole lot of
en-"
An Irish guide told Dr. James johnson
who wished for reason why Echo was
always in the feminine gender, that "may-
be it was because she always had the last
word
Crows will eat hens eggs, as was re-
Gently proved on the premises Of Mr.. L.
B. Smith, Of Tempe, n. H, who found
crow in his hen-house in the act of de-
stroying the eggs.
The practice of using other peoples
money for private speculation has become
altogether too common in this country foI
safety to all. 1t is time the law stepped
in and took a hand.
I'VE all knows, said a cocknev school
committeeman to a new teacher he was
examining for her position, "that 4, B
and G is wovels; but what we want to
know is Wy they is So"
Lord Napier Of Magdala, addressinn
the cadets of the Royal Engineering CO.
lege said that he never did kindness to
u native of India that was not returned n
dundred-told upon occasion.
The Prince of Wales does not like IA
mIllarity, and was much annoyed when
he got letter asking after her Rova
iilghness in the following terms: 'Dear
old boy-how is your MISUSE"
A New York thief who stole a purse
containing five cents has been sent TO
prison tor two years. He will probably
come out wiser if not a sadder man. ana
get himself elected to something.
The man who has never seen two wo-
men N Shaker bonnets trying to kiss each
other has never experienced the rejuvenat-
ing power of laugh that could throw
him down and kick him in the ribs.
And what do you think of Switzer-
landi" asked a lady of a young American
belle who had just made the tour. "Pret-
tv place, but it struck me there We're too
many lakes and too few young men,"
For the purpose OF hardening wood
pulleys, the pulley, after it is turned and
rubbed smooth, is boiled, for about eight
minutes in olive Oil. 1t is then allowed
to dry when it will become exceedingly
hard.
A Stock, Exchange bear is described as
a person who sells what he has not got; a
bull as man who buys what he cannot
pay for; and financing as buying shares
by man who doesn't want them from
one who has none to sell.
A sailors favorite tree is the elm. A
morbid maiden's the pine. That of sea-
side saunter, the beech. A defaulting
debtors the wiIl-owe. The profane man
las preference for the low-cussed, and
almost everybody bankers after the pop
lar.
"What are you in Jail fort" asked
prison visitor of negro. "For bor'win
money, sab. "Why, they don't put men
in jail tor borrowing money! Eyes, but
you see had t. knock the man down
free or four times sfore he'd lend it to
ne"
Al would rather vote for the devil than
for YOU, was what one of our sovereigns
told candidate in Main street saloon,
once IN Norristown. "But in case your
friend should not come forward" said the
unabashed aspirant for office, "might I
then count upon your assistaneel" The
glass glanced off from his cheek, and he
passed out.