The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-28
The Mayor of Jefferson, Texas, receives
yearly salary of 81.

The Mayor of Jefferson, Texas, receives
4 yearly salary of 81.
How to make match-safe-soakt the
head Of the match in water.
The grain area in the South is said to
be larger than it has been at any time
since 1855.
It is unlawful to catch salmon in the
San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers before
the 1st Of November.
The number Of deaths in San Francisco
during the year 1877-78 was 4, 977 against
6,170 the previous year.
1t is estimated that the salmon catch
on the Columbia river, the past season,
will aggregate $4,000 cases.
The entire yield of wheat in Michigan
this year is 3O,000000 bushels, an average
az from 10 to 40 bushels per acre.
a sign posted up in a Wisconsin saw
mill adS:-"The saws are running-no
use 10 touch them to convince yourselves
Any one who waters milk that is offered
for sale in Wisconsin is liable to be fined
not less than $50 nor more than 500 for
such offence.
Out of total of 15G,0O0 Chinese in the
United States, 10000 are in San Francis
CO. The white population Of the city is
about 368.000.
The Will Of Whiting Street, Of North
ampton, Mass, who was worth half mil
yion dollars, left about $685. 900 for Chart
able purposes.
Galvanized iron pipes are as Injurious
almost 9 : o Z
water. The zinc forming the galvanized
coating Is soluble III water and poisonous.
The total length OF railroads in the
world at the end of 1876 was 1S4.0O2
miles. America has nearly as much as
Europe. The United States have 1905.
The mysterious gilt OF $4,000 to An
dover Theological Seminary came, it has
been discovered, from Henry Winkley,
wealthy retired business man of Philadel-
phia.
All human institutions may be meas
ured by the material Of which they are
composed, and their qualities learned
from the purposes they seek to accom-
plish.
Noting the fact that a bankrupt has
Just sailed for Europe, after settling with
his creditors, the Boston Bulletin says:
Ills creditors remain at hOme-they can
not afford the trip"
The chair in which the Tory Governor
rryon sat, when from the crest of Grum-
mans Hill he watched his relocated
troops burn the town Of Norwalk, CT, wss
sold AT auction lately.
According to official statements al
Washington, there was falling off to the
extent of 100000 in the revenue from
distilled spirits alone last year, and nearly
100000 less on tobacco.
Narvaez was a Spanish soldier and a
devout Catholic. as he was about to die,
the priest asked: DO you forgive your
enemies" The reply was grim one:
Il haven't any; 1 shot them all"
rs that friend of yours" asked a
gentleman, pointing to party who was
sailing rapidly down the street. Cant
tell till next Saturday, returned the per-
son addressed, I've just lent him dol
lar.
4 Yankee who had won fat turkey at
rattle, and whose pious wife was very
inquisitive about his method of obtaining
the poultry, satisfied her scruples at last
by the remark, the Shakers gave it to
me-"
Bars of pure gold, weighing twenty
olnces each, have been plowed up at or
near Lexington, n. c., to the value of
some $4,000. 1t is supposed to be the
proceeds of stage robbery committed
some 45 years age, when the thieves hid
tie metal.
The ruling passion cropped out in bar
Der, who while shaving the face of dead
man gave the corpse the whole history of
the European war, the rise and fall of
gold, and the progress of the rapid tran
SIT railroad.
Another old citizen gone" We saw
him only this morning, too-with a rod
over his shoulder. His step was firm and
elastic, his cheeks blooming with health,
and his pistol pocket bui ging out with a
receptacle containing bait for something
And now he's gone-gone fishing.
King Anonzo will erect magnificent
basihca 30 the memory of the late Queen
Mercedes, and will contribute 100000
reals annually, until it is completed. EX-
Queen Isabella has given her jewels, val
ued at is, 000,00 reals. for the same pur-
pose, and accompanies the gift with very
touching letter expEe sing her sorrow at
the untimely death of the young queen.