The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-28
ODDS AND ENDS.

NINE. JANAUsCHEK, who has been on
che stage twenty-seven years, has never
missed an engagement from illness
Mr.. GEORGE CLARK, of Cooperstown,
N. Y, owns two hundred and twenty-six
farm in four counties in this state.
Two thousand London preachers
preached in favor of war on recent Sun
day.
THE Prince of Wales has spent nearly
$4,000 on the drainage of Marlborough
House, in London.
ACCORDING to a paper in Bath, Maine,
forty trades are concerned in the build
ng of ship.
IT is asserted that Caleb Gushing col
lected 100000 fee while minister to
Madrid.
MUCH of the garden sauce and butter
raised on Queen Victoria's Windsor
farm finds its way to the London market.
THE high tides along the Delaware
have driven the muskrats from their
beds and thousands have been killed for
their six cent hides.
A KENTUCKY writer notes that Robert
Letcher, when a young man, worked
upon the executive mansion as a brick
layer, and afterwards, in 1910, lived in it
as governor of Kentucky.
THE father and widow of James Fisk,
Jr., are in wrangle over the estate.
She says that the bequests exceed the
value of the poperty, and that she is
therefore unable to comply with the
will. The father has sued her in Brattle-
boro, VT.
IT is proposed to call the sea between
the Farce Islands and Norway the Nor
weigan sea, because for more than 900
years natives of Norway have navigated
his waters, and now have undertaken its
thorough scientific investigation.
AN eccentric peddler, named Peter
Figgans, died recently at 'Dundaylor,
Scotland, at the extraordinary age of
| 107 years. He was never known to wear
a coat, and continued to vend his wares
until few days of his death.
Col. F. l.. RANDLE, of Washington
county, Texas, possesses the foundation
of museum in an eighteen-horned calf,
having eight sheep horns, eight goat
horns and two natural ones; also a Berk-
shire pig with three hams, five legs, six
feet and two tails.
A DOG eas the credit of saving the life
of George Davenport's family, at Canton,
Mass, which came near being killed by
coal gas the other night. While trying
to resuscitate his wife and sister Mr..
Davenport tainted away, but was revived
by having his face licked by the family
dog, and finally succeeded in his purpose.
In Nelson county, Va, hawk was re-
Gently seen to seize a large moccasin
snake and soar to considerable height
with the serpent writhing in its claws,
when suddenly the bird clasped its wings
and fell heavily to the ground. The
moccasin had bitten it in the neck, but
the talons of the hawk were 50 buried in
the vitals of the serpent that it soon died.
Two dealers in horse flesh from Rheims
are to open an establishment in London
for the sale of horse flesh for food.
They belong to society for the promo
tion of hippophagy, founded by M. E.
Decreix. In Paris, the success of the
society is unquestionable. There are
now sixty-one -" "boucheries" in that city,
and the number of horses, asses and
mules consumed there in 1867 was 2, 1872 !;
in 1872, 1892, and in 1877, 10,169.
/ LOVE will find out way. At tOttawa,
not long ago, a maiden, whose pa was
opposed to her marriage, invited all her
friends to be present at her wedding at a
designated church and hour. There was
an immense attendance, including the
furious father, and while he was waiting
to forbid the bans the sly girl slipped of
to another church, was married and set
off on their bridal tour.
A PARIS surgeon recently had occasion
: to administer ether to beautiful young
lady from Lyons. While she was inhal-
r ing the gas from the sack, light was
brought near, the ether was ignited, ar d
| the sack exploding, the doctor was
= seriously burned, and the patient ter
4 ribly injured, her nose being taken off,
and one side of the upper jaw laid bare.
| The doctor committed suicide.